Social Trust as Seed

2010 ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Andrew Wong
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines the role the mobile phone plays in the poor urban youth’s social life. This chapter argues that one can better grasp their social life by looking through the new technology lens. It seeks to examine the collective-mediated learning, sharing, and experimenting with the emergent patterns of trust in the social context. The emergence of three types of social trust genres that correspond respectively to the stage of domestication by the poor urban youth are described: social trust as a seed for peer-to-peer learning, social trust as a seed for group underground sharing, and social trust as a seed for fueling the experimental spirit. It concludes that social trust functions as a seed for increasing positive interdependent towards others play an important role in nurturing trust among the poor urban youth as they domesticate new media technology, such as the mobile phone, into their everyday lives.

Living with New Media Technology

2010 ◽  
pp. 16-35
Author(s):  
Andrew Wong
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information Behavior ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Central Node ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Collective Information

This chapter considers the collective information behavior of the poor in Bangladesh. It examines the mobile phone as the central node and seeks to understand the construction of collectiveness by examining the collective-mediated learning, sharing and experimenting among the poor. Three brief cases provide the background and illustrate the elements of a Learn, Share and Experiment model. Against this tapestry of multiple perspectives, collective-mediated learning, sharing and experimenting enable the poor to be cost-efficient and socially productive. In conclusion there is an urgent need for all researchers to reexamine and rethink the poor’s collective information behavior as new media technology spreads deeper into their lives. Without it, we may miss the opportunity to discover something useful that will eventually lift them out of poverty.

Lively Infrastructure

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 137-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ash Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The City

This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where the staples of life such as water, electricity, shelter and sanitation are co-constructed by the poor, the paper argues that infrastructures – visible and invisible – are deeply implicated in not only the making and unmaking of individual lives, but also in the experience of community, solidarity and struggle for recognition. Infrastructure is proposed as a gathering force and political intermediary of considerable significance in shaping the rights of the poor to the city and their capacity to claim those rights.

scholarly journals The Mobile Phone & Its Impact In Teenagers`Daily Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Bujane Topalli
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Public Space ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Media

The mobile phone, as a medium has influenced the ways in which we can interact with other media. It is considered like a channel between traditional and new media. Its specific characteristics, social functions and also its uses may vary in different contexts and cultures. The mobile phone, has contributed in increasing the idea of personal media, and the emergence of new kinds of media behavior. According to Morley (2002), communication technologies transform and rearrange relations between the domestic and the public space. In particular, mobile communication functions to broaden the sphere of the home outside the physical household; to blur the boundaries between the public and private spheres. In this study we aim to discuss through the literature review the role of the phone in the everyday life, and to know more about the different ways and reasons why 12-15 year old teenagers, part of Municipality of Shkoder, use mobile phone. This qualitative research is based on semi structured interviews with children. The identified problems consist in: First: The children use more mobile phones in order to use the internet and social networks and this makes it really difficult for their parents to control them. This exposes more the children towards negative effect of internet usage. The second problem is that parents do not have enough knowledge on the usage of new technology. Third: Children have taken information about the risk of internet from the media or by friends and they haven't discussed about this subject at school with teachers.

The heuristic value of the social: The effect of social quality and trust on welfare and tax attitudes

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-432
Author(s):  
Dong-Kyun Im
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Heuristic Model ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cross National

In the last decades, enhancing social trust and improving social quality have been often considered as the antidote to the problems produced by the neoliberal makeover of the social life. However, it remains unclear whether higher social quality and trust actually produce more pro-social attitudes among people. Based on a statistical analysis of a cross-national survey administered in five countries, this article shows that social quality and social trust, as empirical indicators of the social, do not always generate pro-social attitudes. It demonstrates that perceived social quality and trust on social institutions can generate both conservative and liberal attitudes toward social welfare and taxation. In order to explain the varying effects of social quality and trust, we propose a heuristic model of political cognition and motivation, which illustrates how the political variety of the social is possible. Our model highlights the contextual contingencies of the political meaning of the social.

From strong guanxi to weak guanxi: Connectivity in Chinese micro-charity

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-487
Author(s):  
Xun Lin ◽  
Hua Huang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
The Past

Charity in China is deeply rooted in the guanxi tradition and mainly involves strong ties. In the wake of emerging social media, online charity (also known as micro-charity) has become increasingly popular over the past few years. People’s participation in micro-charity is afforded by the ubiquitous connectivity of social media. Their charitable behaviours are steered towards connecting, communicating, and eventually contributing to the formation of a powerful digital environment, which essentially diffuses the awareness of responsibility and commitment. Thus, the affordance of connectivity makes it possible for Chinese people to break from the traditional tightly-bounded close ties towards loosely-bounded networks in micro-charity. In addition, by drawing on some college students’ experiences, this article indicates that connectivity affords people’s active engagement with micro-charity, which in turn fosters their distinct subjectivity pertaining to a social life that is intertwined with new media technology.

scholarly journals Utilization of Social Networks among Saudi EFL Learners: Trends and Uses

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (35) ◽  
pp. 464
Author(s):  
Mubarak Alkhatnai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Life ◽  
New Technology ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
The Social ◽  
Actual Use

The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of social networking sites among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Saudi institutions of higher education. The actual study was conducted at the King Saud University (KSU). Reports on the extent to which the students are familiar with social media and the manner in which they utilize the technology were obtained. The research also examines the perception of students regarding the use social networking sites in their learning. The percentage of students using the social media and their frequency of visiting the sites also form part of the discussion of this paper. This is in an attempt to draw a clear picture of how the utilization of this new technology is emerging in Saudi higher education. The findings are discussed in light of students’ actual use and their perceived beliefs about the use of such technologies in their learning and social life.

Phenomenological Ethics of Contemporary Media Theories

Glimpse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Dragan Prole ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

This article discusses fundamental contradictions regarding the social role of the new media. Avantgarde identifies the emergence of the new media with the possibilities of liberating the man and achieving true individuality, while dystopia qualifies it as the suffocation of individuality, as ballast that levels out and averages a man, as a threat to human freedom. The media technology is for the avant-garde the embodiment of the enriched self and expanded capacities of selfhood, while for dystopia, the media technology is directed against selfhood, since its effects start and end with the creation of alienation, with the distortion of selfhood directed against the fundamental attributes of humanity. On the contrary, for the avant-garde, the breach of media background awareness of the artistic expression has marked the definite parting with the age of alienated artistic practice. According to their most profound beliefs, staggering in the chains of figurative and narrative expressions, art has always served a different purpose, religion, pedagogy, politics, and ideology. Hence, the turn towards the demands and logic of the self-serving media marked the rise from the state of alienation to the state of true achievement, to the emancipation of artists and the art.

Upbringing to culture of communication with the use of new media. General introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 579 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Adam Solak ◽  
Jerzy Smoleń
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Formal Language ◽  
Electronic Medium ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
Younger Generation

Internet, mobile phone are certainly not new interpersonal medium of communication because they have been effectively adopted on a huge scale to practice of everyday interaction for years. Style of virtual discussion and internet manners that can be found not only in colloquial conversation and behaviour but also in formal language due to its level causes specialists’ concern of many scientific disciplines. What is more availability of electronic medium, anytime and everywhere, causes losing track of time and generally accepted rules that regulate rhythm of social life. That is why the article is to remind these rules and to appeal to teachers, form teachers, and above all to parents in order to pay attention to culture of communication using mass media which for the younger generation is an essential part of their life not only communicative life.

scholarly journals History as a Process of Learning: its Modern Radicalization

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Zlatyslav Oleksandrovych Dubniak
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

The aim of this article is to find out the logic of modern sociocultural environment within a historical process (in the context of A. Giddens’, U. Beck’s, P. Sztompka’s and Z. Bauman’s researches). The article deals with a history as a process of permanent learning, and the era of modernity is interpreted as the radicalization of this process. A history of the human community constitutes itself through the constant reproduction and changing of social practices. Each society should be understood as a process, which models of social life are being internalizing, externalizing and changing. So the learning could be described as a fundamental mechanism of social history. The phenomenon of learning means the practice of productive sociocultural creativity. The learning solves the social life problems: it tends to overcome unfeasibility, incoherence and imperfection of social life. Thereby a history as the learning process is directed to increase the human control over the natural and mental environments. Therefore discovering of the modern epoch's specificity as a situation of dynamicity, changeability, plurality, globality of social practices allows to assert that the learning is the engine of social life in contemporaneity. Moreover the life in the era of modernity should be understood as a radical learning. The situation of posttraditionalization and loss of identity requires sociocultural activity so that a society could stably keep the historical course. Such a radical learning, activity could be understood in the modernity as «colonization of the future», in other words as the social trust and the rationalization. Problems of social life in the era of modernity are overcoming by means of the trust and rationalization. In order to ensure control over the natural and the mental environments, an active modern humanity must always deal with the open future. That is to say with the risk and the uncertainty. The ontological security of posttraditional human could be restored only by «colonization of the future», as a necessary condition for further sociocultural construction of reality. In this way contemporary human's understanding of history and the era of modernity is a principal peculiarity of one's social life. It means that the continuity of contemporary social existence is made possible by pointed understanding.

Challenges of Teaching with Technology in HE

2013 ◽  
pp. 121-139
Author(s):  
Emma Bond ◽  
Tim Goodchild
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Teaching With Technology ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Technology And Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines current debates and theoretical approaches to studying new media technology and learning in a Higher Education (HE) context. The authors interrogate the relationship between HE spaces, technological advantages, and engaging pedagogy to emphasize the importance of understanding complex interrelationships between technology and learning. The findings of the multi-method ethnographic research with 30 lecturers reveal how shifting globalized paradigms have led to paradoxical perceptions which further impact perceptions of professionalism. The chapter draws on Latour’s (1993) Actor Network Theory (ANT) approach to modernity, which, as a form of belonging, endorses democracy (Strathern, 1999). This ANT-inspired case study argues that we need to critically re-evaluate the hybridity of HE spaces and that the traditional distinctions between the social spheres of learning have become blurred, and that an ANT approach enables us to gain greater understanding of a new hybrid world.

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