scholarly journals Affective investments, queer archives, and lesbian breakups on YouTube

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira Deshler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Queer Archives ◽  
Distinct Features

YouTube, as both a video-sharing platform and a social media platform, has become a dynamic space for the proliferation of queer female fandom, including lesbian YouTube couples, around which fans congregate. Two specific YouTube couples, Shannon and Cammie, and Kaelyn and Lucy, both broke up in summer 2016. Their breakups, and the subsequent breakup videos, were met with emotionally intense responses from their fans. To investigate how both fans and the couples themselves invest in these relationships, I conducted a discourse analysis of the language the YouTubers use to speak to their fans as well as the ways in which fans express their connection to these videos in the comments section. The distinct features of this fandom are the result of the affordances of YouTube as a platform, the intensity of queer fandom investments, and the particular liveliness of the fan object. Fan investment in these couples is connected to fans' own sense of (queer) futurity. At the same time, these videos now circulate as monuments of queer melancholia, viewed as they are through the lens of grief or nostalgia.

Facebook seeks new users and markets as troubles mount

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Business Response ◽  
European Markets

Subject Facebook's troubles and business response. Significance Facebook’s financial performance is determined by its success in adding, retaining and engaging active users of its products, particularly its eponymous social media platform and photo- and video-sharing service Instagram. Its North American and West European markets are reaching their ceiling for new users while removing fake accounts, estimated by the company to account for 3-4% of the total, is reducing overall numbers. Meanwhile, privacy, data sharing and security, and false and bot-created content concerns, put user engagement and retention at risk, further endangering revenue. Impacts A global regulatory regime against social media is highly improbable. Some US and EU regulation could be useful for Facebook as barriers to entry, as it does in such industries as banking and airlines. Sustaining advertiser loyalty is as vital to the sustainability of Facebook’s business model as growing users.

Assembling via ‘Danmu’

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Wenhao Bi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Speaking Out ◽  
Media Platform

The ‘danmu’ system in the Chinese video-sharing social media platform Bilibili, in allowing comments to sync to any specific playback time, has constructed a community where separated viewers can join in the seemingly simultaneous conversations at the same time they watch videos. The participatory design of such co-presence demonstrates the political and cultural gesture of speaking out and exchanging ideas as the main orientation of the platform. Through danmu comments are the living networks connected both in the videos they are attached to, and in Bilibili as a whole. Despite the instantaneous emotions displayed in individual danmu comments, there are affective connections that shape the temporal quality of participation. The playfulness embedded in the interface design has further directed the gratification of speaking out on the platform.

scholarly journals Freedom of Expression in Digital Age: An Analysis of Twitter in Context of Pak-China Relationship

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Nadia Saleem ◽  
Farasat Rasool
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Speech Act Analysis

This article is aimed to provide an analysis regarding the freedom of expression on Twitter in the digital age. Freedom of expression in the digital age is the capability of an individual through which they are able to express their beliefs, thoughts, ideas and emotions on various issues via different social media platforms that are free from governmental censorship. These freedoms play a significant role, as now, each individual can have his/her own perspectives and school of thoughts; and can live his/her life as per own choice. The present study is a discourse analysis of the Pak-China relations debate as top trend hashtags on Twitter in 2020. The data was collected through Mozdeh Big Data Software. The top twenty tweets with the highest likes in seven trending hashtags have been studied as per Searle's Speech Act Analysis. The study shows that how Twitter as a social media platform provides a forum of free debate for everyone.

scholarly journals A BALANCING ACT: PUTTING UP BOOKSHELVES ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Mette Bech Albrechtslund
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
At Home

This paper addresses the theme of this year’s conference by focusing on the issue of trust in the uneasy relationship between content-generating users and commercially owned platforms. In this paper, I will present a case study of the use of so-called ‘bookshelves’ on Goodreads which offers a distinct example illustrating how a social media platform will often tests its users’ trust as it seeks ways to capitalize on its users’ engagement and contributions while still preserving the atmosphere of a social network built for and with its users. Bookshelves constitute a key element in making Goodreads a space users can feel ‘at home’ in. In the paper, I show how this becomes clear when considering users responses’ to Goodreads policies on bookshelves. I focus specifically on three different examples of negotiations of trust that have emerged in relation to the platform’s policies on bookshelves. The study draws particularly on discourse analysis with a focus on narrative and organizational metaphors, and the aim is to identify central points of ambivalence in users’ attempts to balance their trust in the platform.

scholarly journals “Something You Just Don’t Talk About”: An Analysis of Teenage Boys’ Experiences of Non-Consensual Sexting in Lower Secondary School

2021 ◽  
pp. 106082652110427
Author(s):  
Kristina Hunehäll Berndtsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Ninth Grade Students

The current study explores Swedish teenage boys’ exposure to non-consensual sexting, drawing on interviews with ninth-grade students, age 14 to 15 years, in a lower secondary school in northern Sweden. The results reveal that boys are exposed to unsolicited “dick pics,” unsolicited “female nudes” and non-consensual “explicit video” sharing via the social media platform Snapchat. However, traditional notions of heteronormativity and heterosexual masculinity prevented boys from talking about, understanding and handling experiences that may be identified as digital sexual harassment. Additionally, because of traditional gendered perceptions, students had difficulty categorizing victims and perpetrators of sexting. The study shows that there is a link between male vulnerability and male loneliness that can be manifested in both an individual and collective sense.

Sosyal medyada Suriye’li sığınmacılara yönelik algı: bir sözlük değerlendirmesi

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Servet Kardeş ◽  
Çağla Banko ◽  
Berrin Akman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Made In

Bu araştırmada sığınmacılara yönelik paylaşımların yapıldığı sosyal medyada yer alan sözlüklerden birinde sığınmacılara yönelik algıya bakılmıştır. Yöntem olarak nitel desende olan bu çalışmada, bir sosyal medya sitesinde yer alan paylaşımlar içerik analizi yoluyla derinlemesine incelenip yorumlanmıştır. Araştırmanın sonucunda sosyal medya kullanıcılarının sığınmacıları büyük bir güvensizlik ortamı ve huzursuzluk yaratan bireyler olarak gördükleri saptanmış, sığınmacılarla yaşanan deneyimlerin ve medyadaki haberlerin bu düşüncelerin oluşmasında etkisinin olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bunun yanında sosyal medya kullanıcılarının devletin sığınmacılar konusunda yanlış politika izlediğini düşündükleri ve sığınmacılar için etkili bir planlama yapılmadığını ifade ettikleri görülmüştür. Çalışmanın sonuçları doğrultusunda medyada sığınmacılar hakkında çıkan haberlerde olumsuz ve şiddet temalı haberlerin azaltılması, Suriyeli sığınmacıların durumu, sahip oldukları haklar ve topluma yansımaları hakkında doğru ve bilgilendirici kamu spotları hazırlanması ayrıca sığınmacıların topluma entegre olma sürecinin her basamağında daha planlı ve etkili bir yol izlenmesi önerilebilir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHPerceptions about Syrian refugees on social media: an evaluation of a social media platformIn this research, posts which are about Syrian refugees were published in a social media platform, called as “sözlük” were investigated. The research is a qualitative research. The posts in this platform are analyzed with content analysis method. According to results of analyses, social media users see Syrian refugees as people who create an insecure and a restless environment. The experiences people had with them and news have an effect on this view. In addition, social media users think that government made inappropriate policies and ineffective plans about Syrian refugees. It is suggested negative news about Syrian refugees should be decreased and government should make safer policies. In addition, adaptation of refugees to society should be made in more planned and effective way.

Value cocreation behavior of customers and companies on the Weibo social media platform

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Huiqin Zhang ◽  
Hai Lan ◽  
Xudong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Customer Participation ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Value Cocreation ◽  
Media Platform

The Weibo social media platform in China has an important role in the value-generation process between a company and a customer. We investigated the relationship between the service quality provided on a company's Weibo page and the two dimensions of customer value cocreation behavior, namely, participation and citizenship, as well as the moderating effect of collectivism on this relationship. Participants were 354 active users of Weibo. Our findings confirmed that the service quality provided on a company's Weibo page was critical to the generation of customer value cocreation behavior. Further, collectivism moderated this relationship, with higher levels of collectivism strengthening the Weibo page service quality and customer value cocreation behavior relationship. In addition, customer citizenship behavior was positively related to customer perceptions of brand image, whereas customer participation was not. Implications for companies in the Chinese context are discussed.

Wykorzystanie mediów społecznościowych w komunikacji z klientem na przykładzie firm sektora piwowarskiego

2015 ◽  
pp. 161-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Szamrowski ◽  
Adam Pawlewicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Brewing Industry ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Regional Character

The main objective of this paper is to identify the platforms and social media tools utilized by the brewing industry in communication with the stakeholders, mainly with potential clients. In addition, the study sought to determine the nature of the published content, identify those responsible for their management, and present the advantages and disadvantages of their conduct in communication and creating the image of the company. The results indicate that only 25% of the surveyed companies do not use social media in PR. This applies only to small enterprises, with regional character. All the major brewing companies in their public relations activities use at least one type of social media, focusing in most cases on social networking (Facebook) and Video Sharing (YouTube). In addition, some of the largest brands included in the individual equity groups have their own social media channels used to communicate with the stakeholders. General promotion of company products and, what is very important, creating a dialogue with social media platform community, were seen as the most important benefits of using social media.

Earth-Science Outreach Using an Integrated Social Media Platform

GSA Today ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J. Spencer ◽  
K.L. Gunderson ◽  
C.W. Hoiland ◽  
W.K. Schleiffarth
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Science Outreach ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Media Platform
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