scholarly journals Mahdia Dialect: An Urban Vernacular in the Tunisian Sahel Context

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Cristina La Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Geographical Origin ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Urban Vernacular

This paper aims to present some preliminary results of the linguistic analysis of the dialect of the Wilāya of Mahdia on which few studies exist, focused mainly on phonology. My analysis, here extended to the morpho-syntactic level, is based on a corpus of interviews taken from some social media pages. The sample will be composed of respondents of different geographical origin (from Mahdia and some nearby towns), gender, age and social background. A deeper knowledge of the Arabic of Mahdia region, which is a bundle of urban, Bedouin and “villageois” varieties, would contribute to throw new light on the features of the Saḥlī dialects and would add a small piece to the complex mosaic of Tunisian and Maghrebi dialects, whose traditional categories of classification should be reconsidered.

Academia versus social media: A psycho-linguistic analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 228-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thin Nguyen ◽  
Svetha Venkatesh ◽  
Dinh Phung
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Linguistic Analysis

scholarly journals Using the New Media by Companies From the Sme Sector in Podkarpackie Province

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Masłyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Entire Population ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Media Development ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Abstract The main purpose of this article is to present the results of research concerning the use of social media by companies from the SME sector in Podkarpackie Province. The article includes data obtained in the first stage of the study, which is a part of a research project on the use of social media in the area of creating the image of an organization / company as an employer.The survey covered the entire population of companies from the SME sector, which are registered in Podkarpackie Province (REGON database). The research phase, the results of which are presented in this article, mainly involved the analysis of data on companies from the SME sector in Podkarpackie Province in terms of their presence on the Internet (having an individual website, having company profiles on selected social networks). The results of the first stage of the study confirm that the companies see the potential of the online presence / functioning in social media (more and more companies have their own website, Facebook profiles). The dynamics of changes in this area is definitely not adequate to the pace of new media development. On the basis of preliminary results of further stages of the research, it can also be concluded that in the vast majority of cases, however, these are non-strategic and non-systematic activities.

Writings on the City Wall

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nili Steinfeld ◽  
Azi Lev-On
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

Municipality Facebook pages are significant social media arenas for maintaining contact between representatives and their constituencies. The authors use digital tools to collect and analyze some 24,000 posts from the Facebook pages of all Israeli municipalities in a six-month period. Following a purely automatic linguistic analysis of the texts of all posts published on the pages, this study moved to a manual coding of a sample of the most popular posts in the data in order to gain insight into the character of the discourse in these arenas; the actors; the format, type, and emotionality of the contents that attract the highest levels of engagement.

scholarly journals Gender Politics and Discourses of #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption on Twitter

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511986180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Lutzky ◽  
Robert Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This article presents the findings of a corpus linguistic analysis of the hashtags #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption, three lexical blends which have recently found widespread use across a variety of online media platforms. Focusing on the social media and microblogging site Twitter, we analyze a corpus of over 20,000 tweets containing these hashtags to examine how discourses of gender politics and gender relations are represented on the site. More specifically, our analysis suggests that users include these hashtags in tweets to index their individual evaluations of, and assumptions about, “proper” gendered behavior. Consequently, their metadiscursive references to the respective phenomena reflect their beliefs of what constitutes appropriate (verbal) behavior and the extent to which gender is appropriated as a variable dictating this behavior. As such, this article adds to our knowledge of the ways in which gendered social practices become sites of contestation and how contemporary gender politics play out in social media sites.

scholarly journals ‘It’s Something Posh People Do’: Digital Distinction in Young People’s Cross-Media News Engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jannie Møller Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cross Media

In this article, I analyse digital distinction mechanisms in young people’s cross media engagement with news. Using a combination of open online diaries and qualitative interviews with young Danes aged 15 to 18 who differ in social background and education, and with Bourdieu’s field theory as an analytical framework, the article investigates how cultural capital (CC) operates in specific tastes and distastes for news genres, platforms and providers. The article argues that distinction mechanism not only works on the level of news providers and news genres but also on the level of engagement practices—the ways in which people enact and describe their own news engagement practices. Among those rich in CC, physical, analogue objects in the form of newspapers and physical conversations about news are seen as ‘better’ that digital ones, resulting in a feeling of guilt when they mostly engage with news on social media. Secondly, young people with lower CC discard legacy news, which they see as elitist and irrelevant. Thirdly, those rich in CC are media and news genre savvy in the sense that it makes them able to critically evaluate the news they engage with across platforms and sites.

scholarly journals From Disruption to Dialog: Days of Judaism on Polish Twitter

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 828
Author(s):  
Mariusz Pisarski ◽  
Aleksandra Gralczyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Power Laws ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Classical Rhetoric ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms

While social media platforms afford visibility to marginalized voices and enable dissemination of alternative narratives, their own “power laws” can make few users responsible for most of the attention. New power users can redirect discussion away from those who initiate a conversation. The aim of this study is to examine relations between the network “gatekeepers” and “gatewatchers” following the announcement of the Days of Judaism celebrated by the Polish Episcopate every January. Two methodological approaches were taken over two consecutive years: social network analysis (SNA), and linguistic analysis of social media discourse. The linguistic analysis confirmed importance of classical rhetoric effects on Twitter. The social network analysis revealed that a balanced, personal statement given by users with high network standing outside of the Twittersphere can ignite constructive dialogue in the spirit of the inter-religious exchange that the idea behind Days of Judaism stands for. Our conclusion is that a careful social media policy of the Church, a controlled engagement in the public conversation, possibly by lay sympathizers of high standing in the real public life, have the potential for dispensing with the infamous toxicity of Twitter, and for turning conversation on any topic, even the most controversial, into positive exchange within the community of believers.

scholarly journals Using social media to educate women and healthcare providers on endometriosis: preliminary results

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcia Mendonça Carneiro ◽  
Barbara Lopes Farace ◽  
Luisa Silva de Carvalho Ribeiro ◽  
Raphaela Cristina Conrado C Silverio ◽  
Thais Moreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Preliminary Results

Personalization of Learning Environments in a Post-Industrial Class

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-123
Author(s):  
Ilya Levin ◽  
Andrei Kojukhov
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Teachers Training ◽  
Post Industrial

The chapter deals with trends of educational processes and learning environments in post-industrial society. A historicist approach is used for this purpose. This approach is based on two theoretical recourses: analysis of historical forms of acquiring knowledge and analysis of historical forms of educational processes. The authors show that the contemporary educational process is greatly affected by two innovative phenomena: social media and personal identity online (PIO). They consider socialization and personalization as two unique entities having opposite characteristics of the post-industrial educational process. Based on such a dialectic approach to the educational process, they define the concept “Personal Ubiquitous Educational Environment”. The authors report the preliminary results of research on a teachers’ training course conducted on the basis of such an environment. The research focuses on clarifying both innovative components of contemporary educational processes: social media and PIO.

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