To which past do we belong? Self and narrative in a Brazilian mnemonic community of former institutionalized children

2020 ◽  
pp. 175069802095980
Author(s):  
Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Distributed Memory ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Government Institution ◽  
Former Inmates

This article analyzes the processes of remembering and identity formation in a present-day mnemonic community consisting of former inmates of a total government institution for abandoned juveniles in Brazil’s countryside during the Dictatorship Regime. Through the sharing of their remembrances, they mutually shaped their life’s stories in narratives of triumph. For dealing with the empirical data, we acknowledged that memory is a complex phenomenon which must be approached in an interdisciplinary way, considering concepts draw from Cognitive Sciences to Sociology. First, we have collected their remembrances on Social Media, in-depth interviews, and fieldwork over 4 years. Second, we analyzed the dynamics of validation; the network of authorities; and the emotional regimes among the former inmates that determined what is selected and interpreted as collective understandings of the past. We took a relational and processual sociological approach for analyzing how collaborative identity-mnemonic processes are also triggered, supported, and built by the material and cultural surrounding within mnemonic communities. For that, we assume a "distributed memory", and " distributed self" conceptions. Finally, we show how divergent understandings of their past are not validated within their community and consequently dismissed from their narratives of triumph.

From Bricks to Clicks: How Digital Heritage Initiatives Create a New Ecosystem for Cultural Heritage and Collective Remembering

2021 ◽  
pp. 019685992110411
Author(s):  
Brant Burkey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Collective Remembering ◽  
Extended View ◽  
Depth Interviews

Cultural heritage institutions, such as museums, libraries, archives, and historical societies, are increasingly using digital heritage initiatives and social media platforms to connect and interact with their heritage communities. This creates a new memory ecosystem whereby heritage communities are invited to contribute, participate with, and share more of what they are interested in collectively remembering, rather than simply accepting the authoritative narratives of heritage institutions, which raises questions about what this means for cultural heritage writ large and whose versions of the past these heritage communities will hold onto as their digital inheritance. The primary contributions of this article are to provide both an extended view of the issue by building on several qualitative studies involving in-depth interviews and digital observations with eight cultural heritage communities over a five-year period and to better understand how their digital heritage initiatives are creating a new ecosystem for cultural heritage and collective remembering.

scholarly journals FROM ONLINE ENGAGEMENT TO OFFLINE ACTIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF CANCER (MIS)INFORMATION ENGAGEMENT AMONG LATINO FACEBOOK USERS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonaira M Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Cancer Prevention And Screening ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Latinos in the U.S. face a high burden of cancer, making it important to deliver evidence-based cancer prevention and screening information (CPSI) on social media to this group. However, there is a dearth in scholarship exploring how Latinos engage with and act upon cancer (mis)information encountered on social media. Cultural values may influence how Latinos engage with multi-lingual CPSI shared on Facebook. This study sought to understand how and why U.S. Latinos engage with and act upon CPSI on Facebook. During one-on-one, in-depth interviews, participants (n=20) logged onto their Facebook account alongside the researcher, typed “cancer” in the search bar, and discussed CPSI they engaged with during the past 12 months. Engagement prompted questions regarding the reasons for engagement and further action. Computer screen and audio were recorded. Interviews were analyzed thematically; CPSI was analyzed via content analysis. Participants mainly engaged with CPSI by viewing/reading content. Engagement was most common when individuals had personal relationships to the poster, when posts included videos/images, and when information promoted popular Latin American foods. Engagement often led to varying levels of action, both online and offline. Not all decisions were evidence-based, and some were potentially harmful (e.g. canceling mammogram after engaging with misinformation). Findings highlight the complex and interrelated ways in which cultural values, source factors and message factors contribute to engagement with health content on social media, which may lead individuals to bypass evidence-based procedures in favor of unproven approaches. Specific interdisciplinary recommendations to address these issues will be discussed.

scholarly journals Digital pruning: Agency and social media use as a personal political project among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482092650
Author(s):  
Hester Hockin-Boyers ◽  
Stacey Pope ◽  
Kimberly Jamie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Depth Interviews

In the past decade, a wealth of research has focused on women and social media. Typically assembled according to the logic of ‘risk’ and ‘exposure’, this extensive work tends to operate within a negative paradigm whereby women’s engagement with the digital produces harmful outcomes for wellbeing. This article makes a novel contribution to this literature by tracing the ways in which women who are in recovery from eating disorders and engaged in weightlifting strategically navigate their social media ‘worlds’ and give meaning to this process. Our data draw on 19 in-depth interviews and our findings examine 2 key themes. First, we challenge the negative paradigm that frames women’s social media use and demonstrate how the digital can support positive wellbeing for women in recovery. Second, we introduce the concept of ‘digital pruning’, a personal political project framed within the language of self-care, which involves unfollowing unhelpful or triggering content.

Summaries

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Excellence Theory ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Mark Verheyden Internal communication and the unrealized dialogic potential of social media According to the excellence theory, which is still a dominant normative framework in public relations today, communication professionals should strive for two-way symmetrical interactions with their interlocutors. In the past, such interactions were severely complicated by the lack of suitable tools. Social media, known to afford interactivity, appear to offer the solution to this problem. However, research has shown that social media are predominantly used to push content. In order to understand why this is the case, we decided to study the perceptions of ‘knowledgeable outsiders’. More specifically, we organized a series of in-depth interviews with human resources executives in which we asked them about the impact of social media on internal communication, a sub-discipline within public relations. While these executives welcomed the interactive potential of social media, this interactive potential was not seen as the sole prerogative of professional communicators. Furthermore, they believed that the current approach of internal communicators towards social media, which is still very much focused on the use of social media as extra channels through which to ‘push’ content, is partially the reason why the dialogic potential of the latter is still largely unrealized. Keywords: excellence theory, public relations, social media, human resources executives, in-depth interviews

“WHY WOULD SOMEONE INTENTIONALLY LIE?”: ASSESSING THE CREDIBILITY OF CANCER (MIS)INFORMATION ON FACEBOOK

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonaira M Rivera ◽  
Katherine C Smith ◽  
Meghan B Moran
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Cancer Screening And Prevention ◽  
Verification Process ◽  
Screening And Prevention ◽  
Depth Interviews

As misinformation on social media continues to proliferate, scholars are increasingly calling for explorations of the negative ramifications of health-related misinformation on health outcomes. In 2018, 96% of the top 100 shared health articles were shared on Facebook; 51% of these had neutral to poor credibility. This exploratory study seeks to understand how U.S. Latinos assess the credibility of the cancer screening and prevention information (CPSI) they engage with on Facebook. Through semi-structured in-depth interviews, participants (n=20) accessed their Facebook account alongside the researcher, typed “cancer” in the search bar, and discussed cancer-related posts they engaged with during the past 6-12 months. If a participant engaged with CPSI, the researcher asked questions regarding if and how participants assessed the credibility of the information. Computer screen and audio were recorded for analysis. Interviews are being analyzed thematically, and CPSI via content analysis. Preliminary findings suggest most CPSI engagement comes from Facebook Friends and Groups that at times share unreliable information (e.g. foods claiming cancer prevention/curative properties). Participants with higher education levels were more likely to verify information via outside sources, while others looked for cues within the post to assess credibility (i.e. being shared by a reputable news agency). However, most individuals rely on heuristics (post virality, cultural associations, testimonies) to assess information credibility, rather than a verification process. These findings can assist in developing social media campaigns to counteract health misinformation. Findings also raise broader questions regarding Facebook’s role/responsibility in regulating and monitoring its platform’s health misinformation.

scholarly journals The Gezi Resistance and activist citizen reporters

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Barış Çoban ◽  
Bora Ataman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Local Variant ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Occupy Movements

Abstract This study discusses how activist citizen reporters in Turkey, who initiated a brand-new alternative new media practice, transformed news gathering and writing activities in the process of the Gezi Park Resistance, which erupted in Istanbul in June 2013. A handful of citizens, outraged by the police violence as well as interested in human rights from a journalistic perspective chose to create their own make-shift media outlets or to become medium themselves. They gathered and simultaneously disseminated news and broadcast live on many occasions mostly through social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and livestream, in the absence of traditional mainstream and/or alternative media. They also contributed to the solidarity of the resistance. In this context, the theoretical framework of this study is based on concepts such as alternative media, citizen media and citizen journalism. Likewise, concepts like democracy, citizen and journalism are also re-evaluated from a radical perspective. After theorizing ‘Çapulcu Media’, a local variant of the Rodriguez’s ‘citizen media’, constructed in the Gezi Resistance by a few activist citizen reporters, this ethnographic study concentrates on their activities in the field as well as the process of their identity formation based on data collected from in-depth interviews and continuous attention given to their social media accounts. Finally, this study aims to develop a critical understanding of a radical variant of citizen journalism in the context of contemporary Occupy movements.

scholarly journals Photojournalism: Journalistic Reality and Necessity

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sushama Kasbekar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Past ◽  
News Photography ◽  
Pictorial Presentation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Aylan Kurdi, a three year old Syrian boy’s image carried on the front pages of newspapers and magazines in September 2015 was enough to stop the world in its tracks. It embodied the ravages of the Syrian war which has made headlines in newspapers and in the mass media in the past few years. Photo journalism is “Journalism in which written copy is subordinate to pictorial presentation of news stories or in which a high proportion of pictorial presentation is used, is broadly news photography” according to Miriam Webster’s dictionary. News photography sears, it captures reality. It is a necessity in this world which requires evidence and substantiation. This paper aims to study the photos related to the war in Syria; especially photos of Aylan Kurdi a three year old boy washed ashore while escaping with his family from Syria. The impact of these photographs on readers has been made through a qualitative study with in-depth interviews. The disturbing nature of the photographs, the knowledge about the war in Syria, the need and necessity of using of such photographs in media, feelings evoked, and the impact of the photographs by being shown on social media was gauged through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews.

scholarly journals Data, Technology & Social Media: Their Invasive Role in Contemporary Marketing

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Prakash Vel ◽  
Collins Agyapong Brobbey ◽  
Abdalrhman Salih ◽  
Hafsa Jaheer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Trends ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Depth Interviews

Marketers have paid a huge price for their inability to decipher which trend has come to stay and which one is a fad. Such a challenge has jeopardized the survival of blue-chip brands, as marketers anticipated in vain the end of existing red ocean strategies. Essentially, the traditional marketing strategies associated with the success of well-known brands in the past are losing their relevance in the current context. There is the need to identify and understand modern trends and their implications to marketing strategy development. In light of this, this study examines fourteen (14) fundamental game changing trends that are poised to impact the traditional practices and perceptions associated with marketing at the operational and strategic levels. The study presents the trends under three categories, the invasive role of technology, data, and social media, alongside looking at their impact on contemporary marketing. Each trend has been identified and analyzed based on in-depth interviews with industry experts as the primary source of data. Relevant data has also been given to present a holistic perspective on each trend.

scholarly journals Pola Komunikasi Komunitas di Media Sosial Dalam Menciptakan Minat Entepreneur

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Mikke Setiawati ◽  
Afdal Makkuraga Putra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Phenomenological Theory ◽  
Communication Pattern ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Entrepreneurial Culture ◽  
Patterns Of Communication ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Depth Interviews

There is Xbank community with members of former financial employees which scattered throughout Indonesia. Interesting to examine, especially is one of Xbank activity,‘da'wah’ thru social media about ‘riba’ Patterns of communication of the Xbank community on Instagram in creating an entrepreneurial culture, with Alfred Schutz's phenomenological theory, constructivism philosophical paradigm with qualitative phenomenological approaches. Data collection obtained through in-depth interviews with ten informants consisting of the main informants who are the core management of the Xbank Indonesia community and supporting informants, namely followers of [email protected], was also carried out observation on Instagram account @Xbank.Indonesia. Based on the results of research and data analysis there are several motives for followers of following @Xbank.Indonesia Instagram account, through motives that refer to the past (because-motive), survive, religious, find out, studying, bad experience. refers to future motives (in-order-to motive), that is ‘Da'wah’, motivation, share experiences, following ‘the hijrah’, blessed sustenance, and out of usury. Typification @Xbank.Indonesia followers in this research are; first, fighter followers (Followers who have resigned from banking). Second, ordinary followers (followers who are still working in banking), Third, common followers (followers with backgrounds outside banking). Based on the concept of the communication model from @Xbank.indonesia Instagram account, it describes transactional communication. The communication pattern of the Xbank Indonesia community on Instagram is a pattern of all work-based channels.

scholarly journals MUALAF DI MINAHASA : KESALEHAN BERAGAMA DAN PILIHAN POLITIK

Dialog ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Almunauwar Bin Rusli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Descriptive Method

This article discusses the mualaf groups in North Minahasa as a Christian bastion : Islam (37,934)  and Christians  (200,213). Minahasa and Christianity are inseparable from ideology. Islam has inspiring Mualaf life since the beginning of hijrah movement on television. This article employs a qualitative descriptive method with sociological approach. Participatory observations, in-depth interviews and literature studies were conducted at Desa Warisa. The result of research shows that the majority of mualaf groups comes from Minahasan ethnic  (Tonsea) and Sanger. They live as farmers, housewives and laborers. They convert from Christianity to Islam because of marriage system. They got Islamic teachings from Insan Kawanua with Ronald Lambey (Muhammad Hamzah). Mualaf is a form of piety to go to heaven by implementing the shari’a as well as being mubaligh in Minahasa. They are not willing to choose political leaders from Christianity because of the injustice problems. They used Majelis Taklim and social media like facebook and whatsapp in order to have a prime position in identity politics battles in Minahasa.                 

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