Beteendepåverkande designaspekter inom social media
This paper has it?s starting point in the midst of the debate concerning behaviour in socialmedia. Prior research has primarily been concerned with the role and responsibility of theuser while technology has been viewed as morally neutral. The base of the study isdiscourse analysis and a discursive psychology perspective is used to compare texts onTwitter and Facebook that were published during the events of the Boston bombings.The aim is to examine how platform users construct reality, groups and identities andwhat consequences those constructions bring. An interpretation of why the discourse ofTwitter and Facebook differ is grounded in aspects of design, which have been identifiedas having an influence on behaviour. The result indicates more tendencies of polarizationand extremism on Facebook than Twitter. This may have it?s cause in the features ofFacebook which have a stronger homogenizing effect on the network, clearer frames forwhat subjects are aloud to debate in the shared space and more functions forcorroboration than Twitter.