Social networking and digital gaming media convergence: Classification and its consequences for appropriation

Advances in Social Media Research: Past, Present and Future

“…A very early study by Griffiths and Light (2008) focuses on the problem of media convergence, whereby a gaming website includes social media features, putting vulnerable young audience at the risk of scamming. An Australian study suggests that many users are unaware of the potential risks of disclosing personal information on social media site, or consider themselves as low risk targets (Tow et al 2010).…”

“…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).…”

Disconnecting with Social Networking Sites

“…Here though, I wish to draw on my previous work, led by Marie Griffiths (Griffiths and Light 2008), to explore how disconnective practice might be engaged with in order to challenge the philosophy of an SNS and obtain economic benefit. More specifically, I am interested in scammers who operate within Habbo.…”

“…To be clear, and as I said at the beginning of this text, I do not think current research is necessarily ignorant of this situation. Many of those who study the Internet and SNSs are keen to acknowledge the on going work that people put into making SNSs work for them (Light 2007, boyd 2008c, Griffiths and Light 2008, Baym 2010, boyd 2011, Ellison and boyd 2013, and there is discussion of issues which point to disconnection such as that concerned with leaving SNS ; resistance and non-use (Hargittai 2007b, Light 2007, Hargittai 2012; the need to take account of listening as well as voice (Crawford 2009); the creation of private spaces (Papacharissi 2010); the value of forgetting (Mayer-Schönberger 2011); and the omission of information (Kendall 2007). Indeed, it is not just within academic circles that disconnection with SNSs is being referred to.…”

Converged social media: Identity management and engagement on Facebook Mobile and blogs

“…I start with my Gmail, then Twitter, and Facebook." Learners' use of multiple applications is reported in the literature (Griffiths & Light, 2012;Gowdy et al, 2009). Device convergence involves the merging of distinct, intelligent electronic devices into a single, multi-purpose device or the synchronised porting of data and computerised information across different intelligent devices.…”