Joshua A Braun
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua A Braun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua A |
| FAMILY NAME | Braun |
| SIGNATURE | BRAUN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3885-6678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future
Sleeping Giants and indirect boycotts against the far right in United States of America
During the first semester of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic from the new coronavirus, NEAMP PUC-SP (Center for Studies in Art, Media and Politics) began to investigate civil actions around the networks that aims to combat disinformation and hate speech as like: Global Disinformation Index, ISD Global (Institute for Strategic Dialogue), Stop Hate for Profit and Sleeping Giants. Through the analysis of our research around the actions in countri…
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
Researchers who study how digital media technologies are developed and deployed constantly struggle to produce scholarship that is simultaneously enduring and relevant in the moment. In the time it
Activism, Advertising, and Far-Right Media: The Case of Sleeping Giants
This study examines the international activist movement known as Sleeping Giants, a social-media “campaign to make bigotry and sexism less profitable” (Sleeping Giants, n.d.). The campaign originated in the US with an anonymous Twitter account that enlisted followers in encouraging brands to pull their online advertising from Breitbart News . The campaign achieved dramatic success and rapidly spread to regions outside the US, with other anonymous…
Social Media and Distribution Studies
Social media increasingly trouble our traditional distinctions between distribution concerns on the one hand and editorial concerns on the other. Sites like Facebook and reddit simultaneously serve as distribution platforms, circulating messages addressed to individuals and publics, and as mechanical editors, deciding algorithmically which posts and topics warrant inclusion in the continuous and often overwhelming feed of information delivered to…
News programs: Designing MSNBC.com’s online interfaces
In this essay, I use Law’s framework of heterogeneous engineering in tandem with insights from other sociologists of systems and scholarship on organizations, as a springboard to examine a number of digital artifacts assembled by the MSNBC Digital Network over the period 2007 through 2010 and to explore the manner in which a wide variety of values, interests, and concerns became ‘invested and contested’ in their design. Specifically, this article…
Disruption and Identity Maintenance in Risk Information Seeking and Processing
In this article, we highlight 3 limitations of the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model and related information-seeking models, with particular focus on the importance of identity maintenance in shaping what information the public is likely to look for in response to risk. We propose the disruption information seeking and processing (DISP) model as an augment to the RISP. In doing so, we add 3 constructs to the model and explicate…
Hosting the Public Discourse, Hosting the Public: When online news and social media converge
In this paper, we examine the inverse and converging movement of two sets of institutions: news organizations, as they find that part of their mission necessarily includes hosting an unruly user community that does not always play by the norms of journalism; and online media platforms and social networks designed for users to share content, as they find that the content being shared is often much like news, some of which challenges their establis…
The Imperatives of Narrative: Health Interest Groups and Morality in Network News
This article examines some of the story conventions of network television news to explain the ways in which healthcare interest groups develop and maintain their presence in this medium - a process that has significant implications for public understanding of healthcare issues, and therefore to bioethics. The article is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on three major normative conventions of television news: adherence to a s…
Hosting the Public Discourse, Hosting the Public: When online news and social media converge
In this paper, we examine the inverse and converging movement of two sets of institutions: news organizations, as they find that part of their mission necessarily includes hosting an unruly user community that does not always play by the norms of journalism; and online media platforms and social networks designed for users to share content, as they find that the content being shared is often much like news, some of which challenges their establis…
News programs: Designing MSNBC.com’s online interfaces
In this essay, I use Law’s framework of heterogeneous engineering in tandem with insights from other sociologists of systems and scholarship on organizations, as a springboard to examine a number of digital artifacts assembled by the MSNBC Digital Network over the period 2007 through 2010 and to explore the manner in which a wide variety of values, interests, and concerns became ‘invested and contested’ in their design. Specifically, this article…
Disruption and Identity Maintenance in Risk Information Seeking and Processing
In this article, we highlight 3 limitations of the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model and related information-seeking models, with particular focus on the importance of identity maintenance in shaping what information the public is likely to look for in response to risk. We propose the disruption information seeking and processing (DISP) model as an augment to the RISP. In doing so, we add 3 constructs to the model and explicate…
The Imperatives of Narrative: Health Interest Groups and Morality in Network News
This article examines some of the story conventions of network television news to explain the ways in which healthcare interest groups develop and maintain their presence in this medium - a process that has significant implications for public understanding of healthcare issues, and therefore to bioethics. The article is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on three major normative conventions of television news: adherence to a s…
Social Media and Distribution Studies
Social media increasingly trouble our traditional distinctions between distribution concerns on the one hand and editorial concerns on the other. Sites like Facebook and reddit simultaneously serve as distribution platforms, circulating messages addressed to individuals and publics, and as mechanical editors, deciding algorithmically which posts and topics warrant inclusion in the continuous and often overwhelming feed of information delivered to…
The Imperatives of Narrative: Health Interest Groups and Morality in Network News
This article examines some of the story conventions of network television news to explain the ways in which healthcare interest groups develop and maintain their presence in this medium - a process that has significant implications for public understanding of healthcare issues, and therefore to bioethics. The article is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on three major normative conventions of television news: adherence to a s…
Hosting the Public Discourse, Hosting the Public: When online news and social media converge
In this paper, we examine the inverse and converging movement of two sets of institutions: news organizations, as they find that part of their mission necessarily includes hosting an unruly user community that does not always play by the norms of journalism; and online media platforms and social networks designed for users to share content, as they find that the content being shared is often much like news, some of which challenges their establis…
Disruption and Identity Maintenance in Risk Information Seeking and Processing
In this article, we highlight 3 limitations of the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model and related information-seeking models, with particular focus on the importance of identity maintenance in shaping what information the public is likely to look for in response to risk. We propose the disruption information seeking and processing (DISP) model as an augment to the RISP. In doing so, we add 3 constructs to the model and explicate…
News programs: Designing MSNBC.com’s online interfaces
In this essay, I use Law’s framework of heterogeneous engineering in tandem with insights from other sociologists of systems and scholarship on organizations, as a springboard to examine a number of digital artifacts assembled by the MSNBC Digital Network over the period 2007 through 2010 and to explore the manner in which a wide variety of values, interests, and concerns became ‘invested and contested’ in their design. Specifically, this article…
Social Media and Distribution Studies
Social media increasingly trouble our traditional distinctions between distribution concerns on the one hand and editorial concerns on the other. Sites like Facebook and reddit simultaneously serve as distribution platforms, circulating messages addressed to individuals and publics, and as mechanical editors, deciding algorithmically which posts and topics warrant inclusion in the continuous and often overwhelming feed of information delivered to…
Activism, Advertising, and Far-Right Media: The Case of Sleeping Giants
This study examines the international activist movement known as Sleeping Giants, a social-media “campaign to make bigotry and sexism less profitable” (Sleeping Giants, n.d.). The campaign originated in the US with an anonymous Twitter account that enlisted followers in encouraging brands to pull their online advertising from Breitbart News . The campaign achieved dramatic success and rapidly spread to regions outside the US, with other anonymous…
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
Researchers who study how digital media technologies are developed and deployed constantly struggle to produce scholarship that is simultaneously enduring and relevant in the moment. In the time it
Sleeping Giants and indirect boycotts against the far right in United States of America
During the first semester of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic from the new coronavirus, NEAMP PUC-SP (Center for Studies in Art, Media and Politics) began to investigate civil actions around the networks that aims to combat disinformation and hate speech as like: Global Disinformation Index, ISD Global (Institute for Strategic Dialogue), Stop Hate for Profit and Sleeping Giants. Through the analysis of our research around the actions in countri…
Journalism, Media Research, and Mastodon: Notes on the Future
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works)