Beyond positive or negative: Understanding the phenomenology, typologies and impact of incidental news exposure on citizens’ daily lives

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482096767
Author(s):  
Manuel Goyanes ◽  
Marton Demeter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Situational Variables ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
News Effects

The ubiquitous nature of online news, especially in social media, increasingly exposes readers to news even when they are not seeking it. Based on 50 semi-structured interviews with Spanish incidental news consumers, we inductively explore the effects of incidental news consumption and problematize the phenomenology of encountering news passively on social media. Our results first question previous quantitative analysis on the potential positive effects of incidental news exposure, evidencing its minimal or null effects on how citizens make sense of, and are informed about, public affairs and politics. Second, our findings indicate that citizens appraisals of incidental news content varies according to the producers involved, the topics addressed and the interest triggered. Our study contributes to current discussions of incidental news exposure, arguing that both quantitative and qualitative studies should consider the direct and indirect impact of structural, cognitive and situational variables to holistically account for incidental news effects.

scholarly journals “It Got Likes, But I Don’t Think People Understood”: A Qualitative Study of Adolescent Experiences Discussing Type 1 Diabetes on Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 193229682096558
Author(s):  
Kristen Chalmers ◽  
Mia Smith ◽  
Megan Moreno ◽  
Faisal Malik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Diabetes Management ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Media Engagement ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Management Advice

Background: The majority of adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) integrate social media engagement into their daily lives. The aim of this study was to explore adolescents’ experiences and perspectives discussing their T1D on social media. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with adolescents with T1D were conducted in person and via telephone. Questions focused on the participant’s experiences utilizing social media to discuss T1D and factors that informed the nature of T1D-related social media engagement. Open coding and thematic content analysis were used to identify emergent themes that aligned with accepted domains of social media affordances. Results: Participants included 35 adolescents with T1D. Adolescents’ experiences related to discussing T1D on social media aligned with four affordances of social media: identity, cognitive, emotional, and social. The identity affordances of social media platforms allowed adolescents to curate online personas that selectively included their diagnosis of T1D, while managing the potential negative emotional and social implications linked to the stigma of T1D. Adolescents who decided to discuss T1D on social media leveraged cognitive affordances by providing and receiving diabetes management advice, emotional affordances by obtaining affirmation from peers, and social affordances by extending their network to include other individuals with T1D. Conclusions: Adolescents with T1D flexibly leverage the affordances offered by social media to access emotional support, information, and identity affirmation resources while navigating stigma-based social consequences. Our findings highlight the value of developing tools to support adolescents with T1D in comfortably discussing and receiving appropriate support about T1D on social media.

How Is the Administrator's Experience in Managing Health Facebook Groups?

2022 ◽  
pp. 397-417
Author(s):  
Claudia Pernencar ◽  
Inga Saboia
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Information ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Bowel Disease ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Status ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel

This decade, patients with chronic conditions take advantage of technological resources to share experiences, look for help, and get together in groups. Social media has become a productive spot of health information for users. This chapter clarifies the administrators' user experience of social media health groups within the context of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Semi-structured interviews with 7 Portuguese and Brazilian managers of Facebook groups were carried out. The authors propose a model of participation in online communities that take into account the variables of Presence–Interconnection between users in daily lives; Relationship–Aspects of experience where users meet; Reputation–Positioning of users related to the status; Groups–Relationship issues between members; Conversations – Extension of the user interaction; Sharing–Represents the exchange, distribution, and reception and Education–The information transmitted. Findings reinforced that administrators' groups use social media to lead patients´ empowerment.

scholarly journals The Effects of Social Media on Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobbi Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Effects On Children

Social media and smartphones have become a part of our daily lives, and the Internet is being accessed by children at younger and younger ages. This can’t help but influence them in significant ways. While we as a society tend to focus on the negative effects on children, this paper also explores various positive effects and discusses how those benefits can be enhanced while minimizing possible unwanted outcomes.

New channels, new ways of becoming informed? Examining the acquisition of public affairs knowledge by young people in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 688-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cui Di ◽  
Wu Fang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Interpersonal Discussion ◽  
Web News ◽  
Practical Implications

People always rely on a specific media environment to acquire knowledge about public affairs. This pilot study investigates gain of public affairs knowledge as an effect of media use and interpersonal discussion in China. Based on a contextual understanding of China’s press system, this study explores the mainstream and alternative forms of public affairs knowledge and the ways they are linked with use of new media (i.e., web news and social media) and traditional media (i.e., newspaper and television). An analysis of survey data first shows that television news and web news have direct positive effects on mainstream knowledge, and only web news directly contributes to alternative knowledge. Second, news from newspapers, television, the web and social media have indirect effects on both mainstream and alternative forms of public affairs knowledge through elaboration and interpersonal discussion. Third, elaboration is only associated with alternative knowledge, whereas interpersonal discussion is associated with both mainstream and alternative knowledge. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals The development trends and features of online news websites in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Abdul Kabil Khan ◽  
Anna Shnaider
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Basic Features

This article refers to the brief history of the development of online media in Bangladesh starting from the beginnings of the Internet to the contemporary stage. Since 2006 Bangladeshi news organizations have been reshaping their strategy towards being a digital-only news outlet. News organizations are now using different features of mobile devices and social media to tell stories and engage with their target audiences. Today both the digital-only news outlets and mainstream media use QR codes, messengers, social media platforms, which enable them to reach a wider area of audiences. By using yet inexpensive digital tools journalists can easily create and distribute content for digital-only platforms. We consider digital-only platforms as new media, social media, and convergence media platforms. Social media platforms have provided the opportunity for traditional journalists to share news quickly, get feedback from the audience, and have two-way communication with the reader. Previous studies have looked at the genres of online journalism from a western perspective. Little has been done on the topic from the context of Bangladesh. In this article, we analyze the basic features of online news media that exist in contemporary Bangladesh and provide an account of the development trends. We outline the new genres, techniques, and use as a sample two most famous online news platforms: The Daily Star and bdnews24. A series of semi-structured interviews were conducted with 5 different professionals from Journalism and mass media. This study is based on both primary and secondary sources of qualitative data to understand the new genres of online news media, challenges, and opportunities to work in the ever-changing media landscape.

scholarly journals Influence of Trust on Social Commercial Behavior – Taking WeChat as an Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 208-212
Author(s):  
Shuo Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The development of science and technology as well as the internet have brought changes to our daily lives. In addition, with the widespread use of social media, more and more people are using social platforms to connect with colleagues and serve business activities. This study takes WeChat, a specific social media platform in China, as an example to study how personal social relations influence personal consumption behaviour in the digital media era through WeChat users’ daily use experience. This study adopts a mixed method. First, it tests users’ perception based on cognitive and emotional factors through 122 questionnaire surveys. Then, the users’ experiences from their participation in social enterprises are gathered through 10 semi-structured interviews, and subsequently, the relationship between personal relations and social enterprises are analyzed. Finally, after data collation and analysis, it can be concluded that trust is the core relationship quality and also the basis for promoting the development of social business activities. At the same time, since social business activities rely on social relations, the development of swift guanxi is conducive to the realization of repurchase behaviours in social business relations.

COVID-19 in a collectivist culture: social isolation and maintenance of social relations

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nashaat H. Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Collectivist Culture ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Positive Effects

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the way people in a collectivist culture, particularly Egyptians, define social isolation and to understand the effect of social isolation on maintaining traditional networks of social relations.Design/methodology/approachTo do this, online ethnographic semi-structured interviews were carried out with a purposeful sample of non-infected Egyptians who have access to social media networks.FindingsAlthough collectivism may be perceived as a risk factor in developing countries, it has positive effects on reducing the spread of COVID-19 among Egyptians through the preventive measures it entails. Increased fear, worries and anxiety about the family and in-group members is a limiting factor against the prevalence of the disease, despite the emotional hardships experienced by individuals.Research limitations/implicationsThe sample interviewed does not refer to the entire Egyptian population, since the number of social media users represents 43.5% of Egyptians. Therefore, generalization of research data may be problematic.Practical implicationsThe paper aims to raise awareness of the important of stressing collectivist character traits since they can help develop more preventive measures against the spread of the disease. Research findings also indicate that there is a need to coexist with the disease under controlled conditions to lessen the psychological risks of social isolation.Originality/valueIn light of the paucity of research carried out on COVID-19, the present research provides a pioneering insight into the meaning of social isolation in a collectivist culture and the distinctive local methods adopted by people to maintain their networks of social relations.

How Is the Administrator's Experience in Managing Health Facebook Groups?

2020 ◽  
pp. 315-341
Author(s):  
Claudia Pernencar ◽  
Inga Saboia
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Information ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Bowel Disease ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Status ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel

This decade, patients with chronic conditions take advantage of technological resources to share experiences, look for help, and get together in groups. Social media has become a productive spot of health information for users. This chapter clarifies the administrators' user experience of social media health groups within the context of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Semi-structured interviews with 7 Portuguese and Brazilian managers of Facebook groups were carried out. The authors propose a model of participation in online communities that take into account the variables of Presence–Interconnection between users in daily lives; Relationship–Aspects of experience where users meet; Reputation–Positioning of users related to the status; Groups–Relationship issues between members; Conversations – Extension of the user interaction; Sharing–Represents the exchange, distribution, and reception and Education–The information transmitted. Findings reinforced that administrators' groups use social media to lead patients´ empowerment.

scholarly journals “I make Mexico at my home”: social media usage, diasporic discourse, and cultural endurance of Mexicans living in Barcelona, Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
David Ramírez Plascencia
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
World Information ◽  
The City

While many works have focused on Mexican migrants living in the United States of America, little attention has been paid to diasporic communities of Mexicans in Europe. The purpose of this article is to understand how social media serves as a link in between Mexicans living in Barcelona, Spain and their homeland, and how these migrants use the virtual spaces not only to share real-world information to improve their daily lives in Spain, but to preserve their cultural identity. Fieldwork consisted in 17 “in situ” semi-structured interviews to Mexicans living in Barcelona, whose ages are between 21- and 60-years during June and July of 2016. Subjects were contacted through a Facebook Group named “Mexicanos en Barcelona” (Mexicans in Barcelona) that has more than 5,000 members. This group is conformed not only by Mexicans living in Barcelona, but it also includes Mexicans in Mexico with the interest of studying, touring or working in the city.

Mobilizing for Some

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffael Heiss ◽  
Jörg Matthes
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Specific Factors

Abstract. This study investigated the effects of politicians’ nonparticipatory and participatory Facebook posts on young people’s political efficacy – a key determinant of political participation. We employed an experimental design, using a sample of N = 125 high school students (15–20 years). Participants either saw a Facebook profile with no posts (control condition), nonparticipatory posts, or participatory posts. While nonparticipatory posts did not affect participants’ political efficacy, participatory posts exerted distinct effects. For those high in trait evaluations of the politician presented in the stimulus material or low in political cynicism, we found significant positive effects on external and collective efficacy. By contrast, for those low in trait evaluations or high in cynicism, we found significant negative effects on external and collective efficacy. We did not find any effects on internal efficacy. The importance of content-specific factors and individual predispositions in assessing the influence of social media use on participation is discussed.

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