Controlling social media flow: avoiding unwantedpublication
Journal Title: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies - Year 2016, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
Social media blurs the boundaries of social life and brings together different spheres such as family, work or friends in the same online space. Users begin to post less intimate details about themselves, and they want to see fewer details of the private lives of others as well. Users want to better control what they read on social media. This paper studies the use of information and communication technology in social and cultural context. A qualitative approach provides a rich and detailed description of contexts and motivations of social media use. It shows that users are still negotiating the endless flow of information coming from social media.
Authors and Affiliations
PhD Elodie CRESPEL| University of Montreal CANADA
Study of order effects in the search for information on the Web: the case of an experiment about smoking cessation techniques
This article deals with cognitive biases that could affect the judgment of net surfers while reading a list of answers, after a query in a search engine. The hypothesis is made that order effects i.e primacy and/or rec...
The Candy Project: the re-enchantment of candy in a liquid world
Sugar consumption has become an extremely serious problem, especially since its incorporation into every type of food not only those considered to be sweet culturally. This is not exclusively a health problem but also...
Communicating the past into the present. Young voices about communism and communists in Romania
More than two decades have passed since the fall of communism; meanwhile, a new generation has come to age in the post-communist countries, with no direct experience of the past, yet still influenced by it. In the page...
The dilemma of secrecy in the study of three ethnic groups from the South American Gran Chaco
From an epistemological perspective, ethics poses a problem that goes beyond the issue of the stakeholders’ rationality or irrationality. Besides, it refers to the conceptual framework of knowledge, practices, and e...
Breastfeeding: semiotic analysis and éducommunicationnelle approach. Handling the meanings and performative acts
Our contribution aims to describe the value system carried by a particular practice what consumption breastfeeding and through communication campaigns, including posters. Our results lead us first to introduce the link...