‘We are in a Battle with the Virus’: Hamas, Hezbollah, and covid-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Abdalhadi Alijla
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
State Actors

Abstract This article examines the response of two non-state actors, Hezbollah and Hamas, to the coronavirus pandemic in Lebanon and Palestine. It studies the patterns of governance, practicalities, leadership, and legitimacy both parties deployed during the Covid-19 crisis. It argues that non-state actors usually imitate states by trying to acquire legitimacy in such cases. The coronavirus was sectarianised, politicised, and used to gain external and local legitimacy by Hamas and Hezbollah, respectively. The success of non-state actors in managing the coronavirus pandemic was rooted in two factors: the existence of a pre-existing and well-developed welfare system, and the party’s capacity to mobilise its constituencies mainly through charismatic leadership. The paper is based on primary sources, including interviews, news articles, and social media.

Countering Reactance in Crisis Communication: Incorporating Positive Emotions via Social Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Xu ◽  
Yiye Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Reactance Theory ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Psychological Reactance Theory

Based on the psychological reactance theory, this study examined the effect of incorporating sympathy via social media on countering reactance in crisis communication. The study employed a 2 (expressing sympathy: yes vs. no) × 2 (medium: Twitter vs. news release) between-subject experimental design. Two hundred and fifty-three ( N = 253) American consumers recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk participated in this online experiment. Results indicated that using Twitter and expressing sympathy significantly lowered reactance. There was no interaction effect between the two factors, such that their influence on reactance was not contingent on one another. There was a partial yet significant mediation effect of reactance between medium and two outcomes (perceived crisis responsibility and organizational reputation). There was no mediation effect of reactance between sympathy expressed and two outcomes. The theoretical and managerial implications were discussed, as well as limitations and suggestions for future research.

Bringing the transnational into ‘new wars’: the case of islamic state

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Layton
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
International Society ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
New Wars ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Better Than

Abstract In her seminal 1998 work on ‘new wars’ Mary Kaldor developed a heuristic framework usefully for understanding the characteristics of armed non-state groups involved in contemporary conflicts. This framework was derived from analysing the 1992-1995 Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict. Some two decades after this however, adjustments may now be necessary. A focussed examination of the strategy used during 2014 by Islamic State Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) reveals Kaldor’s framework may now need to include a more explicit focus on the transnational. Since the mid-1990s, the transnational has been made more accessible by advances in social media in particular, and by globalization more generally. ISIS’s use of the transnational indicates this may be an area that astute non-state actors can advantageously exploit - perhaps better than states - although there are some difficulties involved. ISIS’s success suggests that the transnational may in time have greater influence on the politics of international society.

Impact of Charismatic Leadership and Market Shares on IPO First-Day Returns: The Case of Technology Firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 859-872
Author(s):  
Wing Him Yeung ◽  
Yuanyuan Wu ◽  
Feiyuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Initial Public Offerings ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Public Offerings ◽  
Ipo Performance ◽  
Technology Firms ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Usa

First-day returns of initial public offerings (IPOs) have always been an important topic in academic research. Previous literature generally attributes the first-day return of an IPO to the underpricing of the stock, and most studies emphasize on the market-level factors such as the hot market influence and people’s pursuit over IPOs based on the pre-selling market return data. Firm-level variations, on the other hand, are generally under investigated. This research investigates the variations across companies by focusing on two factors that previous studies have not fully articulated: charismatic leadership and market shares. Using logistic regression analysis and a sample of 92 firms in technology industries that went public in the USA during the period from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014, we find that there is a statistically significant and positive relationship between charismatic leadership and first-day returns of IPOs, as well as between market shares and first-day returns of IPOs. Our study contributes to the IPO performance literature, and it provides practical implications on IPO management and investment.

scholarly journals Monthly Active User Improvement in Social Media Mobile Phone Application: The Six Sigma Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Sulistia Fitriaty
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Six Sigma ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Mobile Phone Application ◽  
Active User ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Six Sigma Approach

<p>This research study is focused on one social media that starts as an instant messaging app called ABC. ABC is an app originally from Southeast Asia that started to enter the Indonesian market in 2013. It has been struggling to maintain its monthly active user (MAU) during the past few months and wishes to get back on its feet as soon as possible. The problem occurred when it was unable to reach its MAU target which is 92 million in 2017. According to the control chart, it hasn’t quite made a significant improvement since the beginning of 2017. It is also incapable to meet the target. Several projects have been done just as usual to increase the number of MAU, but nothing happens. The number of MAU is going up and down without ever reaching the target. Based on 5 Whys Analysis, the root cause of the problem lies in two factors, the projects are held too often, and the company cannot specialize in each project based on specific target market criteria. The possible solution to implement is that the company should appoint someone to be the project planning coordinator. He or she will manage all executed projects so that they will align together to support company’s mission. Hence, increase the number of MAU as well. In conclusion, this study is aimed to improve the number of Monthly Active Users. This study will use Six Sigma approach to analyze deeply the problem being faced and come up with proposal solution for ABC App to implement in order to increase MAU. This study uses DMAIC method because the method is suitable to improve existing processes. The control phase will also be implemented by using FMEA Table. FMEA Table helps project planning coordinator to control each project so that further risks can be prevented in the beginning.</p>

scholarly journals Kepemimpinan Kharismatik Berbasis Pendekatan Pembelajaran Ramah Santri di Pondok Pesantren Fauzan Kecamatan Sukaresmi Kabupaten Garut

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 632-647
Author(s):  
A. Ishaq Fauzi Al-Fauzany ◽  
Engkus Kuswarno ◽  
Ikka Kartika AF ◽  
Uyun Supyan Sauri
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Science Students ◽  
The Ideal

The burden of responsibility to be the figure head of Pondok Pesantren in ensuring the quality of learning that many are faced with the challenge-the challenge of change civilization. Need a high loyalty, integrity full, is able to provide the best individual performance of the Leader of the multi-talented, in educating students with heartfelt, sincere, be personal loved ones and have an attraction worthy of being a role model to all people, be uswah at once has an example in life.. Dissertation using Qualitative Methods, the study about research are descriptive and tend to use the analysis. The process and the meaning is accentuated in qualitative research. The foundation of the theory be used as a guide in order to focus the research in accordance with the facts in the field. The results showed that, of charismatic leadership on a figure Kyai is a skill that consists of a art print life skills of the students and the art of managing a team of educators. Not just the skills to manage an organization, but must be coupled with the ability to supervise, direct, and motivate, in a way that is efficient and effective. Leadership that gives the effect of depth and incredible to motivate their followers in achieving the performance of the ideal. Theory-based Learning friendly students is the process of transper material science and the transformation of implementation science that is adapted to the capacity of students to more easily follow and apply them in real life. Between the Caregiver as the executor of education should be able to mengkulturasikan with primary sources that are used as a reference science students as a provision sailing on life. The Kyai/Sitter Boarding school Fauzan Sukaresmi Garut as well as the elements of Management of a charismatic figure of the presence of the self they are required to master the five basic competence i.e. the Competences of the Spiritual, Personality Competence, Competency Management, Entrepreneurship Competency, Competence, Supervision, and Social Competence.

Teaching Political Science Students to Find and Evaluate Information in the Social Media Flow

2012 ◽  
pp. 180-200
Author(s):  
Megan Fitzgibbons
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Information Evaluation ◽  
Academic Tasks ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science Educators

The advent of social media necessitates new pedagogical approaches in the field of political science, specifically in relation to undergraduate students’ critical thinking and information evaluation skills. Instead of seeking out traditional static pools of knowledge, researchers and researchers-in-training now interact with information in an amorphous stream of production and consumption. Socially created information is now firmly integrated in the basic subject matter of political science, as manifested in primary sources in the field, scholars’ communication practices, and the emergence of collective and distributed expertise. Existing models of information evaluation competencies do not address these realities of participatory authorship and decentralized distribution of information. Thus, in order to educate “information-literate” students in political science, educators must foster an understanding of how information is produced and how to critically evaluate individual information sources in the context of academic tasks.

Beyond Sunni and Shia

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Science History ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Islamic Identity ◽  
And Diffusion

This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict during a period of upheaval in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how political economy, geopolitics, domestic governance, social media, non- and sub-state groups, and clerical elites have affected the transformation and diffusion of sectarian identities. Particular attention is paid to how conflicts over distribution of political and economic power have taken on a sectarian quality, and how a variety of actors have instrumentalized sectarianism. The volume, covering Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, Iran, and Egypt, includes contributors from a broad array of disciplines including political science, history, sociology, and Islamic studies. Beyond Sunni and Shia draws on extensive fieldwork and primary sources to offer insights that are empirically rich and theoretically grounded, but also accessible for policy audiences and the informed public.

Autocracies and the Control of Societal Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Marie-Eve Reny
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
International Networks ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Network Cohesion ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Regime Resilience ◽  
Do So

AbstractAuthoritarian regimes seek to prevent formal and informal organizations in society from engaging in mobilized dissent. What strategies do they use to do so, and what explains their choices? I posit that state actors in autocracies use four mechanisms to control societal organizations: repression, coercion, cooptation and containment. How they control these organizations depends on whether they think they might undermine political stability. Two factors inform that assessment. First is whether state actors think societal organizations’ interests are reconcilable with regime resilience. Second is whether groups are in national or international networks that are either cohesive or incohesive. While the irreconcilability of interests influences state actors’ perceptions of groups as subversive, network cohesion shapes organizations’ capacity for large-scale mobilization.

scholarly journals A Multimodal Approach to Predict Social Media Popularity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayank Meghawat ◽  
Satyendra Yadav ◽  
Debanjan Mahata ◽  
Yifang Yin ◽  
Rajiv Ratn Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Training Dataset ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Comparable Performance ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Popularity Prediction

Multiple modalities represent different aspects by whichinformation is conveyed by a data source. Modern day social media platforms are one of the primary sources of multimodal data, where users use different modes of expression by posting textual as well as multimedia content such as images and videos for sharing information. Multimodal information embedded in such posts could be useful in predicting their popularity. To the best of our knowledge, no such multimodal dataset exists for the prediction of social media photos. In this work, we propose a multimodal dataset consisiting of content, context, and social information for popularity prediction. Specifically, we augment the SMPT1 dataset for social media prediction in ACM Multimedia grand challenge 2017 with image content, titles, descriptions, and tags. Next, in this paper, we propose a multimodal approach which exploits visual features (i.e., content information), textual features (i.e., contextual information), and social features (e.g., average views and group counts) to predict popularity of social media photos in terms of view counts. Experimental results confirm that despite our multimodalapproach uses the half of the training dataset from SMP-T1, it achieves comparable performance with that of state-of-the-art.

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