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The thing-power of the Facebook assemblage: Why do users stay on the platform?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Sociology, January 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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blogs
1 blog
twitter
53 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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12 Dimensions

Readers on

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29 Mendeley
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Title
The thing-power of the Facebook assemblage: Why do users stay on the platform?
Published in
Journal of Sociology, January 2021
DOI 10.1177/1440783321989456
Authors

Deborah Lupton, Clare Southerton

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 29 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Lecturer 1 3%
Librarian 1 3%
Other 5 17%
Unknown 15 52%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 21%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Psychology 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 15 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 March 2022.
All research outputs
#1,053,618
of 25,363,685 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Sociology
#51
of 759 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,128
of 526,679 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Sociology
#2
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,363,685 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 759 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 526,679 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 23 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.