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Social Media and Contemporary Communication Issues /Médias Sociaux Et Problèmes Contemporains De Communication Joint with Aislf-RC38

Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 713A (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture (host committee)

Language: English

The ambiguous role of social media in today’s social context is well known and determined by their binaries as creators of a new communicative environment, new sociality that contributes to the finding of personal and national authenticity  as against a field of information wars, political games and  exploitation for the economic interests of the big Internet corporations. Social media are deinstitutionalized so that users have multi dimensional features to create and modify personal values and identities by transforming networking content and sharing it with other users. The audience of social media can be divided into extremely active users or "insiders", then those who are in process of training and searching for personal behavior in networks - "newbies", and also those who are “lurkers" of social media – the readers of blogs or the visitors of social networks without active participation and creation of own content. Nevertheless, so long the Internet users are included in different network resources; they become both influential founders of production and object of the hidden or open commercial or political interests of big Internet corporations and political actors.

Digital activists assert that social media have radically transformed the world promising new forms of community, alternative ways of knowing and sensing, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Digital pessimists argue that digital culture has not brought about positive change, but has rather deepened and extended domination through new forms of control as well as networked authoritarianism, digital dehumanization, alienation 2.0, networked exploitation and violence.

Session Organizer:
Oksana LYCHKOVSKA, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
Chair:
Daniela FRUMUSANI, Univ. of Bucharest, Romania
Oral Presentations
Revenge Pornography: Non-Consensual, Online, Contested
Jeff HEARN, Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Matthew HALL, Ulster University, United Kingdom
M3D143N717Y: Taking the Network over and Bringing It Down
Geraldine PELLEGRIN, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
The Changing Pattern of Adolescents Mate Selection Preferences with Reference to Electronic MEDIA
Hafsa TARIQ, University of Malaya, Malaysia; Lai Suat YAN, University of Malaya, Malaysia; Javed HUSSAIN, University of Malakand, Pakistan