Antonio Momoc is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Communication, University of Bucharest. Since 2020 he is the Dean of the Faculty.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Mar 1, 2021
In January 2021, Twitter and Facebook locked Trump's accounts after the violence in the US Co... more In January 2021, Twitter and Facebook locked Trump's accounts after the violence in the US Congress. During the 2020 election year, the IT giants marked several of Trump's posts as misleading and deleted video content that could deceive the public. In his first conference as President, in February 2017, Trump labele d "CNN as fake news," and the next day he posted a message on Twitter accusing several media organizations (NY Times, CNN, NBC News, ABC, CBS) of being "enemies of the American people." In this study, I analyzed the NY Times discourse in the 2020 articles on the dispute between the IT giants and the incumbent President, and how the journalists reflected the content decisions taken by the social media platforms: as censorship or as legitimate fight against fake news.
Abstract.Facebook was first used by the political candidates in a presidential campaign in Romani... more Abstract.Facebook was first used by the political candidates in a presidential campaign in Romania in 2009. Social media and web 2.0 changed the way people were interacting, so the politicians had to adapt their communication to these social changes. Politicians reacted mechanically to the fact that in the past years more and more Romanians started to use social media. The aim of the article is to explain how the Romanian politicians acted in response to what happened in the online communication: did the left wing or the right wing candidates use social media to convey electoral messages? Did the left wing or the right wing radicals communicate using social media? To analyze the political speech, the content analysis method was applied on the posts in the electoral campaign on the personal blogs and on the official Facebook accounts of the candidates. This study answers the question on whether the Romanian left wing or right wing adapted its communication faster to the online environment during 2009 presidential campaign.Keywords: social media, new media, political communication.IntroductionWith its YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, the internet after 2000 year is a much different internet than the one in the '90s. Politicians also reacted to these communication changes: candidates upgraded from the "display" type of website to the blog and Facebook account.While the internet of the '90s meant Web 1.0 (World Wide Web) and implied "websites, URL addresses, domains" (Gutu, 2007, 18-19), after year 2000 the online environment produced major mutations in how the internet users communicated with each other. Web 2.0 (World Live Web) meant second generation Internet services, offering the user unlimited possibilities for communication and social interaction. Tim O'Reilly defined the Web 2.0 concept as "the revolution of the businesses in the computers industry caused by the transformation of internet into a platform whose rules are intelligible, ensuring the success of this platform" (Flew, 2008: 17).Web 2.0 era assumes the existence of a user-friendly interactive interface and includes social networking services. "Web 2.0 allowed the traditional audience to transform into an active audience" (Gutu, 2007: 105-106). Internet content is generated by the users, who have turned into online information producers."The audience becomes its own media producer" (Balaban, 2009: 161-162). The Internet offers the audience the possibility "to pass from the simple receiver status to the communicator status". Media behavior is nowadays consumer (user) generated content, meaning the information sent by bloggers through internet does not have to pass through gatekeepers, as it was the case of the information that had become news in traditional media (Balaban, 2009).Once internet access increased, more and more people used social media to share and create online texts, images, videos, messages about their own personal and professional life. In December 2009 there were 7.430.000 Internet users in Romania. In December 2011, Internet Usage in the European Union - EU27 (Internet Word Stats, 2012) counted 8,578,484 Internet users. That represented a virtual electoral pool, which the politicians could not have missed (Tudor, 2008).Facebook is the second-most-visited site, after Google. "If someone use the Internet, that person is increasingly likely to use Facebook" (Kirkpatrick, 2010: 16). In November 2009 Facebook recorded 414.000 accounts originating in Romania. According to the Facebrands.ro - Facebook Pages Monitoring Service in Romania (2012), on January 1st 2010 there were only 518.140 Facebook users, while on January 1st 2011 their number reached 2.405.920.According to the Facebook Global Monitor, published by InsideFacebook.com, in 2010 the largest number of Facebook users were in the United States, but the next ten countries were a global mix. In order, they were the United Kingdom, Turkey, Indonesia, France, Canada, Italy, the Philippines, Spain, Australia, and Colombia. …
The volume “Unprecedented letters addressed to Dimitrie Gusti” captures the world of the interwar... more The volume “Unprecedented letters addressed to Dimitrie Gusti” captures the world of the interwar Romanian village and episodes from the daily life of the monographers in 40 unpublished letters. It includes an introduction, notes and comments signed by sociologist Zoltán Rostás. The first part comprises the letters addressed by the villagers from Drăguș to Gusti between 1929-1954, while the second part reveals 26 letters sent by Traian Herseni between 1927-1942 to his mentor, the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti. The volume ends with 8 letters sent by other foreign disciples and researchers to the founder of the Sociological School in Bucharest. The letters reveal uknown facts about the inner organisational conflicts within the Monograhy School.
What is Romania's project for society and which is the direction we should be heading to? Who... more What is Romania's project for society and which is the direction we should be heading to? Who are the actors of modernization: the technocrats or the politicians? These are questions for which social actors, such as the Sociological School of Bucharest, have provided answers during the interwar period. The project for society that Dimitrie Gusti imagined assigned an essential role to the scientists (and sociologists) for modernizing the rural society. The modernization was going to be achieved through the total Monography of the Romanian society. This article is answering the question regarding the nature of the relationship between politics and sociology according to Gusti's conceptual system.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Mar 1, 2021
In January 2021, Twitter and Facebook locked Trump's accounts after the violence in the US Co... more In January 2021, Twitter and Facebook locked Trump's accounts after the violence in the US Congress. During the 2020 election year, the IT giants marked several of Trump's posts as misleading and deleted video content that could deceive the public. In his first conference as President, in February 2017, Trump labele d "CNN as fake news," and the next day he posted a message on Twitter accusing several media organizations (NY Times, CNN, NBC News, ABC, CBS) of being "enemies of the American people." In this study, I analyzed the NY Times discourse in the 2020 articles on the dispute between the IT giants and the incumbent President, and how the journalists reflected the content decisions taken by the social media platforms: as censorship or as legitimate fight against fake news.
Abstract.Facebook was first used by the political candidates in a presidential campaign in Romani... more Abstract.Facebook was first used by the political candidates in a presidential campaign in Romania in 2009. Social media and web 2.0 changed the way people were interacting, so the politicians had to adapt their communication to these social changes. Politicians reacted mechanically to the fact that in the past years more and more Romanians started to use social media. The aim of the article is to explain how the Romanian politicians acted in response to what happened in the online communication: did the left wing or the right wing candidates use social media to convey electoral messages? Did the left wing or the right wing radicals communicate using social media? To analyze the political speech, the content analysis method was applied on the posts in the electoral campaign on the personal blogs and on the official Facebook accounts of the candidates. This study answers the question on whether the Romanian left wing or right wing adapted its communication faster to the online environment during 2009 presidential campaign.Keywords: social media, new media, political communication.IntroductionWith its YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, the internet after 2000 year is a much different internet than the one in the '90s. Politicians also reacted to these communication changes: candidates upgraded from the "display" type of website to the blog and Facebook account.While the internet of the '90s meant Web 1.0 (World Wide Web) and implied "websites, URL addresses, domains" (Gutu, 2007, 18-19), after year 2000 the online environment produced major mutations in how the internet users communicated with each other. Web 2.0 (World Live Web) meant second generation Internet services, offering the user unlimited possibilities for communication and social interaction. Tim O'Reilly defined the Web 2.0 concept as "the revolution of the businesses in the computers industry caused by the transformation of internet into a platform whose rules are intelligible, ensuring the success of this platform" (Flew, 2008: 17).Web 2.0 era assumes the existence of a user-friendly interactive interface and includes social networking services. "Web 2.0 allowed the traditional audience to transform into an active audience" (Gutu, 2007: 105-106). Internet content is generated by the users, who have turned into online information producers."The audience becomes its own media producer" (Balaban, 2009: 161-162). The Internet offers the audience the possibility "to pass from the simple receiver status to the communicator status". Media behavior is nowadays consumer (user) generated content, meaning the information sent by bloggers through internet does not have to pass through gatekeepers, as it was the case of the information that had become news in traditional media (Balaban, 2009).Once internet access increased, more and more people used social media to share and create online texts, images, videos, messages about their own personal and professional life. In December 2009 there were 7.430.000 Internet users in Romania. In December 2011, Internet Usage in the European Union - EU27 (Internet Word Stats, 2012) counted 8,578,484 Internet users. That represented a virtual electoral pool, which the politicians could not have missed (Tudor, 2008).Facebook is the second-most-visited site, after Google. "If someone use the Internet, that person is increasingly likely to use Facebook" (Kirkpatrick, 2010: 16). In November 2009 Facebook recorded 414.000 accounts originating in Romania. According to the Facebrands.ro - Facebook Pages Monitoring Service in Romania (2012), on January 1st 2010 there were only 518.140 Facebook users, while on January 1st 2011 their number reached 2.405.920.According to the Facebook Global Monitor, published by InsideFacebook.com, in 2010 the largest number of Facebook users were in the United States, but the next ten countries were a global mix. In order, they were the United Kingdom, Turkey, Indonesia, France, Canada, Italy, the Philippines, Spain, Australia, and Colombia. …
The volume “Unprecedented letters addressed to Dimitrie Gusti” captures the world of the interwar... more The volume “Unprecedented letters addressed to Dimitrie Gusti” captures the world of the interwar Romanian village and episodes from the daily life of the monographers in 40 unpublished letters. It includes an introduction, notes and comments signed by sociologist Zoltán Rostás. The first part comprises the letters addressed by the villagers from Drăguș to Gusti between 1929-1954, while the second part reveals 26 letters sent by Traian Herseni between 1927-1942 to his mentor, the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti. The volume ends with 8 letters sent by other foreign disciples and researchers to the founder of the Sociological School in Bucharest. The letters reveal uknown facts about the inner organisational conflicts within the Monograhy School.
What is Romania's project for society and which is the direction we should be heading to? Who... more What is Romania's project for society and which is the direction we should be heading to? Who are the actors of modernization: the technocrats or the politicians? These are questions for which social actors, such as the Sociological School of Bucharest, have provided answers during the interwar period. The project for society that Dimitrie Gusti imagined assigned an essential role to the scientists (and sociologists) for modernizing the rural society. The modernization was going to be achieved through the total Monography of the Romanian society. This article is answering the question regarding the nature of the relationship between politics and sociology according to Gusti's conceptual system.
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