Analyzing Online Expression Affordances on IRC and Twitter
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| Publication date | 2023 |
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| Book title | Ego-Media |
| Book subtitle | Life Writing and Online Affordances |
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| Publisher | Stanford: Stanford University Press |
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| Abstract | While the prevalence of Twitter makes it a reference point throughout Ego Media, Stijn Peeters in Analyzing Online Expression Affordances on IRC and Twitter gives a fine-grained account of its development as a platform, offering a revealing comparison with the older chat network IRC. Focusing on widely used functions (such as those invoked by #’s and @’s), he opens a window on the surprising extent to which the platforms both prescribe self-presentation yet also change in response to the imaginative agency of users, as they find inventive ways to manipulate the technology. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Note | Online only; published in section 'Social media case studies'. |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.21627/2023em |
| Published at | https://egomedia.supdigital.org/sections/case-studies/identity-affordances-online-platforms/index.html |
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