More than a desire for text: Online participation and the
social curation of content

J 2013

More than a desire for text: Online participation and the social curation of content

MACEK, Jakub

Basic information

Original name

More than a desire for text: Online participation and the social curation of content

Authors

MACEK, Jakub (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Convergence. The Journal of Research into New Media Technology, 2013, 1354-8565

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

Country of publisher

Canada

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Abstract text on SAGE Full pre-submission version of the paper on Academia.edu Full text on SAGE

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/13:00066125

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856513486530

UT WoS

000337677900005

Keywords in English

everyday life; online participation; audiences; social networking sites; social capital; cultural capital; spectacle; narcissism; social curation of content

Abstract

V originále

Why and on what bases do people choose content and share it in an online environment? At the centre of Henry Jenkins’ theory of convergence culture lie in the transforming links between active, participative audiences, media content and media corporations. However, the ‘textually motivated’ desire to participate in the circulation of and control over texts is just one among other key motives for the dissemination and recirculation of content. Ethnography-based research con- ducted at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic suggests that when exploring participation in textuality, performative self-exposure and self-presentation must be taken into account as well as the context of audiences’ everyday life. Thus, I propose to approach participation as based not only on a ‘will to text’ but also on a dialectical relationship between a ‘will to self-performance’ and a ‘will to conformity’. These three factors then impact on the social curation of content – a reflex- ive process in which members of the audience construct texts for consumption and recirculation.

Links

EE2.3.20.0184, research and development project

Name: Vytvoření interdisciplinárního týmu v oblasti výzkumu internetu a nových médií

GP13-15684P, research and development project

Name: Nová a stará média v každodenním životě: mediální publika v čase proměny mediálních praxí

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, New and old media in everyday life: media audiences at the time of transforming media uses

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Citovat

MACEK, Jakub. More than a desire for text: Online participation and the social curation of content. Convergence. The Journal of Research into New Media Technology. 2013, vol. 19, No 3, p. 295-302. ISSN 1354-8565. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856513486530.

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