Defining affordances in social media research
A literature review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16764151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Ronzhyn (0000-0003-3108-0405, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, corresponding author), Ana Sofía Cardenal Izquierdo (0000-0002-1540-8004, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Albert Batlle Rubio (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 3165-3188 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448221135187 |
| OpenAlex | W4309765371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 145 |
| References cited | 93 |
An increasingly influential strand of research on social media relies on the concept of affordances to account for effects. However, hindering the possibility of a unified theory of affordances in social media is the conceptual blurring surrounding the concept. This article engages in a comprehensive review of the affordances literature in social media, aiming to provide an overview of the current state of the art and clarify the use of the concept. Through a systematic literature review, the characteristics of affordances research in social media are uncovered: the most prominent areas of application, research approaches, and dominant typologies and conceptualisations. Significant blurriness of the term ‘affordance’ is identified as well as an inconsistent use in research. To tackle these problems, a unified definition of affordances in social media is proposed based on the synthesis of knowledge on affordances in technology and social media. The suggested definition captures the core aspects of the concept to reduce ambiguity in the use of the concept and further the research on affordances of social media. The article provides the groundwork for future use of affordances theory in social media research
Affordance · Ambiguity · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Knowledge Management and Sharing · Open Source Software Innovations · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
From platforms to features
Le numéro entier - Full Issue - Edição completa
L’information transnationale des « Convois de la liberté » canadiens dans l’espace numérique des Gilets jaunes
Golden Indonesia 2045
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms
Discursive consequences of social media hostility
Monitoring new and emerging technologies in order to prevent extremism and terrorist violence
Rethinking platform vernaculars
Networked Counterpublics and Contentious Publicity
Platformed care, platformed harm
Governable Spaces
Are partisan, unreliable, digital-born, and mass-oriented media more likely to thrive on social media? Comparing four information ecosystems
Profesores en TikTok
The situation in media and communication research
Technology-enhanced information-seeking behavior among students on Facebook and TikTok in Vietnam
Conceptualizing the evolving nature of computational propaganda
Differential social media affordances
Illuminating the relative dominance of awareness and pervasiveness over visibility in organizational ICT affordances
What do you mean by “social media”? Introducing the Reporting Items for Social Media Research (RISoMeR)
Who should act, when, and where? The SCOPE framework for establishing responsibility and legitimacy in digital citizenship
Invoking humor
How social media affordances shape journalistic content production
Election Advertising on Meta, Google, and Snapchat in 2024
Dissecting Social Media Journalism
The epistemic affordances of social media and the sociotechnical construction of the “boutique” climate science blogs
Fluid Swipes and Solid Care on Dating Apps
Dirtbags with Smartphones
Cultural production on social media
Exploring uses and gratifications of podcasts among young arab audiences
Social Media Analytics in Contemporary Art Promotion
YouTube in higher education
The algorithmic mediation of management fashions
Enterprise social media in contemporary workplaces
Digital mandala coloring as a public mental health tool
Styles de modération et relocalisation de la politique des groupes Gilets jaunes sur Facebook
Mettre les technologies à « leur juste place »
Une ethnographie en ligne computationnelle des influenceurs complotistes
Death as design
To Text or Talk in Person? Social Anxiety, Media Affordances, and Preferences for Texting Over Face-To-Face Communication in Dating Relationships
Bridging social media news use and democratic tendencies
Communicating Scientific Norms in the Hybrid Media Environment
Cultural Domestication Is the Safeguarding
Unapologetically Blackfishing
Hva gjør internettmemer med samfunnsdebatten
Exploring the association of social media connectivity and interactivity with ethnic polarization
Authenticity perceived, authenticity performed
Unions as Digital Trailblazers
Can we work it out? Affordances and constraints for cultivating perspective‐taking in digital contexts
Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies
Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model
Social media self-withdrawal and its antecedents and outcomes
Multi-Actor Supportive Communication and the Emergence of Solidarity in Online Communities
The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook during the U.S. 2020 Election
Persuasive appeals, thematic content, and affordances on TikTok
The role of the social media user
The best views come after the hardest climbs
Same Platform, Different Stories
“We’ve … had to Make Ourselves more Visible Because … the Media hasn’t Done it for us”
One Platform, Different Terminals
Self-helped digital disconnection on Google Play
The Landscape of Populist Content and Style on Facebook during Taiwan's 2020 Election
Express Yourself!” But Which Self? Investigating Role Negotiations and Boundaries on Journalists’ Personal Instagram Accounts
Digital witnesses to the crime
Hey, do you wanna trade? An interactional typology of virtual items trading scams
Digital Subcultural Diffusion Theory
Social media and the carnival that never ends
Exploring community-based tourism enterprises’ social media uses
Understanding Social Media Use and Political Participation
A Qualitative Study Among Adolescents to Unravel the Perceived Group Dynamics Underlying the Use of Closed SNS Stories and the Sharing of Alcohol-Related Content Therein
Platformed post-feminist negotiation
Affordances and platformed visual misogyny
Creative Underspheres and democratic challenges
Displaying family on the DNA platform
Aesthetics of misogyny and the repulsive gaze
Scrolling social media with the third eye
No longer our place”
Why are you on Tinder if this isn’t what you wanted?” Dating apps as digital brokers of sexual activity in the college hookup sexual market
Unscheduled and unscripted
Navigating Digital Resilience
Social media platforms and the spreading of hate speech targeting sexual and gender minorities
Art rocks
Hashtag mourning and moralized affect
Window-shopping the far-right
Affording Fragmented Audiences
Why is everyone self-diagnosing with ADHD nowadays?’
Say no to the commodification of our uterus”
Asking for Traces
Digital Blocking as Visual Control
Affordances and learner agency
A systematic review of technology-mediated conflict management in couples
Online support community use for informal caregiving
Value orientations and social cohesion in organizational discourses
Opportunities for extremism
Just the tip of the iceberg? State of the art of coordinated social media manipulation research
To express or not express
Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research
Breaking out of legacy mobilization networks
The platformisation of illicit drug markets
Working from paradise? An analysis of the representation of digital nomads’ values and lifestyle on Instagram
Everyday talk’ about working-from-home
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities
Social Network Site Affordances and Their Relationship to Social Capital Processes
Technology affordances
Social Media Affordances for Connective Action
Self-Presentation in Social Media
Posting, commenting, and tagging
Social Media
Platform-Specific Self-Branding
The Sage Handbook of Social Media
Avoiding conflict and minimising exposure
Towards understanding how individuals with inflammatory bowel disease use contemporary social media platforms for health-related discourse
“It’s Going to be Out There For a Long Time”
Social media-enabled healthcare
Theorizing Affordances
Organizational Media Affordances
The Materiality of Technology
Uses and Grats 2.0
Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during Covid-19
What do unions do… with digital technologies? An affordance approach
The Role of Communication Affordances in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Facebook and WhatsApp Support Groups
The Way I See Itsignifiers, Not Affordances
Critical analysis of interactive media with software affordances
Events as Changes in the Layout of Affordances
Social Media Use in Organizations
Silence in the crowd
The unedited public sphere
The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing
Knowledge Sharing on Enterprise Social Media
Guilty by Visible Association
Location, Motivation, and Social Capitalization via Enterprise Social Networking
Overcoming the “Ideology of Openness”
Social media affordances and governance in the workplace
Explicating Affordances
Short video apps as a health information source
Hashtag hijacking and crowdsourcing transparency
Online boundary work tactics
Social media affordances in entry‐level employees’ socialization
What does Facebook ‘afford’ do-it-yourself musicians? Considering social media affordances as sites of contestation
Social media affordances
Encyclopedia of Management Theory
Ties, Likes, and Tweets
Boundaryless Twitter Use
Distinguishing technologies for social interaction
Physical Place and Cyberplace
Social Media as Technologies of Accountability
Can Social Media Use Produce Enduring Social Ties? Affordances and the Case of Katrina Bloggers
Analysing technological affordances of online interactions using conversation analysis
Affordances-Based Brand Relations
Interpretative Polarization across Platforms
Imagined Affordances of Instagram and the Fantastical Authenticity of Female Gulf-Arab Social Media Influencers
Digitally Mediated Protest
Imagined Affordance
Intercoder Reliability in Qualitative Research
Coding In-depth Semistructured Interviews
Technologies, Texts and Affordances
| Unique citing works | 145 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 48,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 138 |