scholarly journals “Ignorance is strength”

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Klitgård
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Health Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Credibility ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
The Many

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how Danish textual news satire constructs its social critique of the many Facebook users whose comments during COVID-19 imitate expert statements in disregard of authoritative health science statements. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, UNESCO has proclaimed a disinfodemic of emotive narrative constructs and pseudo-science on the internet and especially in social media. As with the ruling Party’s paradoxical slogan “ignorance is strength” in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, we sense a similar trend of the public disinfodemic, but studies of this paradox in satirical publications are scarce. Thus, the goal here is to scrutinize this enigma exemplified in an article in the Danish spoof news online media of RokokoPosten in which such experts are parodied in a kind of “doublethink” style which begs critical reflection on social media credibility. Hence, such textual news satire may potentially provide a vaccine against post-truth delusions of health science as it provides immunity against the disinfodemic by its own causative agents.

scholarly journals Where the Sidewalk Ends: Automobility and Shame in Tbilisi, Georgia

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry Maxfield Waldman Sherouse
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

In recent years, cars have steadily colonized the sidewalks in downtown Tbilisi. By driving and parking on sidewalks, vehicles have reshaped public space and placed pedestrian life at risk. A variety of social actors coordinate sidewalk affairs in the city, including the local government, a private company called CT Park, and a fleet of self-appointed st’aianshik’ebi (parking attendants) who direct drivers into parking spots for spare change. Pedestrian activists have challenged the automotive conquest of footpaths in innovative ways, including art installations, social media protests, and the fashioning of ad hoc physical barriers. By safeguarding sidewalks against cars, activists assert ideals for public space that are predicated on sharp boundaries between sidewalk and street, pedestrian and machine, citizen and commodity. Politicians and activists alike connect the sharpness of such boundaries to an imagined Europe. Georgia’s parking culture thus reflects not only local configurations of power among the many interests clamoring for the space of the sidewalk, but also global hierarchies of value that form meaningful distinctions and aspirational horizons in debates over urban public space. Against the dismal frictions of an expanding car system, social actors mobilize the idioms of freedom and shame to reinterpret and repartition the public/private distinction.

scholarly journals Framing Berita Media Online terhadap Efektivitas Kinerja Pemerintah dalam Menanggulangi Tingginya Kasus PHK di Masa Pandemi COVID–19

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-72
Author(s):  
Tasya Fasa Anjani ◽  
Ika Novita ◽  
Shavira Amellia Damayanti ◽  
Saifuddin Zuhri
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
News Framing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
The Many

Abstrak. Terjadinya pandemi covid-19 telah banyak membawa perubahan secara global, kerugian dari berbagai sektor ikut dirasakan oleh masyarakat Indonesia khususnya dalam bidang tenaga kerja yang saat ini mengalami penurunan omset pada setiap perusahaan. Portal berita media online menjadi alat masyarakat untuk mengetahui informasi mengenai penyebaran wabah covid-19 terutama terkait dengan kinerja pemerintah dalam menangani lonjakan pengangguran yang saat ini sedang terjadi akibat banyaknya tindakan berupa pemutusan hubungan kerja (PHK). Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeksripsikan framing berita media online terkait dengan efektivitas kinerja pemerintah dalam menanggulangi tingginya kasus PHK di Indonesia. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu metode analisis framing Robert M. Entman, dengan objek penelitian dari dua portal berita yang membahas kinerja pemerintah dalam menghadapi lonjakan pemutusan hubungan kerja (PHK) pada Tirto.id dan CNN Indonesia. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa baik Tirto.id maupun CNN Indonesia memperlihatkan sisi positif dan negatif dari masalah tersebut, namun yang cukup terlihat yaitu sisi negatif dari pernyataan dan juga kritik yang dimasukkan dalam isi beritanya sedangkan CNN Indonesia dalam mengemas berita mengenai masalah tersebut dari sisi pro dan kontra. Namun yang lebih terlihat yaitu sisi pro.Kata Kunci : Analisis Framing, Berita, Covid-19, Media online, PHK. ABSTRACT. The occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought many changes globally, losses from various sectors are also felt by the Indonesian people, especially in the field of labor, which is currently experiencing a decline in turnover at each company. Online media news portals are a tool for the public to find out information about the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak, especially related to the government's performance in dealing with the spike in unemployment that is currently happening due to the many actions in the form of layoffs (layoffs). The purpose of this study was to describe the online media news framing related to the effectiveness of government performance in overcoming the high number of layoffs in Indonesia. The research method used is the Robert M. Entman framing analysis method, with the object of research from two news portals that discuss the government's performance in dealing with a spike in layoffs (PHK) at Tirto.id and CNN Indonesia. The results show that both Tirto.id and CNN Indonesia show the positive and negative sides of the problem, but what is quite visible is the negative side of the statement and also the criticism that is included in the content of the news, while CNN Indonesia in packaging news about the problem from the pro and counter. But what is more visible is the pro side.Keywords: Framing Analysis, News, Covid-19, Online media, layoffs.

scholarly journals Health science communication strategies used by researchers with the public in the digital and social media ecosystem: a systematic scoping review protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. e019833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Fontaine ◽  
Andréane Lavallée ◽  
Marc-André Maheu-Cadotte ◽  
Julien Bouix-Picasso ◽  
Anne Bourbonnais
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Published Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Review Team ◽  
Media Ecosystem

IntroductionThe optimisation of health science communication (HSC) between researchers and the public is crucial. In the last decade, the rise of the digital and social media ecosystem allowed for the disintermediation of HSC. Disintermediation refers to the public’s direct access to information from researchers about health science-related topics through the digital and social media ecosystem, a process that would otherwise require a human mediator, such as a journalist. Therefore, the primary aim of this scoping review is to describe the nature and the extent of the literature regarding HSC strategies involving disintermediation used by researchers with the public in the digital and social media ecosystem. The secondary aim is to describe the HSC strategies used by researchers, and the communication channels associated with these strategies.Methods and analysisWe will conduct a scoping review based on the Joanna Briggs Institute’s methodology and perform a systematic search of six bibliographical databases (CINAHL, EMBASE, IBSS, PubMed, Sociological Abstracts and Web of Science), four trial registries and relevant sources of grey literature. Relevant journals and reference lists of included records will be hand-searched. Data will be managed using the EndNote software and the Rayyan web application. Two review team members will perform independently the screening process as well as the full-text assessment of included records. Descriptive data will be synthesised in a tabular format. Data regarding the nature and the extent of the literature, the HSC strategies and the associated communication channels will be presented narratively.Ethics and disseminationThis review does not require institutional review board approval as we will use only collected and published data. Results will allow the mapping of the literature about HSC between researchers and the public in the digital and social media ecosystem, and will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

The Music That is Here to Stay

2014 ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Atzimba Baltazar Macías
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Mexican Politics

The chapter aims at understanding a recent phenomenon in Mexican politics: the use of Internet and social media as a new and powerful resource for mobilization and social participation in the policy process. Based on a review of two recent movements in Mexico (#YoSoy132 and The Wirikuta Defense Front), the chapter argues that although the Internet is still restricted to the middle and upper classes, the use of social media and its impact transcends class boundaries, draws public attention, creates a valuable social capital for mobilization, and influences the decision-making process. The chapter does not intend to provide evidence to the theoretical discussion on why and how social media enhances political participation and mobilization; rather, it reflects the features shared by these two movements in order to draw some lines for further research. It finds that, if used appropriately, social media is actually an effective tool to facilitate mobilization and modify the public agenda.

Using the Internet to Make Local Music More Available to the South Wales Community

2016 ◽  
pp. 1157-1172
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bishop ◽  
Lisa Mannay
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Creative People ◽  
National Anthem ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
Economic Landscape ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Web

Wales is the “land of the poets so soothing to me,” according to its national anthem. The political and economic landscape does not on the whole provide for the many creative people that are in Welsh communities. Social media Websites like MySpace and YouTube as well as Websites like MTV.com, eJay, and PeopleSound, whilst providing space for artists to share their works, but do not usually consider the needs of local markets, such as in relation to Welsh language provision through to acknowledgement of Welsh place names and Wales's status as a country. The chapter finds that there are distinct issues in relation to presenting information via the Web- or Tablet-based devises and suggests some of the considerations needed when designing multi-platform environments.

Digital Behavioral Criminalistics to Elucidate the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 554-611
Author(s):  
Cameron H. Malin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Evidence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Predatory Violence ◽  
Social Messaging

With the vast advances in computer, mobile, and online technologies, visibility into an offender’s thought processes and decision-making trajectory has been markedly enhanced. Digital behavioral artifacts, or digital evidence “breadcrumbs” of an offender’s behaviors, are now often left in publicly accessible locations on the Internet—such as social media platforms and social messaging applications—and in locations not privy to the public—such as the offender’s devices. Importantly, early seminal literature introduced and described examining an offender’s actions as series of steps along a path of threat escalation, or “pathway.” The totality of these emerging digital behavioral artifacts allows investigators to piece together an offender’s behavioral mosaic at a much more intimate and granular level, warranting a revised pathway—the cyber pathway to intended violence (CPIV)—that captures the thoughts and actions of an offender leading up to an act of deliberative, predatory violence. This chapter introduces the emerging discipline of Digital Behavioral Criminalistics and how this process can meaningfully be used by threat assessors to elucidate an offender’s steps on the CPIV.

Self-Organized Social Solidarity (SoSS) Initiatives in Greece

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni-Revekka Staiou ◽  
Dimitris Gouscos
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Mode Of Operation ◽  
Everyday Living

Since the beginning of the economic crisis in Greece, the first impacts were felt on standards of everyday living. Citizens, frustrated by the state's handling of the crisis, felt the urge to self-organize and take action based on their own strengths and volunteerism as the only practical solution to fill in the gaps left by the state's absence of intervention. Rooted in the country's economic crisis, Greek citizens' self-organized social solidarity (SoSS) initiatives have been focused on acting and innovating rather than protesting and are now rapidly growing. Examples of such initiatives are social grocery stores, alternative currencies, time banks, neighborhood groups for sanitation and general caretaking, assistance to students in primary/secondary education to name a few. This article has two main objectives. The first is to present self-organized social solidarity initiatives in Greece and further attempt to characterize them based on certain features, such as their scope and mode of operation. The second objective is to investigate how these initiatives use the internet and online media, with an emphasis on social media for communicating, coordinating and further developing such activities.

IMAGE MANAGEMENT OF POLITICIANS ON FACEBOOK AND CITIZENS’ ELECTORAL ACTIVITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Krystian Dudek
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Image Management ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How

The functioning of politicians in the public space is connected with the necessity of building and managing the image, presenting opinions, views, reporting activities and building relations with the electorate in order to mobilise it to electoral activity. The key to success is to reach voters effectively. Among many communication tools available, the importance of the Internet and social media in particular is constantly growing. It takes over other communication channels’ functions and enables direct contact with the voter. However, in order to use the potential of the most popular social media in Poland – Facebook – and effectively manage the image, one needs to know its character and rules governing this environment. Unfortunately, politicians’ knowledge on this subject proves to be rather poor, which translates into the quality of their communication with voters. Research has proved that politicians who know how to use this tool achieve much greater reaches (regardless of the number of those entitled to vote) and build stronger relationships with voters, which translates into the electorate’s behavior during the elections.

Cruising is Believing?: Comparing Internet and Traditional Sources on Media Credibility Measures

1998 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Johnson ◽  
Barbara K. Kaye
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Media Credibility

This study surveyed politically-interested Web users online to examine whether they view Web publications as credible as their traditionally- delivered counterparts. Credibility is crucial for the Internet because past studies suggest people are less likely to pay attention to media they do not perceive as credible. This study found online media tended to be judged more credible than their traditional versions. However, both online and traditional media were only judged as somewhat credible.

scholarly journals Social Media, Public Space and Movement Discussion of Urban Farming in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-261
Author(s):  
Stepanus Bo'do
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Network Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Internet Networks ◽  
Internet And Social Media

The internet and social media expand public space has been much associated with public space and digital networks in many studies, where Habermas's public space theory and the theory of the Castells network society have been much debated about its relevance to the techno-social development. Both Habermas and Castells tend to see the public space of the Internet as a contestation space where corporate and state forces work in various ways to control and dominate it. This study emphasizes more on the creativity of citizens forming community networks through the use of the Internet and social media and conducting autonomous conversations in the public space. Netnographic studies of the dynamics of the discourse of public space in the social movement networked Indonesia Berkebun show that the Internet and social media become creative means for citizens to package global discourse locally to voice their demands. This study concludes that the concepts and theories of public space, network society are relevant as tools for analyzing public space and Internet networks and social media. The potential of the Internet network and social media as autonomous communication spaces depends on the design and purpose and the utilization of available features. Conversations - conversations that are restricted to the agenda of the 3E program help communities focus on discourse and shape the character of a rational Indonesian gardening space. This community from the beginning realized the potential of the Internet and social media to form networks and public spaces. But like gardening, public space requires commitment, such as caring for the garden from pest attacks, weeds, giving it fertilizer so the plants grow as expected.

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