scholarly journals Excava(c)tion in Vignale. Archaeology on stage, archaeology on the Web

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Costa ◽  
Francesco Ripanti
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Guided Tours ◽  
The Web ◽  
Potential Integration

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.

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
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Intimacy ◽  
A Site

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.

Society on the Web

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Thelwall
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Link Analysis ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Government Information ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Social ◽  
Web Use ◽  
The Web

This chapter, which argues that the structure of the Web reflects the offline world, making it a valuable lens for exploring society, introduces the theories and issues which make general observations about the Web and then provides examples of investigations into particular topics, such as academic web use. The Web offers unique entrée to free information from Wikipedia to news websites and from government information portals to search engines. Moreover, the two broad approaches to investigating society on the Web are reported, which are based around link analysis and Web 2.0 investigations. Web 2.0 has spawned broad research to probe its effect on several aspects of society. The publishing of personal information on the Web, particularly on the social web, appears likely to continue and expand.

A URI is Worth a Thousand Tags

2011 ◽  
pp. 279-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Passant ◽  
Philippe Laublet ◽  
John G. Breslin ◽  
Stefan Decker
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Enterprise 2.0 ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
Accepted Practice ◽  
The Web

Although tagging is a widely accepted practice on the Social Web, it raises various issues like tags ambiguity and heterogeneity, as well as the lack of organization between tags. We believe that Semantic Web technologies can help solve many of these issues, especially considering the use of formal resources from the Web of Data in support of existing tagging systems and practices. In this article, we present the MOAT—Meaning Of A Tag—ontology and framework, which aims to achieve this goal. We will detail some motivations and benefits of the approach, both in an Enterprise 2.0 ecosystem and on the Web. As we will detail, our proposal is twofold: It helps solve the problems mentioned previously, and weaves user-generated content into the Web of Data, making it more efficiently interoperable and retrievable.

“You Looked Better on MySpace”: Deception and authenticity on the Web 2.0

First Monday ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren F. Sessions
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Trend ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Web

This paper examines Social Network Site (SNS) users’ criticism of a popular style of SNS profile picture referred to as “MySpace Angles.” Reactions to this style of portraiture label the display of these photographs “deceptive,” alleging that MySpace Angles fool users into believing that the subject is more attractive than they actually are. This case study approach utilizes a close reading analysis of the MySpace Angle commentary, revealing three main themes in users’ critique of MySpace Angles: 1) users who post these photographs are conforming to a social trend at the expense of their individuality; 2) the presentation of these photographs is narcissistic; and, 3) these photographs purposefully conceal the body. This case study displays a shift in the conception of deception online; on the social Web populated by SNSs, theories of deception and authenticity are called into question as users are increasingly anchored to their bodies and expected to effortlessly present an online self mirroring the off-line self.

scholarly journals SOCIETY’S INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO PROMOTE SMART REGIONAL GROWTH

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
INTA OSTROVSKA ◽  
LUDMILA ALEKSEJEVA ◽  
DMITRIJS OĻEHNOVIČS ◽  
LIENE LEIKUMA-RIMICĀNE ◽  
JĀNIS KUDIŅŠ
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
Local Resource ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecological Innovation ◽  
Definition Of

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.

scholarly journals KRITIK TERHADAP TEORI SPIRAL OF SILENCE: KOMUNIKASI MASYARAKAT MADURA DALAM KONFLIK SUNNI-SYI’AH DI SAMPANG

INFORMASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ferry Adhi Dharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Spiral Of Silence ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Migrant Groups

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.

Improving Cross-Language Information Retrieval by Harnessing the Social Web

2010 ◽  
pp. 277-295
Author(s):  
Diana Irina Tanase ◽  
Epaminondas Kapetanios
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Lexical Resource ◽  
Cross Language Information Retrieval ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
The Web

Combining existing advancements in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) with the new usercentered Web paradigm could allow tapping into Web-based multilingual clusters of language information that are rich, up-to-date in terms of language usage, that increase in size, and have the potential to cater for all languages. In this chapter, we set out to explore existing CLIR systems and their limitations, and we argue that in the current context of a widely adopted social Web, the future of large-scale CLIR and iCLIR systems is linked to the use of the Web as a lexical resource, as a distribution infrastructure, and as a channel of communication between users. Such a synergy will lead to systems that grow organically as more users with different linguistic skills join the network, and that improve in terms of language translations disambiguation and coverage.

Public libraries and the social web: a review and analysis of the existing literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Namjoo Choi ◽  
Lindsey M. Harper
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Literature Searches ◽  
The Social

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update Carlsson (2015), which examined the research on public libraries and the social web published from 2006 to 2012, and it also intends to go beyond Carlsson (2015) by including six additional variables. Design/methodology/approach Literature searches were performed against Web of Science Core Collection and EBSCOhost databases. By adapting Carlsson’s (2015) three level key phrase searches, which were then complemented by chain searching, a total of 60 articles were identified and analyzed. Findings In comparison to Carlsson (2015), this study shows that the recent research, published between 2012 and 2018, leans toward a more general acceptance of the social web’s usage to improve the services provided by public libraries; that the public library is rarely premised to be in a state of crisis; and that the social web is mostly perceived as having a complementary relationship with librarianship and library services. The findings from analyzing the six additional variables are also presented. Research limitations/implications The findings from this study provide LIS professionals a greater understanding of where the research stands on the topic at present, and this study also identifies gaps in the literature to offer insight into the areas where future research can be directed. Originality/value Given the continued popularity of social web usage among public libraries, this study examines the literature published on the social web in the public library context between 2012 and 2018 and offers implications and future research suggestions.

A URI is Worth a Thousand Tags

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Passant ◽  
Philippe Laublet ◽  
John G. Breslin ◽  
Stefan Decker
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Enterprise 2.0 ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
Accepted Practice ◽  
The Web

Although tagging is a widely accepted practice on the Social Web, it raises various issues like tags ambiguity and heterogeneity, as well as the lack of organization between tags. We believe that Semantic Web technologies can help solve many of these issues, especially considering the use of formal resources from the Web of Data in support of existing tagging systems and practices. In this article, we present the MOAT—Meaning Of A Tag—ontology and framework, which aims to achieve this goal. We will detail some motivations and benefits of the approach, both in an Enterprise 2.0 ecosystem and on the Web. As we will detail, our proposal is twofold: It helps solve the problems mentioned previously, and weaves user-generated content into the Web of Data, making it more efficiently interoperable and retrievable.

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