Managing unpleasant moods: Affective discipline in Facebook discussions

Rantasila, Anna

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“…Facebook is often utilised to issue instantaneous warnings, directions and instant alerts. It also serves as an additional route for emergency services during natural disasters such as storms, flooding or tornadoes (Rantasila, 2022). In the case of governance, Facebook, as a form of social media, assists to exchange crucial information during crises, which is one of its biggest advantages.…”

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“…Business/e-commerce Facebook serves to create awareness of a particular product or several business opportunities (Perifanou et al, 2021;Tien et al, 2019). Disaster management Facebook is used to manage a disaster or national crisis (Eaton et al, 2021;Rantasila, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Facebook helps to facilitate governance in complex societies (Rantasila, 2022;Van der Vlist et al, 2022).…”

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Unlocking the Potential of Facebook as a Versatile Platform for Knowledge Sharing

Enwereji,

Van Rooyen,

Morgan

2024

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Social network sites, most notably Facebook, have fundamentally transformed the way information is transferred, received, and shared by individuals and organisations. This article explores the diverse contexts in which Facebook is utilised as a knowledge-sharing instrument, along with the key challenges encountered in adopting Facebook as a knowledge-sharing instrument. It also indicates the gaps in adopting Facebook as a knowledge-sharing instrument. In a systematic literature review, 400 articles accomplishing the research objectives were identified. The findings revealed that Facebook can be used in different contexts. Greater awareness of Facebook’s versatility as a platform for knowledge sharing across various domains is recommended. This article also advises that the challenges related to cost, time investment and technical expertise be addressed, and emphasises the need for education and training.

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Unlocking the Potential of Facebook as a Versatile Platform for Knowledge Sharing

Enwereji,

Van Rooyen,

Morgan

2024

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“…restrictions and preventive measures revolve around questions of control. Affective discipline refers to a set of dynamics and practices used in attempts to manage the affective intensities of public conversations (Rantasila, 2020b). While calls for restrictions by public health officials are a recognizable example of affective discipline, acts of affective discipline also take place on social media (Rantasila, 2020b).…”

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“…Affective discipline refers to a set of dynamics and practices used in attempts to manage the affective intensities of public conversations (Rantasila, 2020b). While calls for restrictions by public health officials are a recognizable example of affective discipline, acts of affective discipline also take place on social media (Rantasila, 2020b). In addition to direct expressions, affective disciplining takes more subtle and vernacular forms (Das, 2017;Rantasila, 2020b), such as the use of emojis and gifs (Tuters et al, 2020).…”

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Rocketing Sheep: Affective Discipline in Anonymous Mobile Social Media Jodel During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Laaksonen

Rantasila

2021

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The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked online discussion in unprecedented volumes, as citizens use social media to share their opinions and concerns regarding the prevention measures, for instance. Much of such activity takes place under real names on popular platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. However, parallel to these platforms more anonymous spaces remain and flourish, including completely anonymous services such as Secret.ly and Ask.fm, or pseudonymized services such as Reddit. This study focuses on Covid-19 related discussion on mobile social media platform Jodel, an anonymous-by-design social media application that allows messaging users who are geographically close. In this paper, we explore discussions about the Covid-19 pandemic on Jodel in Helsinki, Finland, through the theoretical notion of affective discipline. Our data is collected during a virtual, mobile ethnography that followed the discussions on the #corona channel in Jodel in Helsinki during 2020-21. We argue that the anonymity of Jodel provided its users a space to discuss the restrictive measures in a more relaxed manner than real-name-based social media. This also endows the conversations with deeper and different affective attunement than what public discussion would. While the discussions contain moral judgments, they were also rife with humor, irony and distanced spectatorship of the ongoing pandemic, resonating with the carnivalistic discussion cultures of other anonymous and pseudonymous platforms. We argue that anonymous and ephemeral platforms like Jodel, where identities and histories are nonexistent, bring out the affective dynamics of online discussions, and the related forces that assemble and disassemble communities.

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Tunteiden, teknologian ja journalismin ristipaineessa: Verkkokommentoinnin moderointi suomalaisissa uutistoimituksissa

Rantasila¹,

Väätäjä²,

Kiskola³

et al. 2023

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Uutisten verkkokommentoinnin kielteistä ilmapiiriä ja asiattomia kommentteja pidetään vakavana, julkisen keskustelun laatua heikentävänä ongelmana. Keskustelujen moderointia pidetään yleisesti hyvänä tapana puuttua asiattomuuksiin, mutta sen nykyiset keinot koetaan riittämättömiksi, olipa kyse tietokoneohjelmista tai ihmisten tekemästä moderointityöstä. Artikkelissa esittelemme uutiskommenttien moderointia käsittelevää aikaisempaa tutkimusta sekä tarkastelemme aihetta empiirisesti analysoimalla viittä eri mediataloa edustavan suomalaisen media-alan ammattilaisen näkemyksiä ja kokemuksia verkkokommenttien moderoinnista, keskittyen erityisesti kommenteissa esiintyvien tunteiden rooliin. Analyysin pohjalta kommenteista ja niiden moderoinnista piirtyy ristiriitainen kuva. Yhtäältä kommentteja arvostetaan yleisön osallistumisen muotona ja niiden tunnesisällön koetaan lisäävän keskustelun vetovoimaa. Toisaalta moderointi koetaan vaivalloisena ja journalistisesta perustyöstä erillisenä tehtävänä ja kommentit liian negatiivisina. Myös moderoinnin ja journalismin vaaliman ilmaisunvapauden suhde näyttäytyy jännitteisenä. Tietokoneavusteinen moderointi puolestaan koetaan hyödylliseksi, mutta sitä pidetään myös epätarkkana. Näitä havaintoja vasten pohdimme, millaista uutiskommenttien moderointi voisi tulevaisuudessa olla suomalaisella mediakentällä. Esitämme, että tehokkuutta tavoittelevan moderoinnin lisäksi käytössä olisi hyvä olla keinoja, jotka tarttuvat asiattomaan kommentoitiin pehmeämmin kuin sisältöä poistamalla.

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Managing unpleasant moods: Affective discipline in Facebook discussions

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

Unlocking the Potential of Facebook as a Versatile Platform for Knowledge Sharing

Unlocking the Potential of Facebook as a Versatile Platform for Knowledge Sharing

Rocketing Sheep: Affective Discipline in Anonymous Mobile Social Media Jodel During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Tunteiden, teknologian ja journalismin ristipaineessa: Verkkokommentoinnin moderointi suomalaisissa uutistoimituksissa

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