Finding Ways to Connect: Potential Role of Social Media in Peace Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-59
Author(s):  
Nicole Fournier-Sylvester
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Potential Role

scholarly journals Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media: The Case of Black Lives Matter

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511880791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Mundt ◽  
Karen Ross ◽  
Charla M Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Careful Management

In this article, we explore the potential role of social media in helping movements expand and/or strengthen themselves internally, processes we refer to as scaling up. Drawing on a case study of Black Lives Matter (BLM) that includes both analysis of public social media accounts and interviews with BLM groups, we highlight possibilities created by social media for building connections, mobilizing participants and tangible resources, coalition building, and amplifying alternative narratives. We also discuss challenges and risks associated with using social media as a platform for scaling up. Our analysis suggests that while benefits of social media use outweigh its risks, careful management of online media platforms is necessary to mitigate concrete, physical risks that social media can create for activists.

Kenyan girls as agents of peace: Enhancing the capacity of future women peacebuilders

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Zanoni
Keyword(s):  
Peace Education ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
International Instruments ◽  
Forms Of Violence

The role of women in peacebuilding efforts has been recognized through various international instruments that have advanced the ability of women to access the peace table. In order for women to act as leaders, they must possess the capacity to disrupt structural, cultural, and direct forms of violence, engage in peacemaking activities, and employ prevention strategies for sustainable peace to be secured. This paper draws on qualitative research on a leadership program called Women of Integrity, Strength, and Hope (WISH) offered at the Daraja Academy, an all-girls boarding school in Kenya. The case study is situated within the larger global context of the women’s peace movement galvanized by the United Nations to highlight the potential role women may offer as peacebuilders. The WISH program engages Kenyan girls through critical peace education pedagogy to enhance capabilities required for future female architects of sustainable peace in Kenya and in the world.

Negotiating Reunion in Intercountry Adoption Using Social Media and Technology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Shier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Birth Parents ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
Media And Technology

Abstract This article focuses on how intercountry adoptees use social media and technology to negotiate and facilitate reunion with their birth families. The qualitative data were drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with eleven adoptees who were internationally adopted to Ireland and have contact with their birth families using social media and technology. The findings from this interpretivist study demonstrate that social media and technology have significantly transformed and can now play a central role in reunion in intercountry adoption. They also suggest that social workers need to be aware of the emerging role of social media and technology in intercountry adoption reunion to develop further knowledge and skills in this area. Specifically, the study indicates that social media and technology have facilitated, ‘normalised’ and casualised aspects of contact with birth family; increased the pace of contact and can pose challenges in navigating contact and boundaries. A key finding of this study relates to the importance of contact with birth siblings and their potential role as mediators and facilitators of contact with birth parents. Participants report that whilst social media and technology have facilitated their contact with birth family, it cannot and does not replace the need for ‘real life’ in-person contact.

scholarly journals The Potential Role of Social Media Platforms in Community Awareness of Antibiotic Use in the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Luxury or Necessity?

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. e233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hosam Mamoon Zowawi ◽  
Malak Abedalthagafi ◽  
Florie A Mar ◽  
Turki Almalki ◽  
Abdullah H Kutbi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Data literacies for the postdemographic social media self

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony McCosker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Continuous Production ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

In a postdemographic world, characterized by the continuous production and calculation of social data in the form of likes, comments, shares, keywords, locations or hashtags, social media platforms are designed with techniques of market segmentation in mind. “Datafication” challenges the agency of participatory social media practices and traditional accounts of the presentation of self in the use of social media. In the process, a tension or paradox arises between the personal, curative or performative character of social media practices and the calculative design and commercial usefulness of platforms and apps. In this paper I interrogate this paradox, and explore the potential role of metrics and analytics for emergent data literacies. By drawing together common self-oriented metrics across dominant platforms, the paper emphasizes analytics targets around a) profile, b) activity, c) interactivity and d) visibility, as a step toward developing new data literacies.

scholarly journals Kontribusi Young Interfaith Peacemaker Community (YIPC) dalam Menyebarkan Narasi Kontra Radikalisme

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-150
Author(s):  
M Royyan Nafis FW
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Internet Information ◽  
The Subject

This research departs from the problem of the ideology of radicalism that developed in Indonesia. The ideology of radicalism in its spread through social media targets many young people as their targets. This is evidenced by the presence of several young people who participated in becoming sympathizers of terrorism and even carried out acts of terror on the basis of religion. The subject of this research is the Young Interfaith Peacemaker Community (YIPC) organization and the object is the YIPC program that can be used to spread counter radicalism narratives. The objectives of this research are: exploring the YIPC program in spreading counter radicalism narratives, analyzing the manifestations of the YIPC Program in spreading counter radicalism narratives, and exploring the Role of YIPC in spreading counter radicalism narratives. This research is qualitative research analyzed descriptively. Data was collected through field observations, interviews, and documents relating to the YIPC program as primary sources and books, journals, magazines, and internet information as secondary sources. The results of this study indicate that YIPC has a role as a forum and interfaith youth facilitator who concentrates on the concept of peace education and interfaith dialogue based on the scriptures to build peace through peaceful cadres by spreading fourteen basic values of peace aimed at reducing radicalism and ideological intolerance.

scholarly journals SEARCHING FOR THE FORGOTTEN: EXAMINING THE ONLINE PRESENCE OF VICTIMS OF POLICE KILLINGS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Pierre ◽  
Morgan Currie ◽  
Britt Paris ◽  
Irene Pasquetto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Social Media Mining ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Media Data ◽  
Official Police ◽  
Media Mining

This paper examines the potential role of social media in enhancing the understanding and perception of victims of police killings and the data collection surrounding these incidents. Through a series of content analysis and social media mining exercises, the authors observe the emergence of three distinct types of social media content offered on victims of police killings: persistence of the deceased’s activity across social media, sensational commentary on videos and blog postings, and memorials on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. As part of a larger investigation of the availability and accessibility of official police homicide data, this paper aims to present social media data as a potentially powerful source of information to supplement quantitative reports. This process may be especially useful for the most affected communities, particularly BIPOC communities.

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