scholarly journals Capture the feeling: Memory practices in between the emotional affordances of heritage sites and digital media

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 578-591
Author(s):  
Christoph Bareither
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Digital Photography ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Memory Practices ◽  
Media Practices

This article develops the concept of emotional affordances, which is first used to describe the capacities of heritage sites to enable, prompt and restrict particular emotional experiences of their visitors. Secondly, the article asks how the emotional affordances of digital media, particularly those taking effect in digital photography and social media practices, allow visitors to mediate the emotional affordances of a particular heritage site. The argument builds on an ethnographic study of visitors’ digital image practices at the ‘Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe’ in Berlin and it demonstrates how visitors ‘capture the feeling’ of the memorial through such practices while also reshaping the experiences the place affords.

scholarly journals Careful Co-presence: The Transnational Mediation of Emotional Intimacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630511985422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donya Alinejad
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Emotional Intimacy ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Social Media Communication ◽  
Media Practices

This article investigates how migrants experience “co-presence” with their loved ones through social media. On the basis of empirical investigation, the article engages with current debates about how social media shape emotional experiences. It draws on short-term ethnographic research of everyday social media practices among second-generation Turkish-Dutch migrants who grew up in the Netherlands and migrated to Istanbul in adulthood. The article focuses on transnational family intimacy within this migration phenomenon as an in-depth case study for understanding the role of social media platforms and mobile devices in producing emotional experiences of togetherness under conditions of long-distance, long-term separation. The author shows how social media platforms afford not only ambient, fast-paced, background communications—which have been emphasized in the literature, thus far—but also more direct, immersive, conversational modes of communication. The article argues that people’s practices of carefully shifting between these modes of social media communication produce their experiences of transnational emotional intimacy. The author develops the notion of careful co-presence through a discussion of how social media practices that produce intimacy reflect both discerning selectivity and emotional care. This argument builds on scholarship that has advanced practice-based approaches to understanding how emotion is mediated through digital media.

scholarly journals Towards nuanced universality: Developing a concept bible for public service online news production

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
Jenni Hokka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Online News ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
General Level ◽  
Audience Segmentation ◽  
News Production ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Social Media Platforms

With the advent of popular social media platforms, news journalism has been forced to re-evaluate its relation to its audience. This applies also for public service media that increasingly have to prove its utility through audience ratings. This ethnographic study explores a particular project, the development of ‘concept bible’ for the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE’s online news; it is an attempt to solve these challenges through new journalistic practices. The study introduces the concept of ‘nuanced universality’, which means that audience groups’ different kinds of needs are taken into account on news production in order to strengthen all people’s ability to be part of society. On a more general level, the article claims that despite its commercial origins, audience segmentation can be transformed into a method that helps revise public service media principles into practices suitable for the digital media environment.

scholarly journals The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652093374
Author(s):  
Olu Jenzen ◽  
Itir Erhart ◽  
Hande Eslen-Ziya ◽  
Umut Korkut ◽  
Aidan McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of ‘social media imaginaries’, a derivative of the broader field of ‘media imaginaries’, our analysis seeks to offer new insights into activists’ relation to and conceptualisation of social media and how it shapes their digital media practices. Extending the concept of media imaginaries to include analysis of protestors’ use of aesthetics, it aims to unpick how a particular ‘social media imaginary’ is constructed and informs their collective identity. Using the Gezi Park protest of 2013 as a case study, it illustrates how social media became a symbolic part of the protest movement by providing the visualised possibility of imagining the movement. In previous research, the main emphasis has been given to the functionality of social media as a means of information sharing and a tool for protest organisation. This article seeks to redress this by directing our attention to the role of visual communication in online protest expressions and thus also illustrates the role of visual analysis in social movement studies.

Staying true to the mission: How C-SPAN translated espoused into lived values to pull off a ‘boring’ social media strategy

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 2006-2024
Author(s):  
Hans K Meyer ◽  
Christy Zempter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cable Network ◽  
Espoused Values ◽  
The Us ◽  
Service Mission ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Social Media Strategy

Building a brand is key to a news organization’s successful social media strategy. But what if that brand is ‘boring’? Through an ethnographic study of C-SPAN, the cable network dedicated to covering the US House and Senate, this study examines conflicts between an organization’s espoused values and accepted social media practices. It finds that building a brand, even if it is seen as boring, effectively serves an audience on social media because audience members will align with the overall message rather than individual reporter’s attributes. The key is clearly communicating the journalistic benefits of living espoused values and how getting involved on social media fulfills the organization’s public service mission. When conflicts arise, the study also finds individual staffers provide key examples, which organizations should cultivate in the newsroom.

scholarly journals While ‘Gramming’ a Wedding in India: Media and the Reproduction of a ‘Bridal Femininity’

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147-167
Author(s):  
Athira B K
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Media Practices

This paper examines the changing wedding scenes and performance of bridehood in India in a post-liberalisation period. The study, based on a digital ethnography, explores the changing wedding practices by considering the role of digital media in circulating and reifying the image of an emergent bridehood, tethering it to the ideology of consumption as well as distinctions based on social categories like gender and religion. It looks into the possibility of a scheme that goes beyond the narrative of ‘uniformisation’ in explaining the changes manifested in the performance of bridehood in the Eastern and Western regions of India, with an expansion of social media practices in the recent years.

Careful families and care as ‘kinwork’: an intergenerational study of families and digital media use in Melbourne, Australia

2018 ◽  
pp. 181-200
Author(s):  
Jolynna Sinanan ◽  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Intergenerational Study ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Practices

This chapter examines how digital media practices, relating to care and intimacy (the ‘intimate surveillance’), are being played out in the daily lives of intergenerational and cross-cultural families in Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Melbourne with thirteen households in 2015–2016, it considers how ‘doing family’ practices — the ways that family members maintain co-presence through routines and everyday tasks — are interwoven with intergenerational and cross-cultural relationships, revealing textures of intimacy and boundary work that intersect with the mundane to create new types of social surveillance and disappearance. The chapter also introduces the framework of ‘digital kinship’, which provides a life course perspective to take into account the differing roles, positions, meanings and contexts over a person's lifespan, and concludes with a discussion of how friendly surveillance, staying in touch and caring at a distance are made possible through social media platforms.

scholarly journals Media społecznościowe w rękach młodych ludzi

1970 ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Ewelina Konieczna
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Vital Resource

Popular media culture has been a vital resource through which youth generations have defined themselves, their desires, and their hopes and dreams. This continues to be reflected in the dynamic ways that the youth are using digital media to shape their everyday lives. As a result, young people are constantly creative; they acquire new skills and make up groups and communities in the media culture. The purpose of the reflections in the article is a look at the media practices of young people and an attempt to find an answer to the question how the young generation uses social media for communication and participation in culture and how social media change media culture.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING HERITAGE SITES THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Mahmoudi Farahani ◽  
Bahareh Motamed ◽  
Maedeh Ghadirinia
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Historical District ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Historic City

Today, our understanding and experience of heritage sites have been reframed by the advent of social media and the ubiquitous use of smartphones that offer more participatory ways of interacting with heritage. The lifespan of a heritage site is highly concerned with how it is understood and experienced by visitors. This study aims to investigate a heritage site and its participatory culture through the lens of social media and how a certain heritage site could be understood by these online networks. The historic city of Shiraz packed with several monumental buildings and heritage sites has been chosen as the case study of this research. Three social media platforms of Flickr, 500px and Instagram were investigated during 2015 and their photos of Shiraz were downloaded for analysis. The analysis of more than 186 images from these websites has provided an opportunity to investigate how the historical district of Shiraz is remembered in the eyes of social media users. Based on the initial photo audits, Nasir-al-Molk Mosque with more than 74 published images was the most published building and therefore was selected for an in-depth photo survey analysis. The Nasir-al-Molk Mosque images were studied regarding the physical and spiritual qualities of its building and how they contribute to its popularity among social media photographers.

scholarly journals Experiencing Homeland: Social Media and Transnational Communication among Kurdish Migrants in Northern Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Costa ◽  
Donya Alinejad
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Lombardy Region ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Transnational Communication ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Media Practices

This article examines the ways in which experiences of homeland take shape through the use of social media among first- and second-generation Kurdish migrants living in Milan and surrounding areas in the Lombardy region of Italy. Drawing on a short-term ethnographic study of social media practices carried out in spring and summer 2018, the paper presents and compares the uses of social media among two migrant generations and conceptualizes homeland as a mediated experience that takes shape through people’s everyday social media practices. This approach to homeland can account for the multiple ways in which the affordances of digital platforms and the subjective aspects of homeland are interconnected with one another through social media practices. The paper is part of the Global Perspectives, Media and Communication special issue on “Media, Migration, and Nationalism,” guest-edited by Koen Leurs and Tomohisa Hirata.

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