Design and Implementation of a Social Networking Service-Based Application for Supporting Disaster Medical Assistance Teams

2017 ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiki Kawai ◽  
Haruka Kambara ◽  
Kohei Matsumura ◽  
Haruo Noma ◽  
Osamu Sugiyama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Social Networking Service ◽  
Design And Implementation

Design and Implementation of a Social Networking Site

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Hana Esmaeel ◽  
Mustafa Laith Hussein ◽  
Afkar Abdul-Ellah ◽  
Abdul Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Design And Implementation

‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110245
Author(s):  
Greta Jasser ◽  
Jordan McSwiney ◽  
Ed Pertwee ◽  
Savvas Zannettou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Social Networking Service ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Technological Affordances

With large social media platforms coming under increasing pressure to deplatform far-right users, the Alternative Technology movement (Alt-Tech) emerged as a new digital support infrastructure for the far right. We conduct a qualitative analysis of the prominent Alt-Tech platform Gab, a social networking service primarily modelled on Twitter, to assess the far-right virtual community on the platform. We find Gab’s technological affordances – including its lack of content moderation, culture of anonymity, microblogging architecture and funding model – have fostered an ideologically eclectic far-right community united by fears of persecution at the hands of ‘Big Tech’. We argue that this points to the emergence of a novel techno-social victimology as an axis of far-right virtual community, wherein shared experiences or fears of being deplatformed facilitate a coalescing of assorted far-right tendencies online.

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