Information Flow Solipsism in an Exploratory Study of Beliefs About Twitter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2413790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Proferes (0000-0002-0295-9616, University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Media + Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-3051 • E-ISSN: 2056-3051 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2056305117698493 |
| OpenAlex | W2600057340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
There is a dearth of research on the public's beliefs about how social media technologies work. To help address this gap, this article presents the results of an exploratory survey that probes user and non-user beliefs about the techno-cultural and socioeconomic facets of Twitter. While many users are well-versed in producing and consuming information on Twitter, and understand Twitter makes money through advertising, the analysis reveals gaps in users' understandings of the following: what other Twitter users can see or send, the kinds of user data Twitter collects through third parties, Twitter and Twitter partners' commodification of user-generated content, and what happens to Tweets in the long term. This article suggests the concept of 'information flow solipsism' as a way of describing the resulting subjective belief structure. The article discusses implications information flow solipsism has for users' abilities to make purposeful and meaningful choices about the use and governance of social media spaces, to evaluate the information contained in these spaces, to understand how content users create is utilized by others in the short and long term, and to conceptualize what information other users experience
Commodification · Data science · Epistemology · Exploratory research · Internet privacy · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Solipsism · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
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| Citations per year | 1.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |