scholarly journals Post Post-Broadcast Democracy? News Exposure in the Age of Online Intermediaries

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
SEBASTIAN STIER ◽  
FRANK MANGOLD ◽  
MICHAEL SCHARKOW ◽  
JOHANNES BREUER
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Political News ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
The Web

Online intermediaries such as social network sites or search engines are playing an increasingly central role in democracy by acting as mediators between information producers and citizens. Academic and public commentators have raised persistent concerns that algorithmic recommender systems would negatively affect the provision of political information by tailoring content to the predispositions and entertainment preferences of users. At the same time, recent research indicates that intermediaries foster exposure to news that people would not use as part of their regular media diets. This study investigates these unresolved questions by combining the web browsing histories and survey responses of more than 7,000 participants from six major democracies. The analysis shows that despite generally low levels of news use, using online intermediaries fosters exposure to nonpolitical and political news across countries and personal characteristics. The findings have implications for scholarly and public debates on the challenges that high-choice digital media environments pose to democracy

scholarly journals Academic Social Networks: How the web is changing our way to make and communicate researches

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Bonaiuti
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Academic Social Network ◽  
Academic Social Networks ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Web ◽  
Natural Component

Abstract Networking is not only essential for success in academia, but it should also be seen as a natural component of the scholarly profession. Research is typically not a purely individualistic enterprise. Academic social network sites give researchers the ability to publicise their research outputs and connect with each other. This work aims to investigate the use done by Italian scholars of 11/D2 scientific field. The picture presented shows a realistic insight into the Italian situation, although since the phenomenon is in rapid evolution results are not stable and generalizable.

Rights and Responsibilities Online: A Paradox for Our Times

First Monday ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan F. Fanton
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Game Players ◽  
The Individual

The Internet is hailed as a democratic force freeing people from inherited orthodoxy and hierarchy. Yet some observers and visitors of virtual worlds decry the absence of the individual rights we have come to expect in a democratic society. This paradox of the Internet’s democratic promise and lack of democratic protections raises vexing legal issues. What are the rights and responsibilities of owners and users of digital media, profilers on social network sites, game players and participants in virtual worlds of all types? These issues must be addressed if the power of community is to be realized in a just and sustainable way.

Voices on display: Handwriting, paper, and authenticity, from museums to social network sites

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1315-1332
Author(s):  
Chaim Noy
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Handwritten Documents ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Public Displays ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Web

The study examines the communicative functions that handwriting (mode) and paper (medium) have come to serve in increasingly digital and intermedial environments. The study begins in museums, where handwritten documents are profusely on display nowadays, and where the display affordances and communicative functions of handwriting are productively explored. Three curatorial display strategies are outlined. These are arranged chronologically, and range from traditional displays, where paper documents are presented inside glass cases, through artistic installations, where documents and handwriting are aesthetically simulated, to interactives, where the audiences/users themselves generate documents on-site. Exploring these strategies illuminates the concept of display as an agentic amalgamation of showing and telling, which produces authentic performances of voice-as-participation. These performances facilitate a move from private to public spheres – in museums and online. The study then proceeds to examine public displays of handwritten documents outside museums, specifically on social network sites. It asks whether and how conceptual sensitivities and sensibilities that originated in displays of handwritten artifacts in museums can shed light on the newer communicative functions of paper in digital environments. It also asks what are the intermedial consequences of the juxtaposition of analogue and digital surfaces. The study points at the current resurrection of handwriting and paper. It argues that the popularity of paper and handwriting results from their evolution into ubiquitous resources for display on and off the web, specifically as authentic bearers of voice that index human action and agency.

User's Social Network Site Loyalty

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Bo Han
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Social Network Site ◽  
New Model ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Network Site ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment ◽  
The Web

The answers to the question of how to build a user's loyalty have become the most desirable knowledge to academics and practitioners, when the competitions turn drastic among social network sites. This article proposes a new model to investigate the influential factors of the user's cognitive loyalty and affective loyalty to a social network site. The authors find that the user's actualization of hoped for self and the informativeness of a social network site both have significant positive effects on the user's perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment, thereby positively influencing the user's loyalties to the Web site.

Research on a Socialized Library Information Service Platform Based on Web 2.0 Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 5294-5298
Author(s):  
Shan Chen ◽  
Cui Xia Li ◽  
Zeng Zeng Tang
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Service Platform ◽  
Web 2.0 Technology ◽  
The Web

This paper introduces the Web 2.0 technology commonly used in the SNS (Social Network Sites), and analyzes the changes of information environment of library. Based on the theoretical discussion and the research on technology, we design a socialized library information service platform based on Web 2.0 technology.

Neighborhood hotspot and community awareness: The double role of social network sites in local communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas De Meulenaere ◽  
Bastiaan Baccarne ◽  
Cédric Courtois ◽  
Koen Ponnet
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Action Context ◽  
Communication Infrastructure Theory

AbstractThere is a tendency in the literature on local digital media use and neighborhood outcomes to conceptualize Social Network Sites (SNSs) as mere transmission channels, thereby ignoring SNSs’ dynamics and limiting the understanding of their role in neighborhood life. Informed by Communication Infrastructure Theory and social media literature, we propose and test a model to investigate the association between the use of SNSs, appropriated as online neighborhood networks, and neighborhood sense of community. We administered a survey to Flemish online neighborhood network users (n = 590) and found that active localized SNS use brings about an online sense of community and community awareness, which both independently lead to a neighborhood sense of community. Based on these findings, we argue that SNSs, appropriated as online neighborhood networks, function simultaneously as neighborhood hotspots in a neighborhood’s communication action context as well as community awareness media in a neighborhood’s storytelling network.

scholarly journals Clicking for friendship: social network sites and the medium of personhood

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (49) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Lee ◽  
Jessica Goede ◽  
Rebecca Shryock
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Electronic Medium ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Web

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook depend on familiar social resources, including language, reading/writing and established semantic constructs such as personhood, privacy and friends. However, the use of computers, the Web 2.0 platform, and the latest networking software are revolutionising how “personhood” and “friendship” are produced by communication. We refer to the media theory of Niklas Luhmann to identify specific differences in how communication is organised and reproduced on networking sites. The electronic medium appears to be changing the way participants selectively construct and bind expectations of personhood and communicative ties to themselves and others. Using software available on the Web, users confront each other as digital bodies, as participants in communication, available for friendship within a new “ether of interactivity”.

scholarly journals Effect of digital media on academic performance in undergraduate students

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarita Modi ◽  
Manila Jain
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Site Use ◽  
Negative Effect

Background: No doubt, new communication technology has turned the whole world into a "Global Village". Technology, as it is, though, like two sides of a coin, carries both the negative and the positive sides of it. It allows people to be well educated, enlightened, and keep up with changes in the world. Technology is exposing society to a new way to do stuff. Objective of the study: Effect of digital media on academic performance in undergraduate students. Materials and Methods: The research population consisted of all students who from 2017-2020 academic years are studying at Malwanchal University willing to participate in the study and complete the questionnaires entirely. Stratified sampling at random was done. Variables of social media use were measured by the Merton (1968) social network site use scale and academic performance was evaluated according to the self-reported GPA. Results: The results showed that the mean percentage of users belonging to low social network sites among the sample categories, average users of social network sites and high users of social network sites varied significantly. Conclusion: The use of social networking sites on the Internet has a negative effect on academic success. The value of learning to balance the use of social networking sites for better purposes is found to aid in their academic standing. Keywords: Social Network Sites (SNSs), Academic performance

Digital Media and Social Network in the Training of Pre-Service Teachers

2017 ◽  
pp. 96-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tami Seifert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Media Environments

The use of Web 2.0 environments and social media in teaching and learning facilitates the provision of participatory and creative, learner-oriented teaching. The proposed chapter describes the role of social media in teaching and learning in colleges of higher education and suggests possible uses and applications for a variety of social media environments in education, especially the environments of Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Social networks facilitate activities that promote involvement, collaboration and engagement. Modeling of best practices using social networks enhances its usage by students, increases student confidence as to its implementation and creates a paradigm shift to a more personalized, participatory and collaborative learning and a more positive attitude towards its implementation.

scholarly journals Identity lost? The personal impact of brand journalism

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avery E Holton ◽  
Logan Molyneux
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Personal Impact ◽  
Personal Branding ◽  
Brand Journalism

Researchers have explored the role of organizational and personal branding in journalism, paying particular attention to digital media and social network sites. While these studies have observed a rise in the incorporation of branding practices among journalists, they have largely avoided questions about the implications such shifts in practice may have on the personal identities of journalists. This study addresses that gap, drawing on interviews with 41 reporters and editors from US newspapers. The findings suggest that as reporters incorporate branding into their routines, they may feel as though they are sacrificing the ability to simultaneously maintain a personal identity online. For their part, editors seem to sympathize with journalists’ loss of personal identity but defer to organizational policies.

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