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Aug 31, 2022 · Media issues are contentious topics of debate related to mass communication. These are perceived problems and risks related to media and social media. Media issues can also include the impact of media on politics, quality of life and society in general. The following are examples of media issues.
Sep 1, 2010 · New media, such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, have played a major role in episodes of contentious political action. They are often described as important tools for activists seeking to replace authoritarian regimes and to promote freedom and democracy, and they have been lauded for their democratizing potential.
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Oct 20, 2023 · WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked in full a lower court ruling that would have curbed the Biden administration's ability to communicate with social media companies about...
October 15, 2020. 4 min read. Why Social Media Makes Us More Polarized and How to Fix It. Research shows it’s the influencers, not the networks themselves, that amplify differences between us. By...
- Abstract
- From Publics to Publicness
- From Counter to Contention
- From Arenas to Dimensions
- Temporality
- Conclusion: Analyzing and Describing Trajectories of Public Contestation
- Acknowledgement
Research on contemporary protest and social media suggests that key shifts are taking place in the articulation of public contestation. These platforms are thought to facilitate more fleeting and dynamic instances of publicness that connect actors from different geographical areas and political regimes around the globe. As mobile technologies becom...
Our first theoretical move allows us to shift attention away from the rather static notion of “the public” that lies at the heart of the concepts of “counterpublics” and “networked publics.” The concept of “counterpublics” has been developed in critical dialogue with the Habermasian notion of the public sphere, which has been a central reference po...
In our second theoretical move, we shift the focus from the notion of “counter” to “contention.” This allows us to evaluate the democratic implications of contemporary public contestation through social media. These distributed forms of contestation transcend national spheres and spaces and are, for an important part, disconnected from established ...
In our third theoretical move, we attempt to develop our understanding of the role of the media in contentious publicness. Coming from a sociological perspective, social movement research on contentious interaction tends to disregard the mediated aspects of public contention (van de Donk, Loader, Nixon, & Rucht, 2004, p. 11). While many studies inv...
Finally, we trace how digital infrastructures, discourses, and user practices shape the temporal relations of public contention. Digital media, especially social media, are thought to lead to an acceleration of social relations as they favor speed, immediacy, as well as a real (or present)-time orientation (Barassi, 2015; Kaun, 2016; Poell, 2019; W...
In this article we make three conceptual moves to develop a more effective approach for studying contemporary public contestation. To capture the dynamic character of this contestation, our first move shifts attention from publics to publicness as an interactive process of making things public. Second, we shift the attention from the “counter,” as ...
Dr Kavada's research on the Occupy Movement was supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (Ref: MD130045).
- Anastasia Kavada, Thomas Poell
- 2021
Nov 10, 2020 · This chapter aims to re-examine the complex relationship between social media and contentious politics following the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and Syria. The chapter explores the contingent, differentiated, and contradictory roles that social media played in each of these cases.
Feb 13, 2024 · February 13, 2024. In a globally connected and highly politicized world, organizations are increasingly expected to comment on social, political, and environmental issues. But taking a stance...
