scholarly journals WHO CONTROLS THE ARAB PUBLIC SPHERE IN THE ERA OF NEW MEDIA, THE NEW REVOLUTIONISTS OR THE DEEP STATE?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 312-323
Author(s):  
Nawaf Abdelhay Altamimi
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Deep State ◽  
The Web

Recent events in Arab countries, particularly in Tunisia, Egypt have shown that new modes of communications such as Mobile phones and social networking sites have facilitated civil society's organization by allowing a timely exchange of opinions and ideas. Youth protesters in uprising societies have recognised the value of Mechanisms in which the public can meet and discuss and share ideas openly, recognise problems and suggest solutions (Caplan and Boyd, 2016). Those Young demonstrators have taken to social media such as Facebook and Twitter online to organize social prodemocracy movements and start the revolution, demonstrating how the Web-based platforms have become a crucial alternative media instrument for advocacy in today's Digital Age. (Kenix, 2009).

scholarly journals Polemik Ahmadiyah Di Media Online: Studi pada Weblog Interaktif Kompasiana

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-198
Author(s):  
Gun Gun Heryanto
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
New Public

Internet as a new media is a communication channel that can be a new public sphere. Especially after the migration of web 1.0 to web 2.0, internet users are connected to many social networking sites and interactive weblog to share informations, ideas and thought. It also allows the debate surrounding the Ahmadiyya get space between netizens. Polemic about Ahmadiyya no longer solely a matter of aqidah as a matter of prophecy, al Mahdi and al Masih, revelation, caliphate and jihad but also a matter of Human Rights (HAM) and the law. We need to map out the themes of the talk surrounding the Ahmadiyya among internet users as well as the need to know the context and dynamics of the evolving discourse on new media. This study traced 100 posts written by Internet users in Kompasiana during 2008-2012 as well as the data from the focus group discussion (FGD) with Kompasianer.

The Potential of Political Changes in the Information Age

2014 ◽  
pp. 37-59
Author(s):  
Anas Alahmed
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Citizen Activism ◽  
The Public Sphere

In non-democratic societies new media social networks have played a significant role in changing political and social positions, not necessarily through real life but, instead, through cyber life. This chapter examines how Saudi activists challenge the political authority and how Saudi citizens took advantage of publicity by demanding political change. All of this happened due to social networks and new media, which allowed citizens to mobilize information for the sake of transparency. This was a new phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. The current young generation of Saudis, who use the Internet and social networking sites, played a significant role in the public sphere by making use of the space available to them within cyberspace. This chapter discusses the potential of political information to flourish in Saudi Arabia. It examines how and why citizen activism in Saudi Arabia can be effective. The chapter also shows that social networking activities have the power to change political decisions and society.

scholarly journals The Impact of Online Information Chaos on the Credibility of Social Networks: A field Study on a Sample of the public of Social Network: تأثير فوضى المعلومات الإلكترونية على مصداقية شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي - دراسة ميدانية على عينة من جمهور شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي-

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amira Ahmed Suleiman
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Online Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
The Impact

The study seeks to study the chaos of information on social networks, their impact on the credibility of these networks, the identification of forms of information chaos in the social networks, the degree of public confidence in the information they deal with, their sense of information chaos, Through social networking sites. The study was conducted on (378) individual subscribers of different social networks, "Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter."  Results: One of the most important findings of the study is that more than half of the sample of the study feel the chaos of information on social networks, due to the large number of accounts on the networks and the increase of anonymous information, as well as the lack of control over the information published on those networks. There are also many forms of information chaos on social networks: anonymous information, privacy violations, infringement of intellectual property rights and rights of publishers, the proliferation of counterfeit and contradictory information, the manufacture and dissemination of viruses, breaches and disruption of devices, and multiple personal or institutional accounts. The researcher recommends the need to pay attention to the enactment of media legislation and laws related to the new media environment for social networking sites to reduce the chaos of information and privacy protection, and to raise awareness of the importance of social networking sites and the Publishing Standards through courses and workshops to reduce the chaos.

The Virtual Parallax

2014 ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brilliant Mhlanga ◽  
Mandlenkosi Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Mailing Lists ◽  
The People ◽  
Internet Portals

Social networking sites and the individuated privacy of the virtual space have emerged as new forms of conflating social identities and free speech for most subaltern communities. While it is clearly accepted that the notion of social networking within most African communities has always existed as part of oramedia (orality) and has gained traction by exploiting the grapevine as a notch of communication, current communication trends, coupled with the rise of new media have brought normative and pragmatic values in the latter-day communication culture. A case study of the “Forum,” a social network from Matebeleland, Zimbabwe, is used to show how the virtual sphere has revolutionised the Habermasian public sphere. A new wave of social networking sites has emerged in which participants gather through “Internet portals” and get connected through different forms of online fora. The extent of engagement and the free speech practiced therein as part of the apparent change of people's worldviews form the basis of this chapter. Subalternised groups like the people of Matebeleland from Zimbabwe, whose sensitive discourses have been denied spaces in the local public sphere, have found a voice in social networks. Different online fora exist, and they include Facebook groups such as Inhlamba Zesintu, Luveve Ikasi Lami, Abammeli Mthwakazi, Thina AbaMpofu, etc., and Websites like iNkundla.net, Youtube, and mailing lists and listservs, such as the Forum.

The Potential of Political Changes in the Information Age

2015 ◽  
pp. 1549-1571
Author(s):  
Anas Alahmed
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Citizen Activism ◽  
The Public Sphere

In non-democratic societies new media social networks have played a significant role in changing political and social positions, not necessarily through real life but, instead, through cyber life. This chapter examines how Saudi activists challenge the political authority and how Saudi citizens took advantage of publicity by demanding political change. All of this happened due to social networks and new media, which allowed citizens to mobilize information for the sake of transparency. This was a new phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. The current young generation of Saudis, who use the Internet and social networking sites, played a significant role in the public sphere by making use of the space available to them within cyberspace. This chapter discusses the potential of political information to flourish in Saudi Arabia. It examines how and why citizen activism in Saudi Arabia can be effective. The chapter also shows that social networking activities have the power to change political decisions and society.

The Potential of Political Changes in the Information Age

2015 ◽  
pp. 2278-2300
Author(s):  
Anas Alahmed
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Citizen Activism ◽  
The Public Sphere

In non-democratic societies new media social networks have played a significant role in changing political and social positions, not necessarily through real life but, instead, through cyber life. This chapter examines how Saudi activists challenge the political authority and how Saudi citizens took advantage of publicity by demanding political change. All of this happened due to social networks and new media, which allowed citizens to mobilize information for the sake of transparency. This was a new phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. The current young generation of Saudis, who use the Internet and social networking sites, played a significant role in the public sphere by making use of the space available to them within cyberspace. This chapter discusses the potential of political information to flourish in Saudi Arabia. It examines how and why citizen activism in Saudi Arabia can be effective. The chapter also shows that social networking activities have the power to change political decisions and society.

scholarly journals Brevity is the Soul of Twitter: The Constraint Affordance and Political Discussion

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kokil Jaidka ◽  
Alvin Zhou ◽  
Yphtach Lelkes
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
Series Design ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Technological Affordances

Abstract Many hoped that social networking sites would allow for the open exchange of information and a revival of the public sphere. Unfortunately, conversations on social media are often toxic and not conducive to healthy political discussions. Twitter, the most widely used social network for political discussions, doubled the limit of characters in a tweet in November 2017, which provided an opportunity to study the effect of technological affordances on political discussions using a discontinuous time series design. Using supervised and unsupervised natural language processing methods, we analyzed 358,242 tweet replies to U.S. politicians from January 2017 to March 2018. We show that doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to less uncivil, more polite, and more constructive discussions online. However, the declining trend in the empathy and respectfulness of these tweets raises concerns about the implications of the changing norms for the quality of political deliberation.

scholarly journals AUTORITA’ AND AUTOREVOLEZZA: EXPLAINING CONTESTATIONS BETWEEN POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN THE AGE OF THE NEW MEDIA

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Walter C. Ihejirika
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Connection ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

In many African countries, since the nineties, there is a subtle contest going on between religious and political leaders. At the heart of this contest is what Rosalind Hackett described as the redefinition of the categories of power and status, which cease to be primarily tied to material wealth or political connection, but rather to spiritual authority and revelation. This is a struggle for the hegemonic control of the society in the Gramscian sense of the term. While political leaders may use the coercive arms of the state – military might as well as their control of the financial resources of the state to impose their authority, religious leaders on the other hand assume the posture of moral icons, personalities endowed with superior knowledge based on divine revelation. As these contestations are played out in the public sphere, the way the leaders are able to portray themselves to their public will determine their followership. This explains the importance of mediation in the process of politico-religious contestations. In the eyes of the public, political leaders have the physical or raw power - the Italian concept of autorita; while the religious leaders have the moral power - autorevolezza. This paper uses these concepts as metaphors to present a general explanation of how the contestation between religious and political leaders plays out in the public sphere of the new media

scholarly journals Rethinking science communication in a changing landscape

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. E
Author(s):  
Frank Kupper ◽  
Carolina Moreno-Castro ◽  
Alessandra Fornetti
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Selection Of

Science communication continues to grow, develop and change, as a practice and field of research. The boundaries between science and the rest of society are blurring. Digitalization transforms the public sphere. This JCOM special issue aims to rethink science communication in light of the changing science communication landscape. How to characterize the emerging science communication ecosystem in relation to the introduction of new media and actors involved? What new practices are emerging? How is the quality of science communication maintained or improved? We present a selection of papers that provide different perspectives on these questions and challenges.

Sporting Safe in the Liminal Sphere

2016 ◽  
pp. 865-875
Author(s):  
Santosh Khadka
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rhetorical Performance ◽  
The Web

Facebook, like any other social networking site, troubles the traditional categories of private and public spheres. As it complicates (and transcends) the distinction, it can be called a different space, or a liminal space, which falls somewhere in-between private and public spheres. The author argues that this recognition of Facebook as a liminal sphere has important implications to the (re) definition of public and private spheres and to the ways rhetoric should work or be used in the Web 2.0 sites like Facebook. The author also proposes that Michael de Certeau's notions of “strategy” and “tactics” can be powerful rhetorical tools to deal with Facebook's liminality and to enhance the rhetorical performance of self in Facebook and other similar new media forums.

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