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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Media sociology"”.
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Rooting for the story: Institutional sports journalism in the digital age
… daily sports journalism through the lenses of media sociology and new institutional theory. In-depth interviews with 25 sports journalists (reporters and editors) identified the institutionalized norms, values, practices and routines of American sports journalism, demonstrated how that …
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Air Force Leadership Innovation through the Utilization of Social Media: A Qualitative Study
The field of sociology describes a wealth of leadership practices derived from research conducted across complex fields of study. In one particular field these practices comprise a fundamental element of the successful integration of social media as a professional communication method within the …
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Cultural intermediaries and place branding: a framework for understanding their impact and influence
… of Bourdieu’s (1984) notion of cultural intermediaries, this paper applies a social constructionist approach to the analysis of the characteristics and work of those professionals working in place branding. As places have emerged as strategic sites of cultural, institutional and financial …
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Breaking the News: When Populists Turn Against the Media
… them to fight back? And what role does social media play in this conflict? Through 45 interviews with leading journalists in Israel, large-scale public opinion surveys, and analyses of the populist rhetoric, its media coverage, and social media content, I explore four different coping …
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The Norwegian Newspaper Industry in the Digital Age
… but the economic consequences for legacy media were severe. Advertising revenues plummeted, print circulation deteriorated, and most organisations have struggled to make readers pay for online news. Many newspapers in the Anglo-American world were forced out of business, and those managing …
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Facebook Identity: Virtual Interaction and Life Satisfaction
… to examine other roles relating to social media. My hope is that future research looks at the importance of the social media roles for younger generations and how they compare to older generations with more salient roles.
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(Un)disciplined Performativity: Anonymity, Identity, and Governmentality on Yik Yak
Anonymous social media platforms, like Yik Yak, have been at the center of public controversies surrounding the proliferation of trolling, bullying, and gendered and racialized violence. This has led to a renewed scholarly attention to forms of anonymity and pseudonymity deployed in cyber-spaces …
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All the Science That Is Fit to Blog: An Analysis of Science Blogging Practices
… to guide current and future research on the sociology of science blogging. Shoemaker and Reese’s Hierarchical Model of Influences is a model of the factors that influence mass media content, which has been used previously by mass communication researchers to guide analysis of mass media …
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First Year Students in a Foreign Fabric: A Triangulation Study on Facebook as a Method of Coping/Adjustment
<p>As American high school seniors graduate and prepare to attend college, these students must change in order to adapt to the new rituals that higher education presents. Teens, for the most part, leave their family structure and their normal everyday routines to pursue a degree and a chance for a …
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Life storytelling around the digital campfire: Commenters’ networked participation on the humans of New York Facebook page
… them on its official website and social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Since its establishment in 2010, HoNY has attracted approximately 30 million social media followers and given rise to more than 50 projects imitating its format around the world. This thesis …