Digital Communities

Renegades ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Trevor Boffone
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
White Space ◽  
Digital Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Racial Divide ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Digital Spaces

This chapter explores Dubsmash and TikTok, two related but divergent social media apps. While providing a critical overview of the apps that facilitates the analysis that follows, this chapter examines their racial divide, arguing that Dubsmash is a Black space and that TikTok is a White space. An understanding of the racial politics of the social media dance world is essential to painting a full picture of how Zoomers of color navigate digital spaces to create content that then becomes the mainstream and to push against systems of White Supremacy, misogyny, homophobia, and the like.

Brand Presence in Digital Space

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Rowley ◽  
David Edmundson-Bird
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Brand Strategy ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Digital Spaces

With the growing importance of digital spaces as arenas in which organisations and consumers interact, brand owners can no longer afford to regard digital, online, or i-branding as an optional add-on to branding through other channels. After an introduction, this article reviews some of the principles that need to underpin any brand strategy. The article then reviews the key considerations for organisations as they seek to manage their brand presence in digital spaces. Next, it examines recent developments associated with the social media era, in which consumers expect to have a key role in co-creating the brand. The article concludes with an agenda for the future development of branding in digital space.

scholarly journals Introduction to Special Issue: Whiteness in the Age of White Rage

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. i-xx
Author(s):  
Katerina Deliovsky ◽  
Tamari Kitossa
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
Racial Divide

This Special Issue—“Whiteness in the Age of White Rage”—names and interrogates what is implicit in anti-racist, Indigenous, and whiteness studies: white rage. Drawing on Carol Anderson’s White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2017), we invited scholars to explore empirical and theoretical inquiry of how rage is a defining characteristic of settler colonialism, whiteness, and white supremacy in Canada. In this Introduction we elaborate how contemporaneously, historically, and theoretically a vital dimension of the configuration of whiteness in Canada is the normalization of rage as a property right of whiteness. Presently, as fascism is once again a global phenomenon, there is an opportunity for critical scholarship on whiteness in Canada to name and explicate the social effects and quotidian mobilization of rage in conservative and liberal articulations of white supremacy. We offer a general outline to the theme of whiteness in the age of white rage to introduce nascent scholarship that builds on the scholarship of Black, Indigenous, people of colour, and critical whiteness scholars.

scholarly journals Digital Literacy in Chinese Young People’s Engagement on Weibo

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-434
Author(s):  
FU Jun
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Functional Skills ◽  
Digital Communities ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Digital Spaces ◽  
Chinese Social Media

Abstract This study identifies the digital literacies generated from Chinese young people’s engagement with Weibo (one of the major Chinese social media platforms). These literacies, manifest as widely accepted community practices on Weibo, extend the prevalent understanding of digital literacy as a set of functional skills or competencies. This extended understanding of digital literacies underlines the importance of their social and cultural dimensions, showing how young people experience them as meaningful and relevant to their digital life. By drawing attention to the constitutive nature of young people’s everyday online practices, and their role in defining digital literacies, this study also highlights the significance of digital literacies for the formation of their identity as a member of digital communities, and for their practice of citizenship in digital spaces.

Introduction

Renegades ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Trevor Boffone
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Digital Communities ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Digital Spaces

The Introduction begins with an overview of the Renegade dance’s popularity and the major players who made the dance challenge go viral—namely, TikTok sensation Charli D’Amelio who is the app’s most-followed account, and Georgia teen Jalaiah Harmon who created the dance but wasn’t given any credit for it until the Dubsmash community mobilized around her. The story of the Renegade dance challenge, D’Amelio, and Harmon serves as an entry point into a conversation about the teen artists of color in this book, whom the book labels “Renegades.” Riffing off the viral “Renegade” dance to K-Camp’s “Lottery,” the book reappropriates the term to embody the nuanced ways that Dubsmash users, or self-professed Dubsmashers, use digital hip hop culture and platforms to push again the pervasive Whiteness in mainstream US pop culture, as evidenced on apps such as TikTok. Renegades take up visual and sonic space on social media apps to self-fashion identity, form supportive digital communities, and exert agency to take up space that is often denied to them in other facets of their lives. The Introduction continues with a review of extant literature in social media and youth identity formation, with a particular focus on how Black teens engage with digital spaces. From there, it lays the groundwork for a theory of “Renegades.”

Knowledge Contribution in Organizations via Social Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Behringer ◽  
Kai Sassenberg ◽  
Annika Scholl
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Expectancy Theory ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Abstract Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Willingness To Contribute ◽  
Social Media Tool

Abstract. Knowledge exchange via social media is crucial for organizational success. Yet, many employees only read others’ contributions without actively contributing their knowledge. We thus examined predictors of the willingness to contribute knowledge. Applying social identity theory and expectancy theory to knowledge exchange, we investigated the interplay of users’ identification with their organization and perceived usefulness of a social media tool. In two studies, identification facilitated users’ willingness to contribute knowledge – provided that the social media tool seemed useful (vs. not-useful). Interestingly, identification also raised the importance of acquiring knowledge collectively, which could in turn compensate for low usefulness of the tool. Hence, considering both social and media factors is crucial to enhance employees’ willingness to share knowledge via social media.

Hacking in to the social media network of bacteria: The antiquorum sensing properties of herbs and spices

Planta Medica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S1-S381 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Cosa ◽  
AM Viljoen ◽  
SK Chaudhary ◽  
W Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sensing Properties ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Network ◽  
Herbs And Spices

Technologies Disability and Inclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Brusell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Information And Communication

When modern technology permeates every corner of life, there are ignited more and more hopes among the disabled to be compensated for the loss of mobility and participation in normal life, and with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Exoskeleton Technologies and truly hands free technologies (HMI), it's possible for the disabled to be included in the social and pedagogic spheres, especially via computers and smartphones with social media apps and digital instruments for Augmented Reality (AR) .In this paper a nouvel HMI technology is presented with relevance for the inclusion of disabled in every day life with specific focus on the future development of "smart cities" and "smart homes".

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