My social networking profile: copy, resemblance, or simulacrum? A poststructuralist interpretation of social information systems

Abstract

This paper offers an introduction to poststructuralist interpretivist research in information systems

Advances in Social Media Research: Past, Present and Future

“…Shi et al (2014) examine retweet relationships and find that those with weak ties have a higher probability of engaging in content sharing. Kreps (2010) introduces poststructuralist critique to explore how closely an individual's personality is reflected in their social media profile, such as Facebook. Chen et al (2014) find affective and continuance types of commitments to be good predictors of user behaviours on social media sites.…”

“…Van Osch and Steinfield (2016) suggest that future researchers should explore the potential of Enterprise Social Media to gain insights into the tools that support disentanglement of team boundary spanning. Finally, researchers have Mettler and Winter (2016) Design science approach (1) Qualitative methods Miranda et al (2016); Huang et al (2015); Karoui et al (2015); Trier and Richter (2015); Kallinikos and Tempini (2014); Koch et al (2013); Koch et al (2012); Griffiths and Light (2008) Case study (8) Barrett et al (2016); Schlagwein and Hu (2016); Subramaniam and Nandhakumar (2013) Interviews (3) Dong and Wu (2015) Event study (1) Chiu and Huang (2015) Survey (1) Kreps (2010) Theoretical ( Hildebrand et al (2013) Field study (1) established that the lifecycle of information and communication technologies tend to be emancipatory in their infancy but eventually evolve into hegemonic tools. They warn social media policymakers to be wary of reproducing this pattern with digital media; the recommendation is to involve more citizens in the development of Internet governance framework, rather than resting decisions with the members of political or economic power (Miranda et al 2016).…”

Social Networking Site Continuance: The Paradox of Negative Consequences and Positive Growth

“…Many social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube are instantly recognizable and their impact on individual behavior has been increasingly examined (Dwyer, Hiltz, & Passerini, 2007;Harden, 2010;Kreps, 2010;Shi, Lee, Cheung, & Chen, 2010). However, current research has not yet been able to explain possible reasons for an SNS such as MySpace, which once seemed unstoppable in its growth and popularity, suddenly to slash its workforce and search for a buyer as it continued to lose members.…”

Performing the Discourse of Sexuality Online

“…Although there is a good deal of overlap, not all social constructionists are poststructuralists, but the author of this chapter is. As an approach, poststructuralism represents the deconstruction of all systems of thought, treating all ideals, systems, structures, definitions and assumptions with suspicion, encouraging, on the contrary, a continual and profound scepticism and freshness and open-mindedness of enquiry as central tenets of its approach (Kreps 2010). This applies, of course, as much to social constructionism, as to any other system of thought.…”

“…Behaviour somewhat frowned upon in the1980s, by those pejoratively referred to as 'geeks', has in a sense taken over as normal activity, no longer viewed as the behaviour of a social misfit lacking in social skills, it is the social interaction mediated by the computer that has become the norm: social interaction has thus been subtly shifted from the control of the individuals involved to a shared control with the computer networks that now mediate it -a classic Foucauldian transformation that increases disciplinary power. Online social networking is, from this perspective, an almost fabricated form of social interaction that through its advertising and subscription models satisfies the needs of pervasive computer-network-based transnational capitalism as much as the gregariousness of its participants (Light et al 2005;Kreps & Pearson 2009). The bodies of those using these online social networks, moreover, are the nexus of intense power relations, required to perform a myriad technical duties in a multi-tasking environment that has them pinned -literally -rooted to the spot, physically immobile sat in front of the screen.…”