scholarly journals Monitoring Mogadishu

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 338-351
Author(s):  
Alice Hills
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Neighbourhood Watch ◽  
Mobile Telephones ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Oriented Approach

Technology-based surveillance practices have changed the modes of policing found in the global North but have yet to influence police–citizen engagement in Southern cities such as Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Based on the role played by monitoring in Mogadishu’s formal security plan and in an informal neighbourhood watch scheme in Waberi district, this article uses a policy-oriented approach to generate insight into surveillance and policing in a fragile and seemingly dysfunctional environment. It shows that while watching is an integral aspect of everyday life, sophisticated technologies capable of digitally capturing real-time events play no part in crime reporting or in the monitoring of terrorist threats, and information is delivered by using basic and inclusive methods such as word of mouth, rather than by mobile telephones or social media. Indeed, the availability of technologies such as CCTV has actually resulted in the reproduction and reinforcement of older models of policing; even when the need to monitor security threats encourages residents to engage with the task of policing, their responses reflect local preferences and legacy issues dating from the 1970s and 2000s. In other words, policing practice has not been reconfigured. In Mogadishu, as in most of the world, the policing task is shaped as much by residents’ expectations as by the technologies available.

Social Media Use Among Olympians and Sport Journalists in Hungary

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
Agnes Kovacs ◽  
Tamas Doczi ◽  
Dunja Antunovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Hungarian Case ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

The Olympic Games are among the most followed events in the world, so athletes who participate there are exceptionally interesting for the media. This research investigated Olympians’ social media use, sport journalists’ attitudes about Olympians’ social media use, and the role of social media in the relationship between Olympians and sport journalists in Hungary. The findings suggest that most Hungarian Olympians do not think that being on social media is an exceptionally key issue in their life, and a significant portion of them do not have public social media pages. However, sport journalists would like to see more information about athletes on social media platforms. The Hungarian case offers not only a general understanding of the athlete–journalist relationship, and the role of social media in it, but also insight into the specific features of the phenomenon in a state-supported, hybrid sport economy.

scholarly journals Reviewing YouTube as a Compelling Tool for the Promotion of Tourism

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-104
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Medium ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Beneficial Uses ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality Video ◽  
Real Scenario ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Insight Into

YouTube has been recognized as one of the influential platforms as a social medium, allowing people across the world to express their thoughts and ideas through sharing videos. The travel-related videos have produced the second-highest searched results from its users of this giant social media in recent years. This study is basically based on an exploratory approach to discover the beneficial uses of YouTube as a promotional platform for travel businesses. To gain insight into the projection, information from secondary sources is investigated. A good quality video with logical contents containing the real scenario of travel products can be placed on YouTube to attract attention from a mass population in a very short time. The presentation of the information in this study, collected from established sources will construct an understanding of the online promotional tool and YouTube as one of them in influencing potential travelers. It will also provide an idea about the effectiveness of YouTube as a promotional tool for business through the revenue generation it has been earning from advertising. Bangladesh tourism and its stakeholders can take advantage of this online stage to make people aware of their products and services.

scholarly journals Topology of narrative in the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin

2021 ◽  
pp. 214-232
Author(s):  
Radovan Popović
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Poetic Work ◽  
Friedrich Hölderlin

Significance and peculiarity of the appearance and influence that Friedrich Hölderlin had with his poetic work, both on the whole thematic-motive structure of later poetry (indications of this turn were already present in theoretical form with Diderot, but completely deprived of their true poetic articulation until Lamartine), as well as the character of the philosophical foundation of the new dialectical reversal of thought, brought by German classical philosophy, are thematised in this paper as an organically consistent and continuous process within the framework of the indicated problem, from attempts to enter the world of Hellenism, as a fundamental source of creative unity of poetry and reality, thought and action, battle and truth, to the disappointment in the possibility of objectifying the poetic experience into a coherent basis for reconciling the contradictions of the then social and political situation, which was expressed in the existential gap between alienated everyday life and his spiritual essence, which, in the end, led to Hölderlin's insight into the futility of his own poetic testimony and the role of poetry as a harbinger of the oncoming deduction-out-of-the-oblivion of the being of the existent in its original unity.

Fake News

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leticia Bode ◽  
Emily K. Vraga ◽  
Kjerstin Thorson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 7 tackles the challenges posed by misinformation campaigns and fake news, an issue of growing concern in America and around the world. Following the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, academics and pundits alike struggled to make sense of what happened, and many pointed to the role of fake news and misinformation more broadly in leading voters astray in their assessments of the two major candidates for president. This chapter draws on survey data to investigate how media use in general, and use of social media and partisan media more specifically, affected belief in six fake news stories directly following the 2016 election. The analysis assesses whether use of different types of media affected belief in misinformation—including messages congruent and incongruent with their own candidate preferences—providing insight into what was to blame for belief in fake news in the 2016 elections.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-286
Author(s):  
Jamie Ranger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Global South ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North

Jamie Ranger reviews Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen’s 2021 book The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism. The book explores the extent to which everyday practices of consumption in the global North rely on the exploitation of resources and labour from ‘somewhere else’ (an intentionally vague reference to the global South) and as such hide the broader paradox at the heart of the expansion of western standards of living across the world: the more globally accessible the standard of living becomes, the more economically exploitative and ecologically unsustainable it is for those not privy to its comforts.

scholarly journals Jual Beli Pakaian Bekas dalam Perspektif Fikih Muamalah Iqtishodiyah

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-267
Author(s):  
Ahmad Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Production Industry ◽  
Insight Into

In the life of the world, Islamic law provides insight into economic policies. Many in everyday life people meet their lives by doing business. In economics, business is an organization that sells goods or services to consumers or other businesses for profit. This study aims to conduct an in-depth analysis related to buying and selling used clothing from the perspective of fiqh muamalah iqtishodiyah. This research is qualitative by using the documentation method in data collection. The conclusion of this research is that buying and selling used clothing does not violate the Sharia rules, but raises several negative aspects that need to be considered, namely aspects of health, cleanliness, and termination of employment in the clothing production industry.

scholarly journals Word-Of-Mouth in Social Media. The Case of Polish Tourist Industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Deszczyński
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Online Word Of Mouth ◽  
Word Of Mouth Communication ◽  
Industry Representative ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe core objective of this paper is to determine the level of online dialogue in social media between the tourist industry leaders and their customers. This study applies sequential explanatory industry-representative comparison with statistical and qualitative analysis of online word-of-mouth communication. Its main finding is that even if online marketing is a hot topic, online channels seem to be neglected by the companies failing to provide real-time dialogue services. This results in the loss of customer attention and engagement and can be linked with overall corporate relationship management immaturity. In addition, the article offers vital insight into customer value creation chain of hotel and tour operators.

Why commit to a blog: welcome to sports & exercise medicine 2.0!

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Exercise Medicine ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Medicine 2.0

Social Media and blogs are increasingly used in the everyday life and also by scientists to share their work and communicate with colleagues all around the world. In addition, blogs are believed to be valuable educational tools. This article highlights, through examples taken from the blog of the ­British Journal of Sports Medicine, the educational benefits for students to commit to a blog.

The Role of Micro-Blogging in Responding to Corporate Controversy

2015 ◽  
pp. 67-90
Author(s):  
Megan Lambert ◽  
Stephanie Vie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Crisis ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Widespread Dissemination

Over the past two decades, social media has transformed personal and professional communication. The distributed nature of social media has contributed to its widespread dissemination, enabling individuals to discover, share, and comment on social issues and events happening around the world. In particular, the affordances of micro-blogging have enabled frequent and accessible communication between corporations and their consumers; thus, crisis response is an especially important use of micro-blogging sites such as Twitter for corporations. This chapter explores ways micro-blogging can be used to respond to corporate controversies and the public outrage brought on by such controversy as expressed through social media. Using the official Twitter accounts of corporations dealing with controversy as sites of analysis, the authors analyze how these corporations use their official Twitter accounts to respond to controversy and provide insight into the roles micro-blogging can play in responding to corporate crisis.

Skateboarding LA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Talented People ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

Skateboarding LA is about professional street skateboarding, a highly refined, athletic, and aesthetic pursuit, from which a large number of people profit. (Skateboarding has been estimated to be a $5 billion annual industry.) Street skateboarders see the world differently because they are skating on it, and to do so they creatively interpret architectural features—ledges, banks, gaps, stairs, and handrails—in order to perform tricks. The tricks they perform are filmed and photographed and then disseminated to a global subculture via numerous platforms—videos, magazines, social media, websites. Skaters do this to increase their reputations, and hence their earnings. This ethnographic study of skateboarding, based upon over eight years of participant observation in Los Angeles, offers thick cultural description that provides outsiders some insight into the process of this complex, but mostly misunderstood subculture. The themes of this research revolve around the idea of subculture careers, subculture media, subculture enclaves, and subculture community, all of which call for a reassessment of much of the existing literature surrounding the sociological and political significance of subcultures. This detailed study of skating was facilitated by the author’s relationship to his key informant, former professional skater Aaron Snyder, who is also his younger brother. Together they show that more than petty vandalism and exaggerated claims of destruction, skateboarding creates opportunities for skaters the world over and draws highly talented people to cities where professional skateboarders congregate.

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