I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience

By Alice E. Marwick, D. boyd. 2011

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “In online scenarios, users often navigate how to appropriately present themselves depending on their target or construed audience (Marwick and Boyd, 2011).”
"How Old Do You Think I Am?" A Study of Language and Age in Twitter (2013, background): “Compared to previously used resources in sociolinguistic studies like face-to-face conversations, Twitter is interesting in that it collapses multiple audiences into a single context: tweets can be targeted to a person, a group, or to the general public (Marwick and Boyd 2011).”
We're in it together: interpersonal management of disclosure in social network services (2011, background): “In practice, this means that privacy management processes online are different from those applied in face-to-face interaction [16], since SNS-users need strategies to cope with, for instance, the simultaneous presence of multiple groups that are important to them [6, 13].”
Why We Follow: An Examination of Parasocial Interaction and Fan Motivations for Following Athlete Archetypes on Twitter (2012, background): “That is troublesome, considering that scholars have a limited overall understanding of the social-media audience (Marwick & Boyd, 2010).”
Dressing up Tinderella: interrogating authenticity claims on the mobile dating app Tinder (2016, background): “These practices, along with monitoring self-disclosures (Marwick & boyd, 2011) and constant redaction of profiles (Papacharissi, 2012), help users to perform authenticity for multiple audiences.”
Managing Impressions and Relationships on Facebook (2013, methodology): “For the data preparation, we followed the instructions outlined in Mehl and Gill (2010). Specifically, we removed text that did not reflect the author’s own language use (e.”
Understanding the consequences of public social media use for work (2017, background): “Thus, social media may induce role conflict, as its use complicates our metaphors of time and place, including the belief that audiences are separate from each other (Marwick & Boyd, 2010; Van Zoonen et al., 2016b).”