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The prevalence of social media avails individual users and organizations with unprecedented access to personal information that was once arduous to gather. Undoubtedly, privacy concerns on social media platforms become critically important as vendors can now potentially have access to a large collection of users' personal information. This book discusses the privacy concerns in using social media. It discusses the negative impact social media has on different populations; the use of social media for job placement; the dangers of social media for the psyche; and videos as a form of transmedia s

The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adaptation of media governance. The second part opens pathways for critique and provides a thorough understanding of the ambivalences that scholars encounter when addressing media governance as a field of study. The third part highlights shortcomings like geographical narrowness and tensions in the use of media governance concepts. The scholarly contributions show that media governance as a field of study is far from being established: its conceptualizations are in flux and need scholarly self-reflection, and ongoing discussions need to leave behind universalist conceptualizations and methods of analysis. The chapters reflect on hegemony, power, sovereignty, and identity as conceptual center points in media governance research. The book uniquely breaks with self-referential Western academia and is part of ongoing collaborative scholarly efforts towards epistemic transformation through dialogue. Sarah Anne Ganter is Assistant Professor of Communication and Cultural Policy in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her work is influenced by a cosmopolitan approach to academic work, integrating scholarly work from different cultural, linguistic and geographical academic settings She has published widely on media governance, digital policy and regulation, and journalism, and analyzes media and digital policy transformations from a theoretical perspective that focuses on the dynamics and interactions shaping institutional fields. Her work is published in scholarly journals, international book projects, including the co-authored book "The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society." Hanan Badr is Professor for Public Spheres and Inequalities at the Department of Communication, University of Salzburg, Austria. Her work focuses comparing media systems, diversifying communication research, globalization and digitization transform journalism and She held positions at Freie Universitat Berlin, Cairo University, Gulf University for Sciences and Technology and Orient-Institut Beirut. Her work was published in Digital Journalism, International Communication Gazette, Media & Communication and Media, War & Conflict. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the DAAD Scholarship Award. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association and serves as Regional Liasion Coordinator for AEJMC International Communication Division ICD.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the importance of the Hindi media in India's political, social and economic transformation with evidence from the countryside and the cities. Accessed by more than forty percent of the public, it continues to play an important role in building political awareness and mobilising public opinion. Instead of viewing the media as a singular entity, this book highlights its diversity and complexity to understand the changing dynamics of political communication that is shaped by the interactions between the news media, political parties and the public, and how various media forms are being used in a rapidly transforming environment. The book offers insights into how print, television, and digital media work together with, rather than in isolation from, each another to grasp the complexities of the emerging hybrid media environment and the future of mobilisation.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Influencers and Activists: Political Performances in an Increasingly Online World -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Instagram -- Digital Activism -- Political Performance -- Platforms and Politics -- The Political Potential of Instagram -- Influencers and Activism -- Methods -- Data -- A Note on Ethics -- Case 1: The Women's March -- Case 2: The Reproductive Justice Movement -- Content Analyses with an Exploratory Sample -- Quantitative Analysis for Case 1 -- Findings -- Currating Activism -- Case 1: Doing the Unexpected -- Case 2: Are Organizations Influencers? -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 2 -- Social Comparison on Facebook and Its Effect on an Individual's Well-Being -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Social Comparison Theory -- Upward and Downward Comparison -- New Perspectives on Social Comparison -- Social Comparison on Social Network Sites -- Social Comparison and the Way of Use SNSs -- Personality and Social Comparison Processes on Facebook -- Consequences of Online Social Comparison -- Conclusion -- References -- Biographical Sketches -- Chapter 3 -- The Influence of Instagram upon Millennials' Purchase Intention: Celebrity Endorsement and Image Posts -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Instagram -- Millennials -- User Generated Content (UGC) -- Visual Cues - Colour -- Celebrity Endorsement -- Endorser Attractiveness -- Visual Attractiveness -- Purchase Intention -- Methodology -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Social Semiotic Aspect of Instagram Social Networks -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Instagram Communication Model -- The Typical Semiotic Communication Model -- Instagram's Semiotic Communication Model -- Instagram as Visual/Pictorial Social Network -- Social Semiotic Model of Instagram Environment.

Mass media helps administrators and policy makers expand their audience reach, which is crucial considering the fact that face-to-face channels of communication often require abundant human resources to reach masses in rural areas. Agriculture communication is the process of communicating agriculture related information to the stakeholders of agriculture activities. The study reveals that oral communication channel plays a major role in providing information to the rural respondents vis-à-vis mass media channels. Majority of development schemes have reached stakeholders through oral communication than mass media, says the study. It may be inferred that oral communication channels are the major source of information in agricultural communication to the extent of creating awareness about development oriented programmes of the government.

In this article, we examine how second-generation locative media and emerging contemporary camera phone practices are becoming entangled to create new visualities and socialities of place and place making. With location-based services (LBS) smartphone apps like Instagram geotagging is increasingly the default, rather than choice. This has transformed both how we experience and conceptualize co-present relationships across micro and macro realms and how we chart these relationships and environments as we move through the everyday world. Through a preliminary study of 10 users of smartphones in urban Australia we explore their daily routines and how camera phone and LBS practices become part of those everyday repetitions. In 2013, Australia mobile Internet subscriptions have now reached 22.1 million: basically one subscription for every person in the country. To understand these new everyday visualities we develop the notion of the "digital wayfarer" as a way to think about the perpetually moving mobile media user. Expanding upon Tim Ingold's notion of the wayfaring type of mobility that is both routine and repetitive (i.e., "transport") in the realm of the digital interwoven within the everyday, we reflect upon the digital wayfarer as they move through taking and sharing pictures and their tagged geographic and temporal contexts as part of broader emplaced and interwoven visualities and socialities.

In this article, we turn back to the 1918 influenza pandemic to throw light on the alliances of information communication technologies and technologies of mobility (such as the car) during the pandemic. We examine newspaper articles, technical publications, and other historical texts to demonstrate that, despite the fact that mobile technologies—such as cellular phones—did not exist during the 1918 pandemic, the telephone and mobility technology nonetheless formed alliances as networks in motion, or social moments in which risk and reward are calculated not simply by the ability to move, but rather the ability to move, while remaining connected, revealing insight into early cultural formations that share similarities and differences with the use of modern mobile media and mobility technologies during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Role of formal and informal channels of communication.

"This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas and research methods of visual communication. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication, this volume brings together significant and influential work in the discipline"--