scholarly journals Abjection overruled! Time to dismantle sexist cyberbullying in academia

Organization ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135050842110417
Author(s):  
Emmanouela Mandalaki ◽  
Mar Pérezts
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Act Up

In this essay, we draw on a personal experience of sexist cyberbullying unleashed, on social media, against one of our academic papers, to act up against increasing instances of cybersexism, in the academy. Reading our experience in the context of feminist insights on impurity and abjection, we assert the need to dismantle cybersexism targeting non-conforming academic knowledge, namely feminist. We also discuss the potentials of the cyberspace to provide opportunities for communal solidarity, as a source of empowerment for targets of academic cybersexism. Writing this text is an activist expression of voice and resistance, whereby we call our community to collective action and increased institutional support against sexism in academia, particularly in online spaces.

We are “the Resistance”: Predictors and consequences of self-categorization into the emerging movement to oppose Trump

2020 ◽  
pp. 136843022097475
Author(s):  
Samuel Hansen Freel ◽  
Rezarta Bilali ◽  
Erin Brooke Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Identity Consolidation

In a three-wave longitudinal study conducted in the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency, this paper examines how people come to self-categorize into the emerging social movement “the Resistance,” and how self-categorization into this movement influences future participation in collective action and perceptions of the movement’s efficacy. Conventional collective action (e.g., protest, lobby legislators)—but not persuasive collective action (e.g., posting on social media)—and perceived identity consolidation efficacy of the movement at Wave 1 predicted a higher likelihood of self-categorization into the movement 1 month later (Wave 2) and 2 months later (Wave 3). Self-categorization into the Resistance predicted two types of higher subsequent movement efficacy perceptions, and helped sustain the effects of conventional collective action and movement efficacy beliefs at Wave 1 on efficacy beliefs at Wave 3. Implications for theory and future research on emerging social movements are discussed.

Facework on Social Media in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Tian ◽  
Qian Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Interpersonal Interactions ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
The Face ◽  
Different Parts

With more social interactions shifting to online venues, the different attributes of major social media sites in China influence how interpersonal interactions are carried out. Despite the lack of physical co-presence online, face culture is extended to online spaces. On social media, Chinese users tend to protect their own face, give face to others, and avoid discrediting the face of others, especially when their online and offline networks overlap. This chapter also discusses the different methods used to study facework online and offline and how facework is studied in different parts of the world. It concludes with a brief discussion of how sociological research has contributed to the study of social media in China and directions for future research.

scholarly journals Social Media, Peer Surveillance, Spiritual Formation, and Mission: Practising Christian Faith in a Surveilled Public Space

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-532
Author(s):  
Bex Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
The Individual

Social media has become a part of everyday life, including the faith lives of many. It is a space that assumes an observing gaze. Engaging with Foucauldian notions of surveillance, self-regulation, and normalisation, this paper considers what it is about social and digital culture that shapes expectations of what users can or want to do in online spaces. Drawing upon a wide range of surveillance research, it reflects upon what “surveillance” looks like within social media, especially when users understand themselves to be observed in the space. Recognising moral panics around technological development, the paper considers the development of social norms and questions how self-regulation by users presents itself within a global population. Focusing upon the spiritual formation of Christian users (disciples) in an online environment as a case study of a community of practice, the paper draws particularly upon the author’s experiences online since 1997 and material from The Big Bible Project (CODEC 2010–2015). The research demonstrates how the lived experience of the individual establishes the interconnectedness of the online and offline environments. The surveillant affordances and context collapse are liberating for some users but restricting for others in both their faith formation and the subsequent imperative to mission.

scholarly journals Channels of Protection: Communication, Technology, and Asylum in Cairo, Egypt

Refuge ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Danielson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Southern City ◽  
Oral Information

Communication between service providers and refugees about services, legal processes, and rights helps shape refugees’ experience of asylum but has, in Cairo, Egypt, been a source of misunderstandings and conflict. Based on qualitative pilot research, this paper explores the practices, challenges, and potentials of information technologies old and new in facilitating access to asylum in this southern city. Interviews with refugee and service providers and review of previous technology-based initiatives show that although service providers tend to rely on oral information transfer, other channels—print, phone, text messaging, websites, social media—hold significant capacity for growth. Existing practices and initiatives in Cairo demonstrate the potential for technology-based projects to overcome the geographic barriers of the urban setting and the range of literacy and languages in Cairo’s refugee communities. However, service providers and refugees require further funding and institutional support if this potential is to be realized.

Folklore and Folklife of American Family and Friends

2018 ◽  
pp. 866-887
Author(s):  
Caren Neile
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
American Family ◽  
Friendship Groups ◽  
Performative Utterance ◽  
Family Narrative ◽  
Mode Of Transmission ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
American Society

The folklore of family and friends is a primary social frame of traditional knowledge, promoting distinctive values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Their associated narratives share certain characteristics. They have long been mined by folklorists as popular forms of personal experience narrative, and their transmission is somewhat gender dependent. Unlike friendship narrative, however, family narrative is widely studied in its own right. This chapter argues for a deeper study of friendship narrative, given (1) its role as a performative utterance, reflecting agency that helps form and maintain the group; (2) its horizontal, egalitarian mode of transmission; (3) the effect of the relative ephemerality of friendships; and (4) the role of gossip. The tension between tradition and innovation in American society and the growing importance of friendship groups in the culture, particularly through social media, make friendship narrative an increasingly compelling area of folklore scholarship and a potential means for countering intergroup hostilities.

To Protect and Responsibilize: The Discursive Explosion of Combining Youth Sexuality, Human Trafficking, and Online Spaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-83
Author(s):  
Katrin Roots ◽  
Emily Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Risk Takers ◽  
Victim Vulnerability

The emergence of social media and digital technologies has resulted in new protectionist laws, policies, and mandates aimed at regulating the sexual behaviour of women and girls in online spaces. These neoliberal responsiblization strategies are aimed at shaping good, young digital citizens and have become further amplified through increased concerns about domestic human trafficking and victim vulnerability. This protectionism, however, is not always reflected in courtroom proceedings, revealing a tension between the protection and responsiblization of victims of trafficking in Canada. Using R v Oliver-Machado (2013) as a case study, we examine the ways in which the defence counsel’s reliance on commonplace defence tactics used in sexual assault cases responsibilize the young complainants in an attempt to discredit their victimhood and reconstruct them as online sexual risk takers.

Use of Social Media for Knowledge Sharing by Instructors in a Higher Education Institution

2018 ◽  
pp. 116-143
Author(s):  
Stephen Asunka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Applicable Knowledge ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Against the backdrop that universities are required to generate and disseminate relevant and applicable knowledge for the general good, and with the understanding that social media can be an effective vehicle for such knowledge sharing practices, this study explored the use of social media for knowledge sharing by academics at a university college in Ghana. The study thus examined how instructors use social media for sharing academic knowledge, the factors that promote such knowledge sharing practices, and the barriers to effective knowledge sharing in the academic environment. 47 instructors participated by completing an online questionnaire, whilst 7 participated in focus group discussions. Findings reveal a regular, though not daily, use of social media platforms for academic knowledge sharing. Personal, technological and institutional factors were determined to be contributing in fostering as well as hindering such activities. Implications of these findings as well as suggestions for future research are accordingly discussed.

Networked Collective Action and the Impeachment of President Park

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-98
Author(s):  
Hyunjin Seo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Affective Content ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Civic Organizations ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
News Organizations

This chapter offers a detailed analysis of online and offline interactions and information exchanges that took place in organizing candlelight vigils in 2016–2017 that contributed to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. Interactions between agents and affordances resulted in the nation’s first removal of a president through impeachment processes. Key agents—in particular, journalists, social media influencers, citizens, activists, news organizations, and civic organizations—interacted to produce, share, and amplify cognitive and affective content resulting in massive citizen participation in candlelight vigils for 20 consecutive weeks. It provides an in-depth analysis of these and related issues based on interviews with journalists, activists, citizens, government officials, and technology company representatives and experts. The interview data are triangulated using analyses of news reports and social media posts.

Pengaruh Persepsi Dan Sikap Konsumen Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Pada Minimarket Di Kota Palembang

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-340
Author(s):  
Jafrizal Jafrizal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Family Role

Minimarket  menjadi  pilihan  masyarakat  untuk  memenuhi  kebutuhan sehari-hari.   Hal   ini   disebabkan   karena   minimarket   lebih   dekat   dengan masyarakat luas. Minimarket memiliki karateristik dan strategi yang hampir sama satu dengan yang lainnya terutama Indomaret. Indomaret merupakan jaringan minimarket yang memiliki gerai yang sangat luas. Dalam hitungan tahun, minimarket telah menyebar ke berbagai daerah. Memilih minimarket adalah proses interaksi antara strategi pemasaran pengecer dan karakteristik individual dari pembeli. Konsumen memilih atau membandingkan minimarket yang ingin mereka kunjungi sesuai dengan persepsi mereka. Rumusan masalah penelitian ini adalah (1) Apakah persepsi dan sikap konsumen berpengaruh signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian pada Minimarket? (2) Diantara  variabel  kualitas  pelayanan  (service  quality),  harga  (price), kualitas  produk  (product  quality),  promosi  (promotion),  pengalaman pribadi (personal experience), peran keluarga (family role), dan media sosial (social media), variabel manakah yang dominan memengaruhi keputusan pembelian pada Minimarket?. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada Minimarket yang ada di Kota Palembang khususnya Indomaret dimulai dari bulan Januari hingga Maret 2020. Dalam penelitian ini yang menjadi populasi adalah konsumen yang berbelanja di Minimarket  Indomaret. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa persepsi dan sikap konsumen yang meliputi variabel kualitas pelayanan, harga, kualitas produk, promosi, pengalaman pribadi, peran keluarga dan media sosial secara simultan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian pada minimarket di Kota Palembang. Variabel   independen   (kualitas   pelayanan,   harga,   kualitas   produk, promosi, pengalaman pribadi, peran keluarga dan media sosial) yang secara parsial memiliki pengaruh yang paling dominan terhadap variabel dependen (keputusan pembelian) adalah variabel promosi.

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