The shaping of environmental information in social media : affordances and technologies of self-control
Författare
Summary, in English
This article studies environmental information as it circulates in social media, specifically in personal blogs and microblogs. It rests on a thematic analysis of a selection of Swedish language, personal, everyday life environment blogs active during 2011 and 2012 and the social media applications connected to these blogs. Gibson’s concept of affordances and Foucault's notion of governmentality are brought together to work out how material and technological affordances of social media and the structures of governmentality work together to engender a type of information on environmentally friendly living that is rooted in the conditions of the web and in a view of society, which is structured around choice and individual responsibility. The article argues that information is woven into the texture of the social on every level, including everyday life practices, and hence social media, as tools in such practices, contribute to shaping the way in which information on environmentally friendly living is articulated, shaped and filled with meaning.
Avdelning/ar
- Division of Digital Cultures
- Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap
- Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society
Publiceringsår
2016
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
473-491
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
Volym
10
Issue
4
Fulltext
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Information Studies
- Cultural Studies
Nyckelord
- environmental information
- social media
- blogs
- governmentality
- affordances
- everyday life
- information studies
- library and information science
Status
Published
Projekt
- Climate Change Online
- Digital Cultures Research Node
Forskningsgrupp
- Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1752-4040