Reading in a post-textual era

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miha Kovač ◽  
Adriaan Van der Weel
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Reading Processes ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Long Form

This paper analyses major social shifts in reading by comparing publishing statistics with results of empirical research on reading. As media statistics suggest, the last five decades have seen two shifts: from textual to visual media, and with the advent of digital screens also from long-form to short-form texts. This was accompanied by new media-adequate reading modes: while long-form content invokes immersed and/or deep reading, we predominantly skim online social media. Empirical research on reading indicates that the reading substrate plays an important role in reading processes. For example, comprehension suffers when complex texts are read from screens. This paper argues that media and reading trends in recent decades indicate broader social and cultural changes in which long-form deep reading traditionally associated with the printed book will be marginalised by prevailing media trends and the reading modes they inspire. As these trends persist, it may be necessary to find new approaches to vocabulary and knowledge building.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Broadcasting Media Using Social Media Engagement in the WNBA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Pegoraro ◽  
Heather Kennedy ◽  
Nola Agha ◽  
Nicholas Brown ◽  
David Berri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Sport Consumption ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Social Media Engagement ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

While there has been research into what teams, leagues, and athletes post on social media and the impact of post content on social media engagement, there is limited understanding and empirical research on the impact of broadcasting media on social sport consumption. There are an increasing number of new media through which sport leagues can distribute their content to fans. This research examines the impact of different broadcast platforms on game day engagement with WNBA team Twitter accounts. Using data for the 2016–2018 seasons, results indicate athlete/team quality and performance were positively associated with post engagement, underscoring the importance of the core sport product and potentially indicating that the WNBA is developing a star-driven culture similar to the NBA. In addition, broadcasting on League Pass or local TV (for home teams) and Twitter were associated with lower post engagement suggesting we have more to learn about maximizing online engagement.

scholarly journals Showing/Sharing: Analysing Visual Communication from a Praxeological Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Collaborative Practices

This contribution proposes a methodological framework for empirical research into visual practices on social media. The framework identifies practices, pictures and platforms as relevant dimensions of analysis. It is mainly developed within, and is compatible with qualitative, interpretive approaches which focus on visual communication as part of everyday personal communicative practices. Two screenshots from Instagram and Facebook are introduced as empirical examples to investigate collaborative practices of meaning-making relating to pictures on social media. While social media seems to augment reflexive, processual practices of negotiating identities, visual media, in particular, amps up aesthetic, ambivalent and embodied dimensions within these practices.

scholarly journals “Youtuber Movies” From New Media to the Cinema

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-118
Author(s):  
Barış Tolga Ekinci
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Genre Criticism ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social

In our day, the new media has become an inseparable part of the daily life. Since the internet and the social media have been widespread, the new media has been effective in socio-cultural changes and transformations. On the other hand, this process, which is also called as digitalization, is not only effective in the new media. The relation between the traditional media and the new media has also been under transformation. In this study, based on the relation between the mainstream cinema and the new media, “YouTuber movies” are investigated. In this context, the selected “YouTuber movies” were examined via genre criticism method, and the data was interpreted in the conclusions part.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Trolling For Another Time?

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-179
Author(s):  
Luke Warde
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Negative Response ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents a reading of Louis-Ferdinand Céline through the concept of trolling. A relatively new phenomenon, trolling denotes an attempt to elicit a negative response in a chosen target via deliberate provocation or incitement. While inextricable from the online social media platforms that have facilitated its emergence as a discursive mode, trolling is dependent on rhetorical strategies that are hardly new: irony, self-referentiality, effrontery, aggression, etc. Trolls seek to cultivate a brand around the antipathy they delight in triggering. I contend that Céline attempted to do just this in the postwar period, and more specifically in the series of interviews he conducted at Meudon in the last decade of his life. I thus argue against some recent scholarship that claims that Céline attempted to regain, by expressing contrition, a sympathetic audience following his condemnation for having published a series of egregiously antisemitic pamphlets. Rather, I suggest that he sought to instrumentalize his notoriety for his own advantage; some readers, he likely reasoned, are drawn to him because, not in spite of, his infamy. My argument draws on a body of recent writing on the relationship between humour, new media and far-right politics.

scholarly journals Literary Internet: Online Criticism and Literary Communication

Porównania ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-311
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Winiecka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Audiovisual Media

This article is devoted to the transformations that literary communication has undergone on the Internet. The author describes how literary criticism and its role in the digital medium has changed, indicates the deep cultural changes resulting from the development of forms of communication in social media, and characterizes how the Internet has transformed literature. New media has given rise to new literary genres; it has also altered literature itself, recasting it in a hybrid form on the border between the literature and audiovisual media. The ongoing changes do not pose a threat to printed literature, but are an expression of the strength of the Internet’s impact on literary communication and its participants. It is necessary to refrain from easy evaluations of the ongoing processes and to focus on accurately describing, analyzing and interpreting them as a new and relatively unknown part of the expanding literary field.

scholarly journals Kepak Garuda: Penyebaran Inspirasi Lewat Wallpaper Tokoh Inspiratif

Humaniora ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 580
Author(s):  
Danu Widhyatmoko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Background Activity ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Online Social Media

Kepak Garuda (www.kepakgaruda.com) conducts their social activities by distributing free desktop wallpapers which are full of inspirational figures through new media internet and online social media based. Article  begins with a background activity conducted by Kepak Garuda. Research method used is literature study, continued by reflective data analysis. It can be summed up that there are more comprehensive pictures of the benefit gained as a result of activities undertaken by Kepak Garuda. 

scholarly journals Toward Representational Sovereignty: Rewards and Challenges of Indigenous Media in the A’uwẽ-Xavante Communities of Eténhiritipa-Pimentel Barbosa

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura R. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Indigenous Media ◽  
Prior Use ◽  
Gendered Patterns

Focusing on the communities of Eténhiritipa-Pimentel Barbosa of eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil, this article considers the tremendous shift that has taken place over the last twenty-five years in <em>A’uw</em><em>ẽ-</em>Xavante peoples’ use of audio-visual media to achieve greater representational sovereignty. It discusses the adoption of video in the context of A’uwẽ<em>-</em>Xavante ideologies and gendered patterns of dealing with the outside and their prior use of cassette technology. This case demonstrates that, while the adoption of new media has not proven to be the final assault in a Faustian bargain with modernity, media makers face a number of significant challenges and dilemmas, specifically curating, archiving, and also securing and sustaining financial and technological support. Partnerships and collaborations are essential but their often-precarious nature presents difficulties. Dedication, persistence, creativity and adaptability are assets community members draw upon in responding to challenges. Media makers are increasingly gaining more control and are now training the next generation of youths; young people are using new social media, as well as video and film, to achieve greater representational sovereignty.

Impact of Online Social Media on Consumer Decision Making: A Study in Dehradun

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 379-381
Author(s):  
Dr. Aruna Kumar Mishra ◽  
◽  
Narendra Kumar Narendra Kumar ◽  
Abhishek Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Online Social Media

DERADICALISATION IDEAS IN SOCIAL MEDIA THROUGH THE RELIGIOUS-MULTICULTURAL THERAPY APPROACH TO THE DA'WAH CULTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Anwar Hafidzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Therapy Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Multicultural Therapy ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Library Research

This research begins with an understanding of the endemic radicalism of society, not only of the real world, but also of various online social media. This study showed that the avoidance of online radicalism can be stopped as soon as possible by accusing those influenced by the radical radicality of a secular religious approach. The methods used must be assisted in order to achieve balanced understanding (wasathiyah) under the different environmental conditions of the culture through recognizing the meaning of religion. The research tool used is primarily library work and the journal writings by Abu Rokhmad, a terrorist and radicalise specialist. The results of this study are that an approach that supports inclusive ism will avoid the awareness of radicalization through a heart-to-heart approach. This study also shows that radical actors will never cease to argue dramatically until they are able to grasp different views from Islamic law, culture, and families.Keywords: radicalism, deradicalization, multiculturalism, culture, religion, moderate.Penelitian ini berawal dari paham radikalisme yang telah mewabah di masyarakat, bukan hanya di dunia nyata, bahkan sudah menyusup di berbagai media sosial online. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa cara menangkal radikalisme online dapat dilakukan pencegahan sedini mungkin melalui pendekatan konseling religius multikultural terhadap mereka yang terkena paham radikal radikal. Diantara teknik yang digunakan adalah melalui pemahaman tentang konsep agama juga perlu digalakkan agar memunculkan pemahaman yang moderat (wasathiyah) diberbagai keadaan lingkungan masyarakat. Metode yang digunakan untuk penelitian ini adalah library research dengan sumber utama adalah karya dan jurnal karya Abu Rokhmad seorang pakar dalam masalah terorisme dan radikalisme. Temuan penelitian ini adalah paham radikalisasi itu dapat dihentikan dengan pendekatan hati ke hati dengan mengedepankan budaya yang multikultural. Kajian ini juga membuktikan bahwa pelaku paham radikal tidak akan pernah berhenti memberikan argumen radikal kecuali mampu memahami perbedaan pendapat yang bersumber dari syariat Islam, lingkungan sosial, dan keluarga.Kata kunci: radikalisme, deradikalisasi, multikultural, budaya, agama, moderat.

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