scholarly journals Picturing Rural America

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Eppley
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Rural People ◽  
The Social

A quiet but persistent dialog about the importance of place is happening in educational research. This study contributes to that conversation by offering a critical analysis of how picture books show a “placed,” rural America. To increase understanding of the social constructions of rurality, 24 picture books were analyzed using qualitative content analysis to determine how contemporary rural life is represented in picture books for children. Results indicated images falling into six categories: Rural people are self-reliant; rural people are connected; rural people are satisfied and happy; rural people are diverse; rural areas are expendable and, rural people are ‘Other’.  

Upsettling Canada in 140 Characters: race relations in the Twittersphere

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Carter
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Networking Tool ◽  
A Site

This paper is a qualitative content analysis of public tweets made during the Indigenous social movement, Idle No More, containing the #upsettler and #upsettlers hashtags. Using settler colonial theory coupled with previous literature on Twitter during social movements as a guiding framework, this study identifies how settler colonial relations were being constructed on Twitter and how functions of the social networking tool such as the hashtag impacted this process. By examining and analyzing the content of 278 tweets, this study illustrates that Twitter is a site where conversations about race relations in Canada are taking place and that the use of the hashtag function plays a vital role in expanding the reach of this online discussion and creating a sense of solidarity or community among users.

scholarly journals Constructing the emotions of childhood: an analysis of Margaret Mahy’s use of emotion in her literary contribution to the School Journal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gemma Amy Helleur Hiscock
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Journal ◽  
Margaret Mahy

<p>This qualitative content analysis research study examines how Margaret Mahy used emotion in the School Journal to form insights into reader appeal, reader response and the social construction of childhood. This research study examines Mahy’s contribution to the School Journal. The study explores this body of work in terms of how its author uses emotion to captivate readers by evoking the feelings associated with childhood. The underlying objective of the study was to provide insights into why Mahy’s work is so treasured and memorable; to explain how she uses emotion to captivate readers, and how this contributes to the social construction of childhood. The prose and poetry Mahy contributed to the School Journal prove to be a significant, rich and uncharted resource for the purposes of this research investigation. Analysis of this body of work has allowed for greater insights and understanding into Mahy’s contribution to children’s literature. It has also allowed for a greater appreciation of how Mahy’s use of emotion contributes to the social construction of childhood. This type of content analysis research study proves to be invaluable in the development of reader’s advisory services to young people. The employment of a content analysis methodology, underpinned by a discourse analysis approach, enabled the emotional narratives of Mahy’s text to be explained and understood. The study’s findings, that lightness and aliveness are the most prevalent and persuasive emotions operating within Mahy’s text, was substantiated through analysis of actual reader responses. This investigation is most applicable to school librarians, children’s librarians and educators. The study has broader implications for the improvement of client interaction and collection development in youth library services</p>

scholarly journals Navigating identity within the context of culture & community: an examination of creative engagement among black 2SLGBTQ Caribbean-Canadian artists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaniqua (Nika) Smith
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Secondary Data Sources ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

This research examines some of the ways Black 2SLGBTQ Caribbean-Canadian artists engage with creative expression to navigate their sexual and gender identities. This study also highlighted the intersection of race, gender, sexual identity, and immigration. The secondary data sources collected were a photography series produced by Jamaican-Canadian photographer Brianna Roye; and a 2015 interview featuring Michèle Pearson Clarke, a Trinidadian-Canadian artist. These secondary data sources were analyzed using multi-textual analysis and qualitative content analysis tools. The findings highlight the potential for art and creative expression to address issues of anti-Black racism and heterosexism, in addition to fostering healing and community building. This study aims to present insight that will contribute to ongoing efforts within the social work profession to promote Black 2SLGBTQ equity and inclusion.

Parents’ Part C Experiences in Rural Areas: Alignment With Recommended Practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 105381512095348
Author(s):  
Kalli B. Decker ◽  
Jacie Meldrum ◽  
J. Mitchell Vaterlaus ◽  
Tricia D. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Part C ◽  
Part C Services ◽  
Rural State ◽  
Recommended Practices

The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) clearly outlined recommended practices for the provision of Part C services. However, there may be challenges in rural areas associated with services aligning with these recommended practices. Therefore, this study focuses on how families experience Part C services and the extent to which services align with specific areas the DEC recommended practices in the large, rural state of Montana. We interviewed parents ( N = 30) about their children’s Part C services. Deductive qualitative content analysis was used. Parents’ reports suggest that while some aspects of their Part C services align with specific recommended practices, others do not. There were some meaningful differences regarding alignment with these recommended practices depending on type of provider being described. The environments in which services take place are discussed, as these may influence aspects of collaboration and building family capacity.

Thematic Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 283-288
Author(s):  
Jean-Frédéric Morin ◽  
Christian Olsson ◽  
Ece Özlem Atikcan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distinct Method

This chapter evaluates thematic analysis (TA), which is one of the oldest and most widely used qualitative analytic method across the social sciences. TA is a flexible method for identifying and analysing patterns of meaning — ‘themes’ — in qualitative data, with wide-ranging applications. The method has a long, if indeterminate, history in the social sciences, but seems likely to have evolved from early forms of (qualitative) content analysis. TA is now more likely to be demarcated and acknowledged as a distinct method; however, confusion remains about what TA is. The popularity of TA as a distinct method received a considerable boost from the publication of Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology by social psychologists Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke in 2006, which has become one of the most cited academic papers of recent decades.

scholarly journals Degrees of Freedom: Exploring Agency, Narratives, and Technological Affordances in the #TakeAKnee Controversy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630511982612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith E. Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Technological Affordances

This study extends current research into social media platforms as counterpublic spaces by examining how the social media narratives produced by the #TakeAKnee controversy negotiate technological affordances and existing discourses surrounding American national identity. Giddens’ Structuration Theory is used to explore the nature of user agency on social media platforms and the extent to which this agency is constrained or enabled by the interplay between the systems and structures that guide social media use. Exploratory qualitative content analysis was used to analyze and compare tweets and Instagram posts using the #TakeAKnee hashtag shared in September 2017. Results showed that narratives are dominated by four themes, freedom, unity, equality and justice, and respect and honor. Users actively employ technological affordances to create highly personalized meanings, affirming that agency operates at the intersection of reflexivity and self-efficacy.

scholarly journals Algorithmic Closeness in Mourning: Vernaculars of the Hashtag #grief on TikTok

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110423
Author(s):  
Moa Eriksson Krutrök
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Ranking Algorithms ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Previous User ◽  
The Way

This study looks at how mourning is expressed using the hashtag #grief on the social media app TikTok using qualitative content analysis. In a dataset of 100 TikTok videos, this article explores how the TikTok ranking algorithms, which orders content based on previous user engagements, may connect people in mourning across the platform and how these platform-enabled interactions may shape grief expressions. The study shows how grief was narrated on TikTok, which sociotechnical templates (such as duets, stitches, and audios) were incorporated into such expressions, and how these expressions of grief challenged societal mourning norms. This article ends with a discussion about how different subcultural norms on TikTok are linked to the way in which ranking algorithms create social connections across the platform. This study proposes that the “algorithmic closeness” of TikTok users in grief allows them to challenge societal mourning norms in imagined safe spaces, shaped by the algorithmic ranking systems on the platform.

scholarly journals CSR reporting in China’s private and state-owned enterprises: A mixed methods comparative analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Ervits
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Csr Reporting ◽  
Emerging Industries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Responsive Behavior ◽  
Socially Responsive ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractThe paper pursues a mixed methods approach of conducting both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports in two types of Chinese companies: State-owned (SOE) and non-state-owned (non-SOE) enterprises. Quantitative content analysis revealed overall homogeneity in CSR reporting among SOEs and non-SOEs in China, which can be explained by coercive isomorphism on a national scale. The Chinese government has created an intricate system of incentives encouraging both SOEs and non-SOEs to engage in socially responsive behavior and disclosure. As a result of qualitative analysis, a recurring theme of “strategic emerging industries” (SEI) was identified in the CSR reports of predominantly state-owned banks. This finding provides empirical evidence of the link between the social and economic objectives of the Chinese government, and it shows how state-owned banks mediate between the state and business (SOEs and non-SOEs) as part of a coercive isomorphism apparatus.

scholarly journals Critical Analysis of Social Constructivism: Myth or Reality for Peace and Security

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Nazim Rahim ◽  
Asghar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
International System ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Intrinsic Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Universal Truth

Subjectivity is the mother of all social sciences. There is no universal truth, there is no objective reality and there is no finality in social sciences. Final truth belongs to heaven, not to this world and none of the theories can claim finality or objectivity. Nonetheless, theories try to explain the truth, holding water, either more or less. Theories, highlighting the intrinsic nature of humans [good & bad], the structure of international system (anarchic)or class struggle[bourgeois & proletariat]are both researchable and discernible. Social Constructivism, on the other hand labels all the theories as social constructions and itself constructs an endless desert of ideas, develops absurdity, and makes the truth less accessible and more mythical. Social Constructivism, instead of explaining the truth is making it blurred and doubtful. Instead of ensuring clarity, its own assumptions are constructing a mythical world. This analytical paper critically analyzes the social constructivists' assumptions and their critique on all the established beliefs in general and mainstream perspectives in particular.

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