scholarly journals ‘Ngāti Pukamata’ Virtual iwi: Using Facebook to manage whakapapa: a case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Pikihuia Reihana
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Theory Framework

<p>Social networking sites such as Facebook enable like-minded people to network around the subjects that are of interest to them. One such subject that has recently sparked interest is whakapapa. For Māori, whakapapa plays an important social, political and traditional role and Māori are beginning to establish themselves in various forms without relevance to physical location. The research uses kaupapa Māori and a grounded theory framework to examine contextual problems with crowdsourced whakapapa and how Facebook addresses these problems. The research findings reinforce current thinking about attitudes, behaviours user norms and expectations of Facebook interaction and crowdsourcing. To illustrate, this research argues that Māori are claiming a virtual space for their whakapapa which this research has determined as ‘Ngāti Pukamata’.</p>

scholarly journals ‘Ngāti Pukamata’ Virtual iwi: Using Facebook to manage whakapapa: a case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Pikihuia Reihana
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Theory Framework

<p>Social networking sites such as Facebook enable like-minded people to network around the subjects that are of interest to them. One such subject that has recently sparked interest is whakapapa. For Māori, whakapapa plays an important social, political and traditional role and Māori are beginning to establish themselves in various forms without relevance to physical location. The research uses kaupapa Māori and a grounded theory framework to examine contextual problems with crowdsourced whakapapa and how Facebook addresses these problems. The research findings reinforce current thinking about attitudes, behaviours user norms and expectations of Facebook interaction and crowdsourcing. To illustrate, this research argues that Māori are claiming a virtual space for their whakapapa which this research has determined as ‘Ngāti Pukamata’.</p>

scholarly journals Online social networks as formal learning environments: Learner experiences and activities

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 144 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Veletsianos ◽  
Cesar Navarrete
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Online Social Network ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
The Social

<p>While the potential of social networking sites to contribute to educational endeavors is highlighted by researchers and practitioners alike, empirical evidence on the use of such sites for formal online learning is scant. To fill this gap in the literature, we present a case study of learners’ perspectives and experiences in an online course taught using the Elgg online social network. Findings from this study indicate that learners enjoyed and appreciated both the social learning experience afforded by the online social network and supported one another in their learning, enhancing their own and other students’ experiences. Conversely, results also indicate that students limited their participation to course-related and graded activities, exhibiting little use of social networking and sharing. Additionally, learners needed support in managing the expanded amount of information available to them and devised strategies and “workarounds” to manage their time and participation.<br /><strong></strong></p>

Re-Evaluation of Nepali Media, Social Networking Spaces, and Democratic Practices in Media

2014 ◽  
pp. 287-304
Author(s):  
Dilli Bikram Edingo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Common People ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
The Impact

This chapter first analyzes the Nepali mainstream media and social media's effect upon its relationships with audiences or news-receivers. Then, it explores how social media is a virtual space for creating democratic forums in order to generate news, share among Networked Knowledge Communities (NKCs), and disseminate across the globe. It further examines how social media can embody a collective voice of indigenous and marginalized people, how it can better democratize mainstream media, and how it works as an alternative media. As a result of the impact of the Internet upon the Nepali society and the Nepali mainstream media, the traditional class stratifications in Nepal have been changed, and the previously marginalized and disadvantaged indigenous peoples have also begun to be empowered in the new ways brought about by digital technology. Social networking spaces engage the common people—those who are not in power, marginalized and disadvantaged, dominated, and excluded from opportunities, mainstream media, and state mechanisms—democratically in emic interactions in order to produce first-hand news about themselves from their own perspectives. Moreover, Nepali journalists frequently visit social media as a reliable source of information. The majority of common people in Nepal use social networking sites as a forum to express their collective voice and also as a tool or medium to correct any misrepresentation in the mainstream media. Social media and the Nepali mainstream media converge on the greater issues of national interest, whereas the marginalized and/or indigenous peoples of Nepal use the former as a space that embodies their denial of discriminatory news in the latter.

Student-Initiated Use of Facebook for Learning Online Journalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Song
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Team Project

This article presents a case study of student-initiated use of Facebook Groups in doing a team project for an online journalism course. Drawing upon the concept of affinity space and a theoretical taxonomy of asynchronous online discussion, the present study triangulates classroom observation, semi-structured student interviews, and microanalysis of posting activities of a student-initiated Facebook group. The findings suggest a shift of attention from instructor-centered course design to student-initiated use of social networking sites for learning online journalism. Instructors are invited to position themselves as facilitators and to take an intersubjective stance when designing computer-assisted learning activities.

scholarly journals Social networking sites and participatory reluctance: A case study of Gaydar, user resistance and interface rejection

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 2613-2628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elija Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Casual Sex ◽  
Marriage Equality ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Social Networking Service ◽  
User Resistance ◽  
Gay Male

This article conceptualises ‘participatory reluctance’ as a particular orientation to social media that problematises binarised notions of connection and disconnection in social networking sites. It qualitatively examines how the concept has functioned within gay men’s social networking service, Gaydar, among 18- to 28-year-old users of the site in Brisbane, Australia. Participatory reluctance is shown to be a central aspect of the culture of this space, fostered among the studied demographic by the convergence of the growing global push for marriage equality and increasing normalisation of the kinds of gay male identities commonly adopted among this group, with three key factors rooted primarily in Gaydar’s design: (1) young users’ perceptions of the site as a space for procuring casual sex, (2) their perceptions of the imagined user as embodying existing stereotypes of gay masculinity and (3) a lack of genuine alternatives in terms of niche digital spaces for gay men’s social networking.

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