"we need to ... begin recognizing that they are now 'parasocial media.' Doing so raises new questions about digitally mediated sociality"
danah boyd's book on the digital lives of teens is +10 years old and I still reach for it all the time.
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When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
