scholarly journals “Real Heroes Care”: How Dad Bloggers Are Reconstructing Fatherhood and Masculinities

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey Scheibling
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
Involved Fathers ◽  
Blog Posts

“Dad bloggers” are an emerging community of fathers in North America. These men use social media to document and discuss their experiences as parents and gather annually at the Dad 2.0 Summit. A central topic of discussion both online and offline is how involved fathers negotiate and rework gender roles and expectations. This study examines how dad bloggers create and engage with discourse about masculinities. Using blog posts, fieldwork observations, and interviews as data, I present qualitative findings illustrating the ways in which dad bloggers challenge traditional notions of masculinity, construct “caring masculinities,” and adopt a pro-feminist perspective. Despite certain tensions and contradictions within the community, I argue that dad bloggers are reconstructing fatherhood and masculinities in ways that promote care and equality overall.

Attitudes of Social Media Users Toward Mountain Lions in North America

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Evan Greenspan ◽  
Michelle A. Larue ◽  
Clayton K. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Mountain Lions

scholarly journals Social and institutional presence of the Heads of Government of the Americas on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-129
Author(s):  
Lucas Dejard Moreira Mendonça ◽  
Adriano Madureira dos Santos ◽  
Harold Dias de Mello Junior ◽  
Rita de Cássia Romeiro Paulino ◽  
Karla Figueiredo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Institutional Leadership ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
Heads Of Government

This article examined the personal profiles of the Heads of Government of countries in South/North America and how they communicated with their audiences on institutional measures to contain COVID-19. Analyses were carried out on data collected from Twitter from November-2019 to November-2020. This study includes: i)quantitative analysis, measuring categories and emphases in the communication of tweets, retweets, likes, and comments on matters relevant to the pandemic; ii)qualitative analysis that allowed evaluating speeches to identify political interference and the effectiveness of communication at critical moments of the pandemic. It was possible to infer that each president has his singularities and understanding about Social Media’s use as a more direct communication tool with his audience. It was also found that successful communication is not directly proportional to the volume of messages on Twitter, but to socio-political aspects and institutional leadership that can make a difference in Social Media in combating COVID-19.

scholarly journals Dropping the Ball? The Welfare of Ball Pythons Traded in the EU and North America

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D’Cruze ◽  
Suzi Paterson ◽  
Jennah Green ◽  
David Megson ◽  
Clifford Warwick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Water Provision ◽  
The Eu

Ball pythons (family Pythonidae) remain a commonly exploited species, readily available for purchase in North America and Europe. We assessed the housing conditions of more than 5000 Ball pythons across six exotic pet expositions and 113 YouTube videos. We scored provisions for hygiene, mobility, shelter, substrate and water provision, based on the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) minimum guidelines. We found most entities involved in this commercial enterprise are not providing housing conditions that meet the minimum welfare recommendations for Ball pythons, either publicly or privately. We found that breeders and vendors typically utilised small and highly restrictive enclosures, with dimensions that prevented occupants from extending their bodies to full and unrestricted natural length. Our study also highlights that most vendors are not providing adequate written husbandry guidance to potential consumers, either at exotic pet expositions, on their commercial website, or on associated social media pages. Furthermore, our study also indicates that most potential consumers may themselves be unable to recognise unsuitable housing conditions that do not meet minimum animal welfare standards for Ball pythons. We suggest that more consistent guidance, adherence to agree principles and more potent operating models that are formally incorporated into relevant legislation would greatly aid existing and future efforts to safeguard animal welfare in this regard.

scholarly journals Do Corporate Carbon Policies Enhance Legitimacy? A Social Media Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Galán-Valdivieso ◽  
Laura Saraite-Sariene ◽  
Juana Alonso-Cañadas ◽  
María Caba-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Carbon Mitigation ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Carbon Policy ◽  
Carbon Performance ◽  
Practical Implications

Stakeholders are increasingly concerned about climate change and companies’ commitment to anticipate future carbon-related risks, and grant or withdraw support depending on their perceptions of firms’ carbon performance. The aim of this research is to analyse which carbon-related factors influence stakeholders with regards to the legitimacy-granting process. The sample in this study includes 146 firms from North America and Europe committed to carbon mitigation, whose legitimacy is measured via social media interactions. Findings show that setting a corporate carbon policy and disclosing an internal price of carbon are positively linked to legitimacy, while other factors are negatively or not related to legitimacy. This study makes theoretical contributions, proposing a metric based on social media stakeholder engagement to measure corporate legitimacy, as well as practical implications, revealing which carbon information shapes stakeholders’ perception of firms’ climate performance, and opening new possibilities for future research.

Interactivity, Blogs, and the Ethics of Doing Sport History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Olive
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sport History ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Social Memories ◽  
Historical Practice ◽  
Blog Posts

This chapter explores the potential of blogs and blogging for sport historians. Blog posts, using a variety of media but largely focused on written text, are produced by single authors or collectives for a variety of purposes, including to “provide information, as self-representation, to tell a story, to work toward a political goal, or to represent a culture, experience, idea or issue, outside of mainstream media.” As such, blogs can be a research source for understanding the processes of collectively constructing cultural and social memories. Like other social media archives, blog posts contain a wealth of commentary and information that is potentially valuable to historians as they grapple with understanding meanings of particular pasts in the present. Moreover, blogs offer the potential for reflexive historical practice.

scholarly journals ‘Liking and Sharing’ the stigmatization of poverty and social welfare: Representations of poverty and welfare through Internet memes on social media

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 777-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Dobson ◽  
Irena Knezevic
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Relationship

Internet memes play an important role in the reproduction, reinforcement and circulation of social stereotypes, including about those who live in poverty. Due to the vast reach and increasing popularity of various social media platforms, these memes can reach a potentially enormous audience; when an image goes ‘viral,’ its claims are made more powerful every time it is shared or reposted. In this paper we investigate the relationship between Internet memes and stereotypes about poverty by examining a set of memes that make claims about one particular aspect of poverty in North America – receipt of social assistance in the form of welfare cheques, medical coverage and food.

scholarly journals Exploring snake occurrence records: Spatial biases and marginal gains from accessible social media

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e8059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin M. Marshall ◽  
Colin T. Strine
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
Species Distribution Models ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Model Performance ◽  
Distribution Models ◽  
Occurrence Data ◽  
Occurrence Records

A species’ distribution provides fundamental information on: climatic niche, biogeography, and conservation status. Species distribution models often use occurrence records from biodiversity databases, subject to spatial and taxonomic biases. Deficiencies in occurrence data can lead to incomplete species distribution estimates. We can incorporate other data sources to supplement occurrence datasets. The general public is creating (via GPS-enabled cameras to photograph wildlife) incidental occurrence records that may present an opportunity to improve species distribution models. We investigated (1) occurrence data of a cryptic group of animals: non-marine snakes, in a biodiversity database (Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)) and determined (2) whether incidental occurrence records extracted from geo-tagged social media images (Flickr) could improve distribution models for 18 tropical snake species. We provide R code to search for and extract data from images using Flickr’s API. We show the biodiversity database’s 302,386 records disproportionately originate from North America, Europe and Oceania (250,063, 82.7%), with substantial gaps in tropical areas that host the highest snake diversity. North America, Europe and Oceania averaged several hundred records per species; whereas Asia, Africa and South America averaged less than 35 per species. Occurrence density showed similar patterns; Asia, Africa and South America have roughly ten-fold fewer records per 100 km2than other regions. Social media provided 44,687 potential records. However, including them in distribution models only marginally impacted niche estimations; niche overlap indices were consistently over 0.9. Similarly, we show negligible differences in Maxent model performance between models trained using GBIF-only and Flickr-supplemented datasets. Model performance appeared dependent on species, rather than number of occurrences or training dataset. We suggest that for tropical snakes, accessible social media currently fails to deliver appreciable benefits for estimating species distributions; but due to the variation between species and the rapid growth in social media data, may still be worth considering in future contexts.

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