In the era of new media, are emerging technologies and social media replacing traditional media and destroying the old media ecology? Andrew Chadwick (2017) would argue that it is the coexistence or intermingling of older and new media that is shaping the public’s expectations of what “politics” is. In other... More
On Twitter, the hashtag trend #SoMe4Surgery has been popularized among networks of surgeons and medical professionals as a way to have general discussions about surgery, share ideas, and connect with similar individuals in the field. An October 13th network analysis from scotpublichealth (via: the NodeXL graph gallery) samples 18k tweets... More
When Smyrnaios (2018) mentions the term “infomediation”, he is emphasizing that, through controlling the Internet, oligopoly controls the source of knowledge and money. What’s more, oligopoly’s vertical integration of information production also enables these Internet giants to dominant direct contact with users (Smyrnaios, 2018). That’s why businesses and media publishers... More
Infomediation is defined by Nikos Smyrnaios as “the set of socio-technical mechanisms such as software, services and infrastructure that provide internet users with all types of information online and connect them with other users” (Smyrnaios, 2018). If we consider a platform like Twitter, we can see the role infomediation plays... More
Marc Smith, Lee Rainie, Ben Shneiderman, and Itai Himelboim found six conversational archetypes on Twitter conversation networks. We are going to discuss how and why these different archetypes are formed and will mainly focus on the influence of infomediation and vertical integration. First, we will choose two different types of... More