This episode features the trio behind the recently published “A Typology of Social Media Rituals”, Limor Shifman, Blake Hallinan, and Tommaso Trillò, in conversation with Nicole Ellison. Shifman, Hallinan, and Trillò discuss how they developed their typology of social media rituals and what this typology has revealed about digital communications and social media participation across platforms and cultures. They further discuss future applications of their developed typology and their individual next steps in the world of computer-mediated communications.

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Featuring

Nicole Ellison 

Limor Shifman 

Blake Hallinan 

Tommaso Trillò 

More from our guests: 

Nicole Ellison 

Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information | School of Information  

University of Michigan 

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter: @nicole_ellison; @ica_jcmc

Limor Shifman

Professor | Department of Communication and Journalism 

Vice Dean | Faculty of Social Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Twitter: @limor_shifman

Blake Hallinan

Senior Lecturer | Department of Communication and Journalism 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Twitter: @blakeplease

IG: @nightmerrily

Tommaso Trillò

Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Communication and Journalism 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Twitter: @tommytrillo

Works Referenced In Episode:

Hallinan, B., Kim, B., Mizoroki, S., Scharlach, R., Trillò, T., Thelwall, M., ... & Shifman, L. (2023). The value (s) of social media rituals: A cross-cultural analysis of New Year’s resolutions. Information, Communication & Society, 26(4), 764-785.

Hillis, K. (2020). Online a lot of the time: Ritual, fetish, sign. Duke University Press.

Trillò, T., Hallinan, B., & Shifman, L. (2022). A typology of social media rituals. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27(4), zmac011.

Dayan, D., & Katz, E. (1992). Media events: The live broadcasting of history. Harvard University Press.

Copy and Audio Editor:  

Sharlene Burgos

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown