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dc.contributor.author | Grech, Alex | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-04T07:48:01Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-04-04T07:48:01Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Grech, A. (2019). The unbearable lightness of online social networks and the hyperlocal. In J. Borg, M. A. Lauri (Eds.), Navigating the Maltese Mediascape (pp. 213-226). Malta: Kite Publishers. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789995750732 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/108068 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Social media platforms and the creation and circulation of content that these platforms facilitate are the subject of polarised views. Early claims for the renewed opportunities for citizen empowerment, democratic participation and the emergence of a networked public sphere have been gradually replaced with concerns and media crises around fake news, algorithms of maths destruction, data misappropriation, echo chambers and the failures of the attention economy. This paper levers on Couldry and Hepp’s (2017) treatise on the mediated construction of reality within the construct of hyperlocal culture, media and society. It examines the reflexive relationship between institutional and private media and social media outlets, and the communicative constructive of the social and reflects on the attributes and challenges of media hybridisation in Malta. It concludes with a hypothesis on media ambivalence, whereby the possibilities of a new media ecosystem with the potential to be deployed for the public good appears to be as much dependent on the affordances of disintermediation as it is on a micro-surveillance culture and long-standing constructs of political and media hegemony. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Kite Publishers | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social networks | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social media | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mass media and culture -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Digital media | en_GB |
dc.subject | Online social networks -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mass media -- Social aspects -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.title | The unbearable lightness of online social networks and the hyperlocal | en_GB |
dc.title.alternative | Navigating the Maltese mediascape | en_GB |
dc.type | bookPart | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
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