Global Perspectives On Social Media Communications Trade Unionism And Transnational Advocacy

Social media has fundamentally changed activism and advocacy by allowing those with lesser privilege to make their voices known and influence change within their countries. However, the effects of social media and digital communications remain woefully understudied in the domains of trade unionism and transnational advocacy. Only by studying these phenomena more deeply and thoroughly can we understand fully the capabilities of digital activism. Global Perspectives on Social Media Communications, Trade Unionism, and Transnational Advocacy is an essential publication that examines the role of social media in trade unionism as well as the neo- and postmodern facets of digital activism and theorizes on their future. Additionally, the book explores the contribution of digital activism to the trans-nationalization or globalization of major economic and socio-political movements and looks at the potential of digital activism to effectively engender social and political change in the world. Covering a broad range of topics including geopolitics, internet censorship, and human rights protection, this book is ideally designed for government officials, policymakers, international relations experts, politicians, media practitioners, public officials, researchers, academicians, and students.

This eclectic and multicultural volume contains 17 papers, authored or co-authored by 25 scholars and doctoral students representing 11 countries. They discuss a wide range of global issues, including immigration, marginalization, identity, mass media, politics, social networking, education, digital media, advertising, and globalization. This book will be an excellent supplement to senior and graduate-level courses in international communication, cultural studies, mass media, journalism, global studies, political communication, intercultural communication, and related subjects.

This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African continent and the legal and extra-legal efforts governments have invented to try to contain it. The relentless growth of social media platforms in Africa has provided the means of resistance, self-expression, and national self-fashioning for the continent’s restlessly energetic and contagiously creative youth. This has provided a profound challenge to the African "gatekeeper state", which has often responded with strategies to constrict and constrain the rhetorical luxuriance of the social media and digital sphere. Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric of "fake news" as a smokescreen to muzzle critical voices. The book also reflects on the Chinese influence in African governments’ clampdown on social media and the role of Israeli NSO Group Technologies, as well as the tactics and technologies which activists and users are deploying to resist or circumvent social media censorship. Drawing on a range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, this book will be an important contribution to researchers with an interest in social media activism, digital rebellion, discursive democracy in transitional societies, censorship on the Internet, and Africa more broadly.

Social media has revolutionized how individuals, communities, and organizations create, share, and consume information. Similarly, social media offers numerous opportunities as well as enormous social and economic ills for individuals, communities, and organizations. Despite the increase in popularity of social networking sites and related digital media, there are limited data and studies on consumption patterns of the new media by different global communities. Analyzing Global Social Media Consumption is an essential reference book that investigates the current trends, practices, and newly emerging narratives on theoretical and empirical research on all aspects of social media and its global use. Covering topics that include fake news detection, social media addiction, and motivations and impacts of social media use, this book is ideal for big data analysts, media and communications experts, researchers, academicians, and students in media and communications, information systems, and information technology study programs.

Necessity is the mother of invention; challenging times can provide new opportunities that must be detected and exploited at the right moments. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that it is not only an issue of healthcare but also a challenge for the global economy, business, and society. Organizations have rapidly deployed technology solutions that enable them to work and service remotely and continue most of their normal operations. The Handbook of Research on Technologies and Systems for E-Collaboration During Global Crises focuses on emerging technologies and systems, strategies, and solutions for e-collaboration. This book assesses the importance of technologies and systems for e-collaboration in dealing with emerging crises such as pandemics. Covering topics such as deep learning processes, machine vision, and profit-sharing models, it is an essential resource for computer scientists, public officials, engineers, students and professors of higher education, healthcare administration, programmers, researchers, and academicians.

Social media platforms are one of the main generators of textual data where people around the world share their daily life experiences and information with online society. The social, personal, and professional lives of people on these social networking sites generate not only a huge amount of data but also open doors for researchers and academicians with numerous research opportunities. This ample amount of data needs advanced machine learning, deep learning, and intelligent tools and techniques to receive, process, and interpret the information to resolve real-life challenges and improve the online social lives of people. Advanced Applications of NLP and Deep Learning in Social Media Data bridges the gap between natural language processing (NLP), advanced machine learning, deep learning, and online social media. It hopes to build a better and safer social media space by making human language available on different social media platforms intelligible for machines with the blessings of AI. Covering topics such as machine learning-based prediction, emotion recognition, and high-dimensional text clustering, this premier reference source is an essential resource for OSN service providers, psychiatrists, psychologists, clinicians, sociologists, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

This book examines the central role media and communication play in the activities of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) around the globe, how NGOs communicate with key publics, engage stakeholders, target political actors, enable input from civil society, and create participatory opportunities. An international line-up of authors first discuss communication practices, strategies, and media uses by NGOs, providing insights into the specifics of NGO programs for social change goals and reveal particular sets of tactics NGOs commonly employ. The book then presents a set of case studies of NGO organizing from all over the world—ranging from Sudan via Brazil to China – to illustrate the particular contexts that make NGO advocacy necessary, while also highlighting successful initiatives to illuminate the important spaces NGOs occupy in civil society. This comprehensive and wide-ranging exploration of global NGO communication will be of great interest to scholars across communication studies, media studies, public relations, organizational studies, political science, and development studies, while offering accessible pieces for practitioners and organizers.

Bullying has been an issue for generations across fields and industries and can affect children as well as adults. With the rise of social media in recent years, bullying has evolved to include new forms such as cyberbullying and peer bullying. In the past, victims were able to escape their bullies in safe places, such as their homes. Nowadays, with technology keeping society constantly connected, bullies are able to exert their influence at all times. This is taking a far greater mental toll on bullied adults and children leading to burnout in the workplace, stress, anxiety, depression, and more. To understand and develop possible solutions to prevent bullying, further study is required. The Handbook of Research on Bullying in Media and Beyond considers the various forms of bullying and analyzes their representation in the media. The book also discusses the evolution of bullying throughout the years and how media and technology have played a key role in the changing landscape. Covering topics such as body image, peer bullying, social media, and violence, this major reference work is ideal for policymakers, computer scientists, psychologists, counselors, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.