Social Theory after the Internet

Towner, Janet M.

doi:10.14324/111.9781787351226

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“…This section of the study will evaluate the answers concerning the theoretical contexts of the study. Let us begin by answering Schroeder's (2017) question if social media shapes our world. In TikTok, users perform in front of a global audience, who come into play by motivating, influencing, and directing the content of the performers becoming active in the setting, and the performers (users) make content accordingly to the satisfaction of their audience.…”

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Role of Social Media on Deviance and Crime: A Study on Content Creators of Tiktok

Shejuti

2023

Am. J. Multidis. Res. Innov.

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During this time of globalization, the mode of recreation and communication has dramatically changed and is oriented around social media. People are finding themselves glued to the screen both for work and entertainment. Like every coin has two sides, these virtual deviances and crime in a society. TikTok is such social media platform that enables us to produce and share short videos and explore ourselves in front of global and local audiences. Recent crime news related to TikTok and the new popular culture of such micro-entertainment prompted this study to add to the literature of cultural criminology. The study aims to scrutinize the uses, features, and contents of the TikTok app to understand its role in crime and deviance in society. It also sheds light on characteristics of crimes and deviances that emanate from TikTok in Bangladesh. The study’s methodology is Case Studies of fifteen crime cases related to TikTok, and Qualitative Content Analysis of ten top profiles of TikTok in Bangladesh, and the ‘For you’ page of TikTok with specific hashtags following convenience sampling. The study found distinct characteristics of crime and deviance related to TikTok, such as performance crime, copycat crime, and fame-driven crime. The study attempted to identify specific crimes such as rape, murder, sexual assault, fraudulence, etc., that have already been committed using this app.

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Role of Social Media on Deviance and Crime: A Study on Content Creators of Tiktok

Shejuti

2023

Am. J. Multidis. Res. Innov.

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“…Despite the appeal of social media as a rich data source for sociological research, a number of questions and challenges remain. For example, restricted access to OSNs' data via their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) limits the social networks built from such data (Nasim, Charbey, Prieur, & Brandes, 2016), the retrieved data may have inconsistencies (Weber et al, 2021), reproducibility of results is not always possible (Assenmacher et al, 2021), and there is a lack of robust sociological theories about social media interaction (e.g., Schroeder, 2018). That said, interactions on social media, limited in data model though they may be, provide the best portal we have to relevant data and therefore the best opportunity to understand the degree and nature of activity between particular actors at a particular time on a given topic of discussion.…”

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Are we always in strife? A longitudinal study of the echo chamber effect in the Australian Twittersphere

Nasim¹,

Weber²,

South³

et al. 2022

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Contrary to expectations that the increased connectivity offered by the internet and particularly Online Social Networks (OSNs) would result in broad consensus on contentious issues, we instead frequently observe the formation of polarised echo chambers, in which only one side of an argument is entertained. These can progress to filter bubbles, actively filtering contrasting opinions, resulting in vulnerability to misinformation and increased polarisation on social and political issues. These have real world effects when they spread offline, such as vaccine hesitation and violence. This work seeks to develop a better understanding of how echo chambers manifest in different discussions dealing with different issues over an extended period of time. We explore the activities of two groups of polarised accounts across three Twitter discussions in the Australian context. We found Australian Twitter accounts arguing against marriage equality in 2017 were more likely to support the notion that arsonists were the primary cause of the 2019/2020 Australian bushfires, and those supporting marriage equality argued against that arson narrative. We also found strong evidence that the stance people took on marriage equality in 2017 did not predict their political stance in discussions around the Australian federal election two years later. Although mostly isolated from each other, we observe that in certain situations the polarised groups may interact with the broader community, which offers hope that the echo chambers may be reduced with concerted outreach to members.

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What Ideas Rule? A Decline Towards “pop and pap” or a “duty to serve”?

Small

2021

Strangling Aunty: Perilous Times for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Social Theory after the Internet

Cited by 4 publications

References 118 publications

Role of Social Media on Deviance and Crime: A Study on Content Creators of Tiktok

Role of Social Media on Deviance and Crime: A Study on Content Creators of Tiktok

Are we always in strife? A longitudinal study of the echo chamber effect in the Australian Twittersphere

What Ideas Rule? A Decline Towards “pop and pap” or a “duty to serve”?

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