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The Online/Offline Life

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When we are online, we are also offline. Our choices of how and where to comment online are inextricable from the practices of our everyday lives. We may be checking our social media profiles while waiting in line at the supermarket or commenting on online news stories while watching television. Therefore, to understand an online commenting culture, we need to understand how our online interactions affect our other practices and vice versa. Drawing on literature related to digital news networks and social media engagement, this chapter views media consumption as a practice that is structure by time, space, and institutional and individual constraints.

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Barnes, R. (2018). The Online/Offline Life. In: Uncovering Online Commenting Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70235-3_3

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