The Terrorist Act as Communicator

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Neville Bolt
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Center Of Gravity ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Political Communications ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Allowed State

Propaganda of the Deed has shifted its center of gravity since its emergence in the anarchist repertoire of the late 19th century. The act of terror as an act of communications faltered when anarchists failed to dominate the means of distributing their messages to a mass population. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the dynamism of mass media and prevalence of digitally connected consumers of historical media technologies and newer social media platforms have allowed state challengers to find support more easily and more rapidly at the grass roots. Chapter 1 draws on late 19th century anarchism, World War 1 propaganda, post-colonial struggles, Afghanistan’s Taliban, and al-Qaeda to chart changes in political communications in diverse conflict theatres.

Indonesian Mobile Learning Information System Using Social Media Platforms

2020 ◽  
pp. 549-573
Author(s):  
Mario Tulenan Parinsi ◽  
Keith Francis Ratumbuisang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Visual Model ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Utilization Of Technology ◽  
Social Media Platforms

As a developing country, Indonesia continues to improve its quality as a state, in which the attempt to optimize all of its potential both in terms of economic, political, social, cultural, technological, educational, health, etc. This modern era, all aspects of life are depending on technology. This makes the technology becomes one of necessary in people's life. The utilization of technology has been used by all people in all aspects of life. Specifically, this paper tries to offer an innovation that has never been designed before, namely a platform of M-Learning in form of social media related to the development of technology for learning. Nowadays, internet users and smartphone ownership in Indonesia increased dramatically, then writers took initiative to design an innovation related to this case. Social media technologies provide the opportunity for teachers to engage students in online classes, thereby supporting the development of skills and learners to achieve competency. In addition to students, the opportunity is also open to outside the community to get information that can add knowledge. This case study provides a platform for M-Learning based learning that facilitate student learning also helps society size to obtain information more easily. The design of this platform using models UML (Unified Modeling Language) to design a visual model of this platform.

Indonesian Mobile Learning Information System Using Social Media Platforms

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Tulenan Parinsi ◽  
Keith Francis Ratumbuisang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Visual Model ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Utilization Of Technology ◽  
Technological Educational ◽  
Social Media Platforms

As a developing country, Indonesia continues to improve its quality as a state, in which the attempt to optimize all of its potential both in terms of economic, political, social, cultural, technological, educational, health, etc. This modern era, all aspects of life are depending on technology. This makes the technology becomes one of necessary in people's life. The utilization of technology has been used by all people in all aspects of life. Specifically, this paper tries to offer an innovation that has never been designed before, namely a platform of M-Learning in form of social media related to the development of technology for learning. Nowadays, internet users and smartphone ownership in Indonesia increased dramatically, then writers took initiative to design an innovation related to this case. Social media technologies provide the opportunity for teachers to engage students in online classes, thereby supporting the development of skills and learners to achieve competency. In addition to students, the opportunity is also open to outside the community to get information that can add knowledge. This case study provides a platform for M-Learning based learning that facilitate student learning also helps society size to obtain information more easily. The design of this platform using models UML (Unified Modeling Language) to design a visual model of this platform.

scholarly journals Exploring situationally inappropriate social media posts

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Richey ◽  
M.N. Ravishankar ◽  
Christine Coupland
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Self Presentations

Purpose – Social media technologies are used by many organizations to project a positive image of their strategies and operations. At the same time, however, there are an increasing number of reports of slip-ups linked to poor situational awareness and flawed self-presentations on social media platforms. The purpose of this paper is to explore the triggers of inappropriate social media posts. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected during a qualitative study of social media use in 31 organizations in the UK and interpreted using concepts from Erving Goffman’s theory of impression management. Findings – The findings point to a series of demanding triggers, which increase the likelihood of insensitive and contextually inappropriate posts and also damage fostered impressions. Originality/value – The authors identify four triggers linked to inappropriate social media posts, namely: speed and spontaneity; informality; blurred boundaries; and the missing audience. The authors also discuss how extending the notion of what Goffman refers to as “situation-like” encounters provides useful insights into impression management on social media.

scholarly journals Between opportunities and threats – an analysis of Brazilian Landless Workers’ movement experiences with new media technologies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Madrid Sartoretto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Clear Separation ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
And Control ◽  
Communicative Processes

Recent discussions and research about the uses of digital social media platforms by social movements and protest organizations have raised questions about threats and challenges represented by these technologies. There is also a debate on whether digital social media platforms can contribute to establish and strengthen long-standing oppositional groups and structural change. In this context, this article analyses how the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) experiences and views the use of digital social media platforms in its communicative processes. Based on interviews and observations, the article shows how MST militants present ambivalent views towards platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and towards the dynamics of digital communication. Conclusions point that the main concern is threat to the organic collective character of the movement posed by individualistic digital social media platforms. Different from contemporary protest organisations, MST sees a clear separation between the movement and its media. The goal is to appropriate of and control media technologies, which brings many difficulties when dealing with digital social media platforms.

Illusions of Empowerment

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Weisgerber
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Digital Democracy ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Systems

This article calls into question the social media empowerment narrative and the underlying idea that social media platforms are empowering everyday netizens to have their voices heard. The author argues that social media technologies may simply privilege only those Internet users who are new media savvy and have leisure time to participate in the so-called digital democracy. While social media systems might have lowered the entrance threshold for civic engagement, hurdles such as the growing competition in an attention economy, the odds of standing out amidst millions of other individual voices, knowledge of new media technologies required to achieve visibility, and time demands make the social media empowerment vision more difficult to attain than the architects of the empowerment ideology have made the public to believe.

Materialism, television and social media – analysis of the transformation of post-colonial Indian market

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthik Selvanayagam ◽  
Varisha Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Indian Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Indian Consumers ◽  
Materialistic Values

Purpose This paper aims to, first, analyze the transformation of the Indian market by extending Sreekumar and Varman’s (2016) work on history of marketing in India into the post-colonial era; second, trace the emergence and adoption of various media technologies in the post-colonial Indian market; third, identify the evolving trends in marketing practices alongside the penetration of these media technologies in the market; and finally, argue the need for mindful adoption of marketing practices in the Indian market, rather than direct replication of Western practices. Design/methodology/approach The historical perspective on the post-colonial Indian market is done through extant literature review and analysis of marketing practices by iconic brands in the Indian market. Findings This research reveals that the adoption of Western marketing practices by brands in the Indian market has led to increasing materialistic consumption patterns among consumers. Furthermore, such practices in the social media technology era impose individualistic values in the Indian consumers, contrary to the cultural values of the country. Therefore, this research posits the need for mindful marketing practices to be adopted for the Indian market. Social implications This research shows warning signs of growing materialistic values among Indian consumers and the implications of marketing strategies on the society as a whole. Originality/value This study is a first of its kind in highlighting the transformation of the post-colonial Indian market by integrating actual marketing campaigns over this period with literature to present the various issues in the current state of the market.

scholarly journals COLONIALISM, INDEPENDENCE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Toupin ◽  
Nii Kotei Nikoi Nikoi ◽  
Admire Mare ◽  
Wendy Willems
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Black People ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Way

Conventionally, the African continent is largely written out of accounts on technology. If discussed, technology is often framed as the result of outside influences or the product of technology transfer from the West but rarely are Africans taken seriously as makers or active users of technology (Mavhunga, 2014, 2017). Recent work on race and technology has been useful in highlighting the contribution of Black people to the development of digital technology (McIlwain, 2020) and the creative deployment of technology (Brock, 2020) but has not always engaged extensively with longer histories of racialization and transnational dimensions of Blackness. Ongoing debates on platform imperialism (Jin, 2013) and data colonialism (Couldry and Mejias, 2019) have been important in demonstrating the disproportionate levels of power that global social media platforms continue to wield and the lingering importance of technology in extractive practices. However, these political economy approaches have insufficiently acknowledged spaces for agency nor have they examined the way in which the state impinges on the everyday lives of citizens. The four papers in this panel deploy the notion of independence to make sense of the way in which Africans have created, used and imagined digital technology. They treat digital technology as potential tools for liberation as well as constitutive of spaces that enable reflection on what it means to be independent. The panel regards the freedoms occasionally made possible by digital technology as always subject to the constraints imposed by powerful actors such as the (post)colonial state and corporate social media platforms.

scholarly journals Cultural influence on the adoption of social media platforms by employees

2020 ◽  
pp. 344-358
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Business Area ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Readiness To Adopt

The growth of technology has impacted billions of lives by allowing people to connect with others through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, WhatsApp, and so on. Despite the advantages of technology, there has been notable resistance from employees, especially the older generations, who are not eager to adopt social media technologies into their everyday lives. The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of culture in the adoption of social media by employees in Mafikeng. A questionnaire was utilized to collect data from 252 employees across various government and non-government departments around the Mafikeng business area. The findings revealed the cultural factors that influence employees’ adoption of social media platforms, employees’ readiness to adopt social media, and the impacts of culture on social media adoption by employees.

scholarly journals Who Shares and Comments on News?: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Online and Social Media Participation

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511773575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonis Kalogeropoulos ◽  
Samuel Negredo ◽  
Ike Picone ◽  
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
News Stories ◽  
High Interest ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Cross National

In this article, we present a cross-national comparative analysis of which online news users in practice engage with the participatory potential for sharing and commenting on news afforded by interactive features in news websites and social media technologies across a strategic sample of six different countries. Based on data from the 2016 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, and controlling for a range of factors, we find that (1) people who use social media for news and a high number of different social media platforms are more likely to also engage more actively with news outside social media by commenting on news sites and sharing news via email, (2) political partisans on both sides are more likely to engage in sharing and commenting particularly on news stories in social media, and (3) people with high interest in hard news are more likely to comment on news on both news sites and social media and share stores via social media (and people with high interest in any kind of news [hard or soft] are more likely to share stories via email). Our analysis suggests that the online environment reinforces some long-standing inequalities in participation while countering other long-standing inequalities. The findings indicate a self-reinforcing positive spiral where the already motivated are more likely in practice to engage with the potential for participation offered by digital media, and a negative spiral where those who are less engaged participate less.

scholarly journals The political affordances of the ‘coconut wireless’: Rotumans on social media in the 2018 Fiji elections

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-241
Author(s):  
Rufino Varea ◽  
Jason Titifanue ◽  
Romitesh Kant ◽  
Renata Varea
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Indigenous Ethnic Group ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
General Elections

As a unique group of people, Rotumans make up less than two percent of Fiji’s population, and as a minority Indigenous ethnic group in Fiji, they have remained relatively hidden and silent in political affairs. Outmigration from the island has led to more than 80 percent of Rotumans residing outside of Rotuma. In recent times, the Rotuman diaspora has heavily relied on the use of ICTs and new media technologies as crucial tools for the reinvigoration of Rotuma’s culture. This in itself poses an intriguing paradox as internet connectivity on Rotuma is quite limited. However, social media platforms have been increasingly used by Rotumans outside of Rotuma, and have enabled increased connectivity and greater dissemination of information among the Rotuman diaspora. Recently, the primary purpose of such social media groups has evolved from merely being a tool for rekindling familial ties, to being a platform for political discourse on Rotuman issues. In essence, despite the scattered nature of the Rotuman population, digital technologies are offering Rotumans the affordance of being able to inform and educate themselves and their networks on political issues of Rotuman interest. By employing ethnography and netnography principles and through in-person and online engagement with Rotumans within and outside of Rotuma, this article examines the affordances that digital technologies offer Rotumans concerning national political discourse. This is carried out with a specific focus on the 2018 general elections in Fiji.

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