Divided we tweet: The social media poetics of public online shaming

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-195
Author(s):  
Jamie E Shenton
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Poetics

This article explores the divisive nature of social media public culture in which impromptu communities of strangers affirm or antagonize one another in non-face-to-face interactions through memes, hashtags, and other posts. Drawing upon the work of Michael Herzfeld, specifically his notion of cultural intimacy and social poetics, this article analyzes contemporary politicized social media to demonstrate what I call social media poetics, briefly, public online shaming through which antagonists criticize one another and, in so doing, create their own identities; this process relies upon essentializing communities of posters that quickly become polarized. During social media acts of “creative shame,” people “become” their posts, making social media a vehicle for perpetuating both community and disunity based on social identities affirmed or antagonized when somehow “embodied” in the posts.

Is this mine? Psychological ownership and the social media follower

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline S.L. Tan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Psychological Ownership ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Currency ◽  
Different Levels

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine psychological ownership (PO) experienced by followers of social media influencers toward both influencer and the product. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using face-to-face semi-structured interviews that were conducted with 30 respondents and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings The study demonstrated that the PO experienced by the follower changes under different conditions resulting from perceived value, social currency and follower activity. Social currency plays a vital role in determining the target of PO, often affecting the narrative by the follower. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first paper to examine the transference of PO between product and influencer as experienced by the follower. It provides an understanding on PO that is experienced in different levels of intensity and changes depending on the motive of the follower; hence, transference of PO occurs and it is not a static.

Online Behavior of the Social Media Student

2013 ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Alan J. Reid ◽  
Kate Prudchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Social Cognitive Theories ◽  
Digital Identities

A survey of 100 undergraduates and 30 post-secondary faculty members was conducted in order to examine the current attitudes and perceptions of both groups toward the integration of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter in education. Results indicate that both parties are willing to incorporate these social media sites into academics but caution that digital identities are not necessarily representative of face-to-face behavior, thus suggesting the need for an awareness of social presence for online interaction between students and faculty. Social cognitive theories are applied to the use of social media as an instructional tool and a set of best practices for implementing social media in academics is proposed.

Is Social Media Use Socially Enhancing or Compensating?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-288
Author(s):  
Rahul Gadekar ◽  
Peng Hwa Ang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Manova Analysis ◽  
Compensation Hypothesis

Who benefits more from the use of social media—those who are already socialable and have a wide network of friends or those who do not and so seek to make up for their deficiency by going online? The social enhancement hypothesis says that extroverts benefit more through being able to enlarge their network of friends online more than introverts. The social compensation hypothesis, on the other hand, argues that social media use benefits introverts more; shy users who avoid face-to-face communication can communicate freely online. MANOVA analysis of the survey of 1,392 college students in a western state of India who are Facebook users found evidence predominantly for the social enhancement hypothesis.

scholarly journals Beyond Patienthood: Integrative medicine, healing environments and the journey toward new selfhood.

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
A M Kabel
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Medicine ◽  
Treatment Phase ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cancer Data ◽  
Patient Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
Healing Environments ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to learn about the relationship between participation in an integrative medicine program and the impact upon the social identities of seven individuals with cancer. Data were collected via semi-structured, face-to-face interviews and observations in the clinic space, and analyzed using a constant comparison method. All of the participants reported a change in their social identities as they transitioned between illness and wellness. The sub-themes that emerged included: the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as a means of fighting cancer after chemotherapy ended, maintaining health becoming a main occupation, and the “cancer filter” through which all other experiences are viewed, shaping the post-treatment phase of life. Overall, findings suggest that seeking CAM played a role in the participants’ transitions from selves defined by patient status, to new selves, with new perspectives.

scholarly journals Analysis of instagram's influence on cyber literature among millenial generation

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Need ◽  
A Site

This research covers Instagram social media problems that have an impact on the development of cyber literature among the millennial generation. In the digital era that is growing rapidly, communication technology cannot be damned. Today's technology is certainly inseparable from the human need to communicate and socialize. The development of global technology allows a change in human lifestyle in socializing, which was limited initially to interpersonal communication through face-to-face. Still, it is now developing by utilizing communication media such as smartphones or through other social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, which allows users to be registered on a site. Service-based to create profiles. This study aimed to determine the influence of Instagram social media on cyber literature among the millennial generation. This study will use data analysis through observations and references to previous research as a reference by comparing, analyzing, and then combining them before being used to complete the material for this research. The author will describe the results of observations regarding the millennial generation in dealing with the phenomenon of cyber literature, which is facilitated through the social media Instagram.

Digital Social Media Detox (DSMD)

2014 ◽  
pp. 1619-1635
Author(s):  
Theresa Renee White
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Activities ◽  
At Home

This chapter presents the findings of an empirical, qualitative, one-day intervention, in which 25 college students were invited to leave all digital technology at home and participate in ten hours of face-to-face communication. The project involved alternative activities providing an opportunity for students to socialize and interact without the distraction of digital technology, while affording the investigators an opportunity to observe patterns of social behavior and communication. Those findings are offered to illuminate the potential effects of overuse of digital social media, the pedagogical challenges in a contemporary educational environment, and the social problems we face as a result.

scholarly journals The Skype paradox

Pragmatics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Harper ◽  
Rod Watson ◽  
Jill Palzkill Woelfer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Media ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Disconnection ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Digital technologies are likely to be appropriated by the homeless just as they are by other segments of society. However, these appropriations will reflect the particularities of their circumstances. What are these appropriations? Are they beneficial or effective? Can Skype, as a case in point, assuage the social disconnection that must be, for many, the experience of being homeless? This paper analyses some evidence about these questions and, in particular, the ways communications media are selected, oriented to and accounted for by the homeless young. Using data from a small corpus of interviews, it examines the specific ways in which choice of communication (face-to-face, social media, or video, etc.), are described by these individuals as elected for tactical and strategic reasons having to do with managing their family relations. These relations are massively important both in terms of how communications media are deployed, and in terms of being one of the sources of the homeless state the young find themselves in. The paper examines some of the methodical ways these issues are articulated and the type of ‘causal facticity’ thereby constituted in interview talk. The paper also remarks on the paradoxical problem that technologies like Skype provide: at once allowing people in the general to communicate but in ways that the homeless young want to resist in the particular. The consequences of this for the shaping of communications technology in the future are remarked upon.

scholarly journals The Influence of Promotional Strategies Through Social Media on Product Purchase Decisions Mediated by Word of Mouth Marketing

Arkus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Author(s):  
Singgih Nurgiyantoro
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Promotional Strategies ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Marketing Costs ◽  
Computer Unit

E-commerce is a sales system that developed after the invention of the internet. This kind of marketing or sales system can reach the whole world simultaneously without having to set up branch offices in all countries. In addition, it can also be done 24 hours without stopping. With only a computer unit connected to the internet, the company can market its products. Marketing with promotional strategies through the internet, especially with social media (social networks), can increase sales widely and does not require expensive marketing costs. Consumers will also find it easier to find information about the products they want to buy because they do not need to meet face to face directly. Word of mouth marketing often has a competitive advantage in conveying business information. This is because word-of-mouth marketing arises naturally from the opinion of the social environment, which is considered more honest, and there are no specific motives in conveying information to other consumers.

Online Behavior of the Social Media Student

2014 ◽  
pp. 1032-1047
Author(s):  
Alan J. Reid ◽  
Kate Prudchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Social Cognitive Theories ◽  
Digital Identities

A survey of 100 undergraduates and 30 post-secondary faculty members was conducted in order to examine the current attitudes and perceptions of both groups toward the integration of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter in education. Results indicate that both parties are willing to incorporate these social media sites into academics but caution that digital identities are not necessarily representative of face-to-face behavior, thus suggesting the need for an awareness of social presence for online interaction between students and faculty. Social cognitive theories are applied to the use of social media as an instructional tool and a set of best practices for implementing social media in academics is proposed.

The Future of Social Influence in Social Psychology

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Harkins ◽  
Kipling D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

With notable exceptions, social influence has not played a major role in social psychology since the mid-1980s. The chapters in this volume, along with other developments, set the stage for a return of social influence to its once preeminent position. The chapters contribute to the renaissance of interest in social influence in a variety of ways. Some chapters show us that it is time to re-examine classic topics in the context of what has been learned since the original research was conducted. Others show how integrations/elaborations that advance our understanding of social influence processes are now possible. The chapters also reveal lacunae in the social influence literature, and suggest future lines of research. Perhaps the most important of these will take into account the change from traditional social influence that occurs face-to-face to social media-mediated influence that is likely to characterize many of our interactions in the future.

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