scholarly journals From “Interested” to Showing Up: Investigating Digital Media’s Role in Montreal-Based LGBTQ Social Organizing

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Krishnan ◽  
Stefanie Duguay
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Event Series ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Company Analysis

Background  This study investigates the role of digital media in LGBTQ social organizing through a textual and visual analysis of media produced by two Montréal-based event series: locally run open mic nights and dance parties hosted by an international company. Analysis  The authors’ analysis identified three influences of digital media: a) Facebook pages and linked materials framed boundaries of inclusion for physical gatherings; b) platforms and apps overlaid physical and digital instantiations of events; and c) platforms’ digital economies contributed to the precarity and risk associated with organizing and attending LGBTQ events. Conclusions and implications  The findings further demonstrate how geographic and social elements can be integrated into digital media to embed events within a local community. However, continued precarity and risk come with the use of digital media for grassroots LGBTQ social organizing. Additionally, commercial apps can gigify events without investing in local resources and people. RÉSUMÉ Contexte  Cette étude examine le rôle des médias numériques dans l’animation socioculturelle chez les communautés LGBTQ au moyen d’analyses textuelles et visuelles des médias produits par deux séries d’événements à Montréal : une soirée de scène ouverte et des soirées dansantes animées par une compagnie internationale. Analyse  L’analyse des auteurs a identifié trois influences des médias numériques : a) les pages Facebook et les documents associés encadraient les limites de l’inclusion pour les rassemblements physiques; b) les plates-formes et les applications superposaient les instanciations physiques et numériques d’événements; c) les économies numériques des plateformes contribuaient à la précarité et au risques associés à l’organisation et à la participation à des événements LGBTQ. Conclusions et implications  Les résultats démontrent également comment des éléments géographiques et sociaux peuvent être intégrés aux médias numériques pour enraciner des événements au sein d’une communauté locale. Cependant, il existe toujours la précarité et des risques personelles inhérents à l’utilisation des médias numériques dans l’animation socioculturelle LGBTQ. De plus, les applications commerciales peuvent tirer profit des événements sans investir dans les ressources et les communautés locales.

scholarly journals The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652093374
Author(s):  
Olu Jenzen ◽  
Itir Erhart ◽  
Hande Eslen-Ziya ◽  
Umut Korkut ◽  
Aidan McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of ‘social media imaginaries’, a derivative of the broader field of ‘media imaginaries’, our analysis seeks to offer new insights into activists’ relation to and conceptualisation of social media and how it shapes their digital media practices. Extending the concept of media imaginaries to include analysis of protestors’ use of aesthetics, it aims to unpick how a particular ‘social media imaginary’ is constructed and informs their collective identity. Using the Gezi Park protest of 2013 as a case study, it illustrates how social media became a symbolic part of the protest movement by providing the visualised possibility of imagining the movement. In previous research, the main emphasis has been given to the functionality of social media as a means of information sharing and a tool for protest organisation. This article seeks to redress this by directing our attention to the role of visual communication in online protest expressions and thus also illustrates the role of visual analysis in social movement studies.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY IN RURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC IMPACT

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-234
Author(s):  
Bekë Kuqi ◽  
Halit Shabani ◽  
Petrit Hasanaj
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Historical Resources ◽  
Made In

Local communities around the world are increasingly looking for the ways to be more active in local government and participate in the managing of their local resources. For a region to become a destination for rural tourism and economic development, there must be structured network and collaborative agreements between public sector and private sector actors. The involvement of the community is a key part of tourism and policies decisions. If the decisionsare not made in consultation with the local community during the project phase regarding tourism development in a region, the implementation will be impossible. It is much more vital to identify and involve key stakeholders in the project phase.By enabling the wide participation of different stakeholders in the decision-making process, including the local community, it enables the acquisition new knowledge about other stakeholders, the acquisition of new skills and the exchange of brilliant ideas in rural tourism development and economic impact, which, in turn, fosters and understanding of regional problems and enables exploration of new and innovative solutions in rural tourism development.Rural tourism development is an important part of the economic development and incremental of the country economy in this case of the Peja region. Whether there is sufficient potential for rural tourism development we should evaluate the natural, cultural and socio-historical resources in that country.Peja region has very good opportunities for rural tourism development because it is a place with history, tradition and culture in tourism development, especially rural tourism, because it has many resources.

scholarly journals Strategic approaches to rural tourism and sustainable development of rural areas

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 263-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Šimková
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Disable Individual ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Individual Strategies

The paper describes the role of rural tourism for the sustainable development of rural areas and stresses out the importance of strategic approach in the planning of their development. The author identifies core problems, which eliminate their use and disable individual strategies set by some entrepreneurs in rural tourism. Concretely it is the absence of developing projects and focus on the development of individual villages. Then it is the lack of will to cooperate, local resources are not effectively used and the local community is not adequately involved.

Social Media for Public Involvement and Sustainability in International Planning and Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura G. Willems ◽  
Tooran Alizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
International Development ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
International Planning ◽  
Facebook Pages

This paper explores social media's potential to improve public involvement and sustainable practices on an international scale across planning and development projects. Using a case-study approach, the international institutions of the World Bank, UN-Habitat, Unilever, and World Business Council for Sustainable Development are investigated. The relationships between public versus the institutions' demands for sustainability are examined through an analysis of their Facebook pages, official websites, and questionnaire data from the institutions' digital media administrators. Findings identify strong public demands for increased sustainability in international development, and great support for online efforts of public involvement. This paper offers a promising application to the planning profession via e-planning. This application could result in an alternative form of public engagement through social media that goes beyond the limiting borders of each local community, and assess planning and development projects for their broader environmental impacts on an international platform.

scholarly journals The Role of Small and Medium‑Sized Enterprises in the Development of Rural Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1987-1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Kubíčková ◽  
Martina Morávková ◽  
Marcela Tuzová ◽  
Igor Nečas
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Creation

Apart from the indisputable importance of SMEs to the national economy, they also provide social and economic benefits for regions they operate in. In this context, the rural areas seem to be interesting because currently there can be seen a reappraisal and emphasizing of their importance. Between 2015 and 2016 there were carried out surveys in two different regions (Hodonín and Holešov) in order to define the role of SMEs in rural areas. The aim of these surveys was to determine how the particular players of the regional development subjectively perceive the role of SMEs in rural areas, particularly how is the role subjectively perceived by SMEs themselves and also by local representatives in the given regions and how SMEs perceive doing business in such regions. The analysis of survey results together with the analysis of secondary data on the important characteristics of these two regions provided the basis for comparison of subjective perception of SMEs; economic and social benefits in these two different regions. According to our findings the role of SMEs in rural areas in the Czech Republic is determined by the creation of competitive environment, the deepening of ties between apprentices and practice, the use of local resources, the increase in rural area attractiveness, the financial benefits for municipalities, the creation of vacancies, the sustaining of positive relationships within the local community and the development of infrastructure.

THE ROLE OF NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORIES OF SOUTHERN UKRAINE ON THE BASIS OF SMART – SPECIALIZATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 298 (5 Part 1) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Halyna Savina ◽  
Stanislav Savin ◽  
Elena Dyagileva ◽  
Daryna Makarchuk ◽  
I. SOKUR ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Preliminary Training ◽  
The South ◽  
Training Time ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Smart Specialization

The article considers the essence and prerequisites for the formation and application of informal and non-formal education in Ukraine. The essence of formal education is revealed and distinctive features of informal and non-formal education are determined, namely: absence of age restrictions; lack of time frame; lack of preconditions for starting training (level of preliminary training, etc.); short training time (several days, several weeks); accessibility for residents of small towns; the possibility of using distance learning; the possibility of flexible formation and updating of training programs for the needs of the local community. The connection between human capital and informal and non-formal education is shown. The expediency of studying the development of territories from the standpoint of the concept of SMART-specialization is substantiated. SMART-specialization involves identifying the strengths and development of the region’s competitive advantages and determining the direction of strategic development related to the priority resources of the region. Examples of resource specialization of the territories of the South of Ukraine are given. Particular attention is paid to resources used in tourism. It is noted that territorial tourist and recreational resources are distributed very unevenly. Areas located on the coast are more attractive to tourists during the summer holidays, while areas away from the coast can offer year-round tourism products that are based on the use of such resources as: cultural, architectural, health -recreational, event-cognitive and others. The role of formal and non-formal education in the development of the territories of the South of Ukraine is determined on the basis of SMART – specialization, which is as follows: informal and non-formal education increase the level of knowledge of the population in the context of effective ecological and economic use of local resources. This means the following: first, it is necessary to study the priority of territorial resources in terms of obtaining at their expense environmental, economic and social effects; secondly, it is necessary to plan programs of informal and non-formal education in a certain territory, based on how progressive the changes will be due to the acquired knowledge about the use of local resources.

scholarly journals Power, Ideology and Identity in Digital Literacy: A Sociolinguistic Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Fatima Zafar Baig ◽  
Wajeeha Yousaf ◽  
Fareeha Aazam ◽  
Sarah Shamshad ◽  
Iqra Fida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Facebook Pages

This study investigates the significance of digital media in terms of social implications. It draws its theoretical insights from the Darvin and Norton model of investment (2015) as it gives purely a new dimension to the concept of digital literacy. The study is designed in order to evaluate some important aspects of Social media, particularly Facebook, as an important digital literacy practice. Firstly, the study examines the way power is operated in the digital mediated construction of social identities. Certain social identities position other identities and accord or refuse them power. These even shape social ideologies and identities as English-language speakers hold a privileged position in society while Urdu-language speakers are marginalized all over the world. Secondly, it explores the role of digital media in the investment of language and digital literacy practices to represent social ideologies at three different angles of marriage, adulthood and family. Having established a sampling frame consisting of nine Facebook pictorial postings from three Facebook pages, the findings suggested that the text and visual representations of Facebook postings use various linguistic features like literary devices that are playing an evident role in the representation of social ideologies.

Social Media for Public Involvement and Sustainability in International Planning and Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 523-540
Author(s):  
Laura G. Willems ◽  
Tooran Alizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
International Development ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
International Planning ◽  
Facebook Pages

This paper explores social media's potential to improve public involvement and sustainable practices on an international scale across planning and development projects. Using a case-study approach, the international institutions of the World Bank, UN-Habitat, Unilever, and World Business Council for Sustainable Development are investigated. The relationships between public versus the institutions' demands for sustainability are examined through an analysis of their Facebook pages, official websites, and questionnaire data from the institutions' digital media administrators. Findings identify strong public demands for increased sustainability in international development, and great support for online efforts of public involvement. This paper offers a promising application to the planning profession via e-planning. This application could result in an alternative form of public engagement through social media that goes beyond the limiting borders of each local community, and assess planning and development projects for their broader environmental impacts on an international platform.

A Court in Decline? Examining the Regality Court Records of Melrose, Roxburghshire, 1657–84

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Vivienne Dunstan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Seminal Work

McIntyre, in his seminal work on Scottish franchise courts, argues that these courts were in decline in this period, and of little relevance to their local population. 1 But was that really the case? This paper explores that question, using a particularly rich set of local court records. By analysing the functions and significance of one particular court it assesses the role of this one court within its local area, and considers whether it really was in decline at this time, or if it continued to perform a vital role in its local community. The period studied is the mid to late seventeenth century, a period of considerable upheaval in Scottish life, that has attracted considerable attention from scholars, though often less on the experiences of local communities and people.

Confronting the Problems of Professional Sports: A Public Policy Response to Franchise Relocation and Stadium Subsidization

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor F Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
The United States ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Sports Leagues ◽  
Sports Finance ◽  
Sports Venues ◽  
Benefits And Costs

During the past decade, forty-six professional sports venues were constructed in the United States, while only 16 expansion teams were created by the major sports leagues. Nearly two thirds of these newly built stadiums and arenas were funded with public tax revenues, despite substantial evidence showing no positive economic impact of new sports stadium construction on local communities. In reviewing the economic literature, this article investigates the role of professional sports organizations in the construction and public subsidization of new sports venues. Franchise relocation and public stadium subsidization is a direct result of the monopoly power of professional sports leagues, whose franchise owners extract large subsidies from their host communities by threatening to relocate to viable alternative locations. After explaining how the most common methods of stadium subsidization project a disproportionate allocation of the benefits and costs of hosting a professional team to local community interests, this article outlines several considerations for local policymakers who seek to reinvigorate public discussion of equity concerns in professional sports finance.

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