· 2017· Preprint
Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life
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Short summary
Teenagers use social network sites (SNS) as networked publics, akin to physical spaces like malls, to socialize, build culture, and manage their social lives.
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Key points
- Social network sites (SNS) function as 'networked publics' for youth, analogous to physical social spaces.
- Unique properties of networked publics (persistence, searchability, replicability, invisible audiences) influence teen interactions.
- Youth actively adapt and utilize these structural properties for their social purposes, including culture building and impression management.
- Teenage engagement with SNS is situated within a historical context of American youth freedom and mobility.
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Abstract
Social network sites like MySpace and Facebook serve as networked publics. As with unmediated publics like parks and malls, youth use networked publics to gather, socialize with their peers, and make sense of and help build the culture around them. This article examines American youth engagement in networked publics and considers how properties unique to such mediated environments (e.g., persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences) affect the ways in which youth interact with one another. Ethnographic data is used to analyze how youth recognize these structural properties and find innovative ways of making these systems serve their purposes. Issues like privacy and impression management are explored through the practices of teens and youth participation in social network sites is situated in a historical discussion of youth's freedom and mobility in the United States.
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Field: Communication
CommunicationSocial Sciences