scholarly journals Building and fostering a sense of community : a case study of the ComCult weblog

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Gagatsis
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Face To Face

In this thesis, I set forth to examine and explore a blog's ability to build and foster a sense of community, to construct and maintain a collective identity within this community and its effectiveness as a method of communication. I launched a community blog for the Communication and Culture program, of which I am enrolled as an MA student, to address the following questions; 1) Do blogs encourage a sense of community? 2) Do blogs help to construct and maintain a collective identity within this community? 3) How is a blog more or less effective than previous online communication mediums?Key findings include the blog's small-scale success in fostering a sense of community for the group of students that participated on the blog, and the ComCult community's need to focus on encouraging face-to-face interaction in order to foster a stronger sense of community and a stronger collective identity.

scholarly journals Building and fostering a sense of community : a case study of the ComCult weblog

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Gagatsis
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Face To Face

In this thesis, I set forth to examine and explore a blog's ability to build and foster a sense of community, to construct and maintain a collective identity within this community and its effectiveness as a method of communication. I launched a community blog for the Communication and Culture program, of which I am enrolled as an MA student, to address the following questions; 1) Do blogs encourage a sense of community? 2) Do blogs help to construct and maintain a collective identity within this community? 3) How is a blog more or less effective than previous online communication mediums?Key findings include the blog's small-scale success in fostering a sense of community for the group of students that participated on the blog, and the ComCult community's need to focus on encouraging face-to-face interaction in order to foster a stronger sense of community and a stronger collective identity.

scholarly journals Hunger Hurts but Starving Works: A case study of gendered practices in the online pro-eating-disorder community

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Self Worth

This paper investigates collective identity-work of Pro-eating disorder (Pro-ED) groups on the Internet. Using an adaptation of face-to-face ethnographic methods to investigate online communication (Mann and Stewart 2000), the author analyzes five collective organizing practices in Pro-ED groups that reveal a highly gendered character: 1) promoting surreptitiousness, 2) organizing in and around the realm of domesticity, 3) equating beauty with self-worth, 4) relying on friendship as a chief organizing principle, and 5) using fandom as a method of attracting and maintaining members. In spite of exceptional resistance to their activities, women in the Pro-ED community are able to achieve a collective Pro-ED identity wherein they maintain eating-disordered lifestyles. The case study presented here interrupts popular sociological understandings of collective identity mobilization as having categorically positive consequences for its members.

Unintended consequences: the negative impact of e-mail use on participation and collective identity in two ‘horizontal’ social movement groups

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
E Mail

The relation between face-to-face and online communication and its impact on collective identity processes is understudied. In this article I draw on two case studies conducted during a 3-year ethnographic study of the Global Justice Movement network in Madrid, Spain, from 2002 to 2005 to explore the unintended impact of e-mail on the sustainability, internal dynamics, and collective identity of two groups committed to participatory and deliberative practices as key features of their collective identity. I found that despite an explicit commitment to ‘horizontalism’ the use of e-mail in these two groups increased existing hierarchies, hindered consensus, decreased participation, and worked towards marginalization of group members. In addition, the negative and unintended consequences of e-mail use affected both groups, independently of activists’ evaluation of their experience in their face-to-face assemblies (one of which was overwhelmingly perceived as positive and one of which was perceived as negative). The article draws on e-mail research in organizations, online political deliberation research, and existing studies of e-mail use in social movement groups to analyse these findings.

scholarly journals Online Workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Jamie Woodcock
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Mechanical Turk ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Labour Process

The focus shifts in this chapter towards online workers. It first differentiates between microworkers and online freelancers, discussing the role of automation and the technical composition of these kinds of work. The chapter contrasts the challenges of organising in this kind of work with transport platforms, particularly the lack of opportunities to meet face-to-face. It draws attention to the digital networks that form around this work in response to the challenges of the labour process. Recent struggles involving Amazon Mechanical Turk and Rev (transcription) workers show the potential for these workers to coordinate and build shared subjectivities through online communication. This case study is explored as an example with a significantly more challenging technical composition, yet shows how new moments of struggle are still coming to the fore.

scholarly journals Europe Says OXI: “Online Camaraderie” and European Crisis

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donya Alinejad
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Moral Frameworks ◽  
Movement Participation

This paper presents a small-scale case study of the Facebook page, Europe Says OXI, and a group of political activists spread across European cities who are affiliated with the page. It focuses on how digital communications practices play a role in social movement participation, and follows these young people’s practices and stories as they move between different forms of mediated communication. This shows how activists use social media to apply mobilization frames that align with their shared ideological tenets, display emergent forms of leadership, and negotiate the use of media within moral frameworks. The argument complicates theories of connective identity and connective action, which some scholars discuss as a new mode of practice produced through the uptake of social media within contemporary social movements. It challenges the idea that these new modes are replacing older notions of collective identity by being personalized, leaderless, and eschewing ideology. Moving beyond seeing collective and connective in opposition, the paper attempts to build a concept around the emic term, ‘online camaraderie’, taking it as a felt sense of shared connection to the movement, its events, places, and its other participants. It suggests that understanding how a sense of camaraderie is mediation requires further theoretical and methodological reflection on how to trace the traversal of the affective relationships that the social movement relies on across various means of communication.  

scholarly journals Verbal Aggressiveness in Communication in Media and Online. A Case Study of the TV Cooking Show »Spread«

Bohemistyka ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jindřiška Svobodova ◽  
Eva Nováková
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Verbal Aggressiveness ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Clear Tendency ◽  
Self Image

The paper discusses verbal aggressiveness and (im)politeness in media and online communication. The analysis focuses on transcriptions of communicative acts by participants of the TV reality Spread! ("Prostřeno!", a Czech version of the programme Come Dine with me) and viewers' comments in related online discussions. The analysis indicated that the use of face-threatening acts was determined by a type of communicative interaction and interlocutors' social roles. Striving to construct a positive self-image, the participants in the show did not take the risk of losing their face due to usage of derogatory or vulgar expressions in face-to-face inter- actions. The anonymous online discussions, on the contrary, did not pose any risk for the positive faces of the speakers; therefore, the interlocutors showed clear tendency to either appreciate and support, or attack the contestants as well as other speakers. 

scholarly journals Even When No One Is Looking: Students’ Perceptions of Social Work Professions. A Case Study in a Northern Ireland University

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Denise MacDermott
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Word Clouds ◽  
Professional Social Worker

Public perceptions, increased scrutiny and successive governments’ reshaping and attempting to define what is and what is not social work has eroded the progressive and radical force of the profession. This article explores how students’ perceive the profession and presents evidence from a small-scale study conducted in a Northern Ireland University with 37 undergraduate social work students and 25 postgraduate student social workers (training-as-practice educators) on their perceptions of the characteristics of a professional social worker. A quantitative research design was used, consisting of a face-to-face survey distributed to respondents following an input on the Place Model, (Clarke, 2016). Respondents also shared their perceptions in relation to Freidson’s (2001) three logics: professionalism, bureaucracy and the free market, with Ternary graphs and word clouds used as a novel way to present this data. Several themes emerged as important characteristics of social work professionals including reliability, accountability, ethics and appearance. At the other end of the scale, respondents identified unprofessional, de-personalised and cynical as the least aspirational qualities of the profession.

scholarly journals More than one way to flip a class: learning analytics for mixed models of learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dix
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Models ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Fine Grain ◽  
Personal Experiences

This case study presents personal experiences in the reuse of materials, originally prepared for a small-scale MOOC, in face-to-face flipped classroom and blended learning teaching.  While some of the literature on the flipped classroom suggests a quite uniform pedagogic style for each class, albeit differing between advocates, the experience of the author was far more pedagogically diverse depending on the type of material and workload of the students.   Fine-grain learning analytics were also critical; these both allowed targeted feedback (enhancing student learning) and gave a sense of control (enhancing academic motivation and well being).

scholarly journals INTEGRATION OF FARMERS AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN THE AQUACULTURE VALUE CHAIN IN TOCANTINS, BRAZIL

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Manoel Xavier Pedroza Filho ◽  
Maurício Araujo Castilho
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Supply Contracts ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Processing Plants ◽  
High Level

Most of the fish farmed by small scale Brazilian fish farmers in Brazil is sold directly to local markets without passing through a processing industry. The integration between small-scale fish farmers and the processing industry is restricted to few cooperatives, mainly in the southern region. Although many fish processing plants are operating in different regions, most producers do not have access to them. The lack of integration creates several problems, including low quality of fish due to the absence of sanitary control, informality, impossibility to access supermarkets, and low added value.  This paper is based on a case study of aquaculture in the Brazilian state of Tocantins, by using the Global Value Chain approach. The methodology consists of a qualitative process based on face-to-face interviews with value chain agents. The main results indicate that the processing industries are increasing their own production and implementing supply contracts with large producers. More vertical governance is emerging with a high level of control by the industries. Thus, many small-scale fish farmers are being excluded from the value chain.

scholarly journals A New Space for Biotechnology Innovation?

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1626-1649
Author(s):  
David Tamoschus
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Integration Mechanisms ◽  
New Space ◽  
Technological Opportunities

New technological opportunities and online communication constantly gain importance for knowledge integration and knowledge creation in any innovation-driven environment. The cooperation between firms and individual actors in biotechnology was characteristically organized in local or regional clusters, based on face-to-face communications and strategic temporary linkages to other clusters. However, this archetypal configuration can change with the emerging use of open innovation models such as online research communities. A qualitative case study including an analysis of forums within an open source biomedical research platform portrays how knowledge integration mechanisms, and hence, innovations are implemented in virtual space. In this newly created environment, a number of geographical patterns are inverted: The strong role of physical co-location is partly substituted by enabled online proximity and new opportunities of virtual “prototype-sharing”; the former global pipelines are transformed to local and virtual cross-community pipelines. Yet mechanisms of creating social coherence and stability illustrate noteworthy similarities with “localized capabilities” of regional agglomerations. Eventually, knowledge integration capabilities ensure that the network can operate as a successful knowledge provider.

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