This study examines the motivations behind sharing screenshots of social media posts on social media platforms like Twitter/X, Instagram, and Facebook and contributes to understanding how screenshot practices shape the sharing and interpretation of information in online spaces.
Abstract
Posting screenshots of social media posts is a common way of increasing platform functionality, enabling inter-platform interoperability, and gives users more control over how content is presented and interpreted. While these are legitimate purposes, screenshot sharing is also used in ways that can remove context, hide the original source, or mislead audiences. We examine the motivations behind sharing screenshots of social media posts on social media platforms like Twitter/X, Instagram, and Facebook. By focusing on user motivations, our study contributes to understanding how screenshot practices shape the sharing and interpretation of information in online spaces.
This study examines how seven right-leaning media organizations utilize cross-platformization strategies to reach audiences across multiple platforms; in this case, Twitter and Truth Social. Focusing on both content volume and story packaging, we collect right-leaning media organizations’ social media posts and content...
Josephine Lukito, Yini Zhang, Bin Chen et al.· New Media & Society· 0 citations
Since there’s no point in Twittering if no one acts on your tweets and there’s no point in having a Facebook page with a million “likes” if library use doesn’t increase, you’ll welcome the eight best practices presented here because they will help your library both actually do social media in a way that matters and do...
Social media is now an integral part of Extension's communications and marketing strategies; however, it is an uneven playing field. While social media allows greater access to audiences and introduces Extension programs to new audiences, the social media companies also control the platforms and algorithms. The challen...
Stacey F. Stearns, Jennifer E. Cushman· Journal of Extension· 0 citations
Misinformation is often viewed as an information problem, attributed to people’s poor understanding of consensus-based facts. While this is a contributing factor, we propose that misinformation and conspiracy are also communicated differently to their audiences. Can we better reach these audiences by matching the style...
JooYoung Lee, Emily Booth, Hany Farid et al.· Journal of Computational Soc...· 0 citations
This paper examines the practices ordinary social media users employ to influence the content served to them by platform algorithms, and the relationship between these practices and levels of algorithmic literacy. Practices were documented across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (now X), YouTube and Reddit during...
Agata Stepnik, Joanne E. Gray· Policy & Internet· 0 citations
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