Online Social Networks

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Melton ◽  
Robert Miller ◽  
Michelle Salmona
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Authority Figures

Previous research has shown that many college students in the United States post content to social networking sites that they know would be considered inappropriate by employers and other authority figures. However, the phenomenon has not been extensively studied in cross-cultural context. To address this knowledge gap, a survey of college students in Australia, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the United States was conducted. The study found a universal tendency among the four groups: students knew the content they were posting would be considered inappropriate by employers and other authority figures, but they chose to post it anyway. The article also reports on differences in the way this tendency was manifested and on related aspects of social networking across cultures, including decisions about privacy and information disclosure.

scholarly journals How Should You Perform and Watch Othello and Hairspray in a Country Where You Could Never Hire Black Actors? Shakespeare and Casting in Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (37) ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Kitamura Sae
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Theatre Companies ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Minstrel Shows ◽  
Black Actors

This paper discusses how Japanese theatres have handled race in a country where hiring black actors to perform Shakespeare’s plays is not an option. In English-speaking regions, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, it is common to hire a black actor for Othello’s title role. Blackface is increasingly unacceptable because it reminds viewers of derogatory stereotypes in minstrel shows, and it deprives black actors of employment opportunities. However, the situation is different in regions where viewers are unfamiliar with this Anglo-US trend. In Japan, a country regarded as so homogeneous that its census does not have any questions about ethnicity, it is almost impossible to hire a skilled black actor to play a title role in a Shakespearean play, and few theatre companies would consider such an idea. In this cultural context, there is an underlying question of how Japanese-speaking theatre should present plays dealing with racial or cultural differences. This paper seeks to understand the recent approaches that Japanese theatre has adopted to address race in Shakespearean plays by analysing several productions of Othello and comparing them with other major non-Shakespearean productions.

From Community to Commodity: The Ethics of Pharma-Funded Social Networking Sites for Physicians

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Snow Landa ◽  
Carl Elliott
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Online Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Press Release ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Start Up

In September 2006, a small start-up company in Cambridge, MA called Sermo, Inc., launched a social networking site with an unusual twist: only physicians practicing medicine in the United States would be allowed to participate. Sermo, which means “conversation” in Latin, marketed its website as an online community exclusively for doctors that would allow them to talk openly (and anonymously) about a range of topics, from challenging and unusual medical cases to the relative merits of one treatment versus another. “Sermo enables the private and instant exchange of knowledge among MDs,” the company announced in its first press release. Even better, participation was free and the site carried no advertising.

News Internalizing and Externalizing

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihyang Choi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
News Sharing ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

The present study sheds light on the changing patterns of news experiences by defining it as news sharing. The study attempted to explicate the concept of news sharing by identifying the subdimensions of it in the context of online social networking sites (SNSs). Findings showed that news sharing is comprised of two distinctive behaviors: news internalizing (by those who read news) and externalizing (by those who offer news to others). Furthermore, news internalizing and externalizing have two subdimensions, respectively: browsing and personalizing for internalizing, and recontextualizing and endorsing for externalizing. Data were collected through a national survey of adults in the United States.

"I pretended to be a boy on the Internet": Navigating affordances and constraints of social networking sites and search engines for LGBTQ+ identity work

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Kitzie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Identity Expression

In this multi-platform study, I analyze interviews with 30 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals in the United States (U.S.) to demonstrate how social networking sites (SNS) and search engines afford and constrain their identity work. Data analysis identifies three key affordances and constraints for how participants create, negotiate, and sustain their LGBTQ+ identities: identity expression, visibility, and anonymity. I explore each using a tripartite analytical frame of stigma, tactics, and authenticity. Findings describe how participants navigate hetero- and gender-normative discourses encoded into SNS and search engines to affirm their LGBTQ+ identities. Designers can use these results to create platforms inclusive of LGBTQ+ identities that afford, rather than constrain, these navigations.

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