Nancy K. Baym

Private Responses for Public Sharing: Understanding Self-Presentation and Relational Maintenance via Stories in Social Media

With nearly two billion users, social media Stories—an ephemeral format of sharing—are increasingly popular and projected to overtake sharing via public feeds. Sharing via Stories differs from Feeds sharing by removing the visible feedback (e.g. "likes" and "comments") which has come to characterize social media. Give…