Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community

The notion of “community” has often been caught between concrete social relationships and imagined sets of people perceived to be similar. The rise of the Internet has refocused our attention on this ongoing tension. The Internet has enabled people who know each other to use social media, from e-mai...

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Vydané v:	The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) Ročník 55; číslo 10; s. 1294 - 1318
Hlavní autori:	Gruzd, Anatoliy, Wellman, Barry, Takhteyev, Yuri
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.10.2011 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Predmet:	Blogs Broadcasting Communication Communications systems Communications technology Community Computer mediated communication Connectedness e-mail electronic discussion groups Email Information and communication technologies Internet Interpersonal relations Mass Media people Sense of community Services Social interaction Social media Social Networks Social psychology Social relations Social theory Studies Telecommunications Twitter Virtual Reality online communities knowledge dissemination Internet information and communication technology social networks scholarly communication
ISSN:	0002-7642, 1552-3381, 1552-3381
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Shrnutí:	The notion of “community” has often been caught between concrete social relationships and imagined sets of people perceived to be similar. The rise of the Internet has refocused our attention on this ongoing tension. The Internet has enabled people who know each other to use social media, from e-mail to Facebook, to interact without meeting physically. Into this mix came Twitter, an asymmetric microblogging service: If you follow me, I do not have to follow you. This means that connections on Twitter depend less on in-person contact, as many users have more followers than they know. Yet there is a possibility that Twitter can form the basis of interlinked personal communities—and even of a sense of community. This analysis of one person’s Twitter network shows that it is the basis for a real community, even though Twitter was not designed to support the development of online communities. Studying Twitter is useful for understanding how people use new communication technologies to form new social connections and maintain existing ones.
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ISSN:	0002-7642 1552-3381 1552-3381
DOI:	10.1177/0002764211409378