scholarly journals Interpersonal Surveillance on Social Media

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Trottier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Medias Sociaux

This article examines changing rules and regimes of visibility on social media, using Facebook as a case study. Interpersonal social media surveillance warrants a care of the virtual self. Yet this care is complicated by social media’s rapid growth, and especially Facebook’s cross-contextual information flows that publicize otherwise private information. Drawing from a series of thirty interviews, this article focuses on how users perceive and manage their own visibility and take advantage of the visibility of other users. These experiences are tied to shifting understandings of private and public information, as well as new terms like “stalking” and “creeping” that frame surveillant practices.Cet article examine l’évolution des règles et des régimes de visibilité sur les médias sociaux, en utilisant Facebook comme une étude de cas. La surveillance interpersonnelle sur les médias sociaux nécessite un soin de l’être virtuel. Pourtant, ce soin est compliqué par l’expansion rapide des médias sociaux, et en particulier la nature inter contextuel de Facebook, qui diffuse de l’information privé. Tirant d’une série de trente entrevues, cet article concentre sur la manière dont les utilisateurs perçoivent et gèrent leur proper visibilité sur Facebook ainsi que de profiter de la visibilité des autres. Ces expériences sont liées à l’évolution des conceptions de l’information publique et privée, ainsi que de termes nouveaux comme «harcèlement» et «stalking» qui caractérise la surveillance sur les médias sociaux.

The Social Media Presence of Non-profit Organizations

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Lucky ◽  
Dinesh Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
The Social ◽  
Powerful Knowledge ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Medias Sociaux

Social media technologies have the potential to be powerful knowledge sharing and community building tools for both corporate and non-profit interests. This pilot study explores the social media presence of a group of forty-six Alberta-based non-profit organizations (NPOs) in this information rich space. In this paper we look at the pattern of presence of NPOs using social media and relationships with staffing structures.Les médias sociaux ont la capacité d’être de puissants outils de partage de la connaissance et de rassemblement communautaire pour les organisations à but lucratif et sans but lucratif. Cette étude pilote explore la présence dans les médias sociaux d’un groupe de quarante-six organisations sans but lucratif (OSBL) albertaines dans cet environnement riche en information. La communication portera sur les modèles de présence des OSBL dans les médias sociaux et les liens avec les structures organisationnelles.

scholarly journals Public’s Perception of Political Parties during the 2014 Quebec Election on Twitter

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Sanger ◽  
Thierry Warin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Nous Avons ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
Practical Standpoint ◽  
Incumbent Party ◽  
Medias Sociaux

Background This article investigates how to extract signals from social media (Twitter) concerning political parties during an election.Analysis  670,000 messages were collected during the 2014 Québec election regarding each political party using a framing strategy. After associating each message to one of the four main topics of the campaign, two logistic models were developed to describe the election. While having been set by the incumbent party, the topic of “Independence” was not the most important topic of the campaign (“Economy” and “Society” were). When dominating in terms of mentions, each party was associated to a topic, and such association changed during the campaign.Conclusion and implications  From a practical standpoint, the findings of this article could be used to implement a framework to understand political campaigns dynamics through social media.RÉSUMÉContexte  Cette recherche est axée sur la manière de structurer les signaux issus des médias sociaux (Twitter) en contexte politique. Analyse  Nous avons collecté 670 000 messages concernant l’élection québécoise de 2014 en utilisant une stratégie de cadrage. Chaque message fut associé à une thématique de campagne, puis deux modèles logistiques furent utilisés pour décrire les élections. Ainsi, alors que le thème de l’indépendance fut mis à l’avant par le parti sortant, ce sont les messages reliés à l’économie et à la société qui furent les plus importants. Chaque parti fut associé préférentiellement à une thématique lorsqu’il domina en termes de mentions, et nous observons une évolution de cette association au cours de la campagne électorale. Conclusions et implications  Les résultats de cette recherche peuvent servir de cadre analytique pour structurer l’utilisation de données massives en contexte électoral.

scholarly journals Quasi-Gatekeeping and Quasi-Gatewatching: The Dual Role of Public Relations Practitioners in the Social Media Domain

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Princewell Nwanganga Achor ◽  
Justie O. Nnabuko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Public Relations Practitioners ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
The Social ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
Medias Sociaux

Background  Existing literature depicts public relations practitioners as gatekeepers. Despite this, limited research exists on how much of a gatekeeping role public relations practitioners play in their organizations’ communication with the publics in the social media domain. Analysis  This article bridges the research gap by examining the dual role of quasi-gatekeeping and quasi-gatewatching performed by public relations practitioners in their attempt to communicate, regulate, and manage information in the social media domain and market-space media environment. Conclusion and implications  Discussion of these two distinct roles expands the frontiers of gatekeeping studies in public relations practice and communication studies, through the introduction of a new mixed-flow model of the gatekeeping function of public relations practitioners in the digital media landscape.RÉSUMÉContexte  En dépit de la littérature existante montre que les spécialistes des relations publiques en tant que gardiens, cependant, il y a peu de recherches sur la quantité de rôle de surveillance les spécialistes en relations publiques jouent dans leurs organisations la communication avec le public dans le domaine des médias sociaux. Analyse  Par conséquent, cet article se ferme cette lacune en examinant le rôle de la dualité de pouvoirs quasi-control et quasi-gatewatching effectuée par le spécialistes des relations publiques dans leur tentative de communiquer, réglementer et gérer l’information dans le domaine des médias sociaux. Conclusion et implications  La discussion sur ces deux rôles distincts a enrichi la compréhension et les frontières d’un contrôle dans la pratique des relations publiques par l’introduction d’un nouveau modèle de flux mixtes de contrôle dans le paysage médiatique numérique.

scholarly journals Learning from prices: information aggregation and accumulation in an asset market

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Berardi
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Dynamic Properties ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Information Aggregation ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Private Signals ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Fundamental Value ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Can prices convey information about the fundamental value of an asset? This paper considers this problem in relation to the dynamic properties of the fundamental (whether it is constant or time-varying) and the structure of information available to agents. Risk-averse traders receive two potential signals each period: one exogenous and private and the other, prices, endogenous and public. Prices aggregate private information but include aggregate noise. Information can accumulate over time both through endogenous and exogenous signals. With a constant fundamental, the precision of both private and public cumulative information increases over time but agents put progressively more weight on the endogenous signals, asymptotically disregarding private ones. If the fundamental is time-varying, the use of past private signals complicates the role of prices as a source of information, since it introduces endogenous serial correlation in the price signal and cross-correlation between it and innovations in the fundamental. A modified version of the Kalman filter can still be used to extract information from prices and results show that the precision of the endogenous signals converges to a constant, with both private and public information used at all times.

Scholarly Practices in the Age of Online Social Media

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Gruzd ◽  
Amanda Wilk ◽  
Kathleen Staves ◽  
Philip Mai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ongoing Study ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Medias Sociaux

Online social media tools are becoming further integrated into the lives of academics. However, there is very little hard data on why and how scholars are using them. The paper presents the results of our ongoing study on how academics are adopting these new tools for communication and information dissemination.Les outils de médias sociaux en ligne s’intègrent de plus en plus dans la vie des professeurs-chercheurs. Cependant, il existe peu de données sur les raisons et les façons pour lesquelles on les utilise. Cette communication présente les résultats d’une analyse en cours sur les modes d’adoption, par les professeurs-chercheurs, de ces nouveaux outils de communication et de diffusion de l’information. 

Blurring Boundaries of Private and Public Spheres in Social Networking: Facebook Portrayal in Focus

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
FE MONIQUE MUSNI TAGAYTAY
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Prime Mover ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

The phenomenon of globalization has never been felt before than it is today.The prime mover of this phenomenon is the Internet, and it is not an exaggerationto state that this form of media has revolutionized the access to information. Thisstudy examined the practices of selected college students who reflect an overlappingof public and private spheres in their use of Facebook. Through this study, theneed to look into the way privacy is viewed is addressed. This case study analyzedthe experiences of the selected student-informants from the University of theImmaculate Conception (UIC) and reported their detailed views. This is doneto get a holistic picture of the blurring of social and private spheres broughtabout by increased user self-disclosure. The study reveals that the informants stillfind privacy important but seem to take a background with their perception ofabsolute freedom when using social media, which seems to be the point where the blurring of private and public spheres occurs. The results of the study also show that the role of the individual as gatekeeper and filter of information is central tothe content of social media, placing a high premium on media literacy of socialmedia users.Keywords: Communication, social media, Facebook, privacy, descriptive-qualitative design, Philippines, Asia

Public Information Flows in Rural Australia

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
D J Walmsley
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
New England ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Flow Of Information

Geographical studies of the transmission of information have focussed overwhelmingly on private information flows based on direct, face-to-face contact. Very little attention has been directed to media-based public information flows despite the potential importance of this type of flow in regional development. Yet an examination of newspaper content for the New England region of New South Wales for 1971 and 1977 reveals that major changes are occurring in newspaper-based information flows. Rural newspapers are becoming increasingly aspatial and parochial in their news coverage and the flow of information between rural centres is changing from a complex system to a less complex system. The reasons for these trends are not entirely clear, but may relate to economic and technological changes within the newspaper publishing industry as well as to the fortunes of regional policy in Australia.

scholarly journals Towards a Cybervictimology: Cyberbullying, Routine Activities Theory, and the Anti-Sociality of Social Media

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Arntfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Routine Activities ◽  
Routine Activities Theory ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
Theory Of Crime ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Medias Sociaux ◽  
New Framework

Existing research on cyberbullying has consistently overlooked the role of victims in online offending, as well as victim behaviour as both a facilitator and predictor of digital predation. This article offers an interdisciplinary critique of existing research and proposes a new framework of cybervictimology—traditional victimology in the context of cyberactivities. The framework points to cyberbullying as being best explained by Cohen and Felson’s (1979) routine activities theory of crime. Because one of the main criteria of “traditional” corporeal bullying is repetition, the routine activities of victims in social media environments are key facilitators in the bullying process; they serve as advanced indicators of victimization in a space where anti-social behaviour is comparatively tolerated—and even celebrated—in the absence of suitable guardianship. La récherche actuelle sur cyberintimidation a souvent négligé le role des victimes en cas de les crimes engagé en linge, et aussi les compartements de victimes comme faciliateurs et prédicteurs de predation numérique. Cet essai offre une critique interdisciplinaires de la récherche et propose un noveau cadre de cybervictimologie—le victimologie tradionnel en cas de les activités en ligne. Le cadre proposé indique que cyberintimidation est mieux expliqué par le ‘routine activities theory’ proposé par Cohen et Felson (1979). Parce que l’un des principaux critères de cyberintimidation traditionnel est repetition, les activities discret des victimes dans les environments des médias sociaux sont les principaux facilitateurs de cyberintimidation dans les environments en ligne où le compartement déviant est souvent toléré et encore célèbre en l’absence de la tutelle apprpriée.

From #tahrir to #occupywallstreet: How Can Information Science Make Sense of Social Media and Protests?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser Saleh ◽  
Nouf Khashman ◽  
Ahmad Kamal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Medias Sociaux

Panel: There has been a great attention towards the use of social media in/and revolutionary movements (more recently in the Arab world). This panel introduces some different frameworks that can be used in information science to study these phenomena along with a discussion with CAIS/ACSI members about possible research areas.Panel: Une grande attention a été portée à l’utilisation des médias sociaux dans/et les mouvements révolutionnaires (plus récemment dans le monde arabe). Ce panel introduit quelques différences dans les cadres pouvant être utilisés en sciences de l’information science pour étudier ces phénomènes. Suivra une discussion avec les membres de CAIS/ACSI des possibilités de recherches sur le sujet.

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