Alex Scott

Social Media has increasingly been a source for gaining international news media attention by social movements. From the initial success of the Arab Spring to the global proliferation of the Occupy movements, social media has become an increasingly relevant source for the compilation of “real time” on the ground news. The imbrication of social media and mobile ICT’s has allowed news media outlets to retain their position as the gatekeepers of information while impelling a sense of banal… さらに表示

Social Media has increasingly been a source for gaining international news media attention by social movements. From the initial success of the Arab Spring to the global proliferation of the Occupy movements, social media has become an increasingly relevant source for the compilation of “real time” on the ground news. The imbrication of social media and mobile ICT’s has allowed news media outlets to retain their position as the gatekeepers of information while impelling a sense of banal commonality among targeted audiences. This paper will utilize innovative visualization tools to demonstrate the diffusion of news media narratives over time. We use more traditional statistical methods to identify the dominant frames within virtual voice. The visuals will utilize key language in major international print media outlets, and are thus able to effectively demonstrate congruities between the frames of the global news media, structured by the liberal individualistic norms of global civil society, and frames identified within local articulations of virtual voice, which are an assembled amalgam of global and local norms. It also demonstrates the dominant frame of narration for the social movement manufactured by the print media. Our purpose is to sketch the border between the norms of global civil society and the formation of virtual voice in local contexts. 部分表示

Social media can be used to shape civil society outside of the boundaries of the state. Social media is a political tool which can hasten the democratization process by bypassing domestic constraints, challenging official policy and pushing for reform both exogenously and endogenously. For the world’s vast diaspora communities, social media serves as virtual sounding boards for resonating opinions, views, and protest. This paper will focus primarily on assumptions of whom and what mediates and… さらに表示

Social media can be used to shape civil society outside of the boundaries of the state. Social media is a political tool which can hasten the democratization process by bypassing domestic constraints, challenging official policy and pushing for reform both exogenously and endogenously. For the world’s vast diaspora communities, social media serves as virtual sounding boards for resonating opinions, views, and protest. This paper will focus primarily on assumptions of whom and what mediates and ameliorates the tension of transition through social media and how civil society affected and influenced the Arab Spring. This paper will incorporate Finnemore and Sikkink’s theories of norm creation to measure the role social media plays in the creation and acceptance of norms. It also seeks to modernize and revitalize the Hirschman framework by providing a comprehensive assessment of the use of `exit, voice and loyalty' with regards to the role of social media in the Arab Spring. This paper will look specifically at Egypt and Tunisia to evaluate not only the volume of traffic but more importantly its content. Social media has made awareness and action coeval. From the first Tweet until regime collapse is a dynamic that begs analysis. 部分表示