All We Do is "Stalking": Studying New Forms of Reading in Social Networks

Antonini, Alessio; Gomez Mejia, Gustavo and Lupi, Lucia (2019). All We Do is "Stalking": Studying New Forms of Reading in Social Networks. In: HT '19: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, ACM.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3342220.3343646

Abstract

A particular use of the term “stalking” is emerging in social networks to indicate a wide range of reading practices aimed to gain insight on a subject. As a new type of reading, “stalking” does not always have a negative connotation and it is not limited to the personal sphere but ranging from ludic to professional aims. Considering the preliminary results of a case study in the READ-IT project, this contribution wishes to engage the hypertext research community in considering “stalking” as a type of reading activity emerging from the unique features of social networks related both to “stalkers” (as hypertext readers), and to the “stalked” (as a type of contents) within the context of social networking platforms (as a type of medium and environment for reading).

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• Item ORO ID
• 62259
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISBN
• 1-4503-6885-9, 978-1-4503-6885-8
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool	AH/S000410/1	AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

• Keywords
• digital humanities; reading experience; profile staking; social network; modelling
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2019 ACM
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• • https://human.iisys.de/ht2019/(Other)
• Depositing User
• Alessio Antonini