How are civic cultures achieved through youth social-change-oriented vlogging? A multimodal case study

Debate over conceptual definitions is prominent within the body of literature dealing with emerging patterns of civic engagement and political participation among youth information and communication technology–enabled politics. This article contends that advancing new knowledge in this field is also dependent upon fine-grained empirical analysis of digital traces of youth participation. Drawing on a close analysis of two youth-produced vlogs, we show that adolescents’ commitment to social change can be creatively achieved through video making. Informed by a socio-semiotic approach to multimodal analysis and by Peter Dahlgren’s concept of online civic cultures, our qualitative analysis highlights two main patterns we found in young people’s vlogs aimed at raising awareness about social issues. First, we found that to impact their intended audiences, vloggers presented themselves as creative choice makers and as savvy insiders of youth civic cultures on YouTube. Second, we found that vloggers successfully managed the risk of being the target of online hostility using rhetorical devices and tactics that smoothed counterpositions. Overall, our multimodal case study shows that contrary to traditional approaches to successful communication based on textual coherence, a mix of consistency, disruption, and contradiction can be used purposefully in public speech in order to manage difficult, risky topics. As we demonstrate that visual-based communication on social network sites such as vlogs posted on YouTube is not neat and tidy, we illuminate the vloggers’ shifting identities, opinions, and concerns. This evidence-based observation calls for more in-depth small case qualitative analyses for investigating the multiple affordances of civic talk online and its democratic potential. This article contributes to the ongoing conceptual redefinition of youth civic engagement and political participation in the face of fast-evolving sociotechnical change.

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William James and the Sustainable Transformation of Values, with a Case Study for Rethinking the American Dream

Human Arenas ◽

10.1007/s42087-020-00170-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Croce

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Social Transformation ◽

American Dream ◽

William James ◽

Social Issues ◽

Virus Spread ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

The Face ◽

The Many

AbstractThis article addresses the call of the Psychology of Global Crises conference for linkage of academic work with social issues in three parts: First, examples from conference participants with their mix of bold calls for social transformation and realization of limits, a combination that generated few clear paths to achieving them. Second, presentation of Jamesian practical idealism with psychological insights for moving past impediments blocking implementation of ideals. And third, a case study of impacts from the most recent prominent crisis, the global pandemic of 2020, which threatens to exacerbate the many crises that had already been plaguing recent history. The tentacles of COVID’s impact into so many problems, starting with economic impacts from virus spread, present an opportunity to rethink the hope for constant economic growth, often expressed as the American Dream, an outlook that has driven so many of the problems surging toward crises. Jamesian awareness of the construction of ideological differences and encouragement of listening to those in disagreement provide not political solutions, but psychological preludes toward improvements in the face of crises.

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Affirming the Young Democracy

10.5406/illinois/9780252037658.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Irene Rizzini ◽

Malcolm Bush

Keyword(s):

Civic Engagement ◽

Political Participation ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Social Awareness ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

Recent History ◽

Youth Civic Engagement ◽

Poor State ◽

Political Ideas ◽

The Poor

This chapter examines youth civic engagement in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan region. It first considers the context of young people's civic engagement in Brazil, citing how a series of events in the country's recent history aroused unprecedented levels of political participation. It then considers the demographics of youth activists in Rio, the activities and organizations they are involved in, and their motivations for engagement. It also discusses issues important to youth activists, along with their responsibilities, social awareness, and political ideas; what they perceive as costs to civic engagement, including the fear of violence and the time that activism takes up; and their various other concerns such as the poor state of education in the country and the rights of political participation. The chapter concludes with an assessment of Rio youth's views on responsibility.

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Batman, Pandaman and the Blind Man: A Case Study in Social Change Memes and Internet Censorship in China

Journal of Visual Culture ◽

10.1177/1470412914546576 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 359-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

An Xiao Mina

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Social Change ◽

Social Issues ◽

The Internet ◽

Social Critique ◽

Media Environments ◽

Internet Censorship ◽

Community Expression

While the internet has been examined as a utilitarian space for social movements, it also acts as a cultural space for personal and community expression about important social issues. While examining the particularities of the memetic form – often catchy humor, simple imagery, and remixing – the author examines meme culture as a vehicle for political and social critique in the context of China’s stringent web censorship and propaganda. She looks at social change memes that have arisen around internet censorship and in support of the blind lawyer activist Chen Guangcheng. First, she considers these memes as visual and creative practices that sidestep the mechanics of internet censorship in China. She then argues for the role of internet memes in challenging hegemonic media environments, and maintains that these actions should be considered important political acts in and of themselves.

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“My Student Was Apprehended by Immigration”: A Civics Teacher's Breach of Silence in a Mixed-Citizenship Classroom

Harvard Educational Review ◽

10.17763/0017-8055.85.3.383 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 85 (3) ◽

pp. 383-412 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Dafney Blanca Dabach

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Civic Education ◽

Qualitative Case Study ◽

School Site ◽

Citizenship Rights ◽

Undocumented Youth ◽

The Face ◽

The Impact ◽

Mixed Status

In this article, Dafney Blanca Dabach investigates how teachers and their students of different citizenship statuses navigate tensions in formal state-sponsored citizenship education. In traditional US high school civics courses, undocumented immigrant youths' liminal status is often invisible and overlooked as undocumented youth are educated alongside their peers who have full citizenship rights. Disjunctures between idealized rights and structural exclusions become barriers to meaningful civic education. Through this qualitative case study, Dabach examines the possibilities of a teacher's brokering role across different forms of knowledge and experience in a classroom that included undocumented immigrants, naturalized immigrants, and US-born students whose parental origins spanned twelve countries across five continents. She asks: How do civics teachers who are aware of their students' varied citizenship statuses discuss political participation in mixed-status classrooms during nationally focused events, such as elections? And, how do students of differing citizenship statuses respond during such times? Dabach demonstrates how the teacher apprenticed youth into practices of political participation while recounting narratives about the impact of immigration deportation policies at the local school site. In doing so, the teacher breached norms of silence, interrupting norms that contribute to maintaining status quo exclusions. This case study documents how the teacher simultaneously socialized youth of different citizenship statuses in ways that they found meaningful—across citizenship types. This work contributes to conceptualizing how civic education may be more inclusive in the face of systematic exclusions.

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Tecnologia, corpo e educação física: entre a formação e a prática docente

MOTRICIDADES Revista da Sociedade de Pesquisa Qualitativa em Motricidade Humana ◽

10.29181/2594-6463-2021-v5-n2-p235-249 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 235-249

Author(s):

Evandro Antonio Corrêa ◽

Deivide Telles de Lima

Keyword(s):

Physical Education ◽

Social Issues ◽

Continuous Process ◽

The Body ◽

Human Beings ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

De Se ◽

The Face ◽

The Relationship

ResumoEste ensaio visa refletir as relações entre a formação em Educação Física, o corpo em movimento e as tecnologias na educação escolar. Compreendemos que a Educação Física precisa compreender esse corpo e suas diferentes nuances face as tecnologias, as quais podem contribuir como ferramentas auxiliadoras no processo de emancipação dos seres humanos no sentido de se tornarem mais reflexivos, críticos e criativos. Com os avanços das tecnologias observamos mudanças rápidas na sociedade, e o mesmo com o corpo. Torna-se necessário o debate sobre as inter-relações que ocorrem na sociedade entre a tecnologia, corpo e educação como um processo histórico e contínuo de transformações que envolvem questões culturais, econômicas, políticas, sociais que tem (re)configurado a atuação do professor de Educação Física com “novos” saberes e competências no âmbito escolar.Palavras-chave: Educação Física. Corpo. Tecnologia. Educação. Technology, body and physical education: between training and teaching practiceAbstractThis essay aims to reflect the relationship between training in Physical Education, the body in movement and technologies in school education. We understand that Physical Education needs to understand this body and its different nuances in the face of technologies, which can contribute as auxiliary tools in the emancipation process of human beings in order to become more reflective, critical and creative. With advances in technologies, we observe rapid changes in society, and the same with the body. It is necessary to debate the interrelationships that occur in society between technology, body and education as a historical and continuous process of transformations involving cultural, economic, political, social issues that have (re)configured the role of the Physical Education teacher with “new” knowledge and skills in the school environment.Keywords: Physical Education. Body. Technology. Education. Tecnología, cuerpo y educación física: entre la formación y la práctica docenteResumenEste ensayo tiene como objetivo reflejar las relaciones entre la formación en Educación Física, el móvil y las tecnologías en la educación escolar. Entendemos que la Educación Física necesita comprender este cuerpo y sus diferentes matices de cara a las tecnologías, que pueden contribuir como herramientas auxiliares en el proceso de emancipación del ser humano para volverse más reflexivo, crítico y creativo. Con los avances de la tecnología observamos cambios rápidos en la sociedad, y lo mismo ocurre con el cuerpo. Es necesario debatir las interrelaciones que se dan en la sociedad entre tecnología, cuerpo y educación como un proceso histórico y continuo de transformaciones que involucran cuestiones culturales, económicas, políticas, sociales que han (re) configurado el rol del docente de Educación Física con “nuevos” saberes, competencias en el entorno escolar.Palabras clave: Educación Física. Cuerpo. Tecnología. Educación.

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Ayurvedic Management of Pakshaghata (Left Hemiplegia) – A Case study

International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine ◽

10.47552/ijam.v12i3.1954 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 733-741

Author(s):

Vishnu Mohan ◽

Divya B ◽

Sachin Deva

Keyword(s):

Haemorrhagic Stroke ◽

Minimal Invasive ◽

The Body ◽

Chief Complaints ◽

The Face ◽

Maximum Improvement ◽

Remarkable Recovery ◽

Intraparenchymal Haemorrhage ◽

Present Case Study

Hemiplegia is the commonest manifestation of a Stroke with neurological deficit affecting the face, limbs and trunk on one side or either side of the body. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in India. The aggravated Vata paralyze one side of the body either right or left , leads to immobility is called as Pakshaghata. The present case study deals with a 63years old male patient with chief complaints weakness in left half of the body and was unable to walk. He was a diagnosed case of Haemorrhagic Stroke presenting with Left Sided Hemiplegia with Acute Intraparenchymal Haemorrhage in C.T. brain. The Ayurvedic diagnosis of Pakshaghata was made and managed with treatment principle which is mentioned by Acharya Charaka. Snehana, Swedana and Mridu Virechana along with Panchakarma procedures Shirodhara, Shiropichu and Basti for 21 days. Samshamana Aushadhis(Oral medicines) and Physiotherapy were adopted at various stages of the diseases. Maximum improvement was noticed in upper and lower extremity functions at the end of the treatment. Patient showed remarkable recovery in Speech ability and Mobility. Panchakarma is a minimal invasive Bio-Cleansing procedure which can be adopted in life style, metabolic, autoimmune diseases and also periodic healthy individual as preventive measures.

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The cup runneth over: The body, the public and its regulation in digital activism

Crime Media Culture An International Journal ◽

10.1177/1741659017701803 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 187-198 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Nishant Shah

Keyword(s):

Nation Building ◽

The Body ◽

Digital Activism ◽

The Public ◽

Online Platforms ◽

Predictive Algorithms ◽

The Face ◽

Physical Spaces

The mainstream discourse focuses on predictive algorithms of probability as a measure of responsibility and culpability for digitally mediated activism. Bodies that threaten to disrupt the seamlessness of events are seen as problematic. The expected response is to contain this overflow into physical spaces and to restrict their excesses to the online platforms. This essay argues that this separation of zones of affective excess signals a shift in how we understand the body, publicness and punishment in the face of ubiquitous digitality. It confronts this ‘cleansing’ acts of algorithmic regulation with a case study of the #KissOfLove campaign from India to show how the expected tropes that deal with concerns of safety of the body, the separation and weaving together of the digital and physical spaces, and the affordances provided by regulation and policy often unquestioningly mark bodies and spaces as overflowing and hence in need of curation, containment and cleansing. Building upon the narratives of technologised nation building in India, it complicates the terrain of the overflow, showing that a ‘technoaffective’ framework might lead to unpacking the ways in which selected bodies are rendered culpable and are forced to bear the marks of punishment in an emerging technosocial landscape.

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