Slow Storytelling and hybridity: Re-staging community storytelling as a tool for co-thinking

Book 2 0 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wilson

Since the early 2000s social media has transformed the internet into a site for the exchange of stories through the mass democratization of publishing. And yet, new forms of digital and online storytelling have at the same time compromised one of the core functions of storytelling, namely its social aspect, the ability to build community when two or more people share stories in the same space, at the same time, breathing the same air. Somewhat ironically the advent of social media may have broadened the audience for any one person’s storytelling, whilst diminishing the social intimacy of the storytelling experience. As part of its research work into storytelling as a means of engaging people in the public debate around environment, the Storytelling Academy at Loughborough University has been developing new forms and processes of digital storytelling to promote wider engagement and dissemination of environmentally driven personal stories. ‘The Reasons’, first staged in Cambridgeshire in 2016, was an attempt to create a live, community social event that provided a public forum for storytelling as a way of debating issues around drought and water governance in the Fens. Inspired by a re-staging of La Rasgioni in Sardinia in 2015, a traditional form of conflict resolution, whereby a ‘mock’ court provides the means for the community to publicly tell its stories to each other, ‘The Reasons’ was co-designed for the Fenland context and was performed twice in 2016. It was then further adapted for use in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi for an event to discuss the issue of waste management with members of the local community, as part of an initiative with UN Live. ‘The Reasons’ is an attempt to bring together the advantages of digital storytelling as a reflective process with the social intimacy of the live storytelling event. The result is a new form of hybrid storytelling that seeks to build community and establish co-thinking processes to build resilience to environmental change. This article reflects critically upon the development and evolution of this work over the past five years.

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-364
Author(s):  
Marianne Thejls Ziegler ◽  

This article outlines different attempts to define integrity, and argues, with reference to the theory of moral particularism, that definitions acquire universal applicability at the expense of their informative value. The article then proceeds to more delimitating definitions that emphasise the social aspect, and argues that their ideas of the concept, like courage, require certain situations in order to unfold. Since not every person is challenged to act with integrity, the delimitation requires a distinction between manifest integrity and dormant integrity, or dormant lack of integrity. Persons of influence, like politicians and managers, on the other hand, are challenged on a regular basis because their position requires communication of values in a public space, against which the public can evaluate their actions. A delimitating definition therefore ties the question of integrity to people in leading positions.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Costa ◽  
Francesco Ripanti

As an orchestra or a rock star, archaeologists have their audience too. This paper wants to highlight an integrated approach between fieldwork, its account and its dissemination to the public in different ways, including social media. This potential integration has come to life in the 2011 excavation of the Roman mansio of Vignale (Italy) and it has been named “Excava(c)tion”. It doesn’t mean a new way of digging but another way of approaching the excavation, an approach integrated toward and with the public, both on site and on the social Web. “Excava(c)tion” conceives the site as a stage and digging as a performance, through a continuous dialogue between archaeologists and the public. Archaeologists share their work in the form of guided tours (live, theatrical-like performances), communicative diaries and videos (edited, motion-picture performances) and on a blog (www.uominiecoseavignale.it). They receive back comments and oral accounts from the local community about the main themes of common interest. “Excava(c)tion” means engagement both of archaeologists and the public in the pursuit of a global multivocality during archaeological excavation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 302-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginijus Kanapinskas ◽  
Žydrūnas Plytnikas ◽  
Agnė Tvaronavičienė

Public procurement concentrates large public sector’s purchasing power, and has a significant impact on each country’s economic development. The purpose of public procurement procedure is transparency, non-discrimination and accordance to the principles of fair competition in acquisition of goods, services and works necessary for the smooth functioning of the public administration. Besides, public procurement can be one of the most important instruments for sustainable development and other purposes useful to the whole society and the economy of the country. This article briefly discusses the concept of sustainable public procurement, reveals its main ideas and applications. One of them, the social sphere, was chosen the main object of the research. The possibility to decrease unemployment, to increase an integration of socially vulnerable group, and to achieve other socially-oriented goals through an effective implementation of the social aspect of sustainable public procurement has been illustrated. Thus, the article analyses the concept of social procurement, assesses the current situation in Lithuania, overviews the good practice of other countries and provides recommendations for measures to extend the application of socially oriented procurement.


1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-290
Author(s):  
Ropingi El Ishaq

Normatively, media functions as a means of conveying information, education, andentertainment as well as controlling and relating the society. On the basis of its function,media has a chance to build a direct communication with the society so that it has a strategicposition that may give benefits not only to the social aspect, but also to economic and politicalaspects.One way to develop communication with the public is through soap opera program.This TV program is chosen since it can highly attract public interest. In the point of view ofmedia industry, public or audience are considered as customers who have to be served by theproducer. The more the customers are satisfied, the more the producer gets benefit. One themeof soap operas that can highly attract public interest is religion-related theme.It reflects the normative society understanding of religion. As a result, the religiousmessage contained in the soap operas is very formal. Moreover, since it can highly attractpublic attention, it can be utilized by media industry to get as much profit as they can and itdoes not function to give education and wholesome entertainment.


2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Andrew Basden

In “On the character of social communities; the state and the public domain” [Philosophia Reformata 69(2):125-39, 2004] Dick Stafleu has suggested that the social aspect as currently constituted under Dooyeweerd, covers two distinct things: ”¢ companionship ”¢ authority and discipline, and that the latter should become a new aspect, the political, placed after the economic and before the juridical. (Stafleu seems to have dispensed with the aesthetic aspect that currently lies between those two aspects, largely taking Seerveld’s line that it should be redefined and placed earlier; see footnote 9 on p.130) I would like to briefly suggest some issues that need to be discussed and resolved before his suggestion is adopted. I have long felt the tension between the two parts of Dooyeweerd’s version of the social aspect that Stafleu refers to — companionship and authority — and I think Stafleu is right to open up discussion about it. But I am not happy that his proposal either is necessary or solves the problem. Moreover, I can also understand something of Dooyeweerd’s own thinking as he kept the two together.


Author(s):  
Brandis Phillips ◽  
Belinda Shipps

The social networking population continues to expand at a phenomenal pace. Nevertheless, the question of how an organization gets people to spend long periods on a particular social networking website as well as return to the website is becoming increasingly important. Is the technological sophistication of the website or the social aspect most important? This study addresses technological and social factors. The authors examine social network use by employing a survey instrument to gather data about technological factors based on the technology acceptance model and social factors collecting data on constructs representing social involvement and the sheer enjoyment of using the social networking website. Results of the study suggest that users of social networks are more apt to frequently use a site based upon social/enjoyment factors as opposed to technology-related factors.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
INTA OSTROVSKA ◽  
LUDMILA ALEKSEJEVA ◽  
DMITRIJS OĻEHNOVIČS ◽  
LIENE LEIKUMA-RIMICĀNE ◽  
JĀNIS KUDIŅŠ

The essential definition of the promotion of smart regional growth is local resource, potential, exploration of operational mechanisms. That is in order to develop the understanding of local resource feasibility and the community activities. It is important to develop cross-sectoral cooperation, which is focused on non-technological, social and on the ecological innovation processes in connection with entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is an essential mechanism in economic activity balancing, while creating social values that encourage the local community to participate in many areas and reduce socio-economic disparities. The ‘’Traditional’’ entrepreneur whose main desire is to create a product, find their client and thus, earn money, differs from a social businessman. An entrepreneur who has chosen the social niche, firstly, solves a social problem. In Latvia, social entrepreneurship is becoming more popular. Help and consultation at this point is provided by the Latvian entrepreneurship association (LEA), which has been in operation since the year of 2015. The region of Latgale is also becoming more popular in this field. In order to evaluate social entrepreneurship feasibility and to determine factors in the region of Latgale, cross-disciplinary research has to be carried out. Moreover, research and development in this area involves the involvement of a wide variety of stakeholders: NGO (non-governmental organisation), state, business, representatives of the public.


Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle le Roux

South Africa is plagued by high unemployment, extreme poverty and a worrying skills deficit. Job creation strategies focus on the formal economy, but some argue that the focus should shift to policies that would help with the expansion and development of the social (or solidarity) economy that exists alongside the public and private sectors. This sector is driven mainly by a concern to better the interests of their members, or to fulfil a public benefit, rather than to maximize profits. It has been argued that cooperatives provide a suitable vehicle for organizing workers in this sphere. Jackson (Prosperity Without Growth, 2011), in advancing the idea of a sustainable economy, calls for macro-economic interventions that, inter alia, include a structural transition to service-based activities and working-time policies aimed at thefacilitation of shared work. The former strategy (structural transition to service-based activities), although developed in a completely different context, shares many synergies with the underlying notions associated with the development of a social economy. It evolves around business models providing services which are resource-light, but which are not the same as the service sector development which,worldwide, is associated with a concomitant decline in the primary and secondary sectors.The article explores, first, the potential of the social economy as a site for the creation of decent jobs and the possible role in this regard of structures such as cooperatives and, second, whether any meaningful lessons can be drawn in this regard from the research that has be done on the “greening” of economic growth.


Author(s):  
Khizam Deby Kurniawan ◽  
Ana Hardiana ◽  
Rufia Andisetyana Putri

<p><em>City has main attraction for livable. The public has the view that a town has a comprehensive facilities , good accessibility , a broad field of work and so on. This matter causes population growth developments in the city, because people migrating to the city livelihood for the sake of more worthy. The increasing population is not balanced with the service especially in the field of housing the city settlement that will appear squatter. So that the squatter need to be handled, in general the handling of having two pattern handling squatter approach , that is a pattern on-site and off-site. On site pattern is a problem handling squatter location without move to another region but with providing a place of decent housing. While off site pattern is handling by moving the squatter to the regions and with the status of land was legal. In fact both handling is to improve social life and economic society. One of squatter handling in Surakarta is build a low cost apartment. The limited land in Surakarta is one of the reason to build a low cost apartment in the Surakarta City for handling squatter. Based on issues, this research knowing comparisons of socio-economic change in the low cost apartment post-handling squatter. The method is applicable in weighting analysis methods in identifying the social economy at low cost apartment in Surakarta. This result oh the research re the comparisons of socioeconomic aspects of changes on residents after handling squatter in Surakarta can be seen that in Begalon I low cost apartment experienced a medium increase, while in Begalon II low cost apartment and Semanggi low cost apartment increased low. So that the change in the economic and social aspect of Begalon I low cost apartment with on site pattern has the higher than Begalon II low cost apartment and Semanggi low cost apartment with off site pattern.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>low cost apartment, socioeconomic aspects, squatter</em></p>


INFORMASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ferry Adhi Dharma

The sunni-shiite conflict that occurred in Sampang, Madura has yet to be resolved.Therefore, this study aims to determine the process to fight the opinion that a conflictoccurred between the two. The research was conducted in the Karanggayam village,Omben and Blu’uran village, Karang Penang, Sampang, Madura and mansions PuspaAgro Sidoarjo with the phenomenological method. That is, the phenomenon understudy will be illustrated by personal experience of informants through interviews. Todetermine the validity of the data, then the triangulation on the data obtained. Resultsare the conflicts caused by differences of opinion between the two groups regarding themoral values of Islam. As migrant groups, Shiites openly against the public opinionwhich is believed by the local community (Sunni). The above measures, social isolationand threats carried out by the Sunnis that Shi’ites leave Shi’ism and move to the Sunnis.Nevertheless, Shiites remained adamant and against the social isolation. The actiontaken by the Shi’ite group contradicts with the assumption of spiral of silence theory,the theory which explains that there is a person’s tendency to adhere to public opinionfor fear of being ostracized. Konflik Sunni-Syi’ah yang terjadi di Sampang, Madura sampai saat ini belum dapatdiselesaikan. Oleh karena itu penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui prosespertarungan pendapat yang terjadi hingga menimbulkan konflik diantara keduanya.Adapun penelitian ini dilakukan di desa Karanggayam, Omben, dan desa Blu’uran,Karang Penang, Sampang, Madura dan rumah susun Puspa Agro Sidoarjo denganmetode fenomenologi. Artinya, fenomena yang diteliti akan digambarkan denganpengalaman pribadi informan melalui wawancara mendalam. Untuk mengetahuikeabsahan data, maka dilakukan triangulasi sumber pada data yang didapat. Hasil yangditemukan adalah konflik tersebut terjadi akibat adanya perbedaan pendapat diantarakedua kelompok mengenai nilai-nilai ajaran Islam. Sebagai kelompok pendatang, Syi’ahsecara terang-terangan melawan pendapat umum yang diyakini oleh masyarakat sekitar(Sunni). Atas Tindakan tersebut, berbagai ancaman dan isolasi sosial dilakukan olehkelompok Sunni agar kelompok Syi’ah meninggalkan ajaran Syi’ah dan berpindah keSunni. Kendati demikian, Syi’ah tetap bersikukuh dan melawan isolasi sosial tersebut.Tindakan yang diambil oleh kelompok Syi’ah bertentangan dengan asumsi teori spiralkeheningan, dimana teori tersebut menjelaskan bahwa ada kecenderungan seseoranguntuk patuh terhadap pendapat umum karena takut dikucilkan.


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