The 9/11 terror attacks and the ensuing War on Terror have profoundly impacted Muslim communities across North America. Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Racism through the Lived Experiences of Muslim Youth is a timely exploration of the experiences of young Canadian Muslims and the challenges they have encountered since 9/11. Through framing anti-Muslim racism, or 'Islamophobia', from a critical race perspective, Naved Bakali theorizes how racist treatment of Muslims in public and political spheres has been mediated through the War on Terror. Furthermore, he examines the lived experiences of Muslim youth as they navigate issues relating to race, gender, identity, and politics in their schools and broader society. This book uncovers systemic bias and racism experienced by Muslim youth in a climate that is increasingly becoming hostile towards Muslims. Ultimately, the findings detailed in this work suggest that anti-Muslim racism in the post-9/11 era is inextricably linked to the effects of the War on Terror in the North American context. Moreover, Islamophobia is also impacted by localized practices, policies, and nationalist debates. This book is a unique contribution to the field of anti-racism education as it examines systemic and institutionalized racism towards Muslims in Canadian secondary schools in the context of the War on Terror
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The paper discusses some concepts, trends, and deficits in recent media history, and it makes a plea for a history of communication to implement media into a broader conception of social history. Therefore, we employ a wider notion of mediatization which is used in media and communication studies, and re-formulate it for historical research. On the basis of that notion, we introduce the theoretical concept of 'communicative figurations' which an interdisciplinary research group in Bremen and Hamburg developed to ask how changing media environments and ensembles interrelate with societal and political transformations. In transferring it in research on imagined communities in times of analogue media, the paper presents some early insights into an on-going project and pursues questions about the communicative construction of collectivities.
The theme and scope of EDEN's RW11 intends to reflect the current challenges researchers face regarding the impact of the emerging digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence in the improvement of the quality and the sustainability of the human learning experience. The capability of generating, processing and managing more data and information than ever before during the teaching and learning process allows teachers as well as learners to be more in control. They can make better and more on the spot decisions on more elaborate and valid information, track learning performance more accurately and thoroughly, anticipate problems more astutely and act accordingly, collect more learning evidence, as well as assess and credit more transparently. In short, they can shape together their teaching and learning experiences more efficiently and collaboratively. By upscaling and accelerating the adoption of distance and online education across the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of rethinking the educational process as an integral part of authentic digital life experience for its main actors. In this massive collective experience of change, the role of the educational institutions, teachers, learners, their families and communities is rapidly transforming. As a result, new challenges for researchers have emerged that need to be addressed. How to assure truly equitable and socially fair access to digital learning opportunities? How to conduct effective online learning in non-adult populations? How to improve teachers' and learners' digital competences for teaching and learning? How may AI and machine learning contribute to enhancing the education process and making it more flexible and personal? How can we conduct more authentic and reliable digital assessment? On the other hand, what are the ethical implications of the use of these digital technologies? How should learning processes be designed to contribute to the learners' well-being and mental health? How should quality of online learning provision be assured? These and many other questions have been emerging within the specialised research community. A community which is itself experiencing a process of expansion due to the growing interest in the field ; Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
In the article the specifics of work of 10 Dnipro news web-sites is analyzed. That is, online media resources that cover local events. This news is about the city life, communities and the region on the whole. They focus on the local events, important issues, and solutions. That is why every citizen can easily understand them. However, the main news is about local life. These sites may also write about nationwide events that affect all Ukrainians or most at least most of them. The purpose of the scientific work is to analyze the features of 10 rating web-sites of Dnipro. The scientific novelty of the publication is a comprehensive study of the activities of the Dnipro web-sites. Also, the analysis of their features, main topics, principles of work with the audience, political interests and control of information are under study. The study was conducted using two methods: comparative and analysis. The first one was to find distinct and similar features between the web-sites, including the main design, the average daily amount of news, their uniqueness, political objectivity and sources of information. The second method was to study the individual elements of the sites, to then have all the data analyzed and to create a complete picture of the work of news sites of Dnipro. The study found that such online resources, in spite of being local, do not have a single concept of "local" or "regional" ones. After all, the resonant information that is on the sites may be of interest to people from other regions or even countries. There is no classification for "urban", "local" or "regional". The article helps to understand what the specifics of each site of Dnipro is in more detail. It answers the main questions: "Where do the sites get information from?", "How true is it?", "How long do readers spend time online?", "For whose benefit is the news?" and "How do promotional articles turn into events?". Among the important features of the site is the ability to adapt to the interests of the audience. It is estimated that such ...
Violence is complex both in its origins and in its solutions (Gilligan, 1999). It takes manyf orms (Lee, 2019) and can be directed towards oneself, towards others, or perpetrated collectively by a group of individuals towards others (Dahlberg and Krug, 2002). As Spring2021 came to Northern Ireland, the streets of some communities were marred by collective violence. Unusually for riots, these appeared to be structured and coherently organised (Dela Roche, 1996). Scenes of young people throwing bricks and petrol bombs at police were circulated online, as well as through international media. The story of escalating community tensions was reported in the Guardian, Euronews and Al Jazeera. Time Magazine posed the question, 'Is Northern Ireland experiencing the worst violence in years?' In terms of mobilisation, it certainly was the most destructive in recent times. After seven nights of rioting, eighty-eight police officers were injured and several communities were left with significant damage to property (Cross and Rutherford, 2021). As tends to be the case in any conflict, youth are often at disproportional risk of being the perpetrators of violence in addition to being more likely to be the victim of violence (Walsh and Schubotz, 2020). During these Spring riots, it was reported that children as young aseight were actively involved in some of the most violent disturbances. In response, the Commissioner for Children and Young People for Northern Ireland publicly claimed that organised criminals, operating through paramilitary structures were coercing and criminally exploiting young people to engage in the violence (McLafferty, 2021). A few months later, the office of the Commissioner published a government advice paper on the issue of criminal exploitation calling for a whole government approach (NICCY, 2021). The riots took place in largely "loyalist areas" and where communities interfaced. In one of the most well documented interfaces known as the 'brick fields', the predominantly loyalist Shankill Road erupted and the concrete 'peace wall' that separates it from the nationalist Springfield Road was shut. The aesthetics were powerful. Images of the interface showed groups of what appeared to be mostly young people masked and armed with projectiles. Maybe the most striking as well as memorable image, was the public bus that was hijacked and set alight. Against the darkness of the night, the fire illuminated the concrete barrier separating the two communities.
The relationship between scholars and practitioners is a continuing source of concern to both communities. Each side complains about the insularity of the other and routinely points to gaps that separate them. Alexander George and other scholars found weak interest and lackluster capacity on the part of academy-based social scientists to contribute knowledge deemed useful to the policy community (George 1993; Nincic and Lepgold 2000). For their part, leading policy practitioners have bitterly complained about what they see as the growing irrelevance of scholarly work to the design and conduct of statecraft (Newsom 1995–1996).
AbstractWeb 2.0 has heralded a networked, participatory and conversational culture reaching beyond national borders and cultures, reshaping communicational hierarchies and thus creating a new set of communicative rules. Web 2.0 offers political actors a potentially effective means of building a relationship with activists, supporters and possibly floating voters. The cost, however, is that the interactive nature of these technologies requires some loss of control of political discourse. Election campaigning tends to be synonymous with top‐down, persuasive and propaganda‐style communication which aims to win the support of voters crucial for the victory of a candidate or party. While this remains as the dominant paradigm for understanding campaigns, the use of Web 2.0 tools, features and platforms challenges this notion. Emerging in 2005, Web 2.0 ushered in a networked, participatory culture to be observed online with tools facilitating asynchronous or symmetrical conversations to take place within a variety of online environments. This participatory and conversational culture, like the Internet itself, reaches beyond national borders and cultures, reshaping communicational hierarchies, thus creating a new set of communicative rules. Web 2.0 applications raise significant questions for political parties and individual candidates in terms of how they might use the Internet for building relationships with activists, supporters and possibly floating voters. Through the systematic measurement of the usage of Web 2.0 tools, features and platforms—embedded within or linked to—from the websites of six UK parties we analyse the use of the Internet, and in particular Web 2.0 tools, features and platforms, during the 2010 general election in the UK. We find that differing strategies emerge between parties, with some withdrawing from interactive feature use. Where Web 2.0 features are employed they are largely within discrete areas aimed at building contact with communities of supporters, but largely these are geared towards electoral objectives and not harnessing the collective wisdom of party networks to inform policy. Election campaigning tends to be synonymous with top‐down, persuasive and propaganda‐style communication which aims to win the support of voters crucial for the victory of a candidate or party. While this remains as the dominant paradigm for understanding campaigns, the use of Web 2.0 tools, features and platforms challenges this notion. Emerging in 2005, Web 2.0 has heralded a networked, participatory culture to be observed online with tools facilitating asynchronous or symmetrical conversations to take place within a variety of online environments. This participatory and conversational culture, like the Internet itself, reaches beyond national borders and cultures, reshapes communicational hierarchies, so creating a new set of communicative rules. Web 2.0 applications raises significant questions for political parties and individual candidates in terms of how they might use the Internet for building relationships with activists, supporters and possibly floating voters. Through the systematic measurement of the usage of Web 2.0 tools, features and platforms embedded within or linked to from six party websites we analyse the use of the Internet, and in particular Web 2.0 tools, features and platforms, during the general election in the UK 2010. We find differing strategies emerge between parties, with some withdrawing from interactive feature use. Where Web 2.0 features are employed they are largely within discrete areas aimed at building contact with communities of supporters, but largely these are geared towards electoral objectives and not harnessing the collective wisdom of party networks to inform policy.
"My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their hangouts and parties, and online to show how they use their connections to secure the care and support that adults in their lives can't give. Friendships among young people in poor, urban communities are often framed as 'risky'--sources of peer pressure and conflict. In a new, positive take that reveals the primacy of phones and social media in contemporary friendships, Sandelson demonstrates how girls look to one another to battle boredom, strengthen self-esteem, and process trauma and grief. This illuminating study--one of the first to combine digital and in-person fieldwork--blends firsthand stories with tweets, Snaps, and Instagram and Facebook posts. My Girls places young women of color at the center of their own stories to illuminate the worlds of love and care they create"--
Chapter 1: Introduction: Defining the Digital in Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research -- SECTION I: (NEW) DIMENSIONS IN TESTIMONY -- Chapter 2: Virtually Part of the Family: The Last Goodbye and Digital Holocaust Witnessing -- Chapter 3: Realms of Digital Memory: Methodological Approaches to 360° Testimony on Location -- Chapter 4: The Production of German and Russian-Language Interactive Biographies: (Trans)National Holocaust Memory between the Broadcast and Hyperconnective Ages -- SECTION II: (WEB)SITES OF MEMORY -- Chapter 5: MEMOZE: Memory Places, Memory Spaces: 'Glocal' Holocaust Education through an Online Research Portal -- Chapter 6: Visualising Evidence and Landscapes of Atrocities: An Ethical Perspective -- Chapter 7: Active Learning in Digital Heritage: Introducing Geolocalisation, VR and AR at Holocaust Historical Sites -- SECTION III (VIRTUAL) MEMORY COMMUNITIES -- Chapter 8 Becoming the 'Holocaust Police'? The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum's Authority on Social Media -- Chapter 9 i-Memory: Selfies and Self-Witnessing in #Uploading_Holocaust (2016) -- Chapter 10 Playing Pretend on Social Media -- Chapter 11 AFTERWORD: Digital Holocaust Memory Futures: Through Paradigms of Immersion and Interactivity and Beyond.
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San Juan queer : mobile apps, urban spaces, and LGBTQ identities / Regner Ramos -- A kindr Grindr : moderating race(ism) in techno-spaces of desire / Sharif Mowlabocus -- Learning to become an extremophile : trans symbiosis and survival in Berlin / Ged Ribas-Goody -- Fluid territories : intersectional subjectivities through hereditary and digital spaces / Mabia Camargo and Eduardo Martins -- Queer infrastructures : LGBTQ networks and urban governance in global London / Ben Campkin -- Digital dogma : relating the manifestations of religion online to the practices and experiences of Arab MSMs / Khaliden Alsaleh -- The carceral feminism of SESTA-FOSTA : reproducing spaces of exclusion from IRL to URL / Jody Liu -- Queering the map : on designing digital queer space / Lucas LaRochelle -- Transformismo : a spatial, cultural, and racial intervention in Chicago's Queer and Latinx communities / Liliana Macias -- Communicating 'race' in a digitized gay China / Tianyang Oscar Zhou -- The Kenwood ladies' bathing pond : instrumentalizing spatial imaginaries in the 'trans debate' in Britain / Lo Marshall -- Hear, here : preserving and sharing the history of queer stories in La Crosse, Wisconsin / Ariel Beaujot and Víctor M. Macías-González.
This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, this book examines how a technological evolution-the increased relevance of social media platforms-affected in very different ways organisations with divergent characteristics, promoting at the same time decentralised communication practices, and new ways of coordinating dispersed communities of people. Matteo Cernison combines and adapts a wide set of methods, from social network analysis to digital ethnography, in order to explore in detail how digital activism and face-to-face initiatives interact and overlap. He argues that the geographical scale of actions, the role played by external media professionals, and the activists' perceptions of digital technologies are key elements that contribute in a significant way to shape the very different communication practices often described as online activism.
"This open access volume is about how to research the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spreading of various technical communication media such as mobile phone and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are involved in. The first part of the book outlines a fundamental understanding of the changing media environment of deep mediatization and its transformative capacity. The second part focuses on collectivities and movements: communities in the city, critical social movements, maker, online gaming groups and networked groups of young people. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives"--Back cover
This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are involved in. The first part of the book outlines a fundamental understanding of the changing media environment of deep mediatization and its transformative capacity. The second part focuses on collectivities and movements: communities in the city, critical social movements, maker, online gaming groups and networked groups of young people. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives.
"Excess nutrients are a pervasive problem of streams, lakes, and coastal waters. The current report, "The Quality of our Nation's Waters--Understanding the Effects of Nutrients on Stream Ecosystems in Agricultural Landscapes," presents a summary of results from USGS investigations conducted from 2003 to 2011 on processes that influence nutrients and how nutrient enrichment can alter biological components of agricultural streams. This study included collecting data from 232 sites distributed among eight study areas. This report summarizes findings on processes that influence nutrients and how nutrient enrichment can alter biological communities in agricultural streams. These findings are relevant to local, state, regional, and national decision-makers involved in efforts to (1) better understand the influence of nutrients on agricultural streams, (2) develop nutrient criteria for streams and rivers, (3) reduce nutrients to streams and downstream receiving waters, and (4) develop tools for tracking nutrient and biological conditions following nutrient reduction strategies. All NAWQA reports are available online at https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/bib/" --Provided by publisher
