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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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Freifeld, Clark. "Participatory epidemiology : harnessing the HealthMap platform for community-based disease outbreak monitoring." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57707.
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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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Due to increasing global trade and travel along with a range of environmental factors, emerging infectious diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), drug-resistant tuberculosis, and 2009 HiNi continue to have significant impact on morbidity, mortality, and commerce worldwide. Early warning and detection of outbreaks plays an important role in protecting against disease, allowing public health authorities, organizations, and citizens to implement control measures rapidly. Due to its global reach, 2009 pandemic HiNi represented not only a unique call to action for disease outbreak detection systems, but also precipitated increased public awareness of issues of emerging infection. This thesis explores the use of informal, user-contributed disease reports from the general public as a means to improve knowledge of local events and enhance early warning during the first and second waves of 2009 HiNi. Building on the established HealthMap system, which has shown the effectiveness of using news media sources for rapid detection of outbreak events, we introduced the concept of "participatory epidemiology." Through a series of software tools for Web and smartphone, we invited users from the general public to contribute their own knowledge and awareness of local activity. We deployed the system in two phases: in the first phase, users could contribute links to existing sources of online information; in the second phase, users could also contribute free-form reports of their own experiences or events in their local communities. We received over 3,000 user submissions over the course of the study period from March 2009 to April 2010. We evaluated the system by examining a subset of notable reports and analyzing their timeliness as compared to previously existing HealthMap sources, as well as a range of qualitative factors demonstrating the potential for our approach. We further evaluated submissions relating to HiNI in the U.S. by aggregating and comparing their volume to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention influenza activity metrics, finding a Pearson's correlation of 0.74. Overall, the study indicates that with the appropriate tools, everyday citizens can play an important role in identifying and reporting infectious disease activity. The system is currently in active use and further development is ongoing.
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MacLeod, Kirsten Jane. "Process, practice and participation : exploring participatory community based media as an epistemological social process." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680111.
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Strobel, Michaela. "Mediaded. : A study on Community Video as a tool for Empowerment in rural India." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104617.
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This thesis explores the potential of community video for rural development work in India. It addresses the topic via a process-oriented approach, looking into the individual steps from the creation of a video until its dissemination. Considering it as a form of storytelling, it goes beyond research projects which are finite and only focus on the final product. Storytelling in urban settings has been studied with an emphasis on the individual. Development work however goes beyond the individual, aiming for a broader influence. Thus, community video was studied in the context of developmental organizations which create films along with groups. As far as empowerment as a necessary basis for development is concerned, the study analyzes whether community video fosters or even creates the feeling of empowerment. In order to do justice to both- the medium community video and the storytelling process of it, the aspects of empowerment were examined through narrative analysis of videos and ethnographic field research combined with interviews and discussions. The connections which were discovered between narrative elements and empowerment were discussed with production teams and audiences. These discussions revealed that the communities were well aware of the power of community video and saw it as a tool for increasing knowledge within their own groups. This knowledge encompasses informational content as well as experience-sharing. It came to the fore that especially sharing has an empowering nature. The communities also see it as a mouthpiece to make the world aware of their issues and at the same time show society that they are capable of much more than what stereotypes suggest. The empowering effects of community video go beyond a simple feeling of empowerment and furthermore enable the communities to take action for their own progress. The field observations showed that with the help of organizations, the triggers for empowerment within the individual storytelling stages, from creation to dissemination, can be enhanced. Interviews with the heading organizations indicated that a balance has to be found between teaching techniques and contextual influence. This means that models for effective community video use can be useful but at the same time, the immense creative potential of the communities has be preserved. The very experience of creating something is the core of empowerment in community videos for rural Indian communities.
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Arndt, Angela E. "Touching Mercury in Community Media: Identifying Multiple Literacy Learning Through Digital Arts Production." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306518357.
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Banjade, Arjun. "Community Radio in Nepal: A Case Study of Community Radio Madanpokhara." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1187208846.
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Davidson, Brett Russell. "Mapping the Radio KC community : a case study assessing the impact of participatory research methods in assisting community radio producers to identify programming content." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003716.
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This thesis deals with the introduction of participatory research methods to programming staff working at Radio KC, a South African community radio station based in Paarl, in the Western Cape province. The focus is on a series of workshops conducted at the station, dealing with research tools developed to enable station workers to undertake research of their community. The aim was to determine, by means ofa case study, whether the introduction of participatory research methods could improve the ability of community broadcasters to facilitate democratic participation among the communities in which they operate. More particularly, the thesis assesses whether the application of such methods has improved the ability of the programming staff that were involved in this case study to identify a wider range of stories and voices within their target community, for inclusion in programming content. The participatory research techniques that are applied at the radio station are based on ideas in 'civic mapping' developed by Harwood and McCrehan (1996) under the auspices of The Pew Center for Civic Journalism, and supplemented by insights from Friedland (2001) and Downs and Stea (1977) about the cognitive, normative and imagined dimensions of community. All of the ideas and techniques were adapted for the South African situation. The findings of the research project illustrate that for community stations, the key concepts of 'community' and 'participation' are highly complex ones and that stations need assistance to apply these concepts in their everyday practice. The account of the intervention at Radio KC shows that the process did indeed assist the individual research participants to better deal with the application of these concepts. It did not, however, make much impact on the station as a whole. Reasons for this are believed to lie in the organisational dynamics of the station, and the fact that the model as applied in this case did not provide a means for tackling the agendas, investments and power relations that define the activities of individuals at a given community radio station - what Hochheimer (1993) talks about as the entrenchment of power and personalities. In order to address these shortcomings, an attempt is made to develop a model for future application, which places the mapping process within the context of a broader strategic planning process, focussed on a station's programming schedule.
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Gabriella, Johansson. "Participatory Art for Social Change? : A study of the quest for genuine participation." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36700.
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A number of theories suggest that participatory arts based approaches have the potential to contribute to development and social change. However, the nature of participation and participative approaches is multi-layered and complex, and critics have voiced concern for depicting participatory art initiatives in an oversimplified, uncriticised positivistic manner. The danger of such assumptions lay in the risk of manipulation, where non-genuine participation could contribute to the reinforcement of oppressive power structures and the dominating hegemony. This study explores the intersection of art, participation and development, and further aims to discuss the process of identifying the emancipatory possibilities and limitations of participatory art for development and social change. Using a combination of a constructivist case study approach and critical discourse analysis, two participatory art organisations are analysed with the intention to define each organisations’ understanding of the nature of participatory art, and further how this is reflected in the implementation of their work. The findings suggest that both organisations, to a certain degree, communicate an understanding of participation that reflect previous theories on genuine participation. Additionally, the findings suggest that this understanding is reflected in the practical work of the organisations.
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Choyke, Kelly L. "The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1573739424523163.
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Kafaar, Al-Ameen. "The efficacy of participatory communication training in farming communities : the case of Valley FM in the Cape Winelands District Region." Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86361.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Global economic conditions are forcing donor and development agencies to reduce aid to developing countries and communities. This reduction is resulting in less developmental programmes for disadvantaged communities. To ensure that developmental programmes are implemented successfully and cost effectively, implementing agents will have to ensure that they improve their developmental communication. It is also becoming important that those who are to benefit from developmental programmes convey or identify exactly what their needs are. There should be very little speculation from development agencies about what the needs of the disadvantaged are. It is becoming necessary to review current developmental tools, methods and systems, and also to explore what other measures can be applied to ensure that speculation or time and money wasting exercises are eliminated. This study attempts to look at two things that will influence effective development communication. The first is to examine if community radio is still as an efficient developmental communication tool as perhaps two decades ago. Secondly, it looks at the possibility to tailor-make information for those who need develop, especially in the context of evolving technology.
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Ankarberg, Emma. "“I crashed my car into a cement pole and cried all the way home but my eye makeup was still perfect” : A qualitative study of members’ sense of belonging within Sephora’s commodified community: Beauty Insider." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38375.
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This study seeks to understand ways in which members’ experience a sense of belonging within Sephora’s own commodified community: Beauty Insider. Three research questions are presented, the final one being of highest importance: in which way do members of Beauty Insider experience a sense of belonging? To be able to understand the members, previous research is presented where Muniz & O’Guinn’s (2001) study on Brand Communities is essential, as well as the study conducted by Dholakia et al. (2004) on participation within communities. To better understand what activities members engage in within communities, a theoretical framework based on fan cultures, consumer culture and participatory culture is presented to gain a better understanding of the aspects of a community. This study will approach the research questions mainly using focus group interviews, as well as a necessary description of the discourse content of the platform to better understand the context of the study. The study concludes by presenting a result and an analysis that is, mostly, in line with previous research as well as discovering new aspects of members attitudes towards Beauty Insider and which meaning members experience as a result of participating in different activities within the community.
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McGladrey, Margaret Louise. "CHANGING MINDS OR TRANSFORMING SOCIAL WORLDS? RE-ENVISIONING MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION AS FEMINIST ARTS-ACTIVISM." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/sociology_etds/35.
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This dissertation project seeks to address the sociological processes, dynamics, and mechanisms inflecting how and why U.S. society reproduces a sexually dimorphic, binary gender structure. The project builds upon the work of sociologists of gender on the doing gender framework, intersectional feminist approaches to identity formation, and hegemonic masculinity and relational theories of gender. In a 2012 article in Social Science and Medicine presenting contemporary concepts in gender theory to the health-oriented readers of the journal, R. W. Connell argues that much public policy on gender and health relies on categorical understandings of gender that are now inadequate. Connell contends that poststructuralist theories highlighting the performativity of gender improve on the assumption of a categorical binary typical in public policy, but they ignore the insights of sociological theories emphasizing gender as a structure comprising emotional and material constraints of the complex inter-relations among social institutions in which performances of gender are embedded. According to Connell, it is the task of social scientists to uncover “the processes by which social worlds are brought into being through time – the ontoformativity, not just the performativity, of gender.”
This project explores the ontoformativity of gender in consideration of Patricia Hill Collins’ concept of the four domains of power. According to Collins, matrices of domination are intersecting and interlocking axes of oppression including but not limited to race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nation, age, ability, place, and religion that reproduce social inequalities through their interoperation in the cultural, interpersonal, structural, and disciplinary domains of power. West and Zimmerman contrast gender as an axis in the matrix of oppression with site-specific roles, arguing that gender is a master status that is omnirelevant to all situations such that a person is assessed in terms of their competences in performing activities as a man or a woman. The doing gender approach has been accused of theorizing gender as an immutably monolithic social inequality. This project seeks to explicate the dynamics of gender ideology by probing its weaknesses in the interpersonal and cultural domains of power. As Collins and coauthor Sirma Bilge posit, for people oppressed along axes of gender, race/ethnicity, class, age, place, ability, and other binaries that constrain their actions in the structural and disciplinary domains of power, “the music, dance, poetry, and art of the cultural domain of power and personal politics of the interpersonal domain grow in significance.”
Each of the three components of the dissertation project addresses a facet of mechanisms and processes of the interpersonal and cultural domains of power in (re)producing the binary gender structure in U.S. society. Paper #1, titled, “Integrating Black Feminist Thought into Canonical Social Change Theory,” explicates how people in marginalized social locations mount definitional challenges to their received classifications in the cultural domain of power by rejecting the consciousness of the oppressor and wielding rearticulated collective identity-based standpoints as contextually attuned technologies of power to recast historical narratives. Paper #2, with teenaged co-researcher Emma Draper, titled “Ordering Gender: Interactional Accountability and the Social Accomplishment of Gender Among Adolescents in the U.S. South,” maps how youth theorize interactional accountability processes to binary gender expectations in the interlocking social institutions of medicine, the family, schools, and peer social networks. Paper #3 is a book proposal comprising an introductory chapter. The book will tell the story of how young feminist arts-activists challenge the binary gender structure through resistance in the cultural and interpersonal domains.
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Gedgauda, Alise. "Digital Media (ICT) for development. The use of crowd sourcing maps as a tool for citizen empowerment and engagement. Case study of Map Kibera Project." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21368.
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Map Kibera project and it’s Voice of Kibera reporting initiative present an example of new media applying the principle of crowd sourcing to foster social change and provide voice to community of Kibera, Kenya. The aim of this study was to analyses, firstly, how the concept of participatory communication has been applied during the implementation of the project. As a basis for this approach an Integrated Model of Communication for Social Change was applied during the analysis of articles being produced on two project blogs to identify what steps have been implemented and what new aspects could be brought. Secondly, it was important to understand what social change the implementation of such project could bring to community it serves for. Finally, in order to develop a strategy for sustainability possible barriers/limitations of citizen/actor engagement were identified. Research tools used for this analysis were qualitative semi-structured interviews with project team members as well as participants/non participants of the project combined together with quantitative content analysis applied on articles produced on Map Kibera and Voice of Kibera blogs.Most important findings indicate that the application of IMCFSC took place almost fully but was applied on a particular community – project team. At the same time the use of crowd sourcing platform and reporting gave citizens of Kibera an opportunity to create their own agenda and provide a real picture of the area thus gaining a “voice” and possibility to speak out loud to broader communities. Nevertheless it is important to mention that the access to information created during the project was possible mostly in the offline form (printed materials, maps) and via mobile phones thus indicating to such barriers as the lack of such ICT tools as computers and also to the need to co-operate more closely to broader community of Kibera to avoid possible misconception of the work of the project. These findings are important to consider when planning implementation of similar projects in other communities located in different geographical, political and social settings.
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Mighton, Lisa. "Immigrant integration conflicts in Malmö through a development communication lens." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22825.
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In the context of significant numbers of Muslim newcomers immigrating to Europe andperceptions of failed integration in Sweden, and in light of the urban conflict andincreasing debates about integration as a one-way or two-way street, this paper sets out a“communication for development”-informed theoretical framework that focuses on thestruggle for social cohesion and immigrant integration in Malmö, Sweden. The paperuses triangulation to view this challenging situation from various perspectives. Not onlydoes this reveal that unemployment and lack of power have taken their toll on agencyamong migrants—particularly Iraqi men—but also that the strongest stories showingimmigration as an asset—particularly Iraqi women—are not being told in the media.Through the use of empirical material from Malmö, this paper contends that participatorycommunication in Malmö is less than participatory, and that integration in Sweden, in itsexpectations, leans uncomfortably close to assimilation. The paper gives examples ofseveral development communication initiatives for integration that have had positiveresults, with strong evidence that community media, as just one example, has proveneffective at improving immigrant integration. The paper concludes that developmentcommunication initiatives show promise for improving social cohesion in Malmö, andthat these can be effective only if the choice to participate, and the choices of initiative,medium and content are made by the migrants themselves.
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Foth, Marcus. "Towards a design methodology to support social networks of residents in inner-city apartment buildings." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16655/.
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This PhD study is at the intersection of people, place and technology and pioneers innovative development approaches towards interactive social networking systems informed by community, social and urban studies and employs human-centred and participatory design methods.
The project delivers a greater understanding of the potential for internet-based systems to support and facilitate social networks of urban residents and the role of those networks to foster neighbourhood identity and social capital. Departing from conventional notions that regard communities as collectives, this study builds upon more contemporary interpretations of community inherent in Castells’ and Wellman’s theories of the network society and networked individualism. The thesis challenges the view that a mere re-appropriation of applications used to support dispersed virtual communities of interest is adequate to meet the place and proximity-based design requirements that community networks in urban neighbourhoods pose.
The overarching principal research aim of the study is to propose new ways of conceptualising the roles of social networks of urban residents to better inform the design of new technology facilitating urban neighbourhood developments.
Addressing this aim requires a new understanding of the roles of social networks of urban residents. The study sets out to critique the implicit theories underlying technology design in this area and to propose a more appropriate theory based on recent developments in the field and empirical findings from the study. The key research questions are:
1. What theoretical model can better represent social interaction of residents in inner-city apartment buildings?
2. How can relevant research methods be adapted to take the network qualities of social interactions into account?
3. What are the implications of a new understanding of social networks for the design of technology that supports the growth of neighbourhoods?
4. What are the implications of a new understanding of social networks for an urban architecture that supports the growth of neighbourhoods?
Within a framework of action research, the study follows a case study approach of three different inner-city residential apartment complexes in Brisbane. Research methods are mostly qualitative and ethnographic and include surveys, focus groups, participant observation and interviews, as well as participatory design.
The study delivers innovative outcomes on three levels:
1. Theoretical innovation with an analytical translation of Wellman’s notion of networked individualism and a conceptualisation of the communicative ecology model into the context of system design that supports social networks of residents in inner-city apartment buildings;
2. Methodological innovation with the presentation of Network Action Research, an addition to the action research family which pays particular attention to the network quality of social formations in communities;
3. Empirical innovation with research findings which indicate that the key factors influencing the successful design and uptake of interactive systems to support social networks in urban neighbourhoods. They include the swarming social behaviour of urban dwellers, the dynamics of their existing communicative ecology, and the serendipitous, voluntary and place-based quality of interaction between residents on the basis of choice, like-mindedness, mutual interest and support needs. Findings are presented in three parts to audiences interested in people, technology and place.
Drawing on social, urban and computer sciences, this research project delivers insights which will assist efforts to facilitate urban neighbourhood community building with new media and network ICTs. Understanding the issues and challenges as well as opportunities and strengths in forming a local meshwork of social networks will help Australians negotiate the complex web of daily choices, access a greater social safety net, and participate in the socio-cultural and socio-economic life of their city. This in turn will contribute to greater social inclusion, urban sustainability and healthier local economies.
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Maina, Sandra. "Adaptation Preferences and Responses to Sea Level Rise and Land Loss Risk in Southern Louisiana: a Survey-based Analysis." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1424.
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Currently, southern Louisiana faces extreme land loss that could reach an alarming rate of about one football sized swath of land every hour. The combined effect of land subsidence and predicted sea level rise threaten the culture and livelihood of the residents living in this region. As the most vulnerable coastal population in Louisiana, the communities of south Terrebonne Parish are called to adapt by accommodating, protecting, or retreating from the impacts of climate change. For effective preparation planning, the state of Louisiana needs to 1) understand the adaptation preferences and responses of these residents and 2) involve these vulnerable communities in adaptation related decision making. The study uses a survey-based methodology to analyze current adaptation preferences. Findings suggest that protection is the preferred adaptation response. The present study additionally uses participatory techniques to develop a land loss awareness mobile application to illustrate the importance and benefits of community collaboration.
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Gustafsson, Viktor, and Gustav Höglund. "The cooperative future of game development : A phenomenon of collaboration between producers and consumers in the video game industry." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-188581.
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Independent developers and large-scale development studios - commonly seen as the Davids and Goliaths of the video game industry - are moving closer together. Powerful software frameworks, traditionally reserved for professional developers and only available through expensive licenses, are becoming free to use for consumers. By sharing their tools instead of keeping them for themselves, companies can utilize the combined talent of whole communities and monetize on that talent through royalties and other indirect fees. This paper describes how the video game industry has developed in recent years to allow for this change in business strategy and examines how the industry can continue to evolve because of this. The result of a Delphi study based on interviews with game developers both inside and outside the industry point toward a future of increased intermingling and sharing of knowledge and resources, characterized by more producer-consumer collaborations and closer relationships between companies and their communities. By adopting free-to-use business models and sharing powerful, proprietary software with their consumers, companies are lowering the point of entry for aspiring developers and thereby dissolving the traditional narrative of “we and them” that has existed between independent developers and established studios in the past.Oberoende utvecklare och storskaliga utvecklingsstudior - vanligtvis betraktade som tv-spelsindustrins David och Goliath - rör sig allt närmre varandra. Kraftfulla mjukvaruramverk som traditionellt sett varit reserverade för professionella utvecklare och som tidigare endast varit tillgängliga genom kostsamma licenser blir i allt större utsträckning gratis att använda för konsumenter. Genom att dela med sig av sina verktyg istället för att hålla dem för sig själva så kan företag nyttja den kombinerade talangen hos sociala nätverk knutna till sina produkter och generera intäkter genom royalties och andra indirekta avgifter. Denna uppsats beskriver hur tv-spelsindustrins utveckling på senare år har möjliggjort denna affärsstrategiska förändring och hur industrin kan fortsätta att utvecklas som en följd av detta. Resultatet av en Delfistudie baserad på intervjuer med spelutvecklare både inom och utanför industrin pekar mot en framtid av ökat samspel och delande av kunskap och resurser. Detta karaktäriseras av fler samarbeten mellan producenter och konsumenter samt närmre relationer mellan företag och deras konsumentnätverk. Genom att ta till sig affärsmodeller som bygger på gratis-att-använda-principer och att dela med sig av avancerad, äganderättsskyddad mjukvara med sina konsumenter, så sänker företag ingångströskeln för aspirerande spelutvecklare. Därigenom löser företagen upp den traditionella “vi och dem”-relationen som tidigare existerat mellan oberoende utvecklare och etablerade studior.
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Eriksson, Britas Benjamin. "Delaktighet som pedagogik : Föreställd ras och publikpositioner i den svenska folktypsutställningen." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-207584.
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Participation as Pedagogy – Imagined Race and the Exhibit of Swedish Peoples-Types. This essay will analyse and give a deeper picture of the ”The Exhibit of Swedish People-Types” by focusing on the pedagogical ideals that formed the exhibit as an participatory media. The exhibit was led by the famous race-biologist Herman Lundborg and toured Sweden in 1919 displaying the racial constitution of the Swedish population using material gathered by the public itself. The exhibit has been described as an important tool in popularising eugenics in Swedish society during the early 20th century with the ambition of gaining funds to create the first race-biological institute and to influence policy-making. Nevertheless there has not been a single study which has focused solely on the exhibit and how the pedagogical ideals that permeated it affected the relation between the public and the media itself nor the political implications of this relation. I will show that the interactive participation enacted through the exhibit both defined a hierarchical relation between public and race-biological expertise, as well as it articulated a new “imagined community”, i.e., an “imagined race”. This participatory relation was not only key in creating the exhibit but also had implications on how the public should position itself and act in relation to society at large regarding eugenic matters. This gives me an opportunity to deepen our historical knowledge of the eugenics-movement and main-line racebiological networks in early 20 h century Swedish society. This essay also contribute to the history of participatory media and the popularisation of science.
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Sobers, Shawn Naphtali. "Beyond project : an ethnographic study : according to facilitators, participators and trainees of community media educational activity, what are the prime motivations of involvement, and what impacts and areas of sustainability result from the sector's insta." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525210.
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Diagne, Yacine. "Sociologie politique d'une expérience de démocratie participative. Le cas d'une radio communautaire au Sénégal." Thesis, Paris 9, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA090018/document.
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Ayant pour ambition de « rendre la parole » aux populations déshéritées de la ville de Pikine, banlieue de la capitale sénégalaise, Débat local est l’émission politique interactive de la radio communautaire Air’Jeunes fondée à la fin des années quatre-vingt-dix à l’initiative des associations de jeunes de la région dakaroise avec le soutien d’une grande ONG canadienne. Cette thèse étudie les usages de cette émission par les citoyens locaux dans les trois domaines principaux où les militants et promoteurs de la démocratie participative s’attachent à développer des dispositifs d’action citoyenne visant à corriger les défauts et insuffisances du gouvernement représentatif au regard de l’idéal démocratique : la place des citoyens dans le système de production des biens publics locaux, les relations symboliques entre les élus et les électeurs et l’espace public de débat sur les politiques publiques et l’action des représentants. À partir d’une étude de terrain à caractère ethnographique menée en trois séquences de 2006 à 2011 dans les studios de la radio et sur les lieux d’écoute de l’émission, il apparaît que si l’émission a permis à des formes de contestation du pouvoir local de s’exprimer publiquement sans médiation, la réalisation du projet originel de l’émission s’est heurtée à un contexte local défavorable marqué par l’absence de moyens donnés aux élus locaux pour exercer leurs compétences récemment décentralisées et par un journalisme politique local polarisé autour de deux formes dominantes laissant peu de place au débat argumenté : le journalisme antagonique des grands groupes privés et de la petite presse du secteur informel et le journalisme légitimiste du groupe public. En dépit de leur attachement militant au projet, les responsables de la radio et les animateurs de l’émission dont les origines sociales et les formations scolaires les tenaient très éloignés des formes de consommation des biens informationnels des Pikinois ainsi que des activités des associations informelles de quartier très vivantes dans la banlieue dakaroise ont progressivement cédé aux forces d’attraction qu’exerçaient les radios privées ordinaires sur leur vision de leur avenir professionnel personnel et, corrélativement, sur leur pratique journalistiqueAspiring to “give a voice” to the poor people of Pikine, a suburb of the Senegalese capital, “Local Debate” is an interactive political programme of the community radio Air’Jeunes, created in the late nineties at the initiative of youth associations in the Dakar region with support from a major Canadian NGO. This thesis explores the use of this programme by local citizens in three main areas where activists and proponents of participatory democracy are committed to developing citizen action mechanisms, aiming to correct the defects and shortcomings under the democratic ideal of representative government: the role of citizens in the production system of local public goods, symbolic relationships between elected leaders and electors, and the public space for debate on public policies and the actions of representatives. Based on an ethnographic field study conducted in three phases between 2006 and 2011 in the radio production studio and the show’s listening sites, it appears that, even if the programme has enabled forms of contestation of local authority to be voiced publicly without mediation, the realisation of the original project faced an unfavourable local context marked by the lack of resources given to local officials to exercise their newly decentralised powers and a local political journalism polarised around two dominant forms, leaving little room for debate: the antagonistic journalism of big private groups and small informal press, and the legitimising journalism of the public service group. Despite their militant commitment to the project, radio staff and hosts whose social origins and educational backgrounds distance them from the forms of consumption of information goods and activities of Pikine’s inhabitants, as well as the dynamic activities of informal neighbourhood associations in the suburbs of Dakar, have gradually yielded to forces of attraction exercised by mainstream private radios, influencing their vision of their professional future and, in turn, their journalistic practice
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Pu, Ming-Wei, and 步明薇. "Community Media and Participation: An Evaluating Research of Low-Power Community Radio by Using Participatory Communication Theory Framworks." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92670763826126091921.
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From the beginning of ’94, researches and social movement related with “community” was emerged, so as to the broadcasting media system. Because of deregulation of the Broadcasting and TV Law, there was a king of new broadcasting media named “low-power community radio” began to work. The author examined the basic elements of community radio by using participatory communication theory frameworks--production, decision-making and planning, in order to realized the community participation and the management of the Low-power community radio. According to the conclusion of the research, grassroots people only can participate in production stage. Because of the barrenness of community culture, the nutrition which support the low-power community radio’s living was depleted so soon that the owner decided to sale the radio or change the management goal and then commercialized.
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Axelsson, Edgar, and Ahmed Fathallah. "Rin Tohsaka –a Discord Bot for Community Management." Thesis, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-16601.
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Kandidatarbete inom medieteknik med målsättning att förbättra det befintliga begreppet Community utveckling. Detta kandidatarbete visar hur definitionen av Community utvecklats och förändrats med hjälp av modern teknik. Det är inte alltid positiv med nya definitioner. Nya problem uppstår inom communities med management, etikfrågor och underhåll. Detta Kandidatarbetet analyserar dessa problem och strävar efter att lösa dem i en modern standard, med hjälp av rhizomatic och participatory design. Eftersom Community rör sig mot online definitionen, så användes de senaste verktygen som finns tillgängliga inom webbteknik, till att bygga en produkt som använder sig av situated kunskap som ledord och kombinerar participatory design och rhizomatic. Detta för att lösa de pågående problemen som online-Communities stöter på gällande underhållsmässighet och etik.Bachelors level thesis in Media Technology that aims to improve an existing concept of community development. The thesis shows how the definition of Community has advanced and changed its meanings with the help of modern technology. It is not always positive with new definitions. New problems arise within the community regarding management, ethics, and maintenance. This thesis analyses these problems and aim to solve them in a modern standard, with help of rhizomatic and participatory design. With the community shifting towards an online definition, the thesis uses the latest tools available in web technology, to build a product that uses situated knowledge as a mindset and combines participatory design and rhizomatic. This to solve the ongoing problems that online communities face with maintainability and ethics.
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Mhlanga, Brilliant. "Community radio as dialogic and participatory : a critical analysis of governance, control and community participation, a case study of XK FM radio." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2368.
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This study is based on an assessment of XK FM as a community radio station for the !XQ and Khwe ethnic communities. Various political under-currents and factors are examined: the refusal to accept the two groups as separate ethnic communities, the anomalous creation of XK FM as a community radio station under the auspices of SABC. This anomaly has created an ambiguity of what a community is within a community radio station, what are the historical and present complexities encompassed in considering the !XO and the Khwe as a single 'minority ethnic media community' and awarding them a radio licence, what is the nature and governance of community radio in general? The study followed a qualitative research paradigm whose epistemology IS phenomenological, using case study method, theories of the public sphere and ethnicity. According to this frame of reference XK FM radio station is seen as a case study of ethnic minority media.
Community radio is therefore described as the expression of a small population, and a third voice between the state and private commercial radio. It also has the ability to
correct the distortions inherent in the majority-controlled media by acting as the alternative media. The alternative element is associated with its potential to challenge the
establishment, and in giving people an independent voice which is often perceived as alternative and free speech. Us major characteristics are; independence, equality, community participation, and representation. XK FM as a community radio is likely to consolidate the sustenance of beliefs in collective will, participatory approach to communication and citizen input. This enhances language as both a means of communication and expression of cultural identity for the local communities. This study concludes that the lXQ and Khwe are two different ethnic
communities, with varied worldviews and aspirations. This assertions surmises that the issuing of the licence by ICASA merely focused on their cultural distinctiveness, and allowed for a localised form of public broadcasting, thereby entrenching ethnic cleavages most probably with the aim of manipulating the two communities. By implication, XK
FM is not a community radio station in the strict sense, but an extension of SABC in a decentralised version.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2006.
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Musara, Lubombo. "Participatory communication for social change : normative validity and descriptive accuracy of stakeholder theory." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7980.
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There is consensus in the development communication field about community participation
being a holistic approach required to address social development challenges. Participatory
development, also known as another development, is considered invaluable in the social
change process. While participatory principles have enjoyed increasing influence over the
work of development organisations, there is still confusion as to what participation really is
and how it must be applied as an approach to social change. As a result, development in
(marginalized) communities has remained what I would call a Sisyphean task despite
tremendous funding and effort that is being put towards development. This study is motivated
by three factors relating to the practical and theoretical issues characterising participation.
First is the acknowledged lack of a consistent definition as well as inconsistencies
characterising the application of participation. The second factor is the contention that
participation has remained under theorised and the third is what can be arguably conceived as
the influence of stakeholder theory on development communication discourse. The focus of
this study is how a theory commonly used in the strategic communication field, the
stakeholder theory, applies to deliberate development communication efforts, particularly
how the theory sheds light on the concept of participation. It introduces and examines the
relevance of Edward Freeman‘s (1984) stakeholder theory in defining and applying
participation in social change initiatives. Three development agents namely OneVoice South
Africa (OVSA), The Valley Trust (TVT) and Drama for Aids Education (DramAidE) are
used as a case study of the concept of participation. The study begins with a critical
exploration of the complex participatory communication for social change narrative
discussing key ontological and epistemological assumptions as well as a pastiche of
approaches often reified as participation. It goes on to present a comprehensive review of the
stakeholder theory and its critique, followed by an exploration of how the three development
agents develop, implement and manage their respective participatory programmes. It
concludes by applying stakeholder theory to the analysis of these programmes to determine
whether the theory can be conceived as an accurate descriptive tool of the participation
process and if its normative tenets are valid to the process.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.
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Parker, Warren. "The development of community-based media for AIDS education and prevention in South Africa: towards an action-based participatory research model." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3554.
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This research explores the development of community-based media for HIV/AIDS education and prevention. The theoretical framework for the research was based in semiotic, cultural studies and participatory action research perspectives and is critical of conventional approaches to communication and media production.
Conceptual ideas for the media products emerged through interaction with small groups of participants utilising participatory action research and focus group methodology. A series of posters were produced and distributed within the communities studied. The research demonstrates a practicable and replicable methodology for deriving community perspectives around a range of issues and articulating these via small media products. The methodology is relevant to health education, but may also be applicable to a range of community-based initiatives that seek to facilitate social change.Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, 1994.
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Dockney, Jonathan. "Social power through self-imaging in participatory video amongst the Khwe bushmen community of Platfontein." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7540.
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Voices of Our Forefathers (2008) is a participatory video that was made with a group of Khwe
Bushmen in Platfontein in the Northern Cape. It is unique not only for its inclusion of the Khwe
subjects in the production process, but also for its unique representation of them. It portrays them
from historical as well as modern perspectives. This research explores how a group of Khwe youth
– the research participants – engaged and negotiated their encounter with the Voices of Our
Forefathers (2008). It does this within the context of participatory communication for development
and participatory video. It draws on theories of empowerment, reception and representation. A
qualitative methodology was employed with in-depth interviews comprising the main data
collection method, and thematic analysis and semiotics being the main data analysis methods.
Thematic analysis was aided through the use of a software programme, Nvivo 8.
The research explores research participants’ responses to Voices of Our Forefathers and critically
examines articulations of empowerment. Most of the research participants felt empowered because
VOOF (2008) incorporated the Khwe in the production process, particularly in terms of how they
wanted to be represented. The Khwe Bushmen’s participation in their representation resulted in a
range of nuanced interpretations and responses to VOOF (2008), which included discussions on
rethinking their identities, learning new skills, fostering a sense of ownership of the film and the use
of their language (Khwedam) in The Voices of Our Forefathers. It is argued, however, that although
the research participants may have expressed that they are empowered, this needs to be understood
and critically examined with respect to the larger contexts within which Bushmen, in general, live,
which may or may not affect their senses of and the realities of their empowerment. Finally, it is
argued that VOOF (2008) needs to be understood as a part of an on-going process in participatory
communication for development. It might not have provided research participants with the
necessary resources to completely transform their lives; it did, however, contribute to changing how
they perceive themselves, which, according to Freirean theory, is a necessary step in empowering
oneself.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.
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Dicks, Andrew. "Health promotion in ink : grassroots comics as a medium for participatory communication in the Khwe community." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9309.
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This dissertation engages in a longitudinal study of the method of grassroots comics
(Packalen & Sharma, 2007) amongst the Khwe people in the community of Platfontein,
which is situated outside of Kimberley, South Africa. The study is largely informed by
contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participatory communication,
which values individuals who live in the community as active participants in the research
process.
The use of grassroots comics (Packalen & Sharma, 2007) is largely based on theoretical
concepts surfacing in current literature regarding the field development communication,
which is somewhat critical of older, more dominant theories of development. Instead of
applying a predetermined, uniform model of communication to multiple different settings in
which varying development issues exist, this study is driven by the active involvement of
community stakeholders throughout every stage of the research process. This includes the
identification of community issues, the utilization of grassroots comics in the context of
adapting and communicating about those issues on a community-wide scale, and the overall
analysis of the process once research has been carried out.
This particular study focuses on general health issues and how these might affect the Khwe
community from a development perspective. However, what is of central importance is how
the comics created by certain stakeholders in the community might serve as a means of
promoting participatory communication amongst the local population, for the sake of
alleviating certain health issues prevalent in the community itself. The practical nature of
grassroots comics as a forum for health communication is what is of particular interest in this
study.
Purposive sampling techniques are employed in order to identify key participants and
informants in the research process, to present a case-specific analysis of grassroots comics in
use, and for purposes of limiting this study. Data collection methods applied to the research
setting and research findings are conducted using various qualitative research techniques
including participant observation, interviews, discussions and a participatory grassroots
comics workshop.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.
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Magongo, Miliswa. "Ripples of empowerment? : exploring the role of participatory development communication in the Biesje Poort Rock Art recording project." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9898.
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This research focuses on a rock art recording process as a possible social development project from a Communication for Participatory Development perspective. The study is part of and builds on the wider National Heritage Council-funded Biesje Poort: KhoiSan rock art recording project. The wider project’s overall objective is “to alert and assist the local authority to the presence of a KhoiSan Heritage resource/s in their area of jurisdiction and assist in developing its educational and tourism potential” (NHC/Lange 2010, proposal). One of the project’s secondary objectives is to transfer skills in the recording and representation of the rock engravings and broader cultural landscape via GPS mapping to members of a present day KhoiSan community in the Northern Cape, as well as to young researchers from a variety of educational institutions in South Africa. My research explores and documents the role of participatory communication in the project including its promotion of skills transference, empowerment, and the level of participation amongst all participants. In doing so, the research investigates the dialogue, power relations and research negotiation between members of the multicultural and multidisciplinary research team. Data is gathered via participant observation and face-to-face interviews that is then analysed against participatory development communication principles as outlined in models such as Communication for Participatory Development (Kincaid & Figueroa, 2009), and strategies such as Participatory Action Research (PAR). Findings generated from this study reveal that in spite of all challenges encountered by participants the intended project objectives were met. This study further provides an insight into other possible research outcomes that could be achieved by implementing a participatory communication research with multicultural and multidisciplinary participants. Taking into account the possible influence that this research’s contextual dynamics could have exerted on the outcomes, recommendations have been made that further research be undertaken on a broader scale to provide more definitive evidence of using this approach. Further recommendations are made that dialogue, and skills acquisition or transference, be at the heart of every participatory communication.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.
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Malherbe, Nick. "Experiences of the resistances to violence using participatory documentary film making." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27489.
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Over the last four centuries, South Africa has been shaped by the twinned, dialectical
histories of violence and resistance to violence. However, because both violence and
resistance encompass myriad formations and are underlain with a plethora of ideologies and
hermeneutics, studying each - particularly from within critical community psychology - is
oftentimes necessarily didactic and reductive. Yet, if this kind of research is to retain
emancipatory potential, I contend, it should be both community-oriented and politically
committed. In an attempt to understand how violence moves through Thembelihle, a low income community in South Africa, an expansive lens for conceptualising violence and
resistance is advanced across this research’s four studies. In Study I, I use discursive
psychology to examine how Thembelihle has been constructed in dominant discourse by
analysing newspaper reporting on the community. Following this, in Study II and Study III, I
draw on multimodal discourse analysis to study representations of quotidian life and political
resistance in a participatory documentary film entitled Thembelihle: Place of Hope, which
was collaboratively produced by residents of Thembelihle, professional filmmakers and
myself. Lastly, in Study IV, I harness the narrative-discursive approach to explore how
residents of Thembelihle build community in response to Thembelihle: Place of Hope. It was
found that within dominant constructions, Thembelihle was personified as a monolithic and
an essentially Other geo-cultural space, made newsworthy principally through its engagement
with a broad, often vaguely-conceived, notion of violence. In response to dominant discursive
constructions of this kind, community members who featured in and produced the
documentary advanced a humanistic conception of Thembelihle which did not accept the
different violences to which the community is subject. Following this, audiences of the
documentary engaged the affective and political dimensions of community-building in order to advance a democratically conceived notion of collective will. These findings present
critical community psychologists and violence scholars with a number of considerations
around representation; the multitudinous nature of violence and resistance; psycho-politics; and radical hope. Ultimately, I argue, if such research is to be meaningful, it must be guided
by and subordinated to the emancipatory requirements articulated by community members.Psychology
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Schenck, Catherina Johanna. "Paradigma ontleding van en paradigma beskrywing vir deelnemende werkswyses." 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17673.
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Community development and in particular participatory development is about
people.
This means that the person who studies or practices participatory development
or any other of the participatory pratices should have a particular way of thinking
about people. The main aim motivating this study was to investigate the
paradigm/s about people on which participatory practices are based. This
included a literature research on five participatory practices namely
participatory development;
participatory communication;
participatory learning;
participatory research; and
participatory management.
A guideline for paradigm analysis was developed by using Schriver's (1995) and
Capra's (1996) descriptions of a paradigm as well as ideas of hermeneutics.
From the paradigm analysis on the participatory practices two themes emerged:
A shift from modernism to post modernism in the thinking processes and
participatory practices.
From the participatory practices the same concepts repeatedly emerged
indicating a similar paradigm for all the participatory practices.
Three post modern theories were therefore applied to enhance the description
of the different concepts. The end result of this study is the development of an
evolving paradigm for participatory practices in order to give enhanced meaning
to concepts in the participatory vocabulary.
Finally a critical reflection was done on the post modern research process.Text in Afrikaans
Social Work
D.Phil. (Social Work)
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Carvalho, Camila Neves. "A eficácia da estratégia do Facebook na promoção e perceção de segurança da comunidade virtual." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/23169.
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Os avanços tecnológicos transformaram o cenário social. O ciberespaço permite às pessoas encontrarem-se e formarem redes de relações sociais virtuais. A importância deste estudo dá-se pelo rápido sucesso em que redes sociais se consolidaram sobretudo em plataformas de relacionamento privadas voltadas ao entretenimento e à conversação. O objetivo geral é analisar os termos e políticas de uso das redes sociais online, como estratégia de moderação de conteúdo para a promoção da segurança nas comunidades virtuais. O Facebook, enquanto maior plataforma de relacionamento do mundo, apresenta os ‘Padrões da Comunidade’ para que os utilizadores se sintam seguros. A proposta é analisar esta estratégia e sua eficácia na perceção de segurança da comunidade virtual, ao apontar o seguinte problema: os utilizadores do Facebook conhecem, utilizam e sentem-se seguros com a estratégia de segurança oferecida? O estudo conta com as pesquisas documental e bibliográfica para o levantamento da documentação indireta, conceitos teóricos e estudos existentes sobre o tema, e com pesquisa de campo para levantamento de documentação direta, através da aplicação de questionário para aferir a perceção de segurança dos utilizadores da rede social e com os resultados fornecer novos subsídios para estudos futuros.Technological advances have transformed the social scene. Cyberspace allows people to meet and form networks of virtual social relationships. The importance of this study is due to the rapid success of social networks had consolidated mainly in private relationship platforms focused on entertainment and conversation. The overall aim is to analyze the terms and policies of the online social networking usage as a content moderation strategy to promote safety in virtual communities. Facebook, as the world's largest relationship platform, introduces 'Community Standards' so users feel secure. The proposal is to analyze this strategy and its effectiveness in the safety perception of the virtual community, by pointing out the following problem: do Facebook users know, use and feel safe with the safety strategy offered? The study relies on documental and bibliographic research for the collection of indirect documentation, theoretical concepts and existing studies regarding the subject, it also relies on field research for the collection of direct documentation through survey application, to collect data and information to assess the social network users’ safety perception and with the results provide new subsidies for future studies.