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spir-13086	Sinnreich, Aram; John, Nicholas	ONLINE SPACES, IMPOSSIBLE IMAGINARIES, AND SYNTHETIC SOCIALITY	2023.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1283	64	44	The affordances of social media platforms are not handed down from on high, or birthed in their final form (Bijker & Law, 1992); to the contrary, this ever-changing feature set is continually reshaped through a contingent set of circumstances: the fact of online abuse and harassment (Massanari, 2017); the features for controlling the presence of others (Author, 2022); the economic incentives for social media platforms, which grant users control over their experience so that they remain on the platform (Light & Cassidy, 2014); and the large-scale political functions of social media (Gillespie, 2018). However, not everyone wishes to be in contact with so many people at once; nor do social media users wish to hear everything that every other user has to say.	cache/spir-13086.pdf	txt/spir-13086.txt