Social Media and Social Order

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2022

Social Media and Social Order

Edited by: David Herbert and Stefan Fisher-Høyrem

https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675612

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Social Media and Social Order combines a structural analysis of the global impact of social media as contributing to the production of a datafied social order with a series of actor-focused analyses, each examining how roles structured by social media are performed at various sites: enmeshed in European cities, entangled in contested Middle Eastern borders, and embedded in provincial Indian small-town networks. The final section then arcs back to a focus on the general properties of social media networks revealed through two American cases, emphasizing the human costs for the recipients of abuse (legislators of color) and the political costs of participatory propaganda for a deliberative understanding of democracy.

A central theme is how the principle of differential treatment embedded in the datafied social order is becoming increasingly widespread across social fields. The book demonstrates how social media are implicated in reshaping social order in ways which align with this principle, including creating new precarious hierarchies of esteem, reinforcing existing social, class and religious hierarchies, opening political discussion to more participants but at the cost of reinforcing local hierarchies and dominant discourses, underlining gendered constructions of national identity, amplifying the abuse received by women and people of color in leadership positions and enmeshing users in the circulation of propaganda which resonates with their preconceptions, thus deepening societal polarization.

Author / Editor information

David Herbert, University of Bergen, Norway
Stefan Fisher-Høyrem, University of Agder, Norway

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1 Introduction: How Do Social Media Change Social Order? The Deep Datafication of Society from Global to Local Scales (and Back Again) David Herbert and Stefan Fisher-Høyrem Open Access Download PDF	1
2 The Social Construction of Reality – Really! Nick Couldry Open Access Download PDF	10
3 The Dramaturgy of Social Media: Platform Ecology, Uneven Networks, and the Myth of the Self John D. Boy and Justus Uitermark Open Access Download PDF	17
4 Clusters of Prestige: Social Media and Social Order in the Norwegian Bible Belt Stefan Fisher-Høyrem and David Herbert Open Access Download PDF	33
5 Meme Collectives and Preferred Truths in Assam Sagorika Singha Open Access Download PDF	52
6 Insurgent Ways of Looking: Gendering the Witness and the Land in the Visuality of Israel-Palestine Liat Berdugo Open Access Download PDF	67
7 Gender and Race in the Digital Town Hall: Identity-Based Attacks Against US Legislators on Twitter Sarah Sobieraj and Shaan Merchant Open Access Download PDF	89
8 Participatory Propaganda: The Engagement of Audiences in the Spread of Persuasive Communications Alicia Wanless and Michael Berk Open Access Download PDF	111
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	138
List of Tables Open Access Download PDF	139

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Pages
- Main content: 149
Keywords: social media; inter-group relations; digital media; mass communication; social interaction; social order; influence; public interest; technology; computational social science; populism; propaganda; social construction; social network analysis; social networks

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9788366675612

Hardcover

Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9788366675605