期刊
GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS
卷 22, 期 3, 页码 564-579出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12355
关键词
ICT; knowledge networks; networks; network society; transnationalism; transnational social relations
资金
- Federal Republic
- Federal States of Germany
- Projekt DEAL
This paper explores the ways in which users combine diverse online offers according to their preferences, as well as the complex interdependencies between online and offline spheres. By positioning users and their practices at the center of the analysis, the paper elucidates the crucial role of online/offline opportunity spaces and the affordances and constraints they provide for user agency.
Online platforms provide a technological infrastructure allowing social actors to enact and utilize networks with a global reach. They play important roles as intermediaries and algorithm-based curators of social interaction. This paper addresses two knowledge gaps: First, while a growing number of empirical studies has deepened our insights into the social dynamics characterizing single platforms, little is known about the multiple ways in which users or user groups combine diverse online offers according to their preferences. Second, the empirical focus has mainly been on online interaction. However, in everyday practices, the online is always situated in offline practices. It is thus necessary to understand the complex interdependencies of online and offline spheres. This paper therefore aims to develop an ecological heuristic that positions the user(s) and their practices center stage in the analysis and to elucidate the on/offline opportunity spaces and the affordances and constraints they provide for user agency.
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