From Listen to Speak: A Range of Possible Social Media Activities between Private and Public in a Cross-Regional Perspective

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From Listen to Speak: A Range of Possible Social Media Activities between Private and Public in a Cross-Regional Perspective

Autori

Piermarco Aroldi, Linda Lombi, Francesca Pasquali, Nicoletta Vittadini

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

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10-2023

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10.26350/000309_000114

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0039-291X (stampa) | 1827-7896 (digitale)

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Based on the cross-national survey part of the so called Peoples’ Internet (PIN) Project, the article1 analyzes social media uses in three different world regions: Europe, US, and China. Within the tradition of the studies on the social uses of the media, the article describes different kinds of social media uses, focusing on different factors that contribute to shape them in a more or less private or public way. Social media practices do not differentiate in a simply dichotomous way, as “private” or “public”; rather, they are gradually articulated in a “scalable sociality” that integrates, in different ways, elements of privateness and publicness. In the definition of such a scale, structural and cultural differences among different world regions and single countries play a role, alongside with variables as socio-demographic features, available capitals, and civic attitudes.

keywords

Social media uses, Cross-national survey, Public-Private Communication, Scalable sociality, Legacy media and New media

Ringraziamenti

This publication builds on ‘‘The Peoples’ Internet Project’’, a collaborative study of global Internet use funded through the Carlsberg Foundation’s Semper Ardens program. This article is published in Open Access thanks to the contribution of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università degli Studi di Bergamo (Dipartimento di Lettere, Filosofia, Comunicazione).

Biografia degli autori

Piermarco Aroldi, Nicoletta Vittadini, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione e dello Spettacolo, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. Email Aroldi: piermarco.aroldi@unicatt.it.
Email Vittadini: nicoletta.vittadini@unicatt.it. Francesca Pasquali, Dipartimento di Lettere, Filosofia, Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Email: francesca.pasquali@unibg.it. Linda Lombi, Dipartimento di Sociologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. Email: linda.lombi@unicatt.it.