scholarly journals Medieøkologien i SKAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Ruth Grüters ◽  
Knut Ove Eliassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

AbstractTo understand the success of SKAM, the series’ innovative use of “social media” must be taken into consideration. The article follows two lines of argument, one diachronic, the other synchronic. The concept of remediation allows for a historical perspective that places the series in a longer tradition of “real time”-fictions and media practices that span from the epistolary novels of the 18th century by way of radio theatre and television serials to the new media of the 21st century. Framing the series within the current media ecology (marked by the connectivity logic of “social media”), the authors analyze how the choice of the blog as the drama’s media platform has formed the ways the series succeeded in affecting and mobilizing its audience. Given the long tradition of strong pedagogical premises in the teenager serials of publicly financed Norwegian television, the authors note the absence of any explicit media critical perspectives or didacticism. Nevertheless, the claim is that the media-practices of the series, as well as the actions and discourses of its followers (blogposts, facebook-groups, etc.), generate new insights and knowledge with regards to the series’ form, content, and practices.

Online Activism, Social Movements and Mediated Politics in Contemporary Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-215
Author(s):  
Ratan Kumar Roy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Significant Phenomenon ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Interactive Dynamics ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

Politics online is a significant phenomenon today in Bangladesh given the reach of internet, resulting in the proliferation of the use of social media and online activism. The intertwined dynamic of digital drive and mediated politics can be traced in other parts of the region of South Asia as a burgeoning spectacle. In this context, the instance of Bangladesh with regard to online activism provides distinctive clues to fathom the nature of mediated politics. This paper examines a social media-driven youth protest, Shahbag Movement in 2013 to unravel the interactive dynamics between new media, traditional media and social movement. Bringing in the empirical cases, in the ultimate analysis, it delves deeper into the conceptual aspects of media practices, mediation and mediatisation.

scholarly journals Countering the New Media Podia: Youth and ‘Fake News’ in Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Oloo Ong’ong’a
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

The rise of fake news into the new media platform has raised significant concern in Africa and Kenya in recent years. The new media has embedded itself with fake news, which sometimes has led to the misunderstanding and misinformation of particular events that might be of the public interest. The general public, policymakers, and scholars, as well as the media, have found this as a very challenging issue. The upsurge of the new technologies, mainly social media, has posed challenges as youth immerse themselves in utilizing these social media for their own benefits. This is coupled with the creation and spreading of fake news, which sometimes when it goes viral; they lead to stress, panic and uncertainty to the individuals that come across them. The ability of users’ exceptional capacity to produce, reproduce, and distribute their information to a broad audience makes social media, an essential tool in the information age. The article critically reviews the literature on fake news and recommends for media literacy, strengthening the legal structures and use of sophisticated technologies as a strategy to fight fake news in the social media in Kenya.

scholarly journals New Medias Agenda: Approaches to Research Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-641
Author(s):  
Alina Garbuznyak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Content Selection ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Analytical Services ◽  
Selection Factors

The article presents the author’s method of a complex study of new media’s agenda based on the qualitative and quantitative content analysis. The topicality of the work is explained by the need for new theoretical and empirical approaches to studying the process of setting the agenda of social media and messengers, which has been influenced by manifold expansion of the media-political field, emergence of new agents, and changes in the focus works. The author adapts the theory of agenda setting to the current environment of new media, focusing on identification of agenda topics among the diversity of all social media content. The article describes a three-stage procedure of content selection that involves both automatic and hand sorting of publications. The selection factors include the content of publications and the amount of public attention to them, depending on the purpose of the media-platform. The author demonstrates the tools of the analysis, and comments on the peculiarities of working with various analytical services to study new media. The method was tested within the research into the agenda of five new media platforms (Facebook, Vkontakte, Twitter, Livejournal, Telegram) in the period of 5–11 March, 2020. The topics most referred to were common for various media. The new media’s agenda, which was reconstructed by the author’s method, matches 60 % of the agenda of the traditional media in the same period. However, in half of the cases, the match in the topics did not mean their discussion in social media. Instead, the topics were in the focus of public attention only in the form of jokes, caricatures, or anecdotes. Due to the complexity of the study object, the methodological problems of the research require a further consideration aimed at developing new methods and improving the tools of the analysis.

scholarly journals Non-boundaries of style represented in fashion Instagram: a social media platform as a digital space–time

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungeun Suh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Nonlinear Boundary ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

Abstract This study qualitatively examines the “non-boundaries of style” represented in fashion on a social media platform. The term “non-boundary” refers to a nonlinear boundary or distinction based on the more flexible time and space in the digital era, rather than a space at a certain time. Based on a theoretical review of media ecology, that is, how the media environment transforms human experience and affects society and culture, the spatial and temporal aspects of digital platforms were characterized as transcendental, open social, realistic virtual, and aesthetic spaces in everyday lives. The fashion-related images from the Instagram account of global fashion influencer Susanna Lau (@susiebubble), uploaded from May 2012–June 2019, were then analyzed, including their titles, caption content, hashtags, and followers’ commentary. Analysis showed that the images represent a digital lifestyle and trace the non-boundaries of style across the binaries of work–leisure, public–private, real–virtual, and geography–culture.

The Mourning After

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 552-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth ◽  
Kyoung-hwa Yonnie Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
News Media ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices

In news media of late, much has been touted about the agency of social and mobile media in the events of political uprising or at times of natural disasters and crisis management. While these events did not become events because of social media, the media did affect how we experienced the situation. This leads us to ask, Just how helpful are social mobile media in maintaining relationships in times of crisis management, and how, if at all, do they depart from previous media and methods? Drawing from case studies conducted with participants living in Tokyo at the time of the horrific events surrounding Japan’s earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 11, 2011 (called 3.11), this article reflects on the role of new media in helping, if at all, people manage crisis and grief. The authors argue that while social media provide new channels for affective cultures in the form of mobile intimacy, they also extend on earlier media practices and rituals such as the postcard.

scholarly journals Polish Nationwide Catholic Opinion-Forming Weeklies on Social Media—From Theoretical Introduction to Empirical Approach

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Adamski ◽  
Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska ◽  
Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

This paper is the first part of a cycle comprising five texts on the marketing use of social media by nationwide opinion-forming Catholic weeklies in Poland. Considering the state of the research so far, it is not completely clear how to classify Catholic media profiles on social networking sites. On the one hand, the media activity of the Church is typically evangelistic in nature, but on the other hand it takes place in typically secular conditions. The evangelising role of the Catholic media cannot be separated from the opinion-forming function. The main objective of the project is, firstly, to assess the marketing potential of social media used by the aforementioned weeklies and secondly, to complement the previously described online presence of religious entities in the context of the mediatization of religions. This paper—as the theoretical background of the research—presents the detailed interdisciplinary literature review on the issues crucial for the project, as well as the methodological introduction to our study.

scholarly journals Cultural journalists on social media

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (65) ◽  
pp. 76-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nete Nørgaard Kristensen ◽  
Unni From
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Grey Zone ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

This article investigates the use of social media among a particular group of journalists: cultural journalists. Combining research on social media journalism with research on cultural journalism and applying a mix-method approach, the study shows that use of social media is still a fairly random practice in cultural newsrooms. It also shows that cultural journalists use their Twitter and Facebook accounts interchangeably as tools for professional communication in their daily work and for personal communication in their daily lives. In other words, their social media practices blur the boundaries between institutional interests and professional identities, and more private interests and personal identities. While this may be a challenge to most journalists, it resonates well with the professional logics of cultural journalists. They have long practiced their work in a grey-zone between the public and the private, and the objective and subjective. Through their social media practices, they promote the media institution they work for and their own ‘personalised’ professional brand.

scholarly journals What Drives Continuance Intention towards Social Media? Social Influence and Identity Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 7081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athapol Ruangkanjanases ◽  
Shu-Ling Hsu ◽  
Yenchun Jim Wu ◽  
Shih-Chih Chen ◽  
Jo-Yu Chang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Continuance Intention ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Continuous Usage Intention

With the growth of social media communities, people now use this new media to engage in many interrelated activities. As a result, social media communities have grown into popular and interactive platforms among users, consumers and enterprises. In the social media era of high competition, increasing continuance intention towards a specific social media platform could transfer extra benefits to such virtual groups. Based on the expectation-confirmation model (ECM), this research proposed a conceptual framework incorporating social influence and social identity as key determinants of social media continuous usage intention. The research findings of this study highlight that: (1) the social influence view of the group norms and image significantly affects social identity; (2) social identity significantly affects perceived usefulness and confirmation; (3) confirmation has a significant impact on perceived usefulness and satisfaction; (4) perceived usefulness and satisfaction have positive effects on usage continuance intention. The results of this study can serve as a guide to better understand the reasons for and implications of social media usage and adoption.

From lords of war to leaders in society: How former Liberian warlords have used ‘old’ and ‘new’ media to self-reframe

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine O’Mahony ◽  
Jo Ellen Fair
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Born Again

The process of post-conflict reconstruction in Liberia involves an array of actors vying for power. Many of the key political and civic figures involved are former warlords, whose reigns of terror affected many they now work with and serve. By reframing themselves through social media these warlords have created new centers of power, embracing their new roles as public servants and renouncing past acts of terrorism. This article focuses on two of Liberia’s most notorious former warlords, Prince Johnson and Joshua Blahyi. Johnson, now Senator Johnson, was best known for swilling beer while he conducted the video-taped torture of President Doe. Joshua Blahyi, formerly General Butt Naked, who infamously drank children’s blood before running naked into battle, is now a born-again preacher with his own faith-based NGO. We argue that their use of social media has enabled them to reconstruct and reframe their ‘past lives’, ensuring these cannot become political liabilities.

Disconnective intimacies through social media: practices of transnational family among overseas Chinese students in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 173 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyu Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
International Students ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Insight Into

This article investigates Chinese international students’ everyday transnational family practices through the use of social media. Specifically, the article highlights the relevance of two interlinked forms of disconnection in these students’ daily negotiations of ambivalent cross-border family relations in an age of always-on connectivity. The first form involves their disconnection from the general public via their creation of intimate spaces on social media that are exclusive to their family members. The second form involves the students detaching themselves from such intimate spaces, often temporarily, to escape and resist familial control and surveillance. I conclude the article by developing the notion of ‘disconnective intimacy’ to conceptualise contemporary Chinese transnational families. This article contributes to the literature on the transnational family by providing an insight into the micro-politics of mediated co-presence through the trope of ‘disconnective practice’.

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