scholarly journals ”Do-it-yourself” (DIY) e-liquid mixing: users’ motivations and awareness of associated dangers – analysis of social media and online content

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Balewska ◽  
Filip Raciborski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Content ◽  
Liquid Mixing ◽  
Do It Yourself

scholarly journals Music Community, Improvisation, and Social Technologies in COVID-Era Música Huasteca

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Margolies ◽  
J. A. Strub
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Music Community ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Regional Music

This article examines two interrelated aspects of Mexican regional music response to the coronavirus crisis in the música huasteca community: the growth of interactive huapango livestreams as a preexisting but newly significant space for informal community gathering and cultural participation at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the composition of original verses by son huasteco performers addressing the pandemic. Both the livestreams and the newly created coronavirus disease (COVID) verses reflect critical improvisatory approaches to the pandemic in música huasteca. The interactive livestreams signaled an ad hoc community infrastructure facilitated by social media and an emerging community space fostered by Do-It-Yourself (DIY) activists. Improvised COVID-related verses presented resonant local and regional themes as a community response to a global crisis. Digital ethnography conducted since March 2020 revealed a regional burst of musical creativity coupled with DIY intentionality, a leveling of access to virtual community spaces, and enhanced digital intimacies established across a wide cultural diaspora in Mexico and the USA. These responses were musically, poetically, and organizationally improvisational, as was the overall outpouring of the son huasteco music inspired by the coronavirus outbreak. Son huasteco is a folk music tradition from the Huasteca, a geo-cultural region spanning the intersection of six states in central Mexico. This study examines a selection of musical responses by discussing improvisational examples in both Spanish and the indigenous language Nahuatl, and in the virtual musical communities of the Huasteca migrant diaspora in digital events such as “Encuentro Virtual de Tríos Huastecos,” the “Huapangos Sin Fronteras” festival and competition, and in the nightly gatherings on social media platforms developed during the pandemic to sustain the Huastecan cultural expression. These phenomena have served as vibrant points of transnational connection and identity in a time where physical gatherings were untenable.

“Do-It-Yourself Justice”

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1282-1301
Author(s):  
Caroline Rizza ◽  
Ângela Guimarães Pereira ◽  
Paula Curvelo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
The Media ◽  
Do It Yourself

In June 2011, during the ice hockey Stanley Cup, as the Vancouver Canucks were losing, riots started in downtown Vancouver. Social media were used to communicate between authorities and citizens, including the rioters. The media reporting on these events framed these communications within different narratives, which in turn raised ethical considerations. The authors identify and reflect upon ideas of justice, fairness, responsibility, accountability and integrity that arise in the media stories. In addition they investigate (1) the “institutional unpreparedness” of the Vancouver police department when receiving such quantity of material and dealing with new processes of inquiry such material requires; (2) the “unintended do-it-yourself-justice”: the shift from supporting crisis responders to social media vigilantes: citizens overruling authorities and enforcing justice on their own terms and by their own means through social media and; (3) the “unintended do-it-yourself-society” supported by the potential-of social media's use for prompting people to act.

Self-Organizing the Scholarly Practices

2017 ◽  
pp. 144-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Organized Activities ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Media Services ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
Media Practices

This study explores the self-organized activities undertaken across Web 2.0 and social media services by individual PhD researchers in their doctoral journey. It aims to add to the emergent body of knowledge reporting the doctoral students' experience in the digital venues for scholarly purposes. This chapter is based upon an international and multi-method research carried out to canvass the variety of social media practices characterizing the PhD researchers' digital engagement. The findings offer a detailed and unprecedented repertoire of individual experiments in taming social media to scholarly tasks. The results suggest that complex negotiations occur between technology and practice, where the tension between the need for supporting existing tasks and the attempt for expanding opportunities for personal development is always at work and prefigures an approach to digital engagement always on the move. Furthermore, the research sparks questions about any institution-led initiatives to support the sort of ‘do-it-yourself' PhD emerging from the participants' narratives.

What does Facebook ‘afford’ do-it-yourself musicians? Considering social media affordances as sites of contestation

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellis Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Empirical Application ◽  
Recent Theoretical Work ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Shed Light

Recent theoretical work by Internet and social media scholars promises to offer valuable clarity to a concept which has been historically rather muddy: the affordance. Connections and shared themes within this recent literature have been thus far rather under-developed, and therefore the first contribution of this article is to strengthen those connections. It argues for a nascent conceptualisation of affordances as ‘sites of contestation’, improving on unsatisfactory applications of affordance theory to date by focusing on the specificity of user-groups, on social media’s status as both textual and material, and on power imbalances between users and platforms. The second contribution of this article is an empirical application of this analytical tool. Drawing on ethnographic work in a do-it-yourself (‘DIY’) music scene in Leeds, it considers what is ‘afforded’ to these practitioners by the Facebook Pages platform. Three key affordances are outlined – ‘digging’, ‘rallying’ and ‘surveilling’ – which shed light on the complexity and variety of contestations enacted between platforms and users.

scholarly journals Restricted modes: Social media, content classification and LGBTQ sexual citizenship

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482090436
Author(s):  
Clare Southerton ◽  
Daniel Marshall ◽  
Peter Aggleton ◽  
Mary Lou Rasmussen ◽  
Rob Cover
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Sexual Citizenship ◽  
Online Content ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Content Classification ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Public Criticism

In the context of recent controversies surrounding the censorship of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer online content, specifically on YouTube and Tumblr, we interrogate the relationship between normative understandings of sexual citizenship and the content classification regimes. We argue that these content classification systems and the platforms’ responses to public criticism both operate as norm-producing technologies, in which the complexities of sexuality and desire are obscured in order to cultivate notions of a ‘good’ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer sexual citizen. However, despite normative work of classification seeking to distinguish between sexuality and sex, we argue that the high-profile failures of these classification systems create the conditions for users to draw attention to, rather than firm, these messy boundaries.

VoxGov Revisited

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Megan D. Graewingholt
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Public ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Online Content ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The Social

VoxGov is a cutting-edge discovery platform for finding and analyzing government information, encompassing a vast collection of official documents, legislative information, and social media content all in one place. This comprehensive resource engages researchers in fresh and dynamic ways, provides superior analytical features, and surpasses comparable products in the value and diversity of its content. For scholars, legal experts and the general public alike, the growing importance of examining the social media footprint generated by the executive branch, government agencies and legislators cannot be understated. Given the massive output and changing nature of government web presences, VoxGov is well-timed aggregator of ephemeral online content, and delivers a powerful research experience for exploring official government information in the digital age.

Uganda social media tax furore could resurge

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Online Content ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mobile Money ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Over The Top ◽  
Post Online

Subject Uganda's social media tax. Significance Uganda in July began implementing a set of new taxes on internet-based services. These include a daily fee for use of ‘over-the-top’ (OTT) social media platforms (such as WhatsApp, Twitter or Facebook), and a tax on mobile money transactions. However, the measures have been fiercely opposed by the public and have drawn widespread condemnation as an infringement on freedom of speech. Impacts Nigeria is also mulling a social media tax; all sides will use the Uganda situation in ways that support their own views in that debate. Zambia’s government may use a proposed set of tough cybercrime laws to stifle dissent ahead of President Edward Lungu’s re-election bid. Tanzania will resist calls to reform new regulations requiring bloggers to pay for licenses to post online content.

scholarly journals “Stumbling Upon Feminism”

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Kim ◽  
Jessica Ringrose
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Online Content ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Recent Growth ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Peer Responses

In this article, we discuss a case study of a feminist society in a girls’ secondary school in England, highlighting how teenage girls use social media to combat sexism. Considering the recent growth of feminist societies in UK schools, there is still a lack of research documenting how young feminists use social media’s feminist content and connections. Addressing this gap, we draw on interviews and social media analyses to examine how girls navigate feminisms online and in school. Despite their multifaceted use of social media, the girls in our research undervalued digital feminism as valid or valued, in large part because of dismissive teacher and peer responses. We conclude by suggesting that schools need to cultivate social media as a legitimate pedagogical space by developing informed adult support for youth engagement with social justice-oriented online content.

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