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From Show Room to Chat Room - SVT on Social Media during the 2014 Swedish Elections
Abstract
While social media like Twitter and Facebook carry with them potential for the practice of journalism, novelties like these are also associated with adaptation difficulties – perhaps especially when it comes to the interactive capabilities that services like these afford. This study employs a multi-method approach to study the different uses of Twitter and Facebook by one media company – the Swedish public service broadcaster SVT – during the 2014 election year. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data, we find that Twitter was used more extensively and in a comparably more interactive fashion than Facebook. Hence we suggest Twitter, used more for interaction, functions as a 'chat room'; while Facebook, used more for broadcasting messages, can be viewed as functioning like a 'show room'. As Twitter is often associated with societal elites in the Swedish context, it raises a question about the suitability for a public service broadcaster to engage to such a degree on this particular platform.
Este capítulo hace un recorrido sobre las carreras políticas de los Ministros de Hacienda en Colombia desde los años 1985 a 2019. Esto como una forma de analizar su incidencia en las reformas arancelarias enfocadas en el sector automotriz. A partir de los postulados de Tsebelis, se establecen cambios relevantes sobre grupos de actores económicos con poder de veto sobre la toma de decisiones. En un primer momento, se identifican actores que priorizaron principalmente la importación y el libre comercio y en un segundo periodo la protección a la industria nacional.
This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African continent and the legal and extra-legal efforts governments have invented to try to contain it.
The relentless growth of social media platforms in Africa has provided the means of resistance, self-expression, and national self-fashioning for the continent’s restlessly energetic and contagiously creative youth. This has provided a profound challenge to the African "gatekeeper state", which has often responded with strategies to constrict and constrain the rhetorical luxuriance of the social media and digital sphere. Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric of "fake news" as a smokescreen to muzzle critical voices. The book also reflects on the Chinese influence in African governments’ clampdown on social media and the role of Israeli NSO Group Technologies, as well as the tactics and technologies which activists and users are deploying to resist or circumvent social media censorship.
Drawing on a range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, this book will be an important contribution to researchers with an interest in social media activism, digital rebellion, discursive democracy in transitional societies, censorship on the Internet, and Africa more broadly.
Increased access to Internet technologies in Kenya has necessitated the thriving of political communication in digital media spaces such as Twitter and Facebook. It has also led to the emergence of political influencers who shape political conversations in various ways. While these individuals are celebrated by some, they have often faced government repression, arrests, threats and forced disappearances, and even some of them killed. The overriding reasons given by the government to justify such a repression have always been to curb malicious dissemination of messages that is a threat to national security. While their role in public conversations has always been contentious – dissident for some and whistle-blowers for others, their role in shaping public conversations cannot be ignored. Contextualising their works in Kenya’s mediated environment, this study investigates how two prominent bloggers/influencers employ social media to disrupt, expose, and resist authoritarianism in Kenya. By examining the online activities of two bloggers – Robert Alai and Cyprian Nyakundi – I illustrate the larger dynamics of online activism in Kenya, how their online activities can lead to different political outcomes and at the same time lead to an understanding of the different forms of anti-authoritarian resistance taking place in postcolonial Kenya.
Keywords
online activism, resistance, whistle-blowers, censorship, bloggers, Kenya
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