scholarly journals Social media revolution - The new digital frontiers of Journalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 610-620
Author(s):  
Kaveri Devi Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

Social media has become a phenomenon with the advent of technology and rapid rise in the reach across the world. It has made inroads in almost every sphere of business, communication and marketing. Post globalization, Indian media industry has witnessed a sea change and revamped itself tremendously to be part of changing global scenario.  Social media today, has become an integral part of the media industry, whether it is news deliverance, marketing or advertising. The social media revolution has changed and will continue to change journalism and news organizations. Social media as a powerful tool has been realized largely across Indian Media industry, its importance is no longer debated. Therefore, the Indian media has successfully embraced social media technology and digital shift to widen and expanding their reach and exposure. The business strategies have widened and given a facelift; the social media platform has been effectively efficient used for expanding their business networks, whether news deliverance, advertising or other user generated content.   This paper aims at examining and exploring the role, growth and challenges of digital and Social media with a case study approach on Indian Media Industry. 

scholarly journals The Social Media As Echo Chamber: The Digital Impact

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Yusuf ◽  
Nisreen Al-Banawi ◽  
Hajjah Abdel Rahman Al-Imam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Education Economics ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Free Search ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

The media serve as the channels used to deliver information or research data for any purpose. With media and technology combined, if today a person is sitting in one corner of the world, he or she can send knowledge and words to an unimaginable number of people without fear of being interrupted or argued with. This paper explores the impact of media technology in our lives. The advent of the social media is playing a role in all facets of our lives. Its overriding existence with free search engines has changed the trends in education, economics, politics, and our day-to-day routine. Here we highlight how the quest of technology in the form of social media has been an important aspect of getting this world expressed in terms of bytes. The social media include web-based technology that has changed communication into a more interactive dialogue. The social media have completely transformed the way we connect or reconnect with old friends and acquaintances, entertain ourselves, pursue our hobbies, shop, relax, and look for jobs. The social media are the primary communication medium today for a new generation of digitally aware consumers.

scholarly journals The Fight for Life: The Convergence of the Print Press in the Digital Media Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
Mulyono Sri Hutomo ◽  
Rajab Ritonga
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Distribution Costs ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Research Show

The mass media industry particularly print media in Indonesia comes under heavy pressure to survive in the era of digital disruption. High printing costs, coupled with high distribution costs and employee salaries have caused difficulties for print media companies to maintain their businesses. Some print media companies have opted to shut down their businesses, while others have to survive by making various efficient efforts and diversifying their businesses. The convergence of print media into digital media has offered an alternative to maintain print media as the management of Telaah Strategis magazine has done. This research aims to see the efforts made by the management of Telaah Strategis magazine to survive in the media industry in Indonesia. The results of this research show that Telaah Strategis magazine uses a variety of media convergence models to be able to maintain its task of disseminating information by transforming it into a news portal and digital magazine and appearing in the social media platform. In addition, it also markets its digital magazine at online product sale exchange.

scholarly journals Social Media Use and Pathways to Protest Participation: Evidence From the 2019 Chilean Social Outburst

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512110597
Author(s):  
Andrés Scherman ◽  
Sebastian Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

In this article, we explore the relationship between social media use and participation in protests in Chile. In October 2019, Chile faced the most massive protests since the country’s return to democracy. Due to its magnitude, the media and analysts refer to this process as the “social outburst.” Although these protests engaged broad sectors of the population, most of the protesters were young people. Using a probabilistic and face-to-face survey applied to young people aged 18-29 years, we find that the only social media platform associated with participation in protests was Facebook. Our analysis also shows the importance of the specific activities that people engage in social media. Taking part in political activities on social media is strongly associated with attending protests but using social media platforms to get information or share common interests with other users is not. Furthermore, we examine whether social media has an indirect impact on participation through interpersonal conversation. The results show that Instagram—one of the most popular social media platforms among young Chileans—spurs interpersonal conversation, which in turn increases the likelihood of participating in protests. Our findings suggest that social media still plays a role in shaping people’s political behavior despite changes in the social media environment and in social media consumption patterns.

scholarly journals Countering the New Media Podia: Youth and ‘Fake News’ in Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Oloo Ong’ong’a
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media

The rise of fake news into the new media platform has raised significant concern in Africa and Kenya in recent years. The new media has embedded itself with fake news, which sometimes has led to the misunderstanding and misinformation of particular events that might be of the public interest. The general public, policymakers, and scholars, as well as the media, have found this as a very challenging issue. The upsurge of the new technologies, mainly social media, has posed challenges as youth immerse themselves in utilizing these social media for their own benefits. This is coupled with the creation and spreading of fake news, which sometimes when it goes viral; they lead to stress, panic and uncertainty to the individuals that come across them. The ability of users’ exceptional capacity to produce, reproduce, and distribute their information to a broad audience makes social media, an essential tool in the information age. The article critically reviews the literature on fake news and recommends for media literacy, strengthening the legal structures and use of sophisticated technologies as a strategy to fight fake news in the social media in Kenya.

scholarly journals Bertahan untuk Hidup: Konvergensi Pers Cetak dalam Industri Digital Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
Mulyono Sri Hutomo
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Distribution Costs ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Research Show

Mass media industry particularly print media in Indonesia comes under heavy pressure to survive in the era of digital disruption. High printing costs, coupled with high distribution costs and employee salaries have caused difficulties for print media companies to maintain their businesses. Some print media companies have opted to shut down their businesses, while others have survived by making various efficient efforts and diversifying their businesses.   The convergence of print media into digital media has offered an alternative to maintain print media as the management of Telaah Strategis magazine has done.   This research aims to see the efforts made by the management of Telaah Strategis magazine to survive in the media industry in Indonesia. The results of this research show that Telaah Strategis magazine uses a variety of media convergence models to be able to maintain its task of disseminating information by transforming it into a news portal and digital magazine and appearing in the social media platform. In addition, it also markets its digital magazine at online product sale exchange.

I Refused to Say #MeToo: Negotiating Between Individual Agency and ‘Imagined’ Platform Constraints

2021 ◽  
pp. 097325862098055
Author(s):  
Shamika Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Feminist Movements

This article describes how ‘imagined’ constraints of the social media platform by its users stand crucial while actualising platform affordances and exercising individual agency. I use the term ‘imagined constraints’ to explain how constraints of the media platform are speculated by my participants while they negotiate between the materiality of the platform and social environment to formulate their restricted agency. Here, I use a recent example of feminist hashtag movement ‘#MeToo’ as a case in point. Previous literature addressing feminist hashtag activism and other social movements influenced by social media platforms mainly discuss the participatory potential of these platforms. However, empirical investigation into the factors leading to non-participation in movements like #MeToo has hardly captured any scholarly attention. To address this existing gap in the literature, this article analyses embodied experiences shared through in-depth interviews by 11 Indian women who made a conscious decision of not participating in the #MeToo movement. I discuss my results taking into consideration theories of ‘imagined platform affordances’ and shaping of individual agency in terms of activist participation. I discuss that ‘Imagined constraints’ of the social media platform are chiefly shaped by an individual’s analysis of their sociocultural environment in which media platforms exist. These imagined constraints of a platform lead to constitute a ‘constrained agency’ of an individual. I argue that, while we theorise the potential of social media platforms in facilitating hashtag feminist movements like #MeToo, we must take into consideration the formulation of ‘imagined constraints of the platform’ by its users, as it stands crucial in guiding their participatory action.

scholarly journals The Fragmented Self: Having Multiple Accounts in Instagram Usage Practice among Indonesian Youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Mashita Phitaloka Fandia Purwaningtyas ◽  
Desti Ayu Alicya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Virtual Ethnography ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fragmented Self ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multiple Accounts

The usage of social media has become a part of youth’s life in this digital era. Particularly in Indonesia, Instagram is one of the most popular platforms among youth. In the practice of Instagram usage, apparently a person could manage more than just one account, creating phenomenon known as ‘real Instagram account’ and ‘fake Instagram account’. Hence this form of practice is raising question in regards to the identity presented by users in those accounts. This paper aims to analyze the practice of having multiple accounts in Instagram platform, focusing on how the self-presentation of users presented and why such presentation displayed, specifically in the contestation between the concept of ‘real’ and ‘fake’. Scope of the study in this research covers the media psychology of interconnection between self and social media platform. Research was conducted by mixed-method of new ethnography and virtual ethnography. Expected findings in this research include the analysis of fragmented self in Instagram multiple accounts, focusing in the issue of how the concept of ‘real’ and ‘fake’ are being defined by users, and the aspects behind such understandings. Apparently, in the social media platform as Instagram, youth is in search for a sense of freedom and authenticity, where they could be free in expressing themselves. Thus, the motivation of having multiple accounts. However, findings in this research also indicate that certain standards have been created in the Instagram, that at some point to some extent have conditioned users to present themselves in certain ways.

scholarly journals Newsworthiness and the Public’s Response in Russian Social Media: A Comparison of State and Private News Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darja Judina ◽  
Konstantin Platonov
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
News Values ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Media

Social media have become one of the most important news delivery channels due to their interactivity and large audiences. The content published by news organizations on social networking sites is of particular value to sociologists, because it allows measurement of users’ attitude to certain events. However, we understand that the media choose which events become news in accordance with certain criteria, such as news values. In this study, we decided to examine how news values determine the public’s response as expressed by likes, reposts, and comments. To analyze the characteristics of different media and their audiences, we selected four popular newsgroups on the social networking site Vkontakte: TASS and Russia Today, representing the state media, alongside RBC and Meduza, representing the private media. The posts of the selected newsgroups were coded and analyzed by means of Harcup and O’Neill taxonomy of values (2016). The study showed that news organizations tend to have preferences for some news values rather than others. Regression analysis revealed positive relationships between 1) the sharing of likes and good and entertaining content, 2) the sharing of comments and the presence of celebrities or conflicts in news, 3) the sharing of reposts and comments and significant events. An unexpected discovery was a negative dependency between the number of comments and the presence of exclusive content.

The 140 Characters AreSetting the Agenda of the Day: A Critical analysis of Role of twitter in Lalitgate

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media

The face of a news room in India has been changed radically with the ever growing popularity of social media, where it sets agenda for the news organizations to follow. The #Lalitgate is a classical example, where the Ex IPL Commissioner, Lalit Modi, who has gained a notorious image due to his controversies, broke news on twitter, from there it has been picked up by 24x7 news channels, subsequently online portals do a piece on it, again there is a prime time discussion on that news, followed by a morning coverage by the news papers. As a person gain ability to create sensationalism, he utilizes the ability of social media to create some dialogues, with a larger worldwide audience, which was earlier not possible due to the monologue approach of traditional media. The ability of that piece of information to get retweeted by followers allows it to trend high on twitter. As the number become astonishing some time, it automatically qualifies for the attention of the editors of media organizations and eventually sets the agenda of the day. The social media platforms; Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. have become the essential tool of news gathering of a modern news room. Twitter with its 302 million followers worldwide, eventually became a credible online source of news gathering as the tweets are usually came through a first person, citing his/her views or, opinion on a subject matter. This research paper aims to critically analyze the role of twitter as an agenda setting tool in #Lalitgate, where, the cricket administrator turned whistleblower, Lalit Modi, used twitter effectively for his revelations, and he not only trolled successfully on twitter but news media as well. The scope of this paper is limited to the media coverage by English medium news channels and papers only.

News organizations’ use of Native Videos on Facebook: Tweaking the journalistic field one algorithm change at a time

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1679-1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson C Tandoc ◽  
Julian Maitra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Video Production ◽  
Activity Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Facebook Pages

This article explores the influence of social media giant Facebook on the journalistic field by examining how news organizations responded to Facebook’s algorithm tweak, announced in June 2014, that prioritized videos directly uploaded to the social media platform. In announcing the tweak, Facebook, an agent external to the journalistic field, did not just change its own internal rules but also imposed them on users, including news organizations traditionally governed by the journalistic field’s own set of rules. Based on large-scale posting activity data collected from 232 Facebook Pages operated by major news organizations in the United States, this study found that most news organizations complied with Facebook’s updated rules on Native Videos by significantly increasing their social video production, opening up the journalistic field to the influence of an agent external to journalism. But while digital-native and broadcast news publishers were more responsive in adapting to the tweak, print brands were slower to respond.

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