Strategi Aktivisme Digital #MeToo Movement di Amerika

The presence of the #MeToo movement is an early sign of a social movement through social networks in voicing injustice over sexual cases that occur in the workplace in the United States. This reseach aims to explain the strategy of the digital campaign of the #MeToo movement as a movement to fight for the rights of victims of sexual cases by using qualitative research methods with the concept of Online Social Movement and Digital Activism. The results of this study indicate that the sustainability of the digital campaign of the #MeToo movement uses a strategy from digital activism which includes accessibility, namely the #MeToo movement chooses a modern campaign method by using social media such as twitter, instagram, facebook, and myspace. Then look at the popularity, namely by using the hashtag #MeToo as a frame of movement that is easy to share on social media. Finally, the ecosystem, the outbreak of the #MeToo movement has received positive responses from victims and the community thus driving a number of transformations

Interactive and Engaging Virtual/Online English Classes: Fostering Teaching and Social Presence

The COVID-19 pandemic brought many challenges to the education field. Due to the enforced immediate transition from in-person to online teaching, teachers, policymakers, administrators, and students had difficulty adapting themselves. Nearly three years since the pandemic began, it is clear that English language teachers have improved their digital literacy skills to sustain effective teaching. However, more than digital literacy skills are required to build community in the online learning environment. The claim for the literature review is that fostering interaction and creating presence, especially high levels of social and teaching presence, may contribute to academic achievement in online English learning. Accordingly, the field project entitled “Fostering Teaching and Social Presence Through Interactive and Engaging Virtual/Online Classes” addresses the lack of awareness for creating high levels of teaching and social presence that undergirds cognitive presence to build community in synchronous online English classes. This field project is an e-guide designed for English language teachers who teach grammar online synchronously using videoconferencing tools to young adults and adults. It consists of four sample lesson plans with activities using interactive online tools for teaching four grammar topics to intermediate (CEFR-B1) level learners. Also, it is significant for English language teachers who want to build community and avoid isolation in their online classes by creating social and teaching presence, thus cognitive presence through interaction and engagement

Facebook faith - social networking in a faith based community

This paper views the increasing social networking as an efficient emerging ministry to the moveable generation. Through social network such as Facebook, ministry from a pastoral perspective can become more authentic and meaningful. Ministry is relational. Social Networking sites provide a strong platform to being part in other people’s life. Social networking and living online builds community beyond geographical boarders. Young adults and youths digital identity often reflects their faith, this is supported by research which suggests a practice of more openness to share and expose private issues online. Spiritual and religious views are freely shared, creating sacred spaces in the midst of life practising a holistic faith identity in a secular community. Providing a strong platform for information flow, Social Network is attractive in a postmodern society where inviting people to join in events are perceived as non threatening, making church community events transparent and available to people who do not attend church, inviting spiritual friendships and relationships. Social Networking strengthens relationship in a non hierarchical manner and invites the minister into lives where there previously would have been barriers, engaging in prayer and bible study as well as pastoral care through social networking, thus relationships deepens via social networking making people real. It has been observed that, although community building happens on the net, church affiliation loyalty remains to the local community. Therefore presence ministry though social networks emerges as a core form of ministry, where relations to youth who move from local church to university campuses are kept alive. The asynchronous nature of communication within social networking eases the minister in her work. The minister is able to engage with many individuals at the same time. Before the minister could visit one person at a time, now she visits 5-6 individuals at any given time. Therefore social networking not only increases the quality of the work, but also empowers the minister to be more efficient

Community and Social Interaction in Digital Religious Discourse in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon

Since the advent of the Internet, religion has maintained a very strong online presence. This study examines how African Christianity is negotiated and practised on the Internet. The main objectives are to investigate to what extent online worshippers in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon constitute (online) communities and how interactive the social networks of the churches are. This study shows that some important criteria for community are met by African digital worshippers. However, interaction flow is more of one to many, thus members do not regularly interact with one another as they would in offline worship. Worshippers view the forums as a sacred space solely for spiritual matters and not for sharing social or individual feelings and problems. However, the introduction of social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and interactive forums is an interesting and promising new development in religious worship in Africa

CIMTDetect: A Community Infused Matrix-Tensor Coupled Factorization Based Method for Fake News Detection

Detecting whether a news article is fake or genuine is a crucial task in today's digital world where it's easy to create and spread a misleading news article. This is especially true of news stories shared on social media since they don't undergo any stringent journalistic checking associated with main stream media. Given the inherent human tendency to share information with their social connections at a mouse-click, fake news articles masquerading as real ones, tend to spread widely and virally. The presence of echo chambers (people sharing same beliefs) in social networks, only adds to this problem of wide-spread existence of fake news on social media. In this paper, we tackle the problem of fake news detection from social media by exploiting the very presence of echo chambers that exist within the social network of users to obtain an efficient and informative latent representation of the news article. By modeling the echo-chambers as closely-connected communities within the social network, we represent a news article as a 3-mode tensor of the structure - and propose a tensor factorization based method to encode the news article in a latent embedding space preserving the community structure. We also propose an extension of the above method, which jointly models the community and content information of the news article through a coupled matrix-tensor factorization framework. We empirically demonstrate the efficacy of our method for the task of Fake News Detection over two real-world datasets. Further, we validate the generalization of the resulting embeddings over two other auxiliary tasks, namely: \textbf{1)} News Cohort Analysis and \textbf{2)} Collaborative News Recommendation. Our proposed method outperforms appropriate baselines for both the tasks, establishing its generalization.Comment: Presented at ASONAM'1

Real social analytics: a contribution towards a phenomenology of a digital world

This article argues against the assumption that agency and reflexivity disappear in an age of ‘algorithmic power’ (Lash 2007). Following the suggestions of Beer (2009), it proposes that, far from disappearing, new forms of agency and reflexivity around the embedding in everyday practice of not only algorithms but also analytics more broadly are emerging, as social actors continue to pursue their social ends but mediated through digital interfaces: this is the consequence of many social actors now needing their digital presence, regardless of whether they want this, to be measured and counted. The article proposes ‘social analytics’ as a new topic for sociology: the sociological study of social actors’ uses of analytics not for the sake of measurement itself (or to make profit from measurement) but in order to fulfil better their social ends through an enhancement of their digital presence. The article places social analytics in the context of earlier debates about categorization, algorithmic power, and self-presentation online, and describes in detail a case study with a UK community organization which generated the social analytics approach. The article concludes with reflections on the implications of this approach for further sociological fieldwork in a digital world

Social Media’s Integration into Communication Centers: A UNC-Greensboro Case Study

The UNC-Greensboro Speaking Center (SC) acknowledges the growing impact of social media as a means of sharing information, connecting with stakeholders, and fostering a community of practice. In this study, we review the history of social media integration into our center. After securing a presence primarily on multiple platforms, we shifted our focus away from using social media solely for information dissemination to promote social connections and relationships. In our latest digital project during the summer of 2019, we launched a new social media campaign with the goal of promoting our center to incoming freshmen. Through acknowledging our progress, our center plans to continue increasing our social media presence as we believe these platforms remain prospective interpersonal resources.

The Role of Digital Media in Social Transformation of Transitional Society in Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia

Pangandaran is a tourist area and a new district that is experiencing rapid development in West Java, Indonesia. This study aims to reveal the existence of digital media in Pangandaran and its implications in the process of social transformation. Studying social transformation means examining the various ways in which the forces of globalization affect local communities and national societies with very diverse historical experiences, economic and social patterns, political institutions, and cultures. (Castles, 2001). The research was conducted on three local online media that reach the people of Pangandaran and its surroundings, namely radartasik.com, HarapanRakyat.com and SEPUTARPANGANDARAN.COM The method used is a case study with data collection techniques in the form of content analysis, observation and in-depth interviews. Content analysis is carried out in a narrative manner on the websites of the three media and the various social media used. The results of the study show that social media has the potential to develop the media in Pangandaran, as evidenced by the high engagement of audiences with their social media. Local media content is still considered by the community to be very limited in meeting their information needs. However, there is a significant impact related to the presence and access of digital media, especially social media, on local communities in carrying out global interactions. Digital media has also proven to be a source of information for teenagers to compare various aspects of life in their environment and in other environments. To increase the positive implications of the existence of digital media, digital literacy is needed in the community, especially regarding digital safety among teenagers in the use of digital media. &nbsp

Bring your own devices classroom : issues of digital divides in teaching and learning contexts : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology at Massey University, Albany campus, New Zealand

Since the late 1990s, digital divide has gathered much attention from the research community and government organizations. The education sector has been an important area of inquiry for many researchers, as they strive to inform government initiatives on strategies to address digital divide issues prevalent here. This study reports on how existing and new digital divides have evolved with increased penetration of digital learning technologies into teaching and learning practices and the wide usage of enabling technologies by students across formal and informal learning spaces (i.e. both in- and out-of-school), within the context of a BYOD (bring your own device) classroom initiative. A five-year longitudinal investigation of a BYOD classroom initiative by a New Zealand school helped to gain insights into different nature of digital divides in the learning process. First, the BYOD classroom initiative did not end up accentuating existing gaps in access to digital devices and information, despite initial results indicating towards a potentially digitally divided classroom. Second, the study strongly indicated the presence of gaps in terms of information literacy and critical thinking ability, which was eventually bridged in the later stage, as students slowly adjusted to the classroom curricular structures in the BYOD classroom. Third, learner self-efficacy has been identified as the most influential determinant of learning outcomes among students. In earlier phases of investigation of BYOD classrooms initiative, learner self-efficacy was found to be influenced by digital capability, in combination with information literacy, critical thinking ability, and positive motivation. However subsequently, self-efficacy influences affordances in various aspects of social cognitive abilities related to individual’s learning activities affecting how learners engage and apply technology to shape their learning outcomes. The study findings will inform policy makers and education government agencies, in their ongoing quest for bringing about inclusive digital transformation and overall improvement in learning outcomes

Utilization of Social Media as a Digital Publication Strategy at Nurul Ulum Islamic Boarding School

oai:ojs2.alhayat.or.id:article/338Social media is essential for introducing Islamic educational institutions to the broader community. The presence of social media is beneficial and provides benefits for Islamic educational institutions in the digital publication of the educational services offered. This study aims to describe the use of social media as an effort for digital publications carried out by the Nurul Ulum Islamic boarding school Blitar City. This research uses a qualitative approach, and this type of research is descriptive. This study's data sources were Islamic boarding school caretakers, public relations schools, teaching boards, and administrative staff. This study used several data collection methods: participatory observation methods, in-depth interview methods, and documentation methods. The data analysis technique used is; data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The study's results stated that the types of social media users at the Nurul Ulum Islamic boarding school included Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. This research shows that YouTube is a social media often used as a digital publication.  The purpose of using social media at the Nurul Ulum Islamic boarding school is as a medium of communication, media for promotion, and media to build institutional brands. The real implication of using social media is that the wider community increasingly recognizes the Nurul Ulum Islamic boarding school, the number of students is increasing yearly and has received broad public trust