Who Are They and Where? Insights Into the Social and Spatial Dimensions of Imagined Audiences From a Mobile Diary Study of Twitter Users

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dc.contributor.authorStoltenberg, Daniela
dc.contributor.authorPfetsch, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorKeinert, Alexa
dc.contributor.authorWaldherr, Annie
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T16:17:30Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T16:17:30Z
dc.date.collected2020-01/2020-02
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractSocial media users hardly know who is reading their posts, but they form ideas about their readership. Researchers have coined the term imagined audience for the social groups that actors imagine seeing their public communication. However, social groups are not the only aspect that requires imagination: In the potentially borderless online environment, the geographical scope and locations of one’s audience are also unknown. Furthermore, research has demonstrated that imagined audiences vary between people and situations, but what explains these variations is unclear. In this article, we address these two gaps—the geographical scope and predictors of imagined audiences—using data from a mobile experience sampling method study of 105 active Twitter users from Berlin, Germany. Our results show that respondents mostly think of a geographically broad audience, which is spread out across the country or even globally. The imagined geographical scope and social groups depend on both the communicator and the usage situation. While the audience’s social composition especially depends on tweet content and respondents’ sociodemographic characteristics, the geographical scope is best explained by respondents’ biography and personal mobility, including their experience of living in other countries and local residential duration.en
dc.identifier.citationStoltenberg, D., Pfetsch, B., Keinert, A., & Waldherr, A. (2022). Who Are They and Where? Insights Into the Social and Spatial Dimensions of Imagined Audiences From a Mobile Diary Study of Twitter Users. Social Media + Society, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221123032
dc.identifier.issn2056-3051
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/471
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectgeographical scope
dc.subjectimagined audience
dc.subjectmobile experience sampling method
dc.subjectonline social networks
dc.subjectsocial groups
dc.subjectTwitter
dc.titleWho Are They and Where? Insights Into the Social and Spatial Dimensions of Imagined Audiences From a Mobile Diary Study of Twitter Users
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1177/20563051221123032
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue3
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleSocial Media + Society
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051221123032
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume8
dcterms.spatialBerlinen
local.researchgroupDigitalisierung und transnationale Öffentlichkeit
local.researchtopicDemokratie – Partizipation – Öffentlichkeit
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