2014
DOI: 10.1177/0163443714549088
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‘You Media’: audiencing as marketing in social media

Abstract: Recent scholarship has offered a modification to audience labour theory in the context of social media, suggesting that rather than merely working by watching advertisements, social media users also produce data, which is commodified by social media companies. This article offers a further analysis of audience labour in social media using Facebook’s Sponsored Stories as a case study. Sponsored Stories are ads rendered from naturally occurring users’ communication on Facebook. I argue that the value generated b… Show more

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“…We agree to the terms "You Media" used by Fisher (2015) to explain the position of the new media that combines elements of the network (networking) with oneself (self). The media serves as a medium/medium to convey the message, while the "You" refers to an individual's ability to spread the message, or even become a spokesman of the message that he created and spread through the media selected.…”
Section: Results and Discussion "Bayu Skak": A Case Study For Self-fsupporting
confidence: 54%
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“…We agree to the terms "You Media" used by Fisher (2015) to explain the position of the new media that combines elements of the network (networking) with oneself (self). The media serves as a medium/medium to convey the message, while the "You" refers to an individual's ability to spread the message, or even become a spokesman of the message that he created and spread through the media selected.…”
Section: Results and Discussion "Bayu Skak": A Case Study For Self-fsupporting
confidence: 54%
“…The rest, BayuSkak admitted also that he got a huge income from YouTube for videos uploaded. Such a condition has been described by Fisher (2015), that the social media audience will be bound by three chains: consumption, production, and marketing. The third stage is as inseparable as the process of production and consumption of goods and services in general.…”
Section: Results and Discussion "Bayu Skak": A Case Study For Self-fmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…We need further critical elaboration on the future of creative labour and the exploitative dimensions of media work (Banks, ; Banks & Hesmondhalgh, ; Hesmondhalgh, ). The audience, especially in social media, represents a labour power that produces attention to ads as well as data, which then feeds into the production of ads (Fisher, , 65). Importantly, much of the user work or audience labour in social media is associated less with production and more with communication and interaction (Villi & Matikainen, , 111).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All tubes were incubated for 3 days at 35°C. We followed several references in diagnosing bacteria (Fisher, 2014;Labora, 2018). Bacteriological culture media plus our own technique of long experience in teaching Bacteriology.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%