scholarly journals Embodied technology use:

2022 ◽  
Vol 37 (71) ◽  
pp. 009-030
Author(s):  
Annamaria Neag ◽  
Julian Sefton-Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Refugee Youth ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
A Site

For unaccompanied refugee youth, technology occupies a central role in their lives. It helps them when crossing countries, finding a shelter, and accessing education, or even in negotiating family relations online (e.g., Çelikaksoy & Wadensjö, 2017; Marlowe & Bruns, 2020; Morrice et al., 2020). Research with young refugees shows that social media and smart devices have become essential means to resolve many challenges (Kutscher & Kreß, 2018). The aim of our article is to go beyond a utilitarian view of digital technologies and social media in the lives of migrant youth and show how digital actions can be extensions of bodily communications in relation to, for instance, locating the self within new cities, food, music, and religion. We introduce the concept of the migrant platformed body as a site of struggle for unity that brings past and present into continuous discussion in and through the uses of social media technologies.

Marketing Meets Social Media

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Anteneh Ayanso ◽  
Kaveepan Lertwachara ◽  
Brian Mokaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Internet Marketing ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Recent Developments

In Internet marketing, organizations leverage the Internet and related technologies to promote themselves, their products, their services, and their brands. In virtually all sectors, recent advances in Web technologies have dramatically changed the nature and volume of Internet marketing. Competition in online advertising is currently very intense as organizations have shifted their focus from print and other traditional advertising media to emails, search engines, and social media outlets for most of their promotional activities. However, due to the growing convergence of digital technologies, distinguishing one form of online marketing from another is becoming increasingly difficult. The current practice shows that there is a significant overlap of technologies as well as activities in most of the online marketing and advertising outlets. This chapter attempts to provide a classification of the major forms of Internet marketing (or online advertising) available, and discuss the key technological trends, practices, and academic research in each area. In particular, the chapter highlights the changing trends in Internet marketing due to recent developments in Web 2.0 and social media technologies.

Information Technologies for Adolescents

2014 ◽  
pp. 202-216
Author(s):  
Lesley Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Access To Technology

Adolescents live in a technology-enhanced world. However, significant subpopulations lack physical and intellectual access to digital technologies. Content and communications providers format and disseminate information in a variety of ways. In response, teens who use technology tend to employ a variety of platforms, choosing the tool to match the content and purpose. Social media has been the technology of choice for teenagers, leveraging their social and creative needs. Educators of teens need to incorporate technology into their practices, providing access and opportunities for teens to optimize their technology use. Today's adolescents, ages 12 to 18, are often characterized as digital natives because many of them have grown up in a digital world. Most of them have some kind of access to technology, although the digital divide still exists. The technologies teens access and use are described in this chapter.

scholarly journals Do pre-service teachers feel ready to teach with digital technologies? A study in two teacher training institutions in Costa Rica

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e11810111436
Author(s):  
Christiane Caneva
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
Academic Year

This study aims to identify both the level and frequency of digital technology use and perceived self-efficacy levels of pre-service teachers (n = 341). We collected data in Costa Rica through a survey during the 2016–2017 academic year; the survey includes closed-ended items on the use and frequency of digital technologies along with open-ended questions. Findings suggest that a majority of pre-service teachers frequently use digital technologies for both professional and private use and specifically the mobile phone and social media. Results further suggest they find themselves self-efficacious in the use of “traditional” digital technologies that are also used in teacher training by professors/teacher trainers such as laptop, email and video. They are less confident in using mobile phones and social media for teaching even though they use them extensively for their professional development.

scholarly journals The Skype paradox

Pragmatics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Harper ◽  
Rod Watson ◽  
Jill Palzkill Woelfer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Media ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Disconnection ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Digital technologies are likely to be appropriated by the homeless just as they are by other segments of society. However, these appropriations will reflect the particularities of their circumstances. What are these appropriations? Are they beneficial or effective? Can Skype, as a case in point, assuage the social disconnection that must be, for many, the experience of being homeless? This paper analyses some evidence about these questions and, in particular, the ways communications media are selected, oriented to and accounted for by the homeless young. Using data from a small corpus of interviews, it examines the specific ways in which choice of communication (face-to-face, social media, or video, etc.), are described by these individuals as elected for tactical and strategic reasons having to do with managing their family relations. These relations are massively important both in terms of how communications media are deployed, and in terms of being one of the sources of the homeless state the young find themselves in. The paper examines some of the methodical ways these issues are articulated and the type of ‘causal facticity’ thereby constituted in interview talk. The paper also remarks on the paradoxical problem that technologies like Skype provide: at once allowing people in the general to communicate but in ways that the homeless young want to resist in the particular. The consequences of this for the shaping of communications technology in the future are remarked upon.

scholarly journals Care of the self in the age of algorithms: Early thoughts from a Foucauldian perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Nguyen Trung Kien
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Ancient Times

Care of the self, according to Michel Foucault, is the practice of coming back to one’s soul and construct the truth of self. While in ancient times, people cared for themselves by writing in hupomnemata, in our modern times, we use social network sites (SNSs) or social media. These digital platforms have provided users with many technological advantages to conduct the online care of self. Sharing a post, posting a status, tweeting a photo or video, replying to a friend’s comments, or revising stories stored in their virtual timeline is one of many self-care acts in a virtual space. However, these advantages of digital technologies accompany with the challenges of losing freedom or being supervized by algorithms whenever individuals engage in social media. This paper tries to answer the question that how modern practices of hupomnemata and care for self, are supported and manipulated by social media’s algorithms. The paper is expected to contribute a new understanding of the self and care for the self in contemporary social media engagement.

scholarly journals The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Use of Digital Technologies by Scientists: A Comparison Between Poland and Abroad

2021 ◽  
Vol 3/2021 (93) ◽  
pp. 12-31
Author(s):  
Jolanta Wartini-Twardowska ◽  
◽  
Dariusz Grabara ◽  
Ewa Wanda Ziemba ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Parametric

Purpose: Our research was performed to identify differences in the frequency of using digital technologies by scientists to support their research in the periods before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic Design/methodology/approach: A survey questionnaire was used and data were collected from 467 scientists from Poland and abroad, which were statistically analyzed. The non-parametric Kruskal–Wallis test was applied to reveal the differences in the frequency of digital technologies use between scientists in Poland and abroad in three periods (before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic). The non-parametric Friedman rank test and the post-hoc Conover test with Benjamini-Hochberg adjustment were used to assess the significant differences between three paired periods: before-during, before-after, and during-after the COVID-19 pandemic. For these periods, the association between the use of digital technologies and the types of research (basic or applied) conducted by scientists in Poland and abroad was also measured using Spearman’s rank correlation. Findings: Scientists from Poland and abroad differed in the use of all digital technologies before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, the differences concerned only social media, owing to a similar increase in the use of both communication applications and e-learning platforms. The results demonstrated that there was a weak positive correlation between the use of all digital technologies and applied research by both groups of scientists for all paired periods. In Poland in particular, our research has confirmed a positive correlation between the use of communication applications and social media and basic research for two paired periods: before-during and during-after the pandemic. Research limitation/implications: The limitations of this study were primarily related to the sample size, which did not allow the results to be generalized to the entire population. Another limitation was that all scientists from outside Poland were assigned to one group, without division into countries or regions of the world. This, however, enabled the research scope to be narrowed and resulted in stressing the differences between Poland and the rest of the world. A further limitation that may affect the research results is the adopted 5-point Likert scale, which determines the possibility of making an analysis. Originality/value: This research contributes to knowledge about the adaptation of scientists in Poland and abroad to new conditions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the frequency of digital technology use in basic and applied research. The significant differences found in the frequency of digital technology use between the three paired periods (before-during, before-after, and during-after the pandemic) have the potential to encourage research into their permanence.

Marketing Meets Social Media

2015 ◽  
pp. 473-500
Author(s):  
Anteneh Ayanso ◽  
Kaveepan Lertwachara ◽  
Brian Mokaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Internet Marketing ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Recent Developments

In Internet marketing, organizations leverage the Internet and related technologies to promote themselves, their products, their services, and their brands. In virtually all sectors, recent advances in Web technologies have dramatically changed the nature and volume of Internet marketing. Competition in online advertising is currently very intense as organizations have shifted their focus from print and other traditional advertising media to emails, search engines, and social media outlets for most of their promotional activities. However, due to the growing convergence of digital technologies, distinguishing one form of online marketing from another is becoming increasingly difficult. The current practice shows that there is a significant overlap of technologies as well as activities in most of the online marketing and advertising outlets. This chapter attempts to provide a classification of the major forms of Internet marketing (or online advertising) available, and discuss the key technological trends, practices, and academic research in each area. In particular, the chapter highlights the changing trends in Internet marketing due to recent developments in Web 2.0 and social media technologies.

Potential of digital technologies in academic entrepreneurship – a study

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1449-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Yaa Saah Oppong ◽  
Saumya Singh ◽  
Fedric Kujur
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurs ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Main Challenge

PurposeDigital technologies have become indispensable in businesses and are gaining attention in academic institutions context too. Digital technological ecosystems provide a platform to communicate and share their products and services to existing and potential customers. Entrepreneurial startups and companies face internal and external challenges utilizing social media technologies to commercialize their business ideas. The purpose of this paper is to identify opportunities and challenges faced by academic entrepreneurs' startups.Design/methodology/approachThis research has adopted a qualitative approach comprising of semi-structured in-depth interviews with academic entrepreneurs’ startups to find the main challenge they face using social media platforms. The purpose was associated with an exploratory type of study and also included a prominent unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and technological opportunism (TO) model. The research respondents were 23 academic entrepreneurs startups who were chosen applying purposive sampling. Respondents were given a set of a questionnaire consisting of close-ended questions that are five-point Likert scale. The questionnaire included various parameters to measure the social media challenges the academic entrepreneurs’ startups undergo in the initial phase of their businesses.FindingsThe study identified that business-to-customer relations, brand, reputation, competition and cultural and language influence digital technologies entrepreneurship. While, the findings discovered the extended research model has a positive influence on academic entrepreneurs' intentions to use digital technologies media platforms. The outcome of this paper has thrown more light on which issues are there in digital technologies entrepreneurship, the determinants and actual usage advantages from UTAUT model and TO model that could be properly employed to solve issues of digital technologies media platforms and the potential concerning the adoption and use of digital technologies.Originality/valueThe study of academic entrepreneurs' startups can be considered original in nature. There is dearth of standard literature in the upcoming area of academic entrepreneurship. Governments are taking initiatives to promote academic entrepreneurs' startups, and the findings will be able to give them a right direction.

Message Send Failure: Site-Unspecificity in Plant Theater’s Dreams of Riley’s Friends; or, Why Won’t Riley Respond to My Texts?

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Site Specificity ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Failure Site

The choices audiences make in “self-scheduled” smartphone plays inevitably inform their experiences. How does the lack of site-specificity in these works that take place exclusively through mobile technologies enable a greater sense of intimacy between dis-placed actor and audience? And how do these plays challenge the self-surveillance mechanisms embedded within social media technologies, even as they exploit them?

The Politics of Merely Following: Witnessing AIDS on Instagram

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482096138
Author(s):  
Hollis Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site

Using an illustrative sample of posts to an Instagram account devoted to commemorating lives lost to AIDS, this article articulates a less-than-intense form of engagement with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) politics on social media. Merely following particular accounts on social media networks enables an encounter with an Other that is shaped by the affordances of digital technologies and the specificities of particular platforms. A site of political engagement that is further contoured by hierarchies of sex, race, and gender, @theaidsmemorial offers evidence of user experiences that are less focused and intentional than those typically associated with progressive sexual politics. Nevertheless, the author argues that they are meaningful because of how they expose users to bodies, lives, and desires they may not encounter if not for social media.

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