scholarly journals Cultural influence on the adoption of social media platforms by employees

2020 ◽  
pp. 344-358
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Business Area ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Readiness To Adopt

The growth of technology has impacted billions of lives by allowing people to connect with others through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, WhatsApp, and so on. Despite the advantages of technology, there has been notable resistance from employees, especially the older generations, who are not eager to adopt social media technologies into their everyday lives. The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of culture in the adoption of social media by employees in Mafikeng. A questionnaire was utilized to collect data from 252 employees across various government and non-government departments around the Mafikeng business area. The findings revealed the cultural factors that influence employees’ adoption of social media platforms, employees’ readiness to adopt social media, and the impacts of culture on social media adoption by employees.

Indonesian Mobile Learning Information System Using Social Media Platforms

2020 ◽  
pp. 549-573
Author(s):  
Mario Tulenan Parinsi ◽  
Keith Francis Ratumbuisang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Visual Model ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Utilization Of Technology ◽  
Social Media Platforms

As a developing country, Indonesia continues to improve its quality as a state, in which the attempt to optimize all of its potential both in terms of economic, political, social, cultural, technological, educational, health, etc. This modern era, all aspects of life are depending on technology. This makes the technology becomes one of necessary in people's life. The utilization of technology has been used by all people in all aspects of life. Specifically, this paper tries to offer an innovation that has never been designed before, namely a platform of M-Learning in form of social media related to the development of technology for learning. Nowadays, internet users and smartphone ownership in Indonesia increased dramatically, then writers took initiative to design an innovation related to this case. Social media technologies provide the opportunity for teachers to engage students in online classes, thereby supporting the development of skills and learners to achieve competency. In addition to students, the opportunity is also open to outside the community to get information that can add knowledge. This case study provides a platform for M-Learning based learning that facilitate student learning also helps society size to obtain information more easily. The design of this platform using models UML (Unified Modeling Language) to design a visual model of this platform.

scholarly journals News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Westlund ◽  
Mats Ekström
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Key Aspects

The link between journalism and participation has since long been envisioned and argued to be an important one. However, it is also a complex link. It encompasses how the news media and their social actors actively work towards enabling and engaging citizens as active participants through the digital infrastructures of their proprietary platforms, as well as the ways citizens potentially make use of such opportunities or not in their everyday lives, and how this affects epistemologies of news journalism. However, to date, journalism studies scholars have mostly focused on positive forms of participatory journalism via proprietary platforms, and thus fail to account for and problematize dark participation and participation taking place on social media platforms non-proprietary to the news media. This introduction, and the thematic issue as a whole, attempts to address this void. The introduction discusses three key aspects of journalism’s relationship with participation: 1) proprietary or non-proprietary platforms, 2) participants, and 3) positive or dark participation.

Indonesian Mobile Learning Information System Using Social Media Platforms

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Tulenan Parinsi ◽  
Keith Francis Ratumbuisang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Visual Model ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Utilization Of Technology ◽  
Technological Educational ◽  
Social Media Platforms

As a developing country, Indonesia continues to improve its quality as a state, in which the attempt to optimize all of its potential both in terms of economic, political, social, cultural, technological, educational, health, etc. This modern era, all aspects of life are depending on technology. This makes the technology becomes one of necessary in people's life. The utilization of technology has been used by all people in all aspects of life. Specifically, this paper tries to offer an innovation that has never been designed before, namely a platform of M-Learning in form of social media related to the development of technology for learning. Nowadays, internet users and smartphone ownership in Indonesia increased dramatically, then writers took initiative to design an innovation related to this case. Social media technologies provide the opportunity for teachers to engage students in online classes, thereby supporting the development of skills and learners to achieve competency. In addition to students, the opportunity is also open to outside the community to get information that can add knowledge. This case study provides a platform for M-Learning based learning that facilitate student learning also helps society size to obtain information more easily. The design of this platform using models UML (Unified Modeling Language) to design a visual model of this platform.

scholarly journals Exploring situationally inappropriate social media posts

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Richey ◽  
M.N. Ravishankar ◽  
Christine Coupland
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Self Presentations

Purpose – Social media technologies are used by many organizations to project a positive image of their strategies and operations. At the same time, however, there are an increasing number of reports of slip-ups linked to poor situational awareness and flawed self-presentations on social media platforms. The purpose of this paper is to explore the triggers of inappropriate social media posts. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected during a qualitative study of social media use in 31 organizations in the UK and interpreted using concepts from Erving Goffman’s theory of impression management. Findings – The findings point to a series of demanding triggers, which increase the likelihood of insensitive and contextually inappropriate posts and also damage fostered impressions. Originality/value – The authors identify four triggers linked to inappropriate social media posts, namely: speed and spontaneity; informality; blurred boundaries; and the missing audience. The authors also discuss how extending the notion of what Goffman refers to as “situation-like” encounters provides useful insights into impression management on social media.

scholarly journals Between opportunities and threats – an analysis of Brazilian Landless Workers’ movement experiences with new media technologies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Madrid Sartoretto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Clear Separation ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
And Control ◽  
Communicative Processes

Recent discussions and research about the uses of digital social media platforms by social movements and protest organizations have raised questions about threats and challenges represented by these technologies. There is also a debate on whether digital social media platforms can contribute to establish and strengthen long-standing oppositional groups and structural change. In this context, this article analyses how the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) experiences and views the use of digital social media platforms in its communicative processes. Based on interviews and observations, the article shows how MST militants present ambivalent views towards platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and towards the dynamics of digital communication. Conclusions point that the main concern is threat to the organic collective character of the movement posed by individualistic digital social media platforms. Different from contemporary protest organisations, MST sees a clear separation between the movement and its media. The goal is to appropriate of and control media technologies, which brings many difficulties when dealing with digital social media platforms.

Illusions of Empowerment

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Weisgerber
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Digital Democracy ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Systems

This article calls into question the social media empowerment narrative and the underlying idea that social media platforms are empowering everyday netizens to have their voices heard. The author argues that social media technologies may simply privilege only those Internet users who are new media savvy and have leisure time to participate in the so-called digital democracy. While social media systems might have lowered the entrance threshold for civic engagement, hurdles such as the growing competition in an attention economy, the odds of standing out amidst millions of other individual voices, knowledge of new media technologies required to achieve visibility, and time demands make the social media empowerment vision more difficult to attain than the architects of the empowerment ideology have made the public to believe.

scholarly journals Cultural Influence On The Diffusion And Adoption Of Social Media Technologies By Entrepreneurs In Rural South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Mpele Lekhanya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Rural Businesses ◽  
Factors Influencing

This paper examines how culture influences the diffusion and adoption of social media technologies in rural businesses. The cultural factors influencing the diffusion and adoption of social media technologies among the rural communities in South Africa are still not clear. The study aimed to determine cultural factors influencing diffusion and adoption of social media technologies by rural businesses in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Data was collected from five rural areas in KZN. The sample consisted of 175 business owners/managers, selected using quota sampling, with respondents completing a questionnaire with the assistance of an interviewer. A mixed approach of qualitative and quantitative techniques was used. Results of the survey reveal that the majority of respondents indicate that they do consider their cultural values as most important when diffusing and adopting new social media technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, and MXit. Further research should aim to develop training programmes that will provide community entrepreneurial skills and encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and use of new social media technologies among rural dwellers particularly in KZN.

The Terrorist Act as Communicator

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Neville Bolt
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Center Of Gravity ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Political Communications ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Allowed State

Propaganda of the Deed has shifted its center of gravity since its emergence in the anarchist repertoire of the late 19th century. The act of terror as an act of communications faltered when anarchists failed to dominate the means of distributing their messages to a mass population. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the dynamism of mass media and prevalence of digitally connected consumers of historical media technologies and newer social media platforms have allowed state challengers to find support more easily and more rapidly at the grass roots. Chapter 1 draws on late 19th century anarchism, World War 1 propaganda, post-colonial struggles, Afghanistan’s Taliban, and al-Qaeda to chart changes in political communications in diverse conflict theatres.

scholarly journals Who Shares and Comments on News?: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Online and Social Media Participation

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511773575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonis Kalogeropoulos ◽  
Samuel Negredo ◽  
Ike Picone ◽  
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
News Stories ◽  
High Interest ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Cross National

In this article, we present a cross-national comparative analysis of which online news users in practice engage with the participatory potential for sharing and commenting on news afforded by interactive features in news websites and social media technologies across a strategic sample of six different countries. Based on data from the 2016 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, and controlling for a range of factors, we find that (1) people who use social media for news and a high number of different social media platforms are more likely to also engage more actively with news outside social media by commenting on news sites and sharing news via email, (2) political partisans on both sides are more likely to engage in sharing and commenting particularly on news stories in social media, and (3) people with high interest in hard news are more likely to comment on news on both news sites and social media and share stores via social media (and people with high interest in any kind of news [hard or soft] are more likely to share stories via email). Our analysis suggests that the online environment reinforces some long-standing inequalities in participation while countering other long-standing inequalities. The findings indicate a self-reinforcing positive spiral where the already motivated are more likely in practice to engage with the potential for participation offered by digital media, and a negative spiral where those who are less engaged participate less.

scholarly journals Tactical agency? Young people’s (dis)engagement with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652091898
Author(s):  
Justine Gangneux
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Drawing on empirical data, this article examines the ways in which young people negotiated messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp in their everyday lives, focusing in particular on the read-receipt feature embedded in the applications. While it is important to continue exposing and critically examining the power structures and socio-technological relations in which young people’s everyday engagement with social media platforms and messaging applications are entangled, the article argues that it is also crucial not to overlook the possibilities and forms of agency that can exist in this complex environment. Combining insights from Foucault and de Certeau, the article seeks to shed new light on the ways in which tactical agency can be enacted and cultivated by young people. This article contributes to current debates about agency, resistance and power in contemporary digital society as well as makes recommendations to foster more responsive digital literacies.

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