My next conference for this year is Social Media & Society 2018, where I’m also presenting two papers with different research teams. The first session I’m in starts with Jeff Hemsley, who highlights the need to look at niche social media sites in addition to Facebook and Twitter.
Therefore, his focus here is on Dribbble: a site for designers that asks “what are you working on”, and uses basketball metaphors (players, shots, rebounds, playoffs) for users, posts, etc. The site does not provide affordances for content sharing, however, because designers see this as an unauthorised use of …
