The Individual and the Ummah: The Use of Social Media by Muslim Minority Communities in Australia and the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasya Bahfen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Individual

Impact of General Social Media Experience on Usefulness for Business in the Workplace

2014 ◽  
pp. 14-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Amoroso ◽  
Tsuneki Mukahi ◽  
Mikako Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Experience ◽  
Behavioral Intention To Use ◽  
Media Applications

This chapter looks at the adoption of general social media applications on usefulness for business, comparing the factors that influence adoption at work between Japan and the United States. In Japan, ease of use and usefulness for collective knowledge in general social media are predictors of usefulness for business social media, and in the United States, only usefulness for collective knowledge is a strong predictor of usefulness for business. The authors did not find behavioral intention to use social media in the workplace to be an important factor in predicting the usefulness of social media for business. The value of this research is its ability to understand the use of social media in the workplace to include how the experience of social media impacts on the expectation of usefulness for business and how the impact of ease of use differs from Japanese to the United States because of cultural, technological, and market reasons.

How journalists use social media in France and the United States: Analyzing technology use across journalistic fields

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2728-2744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Powers ◽  
Sandra Vera-Zambrano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
Routine Tasks ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines journalists’ use of social media in France and the United States. Through in-depth interviews, we show that shared practical sensibilities lead journalists in both countries to use social media to accomplish routine tasks (e.g. gather information, monitor sources, and develop story ideas). At the same time, we argue that the incorporation of social media into daily practice also creates opportunities for journalists to garner peer recognition and that these opportunities vary according to the distinctive national fields in which journalists are embedded. Where American journalism incentivizes individual journalists to orient social media use toward audiences, French journalism motivates news organizations to use social media for these purposes, while leaving individual journalists to focus primarily on engaging with their peers. We position these findings in relation to debates on the uses of technologies across national settings.

scholarly journals Reclaiming the House of the Representatives from Republicans: Case Study of Districts TX-32 and NJ-3

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Norbert Tomaszewski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Midterm Elections ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Changing Demographics

2018 midterm elections in the United States allowed more ethnically and racially diverse candidates to become members of the Congress. The use of social media tools helped them to reach out to their community and get out the vote, which is especially important in Democratic campaign tactics. The article, by focusing on Colin Allred's and Andy Kim's Congressional bids, focuses on how their issue-oriented campaigns helped to mobilize the liberal voters. Furthermore, by analysing the rapidly changing demographics, it tackles the crucial question: do they mean the doom of the Republican Party?

scholarly journals EXPLORING NETWORKED IDENTITY AND TRANSNATIONAL MOBILIZATION IN UKRAINE’S EUROMAIDAN PROTEST

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetyana Lokot ◽  
Olga Boichak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
Semantic Mapping ◽  
Transnational Communities ◽  
Transnational Mobilization ◽  
Tactical Decisions ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

Social media are a prominent space for diasporic mobilization and activism, opening new avenues for studying transnational communities living outside of their countries of origin. This study uses a hybrid methodological approach to consider how Ukrainians living in the United States engaged with homeland politics during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protest and how their use of social media intervened in their transnational protest politics. This study contributes to the broader scholarship on studying transnational mediated protest participation by examining a case of diasporic mobilization of the Ukrainian community in the United States. Triangulating semantic mapping data from online diasporic communities on Facebook with in-depth interviews, we show how diaspora members engaged in the protest despite distance and how their activity and tactical decisions were mediated by social networks. We specifically examine how diasporic personal networks and networked technologies enmesh into a set of hybrid networked practices, circumscribing how Ukrainian Americans interpret political engagement and how they strategically use the affordances of social media for protest participation.

scholarly journals Saudi Female International College Students’ Self-Identities Through the Use of Social Media in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-645
Author(s):  
Tahani Alruwaili ◽  
Heng-Yu Ku
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
States Data ◽  
International College ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This study explored 14 Saudi female international college students’ self-identities through social media use while they were studying in the United States. Data was collected by semistructured interviews. In addition, participants were asked to draw pictures that represented how they experience social media use in Saudi Arabia and in the United States as part of the interviews. The findings revealed that many participants indicated they experienced some changes to their identities after coming to the United States. Many of the participants expressed they were more open and more independent after coming to the United States. They felt they could express their identities on social media to a greater degree and enjoyed using it to connect with others. Although most of the participants became more comfortable with interaction and expression on social media in the United States, many of them still retained some measures to ensure their privacy.

scholarly journals A comparative analysis of security issues in the new social media in the US-Israel election campaign

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Waseem Mansour
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This article presents the history of the use of social media in the election campaigns of politicians from the United States and Israel as a modern phenomenon in the current era due to technological changes in the global media. My article answers the research question: is there a difference in the strategy of using Twitter between Netanyahu and Obama, and what is this difference? It should be noted that many articles have dealt with social networks and the political use of social networks, but as far as I know, the topic of comparison and attempt to find differences in political campaigns between two leaders from the United States and Israel has not yet been investigated, and this is the goal of the article, I will focus on presenting data and information examining the allegations appearing in the official Twitter account of former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding security issues and the Iranian threat expressed in his Twitter tweets, so that he presents himself as “responsible for Israel and its citizens.” So he constantly presents the issue of national security as a winning card against his opponents in order to win the support of the far right electorate in Israel. Compared to the tweets of Obama the first president of the United States who used social media and especially presidential Twitter to win in support of the American electorate in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections and to win their economic and social contribution.

The First Amendment in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-93
Author(s):  
Sam B. Edwards III
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

The United States is facing challenges in applying First Amendment principles from the 18th century to modern communications. This chapter examines cases where the government has intruded upon First Amendment rights. The first section examines when the government attempts to prevent protests by cutting internet access. This amounts to a digital gag and ear plugs for the protesters. Aside from cutting access to a single area, some governments have access to total internet “kill switches.” This allows unsurpassed censorship of speech. Now there are technical means installed in most phones that could allow governments to disconnect internet access at the individual phone. In the area of social media, the courts are struggling to identify what constitutes speech. For example, when is a “like” or a “wink” speech? Equally important, when can a political figure censor speech through blocking users on social media? These cases represent warning signs that the United States, just like other countries, is struggling to adapt eighteenth century legal principles to modern communication.

Impact of General Social Media Experience on Usefulness for Business in the Workplace

2019 ◽  
pp. 1157-1176
Author(s):  
Donald L. Amoroso ◽  
Tsuneki Mukahi ◽  
Mikako Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Experience ◽  
Behavioral Intention To Use ◽  
Media Applications

This chapter looks at the adoption of general social media applications on usefulness for business, comparing the factors that influence adoption at work between Japan and the United States. In Japan, ease of use and usefulness for collective knowledge in general social media are predictors of usefulness for business social media, and in the United States, only usefulness for collective knowledge is a strong predictor of usefulness for business. The authors did not find behavioral intention to use social media in the workplace to be an important factor in predicting the usefulness of social media for business. The value of this research is its ability to understand the use of social media in the workplace to include how the experience of social media impacts on the expectation of usefulness for business and how the impact of ease of use differs from Japanese to the United States because of cultural, technological, and market reasons.

Anonymity will protect Turks' social media use

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Subject Control of social media in Turkey. Significance Average daily use of social media among users in Turkey is relatively high at 152 minutes. More than half the population (42 million) are active users. Of these, 32% prefer Facebook, 24% Whatsapp, 20% Facebook Messenger, 17% Twitter, 16% Instagram and 15% Google Plus. Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been censoring the internet vigorously since 2008. Impacts The new censorship institution replacing TIB is likely to be even more of a government instrument. Advocating civil liberties and freedom of speech will fall to Turks in exile in Europe or the United States. They will use similar methods to dissident movements in other repressive polities such as Iran, Russia, Egypt or China.

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