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Couch Revisited: A Theoretical Treatment of The Information‐Technological Media of Imgur, Reddit, and Twitter

Author(s) -

Julien Chris

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

symbolic interaction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874

H-Index - 47

eISSN - 1533-8665

pISSN - 0195-6086

DOI - 10.1002/symb.403

Subject(s) - social media , digital media , sociology , reading (process) , media studies , new media , computer science , multimedia , world wide web , political science , law

In this paper, I argue that unique locations of digital interactions constitute distinct information‐technological media. I first apply a close reading of Couch's ([Couch, Carl J., 1995a]) work to digital sociology, and then analyze three popular social media networks: www.Imgur.com , www.Reddit.com , and www.Twitter.com . I close with a theoretical application of Couch's paradigm for analyzing the qualities of information technologies.

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