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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to investigate how postpartum mothers conduct self-disclosure on social media may obtain social support and therefore improve their depressive mood.Design/methodology/approachThe authors extract variables of self-disclosure by manual coding postpartum mothers' 835 posts from a parenting social media in China. The ordinary least squares model and the binary logistic regression model are used to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsThe study suggests that both mothers' superficial level disclosure and personal level disclosure positively affect online social support received, and the effect of personal level disclosure on social support is much greater than that of superficial level disclosure. Online social support received is related to the content of the post and reduces mothers' depressive mood. The authors further find that the association between personal level disclosure and depressive mood is fully mediated by social support.Research limitations/implicationsThe data are collected from a parenting social network. Although it is the major parenting social media with the most users in China, the generalizability of this model and the findings to other social media need additional research.Practical implicationsThis study offers implications for researchers and practitioners with regard to social media uses and impacts, which also has important implications for policy and interventions for the mental health of mothers.Originality/valueThis paper makes theoretical contributions to the literature of social penetration theory and social support by (1) dividing self-disclosure into superficial level disclosure and personal level disclosure according to the intimacy of self-disclosure; (2) empirically investigating the direct effect of online self-disclosure on social support and the mediating effect of social support between online self-disclosure and mothers' depressive mood.

Gegenstand des vorliegenden Beitrags ist die Beurteilung der medialen Berichterstattung während des dritten Golfkriegs im Jahr 2003 unter Gesichtspunkten der Glaubhaftigkeit. Im Mittelpunkt stehen sowohl die Beurteilungen selbst als auch die Gründe, weshalb den Rezipienten/innen ein Beitrag eher glaubhaft oder eher unglaubhaft erscheint. Die Beurteilung der Glaubhaftigkeit wird dabei als ein mehrperspektivisches Urteil unter Rückgriff auf individuelles Welt- und Medienwissen aufgefasst, bei dem sich die Rezipienten/innen sowohl an Inhalts- als auch an Form-Merkmalen der fraglichen Medienberichte orientieren. Die Datenerhebung erfolgte durch Medientagebücher, in denen die Teilnehmer/innen die Quelle, den Inhalt des fraglichen Medienberichts, ihr (Un-)Glaubhaftigkeitsurteil sowie die Gründe für dieses Urteil festhielten und den Untersuchungsleitern/innen per E-Mail zusandten. Bei der Stichprobe handelte es sich um eine ausgewählte Gruppe von Kollegen/innen an verschiedenen Universitäten in Deutschland und Österreich (N=13). Die inhaltsanalytische Auswertung ergibt, dass die Teilnehmer/innen etwa 40% der rezipierten Beiträge durchaus für glaubhaft halten, während sie hinsichtlich der verbleibenden Beiträge meist ambivalent sind. Weiterhin zeigt sich, dass die Rezipienten/innen sich bei ihren Glaubhaftigkeitsurteilen in erster Linie auf Medienwissen sowie Plausibilitätsüberlegungen stützen. Zwar spielt Medienwissen auch bei Unglaubhaftigkeitsurteilen durchaus eine Rolle; hier erweisen sich aber zusätzlich Formmerkmale (wie etwa Unvollständigkeit von Beiträgen) als relevant.

This study develops a new concept in political communication theory called metacommunication. It argues that metacommunication (1) describes a new, third stage in election coverage after issue and strategy coverage; (2) reflects the mass media's new role as a political institution in the third age of political communication; and (3) can be seen as the news media's response to a new, third force in news making: professional political PR. Metacommunication is defined as the news media's self-referential reflections on the nature of the interplay between political public relations and political journalism. While metacoverage can take two forms, self-referential news and process news, the present study puts the main emphasis on the latter. It argues that the coverage of campaign strategists and spin doctors can be seen as a prime example of metadiscursive process news. A cross-country content analysis of "spin doctors in the press" reveals different profiles of metacoverage in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany that can be explained by the different media cultures and political PR cultures. While metacoverage is discussed as a new style of reporting to be welcomed in the view of professionalized political PR, journalism is inherently limited in analyzing PR adequately.

Main description: This book provides an updated approach to the immanent criticism in our time. Every kind of criticism - from Hegel to the Frankfurt School - is addressed using this term, which criticizes its object out of its own normative principles and without reference to other measures. The contributions show how the immanent critique in various fields (philosophy, sociology, media theory, and social criticism) analyzes issues and questions them in convincing ways - beginning with its own Geltung standards and truth standards.

Mass media and its mechanisms of production and selection play a crucial role in the definition of climate change risks. Different form of logic in the political, scientific and media systems are vital aspects in the public debate on this issue. A theoretical analysis of these aspects needs a framework in terms of social theory: Luhmann's concept of a functionally-differentiated society and the mechanisms of structural couplings could help to understand the relations and interplay of these systems in the climate-debate. Based on this framework and various empirical studies, this paper suggests: different logics lead to different climate-definitions in science, politics and mass media. Climate change became interesting, but not until it was located in the political decision-making process. Climate issues become publicly interesting, when they are clear, contentious and can be linked to Elite-Persons. In contrast to scientific communication, news media make great efforts to be clear and definite in their communications.

Augmented intelligence is an umbrella-term used in media theory, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy to cover the complex relation between human intelligence on one side, and mnemo-techniques and computational machines on the other—both understood to be an expansion (also to a social and political degree) of human cognitive faculties.

PurposeWhile prior research provides interesting insights into the effect of social media use in enterprises, there is limited research on how use of different social media platforms affects employee job satisfaction and work efficiency. This study developed a research model to investigate how public and private social media platforms used for different motivations affect employee job satisfaction and work efficiency.Design/methodology/approachOnline surveys were conducted in China, generating 453 valid responses for analysis. Structural equation modeling is performed to test the research model and hypotheses.FindingsThe results suggest that (1) public social media used for both work- and social-related motivations positively affects employee job satisfaction, while private social media only used for social-related motivations can contribute to employee job satisfaction. (2) Public and private social media used for work-related motivations can contribute to employee work efficiency, while social-related motivations for use of public and private social media and employee work efficiency are not significant. (3) In the process of social media usage influencing employee job satisfaction and work efficiency, employees of different genders show significant differences.Originality/valueFirst, this paper contributes to information systems social media research by examining the joint effects of different motivations for public and private social media usage on employee job satisfaction and work efficiency in organizations. Second, it contributes to uses and gratification theory by clarifying the relationship between different motivations for enterprise social media use and its needs.

Phantasmagoria, Modernity, and the City. Urban Modernity and the Politics of Historical Memory -- Specters and Fetishism -- Phantasmagoria and Gesamtkunstwerk, Excursus I: The Specters of Baron Haussmann -- Media, Technology, and Modern Experience. Walter Benjamin and Media Theory -- From Aisthesis to Anaesthetics -- Poverty of Experience and the Architecture of City -- Spectacle and Phantasmagoria. The Ghosts of Guy Debord -- Spectacle Critique and Architectural Theory -- From Spectacle to Phantasmagoria, Excursus II: The Architecture of Phantasmagoria -- The Architecture of Phantasmagoria and the Contemporary City. Virtual Technology, Apparatus, and Anaesthetics -- The Phantoms of Architectural Theory -- The City as Phantasmagoria of the World Interior -- Epilogue: Specters of the city and the Critique of Ideology

Mit dem agentiellen Realismus hat Karen Barad eine der einflussreichsten Theorien des neuen Materialismus vorgelegt. In einer akribischen Relektüre entspinnt dieser Band Barads Programm behutsam und mit rigoroser Aufmerksamkeit für feine Details. Die Untersuchung bezieht - anders als bisherige Arbeiten - das baradsche uvre in seiner Breite ein und eröffnet neue Zugänge für Auseinandersetzungen mit der agentiell-realistischen Theorie und der diffraktiven Methodologie. Damit werden nicht nur Kenner*innen des agentiellen Realismus angesprochen, sondern auch Interessierte ohne Vorkenntnisse an das Thema herangeführt.

Instabile Bildformen, die aus technischen Dysfunktionen, materieller Abnutzung oder digitalen »Glitches« entstehen, werden in diesem Band als Symptome einer prozessualen Zeitlichkeit digitaler Bewegtbilder betrachtet. Deren Entwicklung wird anhand konkreter medientheoretischer Analysen nachgezeichnet, die sich mit beschädigten VHS-Kassetten, verpixelten Handyvideos, sich zersetzenden Zelluloidfilmbildern und der (post-)digitalen Ästhetik des Datamoshing auseinandersetzen. Zeitphilosophische Theoriekonzepte von Gilles Deleuze, William James und Alfred N. Whitehead erweisen sich dabei als anschlussfähig für die Reflexion digitaler Temporalität.

Focusing on public-centered, social-mediated crisis communication, the current exploratory study drew on situational crisis communication theory to formulate a comprehensive view of consumer reactions to crisis. Data mining and automated content analysis techniques were utilized to analyze social media posts by the public during a crisis in the cereals industry. Two path analyses showed that: (a) crisis-related social media posts tended to skip over competitor brand products, followed by two major reaction paths—(1) a rational path based on guilt attribution that justifies implications for the company and (2) an emotional path associated with public distrust ; and (b) public self-blame spilled over to other stakeholders such as the government and economic system. The results give voice to issues that concern the public during crises, both as individuals and as a community. They highlight the fact that sustainable crisis management should involve additional stakeholders. Conclusions and implications for society and practice are suggested.

The 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria gained global attention. The protests drawn thousands of youths to the streets in a wave of rolling fury that built into one of the largest demonstrations for years in the country. Unlike previous protests in the country, the 2020 year's protests played out across social networks in a buildup of videos, images, and stories on Twitter Facebook, and other platforms displaying pictures and footage from the streets. This study employed the Social Network Theory in identifying the influence of social media as a strategy for protest movements and for the diffusion of information about #EndSARS and the sustenance of this movement over a long period, despite forces that have tried to silence it. This study argued that the sustenance of protests such as #EndSARS over a long period was dependent on factors such as: (i) that some individuals were more resistant to being influenced than others; (ii) that some individuals tended to be more responsive than others; and (iii) that some individuals seemed to be more affected than others (and were, therefore, more likely to pass the information on to others). The findings revealed that protesters used emotional dynamics, collective identities, symbolic artifacts, and mutual values to sustain protests if their demands were not met on time.

In her dissertation, Children, Parents, Media and Risk Society: Are Content Ratings Making Media Regulation Possible?, Sophie Jehel examines the role of television and videogame ratings, involved in the content regulation system. In the first section, the author shows how in the family and social environment, debates involving childhood protection are regularly avoided for fear of provoking the issue of "censorship"; this idea completely misses the point of the current legal and economic states of the mass media. Today, television and radio, like "new media" such as internet and social networking applications, are a key element of the "Risk Society." (U. Beck). Similar to other industries, the media grow using the « social production of risk » in many ways, like broadcasting violent or shocking content. Therefore the media needs to regulate content to protect children. In theory, the co-regulation system advocated by the European Union, which involves citizen and user control, is meant to counterbalance the auto-regulation system of the rating process. In the second section, the author, drawing from a survey which examined 1142 children in their final year of elementary school (5th grade in France), or in their first year of junior high school (6th grade in France), and 781 of their parents, analyzes the utilization of content ratings. Today, the risks produced by the media are everywhere in the media environment, and affect people of every social background, but boys and particularly children from working class backgrounds–especially the ones who study in schools ZEP (Priority Education Zone)– are more exposed to situations of "risk". In general, parents and children widely consider the rating system good, but at this point, because of a lack of understanding, they cannot effectively counterbalance the influence of media. Therefore, successful co-regulation remains a long shot. ; Dans sa thèse, Enfants, parents, médias et société du risque. Les classifications de contenu permettent-elles une régulation des médias ? Sophie Jehel pose la question de la place des signalétiques (TV, jeu vidéo) dans le cadre de la régulation des contenus tant familiale que sociale. Dans une première partie, l'auteur montre comment les débats sur la protection de l'enfance sont régulièrement enterrés en France par crainte de faire ressurgir la « censure », en décalage complet avec la situation juridique et économique des médias de masse. Les médias audiovisuels comme les nouveaux médias sont aujourd'hui au cœur de la « société du risque » (U. Beck). Comme les autres industries, ils développent leur croissance sur la « production sociale de risque » de multiples façons, la diffusion de contenus violents ou crus fait partie de cette économie. Les médias sont donc tenus de fournir aussi des outils de protection pour les enfants. Le système de corégulation prôné par l'Union Européenne doit en principe contrebalancer le développement de l'autorégulation des procédures de classification par un contrôle des citoyens utilisateurs. Dans une seconde partie, l'auteure s'appuyant sur une enquête auprès de 1142 enfants de CM2 et de sixième et 781 de leurs parents analyse les usages des classifications de contenu. Si les risques médiatiques sont aujourd'hui très dispersés tant dans l'environnement médiatique que dans les différents espaces sociaux, les garçons et les enfants des milieux populaires, particulièrement ceux fréquentant des établissements ZEP, sont confrontés à des situations de risque renforcé. Si les parents et les enfants adhèrent massivement aux systèmes de classification, ils ne peuvent pour le moment jouer de rôle de contrepouvoir car ils en comprennent mal les procédures. La corégulation reste aujourd'hui un horizon lointain.