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Facebook as a space for agency: negotiations by users and non-users

Author(s) -

Minna Saariketo

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

body space and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 1470-9120

DOI - 10.16995/bst.48

Subject(s) - negotiation , agency (philosophy) , space (punctuation) , social connectedness , variety (cybernetics) , internet privacy , world wide web , action (physics) , focus (optics) , order (exchange) , sense of agency , computer science , cyberpsychology , sociology , psychology , social media , social psychology , business , social science , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , optics , operating system

The Web’s architecture sets conditions for how people communicate, interact and act online in general and on social network sites (SNSs) in particular. Users and non-users of Facebook were invited to focus groups in order to create an understanding of Facebook as a technology-afforded space for agency and to illuminate the variety of meanings given to it. The aim of this study is to identify user and non-user stances to the possibilities of action and actor roles – understood in terms of mediated agency – enabled by SNSs, particularly Facebook. The negotiation of Facebook’s nature as a space is scrutinised using concepts of connectedness and connectivity as analytical lenses.

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