Sudden attention on social media, and how users navigate these contextual shifts, has been a focus of much recent work in social media research. Even when this attention is not harassing, some users experience this sudden growth as overwhelming. In this workshop paper, I outline how growth infuses the design of much of the modern social media platform landscape, and then explore why applying a post-growth lens to platform design could be productive.
@article{arxiv.2503.03939,
title = {Reflecting on Potentials for Post-Growth Social Media Platform Design},
author = {Joseph S. Schafer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.03939},
year = {2025}
}
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To be presented at the "Advancing Post-Growth HCI" workshop at ACM CHI 2025