Exploring the affordances of social networking sites: an analysis of three networks

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dc.contributor.authorO'Riordan, Sheila
dc.contributor.authorFeller, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorNagle, Tadhg
dc.contributor.funderUniversity College Corken
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-13T12:15:15Z
dc.date.available2017-12-13T12:15:15Z
dc.date.issued2012-06
dc.date.updated2017-12-13T12:04:24Z
dc.description.abstractSocial network sites (SNS) are becoming increasingly important, both for individuals and organizations. These systems have affected social and cultural activities, work practices, and in particular the ways in which we discover, share and consume information goods. The functionality of SNS is emergent, shaped by user appropriation choices. In this paper, affordances are proposed as a way to understand the potential uses and future evolution of SNS. Affordances describe the characteristics of an interactive system which suggests how the system should be used. The objective of this study is to explore the affordances of SNS. The study comprises an inventory of the affordances of three popular SNS. The study reveals a diverse collection of software features which afford user behaviour in six areas of activity: social connectivity, social interactivity, profile management, content discovery, content sharing and content aggregation. The findings of the study provide a rich foundation for future research on user appropriation of SNS, the future evolution of SNS, and the design of SNS systems.en
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity College Cork (Department of Business Information Systems and the Conference Travel Support Scheme)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO'Riordan, S., Feller, J. and Nagle, T. (2012) 'Exploring the Affordances of Social Networking Sites: An Analysis of Three Networks', ECIS 2012: 20th European Conference on Information Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 11-13 June, ECIS 2012 Proceedings, 177, (13 pp). https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2012/177en
dc.identifier.endpage177-13en
dc.identifier.isbn978-84-88971-54-8
dc.identifier.journaltitleECIS 2012 Proceedingsen
dc.identifier.startpage177-1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5168
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisher(AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)en
dc.relation.ispartofECIS 2012: 20th European Conference on Information Systems
dc.relation.urihttps://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2012/177
dc.rights© 2012, the authors. This material is brought to you by the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). It has been accepted for inclusion in ECIS 2012 Proceedings by an authorized administrator of AIS Electronic Library (AISeL).en
dc.subjectSocial Networksen
dc.subjectSocial Mediaen
dc.subjectSNSen
dc.subjectAffordancesen
dc.subjectSystem Inventoryen
dc.subjectInformation Systems
dc.titleExploring the affordances of social networking sites: an analysis of three networksen
dc.typeConference itemen
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