Questioning the Selective Exposure to News: Understanding the Impact of Social Networks on Political News Consumption

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pere Masip ◽  
Jaume Suau-Martínez ◽  
Carlos Ruiz-Caballero
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Media ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Body ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
The Impact

Within the current hybrid media system, in which the “old” and “new” media coexist, the role of social networks in the consumption of news has become increasingly important in recent years. Previous research has highlighted the importance and the transformational potential of user interactions in social networks in the traditional news cycle, when exchanging or discussing content related to news or public affairs, jeopardizing the traditional hegemony of the journalists and media as gatekeepers of public affairs. Our research follows a mixed methodological approach (survey plus focus groups) that reach relevant conclusions that expands the body of research about the role of news sites and social networks within the formulation of public opinion and its effects on audiences and journalism. Results showed how news sites and social networks, through links posted by friends, relatives, or acquaintances, facilitate people to access news outside their usual patterns of news consumption. Social networks, in this way, could break with the preestablished dynamics of selective exposure of individuals.

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 Evaluation and analysis of activity in social networks in the context of the digital economy development

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Symovonyk ◽  
Yurii Matseliukh ◽  
Yevheniia Redina
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Activity Data ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
User Choice ◽  
User Activity ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. In recent years, the Ukrainian economy has been rapidly gaining the leverage of the digital economy, with virtual products created through cloud services, social networks and virtual communications becoming the drivers of development. In these circumstances, the task of evaluating and analysing user activity on social networks, conducting constant monitoring of the number of readers, their groups, reflection and effectiveness of the published publication becomes relevant. That is why today, in the digital economy, special attention should be paid to research on user activity on social networks. Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is to study the features of user activity within the model of digital economy, which defined the following tasks: 1) study the principles of the digital economy and the role of social networks; 2) analysing user activity within a specific social network account; 3) development of an approach to activity evaluation based on detailed minute-by-minute data collection on the number of user interactions with each other. Results. The article examines the impact of activity within a specific account on user choice on the Instagram social network. The best way to gather information on the number of likes and comments you posted under a post has been installed and successfully implemented. The fastest and most effective algorithms for storing, processing, analysing, and cost-effectively evaluating the collected user activity data within a specific account have been researched, substantiated and implemented. Conclusions. An approach to assessing and analysing user activity within a specific social network account is proposed to be implement into the Digital Economy Model. The proposed approach allows us to collect, detailed manner, the number of Instagram user interactions with the last post in your account, as well as estimate of their growth trends, compare them with the information collected in the past or to the average over the selected period.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF MASS MEDIA AND SOCIAL NETWORKS ON HOW FANS INTERACT WITH SPORTS LIBRARIES IN THE WORLD

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Mohammad Saed Kiani ◽  
Leila Nazari ◽  
Leila Shahbazpour.
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Devices ◽  
The Impact

Background and Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of mass media and social networks on the relationship between fans and sports librarians in the world. Method: In this study, to investigate the role of new media and social networks on the interactions between fans and sports librarians, the role of new media on how fans interact with sports libraries from the review of the research carried out from 2009 onwards. Regarding the use of sports media, given that the category of modern media is a new concept, quantitative research has been conducted on its impact on sport, the creation of jobs, the promotion of communication, and the limited research on the negative effects of these media. The study was followed by a manual review of the studies conducted over the period without such results. Findings: It is not that all interactions between fans of athletes and coaches in the new media are positive. The growing interaction that has emerged between these groups today can have negative aspects. The results showed that the negative aspects of the new media have affected all life's moments of athletes and coaches. Negative tweets are so bad in some cases that most athletes and coaches are forced to turn off their communication devices. Conclusion: It seems that with the development of new media and social networks the wall between athletes, coaches and fans is collapsing and it is possible for new connections between these two groups to be created, this new relationship has a lot of positive and negative effects, although the organization sports exercises allow for a better experience for fans.

Influence of social networks on business processes’ development

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 2225-2252
Author(s):  
E.V. Popov ◽  
V.L. Simonova ◽  
O.V. Komarova ◽  
S.S. Kaigorodova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Sales Channels ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Impact

Subject. The emergence of new ways of interaction between sellers and buyers, the formation of new sales channels and product promotion based on the use of digital economy tools is at the heart of improving the business processes. Social networks became a tool for development; their rapid growth necessitates theoretical understanding and identification of potential application in enterprise's business process digitalization. Objectives. We explore the role of social media in the digitalization of business processes, systematize the impact of social networks on business processes of enterprises in the digital economy. Methods. The theoretical and methodological analysis of social networks as a tool for digitalization of company's business processes rests on the content analysis of domestic and foreign scientific studies, comparison, generalization and systematization. Results. We highlight the key effects of the impact of social networks on the business processes of the company; show that the digitalization of business processes should be considered in the context of a value-based approach, aimed at creating a value through the algorithmization of company operations. We determine that social networks are one of the most important tools for digitalization of company's business processes, as they have a high organizational and management potential. We also systematize the effects of social media on company's business processes. Conclusions. We present theoretical provisions of the impact of social networks on business processes of enterprises, which will enable to model and organize ideas about the development of digital ecosystems and the formation of business models.

scholarly journals Erythrocytes: Central Actors in Multiple Scenes of Atherosclerosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 5843
Author(s):  
Chloé Turpin ◽  
Aurélie Catan ◽  
Olivier Meilhac ◽  
Emmanuel Bourdon ◽  
François Canonne-Hergaux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Homeostasis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Plaque Progression ◽  
Cell Dysfunction ◽  
Circulating Cells ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Progression Of Atherosclerosis

The development and progression of atherosclerosis (ATH) involves lipid accumulation, oxidative stress and both vascular and blood cell dysfunction. Erythrocytes, the main circulating cells in the body, exert determinant roles in the gas transport between tissues. Erythrocytes have long been considered as simple bystanders in cardiovascular diseases, including ATH. This review highlights recent knowledge concerning the role of erythrocytes being more than just passive gas carriers, as potent contributors to atherosclerotic plaque progression. Erythrocyte physiology and ATH pathology is first described. Then, a specific chapter delineates the numerous links between erythrocytes and atherogenesis. In particular, we discuss the impact of extravasated erythrocytes in plaque iron homeostasis with potential pathological consequences. Hyperglycaemia is recognised as a significant aggravating contributor to the development of ATH. Then, a special focus is made on glycoxidative modifications of erythrocytes and their role in ATH. This chapter includes recent data proposing glycoxidised erythrocytes as putative contributors to enhanced atherothrombosis in diabetic patients.

USING SOCIAL NETWORK PARADIGM FOR DEVELOPING A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IN CRM

2011 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Mohammad Javad Mosadegh ◽  
Mehdi Behboudi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
New Media ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Customer Relationship Management ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Analysis Tools

This study develops a conceptual framework for applying social networks in usual CRM models. Recent changing in customer relationship theme and putting new media and network-based paradigm into practice makes it imperative to find how social networks affect CRMs. Accordingly, this study explains the role of social networks in customer relationship management by using its analysis, tools and aspects of this concepts based on CRM models. We have provided a SCRM framework that is based on usual CRM models and incorporates Social networks and its tools, methods and analysis. The framework is combination of Social networks concept and traditional CRM concepts.

scholarly journals The confidence delusion: A sociological exploration of participants’ confidence in sport-for-development

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-398
Author(s):  
David S Scott
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Development Capacity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
The Impact

Although sport is widely utilised as a tool for personal development, capacity building, and fostering peace, there are still numerous theoretical gaps in our knowledge about how sport influences individuals’ identities, and how this translates into their everyday lives. Within the academic literature there has been seemingly little focus placed upon participants’ emotional and embodied accounts of their sport-for-development (SfD) experiences. This paper uses phenomenologically-inspired theory to explore individuals’ lived experiences of a SfD course, and their descriptions of the social interactions and feelings of confidence they encountered, in order to address this lack of experiential data. An ethnographic methodology was used to collect data through four sports leadership course observations, and cyclical interviews over 4–10 months with eleven course attendees, plus individual interviews with five tutors. Participants’ understandings of their course experiences and the subsequent influence these understandings had on their lives were described through their use of the term confidence. A further phenomenological and sociological interrogation of this term enabled confidence to be seen as being experienced as a ‘frame’ and ‘through the body’ by participants. This study provides original conceptualisations of confidence in relation to participants’ SfD experiences, as well as important discussions regarding the role of emotions and embodiment in understanding the impact of SfD on participants’ everyday lives.

scholarly journals The Origin and Evolution of Language and the Propagation of Organization

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Logan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
New Media ◽  
Evolution Of Language ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Origin Of Language ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Impact

In this presentation we will study propagating organization. We begin by examining the evolution and origin of language by briefly reviewing the impact of the phonetic alphabet (Logan 2004a), the evolution of notated language (Logan 2004b), the origin of language and culture (Logan 2006, 2007), the role of collaboration in knowledge management (Logan and Stokes 2004), the impact of “new media” (Logan in preparation). We will then connect this work to the propagating organization of all living organisms (Kauffman et al. in press) where we will show that information in biotic systems are the constraints that instruct living organisms how to operate. We will demonstrate that instructional or biotic information is quite different than the classical notion of information Shannon developed for addressing engineering problems in telecommunications. We also will show that biosemiosis is in some sense equivalent to propagating organization (Kauffman et al. in press). We then conclude our presentation with the speculation that there exist at least seven levels of biosemiosis.

scholarly journals Da mídia de massa às novas mídias: aspectos evolutivos da comunicação em Marketing

Revista Foco ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Cristian Luis Schaeffer ◽  
Fernando Bins Luce
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Marketing Area ◽  
The Impact

O objetivo deste artigo consiste em analisar, com base no levantamento de artigos e bibliografias da área, os aspectos evolutivos e o papel da comunicação em marketing com o surgimento das novas mídias. Foram estudados conceitos como Marketing, Mix de Marketing, promoção/comunicação, mídia de massa e novas mídias, além do impacto causado pela tecnologia. A análise dessas informações permitiu traçar um quadro geral com as principais características de ambas as categorias de mídias e os fatores que contribuíram para essa evolução, além de avaliar os desafios para a comunicação em Marketing. As novas mídias exigiram uma mudança no papel e no pensamento do Marketing, já que a comunicação impessoal cedeu espaço para a interatividade. E cabe aqui destacar que a área de Marketing está se esforçando para acompanhar essas mudanças.  The purpose of this article is to analyze, based on the gathering of articles and bibliographies of the area, the evolutive aspects and the role of communication in marketing with the emergence of new media. Concepts such as Marketing, Marketing Mix, promotion/ communication, mass media and new media were studied, as well as the impact caused by technology. The analysis of this information allowed to chart a general framework with the main characteristics of both categories of media and the factors that contributed to this evolution, besides evaluating the challenges for communication in Marketing. The new media required a change in the role and thinking of Marketing, since impersonal communication gave way to interactivity. And it should be noted here that the Marketing area is striving to keep up with these changes.

scholarly journals Role of Social Media in Radicalizing Protests in Thailand

2021 ◽  
pp. 192-203
Author(s):  
Irina N. Lipilina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
The Impact

Throughout 2020 youth protests did not stop in Thailand. They began as a reaction to the dissolution by the Constitutional Court of the New Future party, which is aimed at a youth audience. After the introduction of antiepidemiological restrictions street demonstrations stopped, but the activity of their participants shifted to social networks. In a digital space that is less subject to government censorship, the protest agenda has expanded and escalated significantly. As soon as the ban on demonstrations was lifted, the performances continued, but with more drastic demands, which were originally formulated on social networks. This article examines the impact of social media on the radicalization of youth protest in Thailand.

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