scholarly journals Communication and Feminist New Materialism: Methodologies to understand the continuum between matter and discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2018) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Beatriz Revelles-Benavente ◽  
Ana M. González Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Trapping Force ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Feminist New Materialism ◽  
The Continuum

The relationship between literature and social networking sites (SNS) is a material context in which authors and readers merge into each other to create a literary communicative process that transforms contemporary politics. The aim of this paper is to analyse the communicative process by investigating the continuum between matter and discourse from a new materialist approach. From social sites, we can understand how elements, such as readers, authors, context, novels, culture and digital platforms, “intra-act” (Barad 2007) to create an affecting/ed communicative process. We propose feminist new materialism as a theoretical terrain that helps to reconfigure politics and communication in order to build a methodological framework for contemporary feminist politics and theory related to Literature. Using a digital genealogy and the theory of new materialism, we identify communication in literature as a trapping force in which different elements intra-act with each other and become indivisible. Affecting/ed communication is a dynamic conceptualization, a literary activity in which active agents participate in creative spaces for future social changes.

‘I want to video it, so people will respect me’: Nauiyu community, digital platforms and trauma

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110380
Author(s):  
Gavin Morris ◽  
Rachel A Groom ◽  
Emma Louise Schuberg ◽  
Sarah Dowden-Parker ◽  
Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Shared Stories ◽  
Study Participants

The Edge of Sacred project was conducted with the Nauiyu community in northern Australia and investigated trauma and traditional healing practices. Study participants from the community identified negative social changes and an escalation in anti-social behaviour, such as higher rates of bullying, violence, risky sexual behaviour and children accessing pornography, when mobile phones and social networking sites were used inappropriately. The research utilised Dadirri, a place-based, performative healing praxis that engaged community members in a truth-telling journey. Shared stories revealed social impacts derived from accessing mobile technologies and the ensuing cultural colonisation affected all aspects of Nauiyu community life. We present the findings of mobile phone use behaviours in this remote context and the performance of negative, traumatised and harmful identities that occupy social media and are enabled through social networking sites. Despite the corrosive effects of colonisation, the community unanimously believed that empowerment through truth-telling exists within and belongs to Nauiyu. The traditional holistic healing practice of Dadirri reframes identities, reclaiming Indigenous Lore.

scholarly journals Džon i Žaklina Kenedi: politika, kultura i „nova granica“ odevanja

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 857
Author(s):  
Simona Čupić
Keyword(s):  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War

Jacqueline Kennedy’s style is one of the mainstays of the history of fashion and popular culture, as well as contemporary politics. John Kennedy’s way of dressing garnered much less attention. Even though, at first glance, not as interesting as the first lady’s “fashion sense”, the president’s style was no less thought-out. If, however, we view the changes in clothing as social changes and a determinant of various kinds of social differentiation: marital status, sex, occupation, religious and political affiliation, the way in which the Kennedys were presented to the public becomes more interesting – from the (carefully planned) photos and appearances to art and culture. Having in mind that the 1960s were a time when the appropriation of popular and fictional came back into modern art, and that general changes inherent in the new lifestyle, as well as a layered image of American internal politics, and the cold war map of the world, the carefully thought-out image of the presidential couple can be viewed as a specific kind of metaphor for a complicated time.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES ON THE GROWTH OF SMES IN KENYA

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Nandwa Nelly Awinja ◽  
Olanrewaju Isola Fatoki
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Government ◽  
Medium Enterprises

The digital economy is a new business environment that enables enterprises to operate and provide services via the Internet and digital platforms. The study was on the effect of economic digitisation on growth of SMEs in Nairobi CBD. The specific objectives were to determine the effect of digital financial services, digital content, digital values and skills and the effect of online advertising on the growth of small and medium enterprises. The sample size in this study was 1000 SMEs formally registered in the study area from where a sample of 300 was randomly selected. The questionnaire was employed for the purpose of data collection from which out of the 300 questionnaires distributed, 180 were returned representing a 60% response rate. Guided by the research objectives, the data collected through the questionnaire were sorted, coded and presented in graphical and tabular forms for the purpose of descriptive analysis. To determine the significance of the relationship between the dependent and independent variables, a regression analysis was carried out using the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24. The study established that digital financial services were significant factors in ensuring growth of SMEs in Kenya. The study concluded that Mobile payments have become a favorite means of making financial transactions.  The study also established that Applications available for mobile digital devices is expected to increase enormously.  Digital payment technology has increased over the last decade. From the findings, it was concluded that Consumers grow more familiar with the different payment systems available and encourage more transactions. The SMEs should explore the possibility of forming a management committee to streamline economic digitisation issues. It is recommended that the organization clearly spell out economic digitisation procedures and criteria. This can stir positive growth  among SMEs establishments and can result in effective management. The Government and the various agencies should also make provisions for training programs for SMEs  to empower them in terms of economic digitisation. The SMEs should not rely on external professionals to assist in digitisation as this may be expensive. It is also recommended that the SMEs should adopt digital financial services. E-commerce will ensure increased profitability for small and medium enterprises. They should also have Social networking sites, which have proved to be popular online activities in relation to time, spent. They should also adopt Innovation driven entrepreneurship as it contributes to increase in sales revenue, market share, efficiency, customers’ loyalty and firm profitability.

Flipping the Script

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Lynn Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Dietary Change ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Human Diet ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Eating Meat ◽  
Usa Today

This chapter proposes to “Flip the Script” of the prescribed diet in USA today that primarily revolves around eating meat. The consumerization of the consumption of meat is pervasive in this country, and individuals are culturally constructed to believe animal proteins are essential to the human diet. Using script theory, this chapter examines social networking sites (SNSs) as channels for implementing a mass dietary change in today's society, that which excludes meat. Script theory determines that individuals use instrumental knowledge of how to understand, react, and respond to situations that are repeatedly encountered. Being ideal spaces for initiating social changes, SNSs replicate real-life situations and are platforms, whereby messages can be shared, promoted, and exchanged in a global networked public.

An organization’s relationship to violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
Kate Lockwood Harris
Keyword(s):  
New Materialism ◽  
Material World ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The World ◽  
Feminist New Materialism

Two sets of assumptions—ones about communication and ones about agency—shape debates over the violence–organization relationship. When scholars and laypersons suggest that words are mere symbols that represent the world and correspond to things in it, communication remains a way to describe violence. Under this representationalist line of thinking, communication is split from the material world and cannot do harm. Similarly, when people assume that agency is a human’s intentional decision about how to act, the broader processes that inform action fade from view. An individual perpetrator becomes the sole violent actor. Both sets of assumptions make it difficult to conceptualize an organization’s role in violence. This chapter relies on feminist new materialism to problematize these assumptions. After providing an overview of the theory’s distinctive features, the chapter shows its resonances with existing scholarship on communication, agency, and organizations. These resonances provide a framework for understanding organizations to be more than mere sites for violence.

scholarly journals Understanding Online Consumer Behavior and eWOM Strategies for Sustainable Business Management in the Tourism Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8972
Author(s):  
Ana Reyes-Menendez ◽  
Marisol B. Correia ◽  
Nelson Matos ◽  
Charlene Adap
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Scientific Database ◽  
Online Consumer Behavior ◽  
Online Consumer

Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has been widely used by most consumers on different digital platforms. This review aimed to obtain further insights into online consumer behavior through social networking sites and online reviews sites to help tourism businesses develop sustainable eWOM strategies. To this end, an exploratory study was developed to analyze available literature on eWOM strategies and online consumer behavior. The systematic literature review analysis focused on the following two main topics: (i) tourism and (ii) eWOM. The scientific database, Web of Science, was used to collect relevant literature on the subject. The search terms “Tourism” and “eWOM” were used. Searching the database, Web of Science, yielded a total of 124 articles; upon application of different filters, a total of 14 studies were included in the final dataset. The results of the present study provide new insights into consumer behavior for social sciences and businesses for the adoption of sustainable strategies to increase the influence of eWOM on the tourism industry.

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