社交媒體之雙重性：人的連結與技術的連結

Dual connectedness of social media: Connecting networks of users and connecting ecosystems of techniques

This article argued for the dual connectedness of social media. On one side, social media connect a lot of people to make a huge social network; on the other side, numerous social media platforms are connected through technologies to become a connecting ecosystem. The emergence of social media today is the result of co-evolution of human agency and information infrastructure. Thus, there are two approaches to investigate the dual connectedness of social media. One is theoretical, which provides critiques to the ideologies of algorithms and structures of social media platforms, and another one is empirical, which acquires big data on the social media platform to analyze human digital footprints by combining computer science and social science.