scholarly journals Organizational Hiring Preferences: Comparison of Traditional and Non-traditional Hiring and Recruitment Practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Mark A. McKnight ◽  
Sherrie Plouchard ◽  
Nancy Bizal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Professional Networking ◽  
Recruitment Practices ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Media Practices

Social media is working its way into the modern organization in a more productive manner, and at an aggressive pace, as organizations are beginning to learn how to best implement and use social media practices.  The present research investigates the role of social media and other technology related to the staffing function in organizations.  Specifically, the data reveals tendencies related to how the employment process is anticipated to change in the near future.  Namely, the data suggests that employers will significantly change their usage of video resumes, cover letters, and social and professional networking sites related to the recruitment of new employees in the near future.

The Role of Platforms in Fulfilling the Potential of Crowdfunding as an Alternative Decentralized Arena for Cultural Financing

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roei Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Heterogeneous System ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Corporate Blog

Abstract This study considers cultural crowdfunding as a heterogeneous system that allows money and attention to flow from backers to founders of cultural projects in diverse cultural sectors and focuses on the nature of the standards governing it. It analyzes Kickstarter’s corporate blog since the platform’s launch and finds indications that social media practices are increasingly naturalized as integral to crowdfunding and that social media architectures are increasingly adopted by the crowdfunding platform. This, I argue, has a potential exclusionary effect. At the same time, the analysis finds evidence that Kickstarter is striving to develop an independent capacity to set aesthetic standards, which might moderate that effect and help constitute crowdfunding as an alternative decentralized arena for the funding of culture.

Personal Visual Collecting and Self-Cataloguing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth ◽  
Kana Ohashi ◽  
Jolynna Sinanan ◽  
Sarah Pink ◽  
Heather Horst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Media Practices

Chapter 6 analyzes the growing role of the visual in social media practices in terms of tensions between sharing, impression management and self-cataloging.

scholarly journals The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652093374
Author(s):  
Olu Jenzen ◽  
Itir Erhart ◽  
Hande Eslen-Ziya ◽  
Umut Korkut ◽  
Aidan McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of ‘social media imaginaries’, a derivative of the broader field of ‘media imaginaries’, our analysis seeks to offer new insights into activists’ relation to and conceptualisation of social media and how it shapes their digital media practices. Extending the concept of media imaginaries to include analysis of protestors’ use of aesthetics, it aims to unpick how a particular ‘social media imaginary’ is constructed and informs their collective identity. Using the Gezi Park protest of 2013 as a case study, it illustrates how social media became a symbolic part of the protest movement by providing the visualised possibility of imagining the movement. In previous research, the main emphasis has been given to the functionality of social media as a means of information sharing and a tool for protest organisation. This article seeks to redress this by directing our attention to the role of visual communication in online protest expressions and thus also illustrates the role of visual analysis in social movement studies.

From Street Corners to Social Media: The Changing Location of Youth Citizenship in Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clovis Bergère
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Youth Citizenship ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract:This study explores social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter in particular, as emergent sites of youth citizenship in Guinea. These need to be understood within a longer history of youth citizenship, one that includes street corners and other informal mediations of youth politics. This counters dominant discourses both within the Guinean public sphere and in academic research that decry Guinean social media practices as lacking, or Guinean youth as frivolous or inconsequential in their online political engagements. Instead, young Guineans’ emergent digital practices need to be approached as productive political engagements. This contributes to debates about African youths by examining the role of digital technologies in shaping young Africans’ political horizons.

The Role of the Web Technologies in Connection to the Communication’s Streamlining and Diversification between the Actors of a Learning System

2013 ◽  
pp. 216-236
Author(s):  
Dorin Bocu ◽  
Razvan Bocu ◽  
Bogdan Patrut
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Web

In this chapter, the authors systematically relate to the question: “What are the main ideas that should be considered when elaborating software Systems for the communication’s streamlining and diversification (CSD) between the actors of a learning system?” The broader perspective within which these ideas are debated is represented by the context that is created through the inception of what, in the specialized literature, is called social media (as a problematic universe) and Web 2.0 (as a fundamental technological universe). Naturally, the authors will not miss some considerations that highlight the impact of the phenomenon “social media” on the information systems of the near future.

The Role of Social Media on Dissemination of Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 216-227
Author(s):  
Sevilay Ulaş
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
General Perspective

This study reveals the role of social media tools and applications in disseminating information about COVID-19 in the COVID-19 process. While discussing the role of social media in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic process, it will be evaluated with the applications of different institutions. In the study, which will be considered from a public relations perspective in general, it is aimed to reveal a general perspective on the communication activities of the institutions with the target audience and their followers through social media practices. In this study, which is a compilation in this direction, the changing motivations of the followers and the role of social media in this process will be revealed.

scholarly journals The Role of Social Media as a Persuasive Ubiquitous Learning Tool for Social Engagement Towards Social Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Nur Azura Mahmud ◽  
Melissa Shahrom ◽  
Norshima Humaidi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Ubiquitous Learning ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Education And Society ◽  
Near Future

Social media has infiltrated the 21st-century generations of Internet users, making it a very prominent means of communications dissemination, particularly among students at a higher level of education. As technology will continue to evolve the role humans play in the near future, everyone will be required to adapt their skills throughout their daily and working lives. Therefore, individuals especially younger generations will need to act and engage in lifelong learning, so they are adaptable when the changes happen. Nowadays, the learning process is not only confined to the walls of the classrooms, instead, students are also able to access knowledge at any time and place that they are comfortable with to clear their doubts. Social media has also brought forth the concept of ubiquitous learning, which means that students can explore and request a related topic of interest from experts from all around the world. While this social engagement brings many benefits to the students particularly towards improving their self-esteem and enhance their learning philosophy. However, the question of can their social media engagement behaviours affect their social sustainability is still in debate. Hence, this research will explore the role of social media as a persuasive ubiquitous learning platform to enhance individual social sustainability. The research focuses on a particular field such as in education and society and will also relate the gratification factors on how social media like LinkedIn and Twitter will broadly affect students and societies.

scholarly journals While ‘Gramming’ a Wedding in India: Media and the Reproduction of a ‘Bridal Femininity’

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147-167
Author(s):  
Athira B K
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Media Practices

This paper examines the changing wedding scenes and performance of bridehood in India in a post-liberalisation period. The study, based on a digital ethnography, explores the changing wedding practices by considering the role of digital media in circulating and reifying the image of an emergent bridehood, tethering it to the ideology of consumption as well as distinctions based on social categories like gender and religion. It looks into the possibility of a scheme that goes beyond the narrative of ‘uniformisation’ in explaining the changes manifested in the performance of bridehood in the Eastern and Western regions of India, with an expansion of social media practices in the recent years.

Representations of Non-Resident Indians from the Gulf in Online Comedy Videos

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 158-176
Author(s):  
Nele Lenze
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Video Analysis ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Identity Representation ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract Longstanding connections between Indian residents and traders and the Gulf are not only featured in multiple Arab and Indian films but also in online media. Social media practices serve as tools to express and communicate identity through video and visual images. Self-representation of first- and second-generation Gulf migrants from Kerala finds its way into memes, GIF s and videos. On YouTube, comedic (self-) representation of Malayalis is introduced in a variety of genres, produced both in the United Arab Emirates and India. Although life in the Gulf is displayed from the perspective of more fortunate migrants, whose economic circumstances are often more secure than those of Indians in Kerela, these YouTube stories also depict alienation and their newfound identities as Indians from the Gulf. Ahmad Al Kaashekh’s Instagram and YouTube representations serve as one example of a comedic approach to claiming a Malayali identity in the Gulf. Through video analysis and interviews, I analyze notions of identity representation as well as the role of humor in the sources.

Mastering Metrics: The Impact of Social Media on the Routines and Values of Broadcast Journalists

2021 ◽  
pp. 193124312110500
Author(s):  
Stefanie Davis Kempton ◽  
Colleen Connolly Ahern
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
News Industry ◽  
Media Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Method Approach

Social media use is essential for success in today's television news industry. Broadcast journalists use social media platforms to gather and disseminate news in more efficient ways. Broadcasters are also using social media to engage with news consumers in innovative ways. This study employs a mixed-method approach to better understand how social media impacts broadcast journalists’ routines and values and explores the role of gender in broadcasters’ social media strategies. Qualitative in-depth interviews with top broadcast journalists and a social media discourse analysis of their Twitter pages produces this study's findings. Findings suggest that in many television newsrooms social media have become more important than traditional platforms like evening newscasts, and social media metrics are being used to gauge journalists’ success. Additionally, women broadcasters are disadvantaged by the current social media practices in many newsrooms. Implications are discussed.

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