Techno-optimism or Information Imperialism: Paradoxes in Online Networking, Social Media and Development

McLennan, Sharon

doi:10.1080/02681102.2015.1044490

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“…Approximately 96 percent of internet users used social networking sites (Pornsakulvanich, 2017). Using the networking concepts of disintermediation, participation and diversity/homophily, McLennan (2016) explored the structure and discourse of projecthonduras.com and illustrated the paradoxical nature of ICT and social media in development, providing a cautionary note to those who look to social media to provide answers to contemporary development dilemmas. More recently, Alsufyan and Aloud (2017) investigated the way that universities are engaging their audience via social media platforms by means of the five meaningful themes: visibility, branding, authenticity, commitment, and engagement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…becoming part of the decision-making process and increasing the chances for a fair distribution of resources and responsibilities (Budeanu, 2013). Research indicated that communication through technological media such as digital cable TV, internet, blogs, podcast, wireless TV, mobile phone TV, satellite radio and search engines (Wei, 2009) is an important variable that might have significant influence in an economic, social or political setting, leading to the development of a certain society as a whole (Adams, 2006; Lo and Wei, 2010; O’Connor and Joffe, 2013; Blaschke, 2014; Dzyaloshinsky and Pilgun, 2015; McLennan, 2016; Yang et al , 2017; Lee and Horsley, 2017). In order to get a perspective of existing research we conducted a systematic mapping study.…”

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Technological media and development

Abbaszadeh

Aghdam

Pourhosein

et al. 2019

ITP

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to characterize and identify the existing studies on the relationship between technological media and development Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a systematic mapping study to identify and analyze the related literature. The authors identified 196 primary studies, dated from 2000 to 2017 and categorized them with respect to research focus, types of research and research method. Findings A total of 97 studies were identified and mapped, synthesizing the available evidence on the relationship between technological media and development. “Social development” with 54 articles and “communication” with 34 articles were the dominant research focus. Regarding the research type, “Solution proposal” is the most frequently employed research type. “Case study,” “discussion paper” and “interview,” respectively were the most used research methods. However, “SNA,” “focus group” and “time series” were used less often. “Solution proposal” was the most common research type between 2015 and 2017, and after that “philosophical paper” was the dominant research paper type. Further, the number of publications has increased between 2006 and 2017. Originality/value This mapping study is the first systematic exploration of the state-of-art on technological media-development nexus. The existing body of knowledge is limited to a few high quality studies.

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Technological media and development

Abbaszadeh

Aghdam

Pourhosein

et al. 2019

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“…Social intermediation (Kistruck et al, 2013;Shalini et al, 2021); market linkages (Hota et al, 2019;Kistruck et al, 2013); knowledge creation and transfer (Chliova & Ringov, 2017;Inkpen & Tsang, 2005); mission drift (Bhatt, 2021;Bhatt et al, 2019;Grimes et al, 2019Grimes et al, , 2020Klein et al, 2020;Ometto et al, 2019) Scaling Open innovation (Feller et al, 2011;Madon & Schoemaker, 2021;Parthiban et al, 2021;Yun et al, 2017) Crowdsourcing (Liu et al, 2020;Schlagwein et al, 2019;Taylor & Joshi, 2019) Paradox/tension (Kibere, 2016;Mahrer & Krimmer, 2005;McLennan, 2016;Poole & Van de Ven, 1989;Rajão & Marcolino, 2016;Smith & Lewis, 2011) Collective action (Ghobadi & Clegg, 2015;Leong, Faik, et al, 2020;Saebø et al, 2020;Thapa et al, 2012;Young, 2018;Young et al, 2019;Zheng & Yu, 2016); social movements (Ghobadi & Clegg, 2015;Leong, Faik, et al, 2020;McKenna, 2020;Miranda et al, 2016;Young et al, 2019) Scaling deep Does long-term engagement of DSIrs develop capabilities in local communities? If so, how?…”

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Digital social innovation: An overview and research framework

Qureshi

Pan

Zheng

2021

Information Systems Journal

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Digital social innovation (DSI) involves the use of digital technologies in the development and implementation of innovative products, services, processes and business models that seek to improve the well-being and agency of socially disadvantaged groups or address social problems related to marginality, inequality and social exclusion (Qureshi, Pan, & Zheng, 2017;Shalini et al., 2021). Often, DSI is less about technological innovation and more about social innovation-a process of finding innovative, effective and sustainable solutions to pressing societal challenges, such as those listed in sustainable development goals (SDGs). Thus, technology can be anywhere in the range of simple WhatsApp enabled groups (Parthiban et al., 2021; and advanced blockchain-enabled supply chain , but its deployment is innovative in tackling wicked social problems, such as poverty, inequality, social exclusion, marginalisation and poor healthcare

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“…Social media can be classified as non-traditional sources of social and economic data that needs the internet for working (Blazquez and Domenech, 2018). Even if there is increasing penetration of the internet in almost every social and economic activity, there is, however, a call for a nuanced view on social media and Web 2.0 in a developing country context (McLennan, 2015). The emancipatory promises of social media are also questioned critically as those who face social and digital marginalization have yet to experience them (Nemer, 2016).…”

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Modelling Twitter conversations in #favela towards the conceptualization of the eVoice of the unheard

Inversini

Williams

Rega

et al. 2020

JICES

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Purpose The purpose of this study to shed light on the importance of social media hosted content related to socially-motivated discussions. Moving from the field of communication for development, the research leverages social media as a powerful tool for collecting and analyse peer-to-peer communication towards the conceptualization of eVoices of Unheard. The deep understanding of these conversation can generate recommendations for organizations and governments designing and providing interventions fostering local socio-economic development. Design/methodology/approach The study presents a large-scale analysis of social media interactions on the topic “#favela” to generate insights into a social network structure, narrative contents and meaning generated. Findings Structurally, the analysed networks are comparable with those presented in current academic literature; automatic text analysis confirmed the promise of the inner value of communication for development opening the floor to conceptualization of the “eVoices of unheard”, which is the collective and conscious use of social media to mediate community discussions about tangible and intangible issues related to socio-economic development. Originality/value Framed within the rise of interactive communication for development this research show that social media an support the notion of voice proposed by Couldry (2010) moving from process (i.e. the recording of the voice) towards value (i.e. the possibility of giving an account of one’s life and its conditions to have an impact on human life and resources) thereby understanding intangible issues related with socio-economic development.

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Techno-optimism or Information Imperialism: Paradoxes in Online Networking, Social Media and Development

Cited by 14 publications

References 37 publications

Technological media and development

Technological media and development

Digital social innovation: An overview and research framework

Modelling Twitter conversations in #favela towards the conceptualization of the eVoice of the unheard

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