@inproceedings{d3a33caef2cf4b208d0ea7018837381f,
title = "Crystallization: How social media facilitates social construction of reality",
abstract = "We propose Crystallization as a framework for understanding how reality is socially constructed in the age of social media by incorporating network attributes to agenda-setting theory. Reflecting the affordances of contemporary technology and the psychological underpinnings of social influence, Crystallization suggests that social media facilitates information produced or relayed by the members of our social networks, who become neo agenda setters. People's perceptions of reality will develop through their social networks and everyone will perceive that the information their social network produces reflects reality, but at the macro level, we will see an everdiverging cacophony of socially constructed realities.",
keywords = "Agenda-setting, Information diffusion, Network theory, Reality, Social construction, Social influence, Social media",
author = "Wohn, {Donghee Yvette} and Bowe, {Brian J.}",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1145/2556420.2556509",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450325417",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "261--264",
booktitle = "CSCW 2014 - Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
note = "17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2014 ; Conference date: 15-02-2014 Through 19-02-2014",
}