scholarly journals Environmental Activism in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maëlle Jacqmarcq
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Nature Preservation ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

The development of new digital technologies was predicted to be a boon for environmental activism. Internet and social media platforms were expected to facilitate broad bottom-up change, enabling activists worldwide to communicate and organize more effectively. However, the emergence of digital technologies may not have revolutionized the methods and impacts of activist organizations, especially for the environmental movement, wherein meaningful change has not yet been realized regarding climate change and nature preservation. Given the many challenges activists face, it is essential to understand how collective action can be undertaken with digital media to produce positive consequences for nature and human relations. Moreover, the neoliberal economic context from which digital technologies emerged and grew further accelerates environmental destruction through overproduction and overconsumption. This paper examines the relationship between environmental activism and digital technologies. While the environmental movement may have benefitted from newer organizational and communication tools on the international stage, the neoliberal economic framework in which digital technologies operate fundamentally contradicts the goals of the environmental movement.

scholarly journals Digital Citizenship – A Review of the Academic Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2021) ◽  
pp. 1-XXI
Author(s):  
Birgit Jæger
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Debate

When digital technologies become a part of everyday life in most parts of society, it changes the way we work, organize, communicate, and make relations. It also changes the relationship between the state and its citizens – a relationship usually conceptualized as citizenship. To capture this transformation, a new concept of digital citizenship has emerged. The overall purpose of this paper is to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge about how citizenship is transformed into digital citizenship through a systematic review of the academic literature on the concept of digital citizenship. The literature review identifies four streams of literature in the academic landscape of digital citizenship, and by a content analysis, it outlines the many dimensions and facets of digital citizenship. In this way, the literature review offers a comprehensive picture of both the impacts of the digital transformation on citizenship and the concept within the academic debate.

Media and public policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 351-368
Author(s):  
Andrea Lawlor
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

Mass media has taken on an increasingly influential role with respect to the design, implementation and critical evaluation of public policy. This chapter explores the many ways in which media “matters” to the policy process, by highlighting media’s traditionally limited role in the scholarly literature on public policy, then moving on to a wider discussion of the direct and indirect capacity of media to influence the policy process. Media effects on policy such as framing and agenda setting are reviewed, as are concepts such as the institutional factors that guide political media production and the relationship between policymakers, public opinion and the media. The chapter concludes with a reflection on some of the contemporary challenges for the media-policy relationship in a rapidly evolving digital media environment.

Bilateral White and black in the poetry of Antar bin Shaddad al-Absi

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-531
Author(s):  
Bakhshan Rahim Rasheed Al – Muthafari
Keyword(s):  
Basic Problem ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
The Many ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Poetic Style

The importance of this research is that it goes beyond the many descriptive studies that dealt with pre-Islamic poetry and poetry in particular. This research deals with the dualism of white and black in the poetry of Antar and the relationship of this duality with the same poet. It may come to mind that the poet To ignore the mention of this duality in his poetry, but contrary to what the reader expected more than mentioned and talk about, and so he does not escape from the basic problem facing him in his life, a color node, but tries to address it and face to overcome Through its introduction and conform to religious, mythological and social standards and the same And moral values, by deconstructing this dualism and making black as well as white acceptable on both the personal and social levels. Through his poetic style and his good use of white and black, he attempts to modify the balance between his understanding and his society understands of human relations in accordance with humanitarian principles and not just formal forms in which society believes and gives them something of holiness.

scholarly journals Editorial Volume 6 (2)

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Moore ◽  
Ruth Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction to the special issue: "Digital technologies and educational integrity" When Roger Silverstone (1999, p.10) asked "what is new about new media?" more than a decade ago at the launch of the first edition of the journal New Media and Society, he framed the question as an inquiry about the relationship between continuity and change. To address the issues relating to the interest and reliance on technologies in educational contexts - whether we are talking about web 2.0, digital media, social media, new media, or even next media - requires us to consider what is most important about the standards, traditions and practices that we hold as crucial to teaching, learning and research, as well as their relationship to change. This special issue broaches these issues to consider how changes in technologies used by teachers and learners - both in and out of educational contexts - has impacted on our understandings of educational integrity. To do this, we have had to ask questions about the integrity of the educational enterprise itself: just as the expanding research and writing capacities of digital media have complicated notions of authorship, so too does the increasing reliance on technologies in educational settings complicate expectations about the open or gated nature of educational institutions. However, it is not so much the digital technologies themselves, but how they are used, regarded, implemented and positioned by institutions, that offer a new twist to our interpretation of education as both 'borderless' and 'gatekeeping'. Download PDF to view full editorial

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Simone Natale ◽  
D. W. Pasulka
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Category ◽  
The One ◽  
Second Category ◽  
The Relationship

The introduction provides a framework for the book based on a fourfold categorization of the relationship between digital media and belief. The first category of beliefs is the implicit acceptance that digital devices and systems function and are generally reliable. The second category is the idea that digital media are “new,” qualitatively and structurally different from anything that has happened before. The third category is the belief that digital media will irremediably change human societies and cultures, bringing about path-breaking transformations in the political, social, and cultural spheres. The fourth and final category of “beliefs in bits” is the one with the most evident religious implications: the belief that digital technologies will lead to transcendence and affect life, defying death through singularity. While one might object that some of these categories refer to beliefs of a secular nature, the introduction shows that approaches to religion and the supernatural are essential to understand their nature and implications.

Digital belongings: The intersections of social cohesion, connectivity and digital media

Ethnicities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay M Marlowe ◽  
Allen Bartley ◽  
Francis Collins
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The rapid proliferation and ongoing transformation of digital technologies and social media platforms have had a substantial influence on the participatory cultures of young people and their associated social connections. This social/digital nexus raises important questions of social cohesion, with digital technologies at once augmenting social interaction whilst simultaneously creating an uneven landscape of access for participation. To address this interface of the digital and the social, this paper presents a qualitative study of 24 tertiary students from ethnic minority backgrounds living in Auckland, New Zealand, who use social media. Incorporating a pre-screening questionnaire, a one-week social media diary and semi-structured interviews, this study presents the ways in which digital belongings influence participants' practices of friendship and family. The ways that connective media influence, and even constrain interaction alongside the politics of belongings, are theorised to further examine the meanings and experiences behind participants' social media usage and social contact. By integrating these ideas, this paper presents the ways in which young university students use social media and the extent to which digital interaction and networking influence social participation and social cohesion.

scholarly journals The paradox and continuum of digital disengagement: denaturalising digital sociality and technological connectivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 901-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Kuntsman ◽  
Esperanza Miyake
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Relationship

This theoretical intervention puts forward a concept of ‘digital disengagement’ to discuss new socio-cultural, economic and political demarcations and implications surrounding the relationship between digital media, culture and society. At present, despite a proliferation of calls to reduce both the range of digital devices and communication platforms, and the time spent using them, and despite a growing body of academic work on disconnection or opt-out, disengagement from the digital is still conceptualised by media research as a spatiotemporal or an ideological aberration. To challenge this framework, we propose a paradigmatic shift. We invite digital media scholarship to denaturalise the digital by centring digital disengagement both as a complex phenomenon currently unfolding and as a conceptual entry point into thinking about sociality, agency, rights and everyday life more broadly. Mobilising digital disengagement as a theoretical lens, our piece provides the following: first, we critically assess the prevalent conflation of digitality with social networking, which leads to a limited understanding of disengagement as being only about disconnecting from social media platforms. Second, we challenge the normalisation of the technological in practices of disconnection, arguing instead that disengagement might be structured, but should not be determined, by the technological. Third, we demonstrate that digital disengagement is not a single phenomenon but a complex continuum of practices, motivations and effects. Understood as such, it has the potential to open new ways of imagining relations between technologies and freedoms, engagement and digitality and sociality and refusal.

scholarly journals Telling science stories in an evolving digital media ecosystem: from communication to conversation and confrontation

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. C04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Holliman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Relationship

The globalised digital media ecosystem can be characterised as both dynamic and disruptive. Developments in digital technologies relate closely to emerging social practices. In turn these are influencing, and are influenced by, the political economy of professional media and user-generated content, and the introduction of political and institutional governance and policies. Together this wider context provides opportunities and challenges for science communication practitioners and researchers. The globalised digital media ecosystem allows for, but does not guarantee, that a wider range of range of contributors can participate in storytelling about the sciences. At the same time, new tools are emerging that facilitate novel ways of representing digital data. As a result, researchers are reconceptualising ideas about the relationship between practices of production, content and consumption. In this paper I briefly explore whether storytelling about the sciences is becoming more distributed and participatory, shifting from communication to conversation and confrontation.

Storing and sharing: Everyday relationships with digital material

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-671
Author(s):  
Heather Horst ◽  
Jolynna Sinanan ◽  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Solid State ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Solid State Drives ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Solid-state drives, Bluetooth capabilities, smartphones, “the cloud,” social media platforms, and other digital technologies have fundamentally altered how we share and store digital materials. This article sets an agenda for understanding how people manage the proliferation of digital material in their everyday lives through a close examination of the strategies and rituals different people around the world employ to organize, curate, or delete digital materials. Drawing upon findings from 11 articles, it contextualizes contemporary forms with digital media and technologies with existing cultural practices of sharing and storing in relation to wider social and cultural systems and infrastructures such as household and family, logistics, health, government, and governance. We argue that the proliferation of platforms, changes in temporalities, and the emergence of different forms of digital labor have fundamentally shaped the ways in which we share and store digital material.

scholarly journals Det medialiserede museum: digitale teknologiers transformation af museernes formidling

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (54) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Rudloff
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Act ◽  
General Perspective

<p>Over the past two decades, digital technologies have gained a greater and more important role in communication and dissemination of knowledge by museums. This article argues that the digitization of museum communication can be viewed as a result of a mediatization process that is connected to a cultural-political and museological focus on digital dissemination, in which user experience, interactivity, and participation are central concepts. The article argues that the different forms of communication, representation, and reception offered by digital media, together with the interactive and social possibilities for action they facilitate for their users, contribute to a transformation of the museum as an institution. It is concluded that the relationship between museum, collection, and users has undergone a number of changes caused by the intervention of the media and that the traditional social act of museum visiting has been transformed and somewhat adapted to new media-created forms of communication and action. From a more general perspective, the article may be regarded as a contribution to a continuous discussion of the role museums must play in a mediatized society.</p>

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