Governance within social media websites: Ruling new frontiers

Renée Marlin-Bennett and E. Nicole Thornton

Telecommunications Policy, 2012, vol. 36, issue 6, 493-501

Abstract: Governance within social media websites can be evaluated in terms of conformity to or transgression of external legal requirements, social mores, and economic incentives. By examining social media websites as frontiers and heterotopias in which rule is indeterminate, this paper explores the way rule is established and changed. The authors illustrate this approach using the case of changing governance within Formspring.

Keywords: Website governance; Social media website; Heterotopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2012.01.002

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