Davis argues that digital curation is a fundamental practice in contemporary media environments, emerging in response to an abundance of information and the labor required to navigate it. She distinguishes productive curation—the active selection and sharing of content by users—from consumptive curation—the choices users make about what to attend to and how to interpret it. Davis embeds these agentic practices within the structural bounds of social relations and technological affordances, offering a basic theoretical model that captures the dynamic interaction between individual curators, their social networks, and platform design. The paper highlights curation’s role in identity performance, self‑presentation, and attention allocation within mediated sociality.
From Taylor and Francis