Digital Diaspora and Social Capital

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janroj Yılmaz Keles
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Geographical Mobility ◽  
The Way

The Internet and its applications, such as social media, have revolutionized the way stateless diasporas communicate transnationally. This new virtual, deterritorialized conversation between diasporic individuals contributes to building (digital) social networks which constitute resources and opportunities for diasporas, central to social and geographical mobility. This paper explores the role of the Internet in connecting diasporas without a home nation-state, encouraging subordinated people to participate in civic society and creating a collective source of digital social capital in the diaspora. I argue that the Internet, particularly social media, contributes to the growth of social networks, social capital and the community’s cultural and political participation within and across nation-state borders.

Online Sisterhood

2016 ◽  
pp. 208-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane J. Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Personal Income

Across developing countries, the role of social networks and social capital in facilitating women's access to income is well documented. However, less is known about how networks facilitated by social networking sites (SNS) may transform women's economic opportunities in these regions. In this chapter, I draw upon a relatively recent phenomenon of the use of SNS as a medium of trade in urban Indonesia. In 2010, I conducted preliminary interviews to examine the dynamics of Facebook-facilitated trade among urban middle-class married women residing in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. The interviews highlighted beneficial links between social media, social capital, and productivity – by means of increased personal income. However, this effective link between SNS and income-generating social capital is likely to be a rather distinctive example, as it depends largely on the class, gender, and cultural specificities that shape the nature of online and offline social interactions among my target group.

Play It Like Beckham!

2017 ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Sylvaine Castellano ◽  
Insaf Khelladi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Impact

New opportunities and challenges are emerging thanks to the growing Internet importance and social media usage. Although practitioners have already recognized the strategic dimension of e-reputation and the power of social media, academic research is still in its infancy when it comes to e-reputation determinants in a social networks context. A study was conducted in the sports setting to explore the impact of social networks on the sportspeople's e-reputation. Whereas the study emphasized (1) the influence of social networks' perception on the sportspeople's e-reputation, and the neutral roles of (2) the motives for following sportspeople online, and (3) the negative content on the Internet, additional insights are formulated on maintaining, restoring and managing e-reputation on social networks. Finally, future research directions are suggested on the role of image to control e-reputation.

Social media and the social movements in the Middle East and North Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of social media in communication discourse in the Islamic Middle East and North African (MENA) countries.Design/methodology/approachBy applying the theory of social networks and a method known as critical discourse analysis (CDA) this study investigates the role of social media in the recent waves of popular unrest in the MENA region.FindingsThis study finds that social media not only played an important role in citizens’ participation in communication discourse and mobilization, but also that these media activities intensified in part because of the authorities’ failing rationales against protesters, as shown in the four‐part CDA validity test.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is limited to a particular time frame covering the recent democratic discourse in the MENA region for the period 2009‐2011. While this research is limited to the case study of the MENA region, the author believes that lessons learned from this case study can be applied to other developing countries across the globe.Practical implicationsSocial media tools available via the internet have provided web users across the globe effective tools and services to share and disseminate information by interactively collaborating with each other in digital communities through blogs, social networking and video sharing sites. In this context, social networks are considered to be effective media for communication discourse. The intensive use of social media networks among citizens’ of the MENA region indicate that the internet has the potential to be a multivocal platform through which silenced and marginalized groups can have their voices heard.Originality/valueWhile the existing literature focuses largely on deploying Habermasian critical discourse analysis to media discourse within the context of democratic and well developed nations, this paper presents one of the few studies that extends the CDA method to non‐democratic countries. As such it contributes to the existing knowledge and understanding of the mobilizing effects of social media in communication discourse.

scholarly journals Social Media Marketing Strategies and the Possibility of Investing It in the Marketing of Information Services

2022 ◽  
pp. 50-72
Author(s):  
طلال ناظم الزهيري
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Marketing Methods

Libraries institutions are responsible for collecting and organizing information resources, and simplifying ways to benefit from it through traditional and electronic tools. Libraries today face many technical challenges, such as open access initiatives. Therefore, in order to preserve its role and contribute to the development of its performance, this study came to try to employ some innovative marketing methods that are compatible with the requirements of the digital environment, especially those followed by social networks, and try to invest them in activating the role of libraries. We believe that the best marketing methods are related to the services themselves, especially those services that are difficult to obtain from the Internet.

The role of virtual protest in the system of protest public communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Столяров ◽  
Artem Stolyarov
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Protest Activity

The article is devoted to the issue of using means of the Internet in the protest communication system. In the context of politics the possibilities of the Internet as a source are not fully researched. The author analyzes socio-political phenomenon of virtual protest and its value in the development of political process, considers so-called ‘hacktivism’ as a new kind of political participation and evaluates prospectives of using the Internet as a powerful instrument of protest activity. The issues, which can create possibilities of social networks and their role in social communication, are specially highlighted. The important part of the article is devoted to observing protests in Russia at the end of 2011 and at the beginning of 2012 and the events of the Arab spring as well as influence of social networks on those events.

Play It Like Beckham!

2018 ◽  
pp. 62-81
Author(s):  
Sylvaine Castellano ◽  
Insaf Khelladi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Impact

New opportunities and challenges are emerging thanks to the growing Internet importance and social media usage. Although practitioners have already recognized the strategic dimension of e-reputation and the power of social media, academic research is still in its infancy when it comes to e-reputation determinants in a social networks context. A study was conducted in the sports setting to explore the impact of social networks on the sportspeople's e-reputation. Whereas the study emphasized (1) the influence of social networks' perception on the sportspeople's e-reputation, and the neutral roles of (2) the motives for following sportspeople online, and (3) the negative content on the Internet, additional insights are formulated on maintaining, restoring and managing e-reputation on social networks. Finally, future research directions are suggested on the role of image to control e-reputation.

“Mo” Together or Alone? Investigating the Role of Fundraisers’ Networks in Online Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110574
Author(s):  
Anna Priante ◽  
Michel L. Ehrenhard ◽  
Tijs van den Broek ◽  
Ariana Need ◽  
Djoerd Hiemstra
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Health Campaign ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Empirical Context

In online peer-to-peer fundraising, individual fundraisers, acting on behalf of nonprofit organizations, mobilize their social networks using social media to request donations. Whereas existing studies focus on networks of donors to explain success, we examine the role of the networks of fundraisers and their effect on fundraising outcomes. By drawing on social capital and network theories, we investigate how social capital derived from social media networks and fundraising groups explains individual fundraising success. Using the Movember health campaign on Twitter as an empirical context, we find that fundraising success is associated with a moderate level of centrality in social media networks and moderate group network size. In addition, we find that fundraisers interact only marginally on social media but prefer to connect with each other outside these platforms and engage in group fundraising. Our article contributes to research on fundraising and social networks and provides recommendations for practice.

scholarly journals Role of Social Networks in the Spread of the Arabic Revolutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (SE) ◽  
pp. 309-317
Author(s):  
Ehsan Madmalil ◽  
Hamed Mohagheghnia
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
New Media ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Recent political developments in the Middle East and North Africa have been occurred in the globalization era. With the advent of globalization and the information revolution, human relations have been greatly altered. The impact of these developments is in such a way that the policy can be analyzed and classified into the periods of before and after the advent of the information technology. Accommodating a wide range of social and political actors in cyberspace, internet and social networks are means to advertise and promote political, social and cultural entities on the one hand and provide a source of political and social awareness on the other hand. They link the political activists to people, and finally provoke the actions of protest and mobilize protests. Hence, the role of the new social media such as the internet and social networks in the acceleration and continuity and expansion of the revolutionary developments in the Middle East and North Africa cannot be ignored. The role of the internet and new media in these revolutions has been so strong that some of them are called revolutions of Facebook and Twitter. Thus, in order to access the right results, you should understand the features and functions of social media, analyze their role in the development of revolutionary upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa. The current study is trying to explain the effect of social networks in the context of globalization on the formation and expansion of recent political developments in the Middle East and North Africa, for instance, in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain.

scholarly journals La construcción de la Opinión Pública en Ecuador a partir de la participación política en redes sociales

Obra digital ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Daniel Fernando López-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Redes Sociales

Esta investigación pretende determinar el papel que juegan los principales líderes de opinión ecuatorianos en la conformación de la opinión pública de su país, especialmente en la vertiente política, a través del análisis de sus intervenciones en las principales redes sociales (Twitter y Facebook). Hemos monitorizado la producción de contenidos en esas dos redes de 12 sitios importantes de Ecuador, elegidas en función de su intensidad, y del engagement con sus audiencias (volumen de retuits, de likes). Otra variable que hemos medido es la objetividad/subjetividad junto a la de información/opinión.Construction of public opinion in Ecuador from political participation in social networksAbstractThis research aims to establish the role of the main Ecuadorian opinion leaders in shaping public opinion, especially on political matters, through an analysis of their activity on social networks (Twitter and Facebook). We monitored the Twitter and Facebook content production of 12 important sites in Ecuador, chosen for their intensity and engagement with their audiences (retweets and volume of likes). Another variable that we measured was the objectivity/subjectivity of the information/opinion.Keywords: public opinion, Ecuador, politics, social media, propaganda

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