scholarly journals Mechanisms to Enhance Users’ Responsibility on Social Networks’ and Preventing Cyber Terrorism

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Rasmieh Mohammad Alshogran
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
The State ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Cyber Terrorism ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
School Roles ◽  
Home And School

This research aims to identify the effective mechanisms in enhancing the moral and social responsibility of users of social networks and practical steps to reduce the publications of extremism and terrorism. The research is a descriptive one, which adopts analytical research comparisons of the questionnaire tool distributed to 95 public opinion leaders. The research finds: 1. One of the main causes of cyber terrorism is the lack of self-censorship and the absence of home and school roles in the control of children. 2. One of the most important dangers of cyber terrorism is spreading the extremist ideas, especially among young for exploitation in terrorist operations. 3. One of the most effective mechanisms for enhancing the ethical and social responsibility of users of social networks is carrying the State and the school the responsibility to promote social responsibility to counter the phenomenon of cyber terrorism

scholarly journals Value foundations of marginal political practices of youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 03017
Author(s):  
Olesya Blinova ◽  
Yuliya Gorbunova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Young People ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
The Political ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Political Sphere

Today's youth, being a keyactor in the use of digital technologies, prefers digital participation in the political sphere of society. The main practices used by young people in their online participation are marginal. The marginality of the political practices of youth is revealed in their hybridity, which manifests itself in the binary of normativity - abnormality, norm - deviation, etc. Using the trend-watching method in the course of the research made it possible to identify the nonlinear and virulent nature of the marginal practices of youth, which makes it difficult to predict their impact, that, according to the authors, actualizes the need to identify the value foundations of their application. Content analysis of young people (18-30 years old) accounts in social networks, Instagram and Youtube channels of public opinion leaders revealed such value foundations of marginal political practices of young people as: patriotism, solidarity, non-violence, participation and independence.The nature of the identified axiological foundations made it possible to draw a conclusion about the transition from the traditional values of political participation of young people to the values of self-expression, the acquisition and implementation of civic subjectivity.

scholarly journals La construcción de la Opinión Pública en Ecuador a partir de la participación política en redes sociales

Obra digital ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Daniel Fernando López-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Redes Sociales

Esta investigación pretende determinar el papel que juegan los principales líderes de opinión ecuatorianos en la conformación de la opinión pública de su país, especialmente en la vertiente política, a través del análisis de sus intervenciones en las principales redes sociales (Twitter y Facebook). Hemos monitorizado la producción de contenidos en esas dos redes de 12 sitios importantes de Ecuador, elegidas en función de su intensidad, y del engagement con sus audiencias (volumen de retuits, de likes). Otra variable que hemos medido es la objetividad/subjetividad junto a la de información/opinión.Construction of public opinion in Ecuador from political participation in social networksAbstractThis research aims to establish the role of the main Ecuadorian opinion leaders in shaping public opinion, especially on political matters, through an analysis of their activity on social networks (Twitter and Facebook). We monitored the Twitter and Facebook content production of 12 important sites in Ecuador, chosen for their intensity and engagement with their audiences (retweets and volume of likes). Another variable that we measured was the objectivity/subjectivity of the information/opinion.Keywords: public opinion, Ecuador, politics, social media, propaganda

A Comparative Content Analysis of Physician, General Public and Media Opinion Leader Posts Regarding Physician-patient Conflicts on Microblog (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanqi Gong ◽  
Qin Guo
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Objective Evidence ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
Physician Patient

BACKGROUND Physician-patient conflicts have increased more than ten times from the 2000s to 2010s in China and arouse heated discussion on microblog. However, little is known about similarities and differences among views of opinion leaders from the general public, physician, and media regarding physician-patient conflict issues on microblog. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore how opinion leaders from physician, the general public, and media areas framed the posts on major physician-patient conflict issues on microblog. Findings will provide more objective evidence of trilateral (health profession, general public, and media) attitudes and perspectives on physician-patient conflicts. METHODS A comparative content analysis was conducted to examine the posts (N=545) from microblog opinion leaders regarding the major physician-patient conflicts in China from 2012 to 2017. RESULTS Media used significantly more conflict (M=0.16) and attribution frames (M=0.16) but least popularize medical science frame (M=0.03) than physician (M=0.06, p<0.001; M=0.06, p<0.001; M=0.08, p=0.035, respectively) and general public opinion leaders (M=0.06, p<0.001; M=0.09, p=0.003; M=0.12, p<0.001, respectively). There are no significant differences in the use of conflict, cooperation, negative and popular science frames between general public and physician opinion leaders. CONCLUSIONS This imbalanced use of frames by media would cultivate and reinforce the public perception of physician-patient contradiction. The physician and general public opinion leaders share some commons in post frames, implying that they do not have a fundamental discrepancy on physician-patient conflict issues. It is essential to guide and encourage media microbloggers to make every effort to popularize medical science and improve physician-patient relationships.

Party Standstill in an Era of Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Ignazi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
External Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Significant Modification ◽  
Interest Management ◽  
The Face ◽  
Short Run

Chapter 5 discusses the premises of the emergence of the cartel party with the parties’ resilience to any significant modification in the face of the cultural, societal, and political changes of the 1970s–1980s. Parties kept and even increased their hold on institutions and society. They adopted an entropic strategy to counteract challenges coming from a changing external environment. A new gulf with public opinion opened up, since parties demonstrated greater ease with state-centred activities for interest-management through collusive practices in the para-governmental sector, rather than with new social and political options. The emergence of two sets of alternatives, the greens and the populist extreme right, did not produce, in the short run, any impact on intra-party life. The chapter argues that the roots of cartelization reside mainly in the necessitated interpenetration with the state, rather than on inter-party collusion. This move has caught parties in a legitimacy trap.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Horder
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Jury Trial ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Adequate Coverage

The criminal law has the resources to address corruption in politics, if prosecutors are willing to use it, and if courts are willing to interpret it so that it provides adequate coverage of wrongdoing, particularly wrongdoing in the form of personal corruption engaged in by Members of Parliament. There needs to be a greater willingness to expose the worst corrupt wrongdoers in high office to the risk of judgment at the bar of public opinion, in the form of jury trial. The offence of misconduct in office provides the most appropriate means of doing this. This is not just because it is likely to provide the most appropriate label, but because the offence highlights the constitutionally fundamental bond of trust between the citizen and the state that is broken when officials indulge in corruption.

Public Opinion in Israel: The Sociodemographic Nexus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Hermann
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
National Consensus ◽  
Deep Disagreements ◽  
Political Right ◽  
The Impact

In Israel, as in many other countries, the impact of public opinion on national policymaking has increased dramatically over the last few decades. In fact, public opinion has practically developed into one of the prime political inputs in Israel. This chapter argues that this increased impact, which could have contributed to improving the Israeli democracy, is in fact often undermined by the increasing overlapping of the main cleavages within Israel: between the political Right and Left, between Jews and Arabs, and between religious and secular Israelis. This extreme overlapping has severely eroded the national consensus and accelerated the emergence of deep disagreements in public opinion over strategic issues, such as the nature of the state (Jewish? Democratic?), the main challenges facing the nation (including the best way of dealing with the protracted Israeli–Palestinian conflict), and the desired collective future.

Fake News im Wahlkampf

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Flint
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Future

The urgency of regulating fake news on social networks regarding election campaigns is more evident than ever. This poses considerable difficulties for legislative practice. It is important to consider the fundamental rights of the parties involved without the state's influence on the formation of public opinion becoming too great. The current options of reacting to fake news do not suffice to ensure a free opinion-forming process. This publication makes an innovative proposal as to how social networks – especially Facebook – can be regulated in the future in such a way that the discourse is strengthened and the alarming influence of private companies on the formation of opinion is limited.

Hate Speech as an Indicator for the State of the Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Svenja Schäfer ◽  
Michael Sülflow ◽  
Liane Reiners
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Research Questions

Abstract. Previous research indicates that user comments serve as exemplars and thus have an effect on perceived public opinion. Moreover, they also shape the attitudes of their readers. However, studies almost exclusively focus on controversial issues if they explore the consequences of user comments for attitudes and perceived public opinion. The current study wants to find out if hate speech attacking social groups due to characteristics such as religion or sexual orientation also has an effect on the way people think about these groups and how they think society perceives them. Moreover, we also investigated the effects of hate speech on prejudiced attitudes. To explore the hypotheses and research questions, we preregistered and conducted a 3 × 2 experimental study varying the amount of hate speech (none/few/many hateful comments) and the group that was attacked (Muslims/homosexuals). Results show no effects of the amount of hate speech on perceived public opinion for both groups. However, if homosexuals are attacked, hate speech negatively affects perceived social cohesion. Moreover, for both groups, we find interaction effects between preexisting attitudes and hate speech for discriminating demands. This indicates that hate speech can increase polarization in society.

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