2021
DOI: 10.1177/1329878x21988954
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The potency of digital media: group chats and mediated scandals in the Philippines

Abstract: With widespread use of digital media, public figures and ordinary people easily become involved in scandals. Social media leaks and mobs illustrate how digital media figure into scandals in the context of everyday politics. The occurrence of scandals on digital media prompts questions on emerging dynamics and potentials of digital communication. Using case studies from the Philippines, this study identifies and examines digital media affordances and how they enable mediated scandals. Findings indicate that dig… Show more

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“…Indeed, as other papers also suggest (e.g. building new skills for a digital labour platform (Soriano, 2021), mastering the analytics of Twitter (Cao, 2021), countering narratives on social media (Lorenzana, 2021)), the integration of digital media in aspects of everyday life generates situations and structures that require new abilities and predispositions. Thus, our assessment of the experience of digital media in the Philippines still points to the accumulation of capitals and their conversion, processes which are consistent with capitalist modernity.…”
Section: Convertibility Of Capitals and Emergence Of Competenciesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, as other papers also suggest (e.g. building new skills for a digital labour platform (Soriano, 2021), mastering the analytics of Twitter (Cao, 2021), countering narratives on social media (Lorenzana, 2021)), the integration of digital media in aspects of everyday life generates situations and structures that require new abilities and predispositions. Thus, our assessment of the experience of digital media in the Philippines still points to the accumulation of capitals and their conversion, processes which are consistent with capitalist modernity.…”
Section: Convertibility Of Capitals and Emergence Of Competenciesmentioning
confidence: 99%