‘Baptising Zambia’s Edgar Chagwa Lungu’: Critiquing the Utilization of the Declaration of Zambia during the Presidential Campaign of 2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-93
Author(s):  
Chammah J. Kaunda

AbstractThis article employs a public theology approach from the perspective of a decolonial theory. It analyses how the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian Nation functioned as a nationalist neo-colonial ideology during the presidential campaign of 2016. It did so in a way that was designed to legitimize President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s political candidacy and moral authority within the Pentecostal-Charismatic religious sector. The analysis seeks to demonstrate how the Declaration and the photography of the social media presidential campaign intersected in order to represent the image of Lungu as an idea Christian President. Informed by a thematic analysis and a decolonial public theology, the article unmasks and exposes how ideology can become normalized as social practice within a particular historical context. The theological-ethnographic material within the analysis was collected during the period from January 2016 to February 2017.

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (13) ◽  
pp. 870-877
Author(s):  
Calvin Moorley ◽  
Theresa Chinn

Background: In 2016 the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the UK introduced revalidation, which is the process nurses are required to follow to renew their registration. This provides an opportunity for nurses to shape, develop and evolve social media to meet their professional requirements. Aims: to examine different ways nurses can use social media tools for continuous professional development (CPD) and revalidation. Methods: using a qualitative reflective design, data were gathered from content on the @WeNurses platform and activities organised with other leading health organisations in England. These data were analysed using the social media relationship triangle developed by the authors with a thematic analysis approach. Findings: analysis revealed that social media was used in six categories: publishing, sharing, messaging, discussing, collaborating, and networking. Organised social media events such as: blogs, tweetchats, Twitter storms, webinars, infographics, podcasts, videos and virtual book clubs can support nurses with revalidation and professional development. Conclusion: Through using a participatory CPD approach and embracing professional social media applications nurses have moved social media from the concept of a revolution to an evolution.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
AWAD BIN MUHAMMAD ALKATIRI ◽  
ZHAFIRA NADIAH ◽  
ADINDA NADA S. NASUTION

Social media is popular with all ages, people in young and old age groups can access social media. Social media is a place for information and opinion exchange. Twitter is one of the social media that is actively used in Indonesia. The new normal phenomenon that is currently being applied is wanted to be further known by researchers by referring to the hashtag #newnormalindonesia on Twitter. Researchers want to find out how public opinion is formed based on the hashtag #newnormalindonesia on Twitter. This research uses the concept of public opinion which is categorized into positive, negative, and neutral. In the research method, researchers use quantitative content analysis, the analysis unit uses thematic analysis units with the operationalization of concepts using the concept of public opinion. Coding sheets are used as instruments in data collection techniques, then in testing the validity and reliability using inter-coder reliability. The results showed that the twitter posts with the #newnormalindonesia hashtag tendto be negative by not supporting the implementation of new normal.


Kybernetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Räwel

Purpose Given the form of functional differentiation of modern society, a far-reaching coordination of functional systems as a dissolution of their heterarchical relationship to each other, as was apparently possible in the social “lockdown” during the corona pandemic, should have been extremely unlikely. The purpose of this study is to explain how this was nevertheless achieved. Design/methodology/approach From the perspective of systems theory, social action in principle does not present itself as a problem but as a solution to (latent) social problems. In the sociological analysis presented here, it is therefore precisely a matter of uncovering or pointing out those (changed) social structures in which a social “lockdown” appears as a solution. Findings The paper explains that with the emergence of social media through applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, a new force is establishing itself at the level of society as a system. It is one that is characterized by being highly vulnerable to moral communication. A susceptibility to morality manifests, on the one hand, through an individual differentiation of society made possible by social media – for example, in the emerging Chinese social credit system – and, on the other hand, through the specific communicative structures of the social media themselves. It is argued that social media, in the form of a moral authority with a lasting effect on society as a whole, make a significant contribution to realizing the social “lockdown.” Originality/value The originality of the paper results from the fact that the emergence of a new social phenomenon (“lockdown”) is explained.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chammah J Kaunda

This article investigates how the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation (hereafter the Declaration), presidential photography and social media intersected during Edgar Lungu’s political campaign in the general election of 2016. It is framed within a missio-political theory to analyse qualitative material collected from January 2016 to February 2018 in Zambia. The missio-ethnography approach as an empirical missiological research which sought to analyse how the Declaration discourse has developed into a political ideology used to legitimized Lungu’s political power and moral authority among some Pentecostal-Charismatic religious sector.


2022 ◽  
pp. 548-570
Author(s):  
Hossam Mohamed Elhamy

The social semiotics approach examines the meaning-making process in order to demonstrate how meaning is constructed in social actions and contexts. The rising interest of researchers in social media and its widespread use in society have both highlighted new challenges for data analysis. Social semiotics can provide a deep understanding of the visual grammar of the social media meaning-making process by assuming that this process is considered a social practice. The main objective of this chapter is to guide researchers and enable them to use the social semiotic approach as a research tool for the analysis of visuals in the social media environment. The chapter introduces the key elements, principles, assumptions, and rules of using the social semiotics approach in the analysis, understanding, and interpretations of social media visuals and how to explore the role played by visual elements in the meaning-making process in a social media within a specific social context.


Author(s):  
OLEKSII POLTORAKOV ◽  
IRYNA SHCHYHOL

In the context of socio-political transformations fundamentally significant collective actors, whose activities were, incl. quite significant social and legal burden, there were corresponding so-called agents of changes. The article sets the goal of sociologically reconstructing the transformation of the symbolic capital of Ukrainian dissidents into social capital within the framework of the social and legal context in the USSR and in independent Ukraine. A significant feature of the Ukrainian dimension of the dissident movement, which is considered in the corresponding socio-legal field in the categories of agents of changes, is, first of all, that it began with an examination of the general problems of the legitimacy of Soviet power, first of all in the focus of the search for legitimate prerequisites and necessary constitutional and procedural mechanisms for Ukraine's secession from the USSR and its independence. Another key socio-legal dimension of the activities of Ukrainian dissidents was human rights issues. Thus, in the process of its formation and development, the dissident movement itself became the reason for the delegitimation of the Soviet regime, primarily in terms of its violation of the declared norms of the Constitution and fundamental social rights and political freedoms. In turn, moral authority and the social and legal capital based on it significantly influenced the fact that in the process of Ukraine's independence, former dissidents became the socio-political nucleus that initiated and developed fundamentally significant political and legal documents, such as the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine and the act of proclaiming the independence of Ukraine, as well as the Constitution and laws of Ukraine based on them.


Author(s):  
Xianjun Tan

In mainland China, the focus of college English learning should be on the application ability of students.The integration of English learning and social practice not only equips students with adequate knowledge, but also good application of English language and improved comprehensive quality.The use of social media in college English learning provides a new learning model.Various English teaching and learning activities could be conducted with the help of social media. In this way,students integrate the self English learning with the social practice, which improves the quality of English learning and caters for the needs of the society.


Author(s):  
Vindaya Senadheera ◽  
Matthew Warren ◽  
Shona Leitch ◽  
Graeme Pye

Understanding the motives that encourage users to adopt social media to communicate with businesses is very important. This research study was conducted with Australian banks and adds to the development of empirically tested social media adoption model consisting of technological and social communication aspects (Senadheera, 2015). This chapter presents the findings of the research study based on analysis of wall posts gathered from Australian banks' Facebook presence in the year 2013. The research study involves a thematic analysis of frequently used words by Australian banks in their respective Facebook wall posts following an outcome of a word frequency test conducted using NVivo. This analysis was conducted with the proposed adoption model as the basis to determine whether banks' Facebook content addresses the basic user requirements driving them to adopt social media to communicate with Australian banks. The results strengthens the robustness and the applicability of the social media adoption model.


2019 ◽  
pp. 1249-1278
Author(s):  
Amir Manzoor

In light of many recent Internet-led revolutions, the Internet and its tools of social media have been heralded as instrumental in facilitating the uprisings. This chapter provides a close examination of the social media role in grass roots political and social change movements. The chapter discusses the ways activists have used social media tools for organizing and generating awareness of political mobilization and the characteristics of social networking that can be harnessed in a particular cultural and historical context to achieve collective political actions. The chapter also discusses long-established theories of communication to explain how social networking tools became appealing to the activists in these Internet-led movements. The chapter will look at various Internet-led political movements around the globe to demonstrate the enormous potential of social networking tools to facilitate and expedite political mobilization.


Author(s):  
Pablo Francescutti

Hace largo tiempo que las narraciones audiovisuales se han tornado un objeto legítimo de las ciencias sociales y humanas. Se las estudia como instituciones, agentes modeladores de la conciencia colectiva, práctica social o industria. En este artículo nos centraremos en su aptitud para radiografiar ciertas regiones de la experiencia socio-cultural.La función documental de filmes y programas televisivos ha inspirado una vasta literatura más o menos sociológica, siendo mucho menor la relativa a los aspectos metodológicos de su análisis. La disparidad refleja la brecha existente entre el creciente interés por desentrañar su significado social y la escasa conciencia de las dificultades que entraña ligar los contenidos y aspectos formales de tales narraciones al contexto social, cultural e histórico. Generalizaciones abusivas, inferencias sin base y reduccionismos derivados de premisas erróneas y herramientas inadecuadas han llevado a Westwell (2007) a calificar este área de “sub-campo en busca de una metodología”.Con la intención de clarificar las carencias metodológicas referidas, en este trabajo se examinan las principales teorizaciones sobre las relaciones entre la imagen en movimiento y la realidad, seguida de una propuesta interpretativa integral de las narrativas audiovisuales, plasmada en un catálogo de las técnicas analíticas más habituales, con un repaso de sus pros y contras. Con fines demostrativos, dedicaremos la última parte a articular esos procedimientos en el diseño de abordaje de un documental televisivo de tema histórico: La Transición, de Elías de Andrés y Victoria Prego.Film and audiovisual narratives has long been recognized as a legitimate subject of the social and human sciences. They are studied as institutions, as shapers of collective conscience, as social practice, as an industrial goods. In this paper we focus upon their documentary value and capacity for mapping different areas of socio-cultural experience.There is a vast body of bibliography about the social content of films and television programs, although the academic literature concerning the methodological issues related to their analysis is significantly smaller. This disparity underlines the gap between the growing interest for unraveling their social meanings and the lack of awareness of the difficulties involved in linking their contents and formal features to the social, cultural and historical context. Unwarranted generalizations, flawed inferences and reductionisms resulting from mistaken assumptions and unsuitable tools have lead Westwell (2007) to describe this field as a “sub-area in search of a methology”.In order to tackle that issue, the main theories about the relationships between the moving image and reality are discussed in the first part of this article. Next, a catalogue of the methodologies most frequently applied to audiovisual narrative is presented, accompanied by an assessment of their pros and cons. For demostration purposes, the last part is dedicated to articulate those methods in a proposal for interpreting a well-known Spanish television documentary about a highly sensitive period in Spain’s history: La Transición, by Elias de Andres and Victoria Prego.


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