Digital snaps. The new face of photography edited by Jonas Larsen and Mette SandbyeThe versatile image. Photography, digital technologies and the Internet edited by Alexandra Moschovi, Carol McKay, Arabella PlouviezThe culture of connectivity. A critical history of social media by José van Dijck

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Susanne Holschbach
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Critical History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA IN A CONTENT COURSE FOR THE DIGITAL NATIVES

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Anita Lie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Media

Digital technologies and the Internet have revolutionized the way people gather information and acquire new knowledge. With a click of a button or a touch on the screen, any person who is wired to the internet can access a wealth of information, ranging from books, poems, articles, graphics, animations and so much more. It is imperative that educational systems and classroom practices must change to serve our 21st century students better. This study examines the use of Edmodo as a social media to teach a course in Pedagogy to a class of digital natives. The media is used as an out-of-class communication forum to post/submit assignments and resources, discuss relevant issues, exchange information, and handle housekeeping purposes. A survey of students' responses and discussions on their participatory process leads to insights on how the social media helps achieve the required competences.

Romani literature and its digital forms

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-266
Author(s):  
SOFIYA ZAHOVA
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Publishing ◽  
Literature Production

Since the late 1990s and particularly after 2000, Romani literature has been characterized in part by the influence of international and global developments within the Romani movement as well as the growth of digital technologies and the internet. Romani publications are going digital in different formats, including the digitization of public domain materials, e-books, audiobooks, internet publishing and social media publishing. This article discusses how digital technologies have been incorporated in Romani literature production and proposes a typology of the digital forms of Romani literature. It also provides an analysis of the issues and challenges that are observed in Romani digital publishing, some of which are specifically related to this type of publishing, while others apply to Romani literature in general.

Social Media and Social Change

2014 ◽  
pp. 56-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauri Goldkind ◽  
John G. McNutt
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
Nonprofit Advocacy

Technological advances in communications tools, the Internet, and the advent of social media have changed the ways in which nonprofit organizations engage with their various constituents. Nonprofits now have a constellation of tools including: interactive social media sites, mobile applications (apps), Websites, and mash-ups that allow them to create a comprehensive system for mobilizing supports to advocate for changing public policies. From Facebook to Twitter and from YouTube to Pinterest, communicating to many via words and images has never been easier. The authors explore the history of nonprofit advocacy and organizing, describe the social media and technology tools available for moving advocacy goals forward, and conclude with some possible challenges that organizations considering these tools could face.

Prosumers Building the Virtual World

2021 ◽  
pp. 492-517
Author(s):  
Mario Fontanella ◽  
Claudio Pacchiega
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cooperative Group ◽  
Group Environment ◽  
Exchange Information

With the development of new digital technologies, the internet, and mass media, including social media, it is now possible to produce, consume, and exchange information and virtual creations in a simple and practically instantaneous way. As predicted by philosophers and sociologists in the 1980s, a culture of “prosumers” has been developed in communities where there is no longer a clear distinction between content producers and content users and where there is a continuous exchange of knowledge that enriches the whole community. The teaching of “digital creativity” can also take advantage of the fact that young people and adults are particularly attracted to these fields, which they perceive akin to their playful activities and which are normally used in an often sterile and useless way in their free time. The didactic sense of these experiences is that we try to build a cooperative group environment in which to experiment, learn, and exchange knowledge equally among all the participants.

From Street Corners to Social Media: The Changing Location of Youth Citizenship in Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clovis Bergère
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Youth Citizenship ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract:This study explores social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter in particular, as emergent sites of youth citizenship in Guinea. These need to be understood within a longer history of youth citizenship, one that includes street corners and other informal mediations of youth politics. This counters dominant discourses both within the Guinean public sphere and in academic research that decry Guinean social media practices as lacking, or Guinean youth as frivolous or inconsequential in their online political engagements. Instead, young Guineans’ emergent digital practices need to be approached as productive political engagements. This contributes to debates about African youths by examining the role of digital technologies in shaping young Africans’ political horizons.

scholarly journals A brief history of contact in fostering and adoption: practice and power, and the coming of the mobile phone

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-284
Author(s):  
Jennifer E Simpson ◽  
Gary Clapton
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Family Time ◽  
Critical History ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Children In Care

This article charts the UK history of contact in fostering and adoption as it relates to looked after children and their birth relatives. It builds on a recent publication in this journal by one of the authors based on her research on the use of social media by children in care. Here we look at previous practices relating to the question of whether or not contact ought to be ‘allowed’ in which words such as ‘access’ were used, betokening the child as object. We also come up to date with reference to contemporary efforts to recast contact as ‘family time’ that is significant in the child’s continuation of understanding of self. Other words in the lexicon are problematised, including ‘contact’ itself. Attention is also devoted to the social work profession's conception and management of contact. We argue that a critical history of contact reveals the various ways that formal and informal power operates to both regulate and discipline those involved, most centrally the child and birth family members. Drawing upon emerging research relating to social media and contact, the article concludes with a discussion of how young people’s access to, and use of, social media has altered, how contact is managed and ‘policed’, and how this has shifted the balance of power in contact towards greater egalitarianism.

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