Activism in Women’s Sports Blogs: Fandom and Feminist Potential

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunja Antunovic ◽  
Marie Hardin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Women's Sports ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Women’S Sports ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Do So ◽  
Blog Posts

The emergence of social media has provided a space for discourse and activism about sports that traditional media outlets tend to ignore. Using a feminist theoretical lens, a textual analysis of selected blogs on the Women Talk Sports blog network was conducted to determine how fandom and advocacy for women’s sports were expressed in blog posts. The analysis indicated that bloggers enhance the visibility of women’s sports, but their engagement with social issues varies. Some bloggers may reproduce hegemonic norms around sports and gendered sporting bodies, while others may offer a more critical, decidedly feminist view and challenge dominant ideologies. While the blogosphere, and particularly networks such as Women Talk Sports, can serve as a venue for activism around women’s sports and the representation of athletic bodies, its potential to do so may be unmet without a more critical perspective by participants.

Media use, fear of terrorism, and attitudes towards immigrants and refugees: Young people and adults compared

2019 ◽  
pp. 174804851986947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlies Debrael ◽  
Leen d’Haenens ◽  
Rozane De Cock ◽  
David De Coninck
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
Do So

In Flanders, citizens hold rather negative attitudes towards immigrants and refugees. This could be due to the news media, which depict newcomers in a rather negative way. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether there are separate media worlds at work in Flemish young people and adults and whether this results in different attitudes towards immigrants and refugees. To do so, we questioned 1,759 people aged 13 to 65 by means of an online questionnaire. Results indicate that overall news consumption increases with age, and that young people mainly use social media for their news consumption while adults still rely on traditional media. Interestingly, young adults are the most welcoming group towards immigrants and refugees. Although news media consumption seems to be related to fear of terrorism and attitudes towards newcomers to some extent, socio-demographic factors play an important role in the development of fear and negative attitudes towards newcomers.

scholarly journals A Generational War Is Launched with The Birth of Ok Boomer in The Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Joon Lim ◽  
Jennifer Lemanski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This study examined recent virality of “Ok Boomer” in the United States. The term of Ok Boomer gained overnight momentum in the public sphere as the symbol of a generational war. While previous research has primarily examined racial and gender tensions, this study introduced a new phenomenon of the generational conflict between “Ok Boomers” and “Baby Boomers,” in which social media originated the term of Ok Boomer and traditional media diffused it with framed meaning. Diffusion of Innovation theory was used to better understand the path of how “Ok Boomer” as a catchphrase, hashtag, noun cluster or trend resulted in attracting a massive amount of media and public attention. Relying on Node XL, Google Trends, and Nexus Nexis for data gathering and analyses, this study categorized four themes for a word, or an idea as an innovation to be publicly acknowledged: collaboration of social media and traditional media, public figures’ involvement for debate; confrontational social issues, and media-framed agenda. In sum, this study argues the term of Ok Boomer symbolizes the advent of a generational war in society in line with the long-standing race and gender wars in the media coverage.

Propagation Phenomena in Social Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Meeyoung Cha ◽  
Fabrício Benevenuto ◽  
Saptarshi Ghosh ◽  
Krishna Gummadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Tie Strength ◽  
Information Propagation ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
User Influence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types

Social media and blogging services have become extremely popular. Every day hundreds of millions of users share random thoughts, gossip, news, and thoughts on notable social issues. Users interact by following each other’s updates and passing along interesting pieces of information to their friends. Information therefore can diffuse widely and quickly through social links. Information propagation in networks such as Twitter and Facebook is unique, in that traditional media sources and word-of-mouth propagation coexist. The availability of digitally logged propagation events in social media helps one better understand how a wide range of factors that are essential in communication, such as user influence, tie strength, repeated exposures, mass media, and agenda setting, come into play in the way people generate and consume information in modern society. This chapter reviews the roles different types of users of social media play in information propagation as well as the resulting propagation patterns. It also discusses specific examples, including the spread of social conventions and identifying topic experts in social media, in an effort to bring about better understanding of the characteristics of propagation phenomena in large social networks.

scholarly journals Social Media and Corruption

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Enikolopov ◽  
Maria Petrova ◽  
Konstantin Sonin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Management Turnover ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Causal Impact ◽  
Blog Posts

Does new media promote accountability in nondemocratic countries, where offline media is often suppressed? We show that blog posts, which exposed corruption in Russian state-controlled companies, had a negative causal impact on their market returns. For identification, we exploit the precise timing of blog posts by looking at within-day results with company-day fixed effects. Furthermore, we show that the posts are ultimately associated with higher management turnover and less minority shareholder conflicts. Taken together, our results suggest that social media can discipline corruption even in a country with limited political competition and heavily censored traditional media. (JEL G14, G34, L82, P23, P26, P34, Z13)

scholarly journals Information Technology in Sports Clothing

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
M Iffan ◽  
◽  
M R Khoirul ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women's Sports ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Women’S Sports ◽  
Descriptive Method

The purpose of this study, to meet the needs of Muslim women to carry out exercise activities so that Muslim women do not struggle to find clothes that fit their style in everyday life, using Social media as a tool for promotion. This study used a descriptive method to describe the efforts of Muslim women's sports clothing through social media as a promotional tool because nowadays many women who already use hijab during exercise. The results obtained from this research added employment opportunities. The reason to be accomplished and get noticed is the clarity of the utilization of social media and see what is being needed by women today. The conclusion of this research is young people especially those who have not opened the business, this business is used as an example or the first step of opening the daily effort to increase income and learn to become a professional entrepreneur

scholarly journals Knowledge Mobilization: Useful to Grassroots Organizing?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
Changement Social ◽  
Grassroots Movements ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
Medias Sociaux ◽  
Do So

My presentation focuses on the movement of information and knowledge to create social change. I explore whether Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) units could assist grassroots movements in sharing their goals and information with a broader audience. I do so through a textual analysis of a KMb unit social media and publications. Findings suggest that while a KMb does provide a variety of services, they are focused on supporting academics. Thus, it is unclear if connecting with a KMb unit would help a grassroots movement.Ma présentation porte sur le mouvement de l'information et du savoir pour créer un changement social. J'examine si les unités de mobilisation des connaissances (KMb) pourraient aider les mouvements locaux à partager leurs objectifs et leurs informations avec un public plus large. Je le fais à travers une analyse textuelle des médias sociaux et des publications d’une unité KMb. Les résultats suggèrent que bien que les KMb fournissent une variété de services, elles se concentrent sur le soutien aux universitaires. Ainsi, il n'est pas clair si la connexion avec une unité KMb aiderait un mouvement de base.

scholarly journals How citizen journalists impact the agendas of traditional media and the government policymaking process in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumeng Luo ◽  
Teresa M. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Registration System ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Definition Of

“Citizen journalism” is a term used to refer to ordinary individuals who act as journalists during some part of the process of creating content for mainstream journalism coverage. In China, besides ordinary citizen journalists, some professional journalists have been regarded as citizen journalists if they write stories online that would otherwise not be publishable in traditional media. Unfortunately, since the real name registration system was launched on the Internet in 2012, the activities of both professionals and average citizens in China are frequently limited. So, is citizen journalism a role that can only be practiced in very limited ways in China? This article adopts a broader definition of citizen journalism, in which, through the use of social media to discuss and comment on news and social issues, ordinary citizens in China act as collective citizen journalists, which insulates them against individually targeted criticism for their opinions. We applied agenda-setting theory to explain citizen journalist contributions to the content of traditional media and the policymaking process in China. Using several forms of Chinese media and rank-order cross-lagged correlations, we found that online public opinions in social media influenced the agenda of traditional commercially oriented media, but not the agenda of traditional government-sponsored media. The policy agenda was partially influenced by the online public. The online public acted collectively to influence and contribute to the content of the traditional media and policies the government considers, thus changing the nature of journalism and public sphere.

Religion in the Afrosphere

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Boutros
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
Public Address ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
Blog Posts

The Afrosphere is a diverse field of social media marked by a willingness to engage issues of shared or collective concern for inhabitants of the “Black Atlantic” or the “Black diaspora.” By looking at blogs as a form of public address, this analysis examines instances of religion in the Afrosphere as components of strategic identification around what Stephan Palmié terms “black collective selfhood.” Considering both the technological affordances and cultural contexts of blogging, this analysis explores the intersection of race and religion in the Afrosphere as constitutive of digital counterpublic discourse. Building on textual analysis of blog posts, this analysis outlines how meaning is formed, fixed, and contested in discussions of religion in the Afrosphere. This analysis argues that the intersection of race and religion within this digital counterpublic makes particular iterations of the Black diaspora visible.

scholarly journals Memetic Moments

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Naomi Smith ◽  
Simon Copland
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Temporal Patterns ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

This paper examines how speed shapes internet culture. To do so, it analyses ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter, short-lived and rapidly circulated memes that quickly reach saturation. The paper examines two ‘memetic moments’ on Twitter in 2018 and 2019 to assess how they develop over time. Each case study comprises a week’s worth of relevant tweets that were analysed for temporal patterns. We analyse these ‘memetic moments’ through Lefebvre’s (2004) work on rhythmanalysis, arguing that the temporal patterns of memes on Twitter can be understood through his concepts of repetition, presence and dialogue. While seemingly trivial, memetic moments underscore the didactic relationship between social media and news media while also providing a way to approach complex social issues.

scholarly journals One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Women’s Televised Sports, 1989–2019

2021 ◽  
pp. 216747952110035
Author(s):  
Cheryl Cooky ◽  
LaToya D. Council ◽  
Maria A. Mears ◽  
Michael A. Messner
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Women's Sports ◽  
Charitable Contributions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Sports ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Quality Of Coverage

For 3 decades we have tracked and analyzed the quantity and quality of coverage of women’s and men’s sports in televised news and highlights shows. In this paper, we report on our most recent iteration of the longitudinal study, which now includes an examination of online sports newsletters and social media. The study reveals little change in the quantitative apportionment of coverage of women’s and men’s sports over the past 30 years. Men’s sports—especially the “Big Three” of basketball, football and baseball—still receive the lion’s share of the coverage, whether in-season or out of season. When a women’s sports story does appear, it is usually a case of “one and done,” a single women’s sports story obscured by a cluster of men’s stories that precede it, follow it, and are longer in length. Social media posts and online sports newsletters’ coverage, though a bit more diverse in some ways, mostly reflected these same patterned gender asymmetries. Gender-bland sexism continued as the dominant pattern in 2019 TV news and highlights’ stories on women’s sports. Three themes of this “gender-bland” coverage include: 1) nationalism, 2) asymmetrical gender marking coupled with local parochialism, and 3) community service/ charitable contributions.

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