Facebook Aesthetics

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Sadhvi Dar
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
White Gaze ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
White Innocence

What is the relationship between digital imaginaries and whiteness? Following recent calls to investigate the juncture between whiteness and the internet, this chapter seeks to provide a critique of imagery posted on Facebook in the aftermath of 'terror attacks' in Paris 2015. The author renders these images as structured by deep forms of white world-making, ways of thinking and feeling that reproduce whiteness as ethically superior, innocent, and in need of preserving at the cost of non-white knowledges and peoples. In this chapter, the author argues that the internet provides yet another site for whiteness to engage in white world-making by extending the white gaze to digital platforms in the service of transforming the violence of Paris into a racialised attack on white innocence. As such, the Paris images are understood as responding to and perpetuating a digital imaginary in which the political capacities of images relate to an ethics of violence to the non-white Muslim body.

Ideology and the rationality of non-voting

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Facchini ◽  
Louis Jaeck
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Political Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Political Divide ◽  
The Relationship

What is the theoretical impact of the erosion of partisan ties on electoral abstention? This question comes from Downs–North’s theory of political ideology, which is a tool to reduce the cost of understanding the political debates. Then, when the left–right political divide becomes less visible, the costs of understanding political debates rise and electoral abstention occurs. This interpretation of abstention has three implications: first, it shows that among the multiple reasons responsible for the ‘democratic crisis’ in France, the weakening of the traditional notion of the left and the right is significant. Second, it highlights that voters’ level of education and the Downsian theory of programme convergence affect electoral behaviours and political entrepreneurship. Third, it explains why the relationship between abstention and economic crisis is nonlinear.

Internet Use and Political Participation of American Youth

2010 ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
Jody C. Baumgartner
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between the use of the Internet for campaign information and two dimensions of the political engagement of young adults. Drawing on data from a national survey of 18-24 year olds conducted online during the 2008 presidential campaign, it shows that the effect of Internet use for campaign information on political engagement among youth was marginal. While these young adults did take advantage of opportunities to participate on the Internet, reliance on the Internet for campaign information had no significant effect on knowledge about the campaign or more traditional types of political participation. Despite the promise the Internet holds for increasing political interest and participation, those youth who relied on the Internet as their primary source of campaign information did not seem any more inclined to participate in politics than others in their cohort.

scholarly journals Company Characteristics, Dominant Personalities in Board Committees and Internet Financial Disclosures by Malaysian Listed Companies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Saleh Alarussi ◽  
Dhiaa Shamkhi
Keyword(s):  
Audit Committee ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Financial Disclosure ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Firm Age ◽  
Board Committees ◽  
Financial Disclosures ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship

This paper investigates whether the internet financial disclosure can be explained by a company’s characteristics and the dominant personalities in board committees of the Malaysian listed companies. Ten hypotheses were tested using data collected from 194 Malaysian listed companies’ websites. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship between the internet financial disclosures (IFD) and the variables, namely internationality, leverage, foreign shareholders, level of technology, firm age, number of shareholders, listing status, dominant personalities in the audit committee, and chairmen of audit and nomination committees. It is found that the level of technology, firm age, number of shareholders and listing status significantly affect the level of IFD. However, the dominant personalities in the audit and nomination committees affect negatively the level of IFD in Malaysia. The study provides some evidence to support the signaling theory and the cost and benefit hypothesis in relation to internet disclosure.  

scholarly journals TIKTOK’S PEER PEDAGOGIES - LEARNING ABOUT BOOKS THROUGH #BOOKTOK VIDEOS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Luigi Dezuanni
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Young People ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Australian Study ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Books And Reading ◽  
The Relationship

This paper eschews normative constructions of formalized ‘online learning’ to argue that learning with ‘the internet’ is mostly vernacular, ordinary, messy and constant. It uses the example of #booktok short videos to argue that individuals frequently learn from and with peers in online spaces, where ‘peerness’ is defined broadly. The paper draws on traditions within education, media and communications research such as theories of media pedagogies that refuse to see learning as pedagogically isolated within formal learning arrangements. I build on these foundations to conceptualize how TikTok viewers learn about books and reading via ‘peer pedagogies’. ‘Peer Pedagogies’ recognizes that in digital contexts individuals often learn from other individuals, regardless of if the ‘teacher’ in the relationship is directly known to the learner, and regardless of if ‘teaching’ is intended or purposeful. For instance, peer pedagogies and learning are frequently central characteristics of the relationships that form between ‘micro-celebrities’ and their fans. The paper discusses findings from an ongoing nationally funded Australian study which is mapping the digital ecology of teen reading in Australia. The project argues that one avenue for teens to find out about books is on digital platforms via peer pedagogies. That is, teenagers may purposefully or casually learn about books and reading from everyday users and micro-celebrities on digital platforms. The TikTok #booktok hashtag is therefore being investigated to identify examples of how young people learn about books and reading via TikTok videos and associated communities.

scholarly journals When The Office Becomes in Hand: Control Practice to the Prosumer in News Aggregator Uc News

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maruti Asmaul Husna Subagio
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Virtual Ethnography ◽  
Control Practice ◽  
New Type ◽  
Content System ◽  
The Relationship

In the last decade, many social networking sites and platforms are increasingly being driven by a user-generated content system. Now, users can be actively involved as a consumer and producer (prosumer) simultaneously. One of the digital platforms that has become a trend in the last decade is news aggregator. This research will examine how the control practices are carried out by the manager or administrator of UC News application, one of the largest news aggregator in Indonesia, to the content writers on the platform. The methodology that is applied in this research employs virtual ethnography to obtain representation of digital culture mediated by the internet. The data were obtained from the responses to a set of open-ended questions to six informant selected according to rate of activity in the platform and the period of involvement as a content writer in UC News. In conventional work systems, the relationship between workers and superiors often restricted by the geographical constraints. However, the development of the internet has changed many things. Clients, bosses, workers, and end-user products can be located in different corners of the planet. This research found that the controls carried out by ‘the superiors’ on content writers were not lost, but rather ran more naturally and manipulatively so that workers did not feel objected to them. The new form of capitalism in the prosumer era shows a new type of hegemony that is increasingly not simple.

scholarly journals La red como cronotopo: Internet y prácticas políticas en el Movimiento Estudiantil Colombiano Mane y Occupy São Paulo

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Galindo Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Student Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Local Factors ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
La Red ◽  
Hybrid Forms

This paper compares two movements that emerged during the same 2011 period: the Mane in Colombia and Ocupa Sampa in Brazil. The first is a student movement that has similarities with the cases of Spain and Chile. The second is an urban movement that mixes local factors with many of the symbolic elements of the Occupy movement. The study focuses on the political uses of the internet, analysing battles for visibility in the streets and on the net. The concept of the network as chronotope is used to understand the hybrid forms that integrate online and offline spatio-temporalities. Comparing activity graphs based on the Facebook sites of both movements, a multicentered and a multitemporal social reality emerges: a mixture between several centres and peripheries and between several past-present-future moments that creates a new interpretive framework for the contemporary movements that use digital platforms as Facebook. The network as chronotope is a way to question the current socio-political processes of continuity and change.

Globalisation, the Internet, and the Nation-State

2015 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Shefali Virkar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship

Our world today is in the midst of an historical change. Globalisation and spectacular advances in technology have given us an unprecedented peek into the future: a glimpse into a highly interconnected world governed by new paradigms, where the cost of transmitting and accessing an infinite amount of information is virtually nothing, where physical boundaries no longer limit human action – in short, a world characterised by the breakdown of conventional political, social, and economic institutions and systems previously considered rock-solid; spearheaded by the rise of the Internet and its associated technologies, platforms, and applications. This book chapter attempts a critical analysis of the relationship between Globalisation, the Internet, and the State. In evaluating the arguments that present the Internet as a threat to nation-state sovereignty, the work attempts to challenge accepted wisdom; purporting instead to demonstrate that, in many cases, the Internet, far from posing any threat to the attenuation of political power, actually strengthens the hand of the nation-state.

scholarly journals Virtual Pilgrimage: An Irrealist Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-240
Author(s):  
Rodanthi Tzanelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
The World ◽  
Internet Design ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Online Travel ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reflective Essay

In this reflective essay I revise the relationship between travel as an embodied secular journey and pilgrimage as a sacred ritual via examinations of websurfing as a form of virtual pilgrimage. My main premise is that virtual travel facilitated by the internet and through various digital platforms and collaborative social media should be considered as a novel secular form of metamovement we can approach as a pilgrimage. This pilgrimage produces multiple versions of reality ("world versions"), both in collaboration with corporate internet design and independently from it. Because such nonembodied secular engagement with other places and cultures produces online "travel" communities, digital pilgrimage prompts us to revisit John Urry's "tourist gaze" thesis and Keith Hollinshead's "worldmaking authority" in a critical fashion. Critical reconsideration of these two influential theses involves a closer inspection of metamovement for its aesthetic parameters, as well as their affording of creative connections between the mind (internalism) and the world (externalism) as a form of travel. Such connections can also assist in the production of conventional tourism mobilities.

scholarly journals MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY: DIGITAL OPTIMISTS AND DIGITAL PESSIMISTS

2017 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Anka Mihajlov Prokopovic
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Variable Intensity ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
The Relationship

This work examines the relationship between mass media and digital technology by following McChesney’s argument (2013) that the division on the technological optimists and technological pessimists is gaining in significance again. The debate between these two currents, which has been ongoing since the beginning of the Internet with variable intensity, has enabled many advantages and many disadvantages brought by the digital age is discussed in its “pure form''. The work is conceptualization of the following themes: the nature of the mass media, the characteristics of digital life, citizens' participation in the creation of content on digital platforms and the future of journalism, as they are seen by these two theoretical approaches.

scholarly journals Introduction: Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Thomas Allmer ◽  
Ergin Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

The overall task of this special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is to gather critical contributions examining universities, academic labour, digital media and capitalism. The articles collected in this special issue (1) provide the context, history and theoretical concepts underlying academic labour, (2) analyse the relationship between academic work and digital media/new information and communication technologies/the Internet/social media, and (3) discuss the political potentials and challenges within and beyond higher education institutions.

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