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Monica L P Robbers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • blinded by science the social Construction of Reality in forensic television shows and its effect on criminal jury trials
    Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2008
    Co-Authors: Monica L P Robbers
    Abstract:

    Using a social Construction of Reality perspective, this article examines the social distance between popular media depictions of criminal investigations and Reality, and the extent to which these depictions influence criminal jury trials. Data were collected from a nationally representative, random sample of trial counsel and judges and was analyzed using qualitative methods. Results indicate there is a great deal of social distance between popular media depictions of criminal investigation and Reality. Moreover, jurors appear to have no tools to assess the credibility of forensic testing on television shows or in trials. Furthermore, the social Construction of Reality on forensic television shows has not only influenced jury decisions but has also affected the ways in which trial counsel and judges do their jobs. Suggestions for further research and discussion of public policy implications are included in the study.

Brian J Bowe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • crystallization how social media facilitates social Construction of Reality
    Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2014
    Co-Authors: Donghee Yvette Wohn, Brian J Bowe
    Abstract:

    We propose Crystallization as a framework for understanding how Reality is socially constructed in the age of social media by incorporating network attributes to agenda-setting theory. Reflecting the affordances of contemporary technology and the psychological underpinnings of social influence, Crystallization suggests that social media facilitates information produced or relayed by the members of our social networks, who become neo agenda setters. People's perceptions of Reality will develop through their social networks and everyone will perceive that the information their social network produces reflects Reality, but at the macro level, we will see an ever-diverging cacophony of socially constructed realities.

Andreas Hepp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Media and the Social Construction of Reality
    The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media, 2020
    Co-Authors: Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp
    Abstract:

    In this chapter, the authors argue that a phenomenological approach to sociology only can be preserved if a version of sociology is developed that takes seriously the existence of media and the entanglement of digital media technologies and interfaces in every aspect of daily life. That means, in turn, taking seriously the roles that data extraction and data processing play in both the operations of digital media and the production of what counts as knowledge of the social world. If so, then some adjustments to other key assumptions must be made, for example about the social world’s transparency. But those adjustments are worth making in order to preserve the project of phenomenological sociology, which still has much to contribute to a sense of the tensions at work in the social world and its forms of knowledge. To outline this, the authors first discuss the consequences of a mediated life for social theory, then reflect on how digital media and data changed processes of the mediated Construction Reality, and finally introduce “deep mediatization” as a “sensitizing concept” for such an analysis.

  • The Mediated Construction of Reality
    2016
    Co-Authors: Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp
    Abstract:

    Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media. Drawing on Schutz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital media s profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that is stable and liveable, or one that is increasingly unstable and unliveable?

Donghee Yvette Wohn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • crystallization how social media facilitates social Construction of Reality
    Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2014
    Co-Authors: Donghee Yvette Wohn, Brian J Bowe
    Abstract:

    We propose Crystallization as a framework for understanding how Reality is socially constructed in the age of social media by incorporating network attributes to agenda-setting theory. Reflecting the affordances of contemporary technology and the psychological underpinnings of social influence, Crystallization suggests that social media facilitates information produced or relayed by the members of our social networks, who become neo agenda setters. People's perceptions of Reality will develop through their social networks and everyone will perceive that the information their social network produces reflects Reality, but at the macro level, we will see an ever-diverging cacophony of socially constructed realities.

Alan Sica - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • social Construction as fantasy reconsidering peter berger and thomas luckmann s the social Construction of Reality after 50 years
    Cultural Sociology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Alan Sica
    Abstract:

    Ever since Berger and Luckmann published their treatment of the sociology of knowledge in 1966, older versions of the subfield have languished, been forgotten, or misrepresented, as if The Social Construction of Reality (SCR) eliminated the need to study its predecessors in Wissenssoziologie. By considering Berger’s subsequent statements about the book, along with remarks recently made by Luckmann, and then returning to the text itself, this article shows that some of the main suppositions on which SCR rests are foreign to the sociology of knowledge in its original forms, and that a number of these premises do not seem as plausible in today’s social world as they may have in the early 1960s when their authors formulated them. The unintended scholarly results of SCR’s surprising publishing success are evaluated.

  • Social Construction as Fantasy: Reconsidering Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality after 50 Years:
    Cultural Sociology, 2015
    Co-Authors: Alan Sica
    Abstract:

    Ever since Berger and Luckmann published their treatment of the sociology of knowledge in 1966, older versions of the subfield have languished, been forgotten, or misrepresented, as if The Social Construction of Reality (SCR) eliminated the need to study its predecessors in Wissenssoziologie. By considering Berger’s subsequent statements about the book, along with remarks recently made by Luckmann, and then returning to the text itself, this article shows that some of the main suppositions on which SCR rests are foreign to the sociology of knowledge in its original forms, and that a number of these premises do not seem as plausible in today’s social world as they may have in the early 1960s when their authors formulated them. The unintended scholarly results of SCR’s surprising publishing success are evaluated.