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DOI:10.1177/1461444810365313 - Corpus ID: 23321842
@article{Marwick2011ITH, title={I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience}, author={Alice E. Marwick and Danah Boyd}, journal={New Media \& Society}, year={2011}, volume={13}, pages={114 - 133}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23321842}}- Alice E. Marwick, D. Boyd
- Published in 1 February 2011
- Sociology
This article investigates how content producers navigate ‘imagined audiences’ on Twitter, talking with participants who have different types of followings to understand their techniques, including targeting different audiences, concealing subjects, and maintaining authenticity.
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Context Collapse (opens in a new tab)Networked Audience (opens in a new tab)Micro-celebrity (opens in a new tab)Self-presentation (opens in a new tab)Impression Management (opens in a new tab)Broadcast Audience (opens in a new tab)Self-presentation Strategies (opens in a new tab)Self-censorship (opens in a new tab)
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