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The process and affordances of platform-specific social media disconnection
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Abstract This article examines millennials' experience of platform-specific disconnection, focusing on the ambiguous intersection of engagement and disengagement with social media. Drawing on 16 semi-structured interviews with (non)users who have quit specific social media platforms while remaining users on ... mehr
This article examines millennials' experience of platform-specific disconnection, focusing on the ambiguous intersection of engagement and disengagement with social media. Drawing on 16 semi-structured interviews with (non)users who have quit specific social media platforms while remaining users on other platforms, this study addresses a specific practice of social media disengagement as a phenomenon, regardless of the (non)users' demographics. As a result, the study introduces phases leading up to platform-specific disconnection, which can extend to, or derive from, other practices of media rejection and resistance. These different stages refer to the technical and social affordances that influence users in their decision to (dis)engage with specific platforms, revealing a bias between the perception of the phenomenon and the lived experience of the disconnected. By visualizing the process of platform-specific disengagement, this paper provides novel insight into media resistance and non-use, and challenges the misconception of disconnecting in the digital age.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Erfahrung; Benutzer; Soziale Medien
Klassifikation
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
platform-specific disconnection; disengagement; affordances; user experience
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 82-96
Zeitschriftentitel
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 10 (2018) 2
ISSN
1736-8758
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)