Populist candidates in the age of social media: Media portrayals of Jair Bolsonaro's presidential bid in Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Heloisa Sturm Wilkerson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Portrayals

scholarly journals What adolescents think of relationship portrayals on social media: a qualitative study

Sexual Health ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 467
Author(s):  
Melody Taba ◽  
Larissa Lewis ◽  
Spring Chenoa Cooper ◽  
Kath Albury ◽  
Kon Shing Kenneth Chung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Relationship Beliefs ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

Background Understanding the factors influencing adolescents’ relationship views is important because early romantic relationships often act as precursors for relationships in adulthood. This study sought to examine the types of relationship-focused content adolescents witness on social media and how they perceive its effect on their romantic relationship beliefs. Methods: Sixteen semistructured interviews were conducted with Australian adolescents aged 16–19 years who were purposively sampled from a larger longitudinal study. Interview transcripts were analysed qualitatively using constructivist grounded theory. Results: Participants described the types of romantic relationship portrayals they saw on social media, including relationship-focused trends like ‘Relationship Goals’ and ‘Insta-Couples’. Participants explained their ability to identify incomplete and unrealistic relationship portrayals, as well as the pressure to share their relationships online in the same incomplete fashion. Views regarding the influence of social media were varied, but most believed social media relationship portrayals had some level of influence on young people’s relationship views; some participants believed this occurred regardless of awareness of the incompleteness of the online portrayal. Conclusions: Although participant interview data revealed the pervasiveness of social media relationship portrayals, it also revealed the sophisticated capabilities of adolescents in critiquing online media portrayals.

scholarly journals ‘Once My Relatives See Me on Social Media… It Will be Something Very Bad for My Family’: The Ethics and Risks of Organizational Representations of Sporting Girls From the Global South

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Thorpe ◽  
Lyndsay Hayhurst ◽  
Megan Chawansky
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Global South ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Positive Representations

This paper explores the ethics of representing girls and young women from the global South in Sport for Development (SfD) organizational campaigns via the case of Skateistan—an international SfD organization with skateboarding and educational programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa. Focusing particularly on Skateistan’s representations of skateboarding girls and young women in Afghanistan, we draw upon interviews with staff members as well as digital observations and organizational curriculum materials, to reveal some of the nuanced power relations within such media portrayals. In so doing, we also draw attention to some of the unintended risks of “positive” representations of sporting girls from the global South, and some of the strategies employed by Skateistan to navigate such issues.

Covering Protests on Twitter: The Influences on Journalists’ Social Media Portrayals of Left- and Right-Leaning Demonstrations in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel R. Mourão ◽  
Weiyue Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Mixed Methodology ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Media Sociology ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Right ◽  
Media Data ◽  
The Way

This study uses a media sociology approach to untangle how multiple influences shape the way journalists cover left- and right-leaning protests on social media. Several studies have investigated how reporters portray social movements, finding that news marginalizes protestors by focusing on spectacle and violent tactics to the detriment of their ideas. In this study, we turn to journalists’ Twitter accounts to analyze if these patterns are transferred to social media, as predicted by the literature on normalization of new affordances. Through a mixed methodology matching survey and social media data from 466 Brazilian journalists who tweeted about protests in 2013 and 2015, results revealed individual attitudes predicted coverage, indicating that social media was a space for personal, not professional, expression. Contrary to the literature, findings show that social media portrayals were more legitimizing during the left-leaning demonstrations than during the right-leaning elite-driven one. As a result, marginalizing patterns of protest coverage were challenged, not replicated, on Twitter. These findings suggest a limitation of the theory of normalization to explain how global journalists use social media.

Emerging masculinities in Chinese luxury social media marketing

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 721-745
Author(s):  
Jiani Jiang ◽  
Bruce A. Huhmann ◽  
Michael R. Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Chinese Consumers ◽  
Fresh Meat ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Youth ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Fashion Brand

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate masculinity in Chinese social media marketing for global luxury fashion brands through two studies. Design/methodology/approach Study 1 compares physical characteristics of males in visually oriented US (Instagram) and Chinese (Weibo) social media posts promoting global luxury fashion magazine brands (e.g. Vogue, Cosmopolitan, GQ and Esquire). Study 2 examines the prevalence of and Chinese consumers’ responses (reposts, comments and likes) to different masculinities depicted in luxury fashion brand-sponsored Weibo posts. Findings Male portrayals for Chinese audiences feature more characteristics associated with emerging East Asian hybrid masculinities – “Little Fresh Meat” (LFM) and “Old Grilled Meat” (OGM) – than associated with global or regional hegemonic masculinity (i.e. the scholarly Wén and action-oriented Wu). Wén remains common in social media posts for luxury fashion goods, but LFM and OGM engender more consumer responses. Practical implications Chinese luxury fashion marketing depicts masculinity more similarly to other East Asian marketing than to Western marketing. Some luxury fashion brands are struggling for acceptance among Chinese youth. Luxury fashion marketers should incorporate hybrid rather than hegemonic masculinities to prompt more favorable responses among Chinese consumers, especially younger female target markets. Originality/value Growing female occupational and consumer power and shifting male employment from blue-collar to white-collar jobs have influenced media portrayals of masculinity. Social media marketing for luxury fashion brands demonstrates the prevalence and appeal of hybrid masculinities in China.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Exploration of Social Media Consumption and Use Among Everyday Women Who Participate in CrossFit

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Gipson
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Level ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Introduction: Social media allows a user to be a content creator and consumer. This paper focuses on the social media engagement of everyday women who participate in CrossFit, exploring differences in how they consume and use social media content. CrossFit women are celebrated for their strength, power, and fitness in the social media community, which is not consistent for all women. Methods: This study used semi-structured focus groups with 47 participants between the ages of 18-54 who were everyday women who participate in CrossFit. The participants self-identified their level of CrossFit as recreational, semi-competitive, competitive, or high-level competitors.   Results: Findings reveal two major themes: consuming corporate messaging and using social media for their own benefit, included the subthemes of social support and shifting perceptions. The findings, including supportive quotations from the participants, reveal that these women are critical consumers of social media who express disapproval of traditional media portrayals of women’s bodies. Conclusions: Women’s experiences with CrossFit seem to offer some protection from the negative outcomes associated with consumption of traditional media messaging about women’s bodies.

New media, old paradigms: News representations of technology in adolescent sexual assault

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-430
Author(s):  
Anna Gjika
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cautionary Tales

This study examines news coverage of the Steubenville, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman cases, three highly publicized instances of sexual assault featuring teens and the use of digital media to capture and distribute the incidents. Thematic analysis of 146 articles on the assaults was conducted to identify mainstream media portrayals of emerging technologies in relation to each sex crime, and the problem of sexual assault and rape culture, more broadly. Prevailing news themes in the reporting include technology as a model witness, evidence-gatherer and mobilizer, and threat. The focus on technology in these stories, I argue, detracts from considerations of the underlying sexual violence and its causes, and contributes to the media reframing the incidents as cautionary tales about youth and social media. My analysis also suggests the discourses about digital media in the coverage reinforce existing deterministic understandings of new media platforms, and reproduce risk and responsibilization narratives pertaining to youth, sexuality and technology.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

Making Twitter Work For You

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists

As professionals who recognize and value the power and important of communications, audiologists and speech-language pathologists are perfectly positioned to leverage social media for public relations.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document