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    Mobilizing the Trump Train: Understanding Collective Action in a Political Trolling Community

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    Political trolls initiate online discord not only for the lulz (laughs) but also for ideological reasons, such as promoting their desired political candidates. Political troll groups recently gained spotlight because they were considered central in helping Donald Trump win the 2016 US presidential election, which involved difficult mass mobilizations. Political trolls face unique challenges as they must build their own communities while simultaneously disrupting others. However, little is known about how political trolls mobilize sufficient participation to suddenly become problems for others. We performed a quantitative longitudinal analysis of more than 16 million comments from one of the most popular and disruptive political trolling communities, the subreddit /r/The\_Donald (T\D). We use T_D as a lens to understand participation and collective action within these deviant spaces. In specific, we first study the characteristics of the most active participants to uncover what might drive their sustained participation. Next, we investigate how these active individuals mobilize their community to action. Through our analysis, we uncover that the most active employed distinct discursive strategies to mobilize participation, and deployed technical tools like bots to create a shared identity and sustain engagement. We conclude by providing data-backed design implications for designers of civic media

    IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOBILIZING TEACHER PROGRAM IN IMPROVING THE MORALE OF COLLEAGUES AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 PRABUMULIH

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    This study aims to analyze the Implementation of the Mover Teacher Program in Improving the Morale of Peers at SMAN Negeri 3 Prabumuli. This research is a qualitative research with a descriptive approach. In collecting data, researchers used several collection techniques, namely interviews, observation, and documentation. Based on the results of this study, the Mover Teacher Program aims to equip teachers with learning and pedagogical leadership skills so that they can advance the learning community inside and outside the education unit, and have the potential to become educational leaders who can create comfort and well-being for students in their respective education units. The ability to promote learning is the driving teacher's ability to motivate and actively participate in the subject teacher's environment to reflect, collaborate, share knowledge and learn from each other to achieve common goals, so as to achieve the goals of learning

    Unlocking Latino Civic Potential 2016 and Beyond

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    In August 2015, the Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program and the Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program convened a diverse group of distinguished scholars, organizers, and other experts and leaders to discuss the challenges and causes of low Latino civic participation and to develop recommendations for unlocking Latino civic potential in the United States.This is a vital topic, as the U.S. Latino population is growing rapidly, is overwhelmingly young, and thus will see growing power and influence in American society and politics, if Latinos are able to more fully realize their civic potential. Increasing Latino civic and political participation rates today will pay dividends for generations to come; likewise, missing the opportunity to do so will have consequences to the health of our democracy for generations to come.This report identifies four priority areas and tactics for unleashing the civic potential of Latinos in the United States. Focusing on immigrant integration and naturalization, voter engagement, civic education, and leadership development; the report offers a comprehensive vision for how to engage the nation's fastest growing demographic, beyond election cycles, to participate more fully in our democracy

    The Ecosystem of Media Literacy: A Holistic Approach to Media Education

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    Este artículo de investigación propone una manera sistemática para difundir la educación de la alfabetización mediática en Tailandia, basada en las competencias de la alfabetización mediática e informacional de la UNESCO. El esquema de aprendizaje de la alfabetización mediática se estableció aplicando un estudio de métodos mixtos antes de que su eficacia y funcionalidad haya sido comprobada por las entrevistas detalladas de expertos de alfabetización mediática. Los datos de estas entrevistas dieron lugar al «ecosistema de la alfabetización mediática» como un enfoque integral y sistemático para divulgar la educación de la alfabetización mediática. El ecosistema de la alfabetización mediática postula que el esquema de aprendizaje funciona en un ambiente que favorece la alfabetización mediática, donde cada componente opera de forma interdependiente y en paralelo: el esquema de aprendizaje de la alfabetización mediática (estudiantes, facilitadores, currículum y pedagogía), la sociedad (comunidad, sectores cívicos, medios, y los padres), y la política. Se piensa que el uso del modelo de ecosistema puede producir un cambio en el comportamiento de los estudiantes, la meta final de la educación. En otras palabras, la alfabetización mediática se convertirá en un modo de vida. Los datos obtenidos de las entrevistas también dieron a conocer un nuevo descubrimiento, al demostrar que los componentes de la alfabetización mediática en Tailandia deberían consistir en acceder, analizar y evaluar, reflexionar, y crear; en vez de acceder, evaluar y crear; un marco que el país lleva usando durante más de una década. Los descubrimientos de esta investigación son aplicables a otras culturas con grupos diferentes de estudiantes, que con pequeñas adaptaciones, pueden servir como una orientación política provisionalThis research article proposes a systematic way to disseminate media literacy education in Thailand, based on the UNESCO’s media and information literacy competencies. A media literacy learning schema was constructed using a mixed-method research before it was verified for efficacy and practicality by the in-depth interviews of media literacy experts. The interview data resulted in “the Ecosystem of Media Literacy” as a holistic and systematic approach to disseminate media literacy education. The Ecosystem of Media Literacy posits that the learning schema works in an environment that supports media literacy, with each component operating interdependently and in parallel with each other. It consists of the Media Literacy Learning Schema (Learners, Facilitators, Curriculum, and Pedagogy), the Society (Community, Civic Sectors, Media, and Parents), and the Policy. It is believed that using the Ecosystem model can lead to a behavior change among learners, the ultimate goal of education. In other words, media literacy will become a way of life. The Interview data also resulted in a new finding that Thailand’s media literacy components should consist of access, analyze and evaluate, reflect, and create, instead of access, evaluate, and create that the country has been using as a framework for over a decade. The findings of this research are applicable to other cultures with different groups of learners, with minor adaptations that can serve as a provisional policy guidelin

    Why Information Matters: A Foundation for Resilience

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    Embracing Change: The Critical Role of Information, a research project by the Internews' Center for Innovation & Learning, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, combines Internews' longstanding effort to highlight the important role ofinformation with Rockefeller's groundbreaking work on resilience. The project focuses on three major aspects:- Building knowledge around the role of information in empowering communities to understand and adapt to different types of change: slow onset, long-term, and rapid onset / disruptive;- Identifying strategies and techniques for strengthening information ecosystems to support behavioral adaptation to disruptive change; and- Disseminating knowledge and principles to individuals, communities, the private sector, policymakers, and other partners so that they can incorporate healthy information ecosystems as a core element of their social resilience strategies

    A proposed Entrepreneurial Development Model to Palestine

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    Digital Democracy: Episode IV—A New Hope*: How a Corporation for Public Software Could Transform Digital Engagement for Government and Civil Society

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    Although successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past 20 years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation. The undemocratic exploitation of massive social media systems continued this trend, but it only worsened an existing problem of modern democracies, which were already struggling to develop deliberative infrastructure independent of digital technologies. There have been many creative conceptions of civic tech, but implementation has lagged behind innovation. This article argues for implementing one such vision of digital democracy through the establishment of a public corporation. Modeled on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the United States, this entity would foster the creation of new digital technology by providing a stable source of funding to nonprofit technologists, interest groups, civic organizations, government, researchers, private companies, and the public. Funded entities would produce and maintain software infrastructure for public benefit. The concluding sections identify what circumstances might create and sustain such an entity

    Mobilizing Consensus on Facebook: Networked Framing of the U.S. Gun-Control Movement on Facebook

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    This study draws on networked framing and intermedia network agenda-setting theories to examine how different informational actors have framed the March for Our Lives gun control movement in 2018. This study uses the Social Science One Facebook URLs share dataset to compare network-agenda setting of different media types including offline news media, partisan sites, nonpartisan sites, advocacy/activism organizations, and social media/aggregate services. Results suggest that news media’s framing was the richest and most dynamic, suggesting their important roles in setting the gun issue as a salient public agenda. Meanwhile, emerging media expanded the scope of framing by covering race, gender, and equity issues into gun politics. The movement/activist organizational actors showed the least similarity to other media types, inviting further questions on the role of movement/activist actors in shaping public attention and agendas in the process

    Protest-Case Analysis: A Methodological Approach for the Study of Grassroots Environmental Mobilizations

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    Diversidad y derechos. La conexión entre la reforma mediática y los medios públicos

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    This article addresses the gap between media reform movements and support for public service media (PSM). It argues that the “critical juncture” created by the challenges of digitalization has shifted the focus from diversity to communication rights as a central aim for media reform. It posits that rights-based approach would position PSM in the framework of different media reform movements, and hence foster new alliances by connecting it to media freedom and digital rights discourses. In addition, it suggests that media reform movements would benefit from supporting PSM as a tool for achieving democratic communication rights.El siguiente artículo aborda la distancia existente entre los movimientos que defienden la reforma de los medios y el propio apoyo a los medios públicos. En él, se defiende que el “momento crítico” que se ha generado a partir del reto de la digitalizacion ha acabado por desplazar el foco del tema de la diversidad a la concepción de la comunicación como derecho en tanto que aspiración central dentro de la reforma mediática. El texto argumenta que un acercamiento basado en la comunicación como derecho posicionaría a los medios públicos dentro del marco de acción de los movimientos pro-reforma y, por lo tanto, permitiría promover nuevas alianzas al conectar estos movimientos con discursos centrados en las ideas de la libertad mediática y los derechos digitales. Además, se sugiere que los movimientos proreforma pueden beneficiarse de su propia defensa de los medios públicos como herramienta de cara a lograr derechos democráticos asociados a la comunicación
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