11 results on '"*CITIZEN journalism"'
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2. “A window into shock, pain, and attempted recovery”: A decade of blogging as a coping strategy in New Orleans.
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Watson, Brendan R.
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BLOGGERS , *BLOGS , *HURRICANE Katrina, 2005 , *SOCIAL media , *COMMUNICATION - Abstract
Interviews with bloggers examine the ongoing use of blogs to cope with the persistent community stress New Orleans has experienced post-Hurricane Katrina. Previously, the field of media studies has overlooked blogs’ coping role. Cyber psychology has explored blogs’ role in individual and emotional coping, but not task-oriented efforts to ameliorate sources of community stress. Among other insights, the unique intersection of media studies and cyber psychology explored in this study illuminates the double-edged sword that is the imagined audience. While a positive source of social support, efforts to attract and maintain an audience can impose the perceived pressure to “keep face” and maintain an angry blogging persona beyond its useful cathartic value. Combining perspectives from cyber psychology and media studies, this study contributes a more multifaceted understanding of how residents may use social media to cope with individual and community stress than has been explored in previous research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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3. Content-expressive behavior and ideological extremity: An examination of the roles of emotional intelligence and information network heterogeneity.
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Barnidge, Matthew, Ardèvol-Abreu, Alberto, and de Zúñiga, Homero Gil
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CITIZEN journalism , *MASS media & politics , *EMOTIONAL intelligence , *IDEOLOGY , *ONLINE social networks , *INFORMATION networks - Abstract
One thriving area of research on participatory media revolves around political expression and the creation of political content. This study analyzes the connections between these behaviors, heterogeneous information networks, and ideological extremity while accounting for the role of emotional intelligence. Results from a two-wave-panel survey of US adults show that people who engage in content-expressive behavior are embedded in heterogeneous information networks and that emotional intelligence moderates the relationship between content-expressive behavior and ideological extremity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. Participatory branding on social media: The affordances of live streaming for creative labor
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Colten Meisner and Andrew M. Ledbetter
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Sociology and Political Science ,Digital labor ,business.industry ,Communication ,05 social sciences ,Face (sociological concept) ,050801 communication & media studies ,050109 social psychology ,Citizen journalism ,Public relations ,Live streaming ,Influencer marketing ,Creative industries ,0508 media and communications ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Social media ,Sociology ,business ,Affordance ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
Creative workers in the social media industries face the imperative to brand themselves to audiences, corporate sponsors, and potential customers. This study complicates the role of self-branding on social media through the case of real-time creative labor on a social live streaming platform. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with live creators and viewers, this study suggests that the affordances of social live streaming platforms create a media and relational environment wherein personal branding practices are belabored by both creators and audiences. This phenomenon, which we term participatory branding, redistributes the labor of personal branding on social media and emphasizes the work of audiences in helping to shape the brand of a creative worker. We then advance a typology that maps the terrain of personal branding on social media as it relates to platform affordances, cross-platform promotion, and audience activity in content creation.
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- 2020
5. Networked communication and the Arab Spring: Linking broadcast and social media.
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Hänska Ahy, Maximillian
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ONLINE social networks research , *ARAB Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012 , *CITIZEN journalism , *MULTIMEDIA communications - Abstract
A plethora of media platforms were involved in communicating recent protests across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), though it remains unclear exactly how these interacted. This qualitative article, based primarily on interviews with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) newsworkers, explores the networked linkages between social and broadcast media, asking how social media content moved into broadcast news, which standards shaped the interface between the two and how these standards were defined. It finds that a set of normative and practical standards caused significant friction at the interface, which is reduced as content assimilates these standards. Standards are shaped mainly in response to broadcast imperatives, but also through the mainstreaming of social media and more efficacious and practicable networked communicative practices, indicating how power may shift in the networked age. Responding to the optimistic view that networked multimedia environments enable unencumbered communication, it argues that the scope and limits of communicative affordances depend on these standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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6. Does incidental exposure on social media equalize or reinforce participatory gaps? Evidence from a panel study
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Raffael Heiss and Jörg Matthes
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Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Equalizer ,Citizen journalism ,Political engagement ,Public relations ,Politics ,Social media ,Sociology ,business ,Function (engineering) ,media_common - Abstract
Existing research indicates that incidental exposure to political information on social media may function as an equalizer, stimulating political engagement among the politically detached. In this article, we challenge this notion and propose that there are good reasons to assume that incidental exposure may reinforce existing gaps. We test the equalizing against the reinforcing hypothesis using data from a two-wave panel study ( N = 559). We find a positive main effect of incidental exposure on low-effort digital participation. However, this effect was not conditional on political interest, as the equalizing assumption would have suggested. More interestingly, we found that the effect of incidental exposure on high-effort digital participation was conditional on political interest. However, against the assumption of equalization, individuals with low levels of political interest were negatively affected by incidental exposure, thus lending support for the reinforcement hypothesis. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed.
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- 2019
7. Ironic humor on social media as participatory boundary work
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Noam Gal
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Sociology and Political Science ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,050801 communication & media studies ,Citizen journalism ,0506 political science ,Irony ,0508 media and communications ,Collective identity ,Aesthetics ,050602 political science & public administration ,Social media ,Sociology ,Boundary-work ,Polysemy ,media_common - Abstract
This article explores the use of irony for boundary work in social media. It suggests that the combination of the polysemy inherent to ironic humor and new decontextualized digital environments entails greater potential for misinterpretation, thus turning humorous interactions into segregating tools. Using the case of left-wing mockery of a far-right-wing group in Israel, I trace the ways in which online irony serves as a means for social consolidation and differentiation. Findings indicate that the combination of medium (Facebook), keying (ironic humor), and content (social divides) works to empower one group and marginalize the other, potentially deepening existing social gaps. In addition, I show how this triangle leads to the construction of a new overarching social division between intellect (associated with left-wingers) and physicality (associated with right-wingers). Finally, I discuss the implications of social divides for our understanding of relations between irony and power structures in digital environments.
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- 2018
8. Why do women bloggers use social media? Recreation and information motivations outweigh engagement motivations.
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Chen, Gina M
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SOCIAL media & society , *MASS media & war , *SOCIOLOGY of blogging , *CITIZEN journalism , *SELF-disclosure - Abstract
Analyses of survey results from a random sample of women bloggers (N = 298) show three motivations drive women to use social media – information, engagement, and recreation. The recreation motivation outweighs the other two motivations in predicting frequency of social media use. However, when differences between Facebook, Twitter, and other social media were considered, results show women bloggers turn to social media in general for recreation, but to Facebook for engagement and to Twitter for information. Findings also show that psychological needs for affiliation and self-disclosure are related to the engagement motivation, and self-disclosure is associated with the information motivation. The results are discussed in relation to need theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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9. Citizen camera-witnessing: Embodied political dissent in the age of ‘mediated mass self-communication’.
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Andén-Papadopoulos, Kari
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CITIZEN journalism , *CROWDSOURCING , *CAMERA phones , *SOCIAL media , *USER-generated content , *VISUAL culture - Abstract
This article interrogates the emerging modes of civic engagement connected to the mobile camera-phone, and the ways in which they require us to rethink what it is to bear witness to brutality in the age of fundamentally camera-mediated mass self-publication. I argue that the camera-phone permits entirely new performative rituals of bearing witness, such as dissenting bodies en masse recording their own repression and, via wireless global communication networks, effectively mobilizing this footage as graphic testimony in a bid to produce feelings of political solidarity. Critically, the performance of what I elect to call ‘citizen camera-witnessing’, as exemplified by contemporary street opposition movements including those in Burma, Iran, Egypt, Libya and Syria, derives its potency from the ways it reactivates the idea of martyrdom: that is, from its distinct claim to truth in the name of afflicted people who put their bodies on the line to record the injustice of oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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10. 'A window into shock, pain, and attempted recovery': A decade of blogging as a coping strategy in New Orleans
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Brendan R. Watson
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Coping (psychology) ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Communication ,05 social sciences ,050801 communication & media studies ,050109 social psychology ,Citizen journalism ,Public relations ,0508 media and communications ,Hurricane katrina ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Social media ,Psychology ,business ,Social psychology - Abstract
Interviews with bloggers examine the ongoing use of blogs to cope with the persistent community stress New Orleans has experienced post-Hurricane Katrina. Previously, the field of media studies has overlooked blogs’ coping role. Cyber psychology has explored blogs’ role in individual and emotional coping, but not task-oriented efforts to ameliorate sources of community stress. Among other insights, the unique intersection of media studies and cyber psychology explored in this study illuminates the double-edged sword that is the imagined audience. While a positive source of social support, efforts to attract and maintain an audience can impose the perceived pressure to “keep face” and maintain an angry blogging persona beyond its useful cathartic value. Combining perspectives from cyber psychology and media studies, this study contributes a more multifaceted understanding of how residents may use social media to cope with individual and community stress than has been explored in previous research.
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- 2016
11. Social networking sites and participatory reluctance: A case study of Gaydar, user resistance and interface rejection
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Elija Cassidy
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Sociology and Political Science ,Casual ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Media studies ,050801 communication & media studies ,Resistance (psychoanalysis) ,Citizen journalism ,02 engineering and technology ,Space (commercial competition) ,0508 media and communications ,020204 information systems ,Masculinity ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Participatory culture ,Social media ,Disconnection ,Sociology ,Social psychology ,media_common - Abstract
This article conceptualises ‘participatory reluctance’ as a particular orientation to social media that problematises binarised notions of connection and disconnection in social networking sites. It qualitatively examines how the concept has functioned within gay men’s social networking service, Gaydar, among 18- to 28-year-old users of the site in Brisbane, Australia. Participatory reluctance is shown to be a central aspect of the culture of this space, fostered among the studied demographic by the convergence of the growing global push for marriage equality and increasing normalisation of the kinds of gay male identities commonly adopted among this group, with three key factors rooted primarily in Gaydar’s design: (1) young users’ perceptions of the site as a space for procuring casual sex, (2) their perceptions of the imagined user as embodying existing stereotypes of gay masculinity and (3) a lack of genuine alternatives in terms of niche digital spaces for gay men’s social networking.
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- 2016
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