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The Case for Alternative Social Media [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Media + Society, 2015
What are “alternative social media”? How can we distinguish alternative social media from mainstream social media? Why are social media alternatives important? How do they work? Why do people make them?
Robert W. Gehl
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The political economy of capitalist and alternative social media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter provides an overview of political economy questions that arise when discussing the relationship of capitalist and alternative social media. We begin by clarifying the notion of social media, before going on to examine aspects of the political economy of alternative media. We then apply these aspects to the realm of social media in order to
Fuchs, C., Sandoval, M.
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Alternative news on social media in Norway

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2022
Alternative news media in Norway have become visible in public debates. Partly because of news sharing on social media. Social media has become an arena for news, information, and public debate, and has also become a place to fight for the news agenda ...
Thomas Wold
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Factors influencing trust in media: exploring the association between media consumption and news about the 15M Movement [PDF]

open access: yesHipertext.net, 2015
Debate over consumer trust in traditional media has intensified due to theappearance of networked social movements, particularly considering media coverage ofthe protests, the emergence of alternative media and social media as informationsources.
Ariadna Fernández-Planells
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Consolidation in social change: women's alternative media in indonesia

open access: yesInteraksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi
Mainstream media shows a gap in engaging public participation, producing alternative content, and introducing social change. It is hoped that alternative media can be counter-hegemonic to mainstream media by providing a different perspective from the ...
Diah Amelia   +3 more
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Does Social Media Benefit Dominant or Alternative Water Discourses?

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2015
Political ecology and cognate fields have highlighted the social constructedness of different water discourses, exposing them as the product of a particular view of nature with underpinning interests and political consequences. Integrated Water Resources
María Mancilla-García
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Assessing the Impact of Digital Alternative News Media in a Hybrid News Environment: Cases from Taiwan and Hong Kong

open access: yesJournalism and Media, 2022
As consumption of mainstream news media declines and alternative news media proliferates, in this paper, we seek to assess the impact of digital alternative news media (DANM) in relation to mainstream news media (MNM).
Joyce Y. M. Nip, Yu-Chung Cheng
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Exploring user perceived beliefs, evaluations, and gratifications in ASM: applying expectancy-value approach for U&G theory on Mastodon instance Liker.social

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
This study aims to explore users' perceived beliefs of the decentralized alternative social media (ASM), selecting one of Mastodon instances, Liker. social, as the unique case of exploratory investigation.
Kai Hung Liao
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The Role of Media Consumption in Building Trust in the Romanian Mass Media [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Management Comparat International, 2023
In the past decades, concerns have been raised regarding the ways in which mass media influenced the public confidence in democracy. The roots of media trust in the new democracies from Central and Eastern Europe are poorly understood, even though a ...
Cristian BRANCU, Oana TURCU
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The motivations and uses of mainstream and social media during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: A structural equation modeling approach

open access: yesComputers in Human Behavior Reports, 2021
Public health emergencies often prompt individuals to use a variety of communication channels for various needs. The COVID-19 pandemic imposed an extreme case of lockdown in China and limited many Chinese's activities to what they could do in their homes.
Xiao Wang
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