Social Media: A Turning Point into Global Journalism Identity and Ethics

Greedy Bat Eaters versus Cruel Pig Killers: The Lose-Lose Battle of Divisive Discourse

Animal Studies Journal ◽

10.14453/asj.v10i1.8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 140-185

Author(s):

Angela Lee

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Turning Point ◽

Public Debate ◽

Viral Pathogens ◽

Animal Advocacy ◽

Nonhuman Animals ◽

Wet Market ◽

Policies And Practices

Unsurprisingly, the circumstances and challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have generated strong reactions. Among the more notable, Canadian musician and animal activist Bryan Adams made headlines when he went on a tirade on social media denouncing ‘fucking bat eating, wet market animal selling, virus making greedy bastards’ and advocating for veganism. This article uses this incident as a prism through which to examine the values and assumptions informing some of the central debates within the mainstream animal advocacy movement today. Certainly, there is an urgent need for a critical re-evaluation of the policies and practices that have created the conditions in which viral pathogens can spread, especially those relating to our treatment of nonhuman animals (and our relationship with nature more broadly). However, the roots of the problem are fundamentally structural, and not attributable to any one country or culture. The thoughtless use of terms that contribute to a politically charged and rancorous public debate readily descends into a lose-lose battle, which may hinder efforts to address complex and collective concerns in a mutually cooperative manner. If COVID-19 is to represent a turning point towards building a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient world for humans and nonhuman animals alike, the kind of fractioning that is currently being exacerbated by the use of divisive discourse must be eschewed in favour of a greater recognition of our fundamental interconnectedness, including through a more pluralistic understanding of law.

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E-Electioneering 2007–13: Trends in Online Political Campaigns over Three Elections

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x1415200107 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 152 (1) ◽

pp. 57-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jim Macnamara ◽

Gail Kenning

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Communication ◽

Turning Point ◽

Political Engagement ◽

Political Campaigns ◽

Election Campaign ◽

Democratic Engagement ◽

Us Presidential Election ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Presidential Election Campaign

Following the 2004 US presidential election campaign, which was described as ‘a critical turning point’ in use of social media, and particularly the 2008 Obama campaign, there has been increasing focus on use of social media for political campaigning and what is termed e-electioneering and e-democracy. However, studies of election campaigns between 2010 and 2012 in a number of countries have identified what Steve Woolgar (2002) calls cyberbole in relation to social media for political engagement. With substantive patterns of change in political communication yet to be identified, a quantitative and qualitative study of social media use in the 2013 Australian federal election campaign was conducted using the same methodology as studies of the 2007 and 2010 campaigns to gain comparative longitudinal data. This identified trends in the volume of e-electioneering and the ways in which social media are being used for political communication and democratic engagement.

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APPLICATION FOR SEARCHING HANGOUT PLACES BASED ON MIDDLE POINT OF PARTICIPANT’S LOCATION (MEEDLE)

IT for Society ◽

10.33021/itfs.v5i1.1221 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Aprillia Kusumawardhani Pannita ◽

Nur Hadisukmana

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Business Process ◽

Mobile Application ◽

Turning Point ◽

Simple Problem ◽

Simple Application ◽

Simple Task ◽

Middle Point ◽

Digital Era ◽

The People

The lifestyle of the current year’s people is very different with the lifestyle of the people eight years ago. Start from the booming of Facebook as social media. It changes the ways of communicating. Those can be said that is the turning point of the digital era, from then the people are educated to share everything online and from those sharing it creates the opportunity to gather information that also affecting the change of conventional business process. Just one simple application can change the lifestyle of million people. From then, many other mobile application has help the simple task in our life.This work that developed an application named, Application for Searching Hangout Places Based on Middle Point of Participant’s Location ( MEEDLE ), will discuss the development of solving the simple problem of searching and deciding hangout place based on the data that internet shared. This application will give the user ease and effectiveness while using.

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The flow of social media on the subject of the scottish referendum and the catalonian sovereignty consultation

Redmarka Revista de Marketing Aplicado ◽

10.17979/redma.2018.01.021.4846 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 01 (021) ◽

pp. 193-227

Author(s):

Casandra López Marcos

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Turning Point ◽

Social Space ◽

Media Exposure ◽

Digital Environment ◽

Political Processes ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

The Media ◽

The Subject ◽

Media Systems

Since the origin of the Internet in the late 60’s with ARPAnet (Gromov, 1995; Braman, 2011; and Lukasik, 2011), this digital environment gradually started to gain social space. However it was with the appearance of social media -such as Facebook and Twitter- when it was truly a turning point (Carrera et al., 2012; Casero Ripollés, 2013; Farrel, 2013; Kietzman et al., 2011; Masip et al., 2010; Pérez-Latre, 2011).In the last few years, has been widely discussed how the emergence of social media and its subsequent profound evolutions have served to dramatically widen the range of journalistic practices (Benevuto et al., 2009; Canavilhas, 2011; Chadwick, 2011; Del Fresno et al., 2014; Domingo, 2006; Elola, 2010; Feenstra and Casero-Ripollés, 2012; Gallagher, 2014; Kerrigan and Graham, 2010; Lee and Ma, 2012; Meyer, 2012; Schulz, 2004; Waters et al. 2010; Wilson, 2008).However, what has not been demonstrated is to what extent Facebook and Twitter –the most popular social media platforms– have impacted among political processes and also how media outlets have dealt with this.In order to determine it, a comparative study-review has been carried out which deals with journalism and social media during two political processes which underwent intense media exposure: the Scottish Referendum (September, 2014) and the Catalonian Sovereignty Consultation (November, 2014).Through a literature review in this research the main features of both political processes (Scottish and Catalonian) are going to be explained: what happened in Scotland and in Catalonia; how the behaviour of the audience was and what they searched for on social media; the flow of messages on Twitter and Facebook and how the media outlets dealt with those events on social media and finally, what are the political media systems upon which Catalonia and Scotland are based.

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Business Model Canvas dan Social Media Marketing untuk Meningkatkan Kapasitas Pengusaha Mikro di Kabupaten Pangkep

JURNAL TEPAT : Applied Technology Journal for Community Engagement and Services ◽

10.25042/jurnal_tepat.v3i1.72 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 150-156

Author(s):

Anugrayani Bustamin

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Business Model ◽

Turning Point ◽

Social Media Marketing ◽

Business Model Canvas

Pengabdian masyarakat telah dilakukan untuk meningkatkan kinerja dan kapasitas Kelompok Tani Pelita Desa di Kabupaten Pangkep. Kelompok Tani Pelita Desa merupakan sebuah kelompok pengusaha jeruk “Pamelo” di Desa Attangsalo, Kecamatan Ma’rang, Kabupaten Pangkep. Pada kegiatan sosialisasi ini dihadiri oleh 15 peserta yang tergabung dalam kelompok Tani Pelita Desa dan beberapa tokoh masyarakat juga turut hadir berpartisipasi. Hasil analisis situasi dan kondisi didapatkan beberapa masalah yang sedang dihadapi Kelompok Tani Pelita Desa, yaitu usaha yang sedang berjalan belum melewati proses analisis bisnis, tidak dimanfaatkannya marketing sosial media, dan branding masih sederhana. Sehingga dalam kegiatan pengabdian ini dilakukan pengenalan Business Model Canvas (BMC) dengan melakukan penjabaran usaha dalam bentuk sederhana tetapi cukup efektif untuk melihat secara holistik suatu startup maupun bisnis. Selanjutnya juga dilakukan pengenalan social media marketing untuk mendukung kelompok usaha, meningkatkan kinerja untuk dapat berkelanjutan dan berkembang lebih baik. Hal ini dianggap perlu untuk menjadi turning point bagi kelompok usaha dalam meningkatkan usaha untuk kemajuan dan menghadapi era globalisasi.

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The Use Of Social Media In Building Interest In Wellness On A College Campus

American Journal of Business Education (AJBE) ◽

10.19030/ajbe.v5i5.7207 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (5) ◽

pp. 515-524 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joseph A. Field ◽

Dennis J. Elbert ◽

Steven B. Moser

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Marketing Strategy ◽

Turning Point ◽

Pilot Project ◽

College Campus ◽

The Internet ◽

Marketing Plan ◽

Fitness Center ◽

Social Media Networks ◽

Use Of Social Media

The usage of social media networks, such as websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, had become the number one activity on the internet by 2010. The sweeping increase in usage led organizations to explore the marketing possibilities the networks offered. The turning point occurred when organizations began to ask whether it was feasible to use social media networks as a primary marketing strategy and reduce or ultimately replace traditional marketing efforts. A pilot project focused on a marketing plan that was implemented at a student fitness center, using social media networks as the primary marketing strategy.

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E-Electioneering 2010: Trends in Social Media Use in Australian Political Communication

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x1113900104 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 139 (1) ◽

pp. 7-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Jim Macnamara ◽

Gail Kenning

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Parties ◽

Political Communication ◽

Turning Point ◽

Media Use ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

Social Media Use ◽

Political Candidates ◽

Us Presidential Election ◽

Youtube Videos

In the wake of the ‘turning point’ 2004 US presidential election, the Obama campaign of 2008, the 2010 UK election and e-democracy movements globally, Australians went to the polls in 2010 in a media-hyped flurry of tweeting, YouTube videos, Facebook befriending and ‘liking’, blogging and other social media activities. Following a study showing that the 2007 Australian election was not a ‘YouTube election’, as claimed by many media and commentators, and that social media use in the campaign was mostly non-interactive promotional messaging, a study was undertaken during the 2010 federal election campaign to gain comparative data and updated insights. This article reports quantitative and qualitative content analysis of social media use by 206 federal political candidates and the two major political parties during the 2010 Australian election to identify trends in the volume of e-electioneering content and activity, as well as the main ways in which social media are being used in political communication.

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