The Communication Strategy of Instagram Self-Love and Self-Care Accounts The paper aims at analyzing the communication strategies used by the creators of self-love and self-care accounts on Instagram. The number of such accounts increased recently, the reasons for which include Instagram's rising popularity and deterioration of mental health throughout society. The paper consists of theoretical and analytical sections - it includes a historical overview of the concepts studied as well as a qualitative analysis of the content of several self-love and self-care Instagram accounts. The results offer an insight into the communication strategies of the creators of selected Instagram accounts concerning self-love and self-care as well as show how receivers react to such content.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Conceptualisations: mediatisation of feelings, emotions and relationships -- 1 Mediatisation of emotional life: theories, concepts and approaches -- 2 Media love: on the mediatisation of love and our love for media -- 3 Emotion artificial intelligence: deep mediatised and machine-reflected self-emotions -- 4 Geomediatisation: a dialectical approach to close social relationship dependence, normalisation and adaptation -- Part II Analysis: challenges caused by mediation to relationships -- 5 Love: interpretative film strategy -- 6 Intimacy: different dimensions of mediated relational lives -- 7 Attention and affective proximity: alleviating loneliness and isolation through virtual girlfriends and boyfriends -- 8 Romantic communication: affordances and practices of mobile (dis)connection -- 9 Friendship: communicative negotiation in proximity and distance -- 10 Family relations: emotional overload -- Part III Explorations: key aspect of emotional lives with media -- 11 Moving pictures creating emotions: the film-makers' emotional strategies in pandemic -- 12 Identity formation: mediated resilience of women who go through dissolution of romantic relationship -- 13 Loneliness: generational differences in interpersonal relationships of users -- 14 FoMO: envy, life satisfaction and friendship -- 15 Erotic experience: technology-mediated sex markets -- Name index -- Subject index.
Modern warfare, including the Ukraine-Russia war, relies heavily on disinformation. Fake news on social media is an integral part of this. At the same time, each conflict is characterised by distinct communication specificities and in the context of the complex effects of fake news, questions arise about their specificity for a given conflict. The aim of the presented research was to answer the question of what the various fake news about the Russian-Ukrainian war disseminated in Polish-language social media have in common and what narrative they generate. The analysis covered the construction of the messages as well as their contexts: social, cultural, historical, and political. For this purpose, a three-stage analysis of ten fake news cases disseminated between March and September 2022 was conducted, applying a three-element analytical matrix. The research made it possible to identify the properties of fake news, generated narratives, and their possible effects.