Networked Technologies and Exploded Context: The Case of Facebook Activism

Burnett, Gary; Skinner, Julia

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Title

Networked Technologies and Exploded Context: The Case of Facebook Activism

Author(s)

• Burnett, Gary
• Skinner, Julia

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• culture or communication studies
• human information behavior
• social media

Abstract

"This poster examines the Facebook presence of two grassroots political movements as two distinct information worlds. Upon examining Facebook pages that supported and decried the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, it was found that while there were some clear differences in ideology and information values, there was also a considerable amount of overlap in rhetorical approach and ""positioning."" Situating this behavior within Erdelez' (Burnett & Erdelez, 2010) idea of ""exploded context,"" which conceptualizes context as always multiple, this research also offers the opportunity to explore barriers between the groups, and whether these are surmountable or an innate part of the groups' information worlds."

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47374

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14337

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