Survival of the Most Flexible? National Social Media Services in Global Competition

Suominen, Jaakko; Saarikoski, Petri; Turtiainen, Riikka; Östman, Sari

doi:10.4324/9781315748962-24

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“…2007) was created as an adult version of IRC-Galleria (est. 2000), a Finnish pre-Facebook market leader with a strict content policy concerning nudity and sex (Lehtinen, 2007; Suominen et al, 2013). Alastonsuomi retains much of IRC-Galleria’s functionalities so as to represent a vintage approach to platform design: one participant identified it as a relic “that should be framed and put in a museum of technology.” Alastonsuomi represents another iteration of emulation, this time through rejection and expansion by turning the nudity banned on IRC-Galleria into a prerequisite for participation.…”

Section: Sexual Platforms As Infrastructures For Socialitymentioning

confidence: 99%

About Sex, Open-Mindedness, and Cinnamon Buns: Exploring Sexual Social Media

Paasonen

Sundén

Tiidenberg

et al. 2023

Social Media + Society

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General purpose social media platforms—often incited by American legislation—increasingly exclude sex from acceptable forms of sociality in the abstract name of user safety. This article analyzes interview data (four developer interviews and 56 user interviews) from three North European sexual platforms (Darkside, Alastonsuomi, and Libertine.Center) to explore what follows from including sexual sites in definitions and analyses of social media and, by extension, in including sex in definitions of “the social” itself. We found that instead of context collapse, the users and developers of the studied sites operate with what we call context promiscuity, blending boundaries, but maintaining their structural integrity. This allows for a particular silosociality to emerge based on experiences of safety, risk, and consent. Building on this, we propose thinking of sexual expression as something not contained by, but put in motion across platforms, user cultures, content policies, and sexual norms. Rather than framing sexual social media exchanges in terms of their perceived risks and harms, we would do well to also inquire after the risks and harms involved in ousting sex from networked forms of sociality. Deplatforming of sex truncates our ways of understanding what interests, forces, and attachments drive our sociality. Yet, when analyzing social media as if the socio-sexual matters, platforms designed to support sexual displays and connections become vital nodal points in social media ecologies.

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Section: Sexual Platforms As Infrastructures For Socialitymentioning

confidence: 99%

About Sex, Open-Mindedness, and Cinnamon Buns: Exploring Sexual Social Media

Paasonen

Sundén

Tiidenberg

et al. 2023

Social Media + Society

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“…Therefore, the relationship with food can be seen as visual and multichanneled because today's people see and watch food more than ever before (Skatrud-Mickelson et al, 2011;Saariketo, 2018); our compulsive need to be present in social media is one element in the picture (Seymour, 2019). Food is a timeless topic, and therefore, food-related multi-channeled and -sensory communication has become a natural viral phenomenon of contemporary social media (Suominen et al, 2013).…”

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What can be learned about a positive relationship with food in food blogs?

Partanen,

Uusiautti

2023

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Social media provide numerous platforms to build relationships with food. In this research, we focus on Finnish food bloggers with the purpose to analyze how the relationship with food appears in food blogs. To answer this question, we conducted a netnographic research by visiting food blogs. The analysis followed qualitative content analysis. The main categories of findings were food- and eating-related values, innovativeness and experimental approach, positive eating-related multi-sensory experiences and memories, and social elements of eating. The role of social media, for example in the form of food blogs, can have a meaningful role in the socialization into the modern eating culture.

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Survival of the Most Flexible? National Social Media Services in Global Competition

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About Sex, Open-Mindedness, and Cinnamon Buns: Exploring Sexual Social Media

About Sex, Open-Mindedness, and Cinnamon Buns: Exploring Sexual Social Media

What can be learned about a positive relationship with food in food blogs?

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