Who do they think they’re talking to? Framings of the audience by social media users

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Beteiligte: Brake, David Russell (VerfasserIn)
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2012
Teil von: , Erschienen in: International Journal of Communication, volume 6/2012, pp. 1056-1076, [ISSN: 1932-8036]
Medientyp: Artikel, E-Artikel

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Umfang: 21 p.
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: , Erschienen in: International Journal of Communication, volume 6/2012, pp. 1056-1076, [ISSN: 1932-8036]
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"This article examines the understandings and meanings of personal information sharing online using a predominantly symbolic interactionist analytic perspective and focusing on writers’ conceptions of their relationships with their audiences. It draws on an analysis of in-depth interviews with 23 personal bloggers. They were found to have limited interest in gathering information about their audiences, appearing to assume that readers are sympathetic. A comprehensive and grounded typology of imagined relationships with audiences was devised. Although their blogs were all public, some interviewees appeared to frame their blogging practice as primarily self-directed, with their potential audiences playing a marginal role. These factors provide one explanation for some forms of potentially risky self-exposure observed among social media users." [Information des Anbieters]

Introduction; symbolic interaction and CMC; the significance of audiences for Bloggers: contradictions in previous research; study design and method; findings; discussion; conclusion; references