Pub Date : 2016-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10948007.2016.1147243
Sweden as an informal mode of civic engagement. She uses the multisite narrative analysis to explore how protest activists connect the global and local dimensions of the movement and argues for deemphasizing the technological aspects and paying close attention to the contextual nature of the protest movement. Chapter 6 by Uldam argues that opportunities for informal civic engagement provided by social media are severely constrained by state and corporate surveillance and repression. She finds in a case study of BP’s effort to monitor and silence criticisms of its CSR activities as greenwashing. Chapter 7 by Husted dismisses the often-touted notion of the democratic potential provided by the social media platforms and examines the various challenges to civic engagement during the Occupy Wall Street movement. He argues that technological affordances of social media impede rather than enhance the participatory and collaborative structure of the Occupy movement. In his analysis of nearly 1,400 Facebook posts during the movement (2011–2012), he finds the hierarchical structure of the Occupy movement social media platforms where members turn from content generators to passive affirmers of content created by the leaders of the Occupy movement. The final chapter by Baines examines the community-driven printshops in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s as alternatives to commercial print media and empowering capabilities of these print shops for local civil society. The book’s major strength lies in situating the role of social media in civic engagement in a broader context. It examines the nature of different types of civic engagement: formal and informal in different countries of the global north, the opportunities and constraints of social media platforms, and the discomforting problems of surveillance and silencing by state and corporate actors. The primarily qualitative studies capture the nuance and holistic picture of the paradoxical roles of social media in the complex civic engagement processes complementary to the overwhelmingly quantitative studies of social media effects research in the United States. The book also provides an expanding view of social media not merely sending and receiving social media messages but also mobilizing, organizing, and facilitating resources and movements. One minor limitation of the book seems to overplay the distinction between the formal and informal modes of civic engagement and exaggerate the importance of informal mode. For social media to make a meaningful impact in democratic governance, informal mode needs to transform into tangible results in the formal mode. Overall, the book is a great collection of case studies examining the nuanced role of social media in civic engagement in multiple settings.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10948007.2015.1099966
A. Peay, C. Sterling, G. Washington, Sybille Krämer
The husband-wife team of editors both teach (biology and history, respectively) at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, and have gathered 16 original papers in this anthology. Each of them treats some aspect of the cover topic: the rise of the zombie in pop culture, historical perspectives on mass destruction, looking to health organizations for answers, how the army might respond, usage and collapse of the media, the role of health care providers, the potential role of engineers, the law and the living dead, the psychology of surviving such an apocalypse, and several more.
这对夫妻编辑团队都在田纳西州的奥斯汀皮伊州立大学(Austin Peay State University)任教(分别是生物学和历史学)，他们在这本选集中收集了16篇原创论文。他们每个人都处理了封面主题的一些方面:僵尸在流行文化中的兴起，大规模毁灭的历史观点，向卫生组织寻求答案，军队如何应对，媒体的使用和崩溃，医疗保健提供者的角色，工程师的潜在角色，法律和活死人，在这样的灾难中生存的心理学，等等。
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Pub Date : 2015-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10948007.2015.1099965
A. Peay, C. Sterling, G. Washington, Sybille Krämer
The husband-wife team of editors both teach (biology and history, respectively) at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, and have gathered 16 original papers in this anthology. Each of them treats some aspect of the cover topic: the rise of the zombie in pop culture, historical perspectives on mass destruction, looking to health organizations for answers, how the army might respond, usage and collapse of the media, the role of health care providers, the potential role of engineers, the law and the living dead, the psychology of surviving such an apocalypse, and several more.
这对夫妻编辑团队都在田纳西州的奥斯汀皮伊州立大学(Austin Peay State University)任教(分别是生物学和历史学)，他们在这本选集中收集了16篇原创论文。他们每个人都处理了封面主题的一些方面:僵尸在流行文化中的兴起，大规模毁灭的历史观点，向卫生组织寻求答案，军队如何应对，媒体的使用和崩溃，医疗保健提供者的角色，工程师的潜在角色，法律和活死人，在这样的灾难中生存的心理学，等等。
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Pub Date : 2015-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10948007.2015.1099956
D. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah, Weiwu Zhang
exchanges, rallying around prosocial causes, etc. On the other hand, Redditors often come across harboring the mob mentality such as involvement in the Boston Marathon Bombing and the ‘‘cringeworthy’’ postings. Chapter 4 details the socialization process of novice Reddit members becoming full-fledged Redditors and what this status change means for their relationship with the Reddit community at large. It also details the scornful attitude toward default subreddits and the varied ways Reddiquette (informal Reddit community rules) is viewed in the Reddit community. Chapter 5 concerns both the humorously clever and serious ways Redditors express themselves in the platform. It details how the Reddit platform features enable innovative expressions from memes to novelty accounts to reaction GIFs and how Redditors value meaningful contributions and ridicule repetitive ‘‘shitposting’’ and ‘‘karmawhoring.’’ Chapter 6 addresses the dark side of Reddit discourse that further marginalizes women and minority groups such as ‘‘male gaze’’ and geek masculinity that excludes women and minority groups. Chapter 7 concludes the book by providing a summary of findings, situating them in a broader context of Reddit platform politics and participatory culture, and suggesting possible directions for future research in this area. Reddit as a content and repost sharing social networking site has been documented in having the ability to form various online communities. I am surprised to find the book only gives passing treatment of the important concepts of social capital and civic engagement. It does not adequately cover another important research domain in selective exposure and polarization on social networking sites though it mentions ‘‘echo chamber’’ in passing. Despite the limitations already mentioned, the book is arguably the first to fill a scholarly void by examining one of the social networking sites—Reddit, its formation and development of relationships within the platform, its dual role for charity, prosocial causes and further marginalization of women and minority groups. The author’s ethnography method has a big advantage of capturing Reddit community actions in real time. Overall, this is a solid booklength treatment of a dynamic social networking site.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10948007.2015.1099959
C. Sterling
Chapter 3, which intricately profiles the 24 journalism and public relation professionals who participated in the qualitative interviews. Chapter 4 offers an analysis of the quantitative survey data regarding the study. Then, Chapters 5 through 8 include extensive interview excerpts illustrating the media exemplars’ personal reflections on the topics of public service, moral courage, humility and hubris, and ‘‘crucible’’ experiences. Finally, the book concludes with a section offering implications for the study of virtue ethics and moral psychology in the journalism and public relations fields. Combined, the survey and interview data provide a detailed portrait of what it means to be a moral exemplar in journalism and public relations. Findings suggest that exemplars exhibit a commitment to public service and professionalism, display the personality traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness, and perceive their work as a special ‘‘calling.’’ Particularly impressive is the patchwork of stories gleaned from interview data illustrating how public service, courage, humility, and adversity contribute to the core identity of media exemplars. Plaisance ensures that the exemplars’ own voices shine through, offering a richness and honesty to each theme that is explored. The exemplars’ long quotations are further contextualized with relevant psychology and ethics research citations. On the other hand, the extremely long quotations can, at times, be overwhelming to the reader. It is quite easy to get lost in the lengthy stories, making some thematic connections between the passages seem unclear. Virtue in Media: The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News and Public Relations makes several key contributions to media ethics research. The multimethodological design pairs quantitative analysis of data from a five-part survey instrument assessing personality traits and ethical perspectives with qualitative life-story interview data to create one of the most extensive and complete analyses of media professionals’ moral reasoning. Additionally, the resulting Model of the Morally Motivated Self offers media scholars and practitioners a visual representation of the various facets and traits that comprise a moral exemplar. Moreover, the study’s attention to virtue ethics contributes an alternative to the more developed deontological, utilitarian, or discourse ethics research streams in communication. Ultimately, the book will introduce both new and seasoned ethics scholars to the world of literature from moral and social psychology and their applications to journalism and public relations, which will surely inspire future media ethics research and inquiry into the morally motivated self.
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