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15th Annual Walt Fisher Lecture: Clicks as relational work: Social attention in social media environments
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
4:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (ASC), 207
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Join USC Annenberg for the 15th annual Walt Fisher Lecture featuring Nicole B. Ellison, Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. In this talk, Dr. Ellison will describe a stream of empirical work that investigates the social implications of user practices related to social attention, relationship maintenance, social capital, and enjoyable interactions. Studies include published work on Facebook and Snapchat as well as in-progress preliminary insights from newer work exploring the relationship between attention and activity in Facebook. Throughout the talk, she will relate these findings to the larger challenges associated with social media scholarship, such as rapidly changing platform features and uses practices. She will discuss the concept of affordances as a strategy for anchoring research findings and (hopefully) producing scholarship of enduring value, even after the platforms themselves have changed or even disappeared.