Den digitala tidsålderns Hermes: Sociala medierplattformar och dess inverkan på reflexiv kontroll
(2024) UNDK02 20232Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis has examined how reflexive messages can be influenced by embedded functions on social media platforms. The purpose of the study has been to understand if, and how social media platforms can facilitate various kinds of reflexive control through their embedded functions. The study was conducted through comparing two social media platforms, Facebook and TikTok using a constructed framework based on reflexive control theory. The results of the study found that while the feedback-loop for Facebook is partly influenced by the user’s friendship-network, with an analogue representation, TikTok’s newsfeed are based solely on the users own feedback-loop. Most importantly, the study found that social media platforms can influence a... (More)
- This thesis has examined how reflexive messages can be influenced by embedded functions on social media platforms. The purpose of the study has been to understand if, and how social media platforms can facilitate various kinds of reflexive control through their embedded functions. The study was conducted through comparing two social media platforms, Facebook and TikTok using a constructed framework based on reflexive control theory. The results of the study found that while the feedback-loop for Facebook is partly influenced by the user’s friendship-network, with an analogue representation, TikTok’s newsfeed are based solely on the users own feedback-loop. Most importantly, the study found that social media platforms can influence a message to perform both cognitive and informatic reflexive control. The result is a first step on understanding social media, not only as one broad concept, but their differences in embedded functions, thus influencing messages in diverse ways for practicing reflexive control. (Less)
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- author
- Markianos, Emelie LU
- supervisor
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- Johan Matz LU
- organization
- course
- UNDK02 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Reflexive control, social media platforms, Facebook, TikTok, communication, influence operations
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9144121
- date added to LUP
- 2024-02-06 11:06:53
- date last changed
- 2024-02-06 11:06:53
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abstract = {{This thesis has examined how reflexive messages can be influenced by embedded functions on social media platforms. The purpose of the study has been to understand if, and how social media platforms can facilitate various kinds of reflexive control through their embedded functions. The study was conducted through comparing two social media platforms, Facebook and TikTok using a constructed framework based on reflexive control theory. The results of the study found that while the feedback-loop for Facebook is partly influenced by the user’s friendship-network, with an analogue representation, TikTok’s newsfeed are based solely on the users own feedback-loop. Most importantly, the study found that social media platforms can influence a message to perform both cognitive and informatic reflexive control. The result is a first step on understanding social media, not only as one broad concept, but their differences in embedded functions, thus influencing messages in diverse ways for practicing reflexive control.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Den digitala tidsålderns Hermes: Sociala medierplattformar och dess inverkan på reflexiv kontroll}},
year = {{2024}},
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