Fragmented self of Gen Z in Instagram: Digital dramaturgy on Bourdieu’s logic of practice

This research aims to identify the Self formed by Self-Presentation through different social media channels. This presentation of the Self's process is known as Dramaturgy. This study also identifies the Dramaturgy carried out by this study's participants by considering the Doxa, Habitus, Arena, and Capital surrounding the participants. Frameworks of this research are Goffman's Presentation of Self and Dramaturgy; and Bourdieu's Logic of Practice. This research relies on the constructivism paradigm, using a qualitative and in-depth interview to collect data. The founding of this research, Fragmented Self, occurred when participants presented Self on social media. Digital Dramaturgy takes place by considering the participant's Doxa, Habitus, Field, and Capital. The results convey how participants arrange the most likely symbolic Capital by showing their attitude to their impression management. In other fields, participants prefer showing their social Capital through friendship photos or community popularity as the front stage. Others keep their Capital and only stalk friends' social media accounts to be duplicated in other fields. To sum up, the presentation of the Self is fragmented, considering doxa, habitus, arena, and Capital to manage impressions needed in digital Dramaturgy—this Self, namely Fragmented-Self. Keywords: Digital Dramaturgy, Self, Doxa, Habitus, Capita

News framing of ethno-political issues and conflict behaviours: Etnic conflict pathways model

News framing study impacts on public opinions and behaviours formation have been severally established. However, its influence on ethnic conflicts which have remained a challenge have not received adequate attention. Despite that the erstwhile causes identified and solutions offered have not really helped in the containment mostly in multiethnic societies. Based on this, the need for a new approach to investigate news framing and conflict behaviours has become imperative. This therefore was the impetus for this study’s exploration and examination of the ethnic conflict motives and stimulants for conflict behaviours which is the main helix. The study explored the waves of news frames on ethnic conflict through a mixed methods design. The indepth interview with 26 informants residents in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria was used, while content analysis of three major newspapers in Nigeria was applied to complement the collection of data. The interview data was analyzed thematically while the content analysis was analysed descriptively. The results showed that ethnic group leaders are the main protagonists in the pathway to ethnic conflict while newspaper framing stimulates ethnic differences through conflict oriented framing. The study has significantly contributed fresh and up-to-date angles to the overall perspectives of how newspapers frames have been directly and indirectly influencing ethnic conflict. In addition the possible solutions have been proposed. The study concludes that structural factors (political and economic exclusion, injustice, poverty, and inequality) and how newspapers frame ethnic issues are the reasons for the intractable conflict behaviours and ethnic conflicts in Nigeria.This study proposed a model to guide the ethnic conflict pathways understanding and solution strategies for multiethnic societies to manage ethnic conflict

Social impact theory: An examination of how immediacy operates as an influence upon social media interaction in Facebook fan pages

This paper proposes that Social Influence Theory is an appropriate approach for understanding social media interaction. More and more, organisations are looking for ways to develop an effective presence in social media to increase awareness, customer satisfaction, sales, and consumer engagement with the brand. The influence of interpersonal interaction upon attitude, beliefs and behaviour has been studied within social psychology. Different forms of immediacy - physical, temporal and social - are theorised as exerting distinct influences upon individual behaviours. This paper reviews the concept of social influence, and introduces social impact theory (SIT) as a conceptual framework to guide research enquiry and inform practice within social media marketing. It examines in detail the concept of immediacy, and indicates how an understanding of immediacy might explain Facebook behaviours

Football and cultural identity in Glasgow and Liverpool

This project examines the relationship between football, the media and the constitution and reconstitution of cultural identities within Glasgow and Liverpool. It explores the extent to which a range of contemporary religious, political and national identities can be understood by focusing on the role that football and the support for particular clubs, play in their formation. Throughout, there is a concern with the relationship between supporters, the clubs, the media and identity-formation. There is also a realisation of the importance of placing this material within an histo rical framework, which emphasises how political, economic and social changes have all shaped the specific relationships in each city. This is achieved through the use of a number of case studies. The geographical areas used for the studies are the west of Scotland and the north-west of England, with specific attention focused on the cities of Glasgow and Liverpool and the football supporters within these cities. There has long been a strong connection between football and a range of social identities in these two cities. This study examines the theoretical debates regarding issues of the formation of identity in contemporary society, and argues for the need to have contextually grounded studies informing these broader theoretical discussions. This project, focusing on religious, political and cultural expressions of collective identity, emphasises the continual need to be wary of unproblematically allocating a central role to the media in any process of identity-formation. It suggests that in the cities of Glasgow and Liverpool today a range of more socially and historically grounded factors are crucial in understanding the configurations of collective expression which football support provides for many in these cities

Theatrical Intervention in the AIDS Crisis: Performance, Politics, and Social Change.

This purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of performance as a means of social change by focusing on performances that have arisen out of the AIDS crisis. Working from a cultural studies perspective, I attempt to delineate both the possibilities and limitations for this perspective on social change. By comparing the various forms these performances have taken, I offer an explanation as to how these forms inhibit or enhance the ability of a performance to challenge the dominant discourse on AIDS, and create and mobilize communities that can act in the fight against AIDS. I begin by presenting a history of the AIDS crisis, focusing particularly on how AIDS has been linguistically constructed by various institutions as a gay disease, a sexually transmitted disease, an affliction of intravenous drug users, and a scientific/medical problem. Next I provide a context for understanding AIDS performances by addressing issues specifically related to using art as a means of intervention, including the relationship between culture and society, and the politics of textuality. I conclude this discussion by explaining why performance is emerging as an important political tool in the contemporary or postmodern world. The study presents examples of three forms these performances have taken: plays (or conventional theatre), performance art, and demonstrations. Plays by William Hoffman (As Is) and Larry Kramer (The Normal Heart) represent the traditional theatre form. Performance art by Karen Finley (We Keep Our Victims Ready) and Tim Miller (Stretch Marks) exemplify performances based on avant-garde experiments that challenge the traditional theatrical form. Finally, the Names Project (the AIDS Memorial Quilt) and two demonstrations by ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) are representative of performances that expand traditional notions of the performance event. Each chapter includes a summary of the texts, the critical responses found in the mass media, comparisons between texts that are of the same form, and concludes by discussing their efficacy for intervening in the AIDS crisis. In the final chapter, some conclusions are drawn regarding the efficacy of these performances for social change

The Case of Egypt

학위논문(석사) -- 서울대학교대학원 : 국제대학원 국제학과(국제통상전공), 2022. 8. Moon, Woo-Sik.The expansion of trade between north and south countries, in parallel with the development of virtual innovation, has effecting significantly on productivity and labor market configurations, thereby affecting the form of informality allowing transformation into digitalization informal, throughout informal workers, they tend to use easier accessible platforms aiming to enhance livelihood and increasing income, as well as leadership capacity reflecting on empowerment status, in education, In the Egyptian context, the last decade of Egyptian revolutions demonstrated the role of social media in Egyptian society, which was initially motivated by the revolution of 2011. where the Egyptian public and government parties as well as civilian took social media seriously as a factor influencing social interactions through addressing needs and expectations. This is a study is to address the importance of social media's role in the Egyptian community, impacting women empowerment through the transformation of informality into online social media platforms, helping to improve women empowerment through doing business online and improving their livelihood in a variety of social contexts.가상 혁신의 개발과 병행하여 북부와 남부 국가 간의 무역 확대는 생산성 및 노동 시장 구성에 상당한 영향을 미치며, 따라서 비공식적인 형태의 수입원이 발생하는 것은, 온라인 상에서도 비공식적인 수입이 발생할 수 있다는 것을 의미하는데, 비공식 노동자들은 비교적 접근성이 높은 온라인 플랫폼을 사용해 생계 및 소득 증대, 그리고 스스로의 역량 강화를 위한 수입원을 벌어들이고 있습니다. 이집트의 맥락에서, 이집트 혁명의 마지막 10년은 이집트 사회에서 소셜 미디어의 역할을 보여주었고. 이는 처음에 2011년 혁명에 의해 동기가 부여되었고,이집트 대중과 정부 정당, 민간인이 필요와 기대를 충족시켜 사회적 상호 작용에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 소셜 미디어를 진지하게 여겼던 곳, 이 연구는 이집트 커뮤니티에서 소셜 미디어의 역할의 중요성을 설명하고, 비공식성을 온라인 소셜 미디어 플랫폼으로 전환하여 여성 권한 부여에 영향을 미치고 온라인 비즈니스를 통해 여성 권한 부여를 돕고 다양한 사회적 맥락에서 생계를 개선합니다.Chapter 1. Introduction 5 1.1 Background 5 1.1.1 Problem Statement 7 1.1.2 Research objective 7 1.1.3 Problem question 8 1.1.4 Research Outline 8 Chapter 2. Literature Review 10 2.1 Trade and informal Labor market 10 2.3 Gender inequality and informal labor 15 2.4 Digitalization of informality and social media intermediaries 19 2.5 Technicality of the Platform economy 23 2,5,1 What are social media platforms? 24 2.5.2 How do the business online platforms are working? 25 2.5.3 Who is working on informal online platforms? 26 2.5.4 Identifying women empowerment 27 2.5.5 How women got empowered through platforms 29 2.5.6 Risk in doing business as informal online on social media 30 Chapter 3. Informal Online Business and Women in Egypt 33 3.1 Social media and Egyptian’s empowerment platforms 35 3.2 Egyptian Governance and informal labor market 36 3.4 Informal business and women in Egypt 45 Chapter 4. Main Findings 49 4.1 Data Description 49 4.2 Education empowerment 54 4.3 Economical empowerment 57 4.4 Social Impact 60 Chapter 5 Conclusion 66 References 73석

Media agenda-building battles between Greenpeace and Shell : a rhetorical and discursive approach

The empirical focus of this research comprises the UK television news battles between Greenpeace (a highly media-aware International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO)), and the oil company Shell (a multinational corporation (MNC)). Specifically, two such media battles are examined, both receiving international attention and intense media publicity during 1995:- The battle between Royal Dutch/Shell, particularly, its subsidiary Shell-UK, and Greenpeace over the deep-sea disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform;- The battle between Royal Dutch/Shell's Nigerian subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) (hereafter referred to as Shell-Nigeria), and Greenpeace (amongst others) over environmental pollution in Ogoniland, Nigeria.These two battles were chosen mainly because they share the same main protagonists - Greenpeace and Shell - providing rich material for a number of interesting questions regarding media agenda-building