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CORNETTA, DENISE ELENA. "Studio dei fattori che possono aumentare il senso di comunità e la collaborazione in contesti di comunità locali urbane: il ruolo dei social media basati sul Web." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/96101.
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The PhD thesis regards the study of the factors that can make vertical social media Web applications that are capable of supporting the communication, the collaboration and generally speaking the practices that constitute communities of place that are circumscribed in the urban context, such as zone associations, inhabitants of single neighborhoods and residents of the same condos. In order to study these factors we adopted a purposely multi-disciplinary approach that leveraged contributions from different but complementary disciplines like the sociology of communities and urban sociology, psychology of groups and communities, and the design sciences, especially those that are applied to the analysis, development and experimentation of interactive systems, that are usable as Web applications. This approach has led to the adoption of various techniques of qualitative research: the psychometric questionnaire, the semi-structured interview, the focus group and the action research. The research has been undertaken in collaboration and in parallel with the activities of a research team within the computer science department of the University of Milano-Bicocca. This has allowed for the mutual influence between our research and the development activities and for our concrete contribution to the incremental development of a number of modules that over time have been collected in the technological project dubbed "condiviviamo" on the Drupal content management platform. Our research has given the high level principles and some interaction requirements for the development of those modules and has also provided a feedback o the easiness of adoption of computational tools supporting community life also by lay people. In regard to the high level principles it resulted clear that the dominant model of messaging and user-driven content production, which is typical of social platforms of large diffusion and worldwide success should be flanked by more convivial tools, that is tools aimed at enabling, supporting and facilitating the establishment and management of activities to be carried out outside the virtual world and therefore in the reference territory of the community of place. This means to design systems with a particular care for the collaborative and cooperative element that could be capable to help citizens to reach common goals such as: to improve security and urban cleanliness, resolve small conflicts between neighbors, to help each other and exchange useful tools, save money with ethical and collective purchasing groups. This element has been identified as the main one that allow the people involved as members of a community of place to get a better mutual knowledge and acquaintance and therefore understand how to complement their skills, competencies and interests, so to improve the common life and place, without having to depend on the help of the authorities and of the formal public institutions. This awareness and the process of reciprocal acquaintance have been found to be the most important factors for the success and the continuous growth and evolution of local communities and elements that can improve and develop themselves further with the informed, aware and well-directed use of the new media and ICT, even outside the systems that are ingrained in the market economy and the capitalistic model of interpersonal relations and that, as such, can weaken conviviality of new social groups confronting the challenges of the increasing migration, the population aging, the disruption of the traditional family and the pervasiveness of technologies of the continuous monitoring and surreptitious control.
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MARINI, MARIA ELISA. "Social Media & Place Making." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/943923.
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My research addresses the intersection of two concepts: urban transformation and place making. Firstly, concerning Urban transformation, there is the crisis of the city that has created vacant and underused spaces. These areas invite interventions from the local communities and bottom-up solutions to real, local and social problems. Secondly, regarding the relation between people and surroundings, I consider place making that is a process intrinsically connected with socio-spatial relations of a community. In my thesis digital transformation is the interpretation key of the two concepts, technologies, new media and the increased interaction between local actors. The aim of this project is to verify the role of internet technology and social media in the process of place making. As part of the study there will be an interrogation about the social media: how digital networks changed the relations of space with the general public?
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Davies, Rodrigo. "Civic crowdfunding : participatory communities, entrepreneurs and the political economy of place." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89954.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Crowdfunding, the raising of capital from a large and diverse pool of donors via online platforms, has grown exponentially in the past five years, spurred by the rise of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. While legislative attention in the US has turned to the potential to use crowdfunding as a means of raising capital for companies, less attention has been paid to the use of crowdfunding for civic projects - projects involving either directly or indirectly, the use of government funds, assets or sponsorship, which may include the development of public assets. This project analyzes the subgenre of civic crowdfunding from three perspectives. First, it provides a comprehensive quantitative overview of the subgenre of civic crowdfunding, its most common project types and its geographic distribution. Second, it describes three edge cases, projects that, while uncommon, demonstrate the current limits, aspirations and potential future path of the subgenre. Third, it analyzes the historical and intellectual paradigms within which civic crowdfunding projects and platforms are operating: whether they are best located within the historical context of community fundraising, participatory planning, entrepreneurial culture or a combination of the three. In addressing these questions, the thesis will explore the potential benefits and challenges of using crowdfunding as a means of executing community-oriented projects in the built environment, and offer proposals for how public and non-profit institutions can engage with crowdfunding to realize civic outcomes.
by Rodrigo Davies.
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Jaber, Julia, and Gabriella Lundvall. "Social media marketing - An insight on companies’ brand communities on social media." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-31257.
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Sorensen, Anne. "Social media for social good: Value creation in social media based cause brand communities." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91391/4/Anne%20Sorensen%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis presents a case study of value creation in the social media based brand communities of two Australian cause organisations. It improves understanding of how value is created in this increasingly important environment by examining participants' posts and practices, organisational strategies and supporters' perceptions of value creation. The thesis shows that while value creation is complex, value is generated for supporters and organisations alike, and positively influences the outcomes for recipients of the vital services provided by the cause organisations. Value creation in this context thus manifests social good for supporters, service recipients and society at large.
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Qian, Xiao. "Structuring place experience using social media data." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44954/.
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Under the influence of place marketing, the aim of this study is to provide a new perspective on ‘place experience’, and encourage urban designers to focus more on place experience creation. An innovative approach named ‘people-generated image study’ is adopted to examine the theoretical perspective. Based on a combination of place marketing perspectives and urban design theory, this study considers place experience as a way of transferring specific place knowledge. As a product the place experience can be decomposed into four components containing different types of information, and as a process it can be divided into four steps where each step represents an information delivery. The four steps include defining the theme, setting the event, designing the stage and examining the emotions. Basically, the theme is presented as a story told in a variety of interrelated events on a particular stage. And following the emotion analysis, urban designers can identify the elements that should be preserved and enhanced, and the elements should be removed or replaced. In practice, place experience is obtained with different narratives in different kinds of urban space. Paths, including lanes, alleys, streets, and avenues, provide space for ‘rise’, which is comprised of a group of scenes showing an enlargement both in form and content. Portals, as the point of shift from path to place, are used to display the ‘preview’ of the places, exhibiting the most important characteristics of the ‘climax’. Places, including squares, gardens, and parks, service the ‘climax’, portraying the most dramatic moments of the whole narrative. In order to examine the theoretical perspective with an empirical case study, this research adopts people-generated image and then develops an innovative approach combining content analysis with image analysis to analyse the data. Instagram was selected to be the primary digital source for data collection, providing over 3.5 million pieces of data to case studies. Three advanced analytical tools are selected and employed, which include ArcGIS, IBM SPSS Modeler, and Cultural Analytics tools. The data sources involve photographic, text and geo-data. ArcGIS is used to narrow down the acquired data based on the analysis of geographic aggregation. IBM SPSS Modeler provides platform and tools to perform content analysis on textual information. Cultural Analytics tools are used to conduct a descriptive analysis on massive image data. The multiple case study is conducted in two Chinese cities, Beijing and Shanghai. Four precincts are selected, including Nanluoguxiang, Tianzifang, Sanlitun Village and Xintiandi, due to their high popularity amongst Instagram users. The comparative study of Nanluoguxiang and Tianzifang is designed to examine the theoretical framework for creating themed place experiences. And the analysis of Sanlitun Village and Xintiandi aims to evaluate the implementation of the framework in three kinds of urban space. A series of suggestions are ultimately proposed. This study brings a new perspective from the discipline of marketing to urban design, persuading urban designers to refresh their understanding of place experience and their skills in creating a specific experience for people. Besides, this study also develops an innovative approach to place experience studies, which will have great potential for application in the near future. However, there are several technical limitations in this study, which concerns the quantitative analysis of people-generated data. This will be the main direction for future research.
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Durrant, Marie Bradshaw. "Communities, Place, and Conservation on Mount Kilimanjaro." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd486.PDF.
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Danyarov, Elvin, and Oscar Smart. "Facebook and Fan Communities : Basketball Clubs’ Social Media Strategies." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-104431.
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The research examines and explores the differences and similarities between how the social media platform of Facebook is used in the context of the basketball industry. The research centers on the respective Finnish and Swedish basketball leagues. More precisely, the study scrutinizes nine basketball teams social media representatives – four Finnish and five Swedish – perceptions on how their respective sport clubs act on the medium of Facebook, through the use of relevant marketing theories. “How do Swedish and Finnish basketball clubs manage their brands and fan clubs on Facebook?” In the recent years sport marketing has been researched extensively, however the research on sport marketing has focused solely on more established sport leagues (e.g. National Basketball Association, Premier League among other bigger leagues). The major emphasis in sport marketing has been on bigger leagues; this research focuses on the smaller and less established leagues of Finland and Sweden. There is a limited or no literature to be found of sport marketing, which specifically focuses on smaller national leagues. Additionally, the study adds knowledge to a relatively new and evolved way of marketing. Social media marketing research is at its infantry stage, at least when considering research done in more traditional marketing, thus the research could add knowledge to this young marketing sphere. The study is based on a social constructivist approach, where the social actor creates reality. The teams’ social media representatives had their own unique interpretations of team’s actions on the social media platform of Facebook. Moreover, the primarily reason for the study was to create understanding of the perceptional Facebook practices used by two countries basketball teams. The main research question was divided into three research objectives to get more accurate results. Relevant theories of branding and customer relationship management, where emphasis is on relationship marketing, were used to answer the three more specific research objectives. More specifically the theory of relationship marketing is used to identify the teams’ relationship management practices on the social media platform of Facebook and the theory of brand equity was used to understand how the teams’ build their brand image on the medium. Additionally, appropriate organizational definitions are used to recognize the underlying reasons why the sample teams are motivated to use the platform of Facebook. The results indicated that there were both similarities inside the examined country’s teams’ perceptions of Facebook activities and differences between these perceptional practices. However, the differences were of a lessening degree than similarities. Similarly, the country comparison showed that there were only minor differences between Facebook practices used by two countries’ club practices. The study gives a sound general view of smaller and less established sport league teams, thus the study could give a good foundation for further studies on other smaller and less established countries sport league clubs. Furthermore, it could also be used as a building block for a more extensive study, where perceptions of multiple club key stakeholders could be compared with each other to find similarities and differences between their perceptions gaps.
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BARBOSA, ROBERTA DA SILVA ATHAYDE. "SOCIAL MEDIA BASED BRAND COMMUNITIES EFFECTS ON BRAND LOYALTY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=35243@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTITUIÇÕES COMUNITÁRIAS DE ENSINO PARTICULARES
A rápida propagação e alta popularidade das mídias sociais digitais criaram um ambiente favorável à instalação de comunidades de marca. Cada vez mais, empresas criam comunidades - as chamadas fanpages no Facebook - como forma de se aproximar dos seus consumidores e alcançar a lealdade dos mesmos. Neste contexto, este estudo elaborou dois novos modelos conceituais para investigar como as comunidades de marca baseadas em mídias sociais afetam a lealdade à marca. A revisão de literatura realizada permitiu que esta relação fosse explorada por meio dos seguintes construtos: benefícios funcionais, psicossociais e hedônicos, comprometimento com a comunidade e boca-a-boca. Os dados da pesquisa foram obtidos através de uma survey on-line que, aplicada a membros da comunidade da Netflix no Facebook, gerou 1.236 respostas válidas. Estes dados, analisados por meio de modelagem de equações estruturais (SEM), confirmaram todas as hipóteses propostas e sugeriram que as comunidades de marca baseadas em mídias sociais influenciam positivamente na lealdade à marca. Os modelos finais da pesquisa indicaram, ainda, que os benefícios hedônicos são os que exercem maior influência sobre o comprometimento com a comunidade e sobre o boca-a-boca. Além disso, indicaram que o boca-a-boca decorrente da comunidade apresenta influência significativa sobre a lealdade à marca.
The digital social media s quick spread and its big popularity has built a favorable environment to the creation of brand communities. Increasingly, companies launch communities - known as fanpages on Facebook - as a way to approach their customers and reach brand loyalty. In face of that, this study sought to develop two new models in order to investigate how social media based brand communities affect brand loyalty. The literature review allowed this relation to be explored through the following constructs: functional benefits, social-psychological benefits, hedonic benefits, community commitment and word-of-mouth. The research data was collected via an on-line survey applied to Netflix s community members on Facebook, which had 1.236 valid responses. Structural equations modeling (SEM) was employed and confirmed all the research hypotheses, suggesting that social media based brand communities affect positively brand loyalty. The findings reveal that hedonic benefits are the major influencers of community commitment and word-of-mouth. Therefore, results show that the word-of-mouth from the community significantly influences brand loyalty.
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Lowman, Iyshia Michelle. "Recreational Segregation: The Role of Place in Shaping Communities." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5063.
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Institutionalized racial segregation in the United States has had a significant impact on many aspects of American culture. Segregation was practiced in every aspect of public life, even in areas of recreation. For those labeled as "nonwhite," even going to the beach was legally restricted. The events between the 1950s and 1960s at Homestead Bayfront Beach in Homestead, Florida are evidence that social stratification based on the social categorization of race has a significant effect even today. This research examines how legalized segregation in the past impacted society and contributed to the development of a place and identity at Homestead Bayfront Beach. This analysis not only fills a gap in the historical record on segregation and recreation in the United States, but also contributes to research on place and place making and the formation of memory and identity.
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Trivedi, Soumya. "The Indian Diaspora: (Re)Building Identities and Communities Through Social Media." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami160570611308781.
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Li, Weifeng, and Weifeng Li. "Towards Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace: Social Media Analytics on Hacker Communities." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625640.
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Social media analytics is a critical research area spawned by the increasing availability of rich and abundant online user-generated content. So far, social media analytics has had a profound impact on organizational decision making in many aspects, including product and service design, market segmentation, customer relationship management, and more. However, the cybersecurity sector is behind other sectors in benefiting from the business intelligence offered by social media analytics. Given the role of hacker communities in cybercrimes and the prevalence of hacker communities, there is an urgent need for developing hacker social media analytics capable of gathering cyber threat intelligence from hacker communities for exchanging hacking knowledge and tools.
My dissertation addressed two broad research questions: (1) How do we help organizations gain cyber threat intelligence through social media analytics on hacker communities? And (2) how do we advance social media analytics research by developing innovative algorithms and models for hacker communities? Using cyber threat intelligence as a guiding principle, emphasis is placed on the two major components in hacker communities: threat actors and their cybercriminal assets. To these ends, the dissertation is arranged in two parts. The first part of the dissertation focuses on gathering cyber threat intelligence on threat actors. In the first essay, I identify and profile two types of key sellers in hacker communities: malware sellers and stolen data sellers, both of which are responsible for data breach incidents. In the second essay, I develop a method for recovering social interaction networks, which can be further used for detecting major hacker groups, and identifying their specialties and key members. The second part of the dissertation seeks to develop cyber threat intelligence on cybercriminal assets. In the third essay, a novel supervised topic model is proposed to further address the language complexities in hacker communities. In the fourth essay, I propose the development of an innovative emerging topic detection model. Models, frameworks, and design principles developed in this dissertation not only advance social media analytics research, but also broadly contribute to IS security application and design science research.
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Irani, Danesh. "Preventing abuse of online communities." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44895.
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Online communities are growing at a phenomenal rate and with the large number of users these communities contain, attackers are drawn to exploit these users. Denial of information (DoI) attacks and information leakage attacks are two popular attacks that target users on online communities. These information based attacks are linked by their opposing views on low-quality information. On the one hand denial of information attacks which primarily use low-quality information (such as spam and phishing) are a nuisance for information consumers. On the other hand information leakage attacks, which use inadvertently leaked information, are less effective when low-quality information is used, and thus leakage of low-quality information is prefered by private information producers.
In this dissertation, I introduce techniques for preventing abuse against these attacks in online communities using meta-model classification and information unification approaches, respectively. The meta-model classification approach involves classifying the ``connected payload" associated with the information and using the classification result for the determination. This approach allows for detection of DoI attacks in emerging domains where the amount of information may be constrained. My information unification approach allows for modeling and mitigating information leakage attacks. Unifying information across domains followed by a quantificiation of the information leaked, provides one of the first studies on users' susceptibality to information leakage attacks. Further, the modeling introduced allows me to quantify the reduced threat of information leakage attacks after applying information cloaking.
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Krey, Kathy W. Tolbert Charles M. "The significance of place a multilevel analysis situating trust in a community context /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5160.
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De, La Cruz Sonia. "Changing Airwaves: Identity, Practice, and the Place of Radio in the Lives of Connected Communities." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18515.
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This dissertation is a case study of Radio Bilingüe, a community-driven, non-profit, radio network with transnational reach. With this case, I examine the reasons that gave way to the development of the radio, including focusing on the roles of media practitioners as producers of radio content and facilitators of community participation and the significance of the radio in the lives of Latino communities living across the United States. Methodologically, this is a qualitative study based on ethnographic methods of inquiry and archival research. Through ethnographic methods, it was possible to describe the roles of media practitioners, while archival research was carried out to gather a number of primary and secondary documents, which were analyzed through textual analysis to piece together the history of Radio Bilingüe.
Throughout the study I weave together a few interrelated areas: first, I chronicle the history and structure of the radio station that for nearly 34 years has been at the service of underserved and under-presented Latino immigrants living in the United States; second, I examine the profession of media practitioners and their participatory practices for community engagement; and finally, I discuss the place of the radio in the lives of its listening audience to understand how it helps sustain community ties and shape identity across local, national, and transnational places.
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Cavalcanti, Débora de Barros. "Fighting for a place in the city : social practices and state action in Maceió, Brazil." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3820/.
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Our understanding of urban poverty has been broadened during the last decade to focus less on economic characteristics and to include concepts such as exclusion, vulnerability, and violence. The spatial components of poverty have received less attention despite concepts such as the right to the city entering the academic and policy reform agenda. This thesis explores the dynamics of spatial and social integration by surveying the everyday life of precarious settlements in a mediumsized city in North-East Brazil. A qualitative approach that links poverty, mobility, social networks and state action is employed to argue that informal settlements are spatial traps where the individual perspective and exploitative relationships surpass collective approaches. The use of life stories and interviews with residents in three settlements and with planners are used to deconstruct preconceptions and show how the fight for a place in the city takes shape. For the most part the state is absent from the poor's lives. This absence has some advantages in that the Brazilian state has a record of infringing human rights that leads to a loss of economic, social and spatial links. However, the lack of adequate intervention and community organisations means residents employ in their daily round various tactics including violence, opportunism, and economic and political bargaining to challenge the state and society to rethink the politics of invisibility and what I term as the territorialisation of poverty. The generational legacy of vulnerability and exclusion in the everyday life of the urban poor reveals the difficulties of implementing the right to the city when faced with the worst practices of state and social organisations. Continued mobility and spatial segregation, vulnerability and exclusion reveal that beyond a rhetoric of a right to the city the fight for a place in the city is not over.
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O'Leary, Nicola Jane Maria. "Negotiating collective identity : crime, the media and the growth of victim communities." Thesis, University of Hull, 2011. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6345.
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Archer-Brown, Chris. "Towards an understanding of the antecedents of influence in virtual communities." Thesis, University of Bath, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665374.
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Analysis of online social network traffic can identify a cascade as it flows through a community but, often, the reasons for its initiation are tacit. Commercial measures of online influence focus on the consequences of influence not the causes and have been criticized as lacking efficacy. This research uses social capital and personal influence theories to investigate the characteristics and behaviours that allow certain network nodes to be able to cascade ideas (or memes) through networks. The relationships between structural, relational and cognitive sources of social capital and two distinct dimensions of influence are investigated using: interviews with experts in the field, focus groups of social network users and 1,970 respondents from three large-scale online communities. Data has been analysed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and allows the researcher to develop robust conclusions on the antecedents to influence. These help to explain recent contradictory findings by different researchers in studies using Social Network Analysis (SNA). The dimensions of influence measured are: respondents’ intention to propagate the message and; the extent to which the message has affected their perception of the subject. The model of influence that leads to both dimensions is strikingly similar; presenting strong support for the notion that contagion-based cascades through networks are predictors of perception change. The paper proposes a bridge between the theories of social capital and personal influence and this is considered an original contribution to these well-established theories. Techniques are suggested which can help organisations to identify opinion-leaders and, if required, subvert or redirect the nature of their influence. Other applications are considered in the fields of: Innovation (identification of lead users); Virtual Organisations (engaging with informal leaders and influencers in networks); Cyber- Defence (identification and subversion of online radicalisation).
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Yardi, Sarita Ann. "Social media at the boundaries: supporting parents in managing youth's social media use." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45746.
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This dissertation investigates ways of supporting parents in managing youth's social media use. I present empirical evidence of the challenges parents face in managing youth technology use. I then translate these results into the design and deployment of ParentNet, a community-based online social network for middle school parents to keep up with changes in technology. This dissertation provides new insights into the opportunities and challenges in conducting HCC research with a particular demographic, parents and youth. The contributions of this research are: (1) empirical studies of challenges parents face in managing youth technology use; (2) the design and deployment of a community-based online social network called ParentNet; (3) limitations and design considerations for deploying technological interventions for different social groups; and (4) reflection on emerging themes around overuse and disconnection in daily life.
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Coble, Jessalyn Elizabeth. "Connecting communities: A case study of social media recruitment at three community colleges." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83781.
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In addition to recruitment pressures felt by all in higher education, community colleges have the unique challenge of communicating with students of all ages, interests, and academic levels, and doing so with limited staff and resources. Many recruiters have turned to social media as an important tool for reaching potential students. However, for community colleges with few staff, social media communication can be difficult and time-consuming. This study explores how community college administrators are using social media as a recruitment tool, and how this use aligns with students' needs and expectations. This two-part study employs uses and gratifications theory to guide qualitative interviews with the social media administrators at three Virginia community colleges and focus groups with current students at each of the colleges. This study takes a unique approach to theory by comparing the uses and gratifications of both the message creator and user. Social media administrators at the community colleges were found to use social media to gratify their awareness, recruitment, and reach/engagement needs. Students thinking about the recruitment process were found to expect community colleges' social media content to gratify their needs for socialization, discovery, and access. Administrators are meeting many of the students' reported social media recruitment needs but could use the data provided in this study to improve their social media efforts in a few emerging areas.Master of Arts
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Wijesekera, Karen. "Karen and Chin Virtual Communities: Uploading Music and Lived Experience to Social Media." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1431515301.
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Kensche, Zinayida [Verfasser], Matthias [Akademischer Betreuer] Jarke, Markus [Akademischer Betreuer] Specht, and Ralf [Akademischer Betreuer] Klamma. "Modeling communities in information systems : informal learning communities in social media / Zinayida Kensche ; Matthias Jarke, Markus Specht, Ralf Klamma." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1126646415/34.
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Brocklehurst, Judith. "Restaging place : performativity and the camera : Parliament Square recast through social media photography." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10056329/.
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This practice-related study of a politically charged public place, Parliament Square, London is led by an examination of social media photographs that have been taken there and posted online. The photographs have been removed from the fast flow of social media, transposed to analogue film, slowed and analyzed. During this physical process four social activities emerge: tourism, protest, state occasion and the everyday. An investigation into each of these areas is instigated by a close examination of one related photograph. This investigation occurs theoretically and in the realm of performative sculptural, photographic and film practice. As well as being a study of the actual place, the Square offers a public location from which to reflexively examine its virtual equivalents online. Through performative practice, my study highlights commonalities between the role of photographs, monuments and public places as methods of representing historical understandings and their democratic potential: the ‘everyday’ of the Square and photography. The study investigates the role of photography in the construction of place – deconstructing how tourists pose and gaze into the camera to return to the singularity of the individual experience. The enquiry continues to look at Parliament Square as a place of political protest counter to the dominant state narrative of the past and the present. It is a place where particular narratives are embodied and celebrated, often misrepresenting the complexity of the past. The four photographs are restaged in the studio. Here they become a distorting mirror of both actual and virtual places revealing an absence that arguably occurs within all photographs. This absence might allow the viewer to relate to the subject depicted, find common ground, as well as develop a critical self-awareness and openness to the views of others.
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Liekovuori, Reetta. "Welcoming Online Communities : Social Sustainability of ESN Kalmar." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-74893.
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Erasmus Student Network (ESN) plays an important role in the integration process of international students who spend their study abroad period in a new country. ESN community in Kalmar in Sweden has Facebook groups for every semester which spread the hospitality through the local ESN members, also called as ‘hosts’, for the new members who can be called either ‘guests’, ‘tourists’, ‘exchange students’ or ‘freemovers’. The previous literature in tourism regarding social life online has emphasised the user-generated content on travel-related online communities on social media and ‘mobility turn’ that is an emerged topic in social sciences and has put social into travel and has thus forced researches to come up with new mobile methods to study online communities. Despite the fact that the word ‘social’ seems to be everywhere, social sustainability has been somewhat overlooked research area particularly in terms of online communities. This thesis project aims to fill this gap in the tourism literature and seeks to find out what social sustainability means in a context of online communities. Social sustainability forms the conceptual framework of the thesis and discusses the hosts and guests paradigm connecting it to online environments. The empirical material was collected by using qualitative methods including online survey distributed on ESN Kalmar Facebook groups and netnography concerning the ESN Kalmar online communities on Facebook. In addition to a theoretical contribution, the thesis project makes a methodological addition since netnography is still underutilised method among tourism scholars. These methods provided comprehensive data both from subjective and objective perspectives. The data was analysed by thematic analysis under the themes of social support, well-being and friendships, which were found to be connected to socially sustainable communities in the literature. The results found that online communities benefit from offline meetings that make the relationships between the community members stronger and thus create trust among the members. The role of the hosts and their local knowledge in the online community was proven vital in making guests to feel welcome, cared and supported during their study abroad period. However, the socially sustainable online community requires interaction and hospitality from both parties. Social sustainability of an online community can be disrupted if the community members are not cooperating and being open enough. Besides the local importance of the study in developing ESN Kalmar’s online community dynamics by emphasising the role of social sustainability, the results can be applied to discussions of internet behaviour in general. Also, the study provides help for communities where the roles between the hosts and guests are constantly “on move”.
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Li, Yuh-Yuh. "Social Structure, Social Control, and Crimein in Rural Communities: A Test of Social Disorganization Theory." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1237993548.
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Köhler, Thomas, and Nina Kahnwald. "Communities in New Media: Virtual Enterprises, Research Communities & Social Media Networks: 15. Workshop GeNeMe ’12 Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien: TU Dresden, 04./05. 10. 2012." Technische Universität Dresden, 2012. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A26318.
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Internet-basierte Technologien wie z. B. Social Media Werkzeuge, aber auch ERP-Systeme und Wissensplattformen verändern weiterhin Form und Intensität der Zusammenarbeit in Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Bildung bis hin zum privaten (Zusammen-)Leben. Dabei führt die zunehmende Mobilität zu neuen Nutzungsoptionen auch für multimediale Systeme, sei es im Bereich des Gaming oder beim gemeinsamen Gestalten digitaler Produkte.
Gerade für die Web 2.0 Technologien gilt: Ziel der Nutzung sind Kommunikation, Kooperation und Kollaboration. Die Nutzer suchen Unterstützung bei täglichen Routineprozessen ebenso wie in nicht alltäglichen Situationen - etwa bei der Erstellung von Inhalten - und schließen sich in Online-Fachgemeinschaften, sogenannten Communities, unterschiedlichster Ausrichtung zusammen.
Im Jahr 2012 feiert die GeNeMe das 15. Jubiläum! Der Sammelband zur Tagung „Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien“ widmet sich 2012 dem Rahmenthema „Communities in New Media: Virtual Enterprises, Research Communities & Social Media Networks“ und enthält Beiträge zu folgenden Themenfeldern:
• Konzepte, Technologien und Methoden für Virtuelle Gemeinschaften (VG) & Virtuelle
Organisationen (VO),
• Mobile and Augmented Life,
• Soziale Gemeinschaften (SG) in Neuen Medien,
• Wirtschaftliche Aspekte von Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien,
• Lernen, Lehren und Forschen mit dem Web2.0.
Alle in den Proceedings publizierten Beiträge wurden mit Hilfe eines anonymisierten Begutachtungsverfahrens auf Basis von mindestens 2 Gutachten aus einem breiten Angebot interessanter und qualitativ hochwertiger Beiträge zu dieser Tagung ausgewählt. Die GeNeMe‘12 richtet sich in gleichem Maße an Wissenschaftler wie auch Praktiker, die sich über den aktuellen Stand der Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der GeNeMe informieren möchten.
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A Eingeladene Vorträge
A.1 The Role of Creativity in Cooperative Foresight Activities in Living Labs S. 1
B KONZEPTE, TECHNOLOGIEN UND METHODEN FÜR VIRTUELLE GEMEINSCHAFTEN (VG) & VIRTUELLE ORGANISATIONEN (VO)
B.1 Anonyme Kommunikation in verteilt organisierten Gitterstrukturen S. 11
B.2 Von kompetenzzellenbasierten Produktionsnetzen lernen - Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel von „Anbietergemeinschaften aus Stromerzeugern und -verbrauchern“ S. 23
B.3 Open Innovation by Opening Embedded Systems S. 33
B.4 Erarbeitung eines Workshopdesigns zur weiteren Ausarbeitung der Ergebnisse einer virtuellen Ideencommunity S. 47
B.5 Berührungssensitive Schnittstellen für Social Software in Entwicklungsprozessen S. 63
B.6 Mobile Reisebegleitung mit NFC-Unterstützung S. 67
B.7 Optimierung des IT-Managements mittels Social Media S. 79
B.8 Ausgestaltung eines Social Media Monitorings S. 91
C SOZIALE GEMEINSCHAFTEN (SG) IN NEUEN MEDIEN
C.1 Formen der Kollaboration in Wissensnetzwerken S. 105
C.2 Informations- und Wissensmanagement im Nachhaltigen Landmanagement (IWM im NLM) S. 121
C.3 Barrierefreiheit durch Personalisierung und Kollaboration S. 135
C.4 Als Chef hat man nichts zu lachen – Eine Studie zur Wirkung von durch Führungspersonen genutzten Emoticons in berufsbezogenen Emails S. 145
D WIRTSCHAFTLICHE ASPEKTE
D.1 The Knowledge- Based Opole Tourism Cluster (OKTW) as a Network Tool for Organizing the Space and Flow in the Opole Region S. 155
D.2 Das Projekt Q2P - Zentrale Unterstützungsangebote für den Medieneinsatz in der akademischen Weiterbildung S. 169
D.3 Erfolg im Enterprise 2.0: Selbstorganisation und Freiheit gegen vorstrukturierte Planung und Steuerung S. 173
D.4 Fluch oder Segen? – Zum Umgang mit Konflikten in Software-Implementierungsprozessen S. 181
D.5 Warum Facebook Spaß macht: Freudvolles Erleben in sozialen Netzwerkdiensten S. 193
D.6 Nutzung interaktiver Elemente in deutschen Online-Shops S. 207
E LERNEN, LEHREN UND FORSCHEN MIT DEM WEB 2.0
E.1 DialogueMaps: Ein interaktives Dialogwerkzeug für softwaregestützte Wissenslandkarten s. 217
E.2 Untersuchung der Wirksamkeit einer Lernhandlung in einem Blended-Learning-Arrangement in der universitären Ausbildung S. 229
E.3 Gestaltungsmaßnahmen zur Förderung kollaborativer Wiki-Arbeit in der Hochschullehre S. 241
E.4 Digitale Kompetenzen für Wissenschaftler: Anforderungen aus der Perspektive von ELearning und E-Science S. 253
E.5 Identifiers in e-Science platforms for the ecological sciences S. 259
E.6 The Impact of Learning Management System Usage on Cognitive and Affective Performance S. 273
E.7 Adoption, Anpassung oder Abkehr? - Eine Studie zur Nutzung von kollaborativen Web 2.0-Anwendungen durch Studierende S. 285
E.8 Die Etablierung von E-Learning-Szenarien an Gymnasien – ein Pilotprojekt in Sachsen und seine Erkenntnisse S. 299
E.9 Online-Gemeinschaften zur Studienvorbereitung: Eine empirische Studie zu computerbezogenen Einstellungen sächsischer Gymnasialschüler S. 313
E.10 Lernwegsteuerung im E-Learning - ein alter Hut? S. 325
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Weimer, Jason M. "Where Are You Now: Privacy, Presence & Place in the Pervasive Computing Era." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1619859682738541.
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Weimer, Jason M. "Where Are You Now: Privacy, Presence & Place in the Pervasive Computing Era." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1619859682738541.
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Kubik, Erica. "From Girlfriend to Gamer: Negotiating Place in the Hardcore/Casual Divide of Online Video Game Communities." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1260391480.
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Donath, Judith Stefania. "Inhabiting the virtual city : the design of social environments for electronic communities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29120.
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Kartofel, Roy Alexis Rodenstein 1975. "Talking in circles : representing place and situation in an online social environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61845.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-66).
This thesis presents work focused on the creation of a sociable space for communication online. Sociable communication requires the ability to converse with others using simple and meaningful mechanisms, supporting flexibility and expressiveness. Equally important is the ability for people to read the space they inhabit and make sense of it in socially significant ways, such as people watching to observe others' interests and interaction styles. A third key to sociable communication is emphasis on identity and embodiment, giving participants a strong sense of themselves and others through their online representations. These issues are approached through research in areas ranging from sociology to urban architecture, directed at finding bases for the design of capabilities that are useful and engaging in the context of computer support for distributed multiparty communication. The result of this research is Talking in Circles, a graphical audio conferencing environment that employs abstract graphics for representation and provides lightweight access to multiple expressive modes. This thesis discusses foundations for work towards sociable communication online as well as the design and implementation processes involved in the creation of the Talking in Circles system. User experiences with the system, lessons learned and directions for further research into sociable communication are then detailed.
by Roy Alexis Rodenstein Kartofel.
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Elgün, Levent, and Jürgen Karla. "Ausgestaltung eines Social Media Monitorings." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101032.
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1 Optionen für ein Social Media Monitoring
Für Unternehmen sind Social Media – derzeit noch vorrangig im Marketingbereich – von großem Interesse. Aufgrund der hohen Geschwindigkeit der Informationsgenerierung und -verbreitung, der Glaubwürdigkeit im Rahmen des subjektiven Meinungsaustauschs sowie der Masse an verfügbaren Informationen stellen sie insbesondere für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen eine große Herausforderung dar. Diese besteht dabei nicht nur aus der Minimierung der Risiken, wie beispielsweise dem Umgang mit massiven verbalen Attacken von Nutzern gegen ein Unternehmen, sondern auch in der gewinnbringenden Verwendung der verfügbaren Informationen. Um letztere zu erreichen, müssen die Social Media-Dienste mit einer klar definierten Strategie beobachtet und ausgewertet werden (Monitoring). Gewonnene Erkenntnisse müssen anschließend im Unternehmen angewendet werden. Dadurch eröffnen sich für Unternehmen nutzenbringende Möglichkeiten, wie beispielsweise Erkenntnisse über Nutzermeinungen zum eigenen Unternehmen, zu dessen Produkten oder Dienstleistungen sowie zu dessen Mitbewerbern. Das Monitoring der Dienste geht allerdings mit einer hohen Komplexität einher, da zahlreiche Faktoren und Anforderungen bewertet und beachtet werden müssen.
Der vorliegende Beitrag widmet sich insbesondere der Aufarbeitung der Anforderungen die ein Unternehmen an ein Social Media Monitoring-Tool stellen kann. Zunächst wird dazu das Angebot möglicher Tools klassifiziert. Basierend auf der Funktionalität der Tools werden anschließend die Anforderungen herausgearbeitet und beschrieben. Der Beitrag schießt mit der kurzen Darstellung eines Konzeptionierungsansatzes.
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Oslender, Ulrich. "Black communities on the Columbian Pacific coast and the 'aquatic space' : a spatial approach to social movement theory." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366209.
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Etzrodt, Katrin, Rebecca Renatus, and Franziska Uhlmann. "Informationsbezogene Mediennutzung Jugendlicher und Senioren in (Online-)Communities." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-154052.
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Die Grenzen zwischen digitalen und klassischen Informationsangeboten verschmelzen zunehmend und gleichzeitig werden mobile und nternetfähige
Endgeräte zum täglichen Begleiter für alle möglichen Fragen und Themen.
Jüngere Altersgruppen haben digitale Medien und mobile Endgeräte bereits fest in ihren Alltag integriert, aber auch in den älteren Generationen steigt der Anteil der Nutzer zunehmend. Durch die steigende Alltagsrelevanz und die ständige zeit- aber auch ortsunabhängige Verfügbarkeit neuer Medien verändern sich Informationsumgebungen. Eine nicht zu unterschätzende Rolle spielen dabei Online-Communities, in denen Informationen nicht nur bereitgestellt, sondern auch geteilt, bewertet und kommentiert werden können. Doch die Vielfalt möglicher Zugänge und Quellen wird auf unterschiedliche Weise genutzt. Der Zugang zu verschiedenen digitalen Quellen, die zwar nicht ausschließlich, dennoch auch durch Atersunterschiede bedingt werden.
Es wird die Frage gestellt wie sich das Informationsverhalten verschiedener Altersgruppen unter den aktuellen medialen Bedingungen darstellt.
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Sjöqvist, Sarah. "Customer engagement behavior on social media brand communities : A quantitative study regarding engagement behavior, perceived benefits, and relationship outcome on different social media platforms." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-43889.
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Social media has provided both companies and customer with new opportunities. Customers are increasingly integrating social media into their daily lives and companies has noticed these new traditional medias and started to take advantage of them through brand communities. The new behavior occurring on brand communities is what research call customer engagement behavior and goes beyond transactional behavior. However, customer engagement has not been fully researched on different social media platforms. The most researched platform to date is Facebook. And with the rapid growth of social media and the constant development of new platforms it is of importance to understand customer engagement behavior on different social media platforms to further being able to adapt to each unique platform. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the frequency of customer engagement behavior and its affect on perceived relationship benefits and ultimately, relationship outcomes. This based on three different social media platforms where one company were present with brand communities and then compare the outcome of each platform with each other. Hypothesis: 𝐻1 = The frequency of customer engagement behavior leads to perceived relationship benefits of engaging in a brand community. 𝐻2 = Customer perceived relationship benefits have a positive effect on relationship outcomes. Methodology: Cross-sectional online questionnaires distributed on three different social media platforms – Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. Analysed using linear regressions. Findings: The findings indicates that the frequency on which a customer engage in engagement behaviors showed no statistical significance on Facebook, however, the frequency of reading messages, visiting the brand community, and purchasing products did show statistical significance on Instagram. Furthermore, the perceived relationship benefits that showed significance for both Facebook and Instagram was practical and economic benefits. While on Facebook social enhancement was considered an important indicator for relationship outcome and entertainment
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Deshpande, Vaibhavi. "Using Social Media for Mandarin-speaking and Arabic-speaking Communities in the COVID-19 Pandemic." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28895.
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This research aims to understand the challenges for government and community workers in communicating information about COVID-19 to Mandarin- and Arabic-speaking communities after the outbreak of the pandemic. The study, focused between March 2020 and July 2021, argues that government staff and bilingual community workers acted as intermediaries who addressed the cultural and linguistic needs of these communities. I discuss how offline and online social networks enhanced peoples’ health literacy and media literacy, working with Bourdieu’s (1986) concepts of social capital and cultural capital. Recognising the importance of communities’ uses of digital and online media, I adopt Ragnedda’s (2018) theory that a community’s digital capital is an independent resource. In this study, I conducted semi-structured interviews online via Zoom with staff from a local health district of the NSW Department of Health and bilingual community workers from these communities who were tasked with distributing COVID-19 information. I found that bilingual community workers were an essential resource for communication with the communities. The intermediaries reported that reasonable health literacy and media literacy could empower the communities in identifying reliable information and countering misinformation. A key finding of this research was that digital competencies for both the health staff and community members were important in dealing with the health emergency of COVID-19. This aligns with Ragnedda’s (2018) argument that digital capital should be considered as an independent form of capital that can be converted into social capital and cultural capital. While the intermediaries were able to capitalise on the existing three forms of capital to an extent, they nevertheless indicated the need for enhanced health, media, and digital literacy for communities.
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Phethean, Christopher. "Exploring the value of social media services for charitable organisations : a mixed methods approach." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/376944/.
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This thesis explores various factors that may influence the production of value for charities on social media websites. A mixed methods triangulation-based approach is used in order to improve understanding around why charities use social media and what they want to achieve by doing so, why supporters interact with charities on social media, and how this behaviour actually occurs on two popular social media sites: Facebook and Twitter. Qualitative sources of data are utilised in order to establish the reasons behind why social media are used, while quantitative sources provide evidence of interaction on these sites to establish whether or not the motivations of the charities are portrayed through their actual behaviour. An argument is made that because there are so many influencing factors on the resulting value, it is extremely difficult to measure this—and to distinguish success on these sites—through the use of automated tools that do not take into account the context of the organisation involved and what they are actually trying to achieve in the first place. Furthermore, this thesis suggests that analysing what the charity does in relation to their strategy can help to indicate whether or not a social media strategy has the potential to create the desired levels of value, and a classification system of communication styles is presented in order to assist with this process. This thesis therefore provides contributions that help to understand the value of social media for charities, and as such has implications for future social media research, charitable strategy planning and Web Science as a wider discipline.
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Fortelny, Stephan. "Communicating technical information within communities of practice." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23158.
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This thesis is an exploration of how the communication of technical information can be facilitated by practices of collaborative media. While focusing on the domain of bicycles and more specifically on hobbyists working on their bikes, the aim of this study has been to show possible directions for the design of collaborative media for hands-on kind of work environments in general. Two design experiments were carried out in the process. While the first one attempts to connect local work with global resources, the second experiment is more deeply connected to an existing local community of bike enthusiasts and their practices of learning and knowing. Through carrying out the two design experiments, an argument was made that involving existing social structures into collaborative media design solutions is crucial due to the fact that these existing resources are deeply connected to practices of learning and knowing. However, more work needs to be done to generate more detailed solutions for different domains.
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Barkley, Candice. "School Leader Use of Social Media for Professional Discourse." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2701.
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The purpose of this case study was to explore how a group of principals from diverse backgrounds and different locations create and perpetuate a virtual community of practice. This investigation is a case study of Connected Principals, a group that has come together to create a regular blog on significant issues within education and the principalship. In addition, this group regularly disseminates pertinent information on Twitter via a hash tag. The study includes a content analysis of the blogs posted by Connected Principals as well as social network analysis of the group’s Twitter network and of the key players within the Twitter network. In addition, the investigation includes interviews with six of the key blog and Twitter contributors in order to triangulate the information gleaned from the other analyses. The results of the study provide a thorough description of Connected Principals. While the study set out with the framework of a community of practice, the findings led to the idea that what was actually created by this group is an affinity space. In addition, the results give indication that the members of the group generate social capital within their field. Overall, the study contributes to the literature by providing an in-depth look at a relatively new field in education.
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McCarthy, Rosemary. "The impact of midwife moderated social media based communities on pregnant women and new mothers." Thesis, University of Salford, 2018. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/46801/.
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This PhD study examines the impact of moderated social media based groups for pregnant women on the provision of information and support. During pregnancy and early motherhood, women need information and support from health professionals, other pregnant women and mothers. Whilst women have access to overwhelming amounts of information they may not have contact with, or support from, other pregnant women and new mothers. Such relationships are fundamental for a supported transition to motherhood. This thesis explores the concept of Communities of Practice as a framework for social learning, and seeks to explore if and how Communities of Practice can develop from online groups to improve information provision and support for pregnant women and new mothers. A qualitative methodology, with a modified action research component, was used to explore women’s experiences, the concept of Communities of Practice and the potential for their emergence from an online group. Two midwife moderated online groups were created with 31 pregnant women (n=17, n=14). Data were collected using focus groups (k=8) every 3 months and individual interviews (k=28) in the early postnatal period. A thematic analysis framework, informed by Communities of Practice theory, was used to interrogate the different data at different points in time. This generated process findings on which to act; and new knowledge to understand whether and how a Communities of Practice approach could be adopted as a new model of support within midwifery. The key findings show that women will engage with midwives and other pregnant women through social media and doing so improves their pregnancy experience. Information and support needs can be met through such groups and, furthermore, midwifery relational continuity can be achieved. Communities of Practice can emerge from online groups but they are not essential for information and support needs to be met, or for relational continuity. However, Communities of Practice can provide greater information convergence and the potential for sustained relationships. Mutual engagement is the key Community of Practice dimension which differentiated the groups and signified that one group had evolved into a Community of Practice. Midwife moderated social media based groups may provide a solution for service providers who thus far have struggled to provide relational continuity which is vital for quality, but so often lacking from traditional models of maternity care.
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Shea, James. "Pre-service teachers' social media usage to support professional development : a communities of practice analysis." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622490.
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The current study was based in one higher education institution and examined pre-service teachers’ use of social media to support their own professional development whilst on school placement, through a community of practice lens. The trainees were registered on a one year secondary course designed to lead to a Post Graduate Certificate in Education with 60 credits at Masters Level combined with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) for England and Wales during which the researcher repeatedly interviewed a focus group sample from each subject cohort and analysed transcripts of these interviews through the lens of Wenger’s (1998) concept of a community of practice. The research took place in a national context of review and reform of teacher education in England. Some trainees, for example those studying at the higher education establishment at question, might experience considerable challenge in the school placement. Authentic self-reflection requires a safe place in which pre-service teachers can openly articulate with others what they might see as their own failures as well as successes in the classroom in order to develop a greater sense of self-efficacy and new ideas about teaching. In some instances, such as in the area of behaviour management, the national focus on maintaining good order means that it may become even more challenging and ultimately riskier to share the experience of failure because acknowledgement of this risks the possibility of failing to achieve the requisite standard for qualified teacher status. Besides, to gain qualified teacher status a trainee must attain the Teachers’ Standards (DfE, 2013) which include a requirement that a professional teacher upholds the ethos of the school to which the trainee might not be sympathetic. Findings from this research cannot be generalised. However, in this small-scale study it was found that pre-service teachers used private social media to support each other on the course in a number of ways: to establish a group that might be viewed as a community of practice and then, as part of the core enterprise of becoming a qualified teacher, to offer or to receive shared practice or support from another pre-service teacher in the role of more knowledgeable other and to broker new ideas about teaching to each other and to schools themselves from the other communities to which they belonged. Those who networked socially as part of the community of practice were more organised around deadlines. They also more likely to manage risky and stressful situations collaboratively and present an enhanced image of “…a body of common knowledge, practices and approaches” (Wenger, McDermott and Snyder, 2007, pp. 4-5) during their school placement which was unavailable to the trainee who did not participate within the online community. The scope for openly sharing practice and the development of learning communities among pre-service teachers is potentially restricted by the current national and local context of teacher education. However, one conclusion from this study might be that social media can potentially enable pre-service teachers to communicate privately in important ways that support their professional development whilst undertaking their training.
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Grützner, Ines, Patrick Waterson, Carsten Vollmers, Sonja Trapp, and Thomas Olsson. "Requirements Engineering für Communities of Practice." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-155494.
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Eine der Herausforderungen des Requirements Engineering (RE) ist, dass bei der Entwicklung eines Software-Systems sowohl die technischen Einzelheiten als auch der Kontext des Einsatzes berücksichtigt werden müssen. Wie schon andere Autoren bemerkt haben, ist RE ein sozio-technisches Unterfangen. Bei der Entwicklung von Desktop-Software zum Beispiel ist zu berücksichtigen, wie der einzelne Benutzer die Anwendung einsetzen wird. Im Bereich Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) ist der Einsatzkontext komplizierter, da Kommunikation und Interaktion zwischen Benutzern ebenfalls berücksichtigt werden müssen. Bei der Entwicklung einer Community of Practice (CoP) muss der Kontext noch weiter ausgedehnt werden, da Dinge wie Kooperation, Gruppenbildung bzw. Bildung von Netzwerken, Lernen etc. auch in die Anforderungen einfließen.
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Lorenz, Lars. "Territory Building : Supporting small communities in assembling and making sense of online information." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medieteknik (ME), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-44586.
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I introduce the concept of Territory Building – a social media application approach that intends to guide and support sufferers of rare diseases in the process of “making sense” of online information. Similar to approaches that emphasize the sharing of web resources – such as social bookmarking sites - user interaction in regards to web resources is at the centre of this concept. The idea of Territory Building is built on a geographical metaphor, guiding a community in assembling a “virtual territory”, consisting of existing web resources related to the community’s domain of interest, along with user-generated information pertaining to these resources. As users build up this Territory, claiming new resources for it, charting out the place of this information in the context of the existing Territory, finally colonizing these resources by interacting, discussing, rating the information, they participte in a process that should help both the invidual and the community as a whole in “making sense” of this information. The “added value” generated through the contributions and engagement of the userbase as a whole becomes more accessible to the individual, and individuals in turn have a more immediate means of contributing to the existing knowledge. Paying close attention to the needs of the intended target group, I designed and implemented a prototype web-application based on the Territory Building approach, and deployed it for use by persons suffering from the rare disease Trigeminal Neuralgia. I observed how this audience made use of the approach, and how implementation details were received. 80 users registered in the prototype system, 31 web resources were contributed by users. The findings suggest that the Territory Building concept can address a genuine need in regards to assembling and engaging with available online information, and that patients are interested in making use of this approach for the purpose of disseminating information resources to their peers. Lessons learned also indicate that the approach can potentially support those affected by rare diseases in “making sense” of the information available to them, and that means of accessing and creating user-generated knowledge in the context of existing web-resources can increase the potential of users to benefit from the collaborative knowledge-generating processes of their peers.
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Pietersen, Willie Johannes. "The value of social networks to community volunteers from high risk communities." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62902.
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The purpose of this intervention study was to explore how the community volunteers from the Supporting Home Environments in Beating Adversity (SHEBA) research project – in two high-risk school communities in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan area – valued their social networks. The broader SHEBA participatory and action research project focused on how community volunteers, using their own resources, collaborated with schools in their communities to develop support plans for their communities. I selected interpretivism as the meta-theory for the study and utilised Participatory Reflection and Action (PRA) as the methodological paradigm and research design. The empirical part of this study was conducted in 2012. The data for the study were collected from 35 purposively selected volunteers who, at the time of the study, were involved in volunteer work at schools in their communities. All 35 volunteers participated in one workshop and one brainstorming session. Data were generated through a participatory workshop and follow-up brainstorming session and captured by means of posters and field notes. Inductive thematic analysis was used as the means of interpretation and I related the results to Lin’s Network Theory of Social Capital in interpreting the results. The results of the study suggest that the social networks of the volunteers were valued highly by them in dealing with the various challenges in their communities. The findings suggest also that the community volunteers invested themselves continuously in preserving their social support networks by reaching out to one another in times of crisis and by responding to each other’s needs by supporting one another. The findings suggest further that the volunteers maintained their social support networks by reinforcing the values that held them together and directed them in their efforts to support one another and their communities. The volunteers in the study attributed significant value to each other as sources of support and knowledge. They were able to meet their challenges together by learning from and identifying each other as resources. Modern communication media such as mobile phones were very important to the volunteers in maintaining their support networks with their colleagues and communicating with their communities. I therefore concluded that interventions in high-risk communities should be aimed at assisting community volunteers to gain access to and use such technologies effectively and appropriately in their networking. The value the community volunteers in the SHEBA project attributed to their social networks was clear from the benefits they derived from these networks. The findings of the study suggest that the social networks of the volunteers enhanced their sense of personal wellbeing as well as their sense of social belongingness. I concluded that social support networks could contribute significantly towards people’s overall wellbeing and that community interventions should adopt a holistic approach in high-risk communities thereby enhancing people’s hedonic, eudemonic, and social wellbeing.Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Reckard, Margaux Anna-Elizabeth. "Comparing website presentations of "nature" across Vermont ski areas and adjacent rural communities." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/834.
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Ski areas attract and cater to tourists and are often powerful symbols of cultural identity and place-based meaning. Within contexts of mountain tourism development, ski areas also communicate messages to orient visitors and residents to special features and qualities of the natural environment. This research specifically focuses on how Vermont ski areas and their neighboring rural communities use language, symbolism and imagery, within the context of website communications, to shape cultural meanings of nature and place.
A sample of small, medium, and large ski areas, representing a range of development sizes, locations, and recreational offerings, were paired with their adjacent rural communities. A qualitative content analysis and a textual analysis of photographic images and written texts from ski area and town websites examined presentations of “nature” and place. Website presentations were compared across ski areas of different sizes, and between towns and ski areas. Findings show that portrayals of “nature” differ by the size of the ski area, but are similar across rural towns – though towns tended to produce a discourse about “nature” divergent from that of ski areas. In addition, both ski resort and town websites used images and texts of “Vermont” symbolically in constructing their place identity, though they did this in different ways. This study contributes a better understanding of the ways that ski areas and rural communities work both independently and collaboratively to create and sustain meaningful physical places and cultural myths. Aligning public communications electronically to present a more unified place identity to visitors and residents alike has potential planning and management implications for tourism development, especially in rural regions in Vermont and elsewhere.
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Hauptmann, Anke, Ralph Sonntag, Dirk Reichelt, Thomas Wenk, and Linda Anlauf. "Status Quo und Bedeutung der Meinungsführerforschung für Online-Communities." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-126030.
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In der Gesellschaft gibt es einige wenige Individuen, die besonders überzeugend auf andere wirken und diese daher in Bezug auf Ideen, Informationen und Produkte beeinflussen können. Sie werden Meinungsführer genannt und sind in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft zu finden. Meinungsführer sind aber, um Einfluss nehmen zu können, auf Meinungssuchende angewiesen. Diese finden sie zumeist in sozialen Netzwerken, wie Communities (online als auch offline), in welchen sie am aktivsten sind oder welche den Interessen der Meinungsführer am ehesten entsprechen. Im Onlinemarketing werden Meinungsführer zunehmend wichtiger, da es effektiver ist, sie direkt zu informieren und zu bewerben und dadurch Informationen verbreiten zu lassen oder durch sie Produkte, wie beispielsweise mittels Produktmuster, weiter zu empfehlen. Durch diese Prozesse können Produktempfehlungen und deren Verbreitung initiiert werden. In vielen Forschungsprojekten wurden bereits Aspekte der Meinungsführerschaft sowie Identifikationsmöglichkeiten für Meinungsführer in sozialen Netzwerken erarbeitet. Bisher sind Definitionen von Online-Communities und die Definition des Einflusses oder der Eigenschaften und Kennzahlen von Meinungsführern nicht einheitlich. Besonders die Kennzahlen zur Identifikation von Meinungsführerschaft in sozialen Netzwerken überschneiden sich teilweise inhaltlich, als auch namentlich.
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Bontempo, Melissa A. "Online communities : possibilities for museum education /." Connect to resource, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1160068576.
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Sharag-Eldin, Adiyana. "The Role of Geography Space and Place in Social Media Communication:Two Case Studies of Policy Perspectives." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1571484284023254.
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Anlauf, Linda, Dirk Reichelt, Ralph Sonntag, and Thomas Wenk. "Optimierung des IT-Managements mittels Social Media." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101028.
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Laut der ARD-Media-Studie 2011 liegt die Internetdurchdringung in Deutschland bei 74,4%. Erwachsene Onliner, welche gelegentlich bis regelmäßig im Netz sind, kommen auf eine Verweildauer von täglich 137 Minuten an 5,6 Tagen pro Woche [ARD2011]. Jede fünfte Minute im Internet wird auf Social-Media-Plattformen, wie Twitter, Xing oder Wikipedia, verbracht. Zwei der weltweit meistbesuchten Websites gehören zu den Social Media: Facebook und YouTube [PWC2012]. Durch die steigende Nutzung des Internets eröffnen sich Unternehmen Möglichkeiten, welche zur Wertschöpfung in den verschiedenen Unternehmensbereichen, beispielsweise der Marketingabteilung, Human Ressources sowie der internen und externen Prozessoptimierung, genutzt werden können [Parpart2009]. Eine intensive Nutzung der Social Media erzeugt allerdings auch einen immer weiter ansteigenden Daten- und Kommunikationsverkehr. Das wachsende Datenaufkommen aufgrund zunehmender Nutzerzahlen und immer größeren Anwendungen im Internet erfordert eine Aufstockung der Ressourcen im IT-Bereich, welche zum einen Kosten verursachen und zum anderen nicht permanent benötigt werden [ITM2011]. Social Media stellen demnach nicht nur die Marketingabteilungen vor neue Herausforderungen, sondern auch das IT-Service-Management. Beide Bereiche versuchen dem mit entsprechenden Monitorings entgegenzutreten und optimale Ergebnisse zu erzielen. Aufgrund von Daten werden Analysen erstellt und Beobachtungen sowie Vorhersagen getroffen. Diese Monitoringkonzepte gewinnen heutzutage immer mehr an Bedeutung für die Unternehmen, jedoch ist es heute übliche Praxis, dass jede Abteilung, unabhängig von anderen Bereichen, individuelle Monitoringkonzepte und Datenbankmanagementsysteme aufstellt und betreibt. Im Rahmen des vorliegenden Beitrages wird untersucht, wie sich diese derzeit etablierten Lösungen im Sinne eines gesamtheitlichen Ansatzes erweitern lassen und damit die Qualität des Monitorings und darauf aufsetzend möglicher Prognoseverfahren verbessert wird. Im Fokus der Untersuchung stehen dabei die Daten auf Basis von User Generated Content im Web 2.0. Diese Arbeit schlägt ein Konzept vor, wie die Daten aus verschiedenen Quellen kombiniert und aggregiert werden können. Zum einen wird gezeigt, welches Potential eine solche Datenintegration für die Steuerung des IT-Betriebs bietet, zum anderen, wie aktuelle Anwender von Social-Media-Monitoring von einer solchen Integration profitieren können. In einem Ausblick werden aktuelle Forschungsaktivitäten, welche sich aus der aufgeworfenen Problemstellung ableiten, diskutiert.
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Lechner, Ulrike, and Johannes Hummel. "Peer-to-Peer Architekturen für Kollaboration in Communities." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-210445.
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Gegenwärtig ist das „File-Sharing“ von MP3-Files wohl eine der populärsten Applikationen mit Peer-to-Peer-Architektur. Einige neue Applikationen mit Peer-to-Peer-Architekturen unterstützen die Kollaboration in Communities und in vielerlei Hinsicht können diese Peer-to-Peer-Architekturen Communities wesentlich besser unterstützen als konventionelle Architekturen. In diesem Papier wird ein Rahmenwerk für die Beschreibung von Architekturen von Kollaborationsplattformen und Gemeinschaften vorgestellt. Betrachtet werden: Architektur, Dienste, der Beitrag der Gemeinschaft zur wirtschaftlichen Wertschöpfung und der Zusammenhang zwischen Architektur und Verhalten der Community. Motivation für die Betrachtungen ist die Entwicklung im Bereich des „File-Sharing“ von MP3-Files.