Microblogging

Bibliographic Data

ID7076993
AuthorsDaria Dayter (0000-0001-5054-5330, University of Basel, corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages1-3
Publication date2019-11-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm153.pub2
OpenAlexW4231545613
ISBN9781405165518
LanguageEN
References cited17

Microblogging is a social networking service that offers the functionality of posting short textual and multimedia updates on a public profile, or “timeline,” in reverse chronological order. At the moment microblogging is synonymous with Twitter, the most popular microblogging service by far. Launched in 2006 as a minimalistic service closely related to text messaging, Twitter has grown to a popular social network that has become an extremely influential communication medium in culture and politics. Despite the relatively minimalistic communicative means available to the users, not all of them use the medium in the same way. There are at least three types of Twitter usage practices: (1) an interactional tool, (2) microcelebrity “megaphone” practice, and (3) mundane updates about life events that add up to provide the feeling of social proprioception

Business · Feeling · Instant messaging · Internet privacy · Microblogging · Order (exchange · Service (business · Social media · Timeline · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · History · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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