Agenda Trending: Reciprocity and the Predictive Capacity of Social Network Sites in Intermedia Agenda Setting across Issues over Time

In the contemporary converged media environment, agenda setting is being transformed by the dramatic growth of audiences that are simultaneously media users and producers. The study reported here addresses related gaps in the literature by first comparing the topical agendas of two leading traditional media outlets (New York Times and CNN) with the most frequently shared stories and trending topics on two widely popular Social Networking Sites (Facebook and Twitter). Time-series analyses of the most prominent topics identify the extent to which traditional media sets the agenda for social media as well as reciprocal agenda-setting effects of social media topics entering traditional media agendas. In addition, this study examines social intermedia agenda setting topically and across time within social networking sites, and in so doing, adds a vital understanding of where traditional media, online uses, and social media content intersect around instances of focusing events, particularly elections. Findings identify core differences between certain traditional and social media agendas, but also within social media agendas that extend from uses examined here. Additional results further suggest important topical and event-oriented limitations upon the predictive capacit of social networking sites to shape traditional media agendas over time.

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Silent Listeners: The Evolution of Privacy and Disclosure on Facebook

Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality ◽

10.29012/jpc.v4i2.620 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 83

Author(s):

Fred Stutzman ◽

Ralph Gross ◽

Alessandro Acquisti

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Personal Information ◽

Social Network Sites ◽

Personal Data ◽

Extended Period ◽

Third Party ◽

Privacy Concerns ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Seeking Behavior ◽

Over Time

Over the past decade, social network sites have experienced dramatic growth in popularity, reaching most demographics and providing new opportunities for interaction and socialization. Through this growth, users have been challenged to manage novel privacy concerns and balance nuanced trade-offs between disclosing and withholding personal information. To date, however, no study has documented how privacy and disclosure evolved on social network sites over an extended period of time. In this manuscript we use profile data from a longitudinal panel of 5,076 Facebook users to understand how their privacy and disclosure behavior changed between 2005---the early days of the network---and 2011. Our analysis highlights three contrasting trends. First, over time Facebook users in our dataset exhibited increasingly privacy-seeking behavior, progressively decreasing the amount of personal data shared publicly with unconnected profiles in the same network. However, and second, changes implemented by Facebook near the end of the period of time under our observation arrested or in some cases inverted that trend. Third, the amount and scope of personal information that Facebook users revealed privately to other connected profiles actually increased over time---and because of that, so did disclosures to ``silent listeners'' on the network: Facebook itself, third-party apps, and (indirectly) advertisers. These findings highlight the tension between privacy choices as expressions of individual subjective preferences, and the role of the environment in shaping those choices.

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Round-trip agenda setting: Tracking the intermedia process over time in the ice bucket challenge

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884916665405 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (10) ◽

pp. 1292-1308 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

S Mo Jang ◽

Yong Jin Park ◽

Hoon Lee

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Round Trip ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽

The Social ◽

Issue Attention ◽

Over Time ◽

Ice Bucket Challenge

Despite the social media’s agenda-setting power, the literature provides little understanding of how social media agendas survive and last long enough to trigger substantial public discussions. This study investigates this issue by tracking the ice bucket challenge campaign over an 18-week period. This article claims that the pattern of the intermedia process evolves over time along with the issue-attention cycle. We observed a round-trip intermedia agenda setting where the direction is reversed as the agenda waxes and wanes. Both social and mainstream media continued to generate a heightened level of issue attention after the buzz was cooled down.

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THE CONCEPT OF ‘SHARING’ IN CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research ◽

10.5210/spir.v2019i0.11025 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 ◽

Author(s):

Luolin Zhao ◽

Nicholas John

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Network ◽

Social Network Sites ◽

The State ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Micro Level ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time ◽

Chinese Social Media

In this paper we analyze the concepts of fenxiang and gongxiang—the Mandarin words for ‘sharing’—in the context of Chinese social media. Drawing on earlier work on ‘sharing’, and based on analyses of four corpuses and changes over time to the homepages of 32 Chinese social network sites (accessed through the Wayback Machine), we find that the concepts of fenxiang and gongxiang offer a heuristic for understanding Chinese social media, while also pointing to an important facet of the discursive construction of Chinese social media. Although seeming to refer to the same activities as ‘sharing’, analysis of the language of fenxiang and gongxiang in Chinese social media reveals the entanglement of a new individualistic self with a self that remains socially embedded in pre-existing relationships; it shows how micro-level harmony (fenxiang) and macro-level harmony (gongxiang) cohere with each other; while also reflecting the interplay among social media platforms, users, and the state.

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Mendalami Dasar-Dasar dalam Pengambilan Pose pada Pemotretan Model

Humaniora ◽

10.21512/humaniora.v4i1.3448 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 377

Author(s):

Agnes Paulina Gunawan

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Network Sites ◽

Basic Knowledge ◽

Human Being ◽

Simple Theories ◽

Human Object ◽

Over Time

There are many activities and numerous objects in this universe, which make them interesting for photographers to explore as their masterpiece. One of the things that has been enjoyed and is always developing over time is the use of human as an object, whether as a candid photography or as a posing model in accordance to photographer's concept and theme. Using human being as an object is always popular among beginners and professional photographers. Even nowadays people often hold photo shoot as a media in many social network sites. And so if they understand the simple theories in basic knowledge of using human object, the results will be maximized, and of course, much more interesting. The more a photographer does his job, the better his experience is, and his work will develop. Thus, it makes him more alert to the situation and character of a model, which will then become more observant in predicting their outcome in photography.

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