scholarly journals Retelling Old Stories with New Media: National Identity and Transnationalism in the “Russian Spring” Popular Uprisings

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Kozachenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Media ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
National Identities ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
National Imagination

The ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine was preceded by pro-Russian uprisings in major cities in the east and south of the country. These uprisings, sometimes referred to as the “Russian Spring,” were a reaction to the success of the Euromaidan, which ousted President Viktor Ianukovych. The downfall of his pro-Russian regime, coupled with aggressive propaganda, created an outrage that culminated in thousands of protesters taking to the streets. Their demands were justified by distinct “imaginings” of Ukraine’s and Russia’s national identities. The Anti-Maidan—a pro-Russian movement—actively utilized social media in order to promote its vision of Ukraine’s future, past, and present. This paper investigates articulations of national belonging by the Anti-Maidan. Its findings reveal that the Anti-Maidan’s national “imagination” is represented by a bricolage of Soviet and Slavic symbols and advocates non-progressive changes.

scholarly journals "Re-Imagining" the Homeland? Languages and National Belonging in Ukrainian Diasporas since the Euromaidan

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-109
Author(s):  
Ivan Kozachenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Crucial Part ◽  
The Continuum ◽  
Ethnic And Linguistic Diversity

From the first days of the Euromaidan protests, Ukrainian diasporas around the globe took an active part in supporting democratic change in Ukraine. These diasporic communities actively used social media to “represent” their national identity, to promote their visions of Ukraine’s past and future, and to network and coordinate their actions. This paper argues that the events of the Euromaidan made Ukrainian diasporas in Western countries “re-invent” and “re-imagine” their national belonging. In these processes historical memory, language, and regional identifications play a crucial part within the continuum between conservative ethnonationalist identities and “civic” ones that try to accommodate the ethnic and linguistic diversity of Ukraine in the diasporic setting. This study reveals that “civic” identity elements became more visible across Ukrainian diasporas, but that Russian aggression somewhat haltered the acceptance of diversity and reinforced previously existing conservative sentiments.

From national identity to state legitimacy: Mobilizing digitally networked publics in eastern Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-279
Author(s):  
Olga Boichak ◽  
Sam Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Media ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
City Population ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Networked Publics

Social media enable broad and diverse publics to mobilize around a shared collective identity. In this article, the authors use social movement literature and studies of peace and conflict to foreground the role of platform-mediated communication in creating a national identity in a fragile state. We argue that, by affording activists with a possibility of public, yet anonymous interactions, social media may play a crucial role in conferring state legitimacy during a violent conflict. Investigating the case of Mariupol, Ukraine, where a small group of citizens employed social media to support and legitimize the Ukrainian state among the city population, the authors illuminate the use of new media affordances to construct a national identity among digitally networked publics, mobilizing support for a threatened state.

scholarly journals Landscapes and national imagination: The role of national parks in the formation of national belonging in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 12001
Author(s):  
Asya Ece Uzmay
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The People ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
The Usa

When the concept of a national park idea was first established in the USA, it was promoted as the ownership of the landscape for the use of the people while emphasizing national identity through nature. As a latecomer to this movement, this paper describes part of the journey of the establishment of national parks in Turkey, with a focus on the period between 1950 and 1975. In this paper I argue that the national parks were a means of constructing a national identity through the transformative power of modernism on the countryside. Focusing on different national parks from Turkey, I interrogated the role of these so-called pristine and primitive lands in the construction of national identity through different forms. Under the threat of neoliberal economic policies and new approaches to understanding of nature these protected and reserved pieces of “nature” deserve more attention.

In Other Spaces: Contestations of National Identity in “New” India’s Globalized Mediascapes

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-73
Author(s):  
Koeli Moitra Goel
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Media ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
National Capital Region ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
National Capital

The sense of a nation as a cohesive entity bound by a distinct language, culture, and traditions has been increasingly challenged in the age of globalization. Any discussion of national identity unfolds on a ground which is complicated and fluid. It is often defined by mass migrations across volatile regions and immigration debates within most organized societies, and also contingent upon unforeseen roles played by social media in crucial fields of politics, democratic participation, and communication. India’s national identity has undergone a drastic transformation in the era of globalization and media proliferation. This monograph examines conspicuous spaces and moments of material and digital life in the National Capital Region to understand the underlying momentum for the metaphorical construction of a “New India” and to provide an analytical framework for political and cultural transactions that have defined the nation’s journey toward a new identity and national imagination. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in India, print and new media analysis, and archival research, I examine globalization’s uneven effects and how global culture has often destabilized, but numerously reinforced, various power structures within the nation.

scholarly journals Karakteristike komunikacije o sportu na društvenim mrežama

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Jelena Lazarević ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Media ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Study Results

Тhis paper deals with characteristics of communication about sports in social media, based on examples in Serbian language. The corpus consists of contents in Serbian from Twitter and Instagram, while the Spanish language equivalents are included as a part of contrastive analysis. The study results show that expressions describing sporting events have adequate equivalents in Serbian and Spanish, while the degree of presence of foreign terms and internationalisms differs. The results also show that there are two currents within Serbian users of these social media: liberal and conservative. The liberal users treat both Serbian alphabets equally, or give preference to Latin, often without diacritics. The conservative ones utilize Cyrillic as the primary way of expressing their national identity. The use of emoticons and emojis is common. Social networks have created an illusion of closeness with athletes and clubs, and communication between athletes and fans is extreme- ly open. Despite obvious contrasts between Serbian and Spanish, there are similarities in the perception of sports as a social phenomenon. Contents about sports in the new media are increasing, as well as the number of studies about sports discourse, which will contribute to the understanding of the changes in the Serbian language.

National Belonging and Public Support for Multiculturalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Sara Wallace Goodman ◽  
Hannah M. Alarian
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Public Support ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
International Social Survey Programme ◽  
Using Data ◽  
International Social

Abstract How do views about national identity shape support for multiculturalism? In this paper, we argue that individuals who view national ingroup belonging as “achievable” are more likely to support multiculturalism than individuals who view belonging as “ascriptive.” Using data from the 1995, 2003, and 2013 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Nationality Identity survey waves across 35 advanced democracies, we find achievable national identities correspond with support for multicultural principles but not for programmatic aspects involving government intervention. Robust analyses reveal these patterns are specific to the content, rather than the strength, of one's national identity. Our findings underline the role of both national belonging and outgroup attitudes on building support for policies of inclusion—and therefore social solidarity—in diverse democracies.

New Media and National Identity: The Representatıon of Atatürk on Ngo’s November 10th Instagram Posts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Müge Öztunç ◽  
Umur Bedir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Global Identities

National symbols, traditions, and rituals emerge as the most influential signifiers of national identity and nationalism. These symbols and images that embody the basic concepts of nationalism, make them visible to the members of society, help to make abstract ideologies more socially concrete, strengthen the sense of national loyalty and strengthen the awareness of the community members that belong to the same nation. On the other hand, Atatürk appears as a symbol of both Turkey's modernization process and Turkish unity and solidarity. Focusing on the representations of Atatürk as one of the national symbols on the internet and social media, this research examines the symbolic construction of the national identity of NGOs that represent different social groups in Turkey through the "November 10th, Atatürk Commemoration Day”. In this context, the November 10, 2019, posts of 38 Non-Governmental Organizations, which operate in different fields, are the most followed and have social, cultural, and economic activity on the society, were analyzed on Instagram. Shared visuals were used to categorize with the help of various codes assigned to them. The thematization method was used to characterize the types of photos posted on Instagram with embedded coding. Then, by combining very close codes, they were also subjected to clustering analysis to see which symbols are frequently used together and which meaning patterns they form. The findings of the study show that social media, which is often depicted as the space of global identities and flows, is a space where national identities are eclectically reconstructed by subjects and social groups that make up the nation and circulated through symbols.

scholarly journals Nepalese Nation, Nationalism and Identities in Patriotic Songs

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Bishnu Prasad Dahal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Country Music ◽  
National Identities ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the different aspects of Nepalese patriotic songs. Here, lyrics of patriotic songs are reviewed and their contents are analyzed. This study is focused on how these patriotic songs assist to promote Nepalese nationalism, national beauties, national identities and national unity. It is the representative expression of all national songs and patriotic songs all over the country. Music in the form of the national songs and patriotic songs were and remain essential components of national identity and national unity. These songs are popular and accepted by Nepalese citizens as a part of their national identity and such affinities are supported by the songs’ repeated broadcast and consumption on Radio Nepal, various other Radios, Nepal Television, private television channels and social media platforms. It is found form the research that patriotic music provides a means for social cohesion, not via the propagation of dogmatic patriotic content, but through the personal and intimate associations that such songs solicit from individual citizens.

National identity premises in Pakistani social media debate over patriotism

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-311
Author(s):  
Snobra Rizwan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Security ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Discursive Strategies

Abstract This paper focuses on critical discourse analysis of national identity premises as they enter in Pakistan’s social media debate over patriotism and treason. Drawing on a theoretical framework that calls attention to the embeddedness of religious and nationalistic ideas in identification paradigm of a society, the analysis emphasizes the naturalized link in motivational/inspirational and factual/circumstantial premises and the discursive and non-discursive practices of a culture. It also shows how (supposed) lack of a clear sense of national identity is intrinsically connected to a politicized understanding of national and anti-national identities, since anti-national identity is made salient as an obstacle in path toward national acceptance, and thus as a threat to national security. This, it is argued, is achieved through certain discursive strategies and non-discursive acts which serve to position undesirable anti-nationals as simultaneously in need of proving their patriotism and ineligible for integration into a broader national identification paradigm.

NEW MEDIA AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE REPRESENTATION OF ATATURK ON NGO’s NOVEMBER 10th INSTAGRAM POSTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Müge ÖZTUNÇ ◽  
Umur BEDİR
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Embedded Coding ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Global Identities

National symbols, traditions, and rituals emerge as the most influential signifiers of national identity and nationalism. These symbols and images that embody the basic concepts of nationalism, make them visible to other members of society, help to make abstract ideologies more socially concrete, strengthen the sense of national loyalty and strengthen the awareness of the members of the community that they belong to the same nation. On the other hand, Atatürk appears as a symbol of both Turkey’s modernization process and Turkish unity and solidarity. Focusing on the representations of Atatürk as one of the national symbols on the internet and social media, this research examines symbolic construction of national identity of NGOs that represent different social groups in Turkey through the “November 10, Atatürk Commemoration Day”. In this context, the 10 November 2019 posts of 38 Non-Governmental Organizations, which operate in different fields, are the most followed and have social, cultural, and economic activity on the society, were analyzed on Instagram. Shared visuals were used to categorize with the help of various codes assigned to them. Thematization method was used to characterize the types of photos posted on Instagram with embedded coding. Then, by combining very close codes, they were also subjected to clustering analysis in order to see which symbols are frequently used together and which meaning patterns they form. The findings of the study show that social media, which is often depicted as the space of global identities and flows, is a space where national identities are eclectically reconstructed by subjects and social groups that make up the nation and circulated through symbols.

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