Aversive racism and community-instigated policing: The spatial politics of Nextdoor

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110197
Author(s):  
Stefano Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Aversive Racism ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Spatial Politics

I bring an understanding of the concept and practice of “aversive racism” to scholarly thinking about community formation. I argue that the exclusionary contours of community are in part a product of racialized in- and outgrouping from which people’s capacities for place-making are judged and localized policing is instigated. In bringing these concepts, formations, and practices together, this paper contributes to how urbanists might continue to think about the role of race in displacement, particularly as it plays out in the context of neighborhood change and gentrification more broadly. In the penultimate section I provide a discussion of the popular Nextdoor app as a means of illustrating a contemporary example of community-instigated policing and platform for what Dána-Ain Davis calls “muted racism.”

scholarly journals SMO and SMM Models of Tourist Area Promotion as a Form of Social Interaction in the Vital City Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1061-1063
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Trust Level ◽  
City Space ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Brand Promotion ◽  
The City

The article shows a significant role of social networks in the system of forms of social interaction in the vital city space. The task to identify the most popular platforms for promotion SMO and SMM – brands in the tourist area of a hero city Volgograd was chosen as the key tool. The study identified the effectiveness of priority methods of given marketing practices such as the community formation of brand of territory, work with blogosphere, reputation management, personal branding and extraordinary promotion. The conditions for the infinite social interaction are created in these forms in open ICT environment for the residents and the city guests who have common interests in urban space. The research has accomplished the following tasks such as identification of the most popular open platforms for SMO and SMM of tourist area brand promotion of a hero city Volgograd, detection of related communities, identification of a trust level to them, establishment of their purposes and the range of issues of their interest, places and attractions, related to the brand of territory; uncovering of factors and mechanisms which detect mood changing of the target audience and creation of methodological templates which allow to develop, implement and optimize SMO and SMM campaigns

The Role of Community Formation in Learning Processes

2009 ◽  
pp. 80-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Rasulo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Web Based ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Education Courses

The aim of this chapter is to discuss the effectiveness and the necessity of forming a community when engaged in online learning. The Internet and its online communities offer new learning opportunities for many who cannot attend full-time, residential training sessions or higher education courses. Web-based course delivery affords these students and professionals the opportunity to work together, “anytime, anywhere,” exchanging information, resources, expertise, without leaving their homes or their jobs

Habermasian utopia or Sunstein's echo chamber? The ‘dark side’ of hashtag hijacking and feminist activism

Legal Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-526
Author(s):  
Reilly Anne Dempsey Willis
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Echo Chamber ◽  
Topic Issue

AbstractSociety thinks, talks, and communicates in ways which are inherently different now from the pre-Internet era. Hashtags in particular have transformed community formation around a particular topic, issue, or goal. A new and relatively under-studied phenomenon is that of ‘hashtag hijacking’, where individuals or groups use a particular hashtag to draw attention to arguments and narratives which undermine or oppose the hashtag's objective. Most of the current literature looks at hashtag hijacking as a positive outlet for counter-discourse/counter-narratives to challenge dominant groups. This study, however, looks at the ‘dark side’ of hashtag hijacking, where groups use trolling tactics similar to the Alt_Right to reinforce misogynistic views. The hijacking of three hashtags is explored in this study: #notacriminal, #women2drive, and #mydressmychoice, to explore feminist theories on the role of social media in a ‘public space’. Does Twitter function as one common public sphere where inequalities are so deeply embedded that minority voices have no hope of being heard? Or does Twitter function as a meeting place for multiple competing public spheres, thus allowing minority – and in this case feminist – voices to be heard?

scholarly journals The Organization of Neglect: Limited Liability Companies and Housing Disinvestment

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Travis
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
The Public

Sociological accounts of urban disinvestment processes rarely assess how landlords’ variable investment strategies may be facilitated or constrained by the legal environment. Nor do they typically examine how such factors might, in turn, affect housing conditions for city dwellers. Over the past two decades, the advent and diffusion of the limited liability company (LLC) has reshaped the legal landscape of rental ownership. Increasingly, rental properties are owned by business organizations that limit investor liability, rather than by individual landlords who own property in their own names. An analysis of administrative records and survey data from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, demonstrates that signs of housing disinvestment increase when properties transition from individual to LLC ownership. This increase is not explained by selection on property characteristics or by divergent pre-transfer trends. Results affirm that real estate investors are responsive to changes in the legal environment and that the protective structure of the LLC facilitates housing disinvestment in Milwaukee. Elaborating the role of real estate investors can deepen accounts of neighborhood change processes and help explain variation in local housing conditions. Ultimately, public policies that enable business operators to circumscribe or reallocate risk may generate unintended costs for consumers and the public.

AIDS infrastructures, queer networks: Architecting the critical path

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Lubin ◽  
Jeanne Vaccaro
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Critical Path ◽  
Immunological Response ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Early Adoption ◽  
Buckminster Fuller ◽  
Hiv Aids

This essay pursues how HIV/AIDS and digital media transform one another’s historiographies. Working with the archive of activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), the essay considers the role of AIDS organizing in the history of the Internet, and in establishing recursive relations between media formats. Kuromiya’s early adoption of Internet technology centered the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, incarcerated people, and people of color to access vital information for community formation and survival. Tracing the unlikely collaboration between Kuromiya and techno-futurist architect R. Buckminster Fuller (1885–1983), which culminated in Kuromiya’s founding of the Critical Path AIDS Project, this essay interrogates the term “adjuvant,” which Fuller borrowed from immunological discourse to describe their co-authorship. Anchored in a critical engagement with the metaphor of the adjuvant — an agent aiding immunological response — this essay elaborates the digital infrastructures underwriting a blueprint for community building, offering a prehistory of digital queer care networks. In conclusion, the essay meditates on the role of curation in theorizing the temporality of AIDS and its ongoing histories.

Curating Ethnomusicology in Cyberworlds for Ethnomusicological Research

Ethnologies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Michael Frishkopf ◽  
Michael Cohen ◽  
Rasika Ranaweera
Keyword(s):  
Social Experience ◽  
Discovery Learning ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Online Music ◽  
Conducting Research

We describe a musical cyberworld as a virtual space for curating ethnomusicology, as well as for conducting research: the ethnomusicology of controlled musical cyberspaces. Our cyberworld differs from most online music curation in enabling immersive, social experience. Considering such cyber-exhibition of ethnomusicological research as itself a form of social and musical practice also calls for an ethnomusicology of such exhibits. Research in ethnomusicology has typically been conducted through qualitative fieldwork in uncontrolled settings. By contrast, we design a custom musical cyberworld as a virtual ethnomusicological laboratory, a platform for research geared towards better ways of designing online musical exhibitions for discovery, learning, and aesthetic contemplation, as well as contributing towards our general understanding of the role of music in human interaction and community formation.

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