TY - JOUR
T1 - Seek the meek, seek the just"
T2 - Social media and social justice
AU - Schejter, Amit M.
AU - Tirosh, Noam
N1 - Funding Information:
This study has been supported by a Career Integration Grant awarded by the Marie Curie FP7 program of the European Union and by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1716/12). Both authors contributed equally to this study. The authors wish to thank three anonymous reviewers and in particular the editors of the special issue for their insightful comments and diligent work on this paper.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The latest development of media technology brought about the proliferation of a new media form more often than not dubbed as "social media," however the catchy "social media" descriptor has not been helpful in surfacing the challenges this new media form raises for governance. In this study we try to tackle that difficulty by addressing the impact on policy of both the four characteristics that we have previously established as making contemporary media stand out from the mass media that preceded them - abundance (of content), mobility, interactivity, and multi-mediality - and their capability to enrich information and make its transference more effective. To do so, we propose to adopt the framework of "social justice" to their governance by describing the philosophy of utilitarianism and its effect on media policy in the twentieth century and preferring the competing twentieth century philosophies of John Rawls and Amartya Sen as the theoretical bases for a new governance framework of social media.
AB - The latest development of media technology brought about the proliferation of a new media form more often than not dubbed as "social media," however the catchy "social media" descriptor has not been helpful in surfacing the challenges this new media form raises for governance. In this study we try to tackle that difficulty by addressing the impact on policy of both the four characteristics that we have previously established as making contemporary media stand out from the mass media that preceded them - abundance (of content), mobility, interactivity, and multi-mediality - and their capability to enrich information and make its transference more effective. To do so, we propose to adopt the framework of "social justice" to their governance by describing the philosophy of utilitarianism and its effect on media policy in the twentieth century and preferring the competing twentieth century philosophies of John Rawls and Amartya Sen as the theoretical bases for a new governance framework of social media.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.telpol.2015.08.002
DO - 10.1016/j.telpol.2015.08.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84948719407
SN - 0308-5961
VL - 39
SP - 796
EP - 803
JO - Telecommunications Policy
JF - Telecommunications Policy
IS - 9
ER -