Spontaneity and Civil Resistance

Author(s):  
Edmund W. Cheng

This chapter examines the contingent and endogenous causes that sparked the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Spurred by two contingent events generating pre-emptive and massive mobilization, the movement was a spontaneous transformation of the long-planned Occupy Central campaign. Networked efficiently through social media, autonomous individuals from diverse backgrounds rallied in various physical spaces, resulting in a self-mobilized and decentralized protest structure. These dynamics and ecology facilitated participatory practices and sustained a resilient occupation. Using an on-site survey, in-depth interviews, and participant observation, this chapter constructs a counter-frame conceptualizing the Umbrella Movement as a popular civil resistance, thereby contesting the official and media framings that regard the occupation as an illegal assembly, separatist movement, or social justice movement.

2015 ◽  
pp. 884-900
Author(s):  
Imene Ben Yahia ◽  
Lilia El Ferci

In spite of the keen interest in empowerment, few authors have applied the concept to the characteristics of the Internet. This paper approaches it within consumption communities based in social media and explores its effects on consumers' behaviors towards firms. A participant observation was carried out and has lasted one year and a half in two consumption communities based in Facebook. Additionally, distant in-depth interviews have been conducted. Results give evidence for the existence of consumer empowerment online and highlight its complex multidimensional structure. Four dimensions are identified: informational, technological, social, and psychological. Results also underline that empowered consumers assess firms and call to reward some and to boycott others (1); negotiate to get better offerings (2) and demand cooperation (3).


2021 ◽  
pp. 107769902110278
Author(s):  
Víctor García-Perdomo

This research takes a socio-technical approach and uses participant observation and in-depth interviews to explain how two major TV news organizations from Colombia utilize social media to distribute video and engage TV audiences in online settings. Findings show that social media, particularly Facebook, are changing how television channels think of videos and their perceptions of audience engagement at the organizational level. Social media not only play a dominant role for distributing video but they influence with their recommendations and metrics TV decisions regarding content production. Finally, this research discusses the implication of these findings for the future of TV journalism.


Prologia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 402
Author(s):  
Andre Wijaya ◽  
Muhammad Adi Pribadi

Marketing communication activities carried out to be able to increase sales and introduce a brand to the wider community, in the current technological era social media plays an important role in conducting marketing communication. Lots of people use social media, this is an opportunity to do marketing communication through social media. PT. MicroAd Indonesia is an advertising company engaged in digital. PT. MicroAd Indonesia has its own way of marketing communication that is different from other advertising companies. Symbolic interactions also affect the marketing communication of PT. MicroAd Indonesia. This research uses a qualitative methodology with ethnographic methods. Data collection was carried out using participant observation, in-depth interviews with several teams at PT. MicroAd Indonesia, and also document analysis. The conclusion of this study is that there are several stages of marketing communication planning consisting of first meeting with clients, Kick Off, Doing research such as searching for key messages, Content Pillar and Content Mapping and then creating content for on social media such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to the final stage that is Monitoring.Kegiatan komunikasi pemasaran dilakukan untuk dapat meningkatkan penjualan dan memperkenalkan sebuah merek kepada masyarakat luas, di era teknologi saat ini media sosial sangat berperan penting dalam melakukan komunikasi pemasaran, Banyak sekali orang-orang yang menggunakan media sosial, ini merupakan suatu kesempatan untuk melakukan komunikasi pemasaran melalui media sosial. PT. MicroAd Indonesia adalah suatu perusahaan periklanan yang bergerak dibidang digital. PT. MicroAd Indonesia memiliki cara tersendiri untuk melakukan komunikasi pemasaran yang berbeda dengan perusahaan periklanan lainnya. Interaksi simbolik juga mempengaruhi komunikasi pemasaran PT. MicroAd Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan metodologi kualitatif dengan metode etnografi. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan observasi partisipan, wawancara mendalam dengan beberapa tim di PT. MicroAd Indonesia, dan juga analisis dokumen. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini yaitu terdapat beberapa tahapan perencanaan komunikasi pemasaran yang terdiri dari pertemuan pertama dengan klien, Kick Off, Melakukan riset seperti mencari key message, Content Pillar dan Content Mapping lalu pembuatan konten untuk di media sosial seperti Instagram, Facebook dan Twitter hingga ketahap akhir yaitu adalah Monitoring.


Koneksi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Cervia Ferdiana ◽  
Eko Harry Susanto ◽  
Sisca Aulia

Tinder is an online dating social media that is used by the majority of young people. The presence of Tinder at the moment, has an unconscious influence on daily life. The existence of Tinder can help someone to find a friend or life partner. However, now there is a phenomenon of the function of social media online dating that is misused by the public. The purpose of this study is to find out the shift in function of social media Tinder, the choice of social media Tinder as medium to find promiscuity friends, and an increase in promiscuity among young Indonesians using social media Tinder. This study is a qualitative study with phenomenological methods. Data collection techniques in this study were in-depth interviews, participant observation, literature and the online data article. The results of this study are that there is an increase in promiscuity among young people in Indonesia using social media dating online Tinder because the majority of Tinder users has an open mindset then has high curiosity of something that has never been felt, and last because the environmental factors that support the individual to enter promiscuity. Tinder merupakan media sosial kencan daring yang digunakan mayoritas kalangan anak muda. Media sosial kencan daring Tinder dapat membantu seseorang untuk menemukan teman ataupun pasangan hidup. Namun, kini muncul fenomena fungsi media sosial kencan daring Tinder yang disalahgunakan oleh masyarakat. Tujuan dari penelitian ini ingin mengetahui adanya pergeseran fungsi dari media sosial Tinder, pemilihan media sosial Tinder sebagai sarana untuk mencari teman pergaulan bebas, dan adanya peningkatan pergaulan bebas yang terdapat di kalangan anak muda Indonesia menggunakan media sosial Tinder. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan metode fenomenologi. Teknik pengumpulan data berupa wawancara mendalam, observasi partisipan, studi pustaka dan juga penelusuran data secara daring. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah terdapat adanya peningkatan pergaulan bebas di kalangan anak muda Indonesia dengan menggunakan media sosial kencan daring Tinder. Hal ini karena mayoritas pengguna Tinder mempunyai pemahaman atau pola pikir yang terbuka, rasa penasaran dan keingintahuan yang tinggi untuk mencoba sesuatu yang baru, dan faktor lingkungan yang mendukung individu untuk memasuki pergaulan bebas.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Alif Alfi Syahrin ◽  
Bunga Mustika

Various kinds of religious contents were widely circulated in social media with various kinds of covers to attract users, especially the millennial generation as active users of social media. Especially for non-santri teenagers who had a high curiosity in religious insight. The method used was a qualitative research with descriptive research. Data collection techniques used were non-participant observation, in-depth interviews and documentation. The informants in this study were Muslim teenagers who were still studying. The findings indicated that their favorite social media were Instagram, What’s up, and YouTube. The impact of utilizing social media was to add religious insight to Muslim adolescents who were obtained the materials before and the obstacles faced by adolescents when deciding to ‘hijrah ‘; that was,  there were acts of bullying and were considered to only follow trends. The conclusion was the use of social media among non-santri teenagers is one way to answer curiosity about religious insight. Therefore, they realized new understanding in the form of ‘hijrah’. This condition was increasingly supported by the widespread of contents in social media and the presence of routine religious teachings in various mosques considered to represent the meaning of ‘hijrah’.


Author(s):  
Imene Ben Yahia ◽  
Lilia El Ferci

In spite of the keen interest in empowerment, few authors have applied the concept to the characteristics of the Internet. This paper approaches it within consumption communities based in social media and explores its effects on consumers' behaviors towards firms. A participant observation was carried out and has lasted one year and a half in two consumption communities based in Facebook. Additionally, distant in-depth interviews have been conducted. Results give evidence for the existence of consumer empowerment online and highlight its complex multidimensional structure. Four dimensions are identified: informational, technological, social, and psychological. Results also underline that empowered consumers assess firms and call to reward some and to boycott others (1); negotiate to get better offerings (2) and demand cooperation (3).


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Hazim Hazim ◽  
Nurul Musdholifah

This article addresses mediatization of religion which particularly focuses on how Indonesian Muslims in Hungary mediatize their Islamic practices. It is a result of an empirical study incorporating two approaches, qualitative and quantitative methods. Participant observation and semi-structured in-depth interviews involving 18 informants were conducted for collecting the quantitative data whereas the quantitative data was generated from an online survey collected from 102 participants (60 males and 42 females). The result of the study shows that the lack of integration to the local Islamic institutions affects the mediatization of Islam. The form of Islamic mediatization can be seen through their way of obtaining religious messages, news, and information which primarily relies on the internet. Most of them depend on Social media, where YouTube channel was the most favorite one followed by Facebook and Instagram,  to obtain Islamic resources. The dependency upon media particularly YouTube has the potential to shift religious authority from institutional to individual authority. While some scholars debate whether mediatization of religion could encourage secularization or not, the case of Indonesian Muslims in the Hungarian context shows that instead of becoming more secular, the dependency upon media for religious practices affects them to be more religious.


Author(s):  
Dewi Novianti ◽  
Siti Fatonah

Social media is a necessity for everyone in communicating and exchanging information. Social media users do not know the boundaries of age, generation, gender, ethnicity, and religion. However, what is interesting is the user among housewives. This study took the research subjects of housewives. Housewives are chosen as research subjects because they are pillars or pillars in a household. If the pillar is strong, then the household will also be healthy. Thus, if we want to build a resilient and robust generation, we will start from the housewives. A healthy household starts from strong mothers too. This study aims to find out the insights of the housewives of Kanoman village regarding the content on smartphones and social media and provide knowledge of social media literacy to housewives. This study used a qualitative approach with data collection techniques using participant observation, interviews, focus group discussion (FGD), and documentation. The results of the study showed that previously housewives had not experienced social media literacy. Then the researchers took steps to be able to achieve the desired literacy results. Researchers took several steps to make them become social media literates. They become able to use social media, understand social media, and even produce messages through social media.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Jesús Gómez Camuñas ◽  
Purificación González Villanueva

<div><i>Background</i>: the creative capacities and the knowledge of the employees are components of the intellectual capital of the company; hence, their training is a key activity to achieve the objectives and business growth. <i>Objective</i>: To understand the meaning of learning in the hospital from the experiences of its participants through the inquiry of meanings. <i>Method</i>: Qualitative design with an ethnographic approach, which forms part of a wider research, on organizational culture; carried out mainly in 2 public hospitals of the Community of Madrid. The data has been collected for thirteen months. A total of 23 in-depth interviews and 69 field sessions have been conducted through the participant observation technique. <i>Results</i>: the worker and the student learn from what they see and hear. The great hospital offers an unregulated education, dependent on the professional, emphasizing that they learn everything. Some transmit the best and others, even the humiliating ones, use them for dirty jobs, focusing on the task and nullifying the possibility of thinking. They show a reluctant attitude to teach the newcomer, even if they do, they do not have to oppose their practice. In short, a learning in the variability, which produces a rupture between theory and practice; staying with what most convinces them, including negligence, which affects the patient's safety. In the small hospital, it is a teaching based on a practice based on scientific evidence and personalized attention, on knowing the other. Clearly taught from the reception, to treat with caring patience and co-responsibility in the care. The protagonists of both scenarios agree that teaching and helping new people establish lasting and important personal relationships to feel happy and want to be in that service or hospital. <i>Conclusion</i>: There are substantial differences related to the size of the center, as to what and how the student and the novel professional are formed. At the same time that the meaning of value that these health organizations transmit to their workers is inferred through the training, one orienting to the task and the other to the person, either patient, professional or pupil and therefore seeking the common benefit.</div>


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Hardiyanti Munsi ◽  
Ahmad Ismail

This article intends to identify and to describe the unique structure and the managing style that owns primordial characteristics, that is giving significance to kinship, religion, and local Bugis cultural values, which made up the cultural system of PT. Hadji Kalla family business. Theoritically, this research was inspired from Weberian perspective on the ideal types of bureaucracy, that observes organizations (in this case is the family business) as one of the socio-cultural phenomena which is neutral and value-free, that is place aside its subjective aspects. The research was conducted in two locations, the head office and one of the branch offices using qualitative approach that relies on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and literature studies. The results of the research shows that the family business of PT. Hadji Kalla that has advanced into national level still prioritizes kinship, ethnicity, and religious aspects in the daily activities of the company. The value even take parts in providing the company’s colour to the urban societies in various districts where the company stands. This means that although the society has undergone transformations, it doesn’t mean that the primordial value, and the elements that exist outside of businesses (such as kinship, big men, religion, cultural values, and interest) do not influence the activities that are held in formal organizations. Therefore, the interventions of subjective aspects will always appear, followed with the application of the modern management system that is implemented by PT. Hadji Kalla company.


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