scholarly journals Creating Communities of Parents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingunn Skjesol
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Parents And Children

Norwegian Open Kindergartens facilitate access to professional advice and peer support, supporting parents to take part in collective learnings processes, renegotiate their roles and build social networks. Drawing on a study of five Open Kindergartens located in three Norwegian municipalities, this book chapter discusses how these spaces create opportunities to develop parenting skills and negotiate what it means to be a parent. Open Kindergartens are drop-in meeting places where parents and children take part in everyday activities as part of a diverse group. Open Kindergartens provide a space to learn parenting by doing, in a safe and non-judgmental environment, facilitated and supported by a range of professionals. This approach supports integration in local communities and contrasts with many parenting programs that are professionally led and often highly normative.

scholarly journals Learners’ Attitudes toward Foreign Language Practice on Social Network Sites

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Jhonny Villafuerte ◽  
Asier Romero
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
The University

This work aims to study learners’ attitudes towards practicing English Language on Social Networks Sites (SNS). The sample involved 110 students from the University Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabi in Ecuador, and the University of the Basque Country in Spain. The instrument applied was a Likert scale questionnaire designed Ad hoc by the researchers, to assess the dimensions: (i) Integration of SNS into learners’ academic everyday activities, and (ii) Learners’ attitudes towards English Language practices on SNS. All the data was analyzed using SPSS V24.00 of IBM. The findings showed corelationships between learners’ attitudes and the factors: learners’ sex, age, and country. The results also confirmed that both Spanish and Ecuadorian university students prefer YouTube, and Google+ for their easy access, and flexibility to strengthen listening, reading and comprehension skills in English. In addition, Facebook, and Whats App can be used to motivate reading, writing, and speaking practices in English.

scholarly journals Awesome women and bad feminists: the role of online social networks and peer support for feminist practice in academia

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-435
Author(s):  
Hannah Bayfield ◽  
Laura Colebrooke ◽  
Hannah Pitt ◽  
Rhiannon Pugh ◽  
Natalia Stutter
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Online Collaboration ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Feminist Practice ◽  
Digital Spaces

In her book, ‘Bad Feminist’, Roxane Gay claims this label shamelessly, embracing the contradictory aspects of enacting feminist practice while fundamentally being ‘flawed human[s]’. This article tells a story inspired by and enacting Roxane Gay’s approach in academia, written by five cis-gendered women geographers. It is the story of a proactive, everyday feminist initiative to survive as women in an academic precariat fuelled by globalised, neoliberalised higher education. We reflect on what it means to be (bad) feminists in that context, and how we respond as academics. We share experiences of an online space used to support one another through post-doctoral life, a simple message thread, which has established an important role in our development as academics and feminists. This article, written through online collaboration, mirrors and enacts processes fundamental to our online network, demonstrating the significance and potential of safe digital spaces for peer support. Excerpts from the chat reflect critically on struggles and solutions we have co-developed. Through this, we celebrate and validate a strategy we know that we and others like us find invaluable for our wellbeing and survival. Finally, we reflect on the inherent limitations of exclusive online networks as tools for feminist resistance.

scholarly journals Merit-Making Activities and the Latent Ideal of the Buddhist Wat in Southwestern Cambodia

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-57
Author(s):  
Matthew O'Lemmon
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Political Patronage ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Temple Community ◽  
Community Relationships

The divergent experiences surrounding merit-making acts represent the distinct backgrounds of individuals and communities that have emerged in postwar Cambodia. This article examines merit-making activities in two Buddhist temples in southwestern Cambodia and the influence of political patronage on temple–community relationships. This influence elicits images of a latent ideal of the Buddhist monastery that are used by local communities to form a social critique both of such political involvement within temples and of the destabilising effect it has on local people's merit-making activities. This ideal also reflected the political economies and social networks created within the temples that comprised two different models of patronage and means of accessing resources.

Social networks and aggressive behavior: Peer support or peer rejection?

1988 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 815-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Cairns ◽  
Beverley D. Cairns ◽  
Holly J. Neckerman ◽  
Scott D. Gest ◽  
et al
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Peer Rejection

scholarly journals INDIVIDUALS, COLLECTIVES AND SOCIABILITIES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS: promoting new forms of inclusion and active job search

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. a8en
Author(s):  
Teresa Cardoso ◽  
João Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Networked Society

The digital revolution has instigated the paradigm of the networked society, mediated by technology, with an impact on lifestyles, increasingly more virtual and online, stimulating new forms of sociability between individuals and collectives. In this text, we present a reflection on the relationship between digital social networks, active job search and social inclusion. Moreover, we present the case of the Project “REviver na Rede”, which has been enabling us to conclude that social networks, like Facebook, are valid tools for the integration, socialization and active job search, helping to improve the employability and also the economic and social development of local communities.  

scholarly journals Fungal literature records database of the sub-Antarctic Region of Aysén, Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Sánchez-Jardón ◽  
Laura del Rio-Hortega ◽  
Noemi Núñez Cea ◽  
Mario Mingarro ◽  
Paloma Manubens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Information System ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Lichen Species ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Antarctic Region ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
Lichen Diversity ◽  
Biodiversity Information ◽  
Occurrence Records

To this day, merely 8% of all estimated fungi species are documented and, in certain regions, its biodiversity is practically unknown. Inside the Fungi Kingdom, macrofungi and lichens assume a critical part in the ecosystem functionality and have a historical connection to mankind's social, clinical and nutritious uses. Despite their importance, the diversity of these groups has been widely overlooked in the sub-Antarctic Region of Chile, a crucial area in the study of climate change due to its extraordinary biodiversity and its proximity to Antarctica. Few studies regarding both groups have been conducted in this sub-Antarctic Region and the data are still scarce and inaccessible, as these are only published in specialised journals, unreachable to local communities. This publication presents a records compilation available in previous published scientific and technical reports on macrofungi and lichen diversity. In total, 1263 occurrence records of 618 species (341 records of 251 macrofungi species and 922 records of 367 lichen species) were digitised and integrated into the regional platform Biodiversity Information System for Aysén (SIB-Aysén) and into GBIF. Here, we provide the fullest dataset on one of the most diverse group of living beings in one of the the least-known world regions.

The Impact of Web 2.0 on E-Commerce Adoption and Use by Tourism Businesses – Can SMMEs Play the Trick?

2018 ◽  
pp. 1069-1093
Author(s):  
Pardon Blessings Maoneke ◽  
Naomi Isabirye
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
It Adoption ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Impact

The subject of Information Technology (IT) adoption and use has been going on for some time (Jeyaraj & Sabherwal, 2008). In particular, to electronic commerce (e-Commerce) adoption and use, the invention of Web 2.0 presents new technological features for potential and current e-Commerce adopters as well as new challenges. With Web 2.0, customers' perceptions, preferences and decisions are not only based on information presented on e-Commerce websites, but are also influenced by content generated by people on social networks and interactive e-Commerce websites. This poses the following question: how can Small, Medium and Micro-Sized Enterprises in the tourism sector (tourism SMMEs) keep up with these technological advancements given their limited resources? Accordingly, this book chapter proposes a framework that shows challenges and incentives (critical success factors) of e-Commerce, identifies e-Commerce platforms tourism SMMEs should adopt in order to maximise benefits and outlines what tourism SMMEs should expect from their e-Commerce platforms.

Data Mining for Social Network Analysis Using a CLIQUE Algorithm

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-187
Author(s):  
Phu Ngoc Vo ◽  
Tran Vo Thi Ngoc
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Commercial Applications ◽  
Clique Algorithm

Many different areas of computer science have been developed for many years in the world. Data mining is one of the fields which many algorithms, methods, and models have been built and applied to many commercial applications and research successfully. Many social networks have been invested and developed in the strongest way for the recent years in the world because they have had many big benefits as follows: they have been used by lots of users in the world and they have been applied to many business fields successfully. Thus, a lot of different techniques for the social networks have been generated. Unsurprisingly, the social network analysis is crucial at the present time in the world. To support this process, in this book chapter we have presented many simple concepts about data mining and social networking. In addition, we have also displayed a novel model of the data mining for the social network analysis using a CLIQUE algorithm successfully.

Social Networks and Aggressive Behavior: Peer Support or Peer Rejection?

2017 ◽  
pp. 223-231
Author(s):  
Robert B. Cairns ◽  
Beverley D. Cairns ◽  
Holly J. Neckerman ◽  
Scott D. Gest ◽  
Jean-Louis Gariépy
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Peer Rejection
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