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- Title
Connecting, Coordinating, Cataloguing: Communicative Practices on Mobile Social Networks.
- Authors
Humphreys, Lee
- Abstract
This article draws on Georg Simmel's sociological framework for social interaction in public space to situate socially mediated interactions within a historical and theoretical context. Based on 5 case studies of mobile interactions with social networks, this article explores how these mobile interactions with social networks are practiced and experienced in everyday life. Together these case studies suggest 3 kinds of communicative practices associated with mobile social networks: connecting, coordinating, and cataloguing. These practices are associated with the social, physical, and informational aspects of public social interaction respectively. The article concludes with implications of these practices for socially mediated interaction in public space.
- Subjects
MOBILE computing -- Social aspects; SOCIAL interaction; ONLINE social networks research; SITUATION (Philosophy); SOCIAL exchange; SOCIAL network theory; SIMMEL, Georg, 1858-1918; SOCIAL belonging; INTERNET &; society
- Publication
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2012, Vol 56, Issue 4, p494
- ISSN
0883-8151
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/08838151.2012.732144