scholarly journals Relational Communication Spaces: Infrastructures and Discursive Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexa Keinert ◽  
Volkan Sayman ◽  
Daniel Maier
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Relational Communication ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Relational Concept ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Relational Logic

Digital communication technologies, social web platforms, and mobile communication have fundamentally altered the way we communicate publicly. They have also changed our perception of space, thus making a re-calibration of a spatial perspective on public communication necessary. We argue that such a new perspective must consider the relational logic of public communication, which stands in stark contrast to the plain territorial notion of space common in communication research. Conceptualising the spatiality of public communication, we draw on Löw’s (2016) sociology of space. Her relational concept of space encourages us to pay more attention to (a) the infrastructural basis of communication, (b) the operations of synthesising the relational communication space through discursive practices, and (c) power relations that determine the accessibility of public communication. Thus, focusing on infrastructures and discursive practices means highlighting crucial socio-material preconditions of public communication and considering the effects of the power relations which are inherent in their spatialisation upon the inclusivity of public communication<em>.</em> This new approach serves a dual purpose: Firstly, it works as an analytical perspective to systematically account for the spatiality of public communication. Secondly, the differentiation between infrastructural spaces and spaces of discursive practices adds explanatory value to the perspective of relational communication spaces.

scholarly journals Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
pp. 026624262110137
Author(s):  
Patricia Lewis ◽  
Nick Rumens ◽  
Ruth Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Work Study ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Family And Work ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Analytical Device

Mobilising postfeminism as an analytical device, this article re-examines how women business owners discursively engage with the identity of the mumpreneur. Drawing on interviews with women business owners, this article reconceptualises the compatibility between motherhood and entrepreneurship associated with the mumpreneur, in terms of a hybrid identity that interlinks feminine and masculine behaviours connected to home and work. Study data reveal the discursive practices present in interview accounts – choosing family and work, strategic mumpreneurship and enhancing the business without limits – which draw on postfeminist discourses to constitute hybrid entrepreneurial femininities associated with the mumpreneur category. The article contributes to the gender and entrepreneurship literature, in particular, the scholarship on mumpreneurship, by first, showing how engagement with the mumpreneur identity is implicated in the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship; second, demonstrates how encounters with the mumpreneur contribute to the creation of a hierarchy of entrepreneurial identities which reinforces the masculine norm; and third considers how the mumpreneur as a hybrid identity mobilises entrepreneurship in children in gendered ways. While the emergence of the mumpreneur as a contemporary entrepreneurial identity has positively impacted how women’s entrepreneurship is viewed, the study demonstrates that it has not disrupted dominant discourses of masculine entrepreneurship or gendered power relations in the entrepreneurial field.

Sousse Attacks: A New Perspective on Soft Target Defense and Modern-Day Terrorism Threat

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Corsaro ◽  
Daniel Djouder
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Terrorism Threat ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Marked Preference ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Soft Target ◽  
And Training ◽  
Soft Targets

The Sousse attacks embody the main characteristics of terrorism and insurgency as pursued by ISIS. They are presented here as overarching examples of the underlying themes examined in this paper. In the first section, we give an outline of the facts that occurred in Sousse, Tunisia, highlighting features that mark the importance of the events in themselves and in the broader context of terrorism studies. In the second section, we offer a qualitative analysis of the traits of modern-day terrorism threat in the post-ISIS era—in particular, a marked preference for soft targets, all-around enemification of nonconformers, loose ties with perpetrators, massive use of communication technologies and propaganda, dissemination of paramilitary and insurgency know-how, and training. In the third and final section, we discuss the lessons that can be drawn from the events of Sousse, with a specific focus on soft target defense, as relevant for future challenges emerging from the rise and fall of ISIS as a pseudo-state entity and the dissemination of its personnel, ideology, and knowledge outside the territories it once occupied. In particular, we propose a departure from the model of soft target protection to one of defense.

Social Risks in Communication Space of Modern Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
О. Терещенко ◽  
O. Tereshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Global World

Information and communication technologies since the early 1970s. allow sharing information about disasters, terrorist acts, risk situations and accidents in real-time, and contribute not only to increased terrorism, but also to the spread of social risks in general. A new stage in the development of riskiness of society and communication space came with rise and development of the second version of the Internet (web 2.0), when creation of information resources became available to all organizations and individuals. These problems were discussed at the round table “Social risks in Communication Space of Contemporary Society”, which was held in Minsk on October 19, 2017 in the framework of the First Belarusian Philosophical Congress “National Philosophy in the Global World”.

scholarly journals Mobilization and demobilization in a network political protest

2020 ◽  
pp. 266-297
Author(s):  
Alexander Sokolov ◽  
Asya Palagicheva
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual

The article considers the essence and approaches to understanding network political protest. Traditional forms of collective action are changing under the influence of information and communication technologies. The network paradigm focuses on the position of the individual in the social space, the degree of his involvement in the communication space, the ability to control and regulate the intensity of the information flow. Network structures are more flexible and adaptive, more in line with the new reality. Special and main principles of the network structure of political protest are revealed. The article also presents definitions of political mobilization and demobilization. These processes Express the rivalry of the conflicting parties-the state and society, where the support of the broad masses of the population is an important category. Based on the data of the monitoring study, the features of the development of civil protest activism and the use of mobilization technologies were identified. ICTs have a significant impact on their formation and transformation. The state, reacting to forms of real and virtual activity, formulates a counteraction strategy. It is expressed in the use of technologies for the demobilization of citizens, which are also undergoing changes in the era of digitalization

scholarly journals Active Methodologies of Learning and Educational Technologies in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Dr. Mario Vásquez Astudillo ◽  
Dr. Vanessa Dos Santos Nogueira ◽  
Jorge Arturo Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Planning Group ◽  
Group Characteristics

This research presents an analysis of the active methodologies of learning in higher education and its potential, from the use of Information and Communication Technologies applied to education. It is considered the thought of authors who discuss active methodologies today and a collection of information addressed with students of Pedagogy course in the context of the Open University of Brazil. The results point out the possibilities of the use of active methodologies, combined with the use of technologies, enabling greater student engagement and qualification in the learning processes. However, it should be noted that the technologies available arouse the students’ interest or have the potential to qualify learning processes according to planning, group characteristics, and teaching mediation. The Virtual Learning Environment, among the researched resources, are considered by students as the best communication space to study, followed by the moderate use of some social networks.

scholarly journals Historical thinking and representation in Caryl Phillips’s Higher ground and J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands

2012 ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Caryl Phillips ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Main Ideas

This study is an attempt to cross the boundaries between academic disciplines and provide a new perspective for the interpretation of the past in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974) and Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground (1989). The analysis of the narrative strategies the two authors share to expose patterns of socially and ideologically constructed representation of the historical «other» draws on some of the main ideas and concepts developed by Frank Ankersmit, one of the leading figures in contemporary historiography. Reflecting on the relation between interpretation, truth, and the meaning given to past reality, the present article reads the fragments of representations of the past as «narrative substances» and examines the choice and arrangement of these fragments in the two novels. The way individual stories of suffering are interconnected to stand as a «whole» helps our understanding of the discursive practices in the production of knowledge about the past and reveals their power and limitations.El presente estudio constituye un intento de cruzar los límites entre las disciplinas académicas y aportar una perspectiva novedosa a la interpretación del pasado en Dusklands (1974) de J. M. Coetzee y Higher Ground (1989) de Caryl Phillips. El análisis de las estrategias narrativas que comparten ambos autores para exponer patrones de representación construidos sociológica e ideológicamente del «otro» histórico se basa en algunas de las ideas y conceptos desarrollados por Frank Ankersmit, una de las figuras más relevantes dentro de la historiografía contemporánea. Reflexionando acerca de la relación entre interpretación, verdad, y el significado que se otorga a la realidad pasada, este artículo lee los fragmentos de las representaciones del pasado como «sustancias narrativas», examinando la elección y disposición de dichos fragmentos en las dos novelas analizadas. La manera en la que las se interconectan las historias individuales de sufrimiento para constituir un «todo» coadyuva a nuestro entendimiento de las prácticas discursivas en la producción del conocimiento acerca del pasado y revela su poder y sus limitaciones.

Comparative analysis of capitalism from a regulationist perspective extended by neo-Gramscian IPE

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Jürgen Bieling
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Current Form ◽  
International Networks ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Current State ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Over Time

Over time, the comparative analysis of capitalism has moved beyond the strict confines of the narrow varieties of capitalism (VoC) framework. In this sense, it is possible to observe an emergent post-VoC discussion that goes beyond the static design and methodological nationalism that can be found in a strictly comparative and institutionalist account of capitalism. So far, however, the post-VoC discussion has been barely able to address important politico-economic and societal themes and issues. For the most part, assertions about time-diagnostic characterisations of the current state of capitalism, the causes and processes of specific crisis dynamics inherent to this current form of capitalism, and the asymmetrical forms of international networks or formative transnational power relations, remain weak or chaotic. In order to overcome these existing deficiencies, this paper argues from an analytical perspective that situates itself in regulation theory and allows itself to be characterised as an extended neo-Gramscian international political economy (IPE) approach.

Public discourse, political legitimacy, and collective identity: Cases from Iraq, Brazil and China

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (s1) ◽  
pp. 560-585
Author(s):  
Max Hänska ◽  
Ahmed Bahiya ◽  
Fernanda Amaral ◽  
Yu Sui
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Government

AbstractThrough the examination of recent developments in Iraq, Brazil and China, this paper explores the role of public communication in a) generating, corralling, and buttressing political legitimacy, and b) negotiating, demarcating, and reproducing collective identities. The transformation of Iraq’s public sphere after the fall of the Ba’ath regime saw it shift from a tightly controlled and unified communication space to unencumbered yet fragmented spheres split along ethno-sectarian lines, buttressing sectarian politics and identities. The emergence of subaltern publics in Brazil’s favelas empowered residents to express public dissent, assert their voice, and develop pride in their community. Chinese efforts to control online public discourse provide the government with ways of managing its perceived legitimacy and foster patriotic fellowship online. Legitimation and the affirmation of identity interact and support one another in public discourse, as we illustrate.

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