The Social Media Landscape: Self-Simulation and Social Consequences

Maria Leena Korpijaakko

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Self-Simulation and Social Consequences

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Page Range:: 221–240

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004448490_013

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Abstract

Social media platforms (SMPs) have emerged as a powerful means for connecting individuals while simultaneously allowing for commercial gain, mass surveillance, data mining, opinion influencing, and political manipulation. The remarkable success of SMPs stems from their ability to both adapt to and exploit a fundamental human need for belonging as well as a desire for social status (McArthy-Jones, 2017). As such, they become contested spaces for marketers, political operatives, and unknown actors who wish to influence and sway public opinion. However, when they act as democratic vehicles for social and political engagement, through the spread of information, SMPs can also be used as a medium for social change.

Furthering and ensuring this requires critical social media literacy (CSML) which will elucidate how users process the other, themselves, and information, as well as exposing how SMP algorithms intervene in perception while exploiting economic or politically-motivated data-mining.

In this chapter, I use Facebook and Snapchat to discuss why people become attached to particular SMPs, how the designs of SMPs encourages and exploits these attachments, and how SMP algorithms are created to serve social and economic interests that are contrary to the pursuit of justice. I shall also examine factors relating to SMPs that deter democratic social participation. In conclusion, I discuss how this knowledge can be used as a part of overall CSML skills, which can also serve to counteract the negative aspects of the cultures on SMPs and buttress the potential for the medium to to increase democratic participation, subverting whatever nefarious purposes may exist in order to create participatory democracies.

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Education for Democracy 2.0

Changing Frames of Media Literacy

丛编： Critical Media Literacies Series, 卷： 6

ISBN:: 9789004448490

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 23 Dec 2020

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Front Matter

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Introduction The Struggle over Meaning in a World in Crisis

Part 1 Engaging the Community

Chapter 2 Participatory Democratic Production

Chapter 3 Video Production and Global Civic Education

Chapter 4 Media Education for the Inclusion of At-Risk Youth

Chapter 5 Disability Representation in Digital Media in Zimbabwe

Chapter 6 Merging Media and Information Literacy and Human Rights Education

Part 2 Framing Media Literacy

Chapter 7 The Critical Mindset in Times of Distrust

Chapter 8 Buying into Participatory Culture?

Chapter 9 Gaming Education

Chapter 10 Not without Us

Chapter 11 Is It All Just Emojis and LOL

Chapter 12 The Social Media Landscape

Part 3 Transforming the Classroom

Chapter 13 Critical Pedagogy for the Media Generation

Chapter 14 Post-Truth Explorers

Chapter 15 Nine Key Insights

Chapter 16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere

Chapter 17 Learning Democracy by Doing Wikiversity

Chapter 18 Multiliteracies and the Critical Thinker

Postscript Bubbles and Baubles

Back Matter

Index

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