scholarly journals Political dispute in Poland in the eyes of Facebook slacktivists

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Piotr Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Contingency Coefficient ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
Political Dispute

This text is a report from research on selected aspects of the crisis of democracy in Poland. The problem of the analysis focuses on questions about the attitude of the participants in the political dispute towards opponents, the possibility (and method) of reaching an agreement and the assessment of the situation. I chose the area of analysis considering social media a transparent platform for political dispute (especially during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic). The essence of the research was to find respondents clearly involved in the political dispute. I choose Facebook, among the other things, because this platform creates a place of many actively operating thematic groups which gathers supporters of particular political options. This fact facilitate reaching respondents with the preferred characteristics. The survey was conducted in the period 13/12/2020 to 25/01/2021 on the basis of the author’s form consisting of 15 questions. The research sample consists of 220 respondents: 126 women and 94 men aged 14 to 72 years old. Appropriately for the nature of the variables and the sample size, the contingency coefficient and the Kruskal-Wallis test were calculated, together with the statistical significance of the obtained results. All analyzes were performed on the basis of SPSS software version 26 and Microsoft Excel.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF NAWAAT COVERAGE OF THE POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS IN TUNISIA AFTER THE JASMINE REVOLUTION

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatem SEBEI
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Functional Linguistics

This paper adopts a systemic functional linguistics as a paradigm to analyse postings on social media. This paradigmatic relationship is based on a combination of form and meaning. It adopts a Bakhtinian dialogic view of language and discourse. His viewpoint is built on the idea that every’s speaker voice is imbued with traces of previous voices and is in anticipation of other voices. This research shows how bloggers engage readers, how they negotiate and position themselves vis-à-vis the other voices. The current study adopts the Engagement framework as an analytical tool to evaluate the language used in Nawaat to cover the political assassinations in Tunisia. The current research focuses on the writer’s comments, description of the political assassinations. It also focuses on the writer’s comments, description and claims of external voices. Building solidarity and entente with readers who share and hold the same vision is also a matter of concern.

scholarly journals Sincerely Fake: Exploring User-Generated Political Fakes and Networked Publics

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512096382
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Networked Publics

This article investigates user-generated political satire, focusing in particular on one genre: fake political accounts. Such fakes, created as social media profiles, satirize politicians or political organizations by impersonating them. Through interviews with a sample of Italian fake accounts creators, I explore how the fakes navigate their fakeness vis-à-vis the affordances of social network sites and their publics. First, I map how the publics of the fake accounts react to the satire along two axes: one referring to the public’s understanding of the satire and the other to the uses that the public makes of the satire. Second, I show how fakeness is part of everyday interactions in networked publics. Third, I argue for fakeness as a playful, powerful, and sincere critique of the political and its pretense to authenticity. By focusing on fake political accounts, this article provides insights on the place of fakeness in online communication beyond the debate around “fake news.”

The Obama Effect

2012 ◽  
pp. 524-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kaun ◽  
Carina Guyard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
National Election ◽  
The Other ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Campaigning ◽  
Other Hand

This chapter presents a survey study on attitudes towards political campaigning in social media. During the national election in Sweden in 2010, a considerable amount of resources was invested in online communication with the constituency, not least in social media. Whereas several studies have focused on e-democracy at a macro level, there is a lack of studies examining the phenomenon of campaigning 2.0 as it is perceived by the actual voters. This chapter, therefore, asks the question whether the voters noticed the political campaigning in social media at all, and if so, how they perceived it. The main findings are that respondents who were already interested and politically engaged considered campaigning 2.0, in line with the politicians’ rhetoric, as a way to enhance democracy. Respondents who were neither interested nor engaged in politics, on the other hand, showed little interest in this kind of communication. Consequently, the study confirms assumptions about digital divide and continued fragmentation of the citizenry.

Engaging Young Voters in the Political Process

2022 ◽  
pp. 1476-1493
Author(s):  
Stephane Bignoux
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Young Voters ◽  
Western Democracies

The aim of this chapter is to analyse young voter engagement in modern Western democracies. Why young voters? Young voters are disengaged from the political process. In order to complete the analysis, the author adapts an engagement model from social media marketing. The adapted model consists of three parts: consumption, contribution, and (co) creation of brand related materials. The author hypothesises that each aspect of the model is related to the other and that all three aspects of the model are positively related to loyalty to the political party brand. The aim of this conceptual adaptation is to investigate a new way to re-engage young voters with the political party brand, thereby strengthening one pillar of modern democracy.

Bridging the divide: The effect of humanizing information on attitudes toward political outgroup members

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonah Koetke ◽  
Beverly Conrique ◽  
Karina Schumann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Information Cues ◽  
Emotional Complexity ◽  
Promising Avenue ◽  
Individuating Information

Liberals and conservatives in the United States dislike and dehumanize those on the other side. This divide leads to political stalemates, destroyed relationships, and even violence. We examined the benefits of humanizing members of the political outgroup by providing people with humanizing information—cues that signal a person’s cognitive and emotional complexity. We examined the effectiveness of humanizing information in three preregistered experiments (N = 1389). Study 1 tested whether learning humanizing information about an outgroup member would reduce bias towards them, relative to a control containing only political information. Study 2 sought to replicate this effect by comparing the humanizing information to a control that contained non-humanizing individuating information. Study 3 tested this effect in the timely context of social media feeds, while also testing whether the benefits of learning humanizing information extended to additional members of the outgroup. Each methodology revealed that, compared to those who read non-humanizing controls, participants who learned humanizing information about a political outgroup member were less hostile and more empathic toward that outgroup member. All three studies also provided evidence that judging the outgroup member as more human contributed to this reduction in bias. Further, Study 3 revealed that the benefits of humanizing information extended to members of the outgroup that were connected to the humanized member. The current studies thus identify a promising avenue for reducing interparty hostility.

scholarly journals Association between overuse of Social Media with Mental and Physical Health-Is sitting the New Smoking

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL3) ◽  
pp. 287-295
Author(s):  
ThanaLakshme S P ◽  
Karthik Ganesh Mohanraj ◽  
Vishnu Priya V
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Social media being endemic in prevailing society, has a larger positive impact on humans and society. Also, led to greater technological development and made people closer from different walks of life and various parts of the world. Social media even influences an individual mentally by keeping them entertained and enhancing their creativity and explorations. But on the other hand negative impact had been the greatest talk for time. The negative impact can be experienced on overuse or addiction to it. On being overused social media imparts stress and depression which was proved by the result of our survey study. This study comprises 100 participants of the Chennai population. A self-structured questionnaire was distributed among the targeted population and data were collected. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software and presented as pie charts and bar charts. The result of the observed population concluded that long exposure to social media or sitting on social media apps has the negative impact indistinguishable from the effect caused due to smoking.

Democracy Lives in Darkness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Van Duyn
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Confidentiality Agreement ◽  
The Face

Republicans and Democrats increasingly distrust, avoid, and wish harm upon those from the other party. To make matters worse, they also increasingly reside among like-minded others and are part of social groups that share their political beliefs. All of this can make expressing a dissenting political opinion hard. Yet digital and social media have given people new spaces for political discourse and community, and more control over who knows their political beliefs and who does not. With Democracy Lives in Darkness, Van Duyn looks at what these changes in the political and media landscape mean for democracy. She uncovers and follows a secret political organization in rural Texas over the entire Trump presidency. The group, which organized out of fear of their conservative community in 2016, has a confidentiality agreement, an email listserv and secret Facebook group, and meets in secret every month. By building relationships with members, she explores how and why they hide their beliefs and what this does for their own political behavior and for their community. Drawing on research from communication, political science, and sociology along with survey data on secret political expression, Van Duyn finds that polarization has led even average partisans to hide their political beliefs from others. And although intensifying polarization will likely make political secrecy more common, she argues that this secrecy is not just evidence that democracy is hurting, but that it is still alive, that people persist in the face of opposition, and that this matters if democracy is to survive.

Gender Differences in the Perception of Selected Aspectsof Social Media as Part of Ecommerce Activities during a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
Ľudovít Nastišin ◽  
Richard Fedorko ◽  
Radovan Bačík
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Current Time ◽  
Media Type ◽  
Spss Software

Objective - In the current time of pandemic crisis, social media is one of the most effective tools for ecommerce to keep in touch with customers. One of the most affected segments worldwide is undoubtedly the tourist segment. Our goal was to examine the perception of selected aspects of social media in the light of gender differences during a pandemic in the tourist segment, when these can convince or discourage the customer to buy. Methodology/Technique - Data collection took place from the beginning of 2021 and lasted 3 months. It was an online questionnaire and focused on customers of travel agencies. A total of 723 valid responses were collected. These were analyzed for statistical significance of gender differences using SPSS software. Findings - The results identified significant differences in perceptions between men and women in some of the areas examined. The best forms of content that work best on these platforms have been identified. Attitudes towards communication through social media for marketing purposes were also identified. These were perceived positively in order to support purchasing decisions. We also identified a great need for personalization in communication via social media in a given tourist segment. Novelty - All findings show great implication potential for both theory and practice. The pandemic situation has changed market conditions and many of these changes will persist beyond. There is therefore a need to examine these contexts in the future. Managers in the tourism segment are able to incorporate the identified results into the way they manage their online activities and manage their social media. Type of Paper - Empirical Keywords: Social Media; Ecommerce; Tourism; Pandemic; Differences; Analysis. JEL Classification: M31, M39.

Engaging Young Voters in the Political Process

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephane Bignoux
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Young Voters ◽  
Western Democracies

The aim of this chapter is to analyse young voter engagement in modern Western democracies. Why young voters? Young voters are disengaged from the political process. In order to complete the analysis, the author adapts an engagement model from social media marketing. The adapted model consists of three parts: consumption, contribution, and (co) creation of brand related materials. The author hypothesises that each aspect of the model is related to the other and that all three aspects of the model are positively related to loyalty to the political party brand. The aim of this conceptual adaptation is to investigate a new way to re-engage young voters with the political party brand, thereby strengthening one pillar of modern democracy.

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