Cette note de recherche vise à restituer une analyse sur la manière dont le webdocumentaire, outil de médiatisation, réussit, en utilisant le storytelling visuel, l'interactivité et les messages ...émotionnels, à impliquer le public dans le débat sur le genre. Womanhood, Egyptian Kaleidoscope, un webdocumentaire interactif, est étudié à travers les récits visuels de quinze femmes égyptiennes dans une approche qualitative. Méthodologiquement, l'observation directe appliquée au cas d'étude et l'analyse du contenu interactif ont été choisies. En termes de résultats, le plus important à mettre en exergue est que ce genre d'outil de médiatisation interactif ouvre un lieu de débat dans l'espace public, un débat qui rassemble une diversité de sensibilités sans les mettre en conflit, notamment en ce qui concerne le conflit entre les représentations médiatiques de la tradition et celles contemporaines.
The term “cancel culture” has significant implications for defining discourses of digital and social media activism. In this essay, I briefly interrogate the evolution of digital accountability ...praxis as performed by Black Twitter, a meta-network of culturally linked communities online. I trace the practice of the social media callout from its roots in Black vernacular tradition to its misappropriation in the digital age by social elites, arguing that the application of useful anger by minoritized people and groups has been effectively harnessed in social media spaces as a strategy for networked framing of extant social problems. This strategy is challenged, however, by the dominant culture’s ability to narrativize the process of being “canceled” as a moral panic with the potential to upset the concept of a limited public sphere.
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For the Habermasian theory of the “public sphere” to make sense in the 2020s, it must be able to address the modern tendency toward global systemic crises. To examine the relevance of the ...Habermasian public sphere to today’s deeply interconnected digital world, this article provides a selective reading of Habermas’ writings on the public sphere, examining how he developed the concept from its conceptual core (1962) through his Legitimation Crisis (LC; 1973) and The Theory of Communicative Action (TCA; vol. 1 1981 1984, vol. 2 1981 1987). Working from the perspective of the “differentiated lifeworld,” we show here that the theory’s background assumptions about reality (truth), solidarity (justice), personality (authenticity) are now being exposed and destabilized by current crisis tendencies and imaginaries. Here, we examine three exemplary (and interconnected) global disruptions that expose these assumptions: the climate crisis, the intensification of financial inequality in the Global North, and the rapid push toward datafication. Through our examination of whether the public sphere as Habermas conceived of it can exist in today’s world, we provide a more expansive form of criticism of the public sphere (which is usually critiqued on the narrow grounds of the rational bias of communicative rationality). Here, we underscore the fundamental importance of addressing the complex system-lifeworld dynamics that are today re-conceptualizing and re-contextualizing the “public sphere” in this era of contemporary global crises.
We have promoted a hierarchy of influences model for understanding the complex factors shaping media-particularly news-content: from the individual to social-system level. Meanwhile, ...technology-enabled changes in the media eco-system have shifted old boundaries and encouraged new, more spatially oriented concepts, such as fields and networks. In this essay we revisit our levels-of-analysis perspective, which in the historical context of communication research was a response to the media effects paradigm, and incorporate within the model examples from recent research. We argue that the hierarchical of influences can still take into account new realignments of media and other forces. Emerging spaces in the network public sphere may not fit as easily into the once familiar professional, organizational, and institutional containers, but the new media configurations supporting these spaces must still be understood with reference to a larger framework of power.
This article explores the concept of the Imperial Public Sphere (IPS) in the Portuguese empire as a space for confrontation and negotiation within the framework of nineteenth and twentieth-century ...European colonial empires. In order to demonstrate the origin of political and ideological power, the emergence of IPS is characterized and its fundamental structures identified. The protagonists of IPS are revealed as the ‘imperial’ and ‘colonial’ elites. It concludes with the IPS hypothesis that the press and journalism are structures, institutions and mechanisms of political, social and cultural power that are essential for understanding colonial empires.
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Metaphors of flooding and “flows” are often applied in the public sphere to the phenomena of displacement and migration, but there are also “waves” and “tides” of humanitarian actors, ...“voluntourists,” and researchers now focused on refugees. Humanitarian, security, and anthropological interventions in the European “refugee crisis” of 2015–16 often operate according to a shared logic of urgency and crisis. Key problems and pitfalls in current anthropological trends in the study of displacement on Europe's doorstep are linked to the business dimensions of anthropological work. The business of anthropology reinforces the European refugee regime, which makes border crossers into targets of policing, intervention, and study. crisis, refugees, displacement, anthropology, Greece, Europe
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Μεταφορές πλημμύρας και «ροών» συχνά εφαρμόζονται στα φαινόμενα εκτοπισμού και μετανάστευσης στη δημόσια σφαίρα, αλλά υπάρχουν επίσης «κύματα» και «παλίρροιες» ανθρωπιστικών φορέων, «εθελοτουρισμού» και ερευνητών, οι οποίοι τώρα επικεντρώνονται στους πρόσφυγες. Ανθρωπιστικές παρεμβάσεις, παρεμβάσεις ασφάλειας και ανθρωπολογικές παρεμβάσεις στην Ευρωπαϊκή «προσφυγική κρίση» του 2015–16 συχνά λειτουργούν σύμφωνα με μια κοινή λογική επείγοντος και κρίσης. Κεντρικά προβλήματα και παγίδες των σύγχρονων ανθρωπολογικών τάσεων στη μελέτη του εκτοπισμού στο κατώφλι της Ευρώπης, συνδέονται με τις επιχειρηματικές διαστάσεις της ανθρωπολογικής εργασίας. Η ανθρωπολογία ως επιχειρηματική δράση ενισχύει το Ευρωπαϊκό προσφυγικό καθεστώς, το οποίο μετατρέπει αυτούς που διασχίζουν σύνορα σε στόχους αστυνόμευσης, παρέμβασης και μελέτης. κρίση, πρόσφυγες, εκτοπισμός, ανθρωπολογία, Ελλάδα, Ευρώπη
A new public administration movement is emerging to move beyond traditional public administration and New Public Management. The new movement is a response to the challenges of a networked, ...multisector, no‐one‐wholly‐in‐charge world and to the shortcomings of previous public administration approaches. In the new approach, values beyond efficiency and effectiveness—and especially democratic values—are prominent. Government has a special role to play as a guarantor of public values, but citizens as well as businesses and nonprofit organizations are also important as active public problem solvers. The article highlights value‐related issues in the new approach and presents an agenda for research and action to be pursued if the new approach is to fulfill its promise.
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The unedited public sphere Bimber, Bruce; Gil de Zúñiga, Homero
New media & society,
04/2020, Volume:
22, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The health of democratic public spheres is challenged by the circulation of falsehoods. These epistemic problems are connected to social media and they raise a classic problem of how to understand ...the role of technology in political developments. We discuss three sets of technological affordances of social media that facilitate the spread of false beliefs: obscuring the provenance of information, facilitating deception about authorship, and providing for manipulation of social signals. We argue that these do not make social media a “cause” of problems with falsehoods, but explanations of epistemic problems should account for social media to understand the timing and widespread occurrence of epistemic problems. We argue that “the marketplace of ideas” cannot be adequate as a remedy for these problems, which require epistemic editing by the press.
This paper investigates political homophily on Twitter. Using a combination of machine learning and social network analysis we classify users as Democrats or as Republicans based on the political ...content shared. We then investigate political homophily both in the network of reciprocated and nonreciprocated ties. We find that structures of political homophily differ strongly between Democrats and Republicans. In general, Democrats exhibit higher levels of political homophily. But Republicans who follow official Republican accounts exhibit higher levels of homophily than Democrats. In addition, levels of homophily are higher in the network of reciprocated followers than in the nonreciprocated network. We suggest that research on political homophily on the Internet should take the political culture and practices of users seriously.
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