Introduction

Author(s):  
Tyler Bickford

The introduction provides an introduction to the research site, including the social and cultural context at Heartsboro Central School and in the community of Heartsboro. It addresses methodological questions, including the overall design of the research, approaches to data collection and analysis, and reflections on ethical issues involving research with children. It gives an overview of children’s musical tastes, interests, and practices, and it offers illustrative examples of “new media poetics” that set the stage for later chapters. It also situates the book in relationship to popular music studies and puts forward a theoretical approach to childhood as a social and cultural identity.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Miftah Awalurrizqi ◽  
Agresti Retno Sumantiyasmi ◽  
Atikah Azzahidah

Komunitas Stucash dan Lakoni menjadi aktor penting dalam penanganan pandemi COVID-19 di Yogyakarta karena bersentuhan secara langsung dengan masyarakat dan juga telah akrab dengan pemanfaatan teknologi digital. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat bagaimana kolaborasi dua komunitas tersebut dalam penanggulangan dampak sosial-ekonomi akibat pandemi. Komunitas Stucash dan Lakoni dipilih sebagai fokus penelitian karena mereka merupakan representasi dari pergerakan sosial oleh pemuda, mulai dari tahap inisiasi, konsepsi hingga eksekusi. Penelitian ini merupakan jenis penelitian kualitatif-deskriptif dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui wawancara secara daring terhadap perwakilan dari setiap komunitas, dokumentasi dan observasi pada publikasi serta interaksi dari akun media sosial di tiap komunitas. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Stucash dan Lakoni mampu membantu kinerja Pemerintah Daerah D.I. Yogyakarta dalam menanggulangi dampak sosial-ekonomi akibat pandemi COVID-19 dengan menggunakan pendekatan partisipatif dimana komunitas sebagai wujud aktor dari masyarakat menjadi inisiator utama sekaligus eksekutor gerakan dengan memanfaatkan teknologi digital yang dalam hal ini yaitu media sosial. Kata Kunci: Kolaborasi, Komunitas Pemuda, Media Baru, Pandemi COVID-19    The Stucash and Lakoni communities are important actors in handling the COVID-19 pandemic in Yogyakarta because they have direct contact with the community and familiar with the utilization of digital technology. This study aims to see how the collaboration of the two communities in dealing with the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic is. The Stucash and Lakoni communities were chosen as the research focus because they represent the social movements of youth from initiation, conception to execution stages. This research is a descriptive-qualitative type with data collection techniques through online interviews to representatives from each community, documentation and observation on publications and interactions in social media accounts of each community. The results of the study show that Stucash and Lakoni are able to help the performance of the local government of D.I. Yogyakarta in overcoming the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by using a participatory approach in which the community as an actor from society becomes the main initiator and executor of the movement by utilizing digital technology, which in this context is social media. Keywords: Collaboration, COVID-19 Pandemic, New Media, Youth Communities


2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (87) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Lidia Derfer-Wolf ◽  
Ewa Dobrzynska-Lankosz ◽  
Wanda Dziadkiewicz ◽  
Miroslaw Gorny ◽  
Elzbieta Gorska ◽  
...  

The article discusses proposed standards for Polish research libraries evaluation. At the beginning, the authors present the situation of research libraries in Poland. They write about the effects of the social-political transformation in the 90s, present selected statistical data, and describe the progress in computerisation. The following part of the article relates to the currently applied in Poland standards of library evaluation. Discussed are e.g. the presently applied tools for data collection and analysis. The last part includes proposed methods for the preparation of standards and assessments for Polish research libraries.


2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-219
Author(s):  
A. Imayo ◽  

The article presents the conceptual basis of the ALTYN ART magazine, ways of the magazine development and implementation. Finally, it is proposed to consider the concept of further development of the publication to give information, possibly, useful for other publications of a similar thematic area. Art magazines are an effective way to conduct a dialogue between creative artists, i.e. painters, musicians, designers, etc. The author aims to improve the theoretical and practical understanding of the key elements and factors that contribute to the arrangement of the social and cultural creative environment in Kazakhstan and the development of its print media. The data collection and analysis was based on the experience of creation and publication of own cultural and informational periodical, the search for new ways to develop and promote the achievements of culture, art and professional music education. The materials of the journal give a clear idea of modern culture of Kazakhstan. The focus on articles written by experts of the field of Kazakhstan’s art may get interest students in further research in this area.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 205979911772061
Author(s):  
Hannah Thurston

Like all museums, punishment museums and sites of penal tourism are inherently political and moral institutions, offering cultural memories of a collective past. As environments of narrativity, these are significant spaces in which the public ‘learn’ about the past and how it continues to inform the present. In line with recent studies about ‘dark’ tourist sites, this article argues that the crime/punishment museum and jail cell tour can – and should – be understood as an ethnographic opportunity for narrative analysis. Rather than focus on just the findings of such an analysis, this article seeks to provide a practical guide to data collection and analysis in the context of criminological museum research. Offering illustrative examples from a study of Texan sites of penal tourism, it demonstrates how the history of punishment – as represented in museums – is an important part of cultural identity more broadly, playing a significant role in how we conceptualise (in)justice, morality and the purpose of punishment. In short, this article discusses how we can evoke the ethnographic tradition within museum spaces in order to interrogate how crime and punishment are expressed through narratives, images, objects and symbols.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Natalie Houston

Social issues are a very real problem in South Africa. Violent protests in poorer communities around South Africa indicate a need to better understand negative social realities impacting on communities. This research examined the sociocultural context of Wentworth in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, as shown on the map on page x. The focus of this study was the social and community realities; and the significance of photography in the context of examining these. The aim was to use photography as a research tool as well as to document the data collected. From the data a 118-page book, as shown on page viii, was conceptualised, which captures this community’s social context. Further, the study questioned the use of design practice to support social change. Because of the distinctly “Coloured” nature of Wentworth, literature was sought for the definition, history, current dynamics and complexities of Coloured identity. The literature review highlighted ethics and the strategies that should be adhered to when considering the social nature of photography. For this inquiry a qualitative analysis was conducted using the Grounded Theory method. A collaborative, or participatory research approach, was used for data collection, by working closely with families and health, church and non-governmental groups in Wentworth. Qualitative data collection methods used to gather primary data were photographic documentation and interviews. This research produced a number of key findings regarding socio-cultural problems plaguing the community. Findings deemed photography a rich tool for researching the social and for accurately recording everyday life. The main conclusions drawn from this research were that in-depth studies be conducted on individual problems, utilising greater manpower and funding. In addition, that further research and documentation be undertaken in the community.


Author(s):  
Sybille Lammes ◽  
Larissa Hjorth ◽  
Ingrid Richardson ◽  
Kat Jungnickel ◽  
Anna Hickey-Moody

Researching everyday media practices is a messy and tricky business fraught with uncertainty. In this panel the authors ask how stories of failure, especially during fieldwork, can be rethought as a meaningful emergent method and approach. How can we productively reframe failure as a core part of the research process that cannot be subsumed into the telos of a success story after the research has been completed? How does does failure work in research? Our approach takes a different stance from dominant stories in the tech industry and geek economy, where failure is often represented in linear, heroic, gendered and individualistic ways, retrospectively rendering mess as instrumental to success. Similarly, within academia there are many research processes in which failure is instrumentalised or obscured—from writing up fieldwork into neatly packaged case-studies, to causal accounts of effective intervention. Progress narratives of knowledge production have been subject to much debate and criticism. What has been less discussed is how failures work as sometimes uncontainable aspects of research praxes—how they are endemic to the process of data collection and analysis, materializing while in the field. In this panel we suggest that these experiences are core to the thickness of fieldwork—they disclose the messiness and dynamics of the social, and should be included in the stories we tell. This panel aims to liberate discussion about failure to render it visible and core to understanding the politics and ethics of fieldwork and the research process. Through a series of stories from our fieldwork, we seek to further critical understanding of methodologies and techniques of failure, and argue for our obligations as researchers to talk about what happens when things go wrong.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Rosângela Maria de Nazaré Barbosa e Silva ◽  
Marcela Leal Reis Nader ◽  
Nayara Augusto Moratti

This study aims to analyze the understanding of the curriculum in a post-critical perspective by students of the Elementary School of the Municipality of Vitória-ES, emphasizing the challenge of the school, in its constitution process in relation to the social construction and valorization of culture, capable of guide pedagogical practices to recognize the differences present in the school context. It was intended, by means of an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, to discuss thematic content of the post-critical curriculum, using focus groups data collection and analysis of official school documents. We conclude that the reproduction of differences happens implicitly, distancing what is proposed in school documents and what is performed inside the classrooms by teachers.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Annink

AbstractThis article shows how a research journal can be used as a tool to reflect on issues arising during the phase of data collection. Especially in cross-cultural comparative research, unexpected cultural issues are likely to arise. The most critical is the phase of data collection, where decisions have to be made quickly. This article demonstrates how to establish and maintain a research journal during cross-cultural face-to-face interviewing with entrepreneurs. It provides ten suggestions for “what” and “why” to take notes on during five phases of data collection. Furthermore, the article elaborates on how a research journal could be used to deal with emotions as well as methodological and ethical issues that may arise.


Author(s):  
Mulya Syafrina

The problem in this study is the low ability children in social development. The purpose of this study was to describe the social development of children in collaboration, responsibility and tolerance. This type of research used in this study is action research with children early childhood research subjects Nations Hope numbering 15 people. The instrument used is the observation and documentation formats. Data collection techniques are the techniques of observation and documentation. Analysis using a percentage formula. The results of this study indicate that hydra games can improve social development of children in collaboration, responsibility and tolerance seen from the average value at each statement of the first cycle and increased in the second cycle. This is proved by using hydra games can improve social development of children.


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