scholarly journals The ARt of Inequality: A Youth Social Justice Exhibition in Augmented Reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anisa Bora ◽  
Grace Choi ◽  
Thomonique Moore ◽  
Rongwei Tang ◽  
Yiming Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Art Activism ◽  
Digital Arts ◽  
Arts Activism ◽  
Dominant Narratives

The substantive development in the role of augmented reality (AR) technologies in public spaces provides new opportunities for digital arts and arts activism as a means of increasing awareness of critical social issues. However, because of the digital divide and dominant narratives in the museum, there is an existing racial and socioeconomic gap in (digital) art, activism education, and museum curation. In this paper we present a curriculum that aims to empower high-school-aged youth from minoritized backgrounds through art activism in museum spaces via the development and exhibition of augmented reality art pieces that address social justice issues relevant to youth interests and experiences.

scholarly journals Imagining social justice and the false promise of urban park design

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott M Larson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Urban Park ◽  
Geographical Imagination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
Park Design ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Geographic Imaginary

Urban park designers have long championed the social underpinnings of their work. Of late, however, certain landscape practitioners have articulated a more explicit connection between park design and social objectives, arguing that the fundamental role of urban parks is to foster equity and justice. Drawing on Marxian geographer David Harvey’s notion of the geographical imagination, this paper interrogates the relationship between parks and social processes by exploring the role that social issues have historically played in urban park design and by unpacking the prevailing imaginaries of social justice landscape architects and designers have employed in contemporary urban park projects. In doing so, it juxtaposes the lofty rhetoric of designing for social justice against the material reality of development-driven urban regeneration. In this way, the geographic imaginary provides a framework for understanding the limited capacity of urban park design to address broader social issues, even as it offers a mechanism for conceiving and articulating alternatives that more completely address the conditions through which social injustice occurs.

Social Issues and Web 2.0

2010 ◽  
pp. 613-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bolanle A. Olaniran ◽  
Hansel Burley ◽  
Maiga Chang
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
E Learning

Developing the foundations for intelligent applications that efficiently manage information is one goal of Web 2.0 technologies and the Semantic Web. As a result, the organization of Web 2.0 and other Semantic Web approaches to learning hold significant implications for learning, especially when one considers the role of cultures in learning and e-learning. Exploring how these technologies impact learning, this chapter focuses on social and cultural issues from potential users’ and learners’ standpoints. Furthermore, the chapter offers dimensions of cultural variability as a framework for its arguments. The chapter draws from existing literature and research to present implications of Semantic Web and Web 2.0, along with the issue of digital divide which is critical when exploring access to Web 2.0 technology platforms. The chapter ends by addressing key implications for Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web regarding usage and general effectiveness in the learning context.

Social Issues and Web 2.0

2013 ◽  
pp. 1456-1471
Author(s):  
Bolanle A. Olaniran ◽  
Hansel Burley ◽  
Maiga Chang
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
E Learning

Developing the foundations for intelligent applications that efficiently manage information is one goal of Web 2.0 technologies and the Semantic Web. As a result, the organization of Web 2.0 and other Semantic Web approaches to learning hold significant implications for learning, especially when one considers the role of cultures in learning and e-learning. Exploring how these technologies impact learning, this chapter focuses on social and cultural issues from potential users’ and learners’ standpoints. Furthermore, the chapter offers dimensions of cultural variability as a framework for its arguments. The chapter draws from existing literature and research to present implications of Semantic Web and Web 2.0, along with the issue of digital divide which is critical when exploring access to Web 2.0 technology platforms. The chapter ends by addressing key implications for Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web regarding usage and general effectiveness in the learning context.

Gender, Solidarity, and Symbolic Capital

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan T. McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Mountaintop Removal

This chapter considers the significance of prominent women's leadership in the movement to stop mountaintop removal. The prominence of women in leadership positions is a signature characteristic of Appalachian community activism, including the CRMW and the Friends of the Mountains (FOM) networks. However, the role of women is related to the decline of the union and the shifting sites of organizing within the community. Though women have always been active in social issues in the coalfields, the union's historically dominant role in organizing activism limited women's ability to rise to leadership positions. Organizing outside of the union affords women greater flexibility to link together social issues that a labor perspective may not have addressed directly. As such, women are able to forge a more comprehensive approach to social justice built upon different symbolic capital foundations.

Community-Driven Curating in Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan R. Flattley
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Collective Building ◽  
External Actors ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Women

The exhibition Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana (2019) developed community-driven and co-productive curatorial practices through a partnership with directly impacted stakeholders. This article presents three characteristics that made the partnership between the Newcomb Art Museum and consultants from a community of formerly incarcerated women and activists in New Orleans a success: an understanding of the politics of both the issue and the site, a sharing and collective building of power, and a polyvocal exhibition format. Within the context of the role of curating in struggles for social justice, this article outlines the importance of working with external actors, such as movement leaders and activists, to ensure accountability, equity and reciprocity in exhibitions that address social issues.

scholarly journals RelationCRIPs with Dramaturgy: The Intervention of the Dramaturge in Devised CRIP Theatre

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Tonya Rae Chrystian
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Social Models ◽  
Community Theatre ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Mixed Communities

Disability theatre has a complex Canadian history according to disability studies scholar Kirsty Johnson, and “Canadian artists with disabilities have found many and provocative ways to ‘get on stage’” (Johnson 4). The formation of disability art and theatre is as multifaceted and diverse as disability itself, but there will always remain a part of the process that must confront the ableism and exclusion perpetuated by the social models of oppression both on and offstage.  As disability theatre seeks to challenge dominant narratives, relocate the status of the disabled body, and positively re-imagine the value of disability, one of the important components is the role that dramaturgy can play in the formation of disability theatre, particularly in the case of devised CRIP theatre. This paper will explore some of the interventions and approaches dramaturgy may subsume to support the creation of experiential theatre that expresses the lives and narratives of disabled and mixed communities. The arguments explored in this paper will be supplemented with material taken from the collaborative production of Love in the Margins that was part of the 2016 Chinook Series in Edmonton, Alberta, becoming the first professional presentation of disability theatre in Edmonton.  This paper will also explore topics such as the role of playwriting and dramaturgy in devised, experiential, and social-justice theatre, how the word “professional” can be inclusively re-defined, and the problems, processes, and ethical questions of journeying from devised community theatre to professional theatre. 

A funny matter: Toward a framework for understanding the function of comedy in social change

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caty Borum Chattoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Stand Up Comedy

Abstract Despite its cultural reach and influence, comedy may not be well-understood in communication and public engagement efforts for social justice challenges. Research about comedy’s influence in social issues exists across disciplines and lacks common language. This article creates a practical framework toward the understanding of mediated comedy in social change communication by presenting a typology of distinct formats of comedy – scripted entertainment, satire news, humorous ads, and stand-up comedy – and synthesizing multidisciplinary scholarship that deals with the role of comedy in audience understanding of civic and social issues. The resulting framework for comedy’s influence in social justice includes: attracting attention, persuasion, offering a way into complex issues, dissolving social barriers, and encouraging message sharing. Implications for leveraging comedy in social change public engagement efforts, as well as directions for future innovation and research, are discussed.

scholarly journals Offline Activism

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-178
Author(s):  
Vishaal Sehijpaul
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Questions And Answers

On April 23, 2021, Vishaal Sehijpaul presented at the 2021 CASIS Generation Z Congress on Offline Activism: Does It Take More than Online Social Justice Warriors? This presentation was followed by a group panel for questions and answers, whereby congress attendees were provided with an opportunity to engage in discussion with Mr. Sehijpaul. Primary discussion surrounded which types of safety were possibly more important, methods Generation Zs (Gen Zs) can adapt to potentially reduce their slacktivism, the role of government in addressing the gap between online and offline change, and whether slacktivism is relevant in current social issues, such the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Moral Factor of Social and Economic Progress

2007 ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Bogomolov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Moral Atmosphere ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Moral Factor

The article reveals the influence of the spiritual and moral atmosphere in the society on economic development. The emphasis is put especially on the role of social confidence and social justice. The author indicates also some measures on improving the worsening moral situation in Russia.

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