Platform dialectics: The relationships between volunteer moderators and end users on reddit
Platform dialectics: The relationships between volunteer moderators and end users on reddit
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平台辩证法：reddit 上志愿者版主和最终用户之间的关系
DOI：
10.1177/1461444819834317
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Tim Squirrell
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作者：
Tim Squirrell
关于互联网平台的现有文献很少会研究志愿者主持人的行动与最终用户的行为之间的复杂和递归关系。在社交新闻网站Reddit上分析两个子列表，R/Paleo和R/Nootropics。建设性话语的范式。
Existing literature on the affordances of Internet platforms rarely examines the complex and recursive relationships between the actions of volunteer moderators and the behaviour of end users. Building on existing studies of Internet communities, affordances and ‘public goods’, this article uses an ethnographic approach to analyse two subreddits, r/paleo and r/nootropics, on the social news site reddit. It elaborates on work by Massanari to illustrate how the moderators of forums with an epistemic focus utilise the affordances at their disposal with the aim of mediating trust and establishing a paradigm for constructive discourse. End users respond to these attempts in unpredictable and unforeseen ways, indicating the interpretive flexibility of affordances. The concept of ‘platform dialectics’ is invoked as an overarching description of this phenomenon.