Social networking sites and low-income teenagers: between opportunity and inequality
Social networking sites and low-income teenagers: between opportunity and inequality
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10.1080/1369118x.2016.1139614
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发表时间：
2016-05-03
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4.2
通讯作者：
Micheli, Marina
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作者：
Micheli, Marina
最近对社交网站(SNs)的研究表明，用户的社交背景并不是参与这类社交媒体的重要预测因素。Facebook和其他社交媒体平台的广泛用户基础似乎也表明，社交背景不再影响SNS的访问。少数研究甚至声称，在参与式网络环境中，社交内容更有可能由低收入人群或少数族裔等非精英创建[Blank，G.(2013)]。谁创造了内容？互联网上的分层和内容创作。信息、通信和社会，16(4)，590-612]。然而，与SNS的接触也造成了不平等，例如通过基于阶级和种族的自我隔离“[Boyd，D.(2012)]。在网络公众中的白色飞行？种族和阶级如何影响美国青少年对MySpace和Facebook的参与度。在L.Nakamura和P.A.Chow-White(合编)中，《追逐互联网》(第203-222页)。访问数/每百万人：Reach for[Routledge]本文通过对意大利青少年的大规模调查(N=2327)和56次访谈，探讨了社会经济背景和文化资本对青少年使用社交网络的持续影响。研究结果表明，尽管结构性变量不可避免地会影响他们对社交媒体的参与，但来自低收入家庭的青少年对这些网站的交流和关系特征更感兴趣。相比之下，来自精英家庭的同龄人关注SNS提供的资本增值机会，并表现出批评的立场，导致他们限制在这些平台上的社交活动。总体而言，研究结果表明，社交网络并不是不受数字不平等的影响，但仍为低收入青少年提供了新的机会。
Recent studies on social networking sites (SNSs) reveal that users' social background is not a significant predictor of participation in this type of social media. The broad user bases of Facebook and other social media platforms also appear to suggest that social background no longer affects access to SNSs. A small number of studies even claim that in the participatory web environment, social content is more likely to be created by non-elites, such as lower-income people or racial minorities [Blank, G.(2013). Who creates content? Stratification and content creation on the Internet. Information, Communication & Society, 16(4), 590-612]. Nevertheless, engagement with SNSs also reproduces inequalities, for example via class- and ethnic-based self-segregation' [boyd, d.(2012). White flight in networked publics? How race and class shaped American teen engagement with MySpace and Facebook. In L.Nakamura & P.A.Chow-White (Eds.), Race after the internet (pp.203-222). NewYork, NY: Routledge]. Drawing on a large-scale survey (N=2327) and a set of 56 interviews with Italian teenagers, the current paper explores the persistent influence of socio-economic background and cultural capital in adolescents' use of SNSs. The research findings show that, although structural variables inevitably influence their participation in social media, teenagers from lower-income' families are more enthusiastic about the communication and relational features of these sites. In contrast, their peers from elite' families focus on the capital-enhancing opportunities offered by SNSs and display a critical stance that leads them to limit their social activities on these platforms. Overall, the results suggest that SNSs are not exempt from digital inequalities, but nonetheless provide novel opportunities to lower-income teenagers.