Neue Untersuchungen der University of Michigan zeigen einen Wandel in der Nutzung sozialer Medien, da sich immer mehr Nutzer für private Chats und Gruppen entscheiden, um Werbung, Influencern und polarisierten Beiträgen zu entgehen. Diese „abgegrenzten Social-Media-Orte“ bieten eine größere Kontrolle, bergen aber auch Risiken wie Echokammern und Belästigung.
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I’ve linked to the press release in the post above. For those interested, here’s the study: [“What you post in the group stays in the group”: Examining the affordances of bounded social media places](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241285777) (DOI: [10.1177/20563051241285777](https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241285777))
Oh, so back like it was in the ’90s.
It’s not clear to me to what extent 35 US-based interviewees gives a representative view of the internet as a whole, even if it does include immigrants.
We already get harassed with ads and we have artificially manipulated echo chambers with bots.
This doesn’t seem all that surprising.
Social media has turned out to be general chat for real life. You know, the first channel you turn off in a new MMO? In fact, it’s like general chat and trade chat combined with all the ad spam and people fighting nonstop with a healthy helping of racial slurs.
Yeah I noticed this a few years back when seemingly everyone disappeared from my old haunts of Facebook, Twitter, etc. Found out everyone’s on Discord. The problem is when you’re brand new to a hobby or interest online and trying to talk to new people and make friends, but you have no idea where to even find people. You usually need word of mouth to know what server to join or even a referral link.
Communities and forums FTW
[risks like echo chambers and harrassment]
just like standardized algos, and troll culture.
Group Think
Risky Shift
Belief Perseverance