Will extra features of WeChat blending together with a common features bring a specific impact on cultural adaptation?
What kind of theories can be relevant to this topic ?
What kind of methods can be suggested ?
What kind of theories can be relevant to this topic?
- Social media attention, online expression, and traditional Internet attention
- Social media have a democratic function in providing an alternative platform for minorities and marginalized to defy mainstream discourses
- social media have been found to have an echo chamber effect, which may be detrimental to democracy.
- Consumption of media for social and political information
What kind of methods can be suggested?
- Survey through systematic sampling
Also the paper by Johan Lindell, Bringing Field Theory to Social Media, and Vice-Versa: Network-Crawling an Economy of Recognition on Facebook
Is a trial to answer your second question. I enclose the abstract
Social media research needs social theory in order to historicize and contextualize findings. At the same time, (analogue) social theory may benefit from the affordances of digital methods. This article explores this Janus-faced argument by way of a Facebook crawl of the Swedish field of culture. First, it is argued that field theory helps understand inter-institutional interaction on social media, and that it places activities on social media in a broader social context. Findings of the Facebook crawl illustrate the persistence of the structure and autonomy of the field of culture as depicted by Bourdieu. Second, despite Bourdieu’s rejection of network analysis, it is argued that it supplements empirical field research on two counts. Bourdieu argued for a relational understanding of the social world and for the study of “objective relations” between agents in a field. Following this, the network analysis provides a focus on actual practices—crystallized acts of recognition in the form of “likes” between institutions. This contrasts the somewhat oxymoronic use of self-reports to study “objective relations” that to date characterize Bourdieusian sociology. Additionally, the network analysis of a crawl of institutions on social media has the capacity to begin to uncover the amplitude, or reach, of a social field—which to date is rare in empirical field research. The article concludes by arguing for the mutual benefit of social theory and digital methods.
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