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📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
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Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements
Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors