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Arafah, Burhanuddin, and Muhammad Hasyim. "Social Media as a Gateway to Information: Digital Literacy on Current Issues in Social Media." Webology 19, no. 1 (January 20, 2022): 2491–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.14704/web/v19i1/web19167.
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The digital age has changed humans in accessing information from offline media to online media. The presence of digital media, such as smartphone help people get current issues quickly without limits of time and place. With advances in information technology, internet users not only can receive information but also send information in the form of comments and share information. The current internet media that has become a gateway for information is social media. This paper aims to discuss information dissemination on current issues in social media. The data sources for this paper were social media texts and online questionnaire results. The research question in this paper is what current issues are communicated in social media and how is the cyber communities’ digital literacy on current issues in social media. The research findings show that 90.03% of people access information through social media, the frequency of time spent with social media to access information is 81%, and the type of social media used to access information is Facebook (38.4%), WhatsApp (20.2%), YouTube (18.4%), Twitter (8.3%) and Tiktok (6.1%). Furthermore, the current issues that can be accessed by media users are covid-19 vaccination and intolerance. The major problem with social media as a gateway to information is the digital literacy of the cyber communities on the spread of fake news related to the Covid-19 vaccination and intolerance.
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Gallant, Linda, and Gloria Boone. "Communicative Informatics: A Social Media Perspective for Online Communities." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2, no. 1 (September 25, 2021): 184–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v2i1.18642.
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Individuals are active audience members that use Internet-based social media technologies to create and negotiate social action in online spaces. Communicative informatics is the key to constructing, describing or critiquing social media. Communicative informatics is the discovery of the audience, text/image, technology, negotiated place relationships that create symbolic meaning. Four propositions focus on the communication of the audience: 1) the audience is active; 2) the audience is creative; 3) the audience interacts with technology and 4) place is negotiated in online communication.
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Ostrovskii, Anton N., Andrey E. Mamedov, Marina A. Ostrovskaya, and Vladimir Yu Shiryaev. "Local Social Media Groups: New Local Communities, Social Media, Or a Foothold for Digital Activism." Social’naya politika i sociologiya 20, no. 1 (March 29, 2021): 160–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17922/2071-3665-2021-20-1-160-168.
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Local digital communities on the Internet are becoming more and more influential and are gradually taking the place of traditional forms of neighborly communication. At the theoretical and empirical level, the authors investigate the nature of local digital communities and their relationship with the traditional concept of “local community”. Based on the analysis of the local information space of the Internet in 4 cities of Russia, differing in population size and level of socio-economic development, it was concluded that neighboring groups in social networks and messengers belong to communities of a new type, communication in which is based on the discussion of current local news and household issues. Given the growing involvement of the population to participate in digital communities, it is necessary to remember their importance for mobilizing offline activities. The results obtained in the course of the study can be used by municipal authorities to build effective communication with civil society. In turn, the product of scientific work can help local activists better understand the nature of citizen involvement in digital communities, which will allow them to more effectively organize collective activities to protect the interests of citizens and solve local problems.
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Grishaeva, S. A., and K. V. Klyuvaev. "Communicative practices of young people in social networks." Digital Sociology 2, no. 3 (February 25, 2020): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.26425/2658-347x-2019-3-4-9.
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Modern young people more and more often spend their time on social media, which they use for place for friendly chat, or place to spend leisure time, or place for buying things, or space for professional growth, or one of many other reasons. In the process of interaction, youth use various communication practices in social networks, the main of which have been given in the article.Main functions of social media, specifics and classification of user communities, their influence on communicative behavior of users have been described. Instruments of transferring social information on social media: emoji and stickers, photos and pictures (memes included), together with preferences of usage of this instrument by users have been analyzed. It has been proved, that peculiarities of lexis typical for virtual communication along with non-verbal means (such as memes) transform the language of users.The phenomenon of fake (an account hiding the real essence of a user), as well as reasons for creation of fake accounts and their functionality, have been considered. Degree and form of showing aggression in virtual communication have been analyzed. Specifics of content in dependence from typology of social communities, where users are interacting (groups by interest, groups with entertaining content, news communities, official companies groups, e-commerce pages, groups of citizens of a specific city (or workers of a specific place), help groups, blog communities) has been studied. Common regularities of both creation and usage of content in internet communities have been noted.
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Rothkrantz, Leon. "How Social Media Facilitate Learning Communities and Peer Groups around MOOCS." International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals 6, no. 1 (January 2015): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijhcitp.2015010101.
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Social media enable the development of new didactical models underlying MOOCs. Individual learning will be complemented by group learning. Students are connected by and cooperate via a social network of study friends for example via Facebook or Twitter. They inform each other about to be expected study activities, learning experiences, cooperate in study activities and take the role of tutor or model for other students. In this paper the authors present next to the didactical model a matching algorithm to create peer groups to perform group work. In distant learning students are remote in place and time. Social media can provide a virtual meeting place. So the question is how to select your friends to cooperate successfully in study activities. They will describe a tool, which recommends best matching students, taking care of abilities and personal characteristics of students and requirements set by the lecturers in such a way that balanced groups are created. Students make a selection from the offer. Special Apps have to be downloaded on phones or computer devices to connect the teaching-learning environment.
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Kavoura, Androniki. "Social media, online imagined communities and communication research." Library Review 63, no. 6/7 (August 26, 2014): 490–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lr-06-2014-0076.
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine social media communication that may consist of a database for online research and may create an online imagined community that follows special language symbols and shares common beliefs in a similar way to Anderson’s imagined communities. Design/methodology/approach – Well-known databases were searched in the available literature for specific keywords which were associated with the imagined community, and methodological tools such as online interviews, content analysis, archival analysis and social media. Findings – The paper discusses the use of multiple measures, such as document and archival analysis, online interviews and content analysis, which may derive from the online imagined community that social media create. Social media may in fact provide useful data that are available for research, yet are relatively understudied and not fully used in communication research, not to mention in archival services. Comparison takes place between online community’s characteristics and traditional communication research. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media’s use of special language requirements may categorise discussion of these potential data, based on specific symbols, topical threads, purposeful samples and catering for longitudinal studies. Practical implications – Social media have not been fully implemented for online communication research yet. Online communication may offer significant implications for marketers, advertisers of a company or for an organisation to do research on or for their target groups. The role of libraries and information professionals can be significant in data gathering and the dissemination of such information using ICTs and renegotiating their role. Originality/value – The theoretical contribution of this paper is the examination of the creation of belonging in an online community, which may offer data that can be further examined and has all the credentials to do so, towards the enhancement of online communication research. The applications of social media to research and the use by and for information professionals and marketers may in fact contribute to the management of an online community with people sharing similar ideas. The connection of the online imagined community with social media for research has not been studied, and it would further enhance understanding from organisations or marketers.
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Prieto-Blanco, Patricia. "Visual Mediations, Affordances and Social Capital." Membrana Journal of Photography, Vol. 3, no. 1 (2018): 76–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m4.076.art.
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Spatial dislocation of migrants is a catalyst for early, heavy and informed media use (Ponzanesi & Leurs 2014); as well as a motif for transnational families to form families of choice (Beck-Gernsheim 1998; Weston 1997). This text reports on how Irish-Spanish families living in Ireland manage this situation. It argues that (digital) photographic exchanges give rise to mediated third places (Oldenburg, 1989), where (dis)affect and belonging are negotiated. Transnational families visually mediate their domestic spaces regularly. The double visual mediation of presence and space forms part of their everyday. This, in turn, outlines current developments in how (digital) photography is used to mediate actions and emotions. In accounting for and reflecting about how (dis)affective communities of place activate affordances of media, photography emerges as a multi-dimensional site of image production, distribution and storage, in short, as a practice that is both unique to the socio-cultural moment in which it is embedded, and general enough to be recognized as such across cultures and societies. Keywords: diaspora, experience of place, new media, photography, visual mediation
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Yang, Yixuan, Sony Peng, Doo-Soon Park, Fei Hao, and Hyejung Lee. "A Novel Community Detection Method of Social Networks for the Well-Being of Urban Public Spaces." Land 11, no. 5 (May 10, 2022): 716. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11050716.
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A third place (public social space) has been proven to be a gathering place for communities of friends on social networks (social media). The regulars at places of worship, cafes, parks, and entertainment can also possibly be friends with those who follow each other on social media, with other non-regulars being social network friends of one of the regulars. Therefore, detecting and analyzing user-friendly communities on social networks can provide references for the layout and construction of urban public spaces. In this article, we focus on proposing a method for detecting communities of signed social networks and mining γ-Quasi-Cliques for closely related users within them. We fully consider the relationship between friends and enemies of objects in signed networks, consider the mutual influence between friends or enemies, and propose a novel method to recompute the weighted edges between nodes and mining γ-Quasi-Cliques. In our experiment, with a variety of thresholds given, we conducted multiple sets of tests via real-life social network datasets, compared various reweighted datasets, and detected maximal balanced γ-Quasi-Cliques to determine the optimal parameters of our method.
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Willems, Julie, Rouve Jan Forbes, and Margaret Simmons. "Beyond place-based: the role of virtual communities via social media in young adult recovery." April 2021 10.47389/36, No 2 (April 2021): 48–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.47389/36.2.48.
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In post-disaster recovery, optimising psychosocial support is important for all groups of the population, yet young adults have tended to be overlooked as a demographic in their own right. Research was conducted to seek the perspectives of young adults through the narrative of their experiences in the years following the 2009 Gippsland bushfires. One emergent theme in the findings highlighted the importance of information and communication during and after events. Participants in this research sought information and support via social media and virtual communities. These sites traverse localised, place-based solutions, enabling young people to communicate over large geographical areas. The platforms aid dynamic and rapidly evolving support by sharing information, feelings and ideas. This research also highlighted the need to identify the gaps in information processes and support systems for young adults and to ensure youth-specific information is included in formal communications. Possible solutions are outlined taking into consideration the perspectives offered by the study participants.
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DEORI, MANOJ, and SUNIL K. BEHERA. "Youth activism through Social media in Assam: An Exploratory Study." Dev Sanskriti Interdisciplinary International Journal 4 (July 31, 2014): 08–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.36018/dsiij.v4i0.40.
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The paper is an attempt to study the online participation behavior of youth in Assam in organizing social and political protests through Social media. During several protest demonstrations and rallies which took place in the middle of the year, 2012; there has been a series of cyber activism that took place prior to the street demonstrations and rallies. The paper attempts to justify the fact that, the street demonstrations and rallies which took place during that particular period, gained its momentum largely through Social Media. Therefore the period can be regarded as the beginning of cyber activism in Assam, since such online activities in publicizing and organizing any collective action in the physical world with regards to activism was not seen in the past. Based on the data collected through onsite surveys, such online communities have considerably given rise to new forms of collective action such as on/offline social and political protest in Assam through social media by publicizing and organizing people where the predominance of the youths is distinctly visible. It is seen that, there has been an increasing number of cyber activism among the online ‘Assamese’ youth communities which has apparently given raise to cyber-civil societies in urban areas. The predominance of youth in such protests is visible, since the use of social media has become a popular culture among the youth. About 17% of the Indian populations are between 15 and 24 and they are experiencing the changes brought by the New Media technology. In examining the practices on social media, authors focus primarily on “Facebook”, which is the most popular social networking site in social media. Series of protest took place in the months of July, August and September, 2012 against unethical media practices; particularly the television media in Assam. Eventually protests against the insecurity of the women in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam and protest against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam were also demonstrated on the streets of Assam which gathered huge civic support. Few youth groups from Assam were also established who organized themselves through social networking sites to raise street demonstrations, along with certain other political parties, NGOs and offline civil society groups. The paper mainly studies the participation of youth in such protests and reflects on the case studies which can be regarded as the beginning of youth cyber activism that apparently gained momentum through social media in Assam.
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Badmatsyrenov, Timur, Fedor Khandarov, and Alexander Tsydenov. "«Third Space», «Echo-Cameras» and Online-Communities: Reproduction of Political Ideologies in Social Media." Political Science (RU), no. 1 (2021): 183–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.31249/poln/2021.01.08.
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The study of the features of the reproduction of political ideologies in social networks and the formation of user communities united by adherence to some political ideas is an urgent problem of contemporary political science. Social media has become an agent for the development of new forms of political activity, providing unprecedented opportunities for transferring and exchanging information, broadcasting political ideas, and involving people in virtual and real communities. Today, social media have become not just a means of transmitting information and a form of entertainment, but a special global form of social political interaction, increasingly penetrating into the most diverse aspects of society. In political interactions, the online services of new media can be described as a “third space”, a development of Ray Oldenburg's concept, in which he singles out a part of the social space not related to housing (“first place”) and work (“second place”). Online communities on social networks have become a mixed form of institutionalized political and informal non-political interactions, as exemplified by ideologically based social media groups. The transformations caused by the rapid development of the Internet and “new social media” are giving rise to a fundamentally new reality of social interaction, which combines two contradictory trends. On the one hand, the Internet and social media have expanded people's access to information and significantly increased the field of social interaction and communication, thereby creating the basis for uniting users on various grounds, including political and ideological views. On the other hand, such changes led to a crisis of trust between the participants. Users belonging to different political ideologies form stable “echo chambers” in their Internet environment, rigidly filtering the information they receive, locking themselves in and reproducing the attributes of only their political ideology and not allowing outsiders there. In our opinion, this requires a study that provides for a close study of ideological “echo chambers”, which seems necessary for understanding the processes of political communication and ways of reproducing political and ideological views in the online sphere.
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Breek, Pieter, Joke Hermes, Jasper Eshuis, and Hans Mommaas. "The Role of Social Media in Collective Processes of Place Making: A Study of Two Neighborhood Blogs in Amsterdam." City & Community 17, no. 3 (September 2018): 906–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cico.12312.
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The wide use of social media has facilitated new social practices that influence place meaning. This paper uses a double case study of two neighborhood blogs in gentrifying communities, to explore the role of social media in sharing place associations and community formation. Drawing on Collins’ theory of interaction ritual chains, this research project investigates how the intertwining of online and offline interaction around the blogs creates interaction chains whereby the place associations of participants in the blog become more aligned, creating an alternative place narrative. Analyses of the dynamics of involvement with the blogs show how social interactions spurred by the blogs generate emotional energy, group solidarity, feelings of morality, meaningful symbols, and feelings of place attachment among the participants. This article illuminates how the emerging process of place (re)making spurred by interaction with the blog emerges from both everyday unplanned behavior and strategic aims of the actors.
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Zeligman, Melissa, Janelle L. Jones, Jasmaine Ataga, and Zachary P. McNiece. "Discrimination, Social Media Use, and Chronic Stress in Black Americans." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 44, no. 4 (October 1, 2022): 327–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.44.4.04.
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Discrimination experiences may contribute to the chronic stress experienced by Black Americans, leaving these individuals particularly vulnerable to mental health concerns. In turn, individuals may utilize social media platforms as a place for online community and shared experience. At the same time, social media may also amplify evidence of global discrimination, further contributing to chronic stress felt in Black communities. Presently, little is known about the relationships between discrimination, chronic stress, and social media use. Multiple regressions and moderation analyses (N = 246) explored the predictive nature of social media use and discrimination on chronic stress in a sample of Black American college students. Results provide initial support for the potential negative impact of social media on chronic stress. Clinical implications for professional counselors are provided.
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Widjanarko, Putut. "Media Ethnography in Diasporic Communities." Jurnal Humaniora 32, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.49389.
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Media and communication technology plays a crucial role in diasporic communities by helping members to maintain complex connections with their places of origin, and at the same time to live their life in the diaspora. The social interactions, belief systems, identity struggles, and the daily life of diasporic communities are indeed reflected in their media consumption and production. A researcher can apply media ethnography to uncover some of the deeper meanings of diasporic experiences. However, a researcher should not take media ethnographic methods lightly since a variety of issues must be addressed to justify its use as a legitimate approach. This article examines various forms of media ethnographic fieldwork (multi-sited ethnography), issues related to researching one’s own community (native ethnography), and the debates surrounding duration of immersion in ethnography research within the context of diasporic communities. Careful consideration of such issues is also necessary to establish the “ethnographic authority” of the researcher.
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Hall Jr., Owen P. "Social Media Driven Management Education." International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations 7, no. 2 (April 2017): 43–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijkbo.2017040104.
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Business schools are under growing pressure to engage in significant programmatic reforms in light of the business community's call for web-savvy, problem-solving graduates. Even AACSB has gotten into the reformation act by recommending the adoption of a comprehensive collaboration learning strategy. To meet these and related challenges, many schools of business are turning to social media to provide learning opportunities at a time and place that is convenient to the student. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the growing possibilities for using social media to enhance learning outcomes and to outline strategies for implementing this revolutionary process throughout the management education community of practice.
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Zufar, Biko Nabih Fikri, and Eka Kartika Sari. "The other space of social media: Concept study of heterotopia on Instagram." Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika 16, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jsd.v16i1.2021.12-23.
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Technological developments in society are separate space into two forms, real space and virtual space. The two meet each other when either individuals or communities use virtual space. Foucault described space to be three forms: dystopia, utopia, and heterotopia. This article aims to explain Instagram as virtual space that intersects real space, forming other spaces in the process. This article uses the perspective of the sociology of space and place while also using Foucault’s theory of other space. This study used the qualitative research method with a discourse analysis approach. The finding of this article is that there are six heterotopia principles contained in Instagram’s features. The results, Instagram forms other space beyond the activity of uploading photos or videos. Instagram as a real space becomes biased because of heterotopia. Individuals interpret Instagram differently as a place to share. On the contrary, when sharing activities, other individuals may use it for more than just sharing. Instagram has changed its space due to a shift in place use. Instagram can create other spaces besides its original function of uploading photos or videos through the other features on Instagram.
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Waller, Lisa, and Katrina Clifford. "Ice towns: Television representations of crystal methamphetamine use in rural Australia." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 16, no. 2 (April 29, 2019): 185–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659019845025.
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The Australian news media regularly presents crystal methamphetamine use as a non-metropolitan ‘epidemic’ sweeping through country towns with devastating consequences for affected communities. Considerations of place and the notion of rurality are therefore crucial to understanding how these media representations are constructed and their power to influence national understandings of rural people, places and policy debates. In order to explore these complexities, we apply Simon Cottle’s ‘communicative architecture of television’ methodology to an analysis of three long-form reportage television programmes on the theme of ice use in small Australian towns. Theories of ‘social imaginaries’ inform the argument that a distinctive Australian ‘agrarian imaginary’ can be discerned through the reporting’s strong associations with the connections and contradictions attached to ideas and emotions about ‘the bush’. The television programmes draw on what Cottle terms ‘mythic’ and ‘collective’ frames that reach into the cultural reservoirs of communities to reinforce national perceptions, values and narratives about how rural communities ought to be, and by extension, how they ought to deal with complex social problems, such as illicit drug distribution and use.
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Loganathan, V., and S. Godfrey Winster. "Extraction and Clustering of Adverse Drugs: Using Twitter Data." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 17, no. 5 (May 1, 2020): 2193–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2020.8869.
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Social media is a place where one can create, update and share both the Public/Private Messages and Updates through various Platforms to several communities. It plays a vital role in our Traditional and Cultural Values. There are different types of Media Platform in which one can communicate and gets interacted with each other. But many of the people prefer social media like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Various Creative and Non Creative blogs and Various YouTube channels. There is a huge transformation in the field of Medicine with marvelous up gradation of speed in social media networking for the common public. People make use of these social media platform to seek general information regarding medicine and diseases and its symptoms.
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Flores-Saviaga, Claudia, Shangbin Feng, and Saiph Savage. "Datavoidant: An AI System for Addressing Political Data Voids on Social Media." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, CSCW2 (November 7, 2022): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3555616.
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The limited information (data voids) on political topics relevant to underrepresented communities has facilitated the spread of disinformation. Independent journalists who combat disinformation in underrepresented communities have reported feeling overwhelmed because they lack the tools necessary to make sense of the information they monitor and address the data voids. In this paper, we present a system to identify and address political data voids within underrepresented communities. Armed with an interview study, indicating that the independent news media has the potential to address them, we designed an intelligent collaborative system, called Datavoidant. Datavoidant uses state-of-the-art machine learning models and introduces a novel design space to provide independent journalists with a collective understanding of data voids to facilitate generating content to cover the voids. We performed a user interface evaluation with independent news media journalists (N=22). These journalists reported that Datavoidant's features allowed them to more rapidly while easily having a sense of what was taking place in the information ecosystem to address the data voids. They also reported feeling more confident about the content they created and the unique perspectives they had proposed to cover the voids. We conclude by discussing how Datavoidant enables a new design space wherein individuals can collaborate to make sense of their information ecosystem and actively devise strategies to prevent disinformation.
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Wynn, Jonathan. "An arson spree in college town: community enhancement through media convergence." Media, Culture & Society 39, no. 3 (July 9, 2016): 357–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443716646175.
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Fears of media and technology undermining ‘community’ have persisted for half a century. It is believed that, in the digital age, place-based collectivities of people become isolated and individualized through media and technology, replacing ‘place-based’ communities with placeless ‘communities of interest’. While this greater trend may well exist, it is hardly uniform. This research examines how sufficiently flexible technologies and media can do the exact opposite: reinforce neighborhood ties and affirm a sense of community, particularly in times of crisis. A singular event, an arson spree, can create a bevy of bounded information for analysis. What unfolds is an image of a community enhanced by social media, providing a new perspective for both areas of research. Rather than using broad survey data, this study examines community through the prism of these fires to reinforce findings on community connection and identity and offers new suggestions for research.
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Ragusa, Angela T. "City-exit and Community-fit: Finding One’s ‘Place’ in Australia." International Journal of Community and Social Development 4, no. 1 (January 28, 2022): 61–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25166026211070374.
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Understanding what prompts ‘community-fit’ (subjective feeling of alignment with one’s residential community) is vital for retaining city-leavers voluntarily choosing to live outside major cities and for community well-being/prosperity. In Australia, city-exit is supported by decentralisation policy and media using imagery of gentrified rurality, wholesome communities, and affordability to assuage metropolitan congestion and address non-coastal rural-regional depopulation. This results in land development accompanied by population turnover as a few urbanites permanently relocate inland. By presenting a thematic analysis of interviews with city-leavers and government/industry professionals, this article identifies key factors affecting (dis)satisfaction with communities sought/left. Findings show community satisfaction is achieved through sociocultural-affirming social interactions, not property/amenity consumption. Hence, developing rural-regional marketing strategies that better articulate communities’ sociocultural dimensions may increase awareness of place-based values/characteristics pre-relocation to avoid poor community fit and cost. Finally, to support resident retention, inclusivity practices accompanying community change are advocated.
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Copeland, Andrea. "Public Library: A Place for the Digital Community Archive." Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 44, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2015-0004.
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Abstract This article explores the possibility that public libraries can be repositories for digital community archives. The overarching goal is to establish a case for public libraries’ developing digital community archives that are participatory and which emphasize born-digital items rather than digitized physical items. This discussion follows my own research and experience in this area to include personal information management, social media and the personal archive, and the accidental community archive, and demonstrates that public libraries can focus on communities’ current events and people rather than solely on those from the past.
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Aslam, Rukhsana. "Building Peace through Journalism in the Social/Alternate Media." Media and Communication 4, no. 1 (February 18, 2016): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i1.371.
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Social media networks are rapidly rewriting the traditional principles and protocols of war and conflict reporting. This paper endorses the argument that with the help of new media technologies, journalists can enhance the peacebuilding efforts in societies and communities. Their writings in the alternate media can provide ‘compelling form of engagement’ between the audiences and the people affected in the areas of violent conflict. But, the paper further argues, this requires a broadening of the orthodox model of journalistic objectivity that has so far been in place. It examines the possibilities of new models in the light of the existing journalism paradigms as argued by scholars including Galtung and Ruge (1965), Lynch and McGoldrick (2005), Shinar (2007), Hackett (2011) and Shaw (2011). It concludes on the need to have a model that is ‘a more natural fit’ for the 21st century by giving journalists the ‘flexibility’ to enable people to make their own judgments as to where the truth lies; and to open up the possibilities for dialogue and engagement in conflict resolution.
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Rath, Linda. "Omeka.net as a librarian-led digital humanities meeting place." New Library World 117, no. 3/4 (March 14, 2016): 158–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/nlw-09-2015-0070.
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Purpose – This case study aims to evaluate Omeka.net, the hosted Web publishing exhibit tool, as a low-cost and technology-friendly platform encouraging dynamic academic and non-academic communities to collaborate, explore and contribute to a genre film festival resource. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review established six variables to assess Omeka.net as a viable platform for libraries seeking to administer a resource-focused website adhering to information standards with limited budgets, training and technical or institutional support. The variables identified were cost; website management; content building and management; communities, engagement and collaboration; exploration and knowledge building; and website support. Findings – Omeka.net supports many activities with notable functions for website administration; collection building; media formats; collaboration; metadata; social media; user contributions; technical support; and the creation of simple, custom pages. While templates for page layouts offer a surprising amount of choices, some options are limited. Currently, interactive and exploratory items cannot be embedded into website pages. Originality/value – This paper discusses Omeka.net, the hosted version of the exhibit tool offered by Omeka, as a platform to encourage cross-sector collaboration for digital humanities projects, addressing a gap in the literature which focuses on Omeka.org, the open-source software version installed by libraries with access to servers and technical staff.
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Ringland, Kathryn E., and Christine T. Wolf. ""You're my best friend."." XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 28, no. 2 (December 2021): 66–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3495266.
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The COVID-19 pandemic was a time of unexpected isolation for many, as well as a time fraught with uncertainty. In this article, we explore how many turned to playful online communities across a number of social media platforms as a place of connection and support.
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Halegoua, Germaine, and Erika Polson. "Exploring ‘digital placemaking’." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 27, no. 3 (June 2021): 573–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13548565211014828.
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This brief essay introduces the special issue on the topic of ‘digital placemaking’ – a concept describing the use of digital media to create a sense of place for oneself and/or others. As a broad framework that encompasses a variety of practices used to create emotional attachments to place through digital media use, digital placemaking can be examined across a variety of domains. The concept acknowledges that, at its core, a drive to create and control a sense of place is understood as primary to how social actors identify with each other and express their identities and how communities organize to build more meaningful and connected spaces. This idea runs through the articles in the issue, exploring the many ways people use digital media, under varied conditions, to negotiate differential mobilities and become placemakers – practices that may expose or amplify preexisting inequities, exclusions, or erasures in the ways that certain populations experience digital media in place and placemaking.
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Zamiatin, Dmitri. "Post-City (III): Co-spatiality Politics and New Mediality." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 19, no. 3 (2020): 232–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-3-232-266.
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One of the most significant factors influencing the co-spatialities regimes of post-urban communities is the development of new urban media. On the one hand, new urban media symbolizes the complex transition to new post-urban communities and new spatial regimes of their existence; on the other hand, they are the basic element of the newly emerging policies of co-spatialities. From the phenomenological point of view, post-politics is treated as the growing dominance of flat communicative ontologies in post-urban spaces, characterized by the disintegration of the traditional modern methods of communication. A post-urban locality is defined as a medial co-being, centering the next here-and-now cartography of imagination, which can be considered as a post-political action. The de-territorialization of post-urban communities takes place through the “smoothing” of urban spaces, turning them into mostly “smooth spaces” with the help of the new media. Specific local geo-cultures, a new, “rhizomatic” type whose development is based on the post-political transcription of socialization and medialization of urban spaces, are formed. The affectivity of post-urban co-spatialities is manifested in the gradual increase in the number of new specific urban actors that herald the slipping away of traditional state and municipal policies. The post-political can be considered as a sphere of geo-semiotic violence aimed at the over-coding of co-spatial situations. The mapping of co-spatialities reproduces the Earth as a total chora of post-political ontology. The post-city nomos constantly forms a communicative periphery with the missing center, where any message can signal the transactions of imagination aimed at the devaluation of “center–periphery” systems.
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Kotis, Konstantinos, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, and Andreas Papasalouros. "Intelligent Collaborative Authoring of Place-Based, Cross-Cultural and Media-Rich Experiences." Challenges 11, no. 1 (June 8, 2020): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/challe11010010.
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In this paper, we present a framework that aims to support the active participation and collaboration of knowledge workers and engineers in the co-authoring of place-based, cross-cultural and media-rich memories, experiences, stories and narration. To achieve this, the framework proposes a novel approach for facilitating such a participation and collaboration through the semantic integration of data/information and integrated tools that will be both accessible via an open, user-friendly, mobile and knowledge-based platform, emphasizing a low-effort participative and guided co-authoring approach. The presented collaborative and participative approach is expected to foster social cohesion in heterogeneous communities of interest and practice. For the realization of the framework, we propose the implementation of a proof-of-concept system and its evaluation in the socio-cultural group of immigrants and refugees within the context of creating and sharing knowledge related to the physical and digital artifacts of a modern art museum. Our vision for the proposed framework is to introduce new technology for the collaborative authoring of cultural experiences with low effort using an intelligent assistant. Additionally, we envision a Shared Experiences Ecosystem (SEE) that aims to provide media-rich content and tools that will eventually foster the inclusive access of heterogeneous socio-cultural groups to shared experiences, increasing social cohesion in resilient local environments.
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Gündüz, Uğur. "The Effect of Social Media on Identity Construction." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 8, no. 5 (September 1, 2017): 85–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mjss-2017-0026.
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AbstractThe social media platforms have a growing importance in our lives since they are the places where we “showcase” our living experiences. They also reflect a variety of dimensions regarding our position in the virtual and physical social life. Both of these factors make people to play certain characters in the social arena. The Social Network is gaining more and more importance in today’s world and has a deeper impact on the society as to the traditional media. Social media enables identity expression, exploration, and experimentation; something natural for the human experience. It is the agencies in real life, which provide a source of names for different sectors, that inspire the internet communities and the interactions they make within themselves. It is essential to comprehend the motives of agencies to have an understanding of the group interactions on social platforms. The enable individuals present themselves to others and determine the way they would like to be perceives in addition to helping them connect and interact with people, and participate in the activities they wish. Communicating online offers many ways to connect with others: individuals may or may not use their real names, and they can open as many accounts as they want to. This study explores practical aspects of identity construction, relating to issues virtual communities and social media. It also analyzes the probable reasons that individuals feel the need to create a virtual identity for themselves as well as “the spiral of transformation”, that is, the creation period goes ahead of the internet to reach the real life. This study also aims at concentrating on the virtual communities appearing in the social networks while questioning their social and cultural qualities and values.
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Angeline, Mia, and Yuanita Safitri. "Participatory Culture in Indonesian Communities: A Study of #Gerakbersama Campaign." Humaniora 9, no. 1 (March 5, 2018): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/humaniora.v9i1.4273.
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The research aimed to provide an overview on how digital conversation and participatory culture processes take place in Indonesian communities in #GerakBersama campaign. This research used a qualitative approach with case study methods. The results show that digital conversations in the #GerakBersama campaign are mostly triggered by content shared by the initiators. However, most accounts who share the content or hashtags in social media are organizations. In short, the digital conversation of this campaign is still a one-way conversation from the initiators to the public. In #GerakBersama campaign, the process of forming participatory culture begins with the existence of a society that has the same concern and a feeling of disgust about violence against women. The existence of this similarity is also reinforced by the characteristics of new media which allows users to share and create participatory culture.
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Tamin, Gary Cantonna, and Petrus Rudi Kasimun. "RUANG PERTUNJUKAN SENI DI BLOK M." Jurnal Sains, Teknologi, Urban, Perancangan, Arsitektur (Stupa) 2, no. 1 (June 16, 2020): 919. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/stupa.v2i1.6855.
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As time goes by, people, especially in urban areas, tend to have individualistic characteristics due to their busy daily routines. Where most of the time spent at work, home or shopping centers. Humans as social creatures who should socialize and interact with others to meet social needs. To meet social needs in the current modern era, it takes a social container that can accommodate the activities of the surrounding community. So that people can meet with each other, socialize and also interact through these social media platforms. South Jakarta, precisely in the Blok M area, was known as a place for the gathering of young people of its time. However, at this time Blok M has begun to be abandoned by the community because other regions have more adequate gathering places. Blok M is an area that has a lot of art communities, such as street buskers, Japanese communities, contemporary music and much more. According to Richard Florida, creative people have the desire to do creative things and also get together with other creative people. This has a continuity where The Third place according to Ray Oldenburg, is a place where people can gather and interact with one another to meet their social needs. Blok M is an area that has a lot of art communities, such as street buskers, Japanese communities, contemporary music and much more. Blok M Performing Arts Space is present as the third space or "The Third place" and also as a place to show and hone creativity, where people can gather, interact and move with each other. This project is also intended as a forum for surrounding communities to interact with other communities and also can show their works to the wider community, so there is a reciprocal relationship between the community and the local community. Did not rule out the possibility of also triggering collaboration between these communities, thus bringing up a new and unique collaborative performing arts performance. Abstrak Seiring perkembangannya zaman, masyarakat khususnya di perkotaan cenderung memiliki sifat yang individualis dikarenakan rutinitas sehari-hari yang padat. Dimana sebagian besar waktu dihabiskan di tempat kerja, rumah ataupun pusat perbelanjaan. Manusia sebagai makhluk sosial yang seharusnya bersosialisasi dan berinteraksi dengan sesama untuk memenuhi kebutuhan sosial. Untuk memenuhi kebutuhan sosial di era modern saat ini, dibutuhkan wadah sosial yang dapat menampung aktivitas-aktivitas masyarakat sekitar. Sehingga masyarakat dapat saling bertemu, bersosialisasi dan juga berinteraksi melalui media wadah sosial tersebut. Jakarta Selatan, tepatnya di kawasan Blok M, dikenal sebagai tempat perkumpulan anak-anak muda pada zamannya. Namun, pada saat ini Blok M mulai ditinggalkan oleh masyarakat dikarenakan kawasan-kawasan lain mempunyai tempat berkumpul yang lebih memadai. Blok M merupakan kawasan yang memiliki banyak sekali komunitas seni, seperti pengamen jalanan, komunitas Jepang, musik kontemporer dan masih banyak lagi. Menurut Richard Florida, orang-orang kreatif mempunyai keinginan untuk melakukan hal-hal yang kreatif dan juga berkumpul dengan orang-orang kreatif lainnya. Hal ini mempunyai kesinambungan dimana The Third place menurut Ray Oldenburg, merupakan sebuah tempat dimana orang-orang dapat berkumpul dan saling berinteraksi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan sosial mereka. Blok M merupakan kawasan yang memiliki banyak sekali komunitas seni, seperti pengamen jalanan, komunitas Jepang, musik kontemporer dan masih banyak lagi. Ruang Pertunjukan Seni Blok M hadir sebagai ruang ketiga atau “The Third place” dan juga sebagai tempat untuk menunjukan dan mengasah kreatifitas , dimana masyarakat dapat berkumpul, berinteraksi dan beraktivitas dengan sesamanya.Proyek ini juga ditujukan sebagai wadah bagi komunitas-komunitas sekitar untuk berinteraksi dengan komunitas lainnya dan juga dapat menunjukan karya-karya mereka ke masyarakat luas, sehingga terjadi hubungan timbal balik antara masyarakat dengan komunitas setempat. Tidak menutup kemungkinan juga memicu timbulnya kolaborasi antara komunitas-komunitas tersebut, sehingga memunculkan sebuah karya pertunjukan seni kolaborasi yang baru dan unik.
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Guidi, Barbara, and Andrea Michienzi. "Dynamic Community Structure in Online Social Groups." Information 12, no. 3 (March 5, 2021): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info12030113.
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One of the main ideas about the Internet is to rethink its services in a user-centric fashion. This fact translates to having human-scale services with devices that will become smarter and make decisions in place of their respective owners. Online Social Networks and, in particular, Online Social Groups, such as Facebook Groups, will be at the epicentre of this revolution because of their great relevance in the current society. Despite the vast number of studies on human behaviour in Online Social Media, the characteristics of Online Social Groups are still unknown. In this paper, we propose a dynamic community detection driven study of the structure of users inside Facebook Groups. The communities are extracted considering the interactions among the members of a group and it aims at searching dense communication groups of users, and the evolution of the communication groups over time, in order to discover social properties of Online Social Groups. The analysis is carried out considering the activity of 17 Facebook Groups, using 8 community detection algorithms and considering 2 possible interaction lifespans. Results show that interaction communities in OSGs are very fragmented but community detection tools are capable of uncovering relevant structures. The study of the community quality gives important insights about the community structure and increasing the interaction lifespan does not necessarily result in more clusterized or bigger communities.
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Lindgren, Simon, and Coppélie Cocq. "Turning the inside out: Social media and the broadcasting of indigenous discourse." European Journal of Communication 32, no. 2 (December 23, 2016): 131–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323116674112.
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This article analyses what happens on social media (Twitter) when a local issue specific to a certain Indigenous group spreads out to a wider network of actors. We look closer at the process where emic (inside) discourses are enabled, through social media, to reach a broader audience and become part of translocal debates. In a case study of information sharing, network building and support on Twitter in relation to a series of Sámi anti-mining protests in 2013, we address questions about the dynamics, flows and process of Indigenous communication on Twitter. First, we analyse in what ways and to what extent the posts are used for inreach communication or outreach communication. Second, we analyse the role of tweets that contain links to web resources for broadcasting Indigenous concerns to a wider, more diverse audience. Finally, we assess how different types of actors interact in order to shape the circulation of content. Our analysis shows even though communication went beyond the core community, Sámi actors still appeared to own and control the discourse and agenda on the issue in social media. Obviously, online communities are not secluded communities. For geographically localized groups and for marginalized communities, the use of global social media does not only enable communication with actors in more distant groups and places; social media also makes visible common interests and goals on a global scale. The possibility of addressing multiple audiences at the same time increases the potential of reaching an audience outside one’s set of ‘followers’ or one’s tight-knit communities of like-minded people.
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Carson, Andrea, Denis Muller, Jennifer Martin, and Margaret Simons. "A new symbiosis? Opportunities and challenges to hyperlocal journalism in the digital age." Media International Australia 161, no. 1 (August 3, 2016): 132–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x16648390.
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This article draws on ‘hyperlocal’ journalism scholarship to explore the civic functions of Australian local reporting in the digital age. Through place-based case studies based on interviews with media and civic leaders from three disparate communities, we find community groups are engaging with social media, particularly Facebook, to connect locals to services and community news. Community service providers are increasingly adept at using social media and, in many cases, prefer it to legacy media to gather, disseminate and exchange news. Concurrently, legacy media have lost newsroom resources that limit their practice of ‘shoe leather’ journalism and increase their dependence on official sources without independent verification. Yet, journalists are adapting to newsroom cutbacks by forming symbiotic relationships with non-media news providers, including local police. We find there are promising alternatives for fostering civic discourse and engagement through digital technologies despite less traditional local news and a reduced capacity for verified journalism.
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Santana, Nelson, Emmauel Espinal, and Amaury Rodriguez. "Transnational Dominican Activism." International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) 6, no. 4 (January 25, 2023): 47–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v6i4.38944.
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Dominican-descended people in the United States are one of the most dynamic Spanish-speaking, Caribbean, and Latin American ethnic and cultural communities in the United States. Whether in the Dominican Republic or as members of a transnational community, the Dominican population is one with a long and rich history of challenging the powers that be, unjust acts, and oppressive laws within the communities they inhabit through their civic engagement. This essay aims to address one question: as Dominican society and the world have largely evolved, what has been the role of U.S.-based online media in sustaining, disseminating and rescuing the long tradition of civic involvement and struggle exemplified by Dominicans at home and abroad? To answer that question, we explore the role of the ongoing online Dominican-centric magazine ESENDOM to demonstrate how online journalism documents activism within the Dominican community. ESENDOM and similar media have filled gaps that the mainstream media has failed to fulfill as there is a media blackout on the Dominican Republic and its people. This project is one about activism. This humanistic project documents some of the most important social movements to take place in the Dominican Republic and the United States in the past thirteen years (2009-2022), coinciding with the founding of ESENDOM in 2009. This project will present a timeline and an attempt to chart a chronology of political dissent and social struggles within Dominican communities in the United States and the Dominican Republic.
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Mahabir, Aleem, Romario Anderson, Robert Kinlocke, Rose-Ann Smith, Kristinia Doughorty, and Chandradath Madho. "Discourse, Difference, and Divergence: Exploring Media Representations and Online Public Sentiments toward Marginalized Urban Communities in Jamaica during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Social Sciences 11, no. 6 (May 30, 2022): 240. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11060240.
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Despite lacking the resources to adequately adhere to public health protocols, urban residents belonging to impoverished communities in Kingston, Jamaica were prominently featured in local news reports that highlighted their breaches of social distancing. These reports generated an overwhelmingly prejudiced online social discourse, characterized by derogatory and dehumanizing remarks. This research aims to explore the ways media representations of calls for social distancing have unearthed latent social cleavages and contributed to the othering of Kingston’s poor. A thematic analysis was used to understand the nature of the public response to these news reports. The comments were manually coded, and emergent themes were classified based on the sentiments expressed. The comments generated evoked class, place, race, and political tensions, potentially perpetuating the public perception of vulnerable groups as the ‘threatening other’. These comments possibly represent deeper problems associated with the social divergence of Jamaican society. The lack of sensitivity exhibited shows a general disregard for the stark social realities commonly experienced by subaltern groups. These findings suggest media coverage promoting public safety, while important, may inadvertently lead to heightened social tensions and perpetuate social stigmas against marginalized groups, potentially stirring social divergence and countering efforts toward inclusiveness and integration.
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Moore, Robert, E. Hankinson Gathman, and Nicolas Ducheneaut. "From 3D Space to Third Place: The Social Life of Small Virtual Spaces." Human Organization 68, no. 2 (May 30, 2009): 230–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/humo.68.2.q673k16185u68v15.
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Massively multiplayer online (MMO) environments are an emerging computer technology that makes possible new kinds of distributed communities and online sociability. What distinguishes MMOs from other Internet media is that they take face-to-face conversation as their primary metaphor for user interaction, rather than, say, the page or the bulletin board. Because they simulate 3D spaces and contain thousands of people who do not know each other, MMOs constitute public spaces, although virtual ones. As such, they can be studied in ways analogous to those of public places in the physical world. Inspired by the work of William H. Whyte and Ray Oldenburg on sociability in real-life public places, we take a similar approach toward the study of MMOs. We ask the question: what makes some virtual public spaces in MMOs successful "third places" while other similar places fail? Through our virtual ethnography of dance clubs and corner bars in three MMO environments, we find four features of virtual public spaces that appear critical for their success: accessibility, social density, activity resources, and hosts. We further argue that MMO sociability is just as authentic as that in "real-life" contexts while highlighting ways in which it is distinctly different.
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Klymenko, L. "DISCOURSE OF THE BRAND ALAIN DUCASSE IN MODERN MEDIA SPHERE." PROBLEMS OF SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, no. 33 (2018): 199–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2663-6530.2018.33.14.
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The paper is devoted to analyzing of the media brand routine’s socio discourse characteristics, where a brand embodied in the complex of strategic ideas. It is pointed that the use of the virtual media sphere is an essential tool for business strategies implementation. Social interaction as a discourse activity, taking place regarding to the brand in media space, is considered as an integral and discursive formation made up of the discursive practices’ system. Using concepts of discursive practices, discursive actors, and discourse communities allows rendering discursive brand communication in terms of Le Groupe Ducasse project. Discourse communities are identified according to discursive roles. Taking into consideration activity identifiers, all discursive practices can be divided into two major groups: brand-efferent and brend-afferent. Two types of discursive roles are specified: socio-categorical and situational. Socio-categorical roles, characterized by communicative behavioural stereotypes, are constant, developed according to socio-professional communities, and have afferent background. The brand’s leader, community of people involved with it, community of food experts, connoisseurs, and journalists are among them. Situational character of discursive roles is common for the representatives of the wide Internet community: consumers, potential customers, situational communicators. Brand discourse has interdiscursive character, and considered to be an activity directed discourse, while discursive practices help to implement the main strategic goal of image formation.
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Wells, Chris, Lewis A. Friedland, Ceri Hughes, Dhavan V. Shah, Jiyoun Suk, and Michael W. Wagner. "News Media Use, Talk Networks, and Anti-Elitism across Geographic Location: Evidence from Wisconsin." International Journal of Press/Politics 26, no. 2 (January 17, 2021): 438–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1940161220985128.
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A certain social-political geography recurs across European and North American societies: As post-industrialization and mechanization of agriculture have disrupted economies, rural and nonmetropolitan areas are aging and declining in population, leading to widening political and cultural gaps between metropolitan and rural communities. Yet political communication research tends to focus on national or cross-national levels, often emphasizing networked digital media and an implicitly global information order. We contend that geographic place still provides a powerful grounding for individuals’ lifeworld experiences, identities, and orientations to political communications and politics. Focusing on the U.S. state of Wisconsin, and presenting data gathered in 2018, this study demonstrates significant, though often small, differences between geographic locations in terms of their patterns of media consumption, political talk, and anti-elite attitudes. Importantly, television news continues to play a major role in citizens’ repertoires across locations, suggesting we must continue to pay attention to this broadcast medium. Residents of more metropolitan communities consume significantly more national and international news from prestige sources such as the New York Times, and their talk networks are more cleanly sorted by partisanship. Running against common stereotypes of news media use, residents of small towns and rural areas consume no more conservative media than other citizens, even without controlling for partisanship. Our theoretical model and empirical results call for further attention to the intersections of place and politics in understanding news consumption behaviors and the meanings citizens draw from media content.
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Cavaiani, Anthony C. "Rhetoric, Materiality, and the Disruption of Meaning: The Stadium as a Place of Protest." Communication & Sport 8, no. 4-5 (January 21, 2020): 473–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479519900161.
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Recently, athlete protests about social injustice have garnered much attention from fans and the media. An element frequently overlooked is the role of place in sports protests. Stadiums are iconic markers of identity for communities and play a significant role in the media’s representation of sports games. Informed by Endres and Senda-Cook’s research about place-in-protest, I argue how the Botham Jean and O’Shae Terry protests outside AT&T Stadium in Dallas functioned as place-as-rhetoric to build on the intended purpose of the stadium while temporarily reconstructing its meaning. This material enactment is achieved by the stadium serving as a performative space that authorizes new meaning onto the stadium and surrounding space while heralding it as a champion marker of social justice. I position my analysis within a framework that understands how sports stadiums deploy material rhetoric in ways that produce embodied rhetoric and ephemeral rhetoric that legitimize the Jean and Terry protests as social justice protests. I argue that the stadium functions as place-in-rhetoric to capitalize on its mobilization of fandom in order to amplify social justice messages to a wider audience.
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Evans, Jabari. "Connecting Black youth to critical media literacy through hip hop making in the music classroom." Journal of Popular Music Education 4, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 277–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00020_1.
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This article is an ethnographic study of a hip hop-based music education programme for students within elementary school classrooms. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in two urban schools, this case study describes how hip hop song composition encouraged participants to make essential and critical reflections about media’s place in their personal lives, peer groups, families and communities. The findings of this study suggest that the social and cultural capital of making hip hop music can contribute to bolstering academic learning for Black youth. Implications from this study also suggest informal interests and social identities rooted in hip hop music can connect youth to pathways for professions in creative labour, high-capacity technological skills, civic-mindedness and critical media literacy that could also transcend the classroom.
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Lupien, Pascal. "Indigenous Movements, Collective Action, and Social Media: New Opportunities or New Threats?" Social Media + Society 6, no. 2 (April 2020): 205630512092648. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120926487.
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Indigenous peoples remain among the most marginalized population groups in the Americas. The decline of the Indigenous protest cycle in Latin America by the mid-2000s meant that research on collective action turned elsewhere just as the use of social media was becoming more prominent in the tactical repertoire of collective action, and we know little about how Indigenous groups have adapted new technologies for the purpose of civic engagement. If social media has begun to take the place of disruptive action (the most effective tactics in the 1990s according to Indigenous leaders), if personalized action is replacing collective identity (a strength of the Indigenous movements in the 1980s–1990s) and if their access to technology is limited, what does this mean for the ability of Indigenous communities to pursue their claims? Based on 2 years of fieldwork, this article addresses this question from the perspective of Indigenous organizations in three Latin American countries, Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador. We find that some Indigenous organizations have benefited from the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in terms of enhanced communication, access to information, visibility, interest promotion, and commercialization of products and services. At this point in time, however, it appears that the disadvantages outweigh the benefits.
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Leyshon, Michael, and Matthew Rogers. "Designing for Inclusivity: Platforms of Protest and Participation." Urban Planning 5, no. 4 (October 14, 2020): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i4.3258.
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This article offers critical insights into new digital forms of citizen-led journalism. Many communities across western society are frequently excluded from participating in newsgathering and information dissemination that is directly relevant to them due to financial, educational and geographic constraints. News production is a risky business that requires professional levels of skill and considerable finances to sustain. Hence, ‘hyper-localised news’ are often absent from local and national debates. Local news reportage is habitually relegated to social media, which represents a privileged space where the diffusion of disinformation presents a threat to democratic processes. Deploying a place-based, person-centred approach towards investigating news production within communities in Cornwall, UK, this article reflects on a participatory action research project called the Citizen Journalism News Network (CJNN). The CJNN is an overt attempt to design disruptive systems for agenda setting through mass participation and engagement with social issues. The project was delivered within four communities via a twelve-week-long journalism course, and a bespoke online app. CJNN is a platform for citizen journalists to work collaboratively on investigating stories and raising awareness of social issues that directly affect the communities reporting on them.
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Haristiyanto, Achmad Dimas, and Doddy Yuono. "KONSEP MEDIATEK DALAM PERANCANGAN MEDIA CENTER SEBAGAI THIRD PLACE." Jurnal Sains, Teknologi, Urban, Perancangan, Arsitektur (Stupa) 2, no. 1 (June 16, 2020): 871. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/stupa.v2i1.6871.
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Third place is any place we spend in our lives other than a place to work or home. It is a non-negotiable part of the workplace experience and very important to attract and motivate creative work we need to compete in the future. Library is a physical example of Third place, however, the existing library is not suitable for the lifestyle of creative class people because it has formal environment, strict regulation, and short opening time. Therefore, this study used the Third place theory as an approach to address issues of the lifestyle needs of creative class communities by referring to the standards of multimedia libraries. Third place provides flexibility in service, relaxed environment for exchanging information, develop ideas and creative thinking, and social interaction. The method used in data collection is divided into two categories, namely primary data and secondary data. Primary data is data obtained from the location of the issue, observed and recorded. While secondary data in the form of literature or references about the Mediatheque building are collected to support the process of compiling the program in the design.The design of Mediatek in Cikini, Central Jakarta has the concept of accommodating the need of creative class community for accurate information, opportunities to interact, develop relation, with multimedia basis. Abstrak Third place adalah tempat apapun dalam hidup kita selain daripada tempat bekerja atau rumah. Tempat tersebut menjadi bagian dari pengalaman di tempat kerja yang tidak dapat ditawar, dan berperan penting untuk menarik dan menjaga motivasi kerja kreatif yang dibutuhkan untuk bersaing di masa depan. Perpustakaan adalah salah satu bentuk fisik dari Third place, namun perpustakaan yang ada kurang cocok dengan gaya hidup masyarakat kelas kreatif karena memiliki suasana formal, dengan aturan tegas bagi pengunjung serta waktu pelayanan yang singkat. Oleh karena itu penulis menggunakan teori Third place sebagai pendekatan untuk menjawab isu kebutuhan gaya hidup masyarakat kelas kreatif dengan mengacu standar perpustakaan multimedia. Third place menyediakan ruang fisik dengan fleksibilitas waktu pelayanan, suasana santai untuk bertukar informasi, mengolah ide dan pikiran, dan berinteraksi. Metode yang digunakan pada perancangan ini adalah pencarian ide/gagasan untuk menjawab isu kelas kreatif yang kemudian dikembangkan melalui pengumpulan data sebagai bahan kajian dalam perancangan Mediatheque. Metode yang digunakan dalam pengumpulan data dibagi ke dalam dua kategori, yaitu data primer dan data sekunder. Data primer yaitu data yang diperoleh dari lokasi yang menjadi isu, diamati dan dicatat. Sedangkan data sekunder berupa literatur atau referensi tentang bangunan Mediatheque dikumpulkan untuk mendukung proses menyusun program dalam perancangan. Perancangan Mediatek di Cikini, Jakarta Pusat memiliki konsep mengakomodasi kebutuhan masyarakat kelas kreatif untuk memperoleh informasi akurat, kesempatan saling berinteraksi, membangun relasi, dan berbasis multimedia.
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Khalafat, Monther, Ja'far S. Alqatawna, Rizik M. H. Al-Sayyed, Mohammad Eshtay, and Thaeer Kobbaey. "Violence Detection over Online Social Networks: An Arabic Sentiment Analysis Approach." International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) 15, no. 14 (July 28, 2021): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v15i14.23029.
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<p class="0abstract">Today, the influence of the social media on different aspects of our lives is increasing, many scholars from various disciplines and majors looking at the social media networks as the ongoing revolution. In Social media networks, many bonds and connections can be established whether being direct or indirect ties. In fact, Social networks are used not only by people but also by companies. People usually create their own profiles and join communities to discuss different common issues that they have interest in. On the other hand, companies also can create their virtual presence on the social media networks to benefit from this media to understand the customers and gather richer information about them. With all of the benefits and advantages of social media networks, they should not always be seen as a safe place for communicating, sharing information and ideas, and establishing virtual communities. These information and ideas could carry with them hatred speeches that must be detected to avoid raising violence. Therefore, web content mining can be used to handle this issue. Web content mining is gaining more concern because of its importance for many businesses and institutions. Sentiment Analysis (SA) is an important sub-area of web content mining. The purpose of SA is to determine the overall sentiment attitude of writer towards a specific entity and classify these opinions automatically. There are two main approaches to build systems of sentiment analysis: the machine learning approach and the lexicon-based approach. This research presents the design and implementation for violence detection over social media using machine learning approach. Our system works on Jordanian Arabic dialect instead of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The data was collected from two popular social media websites (Facebook, Twitter) and has used native speakers to annotate the data. Moreover, different preprocessing techniques have been used to show their effect on our model accuracy. The Arabic lexicon was used for generating feature vectors and separate them to features set. Here, we have three well known machine learning algorithms: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Naive Bayes (NB) and k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN). Building on this view, Information Science Research Institute’s (ISRI) stemming and stop word file as a result of preprocessing were used to extract the features. Indeed, several features have been extracted; however, using the SVM classifier reveals that unigram and features extracted from lexicon are characterized by the highest accuracy to detect violence.</p>
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Wilopo, Wilopo, Poetika Puspasari, Sobar Sutisna, Syamsul Maarif, and I. Dewa Ketut Kerta Widana. "Socio-Geospatial Characteristic of Communities Affected by Contemporary Hydrometeorological Disaster During The Covid-19 Pandemic in Cimanggung Sub-District, Sumedang District, West Java Province." Technium Social Sciences Journal 29 (March 9, 2022): 523–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v29i1.6137.
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Hydrometeorological disasters has dominated the list of disasters in Indonesia in recent years. Cimanggung Sub-District in Sumedang District which located in West Java Province is one of the areas experiencing hydrometeorological disasters, namely landslides and floods in January 2021. This disaster event is an example of an interesting phenomenon to conduct innovative research in the context of disaster management that occurred in the Covid-19 pandemic era. Thus, this research aims to analyze the socio-geospatial characteristics of the affected community so that it can explore the level of survival capacity of the community affected by the contemporary hydrometeorological disaster through the identification of its socio-geospatial characteristics in Cimanggung Sub-District, Sumedang District. This study uses an exploratory survey method for social and geospatial parameters and will be analyzed quantitative qualitative sequential with the GIS-Overlay technique based on observation data and field surveys and the results of interviews with affected communities. The results showed that: 1). The characteristics possessed by the people of Cimanggung Sub-District and the landslide disaster during the Covid-19 pandemic that occurred influenced each other both positively and negatively; 2). Geospatial characteristics in Cimanggung Sub-District basically place the local community's livelihood at risk of landslide hazard; and 3). Landslides and floods during the Covid-19 pandemic that occurred in Cimanggung Sub-Distruct had a domino impact on the community which greatly affected the dimensions of human security. Morphological conditions affect the characteristics of people who have community attachment to fellow communities and their environment. However, this characteristic is also an obstacle in the housing relocation process that will be carried out by the government. On the other hand, the community attachment has the nature of mutual cooperation helps the disaster emergency response process so that it is carried out more effectively.
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Brown, Brian, and Anabel Quan-Haase. "‘A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0’: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10, no. 2 (May 25, 2012): 488–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i2.390.
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In this paper, we propose a new ethnographic method for the study of produsage (Bruns 2008) in social media contexts. The proposed method is based on three lines of thought: Marx’s method of ‘A Workers’ Inquiry’, the autonomists’ method of co-research, and recent critical theory of Web 2.0. To show the applicability and usefulness of the proposed method, we first compare it to other Marxist inspired methodological approaches and then we describe a case study to illustrate the method’s diversity and its potential for providing new insights into the processes of produsage and the commodification of audiences as described in previous work by Smythe (1977), Bruns (2008), Cohen (2008), and Fuchs (2011). The case study consists of a critical examination of the mode of produsage as it takes place in Flickr, one of the largest photo-sharing communities on the Internet.
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Maathuis, Clara, and Iddo Kerkhof. "Social Media Manipulation Awareness through Deep Learning based Disinformation Generation." International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security 18, no. 1 (February 28, 2023): 227–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/iccws.18.1.940.
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As a digital environment introduced for establishing and enhancing human communication through different social networks and channels, social media continued to develop and spread at an incredible rate making it difficult to find or imagine a concept, technology, or business that does not have or plan to have its social media representation and space. Concurrently, social media became a playground and even a battlefield where different ideas carrying out diverse validity degrees are spread for reaching their target audiences generated by clear and trustable well-known, uncertain, or even evil aimed entities. In the stride carried out for preventing, containing, and limiting the effects of social manipulation of the last two types of entities, proper/effective security awareness is critical and mandatory in the first place. On this behalf, several strategies, policies, methods, and technologies were proposed by research and practitioner communities, but such initiatives take mostly a defender perspective, and this is not enough in cyberspace where the offender is in advantage in attack. Therefore, this research aims to produce social media manipulation security awareness taking the offender stance by generating and analysing disinformation tweets using deep learning. To reach this goal, a Design Science Research methodology is followed in a Data Science approach, and the results obtained are analysed and positioned in the ongoing discourses showing the effectiveness of such approach and its role in building future social media manipulation detection solutions. This research also intends to contribute to the design of further transparent and responsible modelling and gaming solutions for building/enhancing social manipulation awareness and the definition of realistic cyber/information operations scenarios dedicated/engaging large multi-domain (non)expert audiences.
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Grover, Ted, and Gloria Mark. "Detecting Potential Warning Behaviors of Ideological Radicalization in an Alt-Right Subreddit." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 13 (July 6, 2019): 193–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3221.
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Over the past few years, new ideological movements like the Alt-Right have captured the attention and concern of both mainstream media, policy makers, and scholars alike. Today, the methods by which right-wing extremists are radicalized are increasingly taking place within social media platforms and online communities. However, no research has yet investigated methods for proactively detecting online communities that may be displaying overall warning signs of mass ongoing ideological and political radicalization. In our work, we use a variety of text analysis methods to investigate the behavioral patterns of a radical right-wing community on Reddit (r/altright) over a 6-month period until right before it was banned for violation of Reddit terms of service. We find that this community showed aggregated behavioral patterns that aligned with past literature on warning behaviors of individual extremists in online environments, and that these behavioral patterns were not seen in a comparison group of eight other online political communities, similar in size and user engagement. Our research helps build upon the established literature on the detection of extremism in online environments, and has implications for proactive monitoring of online communities.
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Aldamen, Yasmin. "Can a Negative Representation of Refugees in Social Media Lead to Compassion Fatigue? An Analysis of the Perspectives of a Sample of Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Turkey." Journalism and Media 4, no. 1 (January 12, 2023): 90–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia4010007.
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Negative, tragic, traumatic and suffering representations continue to dominate the discussions and content on social media in the stories and content related to Syrian refugees. The public, while browsing social media, finds that this representation is the dominant one that dominates the image of refugees. Thus, there is a potential risk that the public’s compassion will be negatively affected after repeated exposure to the dominant representation in light of the inability to put an end to that situation. This study discusses the perspectives of Syrian refugees living in Jordan and Turkey on whether they feel such repeated negative and tragic content about their stories and news on social media could affect the empathy of the audience in hosting communities with them, especially since social media is an open-source platform that all people at any time and from any place can post, re-share, comment and create content by adding texts, photos and videos, not like traditional media, which are controlled more than social media platforms for open participatory content. This study aims to explore how a vulnerable population, such as Syrian refugees in Istanbul and Amman, sees the effect of negative representation on themselves and their image in the hosting communities and does not aim to examine or offer any conclusion as to whether the public in Jordan and Turkey have experienced compassion fatigue. This study provides and extracts some useful insights, but proves no hypotheses or conclusive evidence regarding the occurrence of compassion fatigue in the public; thus, the study opens the door for the debate on the role that social media plays as a source of compassion fatigue among citizens towards refugees, mainly when they are repeatedly exposed to such negative stories and content, as well as calls for an in-depth and extensive study on the topic from the point of view of the public and citizens in the hosting countries, after examining, understanding and analyzing the opinions and their dimensions of the sample of refugees in this study.