scholarly journals ONLINE MEDIA AND ESTABLISHMENT OF STUDENTS' RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING IN MADRASAH ALIYAH KENDARI CITY

Al-Qalam ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Paisal Paisal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Religious Understanding

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This study used a qualitative descriptive method with research problems: How do Madrasah Aliyah students practice religious discourse from online media in their daily lives?, and how do teachers respond and align the religious understanding of Madrasah Aliyah students who interact with the religious discourse from online media?. The research location was in Kendari City, Southeast Sulawesi. The informants were 25 students at MAN 1 Kendari and MAS Ummushabri. The research results found that Madrasah Aliyah students are quite active in accessing religious preaching content using online social media platforms. The online media that is most accessed and used for religious content are Instagram and YouTube in the form of audio-visual videos. The rest are interested in reading status and articles considered to be in line with their understanding. Some of the students follow several popular preachers who are actively spreading religious content on social media. Influenced by online media, some students questioned and challenged the basis of the country, religious traditions, and local traditions addressed to their teachers, families, and relatives. In daily behavior, there is a positive side. Students are more diligent in worshiping and assembling in the Mosque. Madrasah and teachers have issued several protective policies to protect students from easily exposed to radical ideology. The responses and policies include limiting the use of cellphones in schools, intensive religious guidance provided by the teacher, protecting outside groups from entering and providing religious guidance to students, and enrich learning material with religious moderation content on a limited scale.</span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Coptic Language Learning and Social Media

Languages ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Nicole Deschene
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Endangered Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms

This study explored the potential of using the Internet, including existing social media platforms, for Coptic language learning. Through global exposure, endangered language maintenance and revitalization efforts may benefit from having a presence on social media. The researcher created Coptic language learning material, social media accounts on multiple platforms, and a website. Data were collected through a survey with questions focused on social media users’ background and experience with the Coptic language learning material. In addition to the survey, analytics from the social media and website platforms were documented. The results indicated that social media provided a global audience and the Coptic language learning material blended into survey respondents’ daily lives with positive acceptance.

scholarly journals A tool for tracking the propagation of words on Reddit

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Tom Willaert ◽  
Paul Van Eecke ◽  
Jeroen Van Soest ◽  
Katrien Beuls
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Diffusion ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Web

Abstract The data-driven study of cultural information diffusion in online (social) media is currently an active area of research. The availability of data from the web thereby generates new opportunities to examine how words propagate through online media and communities, as well as how these diffusion patterns are intertwined with the materiality and culture of social media platforms. In support of such efforts, this paper introduces an online tool for tracking the consecutive occurrences of words across subreddits on Reddit between 2005 and 2017. By processing the full Pushshift.io Reddit comment archive for this period (Baumgartner et al., 2020), we are able to track the first occurrences of 76 million words, allowing us to visualize which subreddits subsequently adopt any of those words over time. We illustrate this approach by addressing the spread of terms referring to famous internet controversies, and the percolation of alt-right terminology. By making our instrument and the processed data publically available, we aim to facilitate a range of exploratory analyses in computational social science, the digital humanities, and related fields.

scholarly journals Mining Hot-Personae Approach Based on Local Social Microblog Graph

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-537
Author(s):  
Du Yajun ◽  
Biao Peng ◽  
FangHong Su ◽  
Fei Cheng ◽  
Shangyi Du
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Score Vector ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Target User ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Share Information ◽  
Novel Algorithm

With the increasing popularity of online social media platforms, netizens always chat with their friends and share information, such as what they like in their daily lives, on these platforms. Netizens publish tons of information on social platforms every day. These platforms converge many people and information. The processes by which the publishers find the sharers who are interested in their publications and the sharers find some interesting things and information in what the publishers published have resulted in the challenge of retrieving information from social network fields. To address these issues, we propose a novel algorithm, named Hot Persona Mining, to analyze the users' focus personae from microblog posts in the online social networks. During mining, we first utilize local-based graph clustering to establish the nearest neighbor nodes of target users. Then, we mine users' focused personae entities from their neighbors' published microblog posts in different periods. Then, we construct the users' active score vector and their interest matrix to mine the hot personae in every local social graph. The experimental results show that our algorithm effectively mines current focus of the target user, and exhibits good performance as shown by its precision, recall and F-measures.

Understanding the Role of Online Media Platforms in Airport Capital Projects and Community Outreach

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812199347
Author(s):  
Max Z. Li ◽  
Megan S. Ryerson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Capital Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Project Phases ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Common Content

Community outreach and engagement efforts are critical to an airport’s role as an ever-evolving transportation infrastructure and regional economic driver. As online social media platforms continue to grow in both popularity and influence, a new engagement channel between airports and the public is emerging. However, the motivations behind and effectiveness of these social media channels remain unclear. In this work, we address this knowledge gap by better understanding the advantages, impact, and best practices of this newly emerging engagement channel available to airports. Focusing specifically on airport YouTube channels, we first document quantitative viewership metrics, and examine common content characteristics within airport YouTube videos. We then conduct interviews and site visits with relevant airport stakeholders to identify the motivations and workflow behind these videos. Finally, we facilitate sample focus groups designed to survey public perceptions of the effectiveness and value of these videos. From our four project phases, to maximize content effectiveness and community engagement potential, we synthesize the following framework of action items, recommendations, and best practices: (C) Consistency and community; (O) Organizational structure; (M) Momentum; (B) Branding and buy-in; (A) Activity; (T) Two-way engagement; (E) Enthusiasm; and (D) Depth, or as a convenient initialism, our COMBATED framework.

A Survey of Computational Methods for Online Mental State Assessment on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Esteban A. Ríssola ◽  
David E. Losada ◽  
Fabio Crestani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Suicide Behaviour ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Mental state assessment by analysing user-generated content is a field that has recently attracted considerable attention. Today, many people are increasingly utilising online social media platforms to share their feelings and moods. This provides a unique opportunity for researchers and health practitioners to proactively identify linguistic markers or patterns that correlate with mental disorders such as depression, schizophrenia or suicide behaviour. This survey describes and reviews the approaches that have been proposed for mental state assessment and identification of disorders using online digital records. The presented studies are organised according to the assessment technology and the feature extraction process conducted. We also present a series of studies which explore different aspects of the language and behaviour of individuals suffering from mental disorders, and discuss various aspects related to the development of experimental frameworks. Furthermore, ethical considerations regarding the treatment of individuals’ data are outlined. The main contributions of this survey are a comprehensive analysis of the proposed approaches for online mental state assessment on social media, a structured categorisation of the methods according to their design principles, lessons learnt over the years and a discussion on possible avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Instagram Influencer Analysis for Top 5 Categories in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (44) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Busra ERTOGRUL ◽  
Gizem KILICSIZ ◽  
Aysun BOZANTA
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Identity ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Jobs

Social media platforms have become an inevitable part of our daily lives. Companies that noticed the intense use of social media platforms started to use them as a marketing tool. Even ordinary people have become famous by social media and companies have been sending their products to them to try and advertise. Many people have gained a considerable amount of money in this way and today new jobs are emerged like "Youtuber" and "Instagram Influencer". Therefore, ordinary people realized the power of social media and many people started to strength their digital identity over social media. The question raising in people’s mind is that “What is the difference between the influencers and the ordinary people who have also digital identity over social media?”. This study examined Instagram influencers for five categories namely fashion, makeup, photography, travel, and fitness in Turkey. As an exploratory study, the relationship between the influencers’ average number of posts, the number of likes, the number of views, the number of comments, number of followers, and the number of following were examined. As well as the engagement rates of the followers to the influencers were calculated. In addition, the words they mostly used in the captions of the posts were examined.

scholarly journals Selfies as expressively authentic identity performance

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linh Nguyen ◽  
Kim Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

This paper explores whether or not our online social media persona is viewed as authentic. The selfie is a fundamental part of the structure of the online identity for young people in today’s digital world. The relationship between an individual’s self-identity in the physical face-to-face environment was analysed and compared to a carefully constructed, modified virtual representation in a selfie posted on social media platforms. Data was obtained through four focus groups at the University of Adelaide. Two key theoretical frameworks provide a basis for this study: Erving Goffman’s concept of the self as a performance, and Charles Horton Cooley’s concept of the looking glass self. In examining the focus group discussions in light of these two frameworks as well as associated literature, we conclude that the authenticity of the selfie as a way of visualising a social media persona is subjective and dependent on the individual posting a selfie. Ultimately, authenticity involves a degree of subjectivity. It was on this basis that focus group participants argued that selfies could be considered authentic expressions of identity.

scholarly journals Royal Shakespeare Company‘s #dream40

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-217
Author(s):  
Clara Matheus Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
English Language ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Royal Shakespeare Company ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
School Curricula

William Shakespeare is one of the greatest authors of the English language and is present in multiple school curricula. However, reading Shakespeare in classrooms can be a challenge for both teachers and students. In schools, adaptations from literature to social media platforms, such as #dream40, a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, remain not fully explored. In this paper, this production is presented as a possible ally in the effort of bringing the English canon closer to the students’ reality, making the Bard more engaging and accessible, since this production uses mechanics that are part of most students’ daily lives on social networking platforms, such as the hashtag that appears in the title of this production; besides, #dream40 is closely aligned with our contemporary paradigm of worldview.

Daniel Friberg and Metapolitics in Action

2019 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
Benjamin Teitelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Radical Nationalism

This chapter discusses the life and work of Daniel Friberg, who takes a leading part in running a range of online media. Friberg’s main impact has been his implementation of metapolitics. Distinguished by his strategy and method rather than ideological inventions, Friberg advanced his career through a series of outreach, rebranding, and socialization initiatives. The products of this metapolitical activism include multiple newspapers and magazines, a publishing house, and online social media. By the 2010s these projects were replacing skinheadism as the social center of a fractious and sectarian Nordic radical nationalism. This unifying function has since been at the forefront of collaboration between American and European white activists.

scholarly journals Distortions of political bias in crowdsourced misinformation flagging

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (167) ◽  
pp. 20200020
Author(s):  
Michele Coscia ◽  
Luca Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Item ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Bias ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
News Source ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Current Content

Many people view news on social media, yet the production of news items online has come under fire because of the common spreading of misinformation. Social media platforms police their content in various ways. Primarily they rely on crowdsourced ‘flags’: users signal to the platform that a specific news item might be misleading and, if they raise enough of them, the item will be fact-checked. However, real-world data show that the most flagged news sources are also the most popular and—supposedly—reliable ones. In this paper, we show that this phenomenon can be explained by the unreasonable assumptions that current content policing strategies make about how the online social media environment is shaped. The most realistic assumption is that confirmation bias will prevent a user from flagging a news item if they share the same political bias as the news source producing it. We show, via agent-based simulations, that a model reproducing our current understanding of the social media environment will necessarily result in the most neutral and accurate sources receiving most flags.

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