scholarly journals From Opinion to Method: Film Criticism beyond Communicative Capitalism

UNITAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (01) ◽  
pp. 37-57
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Deyto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Single Unit ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Communicative Capitalism

In the light of Barthes’s failed assassination of the author, this essay will tread on the plane of film criticism’s practices of resuscitation of the author. Looking at the current phenomenon of the explosion of quantification in social media space, this essay considers the way communicative capitalism and neoliberal psychopolitics regulate points of view, analyses, and criticism in the internet, and funnel them into a single unit, which is in the form of opinion. This essay will look into three reviews of Citizen Jake (2018) which, as will be argued, often function in double: not only as reviews, but also as consumer guides, which come from the individual opinion of a privileged member of the audience, the reviewer. As a recommendation to resist these reductions, it is suggested that the film critic must practice a self-conscious theorization by looking at the social practices governing the production of the film, the subject of criticism. Dialectically, this will also resolve the failed modernist projects of defacing the author, defacing capitalist subjectivities, toward a materialist conception of film.

scholarly journals E-motivity: the social impact of the Internet as a limbic system

Matrizes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Derrick de Kerckhove
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Limbic System ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
New System

The article metaphorically uses the human limbic system to describe the new system of social interaction created by social networks, exploring the conditions involved in the creation and development of emotions on the Internet, in such a way as to reveal the relation between technology and psychology. In defence of the argument that the immediacy of social media favours reactions to public events, it presents examples such as the individual responses to the financial global crisis and the demand for more transparency in the governments and financial institutions, in cases like WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring. It concludes that the Internet allows individuals to extend their action, that now have a global reach, with possible effects upon citizenship.

scholarly journals Possible influence of social media on shaping the image of nurses on the Internet

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Piotr Pawłowski ◽  
Daria Makuch ◽  
Paulina Mazurek ◽  
Adrianna Bartoszek ◽  
Alicja Artych ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Level ◽  
Offensive Language

AbstractIntroduction. Nowadays, a professional image is an important element of the identity of individual professions. Its formation is a difficult process, dependent on many factors, including the use of new communication channels, such as social media, which in recent years have become a space for expressing social opinion, including those concerning individual professions.Aim. The analysis of the possibilities of using social media in shaping the image of nurses on the Internet.Material and methods. The study was carried out using the comparative method. The subject of the research were websites (fanpages) related to the professional environment of nurses on the social networking site Facebook.com, chosen deliberately according to the adopted criteria.Findings. During the research, differences in the strategy of administering the analyzed websites were identified, depending mainly on the subject matter and purpose of publishing the content. The topicality, visual attractiveness and cohesion were characterized by a high level. The posts appearing on individual websites were written in the language of the recipients, with different publication frequency. The websites created a long-term group of recipients and tried to influence the image of nursing in Poland in a positive way.Conclusions. Content published on social media can affect both the positive and negative image of the nurse in the public opinion. Among the factors that do not affect the image of nurses can be indicated, among others, offensive language of comments and displaying negative traits of nurses. Positive reception guarantees current knowledge in the field of nursing and emphasizing professional competences.

scholarly journals Social Media and Fake News in Nigeria: A Speech Act Analysis of WhatsApp Messages on Coronavirus

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Godwin Ayigbo Owojecho Godwin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
World Health ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

The evolution of social media has opened a new vista in digital communication across the world, Nigeria inclusive. Since the confirmation of the index case of Coronavirus in Nigeria, a lot of news on the subject which are largely considered by the World Health Organization to be false, had gone viral on the social media space. This study essentially examines some of those messages on WhatsApp that were circulated across Nigeria.  Five WhatsApp messages collected between March – June, 2020 were analysed using the framework of Austin’s Speech Acts with insights from the Conversational Maxims of Grice’s Cooperative Principles. The main objective of this analysis is to unravel the communicative effects of language. Findings show that the writers of those WhatsApp messages carefully manipulate some linguistic features to make such messages perform some illocutionary acts as well as trigger some perlocutionary moves in the minds of the readers. This buttresses the fact that language is used to achieve both linguistic and non linguistic aims.

scholarly journals The Subject Supposed to LOL: Slavoj Žižek and the Event of the Internet

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clint Burnham
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mirror Stage ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Two Bodies

Is the Internet an Event? Does it constitute, as Žižek argues an Event should, a reframing of our experience, a retroactive re-ordering of everything we thought we knew about the social but were afraid to ask Facebook?In this contribution, Clint Burnham engages with Žižek’s recent work (Less than Nothing, Event, Absolute Recoil) as a way to argue, first, that in order to understand the Internet, we need Žižek’s “immaterial materialism,” and, in turn, to understand Žižek’s thought and how it circulates today, we need to think through digital culture and social media. 

As regards the Internet, then, no cynical disavowal, no Facebook cleanses, no shutting off the wifi: les non-dupes errent, or those who distance themselves from social media and the like are the most deceived. Next: the Internet’s two bodies: digital culture is both the material world of servers, clouds, stacks and devices and the virtual or affective world of liking, networking, and the mirror stage of the selfie. And here we must confront the “obscene underside” of digital culture: not only the trolls, 4chan porn, and gamergate bro’s, but also the old fashioned exploitation of labour, be it iPhone assembly-line workers at Foxconn, super-exploited “blood coltan” miners in the Congo, “like farmers” in India, or social media scrubbers in the Phillipines, who ensure your feeds are “clean” of porn, beheadings, and other #NSFW matter. These last concerns, then, mean we also have to think about what Žižek calls the “undoing of the Event” of the Internet, the betrayal of the Internet, its diseventalization.This podcast is a recording of a CAMRI research seminar that took place at the University of Westminster on January 28, 2015.

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN DAN PEMAANFAATAN CYBERSPACE DALAM GERAKAN PEMIKIRAN HIZBUT TAHRIR DI IAIN KENDARI

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Ambar Sri Lestari ◽  
Shabrur Rijal Hamka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Level ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Religious Doctrine ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

This research aims to analyze the use and utilization of cyberspace as new media (internet) in the movement thought of Hizbut Tahrir at IAIN Kendari. The findings of the situation show that the use and utilization of cyberspace via the internet with the Facebook as one of the social media by either students who follow the activities of the intra or extra campus or who does not enter the organization by taking samples in the first half of the even and odd semester students of 2016/2017nwhich consists of eight classes indicate that they  are more panic when it comes to the use of Facebook taking up to 0.89 or 89%. From the use of this social media, then the process of movement of thought against religious doctrine can be done through cyberspace started from the ndividual level, the level of interaction between the individual and community level; cybersociety (virtual community) and finally form a culture (Cyberculture) by a movement of Hizbut  Tahrir. The process of religious doctrine is done through several methods, namely: participation, openness, communication, community, dependency/connectedness.

scholarly journals Espaços de enunciação no Facebook e no sistema CEAR: constituição de sujeitos e de sentidos / Enunciation spaces on Facebook and in the CEAR system: constitution of subjects and senses

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
Fernanda Surubi Fernandes ◽  
Rodrigo de Santana Silva ◽  
Valdir Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Specific Activities

RESUMO: A partir de discussões na disciplina Políticas de Língua, podemos pensar sobre como as tecnologias possuem um papel cada vez mais atuante na vida cotidiana do ser humano. Por isso, questionamos: como o ensino de línguas pode fazer parte desse processo tecnológico? Para pensar sobre o assunto, analisamos a disciplina Linguística I: Introdução à Ciência da Linguagem, realizada a distância pelo sistema Moodle, disponibilizado pelo Centro de Aprendizagem em Rede (CEAR) da Universidade Estadual de Goiás, e pelo Facebook. Compreendemos, portanto, que a partir de metodologias diversas é possível aproveitar as ferramentas que o Moodle e o Facebook possuem. Como utilizar essa tecnologia? É preciso, para tal, considerar os sujeitos (docente e discente) numa relação com a linguagem para que a produção do conhecimento ocorra, tornando as mídias sociais e os ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem ferramentas que auxiliam o docente de Letras na interação com e entre seus alunos. Isso ocorre em duas instâncias: na primeira, pela discussão da disciplina sobre Linguística e, na segunda, pela dinâmica de possibilitar outro olhar de como o discente, ao tornar-se professor, pode dispor dessas ferramentas, como metodologias de ensino e aprendizagem. Desse modo, no espaço de enunciação do grupo fechado no Facebook, o que se considera são as práticas sociais de língua e linguagem, para conhecimento maior sobre as ferramentas dessa mídia social, antes das atividades específicas de ensino da disciplina a distância no Moodle, que ainda está em processo de aprendizagem pelo discente. Isso possibilita compreender, portanto, uma plasticidade da linguagem, no modo como ela se molda, permitindo que os sujeitos encontrem significado nesse espaço ao enunciar de forma mais específica e efetiva.  ABSTRACT: From discussions in the subject Language Policies, we can think about how technologies play an increasingly active role in the daily life of the human being. For this reason, we ask: how can languages teaching be part of this technological process? To think about it, we analyzed the subject Linguistics I: Introduction to the Science of Language, carried out online in the Moodle system, provided by Centro de Aprendizagem em Rede (CEAR) at Universidade Estadual de Goiás, and on Facebook. We understand, therefore, that from diverse methodologies it is possible to take advantage of the tools that Moodle and Facebook have. How to use this technology? For this, it is necessary to consider the subjects (teacher and student) in a relationship with the language so that the production of knowledge occurs, making social media and virtual learning environments tools that help the teacher of Language in the interaction with and among their students. This occurs in two instances: in the first, by the discussion of the subject on Linguistics and, in the second, by the dynamics of enabling another look at how the student, when he becomes a teacher, can have these tools as teaching and learning methodologies. Thus, in the enunciation space of the closed group on Facebook, what is considered are the social practices of language, for a greater knowledge about the tools of this social media, before the specific activities of teaching of the distance subject in Moodle, which is still in process of learning by the student. This anables us to understand, therefore, a plasticity of the language, in the way how it is shaped, allowing the subjects to find meaning in this space when enunciating in a more specific and effective way.

PHILOSOPHICAL PROPAEDEUTICS IN THE SYSTEM OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Gan N.Yu. ◽  
Ponomareva L.I. ◽  
Obukhova K.A.
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

Today, worldview, spiritual and moral problems that have always been reflected in education and upbringing come to the fore in society. In this situation, there is a demand for philosophical categories. One of the priority goals of education in modern conditions is the formation of a reasonable, reflexive person who is able to analyze their actions and the actions of other people. Modern science is characterized by an understanding of the absolute value and significance of childhood in the development of the individual, which implies the need for its multilateral study. In the conditions of democratization of all spheres of life, the child ceases to be a passive object of education and training, and becomes an active carrier of their own meanings of being and the subject of world creation. One of the realities of childhood is philosophizing, so it is extremely timely to address the identification of its place and role in the world of childhood. Children's philosophizing is extremely poorly studied, although the need for its analysis is becoming more obvious. Children's philosophizing is one of the forms of philosophical reflection, which has its own qualitative specificity, on the one hand, and commonality with all other forms of philosophizing, on the other. The social relevance of the proposed research lies in the fact that children's philosophizing can be considered as an intellectual indicator of a child's socialization, since the process of reflection involves the adoption and development of culture. Modern society, in contrast to the traditional one, is ready to "accept" a philosophizing child, which means that it is necessary to determine the main characteristics and conditions of children's philosophizing.

A market-based rationale for the privacy paradox

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110158
Author(s):  
Opeyemi Akanbi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Privacy Paradox ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Privacy Risks ◽  
Social Collective

Moving beyond the current focus on the individual as the unit of analysis in the privacy paradox, this article examines the misalignment between privacy attitudes and online behaviors at the level of society as a collective. I draw on Facebook’s market performance to show how despite concerns about privacy, market structures drive user, advertiser and investor behaviors to continue to reward corporate owners of social media platforms. In this market-oriented analysis, I introduce the metaphor of elasticity to capture the responsiveness of demand for social media to the data (price) charged by social media companies. Overall, this article positions social media as inelastic, relative to privacy costs; highlights the role of the social collective in the privacy crises; and ultimately underscores the need for structural interventions in addressing privacy risks.

scholarly journals Social Media Activities and Its Influence on Customer-Brand Relationship: An Empirical Study of Apparel Retailers’ Activity in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-617
Author(s):  
Sukanya Sharma ◽  
Saumya Singh ◽  
Fedric Kujur ◽  
Gairik Das
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Brand Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
The Relationship

In this digital era, the internet, and Social Media (SM) has had a radical impact on the shopping behavior of “costumers” The SM provides a platform where “costumers” are exposed to the best product with the best price along with reviews and opinions about the merchandise. So, we can turn our heads and look at a brand in a way as if the brand is speaking to us. This study was an attempt to explore the Social Media Marketing Activities (SMMA) that are being used for the marketing of fashionable products like apparel and to what level the SMMA activities of brands truly strengthen the relationship with customers and motivate purchase intention. Moreover, SMMA has a robust application in developing a marketing strategy for business. It has become a significant tool that collaborates with businesses and people. It is concluded that the “costumer”-brand relationship does have a positive and statistically significant impact on consumers’ purchase intention through SM.

scholarly journals Agent Based Model of Anti-Vaccination Movements: Simulations and Comparison with Empirical Data

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 809
Author(s):  
Pawel Sobkowicz ◽  
Antoni Sobkowicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Parameters ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Nonlinear Feedback ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Linear Processes ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The Social

Background: A realistic description of the social processes leading to the increasing reluctance to various forms of vaccination is a very challenging task. This is due to the complexity of the psychological and social mechanisms determining the positioning of individuals and groups against vaccination and associated activities. Understanding the role played by social media and the Internet in the current spread of the anti-vaccination (AV) movement is of crucial importance. Methods: We present novel, long-term Big Data analyses of Internet activity connected with the AV movement for such different societies as the US and Poland. The datasets we analyzed cover multiyear periods preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting the behavior of vaccine related Internet activity with high temporal resolution. To understand the empirical observations, in particular the mechanism driving the peaks of AV activity, we propose an Agent Based Model (ABM) of the AV movement. The model includes the interplay between multiple driving factors: contacts with medical practitioners and public vaccination campaigns, interpersonal communication, and the influence of the infosphere (social networks, WEB pages, user comments, etc.). The model takes into account the difference between the rational approach of the pro-vaccination information providers and the largely emotional appeal of anti-vaccination propaganda. Results: The datasets studied show the presence of short-lived, high intensity activity peaks, much higher than the low activity background. The peaks are seemingly random in size and time separation. Such behavior strongly suggests a nonlinear nature for the social interactions driving the AV movement instead of the slow, gradual growth typical of linear processes. The ABM simulations reproduce the observed temporal behavior of the AV interest very closely. For a range of parameters, the simulations result in a relatively small fraction of people refusing vaccination, but a slight change in critical parameters (such as willingness to post anti-vaccination information) may lead to a catastrophic breakdown of vaccination support in the model society, due to nonlinear feedback effects. The model allows the effectiveness of strategies combating the anti-vaccination movement to be studied. An increase in intensity of standard pro-vaccination communications by government agencies and medical personnel is found to have little effect. On the other hand, focused campaigns using the Internet and social media and copying the highly emotional and narrative-focused format used by the anti-vaccination activists can diminish the AV influence. Similar effects result from censoring and taking down anti-vaccination communications by social media platforms. The benefit of such tactics might, however, be offset by their social cost, for example, the increased polarization and potential to exploit it for political goals, or increased ‘persecution’ and ‘martyrdom’ tropes.

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