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Co-constructing a participatory brand: The affordances of live streaming for social media entrepreneurship
No full textCreative workers in the social media industries face the relentless imperative to present themselves as media entrepreneurs, marketing their “brand” to external audiences, followers, and potential customers. This study challenges the notion of “self-branding” (Marwick, 2013; Duffy, 2017) and suggests that, on social live streaming platforms, content creators engage in a joint branding effort with their audiences which I term participatory branding. Participatory branding redistributes the labor of personal branding on social media and emphasizes the work of audiences in helping to shape the brand of a social media entrepreneur. Drawing on an affordances approach, I then propose a typology of personal branding on social media that maps the terrain of other platforms as it relates to design, cross-platform promotion, and audience activity in content creation
When Product Loss Minimizes Product Harm: The Reframed Narrative of Blue Bell Creameries' 2015 Listeriosis Crisis
No full textThis study examined the public narrative of Blue Bell Creameries' 2015 listeriosis crisis as it was constructed by news media. Treating media coverage as public narrative (Boje, 2001), this intertextual narrative analysis advances the notion that public support of a corporation in crisis is part of an intertextual process of news production, distribution, and consumption that privileges companies whose products have cultural ties. This study analyzed news coverage from local and national sources (N = 1,316) to understand how local outlets shaped the positively framed public narrative of Blue Bell Creameries and how national media, in warning consumers of health risks associated with this crisis, became the antenarrative. The results of this study underscore the ability of local media to reframe a crisis event in terms of product loss instead of product harm. Further, producers in an intertextual system of news coverage employed Aristotle's tragic form in this crisis event to achieve greater resolution amongst consumers, suggesting theoretical and practical implications in crisis communication
The New(s) Creators: Labor, Precarity, and Community on Global Subscription Platforms
No full text161 pagesThe “digital transformation” of the news industry—brought on initially by the web and later by social media—has been the subject of hundreds of studies and enduring discussions about the role of technology in the future of journalism. This dissertation enters this debate by examining how the structures, logics, and incentives of the social media economy are presently reconfiguring the work of independent digital journalism on global subscription platforms. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 independent journalists spanning 9 countries and an analysis of the American subscription platform Substack, I argue that journalists’ labor on subscription platforms mirrors the nature of work undertaken by social media influencers in the “creator economy.” I explore this argument by highlighting three dimensions of their labor that represent how platformization and creator cultures have pervaded journalists’ work: relations with news communities, experiences with precarity, and self-branding and identity management. My findings suggest that global subscription platforms challenge and reimagine the role of identity and subjectivity in news production in spaces largely unsupported by advertising or algorithms. Yet, this emerging space also introduces new inequalities in access, financial success, and sustainability that are familiar concerns from the social media economy and facing full-time cultural producers. I explore this argument with particular attention to voices traditionally excluded from the journalistic mainstream by highlighting journalists from underrepresented communities who are working to reform and reimagine the future of news. I conclude by considering how subscription platforms play a role in challenging the norms and cultures of the institution of journalism—for workers within and beyond the United States—whether or not these challenges lead to meaningful media reform.2026-09-0
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
WHAT DO YOU WEIGH? POPULAR FEMINISM AND BODY POSITIVITY AS MEDIATED DISEMBODIMENT
No full textThis study analyzes the Instagram page, @i_weigh, and its relation to body positivity discourses. Drawing on a visual discourse analysis of 300 Instagram posts from the @i_weigh account, this study suggests that body positivity movements may be increasingly disembodied in a self-representational era hallmarked by popular feminism. On 16 March 2018, actress and activist Jameela Jamil posted a photo to Instagram, obscuring her body with textual identifiers like “great friends” and “I laugh every day.” This post marked the launch of the Instagram account @i_weigh. This page, founded and maintained by Jamil, posts submissions from Instagram users answering the call to “weigh” themselves beyond the corporeal. This movement, now millions in reach, signals a departure from the conventions of body positivity. Rather than discovering empowerment through the body, @i_weigh encourages its participants to publicly privilege external relationships, social identities, and economic opportunities in an effort to look past the body. @i_weigh discursively constructs a mediated disembodiment, characterized by its liminal visual representation and categorization of the self through narratives of resilience and strength, claiming marginalized identities, and extra-self connection. The interaction of liminality and mediated disembodiment is reflective of self-representation in an age of popular feminism, placing the responsibility back on women for their own empowerment and production of selfhood while ignoring the socio-cultural frameworks that create a need for empowerment in the first place
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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