Social media: an ill-defined phenomenon

Authors:
James White;King-wa Fu;Braeden Benson
Affiliations:
Center for Advanced Communications Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology;Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Center for Advanced Communications Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Venue:
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper questions whether and to what extent social media matches its many presumed desirable attributes, through references to social media in the United States and China, and in light of data that indicates that social media use tends to be dominated by a small group of elite users and driven by conventional forces. It concludes with implications for policy development.