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Empowering Protest Through Social Media, Simon O'Rourke
Empowering Protest Through Social Media, Simon O'Rourke
International Cyber Resilience conference
Advances in personal communications devices including smartphones, are enabling individuals to establish and form virtual communities in cyberspace. Such platforms now allow users to be in continuous contact, enabling them to receive information in real time, which allows them to act in support of other members of their network. This paper will discuss some of the capabilities afforded by social media to protest groups focused on civil disobedience. Direct action protests are now a common sight at gatherings of world leaders, most notably the meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Seattle in 1999, the G20 meetings in Melbourne …
Effects Of Social Media On Human Emotion, Jackie Woods, Megan Potmesil
Effects Of Social Media On Human Emotion, Jackie Woods, Megan Potmesil
Communication Studies
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“What’S Happening” @Twitter: A Uses And Gratifications Approach, Corey Leigh Ballard
“What’S Happening” @Twitter: A Uses And Gratifications Approach, Corey Leigh Ballard
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
The uses and gratifications approach places power in the hands of the audience and is a helpful perspective when trying to understand media usage, exposure, and effects. However, while the uses and gratifications approach has been applied regularly to traditional media, research explaining why people use new social media networks as well as the gratifications they obtain from them is scarce at best. This thesis provides a comprehensive overview of the uses and gratifications approach as well as the current literature about social media networks. An argument is built within the thesis to study Twitter as one social media network …
Social Media Policies For Professional Communicators, Daxton R. Stewart
Social Media Policies For Professional Communicators, Daxton R. Stewart
Daxton "Chip" Stewart
As social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have become increasingly prevalent ways for people to share and connect, professional communicators have increasingly incorporated these tools into their daily practice. However, journalism, advertising and public relations practitioners have little formal guidance to help them navigate the benefits and risks of using these tools professionally. The codes of ethics of their professional fields have not been updated, and to date, social media policies have not been examined from an academic perspective. This study reviews 26 social media policies of journalism and strategic communication companies to find common themes and …