scholarly journals Fleeing to World’s End today (Floreana, Galápagos): Microislandness in a global changing world

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto del Campo Tejedor ◽  
Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Population ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Global Features ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
On This Island ◽  
Changing World

Floreana, the smallest and least inhabited island in the Galapagos, is considered both a “hell” and a “paradise”; a remote and isolated place and, at the same time, a context that today has more comforts and privileges than the Mainland. Extensive ethnography developed over a decade, which analyses the practices, discourses and tactics of the islanders and other social actors, shows how Floreana residents live with high levels of transformation, resemanticise, and creatively blend elements of continuity and innovation. The historical and anthropological analysis of anthropisation on this island reveals a process characterised by dynamism, paradox, and ambivalence, resulting in unique tactics of empowerment by a heterogeneous population that has, nonetheless, generated a strong local identity. The study describes a complex microislandness, in which isolation and hyper-connectivity are compatible, and where State wages, environmental protectionism, tourism, the Internet, and other global features do not impede but rather favour the concept of fleeing to and living ‘at World’s End’ in an experience that resituates the local within the global.

Civic Organizations and Internet Social Networks: A Case Study in the Province of Buenos Aires

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-249
Author(s):  
Ana Cecilia Silva
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Positioning Strategy ◽  
Protection Area ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Communication And Coordination

A neighborhood assembly in a medium-sized city in the province of Buenos Aires formed in connection with a petition for designation as a historical protection area uses the Internet to generate visibility spaces alternative to those of the traditional media and install its own agenda, to include in those new spaces the voices and perspectives of new social actors, and to organize and improve its own participatory management. Its use of Facebook has acquired some of the features of “community media.” At the same time, its use of the Internet for internal communication and coordination is clearly accessory to face-to-face interaction. There is a generational difference in access to and decision making about the content to be posted in the various media, and spokespersons have become authorized voices. Appealing to both the traditional and the new media is a crucial aspect of the assembly’s positioning strategy, but the strategy is in constant revision. La asamblea vecinal de una ciudad mediana de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, que se formó en torno a una petición para designarse área de protección histórica utiliza la Internet para la construcción de espacios de comunicación alternativos a los medios tradicionales e instalar así su propia agenda, incluir las voces y perspectivas de nuevos actores sociales en esos nuevos espacios, y organizar y mejorar su propia administración participativa. El uso que le dan a Facebook ha adquirido algunas características de los “medios comunitarios.” Al mismo tiempo, el uso de la Internet para la comunicación y coordinación internas es claramente un accesorio a la interacción cara a cara. Hay una diferencia generacional en el acceso a y decisiones en torno al contenido que se publica en diversos medios, y los voceros se han convertido en voces autorizadas. La estrategia de posicionamiento de la asamblea apela a medios tanto tradicionales como nuevos, pero dicha estrategia está sujeta a revisión constante.

Visualization Methods for Exploring Transborder Indigenous Populations

2018 ◽  
pp. 175-193
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz Blilid
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter highlights the importance of information visualization using web mapping to shed light on the correlation between social actors. It shows how this method helps to understand if Berber identity beyond frontiers is a reality or just a motto in support of “cultural activism.” The suggested web mapping presents the hyperlinks weaved between websites whose focus is Berber cultural identity. Berbers are the indigenous people of North Africa. They are scattered in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya; they have built a “resistance identity,” including both cultural and political claims, long before the digital age. Since the 1960s they have been struggling for recognition against the state's cultural and political domination in which they live. The analysis of Berbers' relationships amongst each other on the internet is valuable for understanding the main features and issues of this digital connection, its shape, its contents, and actor typology.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Noelle Molé Liston
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Five Star Movement

This chapter establishes television and print media as foundational to Silvio Berlusconi's antiestablishment politics to its many aftermaths. It explains that the immediate aftermath is about how science became seen as worth saving and a rallying cry to mobilize to the streets. It also recounts the rise of Beppe Grillo and the Five Star Movement as a consequential outcome that forms a new kind of digital populism through the Internet and algorithmic processes. The chapter examines why Italy was one of the first countries to attempt to hold disinformation and “fake news” legally accountable, and how social actors hyperinvest in scientific thinking. It refers to how the current hegemonic form of knowledge and customized Internet influence forms of governance and politics.

scholarly journals Inclusion proposal of Santa Clara community in the information society

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Giovanna Guedes Farias ◽  
Isa Maria Freire
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Knowledge

It presents a research work proposal, in development in the Masters Program in Information Science at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), which aims to intervene in the process of informational exclusion experienced by Santa Clara Community in the João Pessoa city, Paraíba state. This intervention will occur through field research for registration, organization and dissemination of “information sources”, constituted by people from the community. For that it will be produced a website where it will deposited, to free access in the internet, the “knowledge treasure” of people who form the social memory and knowledge of Santa Clara Community, that will be available for the next generations, which may facilitate the production of new knowledge by other social actors.

scholarly journals Channeling Janus: Past, Present, and Future in the RBMS Membership Survey

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elspeth Healey ◽  
Melissa Nykanen
Keyword(s):  
Harry Potter ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
First Time ◽  
E Mail ◽  
At Home ◽  
Changing World

Introduction In 2015, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) surveyed its membership for the first time in 18 years.1 At roughly the span of a generation, 18 years is a long time in the rapidly changing world of libraries. Consider, for example, that in 1997 J.K. Rowling had just released the first Harry Potter novel, Google was a year away from being founded, and fewer than half of the respondents to the first RBMS Membership Survey had access to e-mail and the Internet at home. New landscapes call for new data, and the 2015 RBMS Membership Survey answers that . . .

scholarly journals Unboxing Childhood: Risk and Responsibility in the Age of YouTube

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Julie C. Garlen ◽  
Sarah L. Hembruff
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
History Of

In this article, we look to viewer responses to James Bridle’s TED Talk on children’s YouTube to learn about the discursive landscape of childhood in the digital age. We first situate concerns about children’s use of YouTube within a history of moral panic and then conduct a thematic analysis of online comments to discover what viewers identify as the central concerns. We “unbox” three emergent themes of responsibility—corporate, parental, and societal—to understand how these themes might help us think about contemporary discourses of childhood “at risk,” critical media literacy, and children’s agency as social actors on the Internet.

scholarly journals Cite them right - is it an essential referencing guide?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Wilding
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Eighth Edition ◽  
Changing World

OverviewThis 2010 publication is the eighth edition of Cite them right, now published by Palgrave Macmillan, the well-known producer of study skills handbooks for secondary and higher education. The book describes itself as a 'guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism' and is designed for a wide range of users; from secondary to post-graduate levels and for students, researchers, and authors. This new edition contains many updates to reflect the ever expanding and changing world of electronic publishing, which means that most students now locate information via the internet.

Do Scientists Need Social Networks for Scientists?

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Evgeny V. Maslanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Actors

The article analyzes the functioning of social networks for scientists on the Internet. The Internet has emerged as a social network for scientists. Then its development led to the formation of various network segments not related to scientific knowledge. It was based on the normative ideal of science. In the process of development, the Internet began to unite not only scientists. The normative ideal began to penetrate into network segments that were not directly associated to the activities of scientists. The development of the network has led to the formation of special social networks for scientists. However, as shown in the paper, such networks are not able to serve the basis either for the solidarity of scientists, or the formation of a new sociality of scientists, since the development of science has led to the formation of studies that cannot be represented in such networks. Scientists are better use general, not specialized, Internet social networks. In such communicative spaces, they can better deal with the tasks related to the communications with other social actors.

Social Capital and Community Building through the Internet: A Swedish Case Study in a Disadvantaged Suburban Area

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Ferlander ◽  
Duncan Timms
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Suburban Area ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Disadvantaged Area ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Impact

The rapid diffusion of the Internet has considerable potential for enhancing the way people connect with each other, the root of social capital. However, the more the Internet is used for building social capital the greater will the impact be on those whose access and/or usage is curtailed. It is therefore important to investigate the impacts of Internet on groups at risk of digital and social exclusion. The aim of this article is to examine how the use of the Internet influences social capital and community building in a disadvantaged area. Quantitative and qualitative data from a case study in a suburban area of Stockholm are used to evaluate the social impacts of two community-based Internet projects: a Local Net and an IT-Café. Each of the projects was aimed at enhancing digital inclusion and social capital in a disadvantaged local community. The paper examines the extent to which use of the Internet is associated with an enhancement of social participation, social trust and local identity in the area. The Local Net appears to have had limited success in meeting its goals; the IT-Café was more successful. Visitors to the IT-Café had more local friends, expressed less social distrust, perceived less tension between different groups in the area and felt a much stronger sense of local identity than non-visitors. Visitors praised the IT-Café as providing a meeting-place both online and offline. The Internet was used for networking, exchange of support and information seeking. Although it is difficult to establish causal priorities, the evidence suggests that an IT-Café, combining physical with virtual and the local with the global, may be especially well suited to build social capital and a sense of local community in a disadvantaged area. The importance of social, rather than solely technological, factors in determining the impact of the Internet on social capital and community in marginal areas is stressed.

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