scholarly journals Constructing the emotions of childhood: an analysis of Margaret Mahy’s use of emotion in her literary contribution to the School Journal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gemma Amy Helleur Hiscock
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Journal ◽  
Margaret Mahy

<p>This qualitative content analysis research study examines how Margaret Mahy used emotion in the School Journal to form insights into reader appeal, reader response and the social construction of childhood. This research study examines Mahy’s contribution to the School Journal. The study explores this body of work in terms of how its author uses emotion to captivate readers by evoking the feelings associated with childhood. The underlying objective of the study was to provide insights into why Mahy’s work is so treasured and memorable; to explain how she uses emotion to captivate readers, and how this contributes to the social construction of childhood. The prose and poetry Mahy contributed to the School Journal prove to be a significant, rich and uncharted resource for the purposes of this research investigation. Analysis of this body of work has allowed for greater insights and understanding into Mahy’s contribution to children’s literature. It has also allowed for a greater appreciation of how Mahy’s use of emotion contributes to the social construction of childhood. This type of content analysis research study proves to be invaluable in the development of reader’s advisory services to young people. The employment of a content analysis methodology, underpinned by a discourse analysis approach, enabled the emotional narratives of Mahy’s text to be explained and understood. The study’s findings, that lightness and aliveness are the most prevalent and persuasive emotions operating within Mahy’s text, was substantiated through analysis of actual reader responses. This investigation is most applicable to school librarians, children’s librarians and educators. The study has broader implications for the improvement of client interaction and collection development in youth library services</p>

scholarly journals Constructing the emotions of childhood: an analysis of Margaret Mahy’s use of emotion in her literary contribution to the School Journal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gemma Amy Helleur Hiscock
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Journal ◽  
Margaret Mahy

<p>This qualitative content analysis research study examines how Margaret Mahy used emotion in the School Journal to form insights into reader appeal, reader response and the social construction of childhood. This research study examines Mahy’s contribution to the School Journal. The study explores this body of work in terms of how its author uses emotion to captivate readers by evoking the feelings associated with childhood. The underlying objective of the study was to provide insights into why Mahy’s work is so treasured and memorable; to explain how she uses emotion to captivate readers, and how this contributes to the social construction of childhood. The prose and poetry Mahy contributed to the School Journal prove to be a significant, rich and uncharted resource for the purposes of this research investigation. Analysis of this body of work has allowed for greater insights and understanding into Mahy’s contribution to children’s literature. It has also allowed for a greater appreciation of how Mahy’s use of emotion contributes to the social construction of childhood. This type of content analysis research study proves to be invaluable in the development of reader’s advisory services to young people. The employment of a content analysis methodology, underpinned by a discourse analysis approach, enabled the emotional narratives of Mahy’s text to be explained and understood. The study’s findings, that lightness and aliveness are the most prevalent and persuasive emotions operating within Mahy’s text, was substantiated through analysis of actual reader responses. This investigation is most applicable to school librarians, children’s librarians and educators. The study has broader implications for the improvement of client interaction and collection development in youth library services</p>

Upsettling Canada in 140 Characters: race relations in the Twittersphere

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Carter
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Networking Tool ◽  
A Site

This paper is a qualitative content analysis of public tweets made during the Indigenous social movement, Idle No More, containing the #upsettler and #upsettlers hashtags. Using settler colonial theory coupled with previous literature on Twitter during social movements as a guiding framework, this study identifies how settler colonial relations were being constructed on Twitter and how functions of the social networking tool such as the hashtag impacted this process. By examining and analyzing the content of 278 tweets, this study illustrates that Twitter is a site where conversations about race relations in Canada are taking place and that the use of the hashtag function plays a vital role in expanding the reach of this online discussion and creating a sense of solidarity or community among users.

scholarly journals Navigating identity within the context of culture & community: an examination of creative engagement among black 2SLGBTQ Caribbean-Canadian artists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaniqua (Nika) Smith
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Secondary Data Sources ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

This research examines some of the ways Black 2SLGBTQ Caribbean-Canadian artists engage with creative expression to navigate their sexual and gender identities. This study also highlighted the intersection of race, gender, sexual identity, and immigration. The secondary data sources collected were a photography series produced by Jamaican-Canadian photographer Brianna Roye; and a 2015 interview featuring Michèle Pearson Clarke, a Trinidadian-Canadian artist. These secondary data sources were analyzed using multi-textual analysis and qualitative content analysis tools. The findings highlight the potential for art and creative expression to address issues of anti-Black racism and heterosexism, in addition to fostering healing and community building. This study aims to present insight that will contribute to ongoing efforts within the social work profession to promote Black 2SLGBTQ equity and inclusion.

Thematic Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 283-288
Author(s):  
Jean-Frédéric Morin ◽  
Christian Olsson ◽  
Ece Özlem Atikcan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distinct Method

This chapter evaluates thematic analysis (TA), which is one of the oldest and most widely used qualitative analytic method across the social sciences. TA is a flexible method for identifying and analysing patterns of meaning — ‘themes’ — in qualitative data, with wide-ranging applications. The method has a long, if indeterminate, history in the social sciences, but seems likely to have evolved from early forms of (qualitative) content analysis. TA is now more likely to be demarcated and acknowledged as a distinct method; however, confusion remains about what TA is. The popularity of TA as a distinct method received a considerable boost from the publication of Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology by social psychologists Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke in 2006, which has become one of the most cited academic papers of recent decades.

scholarly journals Degrees of Freedom: Exploring Agency, Narratives, and Technological Affordances in the #TakeAKnee Controversy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630511982612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith E. Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Technological Affordances

This study extends current research into social media platforms as counterpublic spaces by examining how the social media narratives produced by the #TakeAKnee controversy negotiate technological affordances and existing discourses surrounding American national identity. Giddens’ Structuration Theory is used to explore the nature of user agency on social media platforms and the extent to which this agency is constrained or enabled by the interplay between the systems and structures that guide social media use. Exploratory qualitative content analysis was used to analyze and compare tweets and Instagram posts using the #TakeAKnee hashtag shared in September 2017. Results showed that narratives are dominated by four themes, freedom, unity, equality and justice, and respect and honor. Users actively employ technological affordances to create highly personalized meanings, affirming that agency operates at the intersection of reflexivity and self-efficacy.

Rehabilitation Counselor Preparation to Work With LGBTQ Persons Living With Chronic Illness/Disability: A Qualitative Content Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Franco Dispenza ◽  
Nikki C. Elston ◽  
Mary E. Huffstead ◽  
Mackenzie G. Suttles ◽  
Nedeljko Golubovic
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Counselor Preparation ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Certified Rehabilitation Counselors

Purpose:To identify meaningful educative experiences that contributed to the development of rehabilitation counselors’ abilities to provide effective rehabilitation counseling services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons living with chronic illness/disabilities (CID).Method:This was a secondary analysis of a larger qualitative data set that examined the educational experiences and practices of 12 certified rehabilitation counselors working with LGBTQ persons.Results:Using a qualitative content analysis methodology, 5 categories were identified: (a) formal didactic education, (b) affirmative supervision and consultation during practica/internship, (c) extracurricular-related training, (d) identification, and (e) family of origin.Conclusion:To help facilitate future counselors’ self-perceived abilities to provide effective services to LGBTQ persons living with CID, rehabilitation counselor educators should place more emphasis on LGBTQ-related issues in their curriculum and provide practical (experiential) learning opportunities for their students.

scholarly journals Algorithmic Closeness in Mourning: Vernaculars of the Hashtag #grief on TikTok

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110423
Author(s):  
Moa Eriksson Krutrök
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Ranking Algorithms ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Previous User ◽  
The Way

This study looks at how mourning is expressed using the hashtag #grief on the social media app TikTok using qualitative content analysis. In a dataset of 100 TikTok videos, this article explores how the TikTok ranking algorithms, which orders content based on previous user engagements, may connect people in mourning across the platform and how these platform-enabled interactions may shape grief expressions. The study shows how grief was narrated on TikTok, which sociotechnical templates (such as duets, stitches, and audios) were incorporated into such expressions, and how these expressions of grief challenged societal mourning norms. This article ends with a discussion about how different subcultural norms on TikTok are linked to the way in which ranking algorithms create social connections across the platform. This study proposes that the “algorithmic closeness” of TikTok users in grief allows them to challenge societal mourning norms in imagined safe spaces, shaped by the algorithmic ranking systems on the platform.

scholarly journals CSR reporting in China’s private and state-owned enterprises: A mixed methods comparative analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Ervits
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Csr Reporting ◽  
Emerging Industries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Responsive Behavior ◽  
Socially Responsive ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractThe paper pursues a mixed methods approach of conducting both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports in two types of Chinese companies: State-owned (SOE) and non-state-owned (non-SOE) enterprises. Quantitative content analysis revealed overall homogeneity in CSR reporting among SOEs and non-SOEs in China, which can be explained by coercive isomorphism on a national scale. The Chinese government has created an intricate system of incentives encouraging both SOEs and non-SOEs to engage in socially responsive behavior and disclosure. As a result of qualitative analysis, a recurring theme of “strategic emerging industries” (SEI) was identified in the CSR reports of predominantly state-owned banks. This finding provides empirical evidence of the link between the social and economic objectives of the Chinese government, and it shows how state-owned banks mediate between the state and business (SOEs and non-SOEs) as part of a coercive isomorphism apparatus.

scholarly journals Violence in the cartoons of past and present days

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fina Pérez-Garcias ◽  
Santos Urbina-Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
The Social

This study compares several cartoon serials -from middle 60's to middle 70's- with actual cartoon programs, and has the main objective of analyzing if the social concern about the violence representation in children TV programs has provoked substantial changes during the last years. To proceed to that comparison we used the content analysis methodology. Results suggest that there was a bigger presence of violence in the «old» serials when compared to the «actual» ones, despite the language used seems to be more aggressive in the current cartoons. Persecuciones con armas, choques estruendosos, disparos, explosiones, caídas por precipicios, agresiones de lo más diverso, amenazas, imprecaciones e insultos. Estos eran algunos de los ejes recurrentes que guiaban el desarrollo de los espacios televisivos favoritos de los que éramos niños hace unas tres décadas: los dibujos animados. Se trataba de producciones mayoritariamente norteamericanas (las factorías Warner y Hanna-Barbera eran las principales realizadoras) dobladas a una variante del español con modismos y vocabulario algo «diferente» (pero que les otorgaba un sello de identidad) y, hasta mediados de los setenta, obligatoriamente en blanco y negro. En la actualidad se ha visto incrementado notablemente el tiempo que los niños dedican diariamente a ver la televisión. Y (al margen del cumplimiento o no del famoso pacto entre las cadenas televisivas con mayor audiencia), lo cierto es que, probablemente, los dibujos animados, programa infantil por antonomasia, siguen poseyendo un grado de violencia a considerar. Mucho se ha debatido e investigado acerca de la relación entre consumo televisivo y conducta agresiva, sin que se haya llegado a conclusiones definitivas. Pero no es un debate en el que consideremos preciso entrar ahora. En el trabajo que planteamos se pretende comparar las series de dibujos animados de los años 70 con las actuales, con la finalidad de comprobar si la preocupación social en torno a la representación de la violencia presente en los programas infantiles ha propiciado cambios al respecto en los últimos años. Para realizar la selección de las series antiguas, se procederá a hacer un sencillo cuestionario a personas con una edad aproximada de 40 años, preguntándoles qué series de dibujos animados recuerdan de su infancia; como información adicional, además, se les pedirá que indiquen qué recuerdan de cada serie. Con respecto a las series actuales se recogerán los índices de audiencia más recientes y se seleccionarán las más vistas. A continuación, conceptualizaremos el alcance del objeto de estudio –la representación de la violencia– para, posteriormente, realizar un análisis de contenido en diferentes episodios de varias series emitidas durante los 70 (para ello contamos con la reemisión de muchas de ellas en algunos canales de televisión por satélite) y en las series más vistas por los niños actualmente.

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