Social Media as Civic Space for Media Criticism and Journalism Hate

2017 ◽  
pp. 201-221
Author(s):  
Göran Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Civic Space

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Responding to Investors’ Criticism on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7396
Author(s):  
Yuming Zhang ◽  
Fan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Csr Communication ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Csr Disclosure ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

Companies use corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures to communicate their social and environmental policies, practices, and performance to stakeholders. Although the determinants and outcomes of CSR activities are well understood, we know little about how companies use CSR communication to manage a crisis. The few relevant CSR studies have focused on the pressure on corporations exerted by governments, customers, the media, or the public. Although investors have a significant influence on firm value, this stakeholder group has been neglected in research on CSR disclosure. Grounded in legitimacy theory and agency theory, this study uses a sample of Chinese public companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange to investigate CSR disclosure in response to social media criticism posted by investors. The empirical findings show that investors’ social media criticism not only motivates companies to disclose their CSR activities but also increases the substantiveness of their CSR reports, demonstrating that companies’ CSR communication in response to a crisis is substantive rather than merely symbolic. We also find that the impact of social media criticism on CSR disclosure is heterogeneous. Non-state-owned enterprises, companies in regions with high levels of environmental regulations, and companies in regions with local government concern about social issues are most likely to disclose CSR information and report substantive CSR activities. We provide an in-depth analysis of corporate CSR strategies for crisis management and show that crises initiated by investors on social media provide opportunities for corporations to improve their CSR engagement.

The Alt-social Network of Natalie Bookchin’s Testament

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-477
Author(s):  
Sarah Whitcomb Laiola
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Web ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Direct Translation ◽  
The Social

This article addresses issues of user precarity and vulnerability in online social networks. As social media criticism by Jose van Dijck, Felix Stalder, and Geert Lovink describes, the social web is a predatory system that exploits users’ desires for connection. Although accurate, this critical description casts the social web as a zone where users are always already disempowered, so fails to imagine possibilities for users beyond this paradigm. This article examines Natalie Bookchin’s composite video series, Testament, as it mobilizes an alt-(ernative) social network of vernacular video on YouTube. In the first place, the alt-social network works as an iteration of “tactical media” to critically reimagine empowered user-to-user interactions on the social web. In the second place, it obfuscates YouTube’s data-mining functionality, so allows users to socialize online in a way that evades their direct translation into data and the exploitation of their social labor.

scholarly journals Social media as a political backchannel

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bente Kalsnes ◽  
Arne H. Krumsvik ◽  
Tanja Storsul
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Agenda Setter ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Televised Debates

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how Twitter is used as a political backchannel and potential agenda setter during two televised political debates during the Norwegian election in 2011. The paper engages with current debates about the role of social media in audience participation and traditional media's changing role as gatekeepers and agenda setter. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. By introducing and using the IMSC multiple step analysis model on the Twitter datasets, the authors are able to analyse the flow of thousands of tweets and compare them with topics discussed in the televised debates. Findings – The paper finds that the same topics are discussed on Twitter as on TV, but “the debate about the debate” or Meta talk tweets reveal critical scrutiny of the agenda. The paper identifies a clear pattern of political fandom and media criticism in the “debate about the debate”, indicating that Meta talk in social media can function as a critical public sphere, also in real time, which has not been identified in existing studies of Twitter and political TV shows. Originality/value – The analysis is unique in the sense that the paper analyses a smaller, national Twitter population in deeper detail than what is common in larger Twitter studies related to political televised debates. The IMSC model can be used in future Twitter studies to uncover layers in the data material and structure the findings.

Enthymemes Online

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Personal Communications ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Rhetorical Model

The final chapter addresses current issues in news and social media, as well as the tandem problems of public trust in journalism, democratic institutions, and everyday personal communications inaugurated by digital media’s proliferating resources for fabrication and obfuscation. After introducing a cognitive-rhetorical model for identifying promotional enthymemes online, this chapter carefully considers the ways in which media criticism is taught in higher education; it questions traditional methods of interrogation and deconstruction that individualize the ethics of media engagement and have the potential to breed further mistrust within already trust-poor cultures. Alternative modes of analysis are considered for their pedagogical merits, including the uses of postcritique and surface readings of media texts. Ultimately, I make the case that there is an imperative to guide a hopeful, forward-looking, normative search for solutions in our classrooms, in addition to describing the political problems we currently confront. The alternative is to prescribe a disempowering culture of suspicion for the next generation, who will be the inheritors of a fraught media ecology that scholars continue to document as it unfolds.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

Social Media: A Powerful Tool for AAC Learning and Networking

ASHA Leader ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Enders
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

Making Twitter Work For You

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists

As professionals who recognize and value the power and important of communications, audiologists and speech-language pathologists are perfectly positioned to leverage social media for public relations.

Doctors employ social media

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jane Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

A Lesson in Taking Social Media to the Medical Level

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
SALLY KOCH KUBETIN
Keyword(s):  
Social Media
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