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Online communities play an important role in spreading public discontent and could contribute to polarization. This study focuses on anti-vaccination views in the Netherlands, which have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined the structure and development of five Dutch anti-vaccination Telegram groups and studied their interactivity and posting behaviour. Using group-based trajectory modelling, we examined the development of users' posting behaviour in these groups. We find four posting trajectories across all five groups. A small group of users contributes the majority of posts. Overall, posting frequency declines over time and our results do not show evidence for a group of users whose posting frequency increases. This is taken to indicate that only a small group of users spread their anti-vaccination views through Telegram groups. While social media can reach a broad audience, most users are not necessarily engaged to also actively contribute to the online anti-vaccination community.

'Tethered Fates' explores the challenge of safeguarding economic rights beyond the factory floor in global supply chains. Drawing on a 7000-company database, it maps trends in company-community interaction through 'stakeholder dialogue.' It features grassroots perspectives from two manufacturing communities in the Dominican Republic, and assesses emerging policy alternatives globally.

This article analyzes the discourse operations deployed by Argentine Internet users in the controversy about the expropriation of Repsol YPF's shares that took place in 2012. The debate had an important developement in the most popular social networks of the moment: Facebook and Twitter. In this case, I specifically consider the resources with which users express empathy or rejection towards the Government's decision. The participant´s strategies link the voice of the citizens with the word of the leaders and tend to consolidate or to undermine a particular type of collective political - fleeting, passionate, unstable-: online communities. ; En este artículo me propongo analizar las operaciones discursivas de los internautas argentinos en la polémica suscitada en torno a la expropiación parcial de las acciones de Repsol YPF en 2012. El debate en torno a la medida tuvo un capítulo importante en las redes sociales más populares del momento: Faceboook y Twitter. En este caso, se hará hincapié en el tipo de recursos que la escritura de los internautas despliega para expresar la adhesión o el rechazo a la medida gubernamental. Las estrategias que se ponen en juego enlazan la voz de los enunciadores con la palabra de los dirigentes y tienden a consolidar o a poner en cuestión un tipo particular de colectivos políticos –fugaces, apasionados, inestables–: las comunidades online. s

This article analyzes the discourse operations deployed by Argentine Internet users in the controversy about the expropriation of Repsol YPF's shares that took place in 2012. The debate had an important developement in the most popular social networks of the moment: Facebook and Twitter. In this case, I specifically consider the resources with which users express empathy or rejection towards the Government's decision. The participant´s strategies link the voice of the citizens with the word of the leaders and tend to consolidate or to undermine a particular type of collective political - fleeting, passionate, unstable-: online communities. ; En este artículo me propongo analizar las operaciones discursivas de los internautas argentinos en la polémica suscitada en torno a la expropiación parcial de las acciones de Repsol YPF en 2012. El debate en torno a la medida tuvo un capítulo importante en las redes sociales más populares del momento: Faceboook y Twitter. En este caso, se hará hincapié en el tipo de recursos que la escritura de los internautas despliega para expresar la adhesión o el rechazo a la medida gubernamental. Las estrategias que se ponen en juego enlazan la voz de los enunciadores con la palabra de los dirigentes y tienden a consolidar o a poner en cuestión un tipo particular de colectivos políticos –fugaces, apasionados, inestables–: las comunidades online. s

In an analysis of the intersection of media and politics through the increased presence of social bots on social media platforms like Twitter, it becomes evident that years before internet bots were used for geopolitical cyberconflict, fan communities online were already subject to these forces in driving user engagement for music brands and celebrities. Fan scholars must interrogate the presence of these bot networks for their impact on online fan cultural activity.

Suggestions that the internet has facilitated existing trends towards the increasing disconnection of individuals from substantive communities have been balanced by a variety of empirical case studies demonstrating significant communal features on some online discussion forums. While recognizing the role of discussion forums in facilitating community, this article seeks to shift the focus of debate towards the rapidly increasing use of online journal style web logs (`blogs') as a form of social interaction. Ostensibly centred upon the individual rather than the group, yet increasingly interactive and socially oriented, interactive online journals appear particularly consistent with the notion of individualistic rather than group-centred patterns of sociability. The article explores this possibility in relation to case study research focused on the recent take-up of online journals by a group of individuals who previously participated in discussion forums associated with a music and fashion subculture known as the `goth' scene.

Archaeological remote sensing: some community engagement in Ireland / Kevin Barton and Daniel Curley -- Online maker communities: craft and new spaces of engagement with cultural heritage / Amalia Sabiescu, Martin Woolley, Catherine Cummings, Janine Prins, and Neil Forbes -- The Limerick Dance Halls project: the charm of discreet technology / Gabriela Avram -- Towards user engagement models for citizen science: initiatives in the digital cultural heritage domain / Edel Jennings, Milena Dobreva, and Anna Devreni-Koutsouki -- Challenges in designing cultural heritage crowdsourcing: tools with indigenous communities / Colin Stanley, Daniel G. Cabrero, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, and Edwin Blake -- How to get small museums involved in digital innovation: a design-inclusive research approach / Arnold P.O.S. Vermeeren and Licia Calvi -- Emotional connections with the past: exploring engagement with historical images from an online museum collection / Tom Wrigglesworth and Leon Watts -- Artcasting, mobilities, and inventiveness: engaging with new approaches to arts evaluation / Jen Ross, Claire Sowton, Jeremy Knox, and Chris Speed -- Challenging political agendas through indigenous media: -- Hawai'i and the promotion and protection of cultural heritage through the use of social media / Susan Shay -- War at your doorstep: supporting communities discovering their local history via interactive technology / Anna Pisetti, Elena Not and Daniela Petrelli.

Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices – computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables – affect nearly all aspects of social life. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new forms of digital life, such as political participation through comments on East Greenlandic news blogs, the personal use of video broadcasting applications, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on global conflicts. ; Sarah Pink: Foreword Urte Undine Frömming et al.: Digital Environments and the Future of Ethnography. An Introduction Part 1: Digital Communities and the Re-Creation of the Self and Social Relationships Online Jóhanna Björk Sveinbjörnsdóttir: A Comment on East Greenland Online. Media Commenting Systems as Spaces for Public Debate with a Focus on East Greenland in the Greenlandic Media Brigitte Borm: Welcome Home. An Ethnography on the Experiences of Airbnb Hosts in Commodifying Their Homes Juan Francisco Riumalló Grüzmacher: How has the Internet Determined the Identity of Chilean Gay Men in the Last Twenty Years? Xiaojing Ji: Red Packets in the Real and Virtual Worlds. How Multi-Function WeChat Influences Chinese Virtual Relationships Jie Liang Lin: Antifeminism Online. MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) Jonas Blume: Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Virtual Distribution of Contemporary Art Olivier Llouquet: Blind and Online. An Ethnographic Perspective on Everyday Participation Within Blind and Visually Impaired Online Communities Ellen Lapper: How Has Social Media Changed the Way We Grieve? Dario Bosio: Watch Me, I'm Live. Periscope and the "New-Individualistic" Need for Attention Part 2: Political digital Environments and Activism Online Gretchen Faust: Hair, Blood and the Nipple. Instagram Censorship and the Female Body Teresa Tiburcio Jiménez: Berlin. Wie bitte? An Exploration of the Construction of Online Platforms for the Mutual Support of Young Spanish Immigrants in Berlin Suzanne Beukes: An Exploration of the Role of Twitter in the Discourse Around Race in South Africa. Using the #Feesmustfall Movement as a Pivot for Discussion Sara Wiederkehr González: Migration, Political Art and Digitalization Veera Helena Pitkäne: "You're Not Left Thinking That You're The Only Gay in the Village". The Role of the Facebook Group: Seksualiti Merdeka in the Malaysian LGBT Community Karly Domb Sadof: Finding a Visual Voice. The #Euromaidan Impact on Ukrainian Instagram Users Joanna Sleigh: Google A Religion. Expanding Notions of Religion Online

The term "Inclusive Communities" has increasingly featured in recent years, at policy, practice and theoretical levels, drawing from different disciplinary standpoints. Much of this has been spurred by efforts at understanding the exclusions confronted by certain populations, to develop the notion of and mechanisms by which communities can include those who are marginalised and/or oppressed, and in some contexts to 'bring back' community as something real or imagined. In spite of this, this deceptive term remains shrouded in epistemological darkness, conveniently endorsed but often little theorised and less understood. This text provides an exciting introductory textbook, drawing academics, policy makers and activists from various fields to theorise, create new and innovative conceptual platforms and develop further the hybrid idea of inclusive communities

In 2019–2020, the COVID threat has changed ordinary life in many countries, including Russia. The fear of epidemic has affected people's condition and caused anxiety. Many people have found themselves isolated, unable to leave their homes and go to work, which further increased tensions. Those minors, who were shifted to distance learning format and forced to stay at home, also felt vulnerable. The specialists of the "helpline" note growing number of calls, including those related to family and child-parental conflicts. The author organized a series of expert webinars, where the features of restorative practices and online mediation were discussed. The participants were practicing mediators, restorative justice specialists, children's helpline psychologists, members of the All-Russian Association for Restorative Mediation, and other specialists from Russia, Latvia and Ukraine. The results of these discussions have formed this research. The most important result is that when it is impossible to use the means of face-to-face communication, then the mediator (facilitator) needs to develop and master other methods and techniques for successful communication management, as well as trust and sincerity between the participants. Let us imagine it in a way: an author of a fiction book and a director of a film based on the same book will use different means to convey its meaning and states of the participants, but in the book through descriptions, and in the film through music and other cinematographic techniques, there will be a single content and the essence of the work. The ideas and recommendations for online mediation described here can be useful not only for the isolation period, but also when working with those people who are difficult to access directly. For example, for those who live in closed institutions: hospitals, specialized educational institutions, temporary detention centers, penal institutions with remote location without an opportunity to come to a meeting, homeschooled students and their parents, if the parties do not want to communicate in direct contact with the members of network communities, etc. Moreover, Russia has already such experience and it needs to be expanded further

This paper critically engages with a pervasive myth about welfare in the UK which is commonly spread by politicians, think tanks and the media. This is the myth that there are areas of the country which are so affected by entrenched cultures of 'welfare dependency' that the majority of residents are unemployed. In undertaking research that sought to investigate a different idea - that there are families where no-one has worked over several generations - we simultaneously gathered evidence about the likelihood that there are localities where virtually no-one is in employment. The rationale for Channel 4's Benefits Street was exactly this; that whole streets and neighbourhoods are of out of work and living on welfare benefits. We draw on research evidence gathered in Middlesbrough and Glasgow to investigate this idea. Thus, the aim of our paper is simple and empirical: is the central idea of 'Benefits Street' true? Are there streets and neighbourhoods in the UK where virtually no-one works?