The Internet as a New Platform for Expressing Opinions and as a New Public Sphere

Debatin, Bernhard

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“…I cannot ignore the fact that these online communities help attain the fundamental function of the autonomous public sphere as stated by Jürgen Habermas [48]. There is no doubt that this new phenomenon has positively promoted the civil sphere; meanwhile, it comes at the expense of quality of journalism as it blurred the lines between professional and non-professional journalistic work [49]. The lack of reliable institutional and professional standards in addition to lack of experience, training, and education raises the question of what is journalism and who is the journalist in this new flux environment [47].…”

Section: Social Media and Global Journalism Ethicsmentioning

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

Hamada¹

2018

Social Media and Journalism - Trends, Connections, Implications

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Social media are growing drastically representing a further step in the ongoing deterioration of journalism profession and ethics. The lines between professional journalists and amateurs have been blurred; consequently, the structure of news media has substantially changed affecting the core traits of the profession and its ethics. This phenomenon has challenged the already disputed concepts of journalism as profession and journalists as professionals. While this challenge is tremendous, research on its implications to journalism identity and ethics is scant. The existing literature focuses on new or digital media usage, newsgathering, production, dissemination, and consumption, with little emphasis on journalism ethics or the profession itself. This chapter seeks to examine how social media contribute to the ethical dilemmas off and online journalism encounter and how this transformation puts the profession at risk.

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Section: Social Media and Global Journalism Ethicsmentioning

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

Hamada¹

2018

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“…Today, the means to voice an opinion are quantitatively more than ever before and qualitatively far more easily accessible. The eruption of blogs, discussion forums, message boards, mobile communications, peer‐to‐peer networks, and social media has expanded the settings where people can make their voices heard (Barlow, ; Richardson & Stanyer, ) to the extent that some scholars have conceptualized the Internet as a platform for opinion expression and as a new public sphere (Debatin, ; Papacharissi, ).…”

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More than Just an Opinion: The Effect of Verbal Self‐Expression on Consumer Choice

Kokkoris

Kühnen

2013

Psychology and Marketing

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In an ever-widening range of occasions, consumers have the opportunity to comment and express their opinions on brands and products. However, little is known about how voicing opinions about the choice options before actually choosing might affect consumer choice, and specifically liking of choice. This paper proposes that pre-choice opinion expression undermines the effect of post-choice bolstering, because opinion sufficiently satisfies self-expressive needs and therefore supersedes the use of subsequent choice as a self-expressive resource. This proposition is based on the assumption that opinion can psychologically substitute for choice, because the two represent alternative routes to self-expression. Two experiments provide empirical support for this hypothesis. Study 1 showed that after articulating their opinions about the choice options, participants were less likely to idealize their choices, and this effect was mediated by a change in the construal of choice as self-expression. Study 2 further showed that this effect is moderated by public versus private occasions of opinion voicing and by individual differences in the value of expression. Together, findings support that opinion is enough to express the self, and if such an opportunity is made available prior to choosing, consumers' liking of their choices is weakened. C 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…As the advent of communication technologies and the Internet enable citizens to be actively promoting their agendas and mobilize socio-political actions (Debatin, 2008), both technologies have been playing a vital role in Indonesia's politics. Since his election to the office in 2014, President Joko Widodo recognizes the importance and relevance of public relations (PR) to promote the Indonesian government's image and diplomacy.…”

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Government Social Media in Indonesia: Just Another Information Dissemination Tool

Idris

2018

JKMJC

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Indonesia is the largest social media market in Southeast Asia with approximately 79 million active users. Since 2015, government agencies have been actively using social media as one of their communication channels. This study aims to analyse whether the advent of communication technologies of social media has made Indonesia government to perform a long-term two-way communication with the citizens. The social network analysis (SNA) method was used to analyse four types of government-citizens' conversations on social media: daily communication, campaign communication, crisis, and emergency communication. Two Indonesian government agencies' social media accounts at the national level were selected as samples. One was a policy-based government agency and the other was a service-based agency. This study found that a two-way communication happened in a limited way, which was mainly in the daily conversation. The policybased agency used social media as a channel to disseminate information, thus they had a low number of interactions. Although the agency allows comments from every follower on Facebook page, there was no interaction between the agency and the public. The agency apparently was more active to reply messages via Twitter. The high number of fake followers and political buzzer on Twitter support the finding that the only interest for the agency to be on Twitter was to disseminate information. Lack of interaction happened in the campaign communication, also in crisis and emergency communication-types of communication that are urgent and important.

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The Internet as a New Platform for Expressing Opinions and as a New Public Sphere

Cited by 19 publications

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

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

More than Just an Opinion: The Effect of Verbal Self‐Expression on Consumer Choice

Government Social Media in Indonesia: Just Another Information Dissemination Tool

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