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"Jag scrollar vidare": En netnografisk enkätundersökning om informationspraktiker i Facebookgrupper
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences.
2020 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
"I keep scrolling" : A nethnografic study about information practices in Facebook groups (English)
Abstract [en]

The information behaviour in closed Facebook groups differ from the one in people’s feed. Using Cox’s theory of information in social practices, Haythorntwaite’s theory of ties in computer mediated communication, McKenzie’s theories of cognitive authorities in information and Metzger and Flanagin’s theory of credibility heuristics the aim of this bachelor thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of how the members of three closed Facebook groups handle the information shared and if the groups act as a filter bubble for the information obtained. The researcher applied a netnographic approach and used an online questionnaire to collect the data. In the empirical data the researcher found that the members used the group rules as norms for what and when they post and that they were very critical when it comes to the information shared in the groups. The researcher also found that the groups acted as filter bubbles and that the members saw that as the groups purpose.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 42
Keywords [en]
Information practices, Facebook groups, filter bubbles
Keywords [sv]
Informationspraktiker, Facebookgrupper, filterbubblor
National Category
Information Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95828OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-95828DiVA, id: diva2:1437347
Subject / course
Library and Information Science
Educational program
Library and information science, 180 credits
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Available from: 2020-06-09 Created: 2020-06-09 Last updated: 2020-06-09Bibliographically approved

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