How to Be Visible in Student Politics: Performativity and the Digital Public Space in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Kuttig ◽  
Bert Suykens

In Bangladeshi student politics, political performances in public spaces play an essential role in establishing patronage relationships and determining local authority structures. As Thomas Blom Hansen has famously argued, “visibility means everything” in such a context. With the emergence of social networking sites like Facebook, new digital public spaces have appeared. Focusing on ruling-party student activists at Rajshahi University, this article examines how student politicians in Bangladesh utilize Facebook to become visible in their everyday politicking. It shows how longstanding performative repertoires in the nondigital public space have gained a new salience through performances in the digital public space. It is those digital spaces that allow the performer to rearticulate even mundane everyday events as political performances. As these new digital public spaces impact the politics of visibility, it is crucial to integrate them in our efforts to understand local politics in South Asia and beyond.

Author(s):  
Palaiyah Solainayagi ◽  
Ramalingam Ponnusamy

<span lang="EN-US">Currently, customer's product review opinion plays an essential role in deciding the purchasing of the online product. A customer prefers to acquire the opinion of other customers by viewing their opinion during online products' reviews, blogs and social networking sites, etc. The majority of the product reviews including huge words. A few users provide the opinion; it is tough to analysis and understands the meaning of reviews. To improve user fulfillment and shopping experience, it has become a general practice for online sellers to allow their users to review or to communicate opinions of the products that they have sold. The major goal of the paper is to solve feature extraction problem and opinion classification problem from customers utilized product reviews which extract the feature words and opinion words from product reviews. To propose an Efficient Feature Extraction and Classification (EFEC) algorithm is implementing to extracts a feature from opinion words. The reviewer usually marks both positive and negative parts of the reviewed product, despite the fact that their general opinion on the product may be positive or negative. An EFEC algorithm is utilized to predict the number of positive and negative opinion in reviews. Based on Experimental evaluations, proposed algorithm improves accuracy 15.05%, precision 13.7%, recall 15.59% and F-measure 15.07% of the proposed system compared than existing methodologies</span>


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arialle K. Crabtree ◽  
Patricia Richards

In recent years, scholars have turned their attention to the role of emotion on social networking sites. Much of this research has focused on social media as a space where emotions develop and are transformed in order for movement organizations to mobilize participants. This article uses activism around marriage equality in Georgia to explore participants’ experiences of emotion during public protest events and on social media. Utilizing interviews, participant observation and content analysis, we identify the feeling and expression rules operating in these public spaces. We argue that each setting is associated with a unique emotional culture. Finally, we discuss strategies used by participants to manage emotions related to their activism in these various contexts. Our findings indicate that social media sites – specifically Facebook and Twitter – may act as a place where individuals negotiate emotions deemed inappropriate at public protests. This case demonstrates the importance of social context, including online venues, for understanding participants’ experiences of emotion and activism.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fachrie

This research explains the influence of social networking site against the political revolution that is happened in Tunisia in 2010 to 2011. Restraint of political freedom anddemocracy on regime of Ben Ali in Tunisia causes the society to be tough to get a free public sphere, so that the society seeks a strategic media to get free public sphere. At the time of the political revolution in Tunisia, the social networking site is a strategic media used for socialinteraction, disseminating information and mobilizing the masses, because the restraint of freedom of politics and democracy in cyberspace is not effective. This research is aimed to determine the influence arising from the use of social networking sites in political revolutions that takes place in Tunisia. This research shows that the political, social and economic turmoil in Tunisia encourage people to build public sphere. The public sphere has a realimpact for the community or society in support of the political revolution in Tunisia. Tunisia society has the opportunity to articulate the interests, needs of the country, and build a political movement through public space. Restraint of democratic freedoms through sensorsin cyberspace for democratization in Tunisia are not effective. Social networking site is public sphere for Tunisian society to disseminate information, communicate and mobilize social and political movements to overthrow the regime of Ben Ali.


Author(s):  
يسرى خالد إبراهيم ◽  
قصي محمد حسين

The research aims to identify the extent to which minorities depend on social networking sites to introduce their issues and to know the extent to which minorities follow these sites and to identify the most important sites they rely on and the extent of their trust in them and to know the effects resulting from their dependence on these sites after these sites have become one of the most important promotional means for what It is characterized by the ease of communication and creating a public space for discussion and formation of views. This research is a descriptive research that adopted the survey method. The research tools are observation, interview, and questionnaire that were used to collect data for the field study. The research sample is a simple random sample from the total community of minorities located within the geographical area of Nineveh Governorate. The research concluded with a set of results, most notably: the respondents’ reliance on social networking sites to get acquainted with the news of the sect to which they belong. Follow-up on social networking sites, and the search results showed the side of the terms closest to the respondent for the category (components) and then (minorities).


2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deb Stanfield ◽  
Liz Beddoe ◽  
Neil Ballantyne ◽  
Simon Lowe ◽  
Nicole Renata

INTRODUCTION: The rise of social media has been associated with rapid growth in different forms of digital networking, debate and activism. Many studies have traced the role of social media in mobilising people to take action on shared issues of concern across the world. Yet, while networked public spaces offer many possibilities for professional engagement and interaction, the technology also shapes social dynamics, raising questions over professional boundaries and the nature of online behaviour.METHOD: The development of a closed professional group on the social networking site, Facebook, provided an ideal opportunity to explore social workers’ perceptions of participatory public space for professional deliberation and debate about public issues. Using a small-scale, case-study approach, group members were invited to complete an online survey and to participate in an interview which explored participants’ motivation for joining the group, the frequency and nature of their contributions, how it felt to be a member and what they valued or found problematic about the group.FINDINGS:  Those group members benefitted from the resources, research and professional development opportunities afforded to them and supported the professional potential and promise of social networking sites. They grappled with what constitutes ethical online behaviour and identified the site’s limitations and strengths as a place to promote robust professional dialogue on social issues. IMPLICATIONS: Analysis of social workers’ experience within participatory public spaces offers insight into how the profession can develop modern communication strategies and strong communities of practice in line with its professional principles and mandate.


2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (4 (248)) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Łódzki

Activity of Polish Foreign Correspondents on Twitter Social media have been transforming the realm of journalism, audiences, as well as news consumption. Twitter, which is one of the top three social networking sites in the world (Broersma, Graham 2013; Neuberger et al. 2019; Nordheim et al. 2018; Swert, Wouters 2011) has become one of the main social networking tools used by the news media industry, too. There is little research on how foreign correspondents use Twitter as a reporting tool. This research aims to investigate how foreign correspondents of the largest Polish radio and TV stations use Twitter. The analysis focuses on the correspondents in the Washington and Brussels sites. The research period covered 2016–2019, when the new management of the public media decided to replace most of the correspondents. The author looks for similarities and differences between journalists from public and commercial media. He tries to find out whether their activities on Twitter are used to transmit messages, promote their work, build the image of the editorial office, or communicate with recipients. The analysis of over 20,000 tweets confirms the influence of political changes on the work and activity of journalists in the public sphere. Most public media correspondents reported in line with the ruling party’s agenda focused on domestic affairs and used Twitter for self-promotion. Commercial media representatives mainly covered international topics, using a wider range of sources in their tweets. Significant differences were related to the way of interacting with the audience. The majority of shares on Twitter and the most intense discussions concerned the content of public media correspondents. The highest rates were achieved by tweets that focused on the actions of the leading politicians of the right-wing parties, national issues, and criticism of the actions of European bodies. The disputes and discussions on Twitter between the correspondents and the public as well as among the correspondents themselves show the crisis in public space, lack of trust, and difficulty to change this state in a short time. STRESZCZENIE Artykuł analizuje, w jaki sposób wykorzystują Twittera korespondenci zagraniczni największych polskich stacji radiowych i telewizyjnych na przykładzie placówek w Waszyngtonie i Brukseli. Okres badawczy obejmuje lata 2016–2019, kiedy nowe kierownictwo mediów publicznych w Polsce podjęło decyzję o wymianie większości korespondentów. Celem analizy jest identyfikacja podobieństw i różnic między relacjami dziennikarzy mediów publicznych i komercyjnych, jak również ustalenie, czy aktywność podejmowana na Twitterze służy do przekazywania wiadomości, promowania własnej pracy, budowania wizerunku redakcji czy też komunikowania się z odbiorcami. Wyniki analizy, która objęła ponad 20 tys. tweetów, potwierdzają wpływ zmian politycznych na pracę i aktywność dziennikarzy w sferze publicznej. Większość polskich korespondentów mediów publicznych relacjonowała wydarzenia zgodnie z linią programową partii rządzącej, koncentrowała się na sprawach krajowych i wykorzystywała Twittera do autopromocji. Dziennikarze mediów komercyjnych relacjonowali natomiast głównie tematykę międzynarodową, korzystając z szerszego spektrum źródeł w tweetach. Istotne różnice widoczne były także w sposobie interakcji z publicznością. Najwięcej udostępnień na Twitterze i najintensywniejsze dyskusje dotyczyły treści korespondentów mediów publicznych. Najwięcej uwagi uzyskały tweety na temat działań głównych polityków partii prawicowych, kwestii krajowych i krytyki działań organów europejskich. Wyniki badań dowodzą istnienia głębokiego kryzysu debaty publicznej, braku wzajemnego zaufania i możliwości zmiany tego stanu rzeczy w bliskiej perspektywie.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Gerald Collins

Abstract In Korea, social networking sites are overwhelmingly utilized through smart phones; people tweet or update Facebook with their mobile devices. Like any social networking site, this means that people are making (and remaking) connections with each other, but it also means that people are connecting in complex ways to place. Even if geo-location is disabled, these social media still have this embodied dimension; they’re not just tweets, but tweets in a particular space and time. In Seoul, embodied practices of social media infuse spaces with diverse and networked meaning that interact (however weakly) with existing spatial systems. In this essay, I explore the diverse meaning of public space in Seoul through an analysis of Twitter traffic surrounding enormous protests in 2016 at Gwanghwamun Plaza calling for the resignation of President Park Geun-hye. People who protested against the President in Gwanghwamun Plaza were not only calling for her resignation, but they are also making strong claims to space that re-define the heterogeneous site as a space of protest. At the same time, they are not the only groups making claims on the plaza: conservative groups, merchants, commuters, tourists and various bots tweet other meanings through their interactions with the protest site, and these, too, add to the networked representation of Gwanghwamun Plaza. Ultimately, the paper suggests a theory of social media in urban settings which emphasizes complex interactions of space, representation, networked action, absence and presence.


2017 ◽  
Vol 170 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Rob Cover

Following the development of online sites dedicated to the preservation of individuals’ photographic and textual memorialisation of cities, a number of archiving sites using Facebook have been developed that cater to the interactive and co-creative practice of memorialising LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) city-based communities, events and public spaces (e.g. Lost Gay Perth and Lost Gay Melbourne). Such minority community practices of memorialisation invoke deeply felt and affective attachments to ‘past’ in ways which have implications for identity, belonging, ageing and agency. This article utilises a critical approach to archiving, temporality, identity and attachment to interrogate some of the ways in which digital cultural practices related to archiving social networking sites are implicated in the memorialisation of community belonging through notions of past, networks of knowing, and the temporal and historical production of ways of thinking about and knowing minority sexuality, particularly LGBTQ subjectivity.


2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anikó Imre

Social networking sites have become a part of everyday life in post-Soviet cultures. 'International Who is Who' (Iwiw) is unparalleled in its popularity. Modelled after Friendster, Iwiw had 1.5 million registered users in Hungary (a country of 10 million) by 2006, when it was purchased by Deutsche Telecom. The emergence, rapid growth and functioning of this predominantly language and location-based virtual public space provide valuable insight into the formation of a networked public in post-socialist cultures. The article discusses the political and economic context of Iwiw's emergence in comparison with popular social network sites of a global reach such as Facebook and MySpace. It introduces the notion of `national intimacy' to reflect on a specific post-communist tension between the democratic model of interaction presented by Iwiw and the national boundaries of this model; and between the global potential of the technology and its restricted, national use.


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