Theories of Social Media: Philosophical Foundations

Reliability and trust perception of users on social media posts related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

“…Social networking sites are newest portrayal of the complex web. Social media theories from the past have identified several relevance and relationship between the society and social media (Qi et al, 2018). An event as big as COVID-19 pandemic will propagate a shock from one social system to another in almost no time (Liu et al, 2020).…”

“…According to Goffman's theory, social media users share posts to influence their audience and want to control the impressions other have for them. In Bourdieu's social capital theory, each post shared on social media is not their personal taste and are influenced by social thinking and social motivation (Qi et al, 2018). So, we made five hypotheses to test that the social influence can deter the users from comparing and cross-checking the social media posts.…”

“…According to Bourdieu's theory, habits of people depend on factors such as education level, social origin and judgment of taste. If the shared posts have similar values as the habits, then the user tends to trust that information (Qi et al, 2018). So, we made five hypotheses based on factors such as origin, source of information and person who is sharing the posts.…”

Shared factory: A new production node for social manufacturing in the context of sharing economy

“…There is no doubt that the sharing economy has also penetrated into the manufacturing field, i.e., the sharing manufacturing. With the help of Information Technology (IT) and intermediary mechanism, manufacturers can share their productivity on the network or platform with relative low costs [10] and potential customers can also get enough market information and manufacturing-resources without limitation.…”

Goffman’s Backstage Revisited: Conceptual Relevance in Contemporary Social Interactions

“…According to Qi, Monod, Fang, and Deng (2018), Goffman's proposal has limitations in the understanding of personal life, as well as of the use of social media (having a greater potential in the analysis of situations of performance of a professional role). From the features that distinguish Goffman's proposal from the Information Systems review by Qi et al (2018, p. 97), we highlight, in short, the features that value aspects such as the creativity of the actor's autonomy on social media -perform imaginative performances on social media‖, -control my performance‖, -display imagined affordances‖, -choose the features of myself I want to share with others‖.…”