scholarly journals Monitoring the Trade of Legally Protected Wildlife on Facebook and Instagram Illustrated by the Advertising and Sale of Apes in Indonesia

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Vincent Nijman ◽  
Jaima H. Smith ◽  
Grace Foreman ◽  
Marco Campera ◽  
Kim Feddema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Trade ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Endangered Animals

Apes continue to be trafficked to meet the demand for pets or zoos. Indonesia, the most diverse country in terms of ape species, has been implicated in the global trade in gibbons, orangutans and, to a lesser degree, chimpanzees. Recently trade has shifted to online platforms, a trend that may have been amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic and partial lockdowns. We assessed the availability of legally protected apes for sale on Facebook and Instagram over two 16-months periods (2017–2018 and 2020–2021). Despite Facebook and Instagram explicitly banning the sale of endangered animals, and Facebook not allowing the sale of live animals, we found 106 gibbons, 17 orangutans and four chimpanzees for sale on five Facebook pages and 19 Instagram accounts. All orangutans and chimpanzees and 70% of the gibbons were infants or juveniles. We did not record any obvious responses of vendors to the Covid-19 pandemic. Facebook and Instagram accounts were linked (similar names, cross-referencing each other and announcing new accounts on existing ones), names were altered (e.g., “petshop” to “pethsop”) and new vendors emerged for short periods. Facebook and Instagram’s policy of not allowing the sale of live and/or endangered wildlife on their platforms is not effectively implemented in Indonesia.

Parties versus Politicians Online

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Rahat ◽  
Ofer Kenig
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Consumption Rate ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Facebook Pages

The chapter starts with a brief overview of the study of political personalization online, then focuses on its claims concerning the influence of online platforms on political personalization. It then analyses online personalization by comparing the online presence and activity of parties, party leaders, and prominent politicians from twenty-five democracies, and also the consumption rate of their Facebook pages. High variance at the national levels of personalization online demonstrates that personalization is not a necessary development of politics in the age of online social networks. Levels of online controlled media personalization do not seem to be generally high. Parties are present online more than individual politicians, and in most cases the amount of their output is higher. Online personalization in voters’ behavior—the consumption side—is, however, prevalent. Such personalization is evident in the amounts of the consumption of the outputs of party leaders, but not of other prominent politicians.

scholarly journals Mediating the agency of distant others: Proper distance in fair trade communication on Facebook

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Trade Fair ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Proper Distance ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Fair Trade Organizations

To introduce economic justice into global trade, fair trade organizations strive to ‘shorten the distance’ between producers and consumers through mediation. This article problematizes the idea of ‘shortening the distance’ through the notion of maintaining the ‘proper distance’ in representing distant others. This perspective is used in narratological analysis of the content that fair trade organizations curate on their Facebook pages to represent Southern producers. The two organizations studied are: (1) Fairtrade Finland, a non-governmental organization (NGO); (2) Pizca del Mundo, a commercial brand in Poland. This article identifies the discursive and narrative forms of mediated agency that are offered to producers. The analysis revealed that Fairtrade Finland utilized Facebook to extend the narrative of producers as active subjects. By using the affordances of Facebook, Pizca del Mundo increased the mediated agency of producers but problematized the maintenance of the proper distance in their representations.

scholarly journals Managing unpleasant moods: Affective discipline in Facebook discussions

2020 ◽  
pp. 136754942097321
Author(s):  
Anna Rantasila
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
News Media ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Affective Dynamics ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Official Information

The article explores how affect is circulated and managed in comment discussions on networked online platforms, such as Facebook. A mixed-methods analysis is conducted of comments on news about the triple disaster of an earthquake, a tsunami and a meltdown of three reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 on public Facebook pages of seven Finnish mainstream news media. The article examines how affect sticks and circulates in these discussions, and how the commenters direct and sustain the mode and mood of Facebook discussions. The main findings of the article concern how online discussions are structured by what the author calls affective discipline, in which participants the discussion manage the mood of the discussion through various means. The results open up an important way to study the internal, affective dynamics of contemporary online discussions. In particular, the study helps us understand how flows of affect are shaped and steered in online discussions, and how the same discussions may simultaneously sustain multiple affective dynamics. These dynamics may, in turn contribute to how publics respond to news and official information in crises.

КОМУНІКАТИВНА КОМПЕТЕНТНІСТЬ У ПОЛІТИЧНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ (НА ПРИКЛАДІ ОФІЦІЙНИХ СТОРІНОК НАРОДНИХ ДЕПУТАТІВ У СОЦІАЛЬНІЙ МЕРЕЖІ «ФЕЙСБУК»)

2020 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
T. Sashchuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
First Person ◽  
Short Text ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Facebook Pages

<div><em>The article presents the results of the study of the communicative competence of the politicians on the basis of the analysis of their messages on their official pages of the Facebook social network. The research used the following general scientific methods: descriptive and comparative, as well as analysis, synthesis and generalization. The quantitative content analysis method with qualitative elements was used to distinguish the peculiarities of information messages that provide communication of the deputies of Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) on their official Facebook pages. Information messages have been analyzed by the following three criteria: subject matter, structure and language.</em></div><p> </p><p><em>For the first time the article draws a parallel between communicative competence and the ability to communicate with voters on the official pages of Facebook which is the most popular social network in Ukraine. As it is established, communicative competence in the analyzed cases is caused not by education, but by previous professional activity of a politician. The most successful and high-quality communication was from the current parliamentarian who worked as a journalist in the past. More than half of the messages that provided successful communication consisted of sufficiently structured short text and a video. The topic covers the activity of the parliamentarian in the Verkhovna Rada and in his district. More than half of the messages are spoken in the first person.</em></p><p><em>The findings of the study can be used in teaching such subjects as Political PR and Electronic PR, and may be of interest to politicians and their assistants.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em>Key words:</em></strong><em> competence and competency, communicative competence, political discourse, official page of the deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the Facebook social network, subject matter and structure of the information message, first-person narrative, correspondence of communication to the level of communicative competence.</em></p>

A Study on Increasing Profits of Performing Arts Merchandise via Online Platforms

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 403-443
Author(s):  
Seungweon Chung ◽  
Sunyoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Online Platforms

Small African Economies in a More Uncertain Global Trade Environment: The Potential Impact of Post-AGOA Scenarios for Lesotho

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryla Maliszewska ◽  
Jakob Engel ◽  
Guillermo Arenas ◽  
Barbara Kotschwar
Keyword(s):  
Global Trade ◽  
Potential Impact

Global Trade Watch 2018

10.1596/31742 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Constantinescu ◽  
Aaditya Mattoo ◽  
Michele Ruta ◽  
Maryla Maliszewska ◽  
Israel Osorio-Rodarte
Keyword(s):  
Global Trade

Going the Distance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Harris
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Business Corporation ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Silk Route ◽  
Passive Investors

Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business was organized in family firms, merchant networks, and state-owned enterprises, and dominated by Chinese, Indian, and Arabic traders. However, around 1600 the first two joint-stock corporations, the English and Dutch East India Companies, were established. This book tells the story of overland and maritime trade without Europeans, of European Cape Route trade without corporations, and of how new, large-scale, and impersonal organizations arose in Europe to control long-distance trade for more than three centuries. It shows that by 1700, the scene and methods for global trade had dramatically changed: Dutch and English merchants shepherded goods directly from China and India to northwestern Europe. To understand this transformation, the book compares the organizational forms used in four major regions: China, India, the Middle East, and Western Europe. The English and Dutch were the last to leap into Eurasian trade, and they innovated in order to compete. They raised capital from passive investors through impersonal stock markets and their joint-stock corporations deployed more capital, ships, and agents to deliver goods from their origins to consumers. The book explores the history behind a cornerstone of the modern economy, and how this organizational revolution contributed to the formation of global trade and the creation of the business corporation as a key factor in Europe's economic rise.

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