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Technologically situated: the tacit rules of platform participation

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Pangrazio, Luci·2019·Journal of Youth Studies
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2019.1575345
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The ways in which young people use digital platforms develop with experience, and are guided by changing understandings of what they should – and should not – be doing online. As such, young people continually develop tacit rules and understandings that guide their platform participation. While based on social interactions with peers and other online contacts these rules are also technologically situated through the architecture of the platform. Based on research with Australian teenagers, this paper explores the ways in which Facebook shapes the communicative practices of young people, and how these were experienced and interpreted by them. Using the platform as a framework for the study demonstrates that some aspects of the Facebook architecture were particularly significant in structuring socialities, particularly: notifications and login for establishing habitual digital practices and norms; the prominence of images to (re)present identity; and the use of metrics (i.e. ‘likes’ and ‘friends’) to negotiate identities and relationships. Each of the participants initiated a range of strategies and rules to negotiate the ways in which the technological and the social were experienced through the platform. The paper concludes by considering the dominant values and social relations implicated through Facebook – and how they often reproduce dominant offline values and power relations.

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  • Adolescents who presented an idealized self that was inconsistent with their offline persona were less clear about how they felt about themselves.

    “In contrast, those who presented an idealized self that was inconsistent with their offline persona were less clear about how they felt about themselves (Davis, 2013; Fullwood et al., 2016; Pangrazio, 2019; Richardson, 2016; Yang et al., 2017).”

    From A Systematic Review of Social Media Use and Adolescent Identity Development (2025) · cites this paper as Pangrazio, 2019

  • Adolescents who present a fictitious version of themselves that differs from their authentic self tend to have lower self-concept clarity.

    “That is, adolescents who present a fictitious version of themselves that differs from their authentic self tend to have lower self-concept clarity (Davis, 2013; Fullwood et al., 2016; Pangrazio, 2019; Richardson, 2016; Yang et al., 2017).”

    From A Systematic Review of Social Media Use and Adolescent Identity Development (2025) · cites this paper as Pangrazio, 2019

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Authors
Pangrazio, L.
Affiliations
Deakin University (AU)
Corresponding author
Pangrazio, Luci
ORCID
Pangrazio, Luci
Venue
Journal of Youth Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2019-02-01
Volume
22
Issue
10
Pages
1308-1326
ISSN
  • 1367-6261 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-9680
DOI
10.1080/13676261.2019.1575345
OpenAlex
W2891886496
Cited by
21
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4
FWCI
5.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Journal of Youth Studies (publishedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
Keywords
youth, Facebook, digital platforms, platform architecture, social norms, online identity, notifications, social metrics, communicative practices, power relations

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