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Social Media and Leisure

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Media and leisure

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Kaplan and Haenlein (2010, p. 61) define social media as “internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.”

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Social networking sites (SNSs) have become a mainstream venue for Internet users of all stripes to interact with each other (Perrin and Anderson 2019). According to Lin and Rauschnabel (2016), the major social media platforms in use by the masses are “social networks, blogs, opinion platforms, and content sharing platforms;” these platforms enable users to “1. Consume and publish content, 2. Engage in dialogues with other users, and/or 3. Interact with brands and companies – in real time or sequentially, independent from the users’ physical location” (p. 2144). Social media users typically integrate the use of multiple platforms in their daily lives (Boczkowski et al. 2018; Phua et al. 2017), following and/or...

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    Carolyn A. Lin & David J. Atkin

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Lin, C.A., Atkin, D.J. (2021). Social Media and Leisure. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_1623-2

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