scholarly journals Social positioning and cultural capital: An ethnographic analysis of Estonian and Russian language social media discussion groups in Finland

2022 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Markku Sippola ◽  
Jaanika Kingumets ◽  
Liisa Tuhkanen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis

Citizen Journalism

2013 ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Olubunmi P. Aborisade ◽  
Caroline Howard ◽  
Debra Beasley ◽  
Richard Livingood
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Online News ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Media Channels

Recent national and international developments are demonstrating the power of technology to transform communication channels, media sources, events, and the fundamental nature of journalism. Technological advances now allow citizens to record and instantly publicize information and images for immediate distribution on ubiquitous communication networks using social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. These technologies are enabling non-journalists to become “citizen reporters” (also known as “citizen journalists”), who record and report information over informal networks or via traditional mass media channels. Against the background of media repression in Nigeria, the article reports on a study that examined the impacts of technology on the journalism business as a way of understanding how citizen-reporters impact the journalism business in Nigeria. Specifically, the focus of the study was on Nigerian citizen-reporters (bloggers, social media, online news, and online discussion groups), their roles, and the impacts on Nigeria’s political struggle, free press, and free speech.

BookTubers as a Networked Knowledge Community

2013 ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Sorensen ◽  
Andrew Mara
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Knowledge Community ◽  
Definable Set ◽  
The Relationship

In order to understand the relationship between Networked Knowledge Communities (NKCs) and the Networked Knowledge Society (NKS), the chapter authors conduct a genre analysis of a self-titled New Media genre called BookTube. BookTube is a NKC made up of YouTube content creators who use this particular social media channel to celebrate and discuss books, especially young-adult fiction. By examining how BookTube adheres to discourse community features—shared rules, genres, hierarchies, and values—the contours of this particular NKC become clearer. Stylistic patterns, the roles of authors, and author cultural capital all get negotiated within a discernible and definable set of practices that relate participants to other NKCs and the broader NKS. Furthermore, by relating these discourse features to other latent educational possibilities of the NKS, the authors explore how BookTube might be usefully implemented to model NKC practices in more traditional f2f educational settings.

Role of social networking platforms as tool for enhancing the service quality and purchase intention of customers in Islamic country

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 811-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naeem
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Internet Service Provider ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Customers are increasingly focused to find reviews, discussions and feedbacks on social media related to particular services in which they are interested. This paper aims to find which social networking platforms are more frequently used to provide reviews related to services, and based on these reviews, how service providing organizations can enhance the level of service quality and purchase intention of customers. Design/methodology/approach The research approach for this study is based on interpretivism assumptions and qualitative research design. The semi-structured and non-directive interviews were conducted to collect data from customers and marketing team of internet service provider and banking organization. These selected organizations have major shares in markets and a large number of customers. The participants were selected based on purposive sampling technique and their contribution in services-related discussion on social networking platforms. Findings Findings of this research highlighted that social networking platforms such as official Facebook page of selected service providing organizations, closed public discussion groups on Facebook, WhatsApp groups of family and friends and YouTube videos comment section are more frequently used to create service reviews and purchase intention of customers. Above all, results also reveal that customers are more frequently used Facebook discussion groups (public or private) for generating services reviews for selected bank and internet service provider. Research limitations/implications The effective and efficient use of these social networking platforms can enhance interactive communication, services reviews, feedbacks, intention to purchase, social influence, social trust and services quality. Furthermore, social media platforms required lower level of advertisement cost and offered huge amount of enquires, discussions, transactions, word of mouth, services stories and interactions of consumers. Originality/value There is rare research available on how and which social networking applications can enhance the level of service quality of services sector organizations especially in the context of Islamic countries. Most of the available literature has been investigated the link of social media and traditional marketing related constructs. This research is exploratory in nature because it investigates under-researched issue regarding the use of social networking applications to enhance the level of service quality and purchase intention of customers.

Using Twitter for Student Learning & Connecting with Scientists

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
pp. 599-602
Author(s):  
Adam Taylor ◽  
Emily G. Weigel
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Educational Standards ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
The Core

Class discussion can be a valuable way to meet educational standards and make student ideas visible. Tools like Twitter can be used to encourage discussion both in and outside of class. In this article, we provide (1) a concise explanation of Twitter and its use (including a comparison to similar digital communication tools); (2) a brief overview of educational gains and experiences in using Twitter; and (3) a step-by-step introduction to conducting Twitter discussions using hashtags. We conclude with an introduction to #scistuchat, a monthly Twitter discussion between scientists and students that addresses many of the core ideas in the biological sciences. We invite instructors to join this ongoing discussion series or use the ideas within this paper to begin their own discussion groups on social media.

‘Death by Twitter’: Understanding false death announcements on social media and the performance of platform cultural capital

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjorn Nansen ◽  
Dominic O'Donnell ◽  
Michael Arnold ◽  
Tamara Kohn ◽  
Martin Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Cultural Responses

In this paper, we analyse false death announcements of public figures on social media and public responses to them. The analysis draws from a range of public sources to collect and categorise the volume of false death announcements on Twitter and undertakes a case study analysis of representative examples. We classify false death announcements according to five overarching types: accidental; misreported; misunderstood; hacked; and hoaxed. We identify patterns of user responses, which cycle through the sharing of the news, to personal grief, to a sense of uncertainty or disbelief. But we also identify more critical and cultural responses to such death announcements in relation to misinformation and the quality of digital news, or cultures of hoax and disinformation on social media. Here we see the performance of online identity through a form that we describe, following Bourdieu as ‘platform cultural capital’.

scholarly journals ‘It’s Something Posh People Do’: Digital Distinction in Young People’s Cross-Media News Engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jannie Møller Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cross Media

In this article, I analyse digital distinction mechanisms in young people’s cross media engagement with news. Using a combination of open online diaries and qualitative interviews with young Danes aged 15 to 18 who differ in social background and education, and with Bourdieu’s field theory as an analytical framework, the article investigates how cultural capital (CC) operates in specific tastes and distastes for news genres, platforms and providers. The article argues that distinction mechanism not only works on the level of news providers and news genres but also on the level of engagement practices—the ways in which people enact and describe their own news engagement practices. Among those rich in CC, physical, analogue objects in the form of newspapers and physical conversations about news are seen as ‘better’ that digital ones, resulting in a feeling of guilt when they mostly engage with news on social media. Secondly, young people with lower CC discard legacy news, which they see as elitist and irrelevant. Thirdly, those rich in CC are media and news genre savvy in the sense that it makes them able to critically evaluate the news they engage with across platforms and sites.

scholarly journals The Italian ‘Taste’: The Far-Right and the Performance of Exclusionary Populism During the European Elections

Tripodos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 129-149
Author(s):  
Sara García Santamaría
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Common People ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article examines populist leaders’ politicisation of food in their social media performances. More precisely, it analyses Matteo Salvini’s Instagram posts during the 2019 European elections, and the way food is mobilized for populist and nationalist purposes. The main argument is that food serves as a cultural trope that confers identity, reinforcing social divisions and the terms of national and class belonging. Drawing on Bourdieu’s (1984) social critique of taste, political leaders have traditionally placed themselves on the side of a distant gastronomic culture; that of a high-end elite. However, populist leaders perform a twofold role, attempting to present themselves as part of the common people and distancing themselves from the traditional elite. This change in social positioning is reflected in their social media accounts, often posting “authentic” glimpses of their cultural practices, such as cooking and eating. Methodologically, this paper uses a mixed-methods concurrent design, combining digital ethnography and visual rhetoric analysis for examining both the discursive and the aesthetic clues that construct Salvini’s social positioning towards taste. Through food, being Italian becomes a matter of constructing Italian authenticity against the national intellectual and political elite, but also against the European value-building project.

Digital Paranoia

2019 ◽  
pp. 1968-1985
Author(s):  
Ramona Sue McNeal ◽  
Mary Schmeida
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Multivariate Regression Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Level Data

Participation in social networks, forums, and other discussion groups is a growing trend in the United States. Aside from the benefits of online social media, there is a growing concern about privacy and safety from the devolvement of personal information online. As a result of this unfriendly social media climate, Americans are taking measures to protect personal identity and to avoid surveillance by others. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze factors predicting which groups are most concerned about Internet privacy. In addition, this chapter explores how concerns regarding Information privacy are impacting usage of social network sites. We explore these questions using multivariate regression analysis and individual level data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Our findings suggest that those with the greatest fears regarding online privacy are not staying offline but are taking necessary precautions to address concerns.

scholarly journals Classroom, media and church: explainng the achievement differences in civic knowledge in bilingual school system of Estonia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaire Põder ◽  
Triin Lauri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Achievement Gap ◽  
School System ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Minority Achievement ◽  
School Students ◽  
Russian School ◽  
Civic Knowledge ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Bilingual School

AbstractThis study investigates civic and citizenship education in a unique post-Communist context–in the bilingual education system of Estonia. Estonia continues to have a bilingual school system where there are Estonian and Russian language schools in parallel. While Estonian language school students are ranked very high in international comparisons, there is a significant difference between the achievement of Estonian and Russian language school students. We claim that this minority achievement gap in the performance of civic and citizenship knowledge is in addition to family background characteristics explained by behavioral and attitudinal factors that are moderated by the school language. Behavioral and attitudinal independent variables that we consider relevant in our analysis are classroom climate, trust in various media channels, and students’ beliefs in the influence of religion. We rely on hierarchical modeling to capture the embedded data and aim to explain how the different layers (school- and student level) interact and impact civic knowledge. We show that an open classroom is beneficial to students and part of the gap can be explained by Russian school students’ lower involvement in such practices. The strength of the belief in the influence of religion, on the contrary, is hurting students, despite that the negative effect is smaller for minority students there is a higher aggregate negative effect of it and therefore it also contributes to the minority achievement gap. Media trust indicators explain the gap marginally while the high trust of social media hurts students’ civic knowledge scores–still more Russian school students trust social media more than Estonian school students.

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