TY - JOUR
T1 - From 'Listen' to 'Speak'. A range of possible social media activities between private and public in a cross-regional perspective
AU - Aroldi, Piermarco
AU - Lombi, Linda
AU - Pasquali, Francesca
AU - Vittadini, Nicoletta
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Based on the cross-national survey part of the so called Peoples’ Internet (PIN) Project, the article analyzes social media uses in three different world regions: Europe, US, and China. Within the tradition of the studies on the social uses of the media, the article describes different kinds of
social media uses, focusing on different factors that contribute to shape them in a more or less private or public way.
Social media practices do not differentiate in a simply dichotomous way, as “private” or “public”; rather, they are gradually articulated in a “scalable sociality” that integrates, in different ways, elements of privateness and publicness. In the definition of such a scale, structural and cultural differences among different world regions and single countries play a role, alongside with variables as socio-demographic features, available capitals, and civic attitudes.
AB - Based on the cross-national survey part of the so called Peoples’ Internet (PIN) Project, the article analyzes social media uses in three different world regions: Europe, US, and China. Within the tradition of the studies on the social uses of the media, the article describes different kinds of
social media uses, focusing on different factors that contribute to shape them in a more or less private or public way.
Social media practices do not differentiate in a simply dichotomous way, as “private” or “public”; rather, they are gradually articulated in a “scalable sociality” that integrates, in different ways, elements of privateness and publicness. In the definition of such a scale, structural and cultural differences among different world regions and single countries play a role, alongside with variables as socio-demographic features, available capitals, and civic attitudes.
KW - Cross-national survey
KW - Legacy media and New media
KW - Public-Private Communication
KW - Scalable sociality
KW - Social media uses
KW - Cross-national survey
KW - Legacy media and New media
KW - Public-Private Communication
KW - Scalable sociality
KW - Social media uses
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/168412
U2 - 10.26350/000309_000114
DO - 10.26350/000309_000114
M3 - Article
SN - 0039-291X
SP - 278
EP - 298
JO - STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA
JF - STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA
ER -