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Lewis, Peter M. "Community media : field, theory, policy." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2010. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1217/.
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The submission consists of twenty-three outputs, spanning over three decades. These range from books and chapters to reports, journal articles and edited publications. The accompanying commentary aims to set the submitted work in context, demonstrate that it constitutes a coherent whole, and that it makes an independent and original contribution to knowledge and the advancement of the academic field of community media within the discipline of media studies. A number of overlapping contexts are summarised: the socio-historical setting in which the practice of electronic community media first emerged; the ‘personal/professional’ context in which reflection on practical experience led to developments in theory and policy analysis; the academic context of the development of British media studies where at first radio was marginalised and there was no discursive space for the notion of community media, then a later stage where a wider range of theoretical contexts brought community and alternative media into the academic frame. Three main sections discuss, respectively, the candidate’s contribution to the identification and categorisation of community media, the application to it of theoretical perspectives, and the development of policy analysis. All three areas, it is argued, were part of a wider strategy aimed at bringing recognition to the field and which involved activities outside the scope of the submission (advocacy, interventions in mainstream media) but which are part of the context of the submitted work. For that reason an appendix (B) lists all the candidate’s publications on the subject, while others list conference presentations and other relevant activities. In addition, the documentation includes a brief career summary and statements by co-authors.
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Mertz, Aaron. "Social media and community water fluoridation." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12519.
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PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.Community water fluoridation is the upward adjustment of the fluoride content in a public water supply to an optimal level to prevent tooth decay. This level can vary, but it is usually between 0.7 ppm and 1.2 ppm, depending on the local climate. The purpose of community water fluoridation is to prevent tooth decay and as of 2010, over 204 million Americans are reaping the health and economic benefits it provides. Community water fluoridation has been used for more than 67 years, has been scientifically studied in depth throughout this time period, and it is also supported by numerous reputable medical, dental and health organizations. However, there are a small number of outspoken and opinionated individuals and organizations that oppose community water fluoridation. They use various campaign efforts through traditional media, on the internet and through social media to persuade the general public to believe community water fluoridation is unethical, unsafe, and/or unhealthy for individuals. Prior to performing research for this thesis, when exploring community water fluoridation, there seemed to be a general trend that anti-fluoridation websites were more easily accessible on the internet. When performing a Google search, The Fluoride Action Network and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both lead the results. However, the estimated number of hits to the Fluoride Action Network exceeds the number of hits to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's fluoridation section five-fold. The trend was even more lopsided on social media outlets, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The hypothesis driving this thesis and research is that anti-fluoridationists use social media more effectively than those in support of fluoridation to inform the general public oftheir views on community water fluoridation. [TRUNCATED]
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Kayinza, Maureen. "MEDIA CONSUMPTION BY THE GHANAIAN COMMUNITY IN ÖREBRO, SWEDEN." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-69751.
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The study examines the usage of media by the Ghanaian new migrants living in Örebro Sweden. It looks at how the new migrants keep abreast with what is happening in Sweden, their home country Ghana and the rest of the world. The findings show that, the growing numbers of migrants and the kind of diasporic media have significant implications for imagining multicultural Sweden and for participating in European societies and transnational communities. What is argued here is how the new migrants will make use of the diasporic media for their benefit. This study further investigates how the diaspora use the media, it is not to show that society is different or to make impulsive statements on the role of certain media in contributing to integration per se of the new migrants in their host countries. Through qualitative interviews, the study reveals that new migrants find it difficult to make use of the Swedish public sphere. The mainstream media is aloof in everything that interests and benefits new migrants. However alternatives like the internet have tended to close the information gap that the mainstream media has created among the new migrants. Sadly the internet does not play the role that the main stream media would have for new migrants into the Swedish public sphere because the information new migrants’ access is varied and there is no motivation to help them easily get into Swedish public sphere as would have been the case with Swedish mainstream media. Information analysed from the interviews conducted in Örebro indicates that new migrants rely more on the internet than Swedish mainstream media regardless of the length of stay in Sweden. The most affected are those who have lived in Sweden for less than two years and have not acclamatized themselves with the Swedish language which would have enabled them to read Swedish publications, listen to Swedish radio broadcasts and watch Swedish television broadcasts. This, coupled with programmes that help new migrants to make use of the Swedish public sphere would have made Sweden a truly multicultural society. Finally the study suggests areas of further study and research that can be explored in order to promote multiculturalism that Sweden strives to achieve through its policy. The limitations that the study points out only help a researcher to avoid situations that could limit the benefits of the study thereby accessing information that develops and promotes multiculturalism where it is lacking currently.
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Magpanthong, Chalisa. "PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY MEDIA: THREE CASE STUDIES OF THAI COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1181759783.
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Manchester, Helen. "Learning through engagement in community media design." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.731707.
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Simonson, Karina. "Creation of fictional community." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8127.
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This essay explores how the creation of a fictional community is expressed through my body of work. These works do not reference an actual community as such, but are an "imagining"of a nonexisting one, so that they can be understood as a "fictional" or "imagined" community. The dynamic of this imagining is located in the exchange between the memories of my real-life Lithuanian community, and my investigation of the ways in which symbolic objects and group interactions create a sense of community. In this way, my work can be said to reference actual communities, but emphasise the symbolic, or"imaginary"ways in which they hang together.
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Van, der Merwe Elizabeth Louisa. "Network : depolarize the city - a media centre." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08012008-163315.
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Carriere, April Bella Lilas. "Taking Root: Media, Community, and Belonging in Ottawa." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35247.
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This thesis employs a post-anarchist influenced lens and develops a collective capacity framework in order to explore how the media consumption and production practices of the Chinese Canadian, Latin American, and Somali Canadian communities in Ottawa, Canada, can strengthen these communities’ ability to facilitate the process by which immigrants become community members and form a sense of belonging in Ottawa. The thesis explores both how ethno-cultural media can help newcomers to form a sense of belonging and become part of a local ethno-cultural community, as well as how such media can help members of minority ethno-cultural communities become part of the broader local community and to form a sense of belonging in Ottawa, and Canada more broadly. Throughout, the thesis identifies and explores the differences that emerge between the three communities in order to gain better insight into the potential benefits of ethno-cultural media.
In order to explore and to answer these questions, the thesis employs quantitative and qualitative methods. It relies on analysis of secondary literature, raw data from the OMMI 2012 Survey, raw content coding of local Chinese and Spanish language media carried out as part of the Ottawa Multicultural Media Initiative, and primary research consisting of content coding of a Somali Canadian television program.
The main contribution of this thesis lies in offering a new lens through which to assess the integrative potential of ethno-cultural media. Approaching the question from a bottom-up, relationship-centred perspective has yielded different findings than those generally reported in Canadian ethno-cultural media research. Although there were significant differences in terms of media use and media production between the three communities, the findings revealed that all three used ethno-cultural media in ways that had the potential to help them in the process of settling down and taking root in a new city, and of helping them to form a sense of belonging.
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Malina, Anna. "Community development in cyberspace : a case study of a community network." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2001. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7344.
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This thesis investigates the background, emergence, use and significance of a community based information network, the Craigmillar Community Information Service (CCIS), in Edinburgh, Scotland, to assess its relationship with community development and note also the local network's relationship over time with the community, the city and society. Desk research, i.e. reviews of literature and examination of various documents combined with information gained in the field helped to weave contextual, conceptual and theoretical frameworks to assist in analysis. Data was gathered in the field by means of qualitative interviews with City of Edinburgh (CEC) officials, system developers and CCIS users. Additional data was collected and checks were subsequently made as a result of routine observations of CCIS operating within their base in Craigmillar; and also via virtual observations of on-line structure and content over time. Local media reports and an assessment of regeneration delivery services in Craigmillar, commissioned by CEC also provided insights in the analysis. The main objective was to collect data that would accurately reflect the true nature and significance of the CCIS system. A qualitative methodology was employed in this study. Desk research began in mid 1995, and on-line and real-time observations in 1996. Interviews were carried out in the field during 1997 and early 1998. In the final chapter of this thesis, conclusions emerging from analysis of the data are offered as a means of developing deeper understanding of CCIS and community development in cyberspace. Overall, it is hoped to extend general knowledge of community networks, and broaden understanding of the developing field of social informatics. In light of conclusions drawn, theoretical frameworks are reviewed in the final chapter and potential is outlined for further research into the evolving roles of community-based initiatives situated elsewhere, their socio-technical relations and their significance in different societal settings.
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Heck, Elizabeth L. "Social learning and the facilitation of co-creative media practice in community media, arts and cultural organisations." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102465/1/Elizabeth_Heck_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines the significance of social learning in community media and arts contexts. It takes as its focus the use of storytelling by organisations in the community cultural development and community media sectors as a way of enacting social change from within communities. These organisations exist as hybrid learning environments, and they must maintain certain standards of quality in their processes and outcomes to be of ongoing value in their communities and to funders. Such community organisations create networked social learning systems, and the co-creative media practice explored in this thesis is learnt ‘in situ’ in communities of practice.
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Okon, Patrick Edem. "Changes in media policy in Sub-Saharan Africa : the role of community media." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2014. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/7556.
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This thesis considers the role of community media in contemporary media policy developments of Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa. The study is broadly located within the discourse on ‘shapers' of media policy developments. The empirical materials draw upon various case studies of media regulation and community press and broadcasting media campaigns in South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria. The case studies were conducted using mixed methods approach in a qualitative way. The methodological logics underpinning data presentation and analysis are explanation building and cross-case synthesis. The thesis shows that there have been substantial media policy changes with progressive effects across Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa in the last two decades. Enabled by the growing deregulation of media environments, there is a robust and complex culture of community media in the region. Community media institutions, working alongside a plethora of allies and drawing on a range of communication and participatory platforms, are exerting significant impacts on media policy decisions. The degree of their effectiveness, however, is affected by political, legislative, and economic processes, as well as by differences in technology, business philosophies, available funding regimes, and structures for audience participation. The engagements of community media with governments in media deregulations have established a new model for understanding media policy and for media deregulations. But, regardless of the changes in media policy, there are still specific policy concerns that underline what brings additional pressures to community media. The study concludes, firstly, that the contribution of community media to policy making still requires greater public recognition. Secondly, that there is need for the pressures on community media to be quickly redressed in order to improve their effectiveness as policy activists. This could be achieved through: a new understanding of media policy as advanced by alternative media organizations; an ‘open' administrative approach to inform participatory policy decision-making; the expansion of protective frameworks for small media in a bid to preserve their emancipatory potency; and the use of social and digital media to strengthen campaigns for policy reforms.
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Macor, Alison Grace. "The visible audience : participation, community, and media fandom /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Pinkett, Randal D. (Randal Dike) 1971. "Creating community connections : sociocultural constructionism and an asset-based approach to community technology and community building." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28241.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-329).
(cont.) Through this lens, I examine the early results of the project in the areas of community social capital and community cultural capital, based on quantitative and qualitative data resulting from direct observation, surveys, interviews, server logs, and case studies. These findings included expanded local ties, a heightened awareness of community resources, improved communication and information flow at the development, and a positive shift in participants' attitudes and perceptions of themselves as learners. Finally, based on these and other findings, I discuss the challenges and opportunities of a sociocultural constructionist and asset-based approach, presents lessons learned, and offers recommendations for future community technology and community building initiatives.
The intersection between community technology programs seeking to close the "digital divide," and community building efforts aimed at alleviating poverty, holds tremendous possibilities, as both domains seek to empower individuals and families, and improve their overall community. Ironically, approaches that combine these areas have received very little attention in theory and practice. As community technology and community building initiatives move toward greater synergy, there is a great deal to be learned regarding how they can be mutually supportive, rather than mutually exclusive. This thesis sheds light on the possibilities inhered at this nexus. The project that constitutes the basis for this thesis is the Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project, an ongoing effort at Camfield Estates, a predominantly African-American, low- to moderate-income housing development. As part of this project, we worked with residents to establish a technological infrastructure by offering every family a new computer, software, and high-speed Internet connection, along with comprehensive courses and a web-based, community building system, the Creating Community Connections (C3) System, that I have co-designed. The project combined these elements in an effort to achieve a social and cultural resonance that integrated both community technology and community building by leveraging indigenous assets instead of perceived needs. In relation to this work, I have developed the theoretical framework of sociocultural constructionism and an asset-based approach to community technology and community building.
by Randal D. Pinkett.
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Silverman, Ben(Benjamin Luke Matanos). "Fursonas : furries, community, and identity online." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127662.
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Thesis: S.M. in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, May, 2020Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
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The furry fandom is a loose-knit online subculture of fans devoted to anthropomorphic animal characters. Furries are not necessarily fans of specific media properties, but instead often create their own media, including the "fursona," an anthropomorphic animal character to represent oneself in the community. Conducting empirical research through interviews, participant observation, auto ethnography, and virtual ethnography, I have sought to understand this aspect of furry identity and sociality through a number of disciplinary lenses. In this thesis, I argue that furry queers fandom through several interrelated processes: severing fandom from textual objects; developing queer sex publics; paving new pathways to queer becoming; and displacing online identity through stylized, affective modes of embodiment. These fan practices, as articulated through the fursona, cohere into a queer worlding of virtual spaces.
by Ben Silverman.
S.M. in Comparative Media Studies
S.M.inComparativeMediaStudies Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Morrison, Scott. "Media and milieux : exploring the foundations of learning community." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0005/MQ43599.pdf.
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Zhang, Kewen. "The computer network-based media and ethnic electronic community /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9904877.
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Soukup, Charles. "Communicative performance in a multi-media computer-mediated community." [Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska-Lincoln], 2000. http://international.unl.edu/Private/2000/soukupdis.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2000.PDF text: [4] leaves table of contents and acknowledgments, [3] leaves abstract, 244 leaves dissertation : col. ill. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-239 of dissertation).
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Caton-Rosser, Mary S. "Case studies of how community media enact media literacy and activism in the public sphere." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3207736.
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James, Stephen. "Vietnamese Londoners : transnational identities through community networks." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/6493/.
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This research examines Vietnamese in London, focusing on identity formation and community networks through transnational activities. I argue that ‘the transnational’ is a ‘subset’ of migrant categories, and that Vietnamese transnational identities depend on the measurable activities in which they are involved. Important aspects of this research are: First, the Vietnamese are one of the first major non-British Commonwealth peoples to migrate into the United Kingdom in the modern era. This has had implications related to settlement into British society, overcome by the subsequent shift from refugee status to transnational activity and identities, resulting in widespread Vietnamese transnational networks. Second, the Vietnamese represent one of the first ‘quota’ refugee populations granted entry into the UK. Refugees were accepted prior to entering Britain, and upon arrival, government and private support structures were provided. Also, Vietnamese refugees underwent mandatory dispersal across the UK, a detrimental situation prompting a subsequent intra-Britain migration to urban centres, particularly London. Third, Vietnamese communities in Britain have distinctive characteristics, making a study of identities and networks an interesting and useful one, particularly in light of developing research in transnational studies. These characteristics include the Vietnamese North-South cultural and linguistic ‘divide’, the presence of Vietnamese and Chinese-background Vietnamese, and differences in the timing and reasons for migration. Key research questions relate to transnational activities, identities, and community networks played out in the role, reach and specific pathways of those activities across national borders. Key questions are: ‘What does it mean to be a transnationally active Vietnamese Londoner?’ and ‘How are Vietnamese Londoners engaged in community-based transnational networks?’ These questions are addressed using interviews, participant observation, participation in Vietnamese-related conferences, and in informal conversations on the street and in local Vietnamese shops. This research relates stories of contextualised transnational identities linking Vietnamese from London across the globe.
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Fritz, Doug III. "Community data portraiture : perceiving events, people, & ideas within a research community." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62133.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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As a research community grows, it is becoming increasingly difficult to understand its dynamics, its history, and the varying perspectives with which that history is interpreted and remembered. This thesis focuses on three major components of research communities: events, people, and ideas. Within each of those components exploring how to construct and answer questions to improve connectivity and elucidate relationships for community members. Assuming the artifacts of a community (its publications, projects, etc) model a representation of its nature, we apply a variety of visualization and natural language processing techniques to those artifacts to produce a community data portrait. The goal of said portrait is to provide a compressed representation viable for consumption by a new researcher to learn about the community they are entering, or for a current member to reflect on the community's behavior and help construct future goals. Rather than evaluating a general technique, the tools and methods were developed specifically for the MIT Media Lab community, general principles can then be abstracted from this initial practical application.
by Doug Fritz.
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Robison, David J. "Community Animation Workshop." Bradford University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4016.
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No.The University of Bradford has recently pioneered a radical approach to engaging children and young people in learning about technology and the arts, thanks to funding provided by the English Arts Council. Young people engaged with youth services in the Bradford area were invited to take part in innovative performance art and digital media sessions held at the University. The sessions had a tangible output for the young people. The result was four one-minute ¿motion-captured¿ animations containing original music and dance ¿ produced by the participants themselves, with the help of experienced workshop leaders. This was packaged on a DVD which also contained a video documentary about the workshops, filmed as they were taking place by local film-maker and lecturer, David Robison. The participants were also able to take away their work on their mobile phones, video phones and portable Play-stations.
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Li, Xu. "Consumer Engagement in Travel-related Social Media." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5806.
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The term of “consumer engagement” is extensively used in the digital era. It is believed that engaged consumers play an important role in products/services referral and recommendation, new product/service development and experience/value co-creation. Although the notion of consumer engagement sounds compelling, it is not fully developed in theory. Different interpretations coexist, resulting in confusion and misuse of the concept. This study attempts to define consumer engagement and develop a conceptual framework of consumer engagement, addressing antecedents of consumer engagement in online context. Moreover, some situational and social media usage-related factors are incorporated into the framework. A set of propositions are presented based on literature review and the conceptual framework to illustrate the relationship between consumer engagement and related factors. To provide empirical evidence for the conceptual model, an online survey is conducted. Participants complete the self-administered survey by answering questions concerning their online experience with the travel-related social media website they visit most. Two-step structural equation modeling is employed to analyze the data. The results show that both community experience and community identification have significant and positive relationship with consumer engagement. Community experience is also a strong predictor of community identification. Attitude toward using social media and travel involvement influence the relationship between consumer engagement and its antecedents. With focus on the interactive and experiential nature of consumer engagement, this study expands current understanding of consumer engagement and provides insights for hospitality and tourism businesses regarding how to engage consumers through travel-related social media.Ph.D.
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Dean's Office, Education
Education and Human Performance
Education; Hospitality Education
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Hirsch, Edward A. 1970. "Speakeasy : mobile telephony for community networking and civic engagement in an immigrant community." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17822.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-81).
Immigrants face a variety of barriers limiting their access to social services. These include inability to speak English, unfamiliarity with available services, and distrust of government agencies. To overcome these obstacles, many immigrants rely on informal social networks for information, advice, and language interpretation. This is an imperfect solution that provides inadequate access for the immigrant and unduly burdens friends and family members. More importantly, it does little to address the social isolation that characterizes much of the immigrant experience and contributes to the disenfranchisement of immigrant communities. Speakeasy is a community-based service that provides telephone-based access to a network of volunteers who provide real-time language interpretation and help navigate complex social service networks. Relying on the constant connectivity afforded by cell phones and wireless devices, Speakeasy overcomes barriers to traditional forms of volunteerism with a "just in time" model of community service. The system also encourages community development efforts by engaging new immigrants and volunteers in community activity, and by fostering a sense of collective identity. A study with members of Boston's Chinatown community showed that Speakeasy is an effective, convenient, and easy to use service that engenders trust among non-English speakers.
by Edward A. Hirsch.
S.M.
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Mehta, Aditi Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The politics of community media in the post-disaster city." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115714.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Urban Sociology and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Disasters are times of information deficits and mass media misrepresentations. While mainstream media reports an array of narratives about crisis situations, it often ignores a variety of perspectives and the lived experiences of minority populations. This creates a biased knowledge base for city planners and the general public about the events before, during, immediately following, and long after the disaster. Accordingly, such events can trigger new forms of community media to amplify marginalized voices in the city. As information communication technologies (ICTs) become more accessible, it is easier for people to produce and disseminate community media, which manifests in varied forms with diverse purposes. This dissertation seeks to understand how and why people use ICTs to create community media in the aftermath of a disaster during recovery and rebuilding, as well as identify the multi-scalar gains of these activities. Using extensive qualitative interview data and thick description, this dissertation creates a framework and comprehensively analyzes the evolution of over forty initiatives such as low-powered FM radio, neighborhood Wifi mesh networks, the innovative use of social networking sites, blogs, and participatory documentaries, among others, that emerged in post-Katrina New Orleans (2005) and in post- Sandy New York City (2012). Applying grounded theory and emergent coding from these examples, it presents a timeless Post-Disaster Community Media Typology that outlines the primary action(s) and progression of these digital activities including: to inform (resource-sharing), to investigate (bottom-up journalism), to incite (organize for place), to include (crowd-sourced deliberation), to interact (therapeutic networking), to interpret (memorialize), and to income-generate (economic self-determination). Two in-depth ethnographic case studies with youth of color in both cities further verify the typology and illustrate how the community media production process can be an emancipatory form of rebuilding. By investigating the media ecology of grassroots communication, news generation, and storytelling in the post-disaster context, this research challenges the ongoing debate about how ICTs change the concept of community since few researchers have explored this question when physical space is destroyed due to disaster. Media production and communication using various digital tools allows dispersed racial/ethnic communities to maintain bonds, facilitates the creation of new values-based or goal-oriented communities, and provides a way for members of a neighborhood to rebuild their physical communities from afar. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that the there are three types of gains at the individual, community, and city level from post-disaster community media: recognition, instrumental capacity, and asset creation, which are essential for a healthy democracy and equitable resilience to shock. The findings also have implications for a broader understanding of public participation in the digital age. The typology offers a framework to conceptualize how community development efforts make use of a variety of new media technologies and how to best characterize the impacts of such engagement. The outcomes of planning are evaluated through the ideals of procedural or distributive justice, but neither of these perspectives critically examine how individuals form and obtain knowledge to make sense of their environments in the first place. City planning practitioners and scholars must include access to communication and media production as an issue area in the field to effectively address inequality.
by Aditi Mehta.
Ph. D. in Urban Sociology and Planning
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Keeton-Olsen, Danielle Rose Keeton-Olsen. "Law Enforcement, Media and the Community in an Appalachian County." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461323372.
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Verseput, Lisa. "The creative conservatory : a community media & creative arts centre." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60215.
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Johannesburg was built on the discovery and exploitation of gold, but the gold mines are
depleted, and a new resource is driving the city: human capital. The ingenuity and aspirations
of the dense and diverse population sustain Johannesburg as the economic capital of the
country, but the City has lost its golden meaning and is striving for a new identity: to become
the Cultural Capital of South Africa, an embodiment of diversity, creativity, and cultural
expression. People and cultures of the City mix and spark ideas in public space, so Joubert
Park, the central, largest, and oldest park in Johannesburg and home to the Johannesburg Art
Gallery, should play a role in Johannesburg's transformation into the Cultural Capital.
The Joubert Park Conservatory is a century old ornamental greenhouse, once spectacular, it
now lies abandoned and in disrepair. The Conservatory and its precinct currently provides no
significant contribution to the public of Joubert Park, but its iconic design and position indicate
its potential to be rediscovered as an important public space. This dissertation investigates
how spatial interventions can be mobilised to re-establish the forgotten significance of
the site, and introduce a programme that will respect and enhance the heritage of the
Conservatory and its cultural landscape to contribute to Joubert Park as well as the greater
urban environment as the Cultural Capital.
The proposed programme is the Creative Conservatory (CC), a community media and arts
centre driving universal media accessibility and providing an enabling environment for the
cultivation of artistic and cultural expression and development. The CC serves the community,
mobilising the arts for social and economic development, thus supporting the creative
economy and cultural landscape of Johannesburg. The architectural intervention of the CC is
designed for the present, while inspired by and responding to heritage, so as to create places
that will remain relevant in the future.Johannesburg is gebou op die ontdekking en ontginning van goud, maar goud resereves loop nou leeg en 'n nuwe hulpbron kan die stad vorentoe dryf: menslike kapitaal. Die kreatiwiteit en aspirasies van 'n diverse bevolking onderhou Johannesburg as die ekonomiese spilpunt van die land, maar die stad het sy goue betekinis verloor en streef nou na 'n nuwe identiteit: om die Kulturele Hoofstad van Suid Afrika te word - 'n vergestalt diversiteit, kreatiwiteit en kulturele uitdrukking. Mense en kulture in die stad meng en nuwe idees word in publieke ruimtes gegenereer. Joubert Park is die stad se grootste en oudste park en huisves die Johannesburg Kunsgallery, hierdie ruimte kan 'n belangrike rol speek in die stad se transformasie na kulturele kapitaal. Die Joubert Park Konservatorium is 'n eeu-oue en eens indrukwekkended onrnamentele kweekhuis, nou verlate en onversorgd. Die Konservatorium en sy omliggende ruimtes dra nie tot die park by nie, maar sy ikoniese form en posisie hou potensiaal in wat herontdek kan word as 'n publieke ruimte van belang. Hierdie verhandeling ondersoek hoe ruimtelike veranderinge gebruik kan word om die vergete waarde van die terrein te herstel. 'n Nuwe program wat die erfenis van die terrein repspekteer kan dit terselfdetyd verbeter om as kulturele landskap by te dra tot Joubert Park en tot die stedelike omgewing daarom by te dra as kulturale kapitaal. Die program wat voorgestel word is die Kreatiewe Konservatorium, 'n gemeenskapsentrum vir media en kuns wat universele media toegang dryf en 'n omgewing skep vir die kultivasie van kuns en kulturele ontwikkeling en uitdrukking. Die Kreatiewe Konservatorium bedien die gemeenskap en mobiliseer die kunste ten einde sosiale en ekonomiese ontwikkeling te bewerkstellig en soedoende die kreatiewe ekonomie en kulturele landskap van Johannesburg te ondersteun. Die projek is ontwerp vir die hede, ge?nspireer deur en in reaksie tot erfenis, om plekke te skep wat relevant sal bly in die toekoms.
Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Rojas, Civic Maria. "Consumer Behavior on Social Media. : A study about consumer behavior towards fashion brands on social media." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-634.
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This study aims to describe and analyse consumer behaviour in social media toward fashion brands. Specifically, it is analysed consumers’ motivations to follow fashion brands on social media, activities developed on social platforms concerning to fashion brands and level of engagement regarding fashion brands on social media.
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Wang, Yu S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Heike, Jike, Chuangke : creativity in Chinese technology community." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97999.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-126).
This thesis surveys creativity in Chinese technology communities and its implication in China's development mode shift from "Made in China" to "Created in China." It discussed the history of creativity in China and how various types of creativity apply to Chinese technology communities. This thesis investigated Heike, or Chinese hackers, through archival research of Chinese hacker magazines; it explored topics discussed in Jike media, or Chinese geek media, using text mining (a type of data mining) methods including co-occurrence analysis, TF-IDF analysis and topic models (based on LDA); this thesis also includes a field study of Chuangke, seeing how Chinese Chuangke teachers build makerspaces in their schools, engage with the Chuangke education ecosystem, nurture future makers in their makerspaces, and interpret the Maker Movement in Chinese context. This thesis views Chinese hacker culture, geek culture, and maker culture under the lenses of "Ke" cultures, and it examines these cultures' relationships with technology learning, self-expression, innovation, and entrepreneurship in China.
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König, Anne, and Ulrike Schraps. "Geschäftsmodell einer branchenspezifischen Community – das Weiterbildungsnetzwerk Mediencommunity.de." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-143623.
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Das internetbasierte branchenspezifische Weiterbildungsnetzwerk Mediencommunity (vgl. www.mediencommunity.de) wurde ab 2008 im Rahmen des Programms „Neue Medien in der beruflichen Bildung“ mit BMBF-Fördermitteln aufgebaut und wird mit Ende der Förderung im Dezember 2011 unternehmerisch weitergeführt. Damit wird das Ziel eines nachhaltigen Betriebs des Angebotes erreicht. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt das entwickelte Konzept entlang der von Laudon & Traver dargestellten acht Kernelemente von Geschäftsmodellen: die Umsatzchancen in der Zielgruppe (market opportunity), das Nutzenversprechen (value proposition), die Marktzugangsstrategie (market strategy), das Wettbewerbsumfeld (competitive environment), der Wettbewerbsvorteil (competitive advantage), das Erlösmodell (revenue model), das notwendige Organisationsmodell (organizational development) und das Managementteam (management team) (Laudon & Travers 2011, S. 320). Abschließend wird die entwickelte Lerncommunity entlang der Forschung zu internetbasierten Geschäftsmodellen typologisch eingeordnet.
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Turner, Jerome. "Hyperlocal Community Media Audiences: An Ethnographic Study of Local Media Spaces and Their Place in Everyday Life." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.753287.
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Hyperlocal media is a form of online, alternative community media created by citizens to service their locality. To date, much of the scholarly work in this area has focused on editorial practice, non-UK contexts, or frames these practices as response to receding mainstream local journalism and concerns of civic engagement. In this study I take a different approach, exploring instead the everyday, functional and social contexts which are established in the audience’s highly participatory use of hyperlocal Facebook Pages. I conceptualise such spaces as fields which are integrated both in the individual user’s media ideology, but also amongst a wider sense of overlapping fields of local information and socialites, both online and offline. This work emerges from ethnographic studies of two hyperlocal communities in the West Midlands, in which information was gathered through participant observation, interview, and via an innovative Community Panel approach. I argue that Facebook Pages play a key role for many people in engaging with their neighbourhoods, but not exclusively so, as I demonstrate their place amongst other sources of information and social life. The Pages benefit from being mediated by their editors to create online spaces that welcome participation partly shaped by the audience’s engagement and contribution, thus creating alternative streams of local information that challenge agendas set out by mainstream media. These become integrated into the everyday practices of the audience, therefore, care must be taken to recognise to what extent the broader experience of the neighbourhood is represented in such online practices, and I argue that certain narratives and discourses of the locality are contributed to and constructed online, and not always helpfully so, as in depictions of crime. Where the audience might challenge such depictions, and hold authority to account (the police, for example), this public sphere ideal is not typically acted through. Whilst this does not bode well for the literature’s hopes for political or civic engagement, this thesis demonstrates that audiences develop such spaces in their own vision, to enact and share a capital of local knowledge and information, sometimes innovating in their own ways using mobile technologies in order to do so. This thesis concludes by saying that such online spaces demonstrate the role of media technologies in everyday life, and the extent to which they are perpetuated and maintained by practitioners and their increasingly capable and enabled audiences.
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Kedrowski, Karen M. "Media entrepreneurs and the media enterprise in the United States Congress : influencing policy in the Washington community /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1992.
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Andersson, Rebecca, and Elin Nilsson. "“Are you NOCCO enough?” -En kvalitativ fokusgruppstudie om deltagande i NOCCOs brand community på Instagram." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-80983.
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With the rise of the Internet and the emergence of social media, conditions of communication for both companies and the public have changed. Today, the audience is a co-creator of content and is an active participant, and through platforms such as Instagram, there is now a space where the audience and companies meet. It has developed new features and changed the structure of a so called brand community , which is about how people gather around a shared interest of a brand. Based on this, we intend to investigate how the company NOCCO's communicative activities on Instagram involve consumers and what motivates them to participate. The study will answer the research questions through three focus group interviews with 3-4 informants in each group as well as a brief analysis of NOCCO's Instagram. We identified six themes of participating in our analysis: social aspect, personal gain, awareness and influence, information, identification and trust.
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König, Anne, and Ulrike Schraps. "Geschäftsmodell einer branchenspezifischen Community – das Weiterbildungsnetzwerk Mediencommunity.de." Technische Universität Dresden, 2011. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A28079.
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Das internetbasierte branchenspezifische Weiterbildungsnetzwerk Mediencommunity (vgl. www.mediencommunity.de) wurde ab 2008 im Rahmen des Programms „Neue Medien in der beruflichen Bildung“ mit BMBF-Fördermitteln aufgebaut und wird mit Ende der Förderung im Dezember 2011 unternehmerisch weitergeführt. Damit wird das Ziel eines nachhaltigen Betriebs des Angebotes erreicht. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt das entwickelte Konzept entlang der von Laudon & Traver dargestellten acht Kernelemente von Geschäftsmodellen: die Umsatzchancen in der Zielgruppe (market opportunity), das Nutzenversprechen (value proposition), die Marktzugangsstrategie (market strategy), das Wettbewerbsumfeld (competitive environment), der Wettbewerbsvorteil (competitive advantage), das Erlösmodell (revenue model), das notwendige Organisationsmodell (organizational development) und das Managementteam (management team) (Laudon & Travers 2011, S. 320). Abschließend wird die entwickelte Lerncommunity entlang der Forschung zu internetbasierten Geschäftsmodellen typologisch eingeordnet.
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BAUDO, VALERIA. "Il monitoraggio di community online: il Community Performance Index (CPI)." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/95783.
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This work provides a useful tool for community managers in their day-to-day job. The proposed tool must be easy to use and helpful to monitor an online community. The proposed model is specifically devoted to community manager working in no profit sector, in small organizations, scalable and not related to a specific technology or to a specific social network site.
Following a literature review on the meaning of engagement in the social media environment, the work examines the opinion of eight Italian key informants in order to get new insights and ideas on the subject matter. They confirmed the existing literature and stressed in addition new perspectives on the role of lurkers in online communities: a reassessment of their role is undoubtedly necessary.
The Community Performance Index is a monitoring tool composed by three main axes.
The first one is called VPI (Vanity Performance Indicators) and is devoted to metrics (measurements) collection from social networks; the second one called KPI (Key Performance Indicators) is the performance measurement related to the purpose of the project; the last one called PMPI (Peripheral Members Performance Indicators) stresses the role of the lurkers in the community.
The overall vision of this three axes answers the question: how the community is performing?
The main novelty of the CPI is that it provides an overall community monitoring vision.
The model was tested on TwLetteratura, an Italian social reading community. We analized the tweets produced by the community in order to fulfill the VPI axis and administered an online survey to investigate the KPI and PMPI.
The results are presented here.
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Greenleaf, Justin P. "Leadership and persuasion through social media to generate positive community change." Wichita State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5518.
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In the last decade, social media platforms have emerged to provide individuals and organizations with unprecedented access to each other and the rest of the world. The potential for influencing positive community change through the use of these platforms is great. However, despite this potential for change, the process of persuasion and behavior change through social media is complex. The purpose of this research was to provide a broad overview of how success in influencing behavior change might be achieved. This was done through an analysis of intensive interviews with individuals who have had extensive experience working with social media platforms and success at creating positive community change through these platforms. Results were combined into eight categories which were broken down in to more specific themes and sub themes to provide a better understanding of success in using social media to generate positive community change.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Psychology
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Garland, Vaughn. "Participation in the Digital Public: New Media Art as Online Community." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/561.
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Participation in The Digital Public: New Media Art as Online Community examines community online art projects— works of art produced and orchestrated by artists who employ the interconnected and participatory nature of the Internet. Garland contends, in part through a reevaluation of a statement made by artist Nam June Paik concerning a radio performance by John Cage, that community online art projects exist as the newest example of new media art because of a utilization and implementation of established and functioning technology. Through the application of Internet technology, contemporary artists, along with their collaborators and spectators, have the potential to create, build, engage, and exhibit new works of art and form new concepts for the production and practice of art making. This dissertation maintains that Community online art projects serve as the most current example of new media art because they examine the shared uses of the Internet. Participation in The Digital Public: New Media Art as Online Community includes examples and critiques of new online artworks as well as historical analysis of the theories of new media, participation, interconnectivity, and remediation in art through the 20th century.
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Myers, Emily. "Of Rhizomes and Radio: Networking Indigenous Community Media in Oaxaca, Mexico." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20700.
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In the face of a shifting political climate in Latin America, movements for indigenous rights and autonomy are leveraging community media in new ways transcending the state-market binary. Through ethnographic research with Zapotec media producers in Oaxaca and the supportive organizations forming points of connection between radios and activists, I argue that the strength of the indigenous community media movement in Oaxaca, and its potential to build a movement to resist destructive state and market forces, is best explained by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of the rhizome, which portrays Oaxacan indigenous media as a map of heterogeneous interconnections defying structural hierarchies and binaries. With this picture of a rhizomatic media movement, I demonstrate how radios have paved the way for innovations, revealing creative ways that indigenous groups are connecting with each other and the outside world, while asserting agency in their interactions with the market and the state.
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Gomez-Monroy, Carla 1977. "eRadio : empowerment through community Web radio." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/26743.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2004.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-120) and index.
The eRadio project proposes to be an effective aid to increase interaction and reduce alienation among the members of dispersed communities by using a holistic approach to participatory and interactive web radio-production, with ad hoc methodology and ad hoc electronic tools. Through eRadio individuals can contribute to a participatory process of community self-discovery, identification, and assimilation by voicing their concerns and views as well as by expressing aesthetic and cultural ways of rejoicing. eRadio participators can trigger processes that may lead to the sustainability and empowerment of different segments of the dispersed community, and of the whole, by airing issues of collective importance and thus moving individuals, groups, and institutions to reflection and cooperation. Volunteers become communicators that get others to tell anecdotes or discuss issues as they audio-record them. Then they creatively edit and transmit the finished audio pieces via the web and, if local conditions permit it, they radio broadcast it. Interactive transmission from different sites is done by two or more segments of the dispersed community. The project includes development of a hardware and software package that supports simple task-based production of digital audio files. The hardware is a simple computer called "VoxPopBox" which can be connected to a portable digital recorder in order to download audio clips that have been recorded in the field. The software is divided into four task areas which guide the user through gathering audio, producing a piece, publishing their work, and listening to other audio publications. Each box is connected to other boxes via the Internet. This thesis describes the pilot implementation of the eRadio project with the Tulcingo community, which is a dispersed transnational community with a hometown in Mexico and about half of its population in New York City. After two nine-day workshops, we produced and transmitted two radio programs, one from the town of Tulcingo and the other from the city of New York. As a result the Tulcingo community is interested in a long-term eRadio implementation. If done, Tulcingo would be an eRadio seed community from which other communities can bloom.
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Wagoner, Maya M. "Technology against technocracy : toward design strategies for critical community technology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111297.
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Thesis: S.M. in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis develops an intersectional, critical analysis of the field of practice known as Civic Tech and highlights other relevant community-organizing and activist practices that utilize technology as a central component. First, I develop critiques of Civic Tech as a dominant technocratic, neoliberal approach to democracy and bureaucracy and trace the history and intellectual genealogy of this specific movement. I then highlight civic technologies outside of the field of Civic Tech that have resulted in more redistributive and democratic outcomes, especially for Black people and other people of color. Finally, I define a research and design practice called Critical Community Technology Pedagogy that is demystificatory, multi-directional, transferable, and constructive, and draws upon examples from the Civic Lab for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) in Newfoundland, Data DiscoTechs in Detroit, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy in New York City.
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Almeida, Luísa Sá. "A prática de community manager e social media manager : casos em Portugal." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14858.
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Mestrado em Ciências EmpresariaisO Social Media Marketing (SMMkt) está a ser cada vez mais utilizado e o número de empresas a desenvolver a sua presença em social media está a crescer. Como consequência, aparecem novos perfis profissionais como o de Community Manager e de Social Media Manager. Este trabalho teve como objetivo compreender o perfil profissional de Comunity Manager e Social Media Manager, a composição e estrutura das equipas de agência onde se inserem os Social Media Managers e Community Managers, e as barreiras e dificuldades percecionadas por estes profissionais na gestão de social media nas agências em Portugal. A abordagem metodológica foi exploratória e qualitativa com recurso a entrevistas semi-estruturadas para recolha de dados primários, complementada com a análise de anúncios de emprego enquanto dados secundários. Os resultados indicam que as agências revelam ter já umas noções das competências e perfis necessários para estes profissionais que gerem o Social Media Marketing. Apesar disso, existe ainda um trabalho a ser feito na divisão de funções e responsabilidades nas equipas de social media em Portugal. Compreendeu-se também que as principais barreiras e dificuldades com que estes profissionais se deparam nas agências são geradas pelo cliente e portanto torna-se essencial existir uma maior noção e preparação por parte destes para o mundo digital.
Social Media Marketing (SMMkt) is being increasingly used and the number of companies developing their presence in social media is growing. As a consequence, new professional profiles such as Community Manager and Social Media Manager appear. The objective of this work was to understand the professional profile of Comunity Man-ager and Social Media Manager, the composition and structure of the agency teams that integrate Social Media Managers and Community Managers, and the barriers and difficulties perceived by these professionals in the management of social media in agencies in Portugal. The methodological approach was exploratory and qualitative using semi-structured interviews for primary data collection, complemented with the analysis of job advertisements as secondary data. The results indicate that the agencies reveal that they already have some notions of the skills and profiles required for these professionals who manage Social Media Marketing. Despite this, there is still work to be done in the division of roles and responsibilities in social media teams in Portugal. It was also understood that the main barriers and difficulties faced by these professionals in the agencies are generated by the client and therefore it is essential to have a greater understanding and preparation by the client for the digital world.
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Lessman, Justin R. "The community standard : toward a model of community journalism decision making." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/465.
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Koch, Michael, and Karlheinz Toni. "Community-Mirrors zur Unterstützung von Community-Treffen." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-204310.
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Erfolgreiche Community-Unterstützung erfordert die Bereitstellung von Möglichkeiten zur Interaktion mit den Community-Plattformen abseits von Desktop-PCs. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir eine Anwendung zur Vermittlung von Community-Awareness auf Community-Treffen vor, die sich auf große interaktive Wandbildschirme stützt. Die Arbeiten stellen erstens einen Ausgangspunkt für weitere Arbeiten an einer integrierten Unterstützung von Community-Treffen dar, und bieten zweitens ein Beispiel für andere Anwendungen zur Unterstützung von Communtiy-Awareness mit Community-Mirrors.
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Wattam, E. N. "Integrating social media for community empowerment : a study of community reporting in two Greater Manchester urban regeneration areas." Thesis, University of Salford, 2013. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/29486/.
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Despite an unshakable belief in the UK in the empowering and regenerating potential of ICTs locating the benefits of digital inclusion initiatives for deprived urban communities has remained elusive. Given social media discourses of empowerment and social progress this thesis explores whether and how social media may be associated with a greater potential for community empowerment and regeneration. I specifically focus upon the potential of the relationship between participation in community content creation and sharing, (community generated content), community empowerment and regeneration. The exploration is based on a qualitative case study of a Community Reporter Programme with a social media and empowerment focus being integrated within two urban regeneration areas in Greater Manchester. The study draws primarily on the experiences and insights of community reporter participants. The way in which participation in community generated content becomes meaningful within urban regeneration areas and thus potentially empowering, is found to lie in a complex interweave of individual interpretative framing, aspects of identity beyond the demographic frame and strategies for the domestication of the specific social media practice of community reporting. The study finds that empowerment value attached to participation in community generated content is primarily located at the individual level and psychological and social in nature related to a ‘reconnecting’ and ‘feel good’ factor which appears to have a particular benefit for those who have been at risk of social exclusion. The value at the collective level of empowerment constructed as ‘voice’ is found to be limited and potentially disempowering within a social context of audience inattention and subtle dangers of ‘voice’ exploitation and appropriation. The study highlights fresh perspectives on what ICTs might mean for local communities beyond the established links between online and offline social interaction and social capital frame locating empowerment value specifically in the process of social media focused content production. In line with emergent critiques of participatory culture the study also problematises assumptions of ease of participation and voice attached to social media technologies. While the study supports the emergent view within digital inclusion and community informatics research areas that the empowerment value of ICTs may indeed lie in the arena of content production, the importance of viewing the potential through a critical lens of specific co-creative media practices and shining a light on urban regeneration as a potential arena of disempowerment is identified.
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Chinnappan, Delfi. "Digital media and Hijra identity: Understanding community-building and self-representations among Hijra community-based organisations in India." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207761/1/Delfi_Chinnappan_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines hijra community-based organisations’ (CBOs) use of social media platforms to represent hijra identities in India. This study used social media ethnography as an approach to study the social media presence of hijra community members and involved 30 interviews. The hijra community are placed at the intersection of culture, politics, legal developments for the third gender, popular culture, and social media uses in this study. Further, it deepens knowledge on how the hijra community has framed their identity(ies) in the light of their community work after legal recognition in India.
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Johnsson, Malin. "Why only women? : An interview study of individual members’ experiences and perceptions of the women-only online community Heja Livet!" Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44200.
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Why are women attracted to join women-only online communities and what are the affordances of these communities? This study is focusing on the signifier of the fourth-wave feminism – feminist activity online and the cultivation of online safe spaces. Sweden is often considered to be a gender-equal country but this study sheds light on the fact that women in Sweden still experience gender inequalities. Through interviews with members of the online community Heja Livet, this study aims to investigate why women choose to join women-only online communities, how they reflect on separatism and safe spaces, and the group’s possible contributions to women and society at large. The study is based on a feminist perspective and has a constructionist approach in the sense that it understands the individual members’ perceptions as constructions. The study found that the administrative work, a constant renegotiation of the binaries safe/unsafe and inclusion/exclusion together with the separation from men, creates a climate where women feel comfortable to interact with other women online. Issues of whether Heja Livet is inclusive of all women remain under discussion, and even though the members consider separatist groups to be important for both individual women and the feminist movement, it is also important to raise men’s consciousness of patriarchal structures. Heja Livet provides a space where women can come together with other women to discuss, share, support, find inspiration, empower each other and raise consciousness. It is difficult to determine whether the group can be defined as a safe space or not, both due to the incomplete and dynamic nature of safe spaces and also because of the interviewees’ low level of active participation exposing themselves and their personal life in the group. The perceptions of the interviewees were, however, that the group provides women with a safe space online.
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Turpeinen, Marko Sakari 1968. "Enabling, modeling and interconnecting active community publishers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62631.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).
Over the past four years the research described in this thesis has enabled community groups to become collaborative content producers on the Internet. These groups use computer-mediated networking to publish their stories and to enhance the interaction among the community members and their peers in other groups. This research has resulted in a community publishing tool called Pluto and its revision called Goofy that is nearing its completion. Further, the growth of these communities has led to the need for another system, called SilverWire, to facilitate interaction among communities. SilverWire is a tool for increasing socialization and augmenting communication among communities that actively publish content on the Internet. SilverWire collects and builds models of communities, which form the basis for customized interconnections among communities. Community models are built implicitly by analyzing the contents of the sites that take part in SilverWire and are collected explicitly from questions asked about community purpose, identity and communication. As a result, SilverWire recommends pointers to related community publications and provides comparisons between communities. The goal of the SilverWire system is to be an intermediary that makes communities more aware of other communities doing similar (or interestingly different) work. To evaluate the project I report in detail the progress of one of the groups called the Silver Stringers, which is a local community consisting of approximately 30 senior citizens. The main impacts of the project for the Silver Stringers have been (1) acquiring a new mindset in becoming media content producers, (2) continuous mental stimulation through learning and creating in a group setting, and (3) increased social interaction.
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Hansson, Torsten. "Collaborative Community Engagement: Developing a framework towards community engagement through an online collaborative drawing platform." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23798.
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The thesis focuses on understanding the relationship between remotely collaborative team members and the community userbase. This is done through a series of experiments where both workshops and interviews led to the development of a framework. The methodology developed melded workshops and interviews together with evaluation and iteration periods in what is called ‘workshop rounds’. Prototypes transitioned into ‘living prototypes’ as they involved an actual set of live users which furthermore required high-fidelity implementation. The framework created established team-to-team communication with considerations for eventual users in an open dialog. Suggestions in different directions towards collaborative contributions completed the efforts of a scaffolding approach. The project is relevant to collaborative media methodology where the case studies constructed understandings in design research on the topic of remote collaboration in community engagement and development.
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Hodess, Robin Beth. "Media coverage of European Community politics in Britain and Germany, 1985-1991." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242468.
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Kim, Linda A. (Linda Anne) 1981. "The translation of media technology skills to community mobilization in youth programs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17700.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88).
Media is an important part of the political process, and alternative media is especially valuable for community organizing. Youth media programs can play a great role in the development of media technology as a community-building tool. This study proposes that a key way to bring youth into community mobilization efforts is through their interest in media and their deftness in learning how to use media tools. The combination of youth and media is powerful for communities and warrants discussion and development. This study begins the discussion first with an examination of media forms as a tool for grassroots movements. The potential of digital media is particularly emphasized. Secondly, a survey of youth media programs in the United States identifies ways that youth are already being served and provides the background for understanding how youth media programs equip young social activists in their local communities. Finally, case studies of two youth media programs investigate how, or if, the development of technical and creative skills around media translates to social and political mobilization, especially among youth. The use of media to bring youth into community mobilizing and to strengthen their efforts is promoted. The role of youth media programs in making this possible is put forth. This discussion of translating media technology skills to community action is significant, as it points to new directions in community organizing. As technology becomes more advanced and accessible to communities, digital media tools are increasingly significant in society and for groups who want to change society. The future of community development is closely connected to media and computer technology.
by Linda A. Kim.
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DeDominicis, Kali Lou. "Imagining virtual community : online media fandom and the construction of virtual collectivity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23384.
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This thesis uses ethnographic research into online media fandom, focusing on self-reflexive analytical documents that fans call meta, to investigate longstanding questions about the nature of virtual community. It argues that virtual documents should be seen as complete and complex interactions in their original form and as social contexts in their own right, and presents a new approach to ethnographic methodology and ethics suited to working in this context. Fans have incorporated various technologies into the infrastructure that constitutes their community, and these have had various effects on the structure and substance of fannish documents and interactions – and on the character of the community as a whole. The stability and visibility of the digital archive is an important feature of virtual community – one that makes fandom more visible, accessible, and historically grounded for both old and new members. This research also deals with conflict, not as a necessarily divisive force but as a natural and important part of how communities evolve and how members negotiate and articulate what their community should be. It discusses fanfiction as a controversial and sometimes problematic genre, and considers trigger warnings as the solution fans have developed to protect vulnerable members of their community from potentially harmful content (such as rape). It also examines conflict with outside authorities, like creators and the administrators who control the virtual spaces that fans inhabit. These conflicts illuminate creativity and feminism as fannish values, presenting fandom as a community that embraces sex-positive female sexuality. More importantly, they suggest that the creation and maintenance of a ‘safe space’ where all members feel respected and comfortable is a key feature of online community. In addition, fannish storytelling (particularly the creation of what fans call fanon) is part of the production of local knowledge, of boundary mechanisms that mark and separate members of the community from outsiders. These stories as part of the process by which fans position themselves within the broader community – and in so doing, locate themselves within smaller cohorts of fans who affirm and support aspects of their personal experiences and marginalised identities (e.g. as women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, or people of colour) through the reorientation and appropriation of story.