scholarly journals Conflict Mobilization in Russian Social Media Communities As an Actual Practice of Protest Communication: Collective and Personal Dimension

2022 ◽  
pp. 122-140
Author(s):  
Marina Milovanova ◽  
Elena Terentyeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Presentation Strategy ◽  
Group Members

From the standpoint of communicative approach conflict mobilization is considered in the article as an actual practice of protest communication in modern Russia. The parameters of the collective-personal dimension of conflict mobilization in the most popular social networks among Russian users: VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook are presented. Major forms of social group members online participation in protest actions, interaction means of conflict mobilization communities and the formation of Internet solidarity have been characterized with such criteria as publication volume and frequency. Selective factual and emotional-psychological argumentation with elements of defamation of opponents is concluded to prevail in the communicative behavior of the addresser. Frequent implementation of phatic strategy through consolidating appeals to community members with elements of idealization and glorification of protest actors is revealed. The addresser's self-presentation strategy is noted to be applied rather rarely; it is actualized mainly through their identification with the collective position of the group and the mass addressee. It has been established that the addressee is characterized by active self-presentation through the presentation of a subjective position opposed to a mutual opponent, is distinguished by an appeal to ethical and emotional argumentation, a variety of phatic tactics. The article reveals the relevant language means of implementing the identified strategies, shows the features of the text structure of mobilization posts.

scholarly journals Conflict Mobilization in Social Networks Communities as an Actual Practice of Protest Communication: Collective-Personal Dimension

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-139
Author(s):  
L. N. Rebrina
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Statistical Parameters ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Interactive Tools ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Virtual Interaction ◽  
Communicative Actions

The results of the analysis of the collectivepersonal dimension ofthe conflict mobilization realized in the communities of social networks as an actual practice of protest communication are presented. The interactive tools of communities of conflict mobilization as actors of protest communication; correlations between various statistical parameters of communities are characterized. The types of publications that form the content of communities have been determined. The main tools for the formation of Internet solidarity, the patterns of virtual interaction regulated by the “we-they” model are presented. Methods and means of explication ofthe addresser and addressee in different types of publications are described. The conclusion is made about the prevalence of ascertaining and regulated communicative actions in the communicative behavior of the addresser; dominance of psychological argumentation; frequent implementation of a phatic strategy through consolidating calls to community members; about the least representation of the strategy of self-presentation, actualized mainly through its identification with a mass addressee and presentation of the group’s collective position. It is shown that the addressee most often performs dramatic and regulated communicative actions; characterized by active self-presentation through the presentation of a subjective position, solidarizing identification and opposition to a common opponent; preference for ethical and emotional arguments; various phatic tactics.

The Afterlives of Violent Images

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 327-354
Author(s):  
Nadia Yaqub
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Violent Images

This article examines the posting of photographs on two Facebook groups created by survivors of the 1976 fall of the Tal al-Zaʾtar refugee camp and their descendants. What happens to photographs as they circulate through these particular social media groups, and what relations do people (including photographed subjects who appear in images of atrocity and trauma) create with such images as they circulate in new ways? How are they mobilized through social media to create and sustain collective memory? I argue that by addressing the yearning to discover, document and sustain networks of affiliation and association on one hand and a shared geography, lost in 1976 and virtually reconstructed through members’ activities on the sites on the other, group members appeal in complex ways to both indexical and iconic qualities of photographs, thereby allowing for the creative engagement with a collective past for the needs of community members in the present.

scholarly journals The social media balancing act: Testing the use of a balanced self-presentation strategy for politicians using twitter

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 277-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Colliander ◽  
Ben Marder ◽  
Lena Lid Falkman ◽  
Jenny Madestam ◽  
Erik Modig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Presentation Strategy ◽  
The Social

Boys at their Best Cultural Values and Self-Presentation on Social Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Maja Tabea Jerrentrup ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Cultural Markers

Especially on social media, people represent their identity with photographs that are meant to communicate something about the person. In this context, unspecialized dating platforms likek Tinder receive special attention, since a very large quantity of photos is conceivable and the goal of success with potential partners suggests the consideration of socio-cultural values. The article explores the question of which values are communicated through photographs on Tinder and whether Tinder promotes or rather prevents the representation of diversity among heterosexual men. It becomes apparent that the photographs categorised by means of content analysis revolve around three areas of tension: nature, body, and casualness, each of which appears to be associated with certain values, including dominance, authenticity, and coolness. Men present themselves very similarly, there are few (sub)cultural markers in the pictures, which suggests that they place more emphasis on corresponding to socio-cultural values than on expressing their identity

scholarly journals Automatic Methods for Detecting Cultural Bias in Social Media (Based on Telegram’s Dialogs)

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Y. A. Zherebtsova ◽  
A. V. Chizhik ◽  
A. P. Sadokhin
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Cultural Bias ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Cultural Behavior ◽  
Semantic Associations ◽  
Automatic Methods ◽  
Cultural Shifts

In this paper, we described and tested several ways to use machine learning in order to analyze large collections of text data from social networks (namely, public Telegram chat), retrieve relevant social or cultural information from them, and to visualize the results of the research. The proposed approach has an advantage to reveal hidden patterns of social, political or cultural behavior by being able to cover large amounts of data. It can complement the standard social surveys methodology. Automatic detecting cultural bias on the example of social media requires mastering methods for measuring and visualizing its different kinds, such as cultural shifts, specific national or group refractions, mutations, stereotypes. We argue that cultural bias is a result of nonrandom errors in thinking. It is based, firstly, on a person's understanding of himself and the world around him and, secondly, on the translation of this understanding into abstraction in the form of common misconceptions, ideologemes, narrative, slogans. In society the bias inevitably leads to the separation of one social group or subculture from another. Social networks (both classic and new formats, for example, messengers with public chat options) are the most active ground for the representation of this phenomenon. Since the discussion of sociopolitical and cultural contexts in the case of chats takes place in public, the participants of such a communicative act tend to get approval of the social group to which they are ideologically close. It is this phenomenon that allows us to form comparisons of the “friend - foe” type, which lead next to unconscious cultural shifts. Thus, mastering methods to identify properly cultural shifts is not only relevant but crucial for the intra- and intercultural communication, for controlling the level of aggressiveness of the society, understanding its mood. As helpful illustrations, readers will find semantic associations elicited by the words “freedom”, “democracy”, “Internet”; sociocultural analysis of several topical clusters (e.g. Россия, страна, Путин, русский, православный); visualization of semantic associations for the words “freedom”, “democracy”, “Internet”.

scholarly journals Strategi presentasi diri pengguna instagram ditinjau dari tipe kepribadian

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Devia Balqis Rarasati ◽  
Hudaniah Hudaniah ◽  
Susanti Prasetyaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
T Test ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Presentation Strategy ◽  
Media Platform

Abstrak. Instagram merupakan salah satu tempat untuk presentasi diri. Presentasi diri yang berlebihan di instagram dapat membentuk identitas berbeda antara di dunia nyata dan online. Ada berbagai strategi dalam presentasi diri di media sosial atau bisa disebut strategi presentasi diri. Presentasi diri pengguna instagram memiliki tujuan berbeda. Hipotesis penelitan ini untuk mengetahui perbedaan strategi presentasi diri pengguna instagram antara tipe kepribadian ekstrovert dan introvert. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada 212 orang pengguna instagram berusia 18-24 tahun. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan yaitu menggunakan teknik non-probality sampling khususnya accidental sampling. Variabel peneltian menggunakan skala Self-Presentation Strategies via SNS dan Eysenck Personality Inventory A. Hasil perhitungan menggunakan teknik independent t-test ada perbedaan strategi presentasi diri pengguna instagram ekstrovert dan introvert. Pengguna instagram tipe kepribadian ekstrovert memiliki rata-rata lebih tinggi di bandingkan introvert (ingratiation M=10,015, supplication M=5,636, dan enhancement M=10,88). Namun, pada strategi presentasi diri ingratiation dan supplication  tidak ditemukan perbedaan yang signifikan.Kata kunci: Instagram, Strategi presentasi diri, Tipe kepribadian Abstract. Instagram as social media platform has many functions, one of which is for self-presentation. An excessive self-presentation on Instagram may result in the formation different identity between real life and online. There are various strategies in self-presentation on social media which can be referred as self-presentation strategy. The self-presentation on instagram has different purposes. This study aims at finding the different of self-presentation strategy between extrovert and introvert. There were 212 instagram users aged 18-24 years old as the subjects of the study. Sampling technique was the sampling non-probability technique, with particular of accidental sampling. The variable were measured using Self-Presentation Strategies scale via SNS and Eysenck Personality Inventory A. The calculation result which used the independent t-test showed there was a different in using self-presentation strategy between the extrovert and introvert. The extrovert users had relative higher average value than the introvert ones (Ingratiation M=10.015, Supplication M=5.636, and Enhancement M=10.88). Yet, there was no significant different in self-presentation strategy between ingratiation and supplication.Keywords : Instagram, Personality type, Self presentation strategies

scholarly journals Communicating COVID-19 on Social Media: The Effects of the Spiral of Silence

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-85
Author(s):  
Arthur Atanesyan ◽  
Anahit Hakobyan ◽  
Bradley Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Presentation Mode ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Spiral Of Silence ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Official Position ◽  
The Spiral Of Silence

In this paper, the Spiral of Silence theory (SOS) in the study of mass communications is applied to examine the trends and mechanisms of public opinion in Social Media (SM), using the popular topic of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study includes a secondary analysis of the data on pandemic information consumption obtained through four mass surveys conducted in Armenia. In the period from July 1 to August 30, 2020, we also surveyed Armenian Facebook users by means of Google forms during the highest outbreak of the pandemic in Armenia. In particular, the study demonstrates that although the majority of people are well informed about both public conduct requirements and the sanctions for misconduct during the pandemic, they do not follow the rules but hide their real opinion, preferring to openly agree with the official position while silently breaking the rules (that is, they keep their silence). We have found a correlation between the opinion environment of “friends” and other Facebook users, and a willingness to express their own opinion. Due to the predominance of the self-presentation mode as a communication strategy on Facebook, there is a trend among Armenian users not to risk their reputation, and avoid possible critics by keeping silence, if the discussion goes against their opinion. The findings of the study might be helpful both for the further development of communication theories and its application to the conditions of new pandemic reality, and for a better understanding of communicative behavior mechanisms in SM.

scholarly journals The theory of interpersonal communication in S. Kierkegaard and the modern understanding of the problem of the philosophy of communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 11016
Author(s):  
Elena Fedorova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Philosophy Of Communication ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with the problems of the origin of the theory of communication in the philosophy of S. Kierkegaard and reveals a modern understanding of the problem of the philosophy of communication. The first part of the article shows the philosophical foundations of interpersonal communication, analyzes the theory of communication of S. Kierkegaard and the practice of media criticism. The second part of the article is devoted to the explication of the basic concepts of social media research (new media, network society, philosophy of social networks). The third part of the article presents the results of a survey of students regarding their attitude to modern communication practices. The influence of social networks on the everyday communicative behavior of young people is revealed. A survey of 40 Russian students found that while students are aware of the impact of social media on their daily communication patterns, they perceive them as a new natural medium of communication. The main conclusion is that although young people are aware of the impact of social media on their everyday communication patterns, they perceive them as a new natural environment for communication.

Automating Digital Afterlives

Disentangling ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Robbie Fordyce ◽  
Bjørn Nansen ◽  
Michael Arnold ◽  
Tamara Kohn ◽  
Martin Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Social Media Communication

The question of how the dead “live on” by maintaining a presence and connecting to the living within social networks has garnered the attention of users, entrepreneurs, platforms, and researchers alike. In this chapter we investigate the increasingly ambiguous terrain of posthumous connection and disconnection by focusing on a diverse set of practices implemented by users and offered by commercial services to plan for and manage social media communication, connection, and presence after life. Drawing on theories of self-presentation (Goffman) and technological forms of life (Lash), we argue that moderated and automated performances of posthumous digital presence cannot be understood as a continuation of personal identity or self-presentation. Rather, as forms of mediated human (after)life, posthumous social media presence materializes ambiguities of connection/disconnection and self/identity.

scholarly journals The impact of social media: how Instagram & Snapchat are revolutionizing the fashion industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Arabi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Impact

Social media has been revolutionizing our ways of learning, engaging, and sharing information on the latest trends within the fashion industry. This research project focuses on two social media platforms that are highly relevant and influential in the fashion industry. Instagram, a social media application that was originally created to share photos between intimate social networks, has now become a powerful marketing platform. Now, one can carefully curate one’s profile and sell an aesthetically pleasing image of oneself/item, all through strategic techniques such as framing, editing, or simply using the filters provided by both Instagram (e.g. Sepia, Valencia) and Snapchat. Snapchat, a social media application originally used to share selfies amongst one’s intimate social group, intended to “express yourself, and reflect individuals based on a moment” (Evan Spiegal, CEO of Snapchat, 2016). The company now also promotes their app as a marketing tool and an advertising platform that targets more than 100 million active users daily between the ages of 18 and 35 years old. Initially, these two apps were intended to be used as entertainment tools, however, now they are also used to help re-structure a brand’s business model and approach. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of both Instagram and Snapchat, on traditional practices within the fashion industry, with a primary focus on the runway and advertising.

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