‘I’m not in that thing you know … I’m remote. I’m in the cloud’: networked spectrality in Charlie Brooker’s ‘Be Right Back’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Networked Publics

‘Be Right Back’ (Black Mirror 2011-ongoing) fictionalises the possibility of reconstructing a deceased loved one based on posts to online social media sites as a means of managing grief. This chapter reads the episode according to a new theoretical framework, ‘networked spectrality’, which considers the relevant historical, technical, social, and political dynamics of digital networks as they relate to the concept of haunting. By paying attention to the affordances of networked publics, including the problems of context collapse in mediated social interactions, networked spectrality helps explore the significance of Ash as an enduring multiplicity of haunting and the uncanny in the lives of Martha and their daughter. As an allegory of contemporary media use, networked spectrality offers an approach to consider the implications of mediated remains and technical persistence in a society that tends to identify and articulate such encounters as spectral.

scholarly journals The use of social media in the B2B sales process: a meta synthesis

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Graziela Perretto Rodrigues ◽  
Adriana Roseli Wünsch Takahashi ◽  
Paulo Henrique Muller Henrique Prado
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sales Process ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Business To Business

Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand how business-to-business organizations use social media during the sales process. Design/methodology/approach The meta-synthesis steps methodology (Hoon, 2013) was applied. Findings This study presents a theoretical framework and contributes to improved understanding of how business can use social media in the sales process stages. The results allow identifying stages, discussing the integration between marketing and sales and generating benefits for the organization. Originality/value The proposed framework helps in understanding the previously performed fragmented studies. This study shows that social media use not only influences the sales process stages and increases the benefits to the business but also works as a mediator in the relation between sales process stages and identified benefits.

From virtual space to public space: The role of online political activism in protest participation during the Arab Spring

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 409-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harris Hyun-soo Kim ◽  
Chaeyoon Lim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
The Arab Spring

This study examines the relationship between online social media use and protest participation during the Arab Spring, pro-democracy movements that swept across vast parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). What role did online communication media play in individual decisions to participate in these high-risk political activities? We address this question by drawing on microdata from the Arab Barometer Wave III (2012–2014), a large cross-national survey of citizens nested in administrative divisions across a dozen Muslim-majority countries. Using hierarchical linear modeling, we investigate the multilevel associations between online activities and the likelihood of getting involved in anti-government protests. Adjusting for individual- and regional-level confounders, as well as country fixed effects, we find that online political activism specifically, rather than Internet and social media use in general, is associated with higher odds of protest involvement during the Arab uprisings. In addition, we find that the positive linkage between individual online activism and protest is weaker in communities with a higher proportion of politically cyberactive residents.

Social Networking Sites

2012 ◽  
pp. 132-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minas Michikyan ◽  
Kaveri Subrahmanyam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Internet Users

In the past few years, social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook and MySpace have become increasingly popular among Internet users. They allow individuals to present themselves, share information, establish or maintain connections, and interact and communicate with other users. As SNSs have become tremendously popular among adolescents and emerging adults, research suggests that online social media use may be connected to young people’s development. This encyclopedia entry summarizes up-to-date research on SNSs, and will focus on the relation between adolescents’ and emerging adults’ use of these sites to address traditional developmental concerns and their psychosocial well-being. Researchers have begun to explore the extent to which individuals engage in self-presentation and exploration as well as relationship formation on SNSs, and are examining the relationship between such use and psychosocial outcomes among youth. As digital youth are growing up in an ever connected world, it is important to understand online social media use and the implications of such use on their psychosocial development and psychological well-being.

Who Brings the News?

2016 ◽  
pp. 220-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Canavilhas ◽  
Ivan Satuf
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Online Interaction ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Information Domain ◽  
Operational Logic

The spread of mobile devices and digital networks generate new perspectives for the circulation of news. The development of mobile communication technologies and the migration of habits consolidated in personal computers promote the expansion of news aggregators for smartphones and tablets. This work seeks to inquire the operational logic of applications designed to aggregate journalistic content. An immersive analysis shows that the general operations of these apps are based on three dimensions: integration between news and online social media, always-on recommendation systems, and parameterization of outputs. It is argued that the approach between aggregators and social media makes the news extrapolate its information domain and start to circulate as symbolic reference for online interaction. Finally, this work posits that the operational logic of aggregators neglect fundamental aspects of new technologies related to locative information.

Social media as micro-encounters

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 562-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Staci M. Zavattaro ◽  
Lori A. Brainard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Public Values ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Creation ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Media Preferences

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework for understanding how millennial social media use preferences can help public administrators change their delivery ethos to foster meaningful micro-encounters in digital spaces to then create public value. Ideally, these micro-encounters encourage public values creation from both the user (government) and audience side. Traditional government social media use often is one-way push without much care for dialogue and discussion. This revised framework shifts that thinking from the social media creation phase, allowing public administrators to use the tools in a more creative way. Design/methodology/approach The approach to the paper is theoretical, meaning the theoretical framework brings together lines of scholarship that have previously run parallel: millennial social media use preferences, government social media, and public values creation. Findings The theoretical framework offers propositions for future inquiry. The framework shows how traditional public sector social media use fails when it comes to creating meaningful spaces for interaction, which ideally is the purpose of social media. Practical implications The framework offered herein can help practitioners change the way they set up and even currently use social media tools to engage with the public. Though the framework is based on millennial social media preferences, any generation can benefit from a more open, inclusive platform that strives to foster public values such as collaboration, dialogue and transparency. Originality/value The theoretical framework generated for this paper brings together usually separate literatures to create a more holistic picture of social media use for public administrators.

scholarly journals The Value of a Twitter-based Community of Practice for Pharmacy Professionals in the UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
The Core ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
The Uk

As a means to work across settings and geography, @WePharmacists is a volunteer-led online social-media group open to anyone, with particular relevance to those operating in or with pharmacy teams in the UK. The goal of WePharmacists is to pursue better patient care and outcomes from medicines through shared learning and a connected pharmacy team. The core offering is facilitated tweet chats, on topics suggested by the community. Resources to aid members in connecting with others, finding information and using technology have been developed, along with materials to help members recognize the learning that occurs with social media use. Community members report the value of feeling part of a wider community, along with the benefit of learning from one another.   Type: Commentary

Social Media Lessons on the Nature of Political Decision Making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas R. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Political Judgment ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
New Models ◽  
Political Decision Making

Traditional models of political decision making tend to focus on the subject’s information levels or information-processing strategy. One of the most common conceptions of political decision making assumes that voters who are informed by a store of factually accurate policy information make more optimal decisions—that is, decisions more in line with their supposed political interests—than those who lack such information. However, this traditional view of political decision making minimizes the roles of affect and social influence on judgment. No phenomenon underscores the primary place of these constructs more so than the meteoric rise of online social media use. Indeed, scholars working at the intersection of social media use and political judgment have made important revisions to the traditional model of political decision making. Specifically, the popularity of online social networks as a tool for exchanging information, connecting with others, and displaying affective reactions to stimuli suggest that new models of competent political decision making which take into account social, affective, and cognitive elements are replacing older, information-based and rational choice models. In this essay, I review some of the pertinent literature on social media use and decision-making and argue that motivation, emotion, and social networks are key components of political judgment and are in fact more relevant to understanding political decisions than political knowledge or political sophistication. I also propose that new models of political decision-making would do well to take into account automaticity, social approval, and the role of information in both rationalizing preferences and persuading others.

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