Category Archives: Media

New Book Review: Imko Meyenburg (@ImkoTjado) discusses “Discordant Pandemic Narratives in the U.S.” edited by Shing-Ling S. Chen and Nicole Allaire #sssi #sociology #media #narrative

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

We have just published Imko Meyenburg’s review of “”Discordant Pandemic Narratives in the U.S.” edited by Shing-Ling S. Chen and Nicole Allaire. SSSI Members can download the review by clicking the image below HERE. To joinSSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from … Continue reading →

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New Article: “Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise—A Processual Account” by Alexander Antony, Silke Steets, & Michaela Pfadenhauer https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.598 @sociologylens #sssi #media #sociology #journalism #politics #crisis

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

There is plenty of discussion about media in our journal. Save for David Altheide’s well-known research on news media and more recently Christopher Schneider’s discussion of social media and policing, a few years ago we published Valérie Bélair-Gagnon‘s article “Revisiting … Continue reading →

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New Book Review: Michael Dellwing on William Housley’s “Society in the Digital Age. An Interactionist Perspective” #sssi #sociology #digital @sociologylens https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.585

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

We have just published Michael Dellwing’s review of Will Housley’s book “Society in the Digital Age. An Interactionist Perspective”. SSSI Members can download the review by clicking HERE. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $35 (£30) please click HERE.

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Introduction to Thematic Issue on “Technology, The Internet and Social Media” #sssi #technology #socialmedia #analysis

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

We will soon publish a Thematic Issue on “Technology, The Internet and Social Media”. Scott R. Harris, the Editor of Symbolic Interaction” has written an introduction of this issue in which he briefly discusses its content and how it came … Continue reading →

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Chris Julien “Couch Revisited: A Theoretical Treatment of The Information‐Technological Media of Imgur, Reddit, and Twitter” #sssi #socialmedia #internet #technology #freeaccess

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Symbolic Interaction will soon publish a thematic issue broadly concerned with technology, the internet and social media. Chris Julien’s article “Couch Revisited: A Theoretical Treatment of The Information‐Technological Media of Imgur, Reddit, and Twitter” is the first article from that … Continue reading →

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New on Early View: Simon Gottschalk reviews David Altheide’s ‘Media Syndrome’ #sssi #sociology

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Over the past few decades David Altheide has made enormous contribution not only of interactionist research on the media but on the sociology of the media more generally. In 2016 Altheide published ‘The Media Syndrome’, a book that uses twelve … Continue reading →

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New Book Review: David Altheide on Couldry/Hepp “The Mediated Construction of Reality” #sssi #sociology #media

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Interactionists have always been interested in communication and the media. One of the scholars who have been at the forefront of interactionist research on the media over the past few decades has been David Altheide as his many articles in … Continue reading →

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Review of Tim Highfield’s “Social Media and Everyday Politics” on Early View #sssi #sociology

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Today we are all the more aware that Twitter is used by politicians and for political purposes. As Rituparna Patgiri writes in her review,  Tim Highfield “very beautifully highlights the role that social media plays in organizing or helping movements and protests. … Continue reading →

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New #article by Xiaoli Tian “Embodied versus Disembodied Information” in Symbolic Interaction #sssi #sociology

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

There has been a considerable interest in our journal to explore how interaction and communication via the internet influences social relationships. Xiaoli Tian argues that people increasingly bestow more trust in disembodied information than in information delivered in situations of … Continue reading →

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More books for Review #sssi #sociology

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Here is a second bunch of books that some of you might be interested in reviewing. Please drop me an email if you are interested in reviewing any of these. dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk

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New Article on Early View: “Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a Connected Era” by Jenny L. Davis

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

With new social networking sites like Ello become sites where we spend more and more of our time it is no surprise that Symbolic Interaction features articles that explore “the affects processes of self and identity in theoretically and empirically interesting … Continue reading →

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Now on Early View: Revisiting Impartiality: Social Media and Journalism at The BBC

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon’s article “Revisiting Impartiality: Social Media and Journalism at The BBC” has just been published on Early View. The author draws on David Altheide’s framework of ‘Ecology of Communication’ to examine how the influx of “techies” in the BBC … Continue reading →

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Strangers on a Bus – Media coverage of Esther Kim’s paper on travelling on Greyhound buses

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Esther Kim’s article (SI August 2012) “Nonsocial Transient Behavior: Social Disengagement on the Greyhound Bus” received extraordinary media coverage in a large number of countries. Here is a small selection of links to relevant papers. http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/02/this-seats-taken-a-study-of-antisocial-traveler-behavior/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2182519/The-hate-stare-phone-check-Researchers-reveals-tactics-daily-commute.html http://www.wz-newsline.de/home/politik/sitznachbar-unerwuenscht-die-tricks-in-bus-und-bahn-1.1065283 http://pansci.tw/archives/23835  

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Great Media Coverage for Sandy To’s recent article in Symbolic Interaction

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

The current issue of Symbolic Interaction (Vol.36, 1) features Sandy To’s (杜先致) article “Understanding Sheng Nu (“Leftover Women”): the Phenomenon of Late Marriage among Chinese Professional Women“. The article investigates the “leftover women” phenomenon, i.e. the rise in unmarried professional Chinese. It … Continue reading →

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Tax and Morality: Media Coverage of Jeffrey Kider and William Martin’s recent article in SI

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Jeffrey Kidder and William Martin’s article “What We Talk About When We Talk About Taxes” published in the May issue of Symbolic Interaction received media coverage in the Huffington Post. In her article that appeared in the Business Section of … Continue reading →

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