It is a pervasive phenomenon that nowadays people use various technological tools such as TV sets, laptops and mobile phones, to engage with media and political content. Chadwick et al... More
As media started to contain the political content, media also began to continually change the modalities of human communication in the political arena. An amount of researchers has been working... More
In today’s world of emerging media, the question arises as to how we use different types of media and technology simultaneously, and whether this media multitasking is beneficial to us. More
The media composition has been continuously changing for decades with new technology emerging and incorporating itself into the previous media landscape. Currently, we are at an age where, more than... More
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... More
Old media? New media? Yeah, the two are interdependent, that’s the hybrid media system (Chadwick, 2017). Why is this important? Well, not always, but most of the time, old media... 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... 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... 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... 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... More