Limbu Myths in Cyberspace: Intracultural Dialogue Within an Ethnic Group

Author(s):  
Лилия Александровна Стрельцова

Процессы, происходящие в современном информационном мире, неизбежно влияют на традиционные сообщества. Интернет является площадкой, где активно распространяются традиционные тексты, имевшие ранее ограниченное хождение в силу специфики их сохранения и воспроизведения. Представители непальской народности лимбу создали группу в социальной сети Facebook, где публикуют свои мифы, генеалогии, сказки и предания. Через платформу соцсети мифы доходят до более широкой аудитории, к тому же она предоставляет возможность для активного обсуждения. Меняется язык (с языка лимбу на непальский) и форма изложения (с поэтической на прозаическую). Мифы воспроизводятся не со слов шаманов, но по письменным источникам: санскритским текстам, работам европейских и местных ученых. Это иллюстрирует стремление лимбу придать «вес» собственной религии и традиции. Намечается разрыв в мифоритуальных практиках. Ритуал обсуждается только в связи с жертвоприношениями, которые воспринимаются частью участников как признак отсталости общества. Наибольшую значимость приобретает антропогонический миф, поскольку именно вера в общее происхождение является одним из важнейших критериев этничности. Активное воспроизведение мифа о творении человека в социальных сетях является одним из факторов, позволяющих лимбу сохранять чувство этнической общности Traditional societies are inevitably influenced by processes happening in the modern informational world. The internet is a place for active distribution of traditional texts, which formerly had limited circulation. The Limbu (or Yakthung) people of Nepal have created a Facebook group where they post their myths, genealogies, tales and legends. The social network makes it easy for these myths to reach a broad audience and provides an opportunity for active discussion. The language used is changing - from the Limbu language to Nepali - as well as the medium of speech (from the poetry to prose). The posted myths are based not on a shaman’s words but on written sources, i. e. Sanskrit texts, and works of local or foreign scholars. This shows how the Limbu aim to raise the profile of their religion and tradition. A rupture may be seen in mythical and ritual practices. Ritual is only discussed in the context of sacrifices, which some of the Limbu consider a sign of social backwardness. On the other hand, the anthropogonic myth has been gaining additional importance because the belief in common ancestry constitutes one of the most important criteria of ethnicity. Active sharing of anthropogonic myths on the social network thus allows the Limbu to preserve their sense of ethnic unity.

2013 ◽  
Vol 321-324 ◽  
pp. 2999-3007
Author(s):  
Ping Gan

With social network analysis to deeply resolve the social network of users and the network of the thematic network, this thesis is aimed to explore the natures of the node and the Internet as well, find out the potential community, and deepen the analysis of the community, in order to obtain information of structural holes in community. Besides, the feasibility and utility of methods exerted in the thesis were illustrated by experiments. The study of the thesis supplies the help to the online shopping platform with figures theoretically and technologically. On the other hand, through investigating people’s interest in goods, the thesis is also based on to study the user’s investment and the optimization of the online shopping platform.


Author(s):  
Mochamad Yudha Febrianta ◽  
Yusditira Yusditira ◽  
Sri Widianesty

Virtual Hotel Operator (VHO) trend is growing rapidly, especially in Indonesia. Two of the most popular VHO in Indonesia are OYO and RedDoorz, both have been competing to attain the first position. Both OYO and RedDoorz have their own social media marketing strategies. For example, OYO persuades other conventional hotels to collaborate and use the OYO platform in their businesses. On the other hand, RedDoorz was recorded as the most visited Virtual Hotel Operator Platform in 2019, based on the data of Konsumen Jakpat 2019. OYO and RedDoorz also utilize social media to promote their services such as Instagram and Twitter. For advertising their businesses in social media, OYO and RedDoorz often use some social media influencers or known as influencer social media marketing. Influencers should be able to effectively deliver the messages and influence people’s decisions to use the products or services they advertise. This study aims to further explore the social media marketing strategy employed by OYO and RedDoorz. The results of Social Network Analysis by using “oyoindonesia” and ‘reddoorz’ as keywords in social media Twitter showed that RedDoorz has a bigger social network and more users involved in spreading their information than OYO. On the other hand, OYO's official account on Twitter is more efficient in performing its function as marketing media.


Author(s):  
Naftali Waxman ◽  
Sarit Kraus ◽  
Noam Hazon

In many coalition formation games the utility of the agents depends on a social network. In such scenarios there might be a manipulative agent that would like to manipulate his connections in the social network in order to increase his utility. We study a model of coalition formation in which a central organizer, who needs to form k coalitions, obtains information about the social network from the agents. The central organizer has her own objective: she might want to maximize the utilitarian social welfare, maximize the egalitarian social welfare, or only guarantee that every agent will have at least one connection within her coalition. In this paper we study the susceptibility for manipulation of these objectives, given the abilities and information that the manipulator has. Specifically, we show that if the manipulator has very limited information, namely he is only familiar with his immediate neighbours in the network, then a manipulation is almost always impossible. Moreover, if the manipulator is only able to add connections to the social network, then a manipulation is still impossible for some objectives, even if the manipulator has full information on the structure of the network. On the other hand, if the manipulator is able to hide some of his connections, then all objectives are susceptible to manipulation, even if the manipulator has limited information, i.e., when he is familiar with his immediate neighbours and with their neighbours.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-118
Author(s):  
Barış Tolga Ekinci

In our day, the new media has become an inseparable part of the daily life. Since the internet and the social media have been widespread, the new media has been effective in socio-cultural changes and transformations. On the other hand, this process, which is also called as digitalization, is not only effective in the new media. The relation between the traditional media and the new media has also been under transformation. In this study, based on the relation between the mainstream cinema and the new media, “YouTuber movies” are investigated. In this context, the selected “YouTuber movies” were examined via genre criticism method, and the data was interpreted in the conclusions part.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riska Hendika Rani

<p><strong>This research examines Little Bee’s social identity change based on Chris Cleave’s novel entitled <em>the Other Hand. </em>The object of this research focuses on the Little Bee’s social identity change. The method used in this research is critical reading. To collect the data, the researcher did some steps including reading the novel closely and intensively, making notes, visiting library, and exploring the data from the internet which are related to the topic. In analyzing the data, the researcher used descriptive qualitative method.</strong></p><strong>After conducting the research, the researcher got several research findings. They are: 1). The reason of Little Bee’s social identity change are her envy towards British people’s easy life, her needs to tell her sad story, her will to survive, and her desire to overcome her past. 2). The way Little Bee learns her new identity is by reading, such as novels and newspaper, practicing how to pronounce and speak, looking for difficult words in her dictionary in order to learn the language, and learning the British life by watching television and reading books to understand the British lifestyle.</strong>


1987 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edna Bonacich

This article takes the concept of “making it” in America as the central thrust behind immigrant entrepreneurship. The social values behind “making it” are dissected, and closely linked to the capitalist ethic of utilitarianism. Immigrant entrepreneurs are found to play the part of both oppressed and oppressors. They are tools of large corporations, their hard work used by the corporations to make money. On the other hand, the immigrants also oppress others, including workers of their own ethnic group, family members, and the American underclass. The dual oppressed-oppressor role makes the immigrants useful middlemen, as they oppress those beneath them for the benefit of those above. The article ends on a note of hope that seeing these relations clearly will enable people to break out of them.


Author(s):  
Hind Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Ali

Connecting to the  electronic information network (internet) became the most characteristic that distinguish this era However , the long hours which young men daily spend on the internet On the other hand ,there are many people who are waiting for the chance to talk and convince them with their views This will lead the young people to be part in the project of the “cyber armies “that involved with states and terrorist organizations  This project has been able  to recruitment hundreds of people every day to work in its rank . It is very difficult to control these websites because we can see the terrorist presence in all its forms in the internet   In addition there are many incubation environments that feed in particular the young people minds                                                                                         Because they are suffering from the lack of social justice Also the unemployment, deprivation , social and political repression So , that terrorist organizations can attract young people through the internet by convincing them to their views and ideas . So these organizations will enable to be more  stronger.


Vox Patrum ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 361-373
Author(s):  
Maciej Kokoszko ◽  
Katarzyna Gibel-Buszewska

The present article focuses on one of the Greek delicacies mentioned by Photius and Eustathius, i.e. a Lydian import called kandaulos/kandylos. The dish was developed before the mid. VI th c. BC and named after a Lydian king, Kandaules, who ruled in the VII th c. BC. The delicacy was (via the Ionians) borrowed by the Helens and established itself in Greece sometime in the V th c. It became popular in Hellenistic times. The information we possess allow us to reconstruct two varieties of kandaulos/ kandylos. The first was savoury and consisted of cooked meat, stock, Phrygian cheese, breadcrumbs and dill (or fennel). The other included milk, lard, cheese and honey. The dish is reported to have been costly, prestigious and indicating the social status of those who would eat it. Though there is much evidence suggesting its popularity in antiquity, we lack solid evidence proving that kaunaudlos/kandylos was eaten in Byzantine times. On the other hand, Byzantine authors preserved the most detailed literary data on the delicacy. If it had not been for the Byzantine interest, our competence in the field of Greek cuisine would be even faultier.


Südosteuropa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-431
Author(s):  
Irena Petrović ◽  
Marija Radoman

AbstractThe authors analyze the changes in value patterns—patriarchy, authoritarianism and nationalism—in Serbia in the context of the social changes that have marked the postsocialist transformation period. They focus on the extent and intensity of two sub-patterns within each of these three basic value patterns: private and public patriarchy, general and specific authoritarianism, organic (natural) and ethnic nationalism. The conclusions about changes in these value patterns are drawn on the basis of three empirical studies conducted in 2003, 2012, and 2018. They show the prevalence of private patriarchy, general authoritarianism, and organic (natural) nationalism over their counterparts. Private patriarchy has weakened, which is largely to be explained by the significant structural changes in Serbia. On the other hand, support of general authoritarianism and organic (natural) nationalism has been on the rise, which clearly mirrors the unfavorable economic and political situation in the country.


Author(s):  
Violetta Gaputina

This article addresses the issues of organizing the communicative space of modern media. The main focus is on considering the names of podcasts - audio blogs on the Internet - in terms of the various language techniques used in them. The material for the study was podcasts operating on the platforms of the Internet site YouTube and the social network Vkontakte in Russia. 9 groups of podcast titles were identified by the type of reception underlying each name. It has been established that the corpus of titles in the podcasting industry is characterized by a wide variety. Among them, original names predominate, built on the basis of a language game, precedent texts, borrowings from other languages, stylistically marked words or implicit meaning, metaphorical, symbolic, ironic component embedded in them, which work on the implementation of a contact-establishing strategy for subsequent communication between mediators and the audience listeners.


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