Nyheter, sosiale nettverk og lokalpolitisk orientering i lokalvalgkamp

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-142
Author(s):  
Rune Karlsen ◽  
Kari Steen-Johnsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Personal Network ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
Local Media

In this chapter, we examine how voters relate to the local political public sphere through a study of the 2019 Norwegian local election. We ask whether local media and personal networks contribute to what we call “local political orientation”, measured by the degree to which voters consider local issues to be important for their vote choice and using the possibility of giving preference votes. We first study the voters’ overall news consumption in the election campaign, with particular emphasis on the role of social media. Then we investigate to what extent candidates running for election are included in voters’ offline networks (family, friends, acquaintances) and social media networks. Finally, we study whether different patterns of news consumption and offline and online political networks increase voters’ degree of local political orientation. Results show that voters use a wide range of news sources – national, local and social media – and that local media is considered more important in small municipalities. A large proportion of voters have political candidates in their personal network, but almost forty percent of those who have a political candidate as a Facebook friend have no candidate in their offline personal network. Hence, social media contribute to greater ties between voters and candidates in Norwegian local politics. Lastly, local media and personal networks do contribute to local political orientation, as they relate to an emphasis on local political issues and a tendency for giving preference votes (to candidates) at the election.

scholarly journals Managing News Overload (MNO): The COVID-19 Infodemic

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Sameera Tahira Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Global Health ◽  
University Students ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Sources

A crucial area in which information overload is experienced is news consumption. Ever increasing sources and formats are becoming available through a combination of traditional and new (digital) media, including social media. In such an information and media rich environment, understanding how people access and manage news during a global health epidemic like COVID-19 becomes even more important. The designation of the current situation as an infodemic has raised concerns about the quality, accuracy and impact of information. Instances of misinformation are commonplace due, in part, to the speed and pervasive nature of social media and messaging applications in particular. This paper reports on data collected using media diaries from 15 university students in the United Arab Emirates documenting their news consumption in April 2020. Faced with a potentially infinite amount of information and news, participants demonstrate how they are managing news overload (MNO) using a number of complementary strategies. Results show that while consumption patterns vary, all diaries indicate that users’ ability to navigate the news landscape in a way that fulfils their needs is influenced by news sources; platform reliability and verification; sharing activity; and engagement with news.

scholarly journals Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (28) ◽  
pp. 7313-7318 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Brady ◽  
Julian A. Wills ◽  
John T. Jost ◽  
Joshua A. Tucker ◽  
Jay J. Van Bavel
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Emotional Words ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Network Methods

Political debate concerning moralized issues is increasingly common in online social networks. However, moral psychology has yet to incorporate the study of social networks to investigate processes by which some moral ideas spread more rapidly or broadly than others. Here, we show that the expression of moral emotion is key for the spread of moral and political ideas in online social networks, a process we call “moral contagion.” Using a large sample of social media communications about three polarizing moral/political issues (n = 563,312), we observed that the presence of moral-emotional words in messages increased their diffusion by a factor of 20% for each additional word. Furthermore, we found that moral contagion was bounded by group membership; moral-emotional language increased diffusion more strongly within liberal and conservative networks, and less between them. Our results highlight the importance of emotion in the social transmission of moral ideas and also demonstrate the utility of social network methods for studying morality. These findings offer insights into how people are exposed to moral and political ideas through social networks, thus expanding models of social influence and group polarization as people become increasingly immersed in social media networks.

The effect of news consumption on fake news efficacy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Chan-Olmsted ◽  
Yufan Sunny Qin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Source ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The increasing use of social media has led to the growing reliance of social media as a news source. The viral nature of social platforms inevitably elevates the viral impact of fake news. As both academia and practitioners touted media literacy as a means of combating fake news or misinformation, little is known about the nature of relevant efficacies. Existent literature points to the plausible contribution of media consumption, self-efficacy of fake news and perceived impact of fake news in this process. Therefore, this study explored the relationship between consumers’ news consumption, such as fake news experiences/perceptions, news sources and news consumption motives; and fake news perceptions like self-efficacy and impacts. This study conducted an online survey to examine the proposed hypotheses and research questions. The findings suggest that consumers’ previous experiences and consumption motives are connected with their perceived effects and efficacy of fake news. In addition, different news sources (i.e. mainstream media and social media) exert diverse effects on fake news self-efficacy.

Personal Networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Pescosolido ◽  
Edward B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Personal Network ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Composition And Structure

Social networks are ubiquitous. The science of networks has shaped how researchers and society understand the spread of disease, the precursors of loneliness, the rise of protest movements, the causes of social inequality, the influence of social media, and much more. Egocentric analysis conceives of each individual, or ego, as embedded in a personal network of alters, a community partially of their creation and nearly unique to them, whose composition and structure have consequences. This volume is dedicated to understanding the history, present, and future of egocentric social network analysis. The text brings together the most important, classic articles foundational to the field with new perspectives to form a comprehensive volume ideal for courses in network analysis. The collection examines where the field of egocentric research has been, what it has uncovered, and where it is headed.

scholarly journals When do party supporters abandon the party leader? The intraparty conflict of the Alternative for Germany

2019 ◽  
pp. 135406881985717
Author(s):  
Kai Jäger
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Organizational Reform ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Leadership Turnover ◽  
Intraparty Conflict ◽  
Alternative For Germany

Drawing on a unique panel data set of supporters of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the study shows that programmatic differences between supporters of Frauke Petry and Bernd Lucke cannot sufficiently explain the crucial intraparty leadership contest of July 2015. Programmatic differences were minor in 2013 but became pronounced over time. Politically active supporters were disaffected with the old moderate leadership of Bernd Lucke, who pursued an organizational reform to reduce the influence of the rank-and-file. Social media also played a key role for the leadership turnover, as alternative news sources on social media were only politicized by the intraparty opposition. It is conceivable that the structure of social media networks influences opinion formation processes and internal affairs of right-wing populist parties in general, as their supporters tend to have low trust in mainstream news.

scholarly journals Political Discussions on Social Media in Pakistan and Obstinate Partisanship

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
Ifra Iftikhar ◽  
Irem Sultana ◽  
Malik Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political News ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Political Talk

With the rise of social media over the last two decades, people have become more polarized and rigid in their views. Social interactions on social media networks are affecting political behaviors and making people obstinate partisans. The term obstinate partisanship was coined by Ardevol-Abreu and Gil de Zuniga (2020) and referred to the blind, unconditional loyalty to a certain political party. The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence of obstinate partisanship in Pakistani media users who are active consumers of political news and regularly engage in political discussions. This study seeks to investigate how significantly various factors impact obstinate partisanship. The factors studied are media use habits, affiliation with a political party, sociodemographic characteristics including age, gender, education, income, area of residence, and political discussion attributes. The survey data collected from the four major cities of Pakistan and their neighboring rural areas were used. The data revealed that the individuals who engage in political talk online and disagreements during discussions over political issues are more likely to remain unconditionally supportive of party policy and action regardless of their adequacy, the effectiveness of the policy and party performance and this disposition seems to increase with age.

Penerapan Strategi Social Media Marketing Untuk Meningkatkan Penjualan Pada Dealer Mobil Toyota, Daihatsu dan Honda Bandung

Infoman s ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Yopi Hidayatul Akbar ◽  
Muhammad Agreindra Helmiawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
Website Content

Social media is one of the information media that is currently widely used by several companies and personally to convey information, with the presence of social media companies no longer need to spread offers through print media, they can use information technology tools in this case social media to submit offers the products they sell to users globally through social media. This social media marketing technique is the process of reaching visits by internet users to certain sites or public attention through social media sites. Marketing activities using social media are usually centered on the efforts of a company to create content that attracts attention, thus encouraging readers to share the content through their social media networks. The application of the QMS method is certainly not only submitted through search engine webmasters, but also on a website keywords must be applied that relate to the contents of the website content, because with the keyword it will automatically attract visitors to the university website based on keyword phrases that they type in the search engine. With Search Media Marketing Technique (SMM) is one of the techniques that must be applied in conducting sales promotions, especially in car dealers in Bandung, it is considered important because each product requires price, feature and convenience socialization through social media so that sales traffic can increase. Each dealer should be able to apply the techniques of Social Media Marketing (SMM) well so that car sales can reach the expected target and provide profits for sales as car sellers in the field.

“I’m not a kid anymore!” Towards a teen-centric approach of online privacy management

MedienJournal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Isabell Koinig
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Privacy Management ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Individual Privacy ◽  
Willingness To Disclose

The youth constitutes the largest user base of social media networks. While this generation has grown up in a digitally immersed environment, they are still not immune to the dangers the online space bears. Hence, maintaining their privacy is paramount. The present article presents a theoretical contribution, that is based on a review of relevant articles. It sets out to investigate the importance adolescents attribute to online privacy, which is likely to influence their willingness to disclose data. In line with a “new privacy paradox”, information disclosure is seen as unavoidable, given the centrality of social networks to adolescents’ lives. This goes hand in hand with individual privacy management. As individuals often lack knowledge as to how to protect their privacy, it is essential to educate the youth about their possibilities, equipping them with agency and self-responsibilization. This corresponds with a teen-centric approach to privacy as proposed by the TOSS framework.

“I’m not a kid anymore!” Towards a teen-centric approach of online privacy management

MedienJournal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Isabell Koinig
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Online Privacy ◽  
Privacy Management ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Individual Privacy ◽  
Willingness To Disclose

The youth constitutes the largest user base of social media networks. While this generation has grown up in a digitally immersed environment, they are still not immune to the dangers the online space bears. Hence, maintaining their privacy is paramount. The present article presents a theoretical contribution, that is based on a review of relevant articles. It sets out to investigate the importance adolescents attribute to online privacy, which is likely to influence their willingness to disclose data. In line with a “new privacy paradox”, information disclosure is seen as unavoidable, given the centrality of social networks to adolescents’ lives. This goes hand in hand with individual privacy management. As individuals often lack knowledge as to how to protect their privacy, it is essential to educate the youth about their possibilities, equipping them with agency and self-responsibilization. This corresponds with a teen-centric approach to privacy as proposed by the TOSS framework.

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