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. vol. 19, No 3, p. 295-302. ISSN 1354-8565. doi:10.1177/1354856513486530. 2013.
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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
Country of publisher Canada
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW 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
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D., učo 14931. Changed: 8/4/2016 11:55.
Abstract
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.
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EE2.3.20.0184, research and development projectName: Vytvoření interdisciplinárního týmu v oblasti výzkumu internetu a nových médií
GP13-15684P, research and development projectName: 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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