Participation in Social Media: Studying Explicit and Implicit Forms of Participation in Communicative Social Networks

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

The diverse forms of participation in social media raise many methodological and ethical issues that should be acknowledged in research. In this paper, participation in social media is studied by utilising the framework of explicit and implicit participation. The focus is on the communicative and communal aspects of social media. The aim of the paper is to promote the reconsideration of what constitutes participation when online users create connections rather than content. The underlying argument is that research on social media and the development of methods should concentrate more on implicit forms of participation.

Show object

• ISSN: 2183-2439
• Extent: Seite(n): 109-117
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Media and Communication, 4(4)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung ; Soziale Medien ; soziales Netzwerk ; Internet ; Netzgemeinschaft ; Partizipation ; Forschung ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Datengewinnung ; Methode

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Villi, Mikko ; Matikainen, Janne
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i4.578
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln