Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond write by Petros Iosifidis. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social media is said to radically change the way in which public communication takes place: information diffuses faster and can reach a large number of people, but what makes the process so novel is that online networks can empower people to compete with traditional broadcasters or public figures. This book critically interrogates the contemporary relevance of social networks as a set of economic, cultural and political enterprises and as a public sphere in which a variety of political and socio-cultural demands can be met. It examines policy, regulatory and socio-cultural issues arising from the transformation of communication to a multi-layered sphere of online and social networks. The central theme of the book is to address the following questions: Are online and social networks an unstoppable democratizing and mobilizing force? Is there a need for policy and intervention to ensure the development of comprehensive and inclusive social networking frameworks? Social media are viewed both as a tool that allows citizens to influence policymaking, and as an object of new policies and regulations, such as data retention, privacy and copyright laws, around which citizens are mobilizing.
Social Media and the Islamic State
Social Media and the Islamic State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Media and the Islamic State write by Ella Minty. This book was released on 2019-08-29. Social Media and the Islamic State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how social media has transformed extremist discourse. Drawing on ISIS and their sophisticated use of social media platforms and PR concepts, it explores the ways in which the outfit was able to recruit, mobilise and spread fundamentalist propaganda in regions where it had little physical presence. One of the first studies to draw a link between international diplomacy, the rise of fundamentalism and public relations, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of defence and strategic studies, especially those working on ISIS propaganda, Middle East Studies, media studies, digital humanities, communication studies, public relations and international relations, as well general readers.
Social Media and Politics in Africa
Social Media and Politics in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Media and Politics in Africa write by Maggie Dwyer. This book was released on 2019-07-15. Social Media and Politics in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before. While both activists and governments alike have turned to social media as a new form of political mobilization, some African states have increasingly sought to clamp down on the technology, introducing restrictive laws or shutting down networks altogether. Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstrates how it has often served to reinforce existing power dynamics, rather than challenge them. Featuring experts from a range of disciplines from across the continent, this collection is the first comprehensive overview of social media and politics in Africa. By examining the historical, political, and social context in which these media platforms are used, the book reveals the profound effects of cyber-activism, cyber-crime, state policing and surveillance on political participation.
Leveraging Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments
Leveraging Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leveraging Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments write by Bowen, Gordon. This book was released on 2019-01-25. Leveraging Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social media has redefined the way marketers communicate with their customers, giving consumers an advantage that they did not have previously. However, recent issues in online communication platforms have increased the challenges faced by marketers in developing and retaining their customers. Practitioners need to develop effective marketing communication programs that incorporate the meaningful forms of sociality into a customer-driven marketing program. Leveraging Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments discusses the nature of heightened interaction between marketers and consumers in the evolving technological environments, particularly on the central nature of online communities and other emerging technologies on dialogic engagement. Additionally, it aims to examine the relevant roles of online communities and emerging technologies in creating and retaining customers through effective dialogue management. Highlighting brand strategy, e-services, and web analytics, it is designed for marketers, brand managers, business managers, academicians, and students.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media write by Mona Baker. This book was released on 2020-10-21. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas. Citizen media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effect aesthetic or socio-political change. The seventy-seven entries featured in this pioneering resource provide a rigorous overview of extant scholarship, deliver a robust critique of key research themes and anticipate new directions for research on a variety of topics. Cross-references and recommended reading suggestions are included at the end of each entry to allow scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to identify relevant connections across diverse areas of citizen media scholarship and explore further avenues of research. Featuring contributions by leading scholars and supported by an international panel of consultant editors, the Encyclopedia is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in media studies, social movement studies, performance studies, political science and a variety of other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. It will also be of interest to non-academics involved in activist movements and those working to effect change in various areas of social life.
