A CASE STUDY OF FANSHAWE COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES

Social Networking Sites (SNS), like Facebook are very popular among college students and are used for social activities like communicating with friends and posting photos. The Learning Management System (LMS) has also become popular on campus and is used academic related purposes like checking grades and submitting assignments. The purpose of this study was to better understand the usage of SNSs at Fanshawe College. The guiding question for this study was: What are the perceptions of students regarding the need for social networking services? A case study approach using mixed methods was selected for this research. The research indicates students have four main perceptions regarding the need for SNS services: 1) students’ online social and academic lives are to be kept separate 2) students’ personal information needs to be protected 3) the LMS is for teaching and learning 4) students need to stay connected to their social networks 24/7

weltwärts: Volunteers and their Civic Engagement in Germany

The development volunteer service “weltwärts” enables young adults to participate in a volunteer service in countries of the Global South. The weltwärts programme is implemented by over 150 civil society sending organisations and their partner organisations in the host countries. Since the programme was founded in 2007, more than 30,000 young adults have already taken part in weltwärts. Measured in terms of both the number of annual assignments and the volume of funding, weltwärts is the largest international youth volunteer service in Germany and one of the largest development volunteer services for young adults worldwide. The evaluation focuses its analysis on what volunteers learn, how they are changed by participating in weltwärts, and their civic engagement after they return to Germany. Another question pursued is whether diverse population groups take part in weltwärts and benefit from the programme’s assumed positive effects. The evaluation follows a programme-theory-based approach and implements a mixed-methods design. The core of the methodology is a quasi-experimental design based on cross-sectional surveys of volunteers and of a representative demographic sample of the weltwärts target group. This procedure enables reliable capture of data on the volunteers’ learning and the ways in which they are changed. Group discussions were also held in which volunteers’ voices were heard. Furthermore, members of the volunteers’ families and friends and representatives of the sending organisations were surveyed by means of online questionnaires. Finally, expert interviews and analyses of secondary data and documents were conducted

Philanthropy Always Sounds Like Someone Else: A Portrait of High Net Worth Donors of Color

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) donors with high net worth (HNW) represent a transformational force in social change philanthropy. Their life experience, vision, and leadership are vital in a historical moment in which the salience of race and racism to every institution and system in U.S. society is glaringly evident, and in which new ideas and solutions are urgently needed. These individuals have the means and the ability to move large-scale resources to address the deep imbalance in racial equity giving. They have the interest and skill to fund and create systemic change. And they are getting organized and exerting leadership as never before.Yet this story about donors of color has never been told. Philanthropy Always Sounds Like Someone Else: A Portrait of High Net Worth Donors of Color (hereafter cited as "Portrait"), presents a qualitative analysis of interviews with 113 high net worth Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) donors, conducted over three years in ten cities across the U.S. This is, to our knowledge, the largest qualitative research project of HNW people of color ever reported in the philanthropic literature.The report takes its name from a reflection articulated by one interviewee and shared by others with whom we spoke, that philanthropy as a concept never seemed to include them as people of color. This makes sense. Philanthropy is about class. And class has long had a race and a gender. The racialization of wealth and philanthropy in the U.S. is why the stories in this report have not yet been told. And it is also the reason why so many of the people interviewed in our research keep traditional philanthropic networks and organizations at arms length

Early Childhood Education in China:A comparative approach to values and citizenship education in public and private kindergartens in Shanghai

This dissertation looks at how the interplay between local and global forces has been (re)shaping early childhood education (ECE) in China since the 2010 Education Reform, how and why the dominant discourse has become increasingly keen on promoting values and citizenship education after the 19th National Congress, and whether its strategy has been effective in disseminating the core socialist values in public and private kindergartens. My focus is on analysing the dissemination and internalisation of moral education (labelled ‘values and citizenship education’) and the mainstream North American narratives of Halloween and Christmas in five public and private kindergartens in Shanghai, observed during the academic year 2017-2018. The analysis looks at the relationship between culture, values, and power within a thematic spatiality framework, where I apply a Centre-Periphery lens to position Beijing at the Centre (Space1), public kindergartens on the Space-in-Between (Space2), and private kindergartens on the Periphery (Space3) of the homogenising dominant discourse promoting moral education (deyu 德育). Moreover, I use the concepts of sovereign power and Foucauldian disciplinary power to understand the complex power dynamics shaping five elite preschools in Shanghai and the extent to which socialist morality has been successfully inculcated.I rely on a multitude of data sources, from direct observation of festival celebrations in preschools, interviews with ECE officials, experts, and kindergarten staff and parent questionnaires to key ECE legislation and kindergarten social media accounts and curricula. To assess the power dynamics between local forces promoting the ‘cultivation of socialist builders’ and global ones I tackled the kindergartens’ Spring Festival and China’s National Day narratives, on one hand, and Christmas and Halloween-related ones, on the other, as well as looked at the attitudes and behaviour of a multitude of actors, from local education officials to preschool principals, teachers, parents and children.My findings indicate that, starting with the 2010 Education Reform but gaining more impetus after the 19th National Congress, Space1, working through local education bureaus and local CCP branches, has increased its efforts of nationalising kindergarten education and pursuing . The Centre thus aims for ECE curricula to contain a moral education core and disseminate a discourse that would ensure the Party’s survival through the nurturing of new generations of loyal citizens who sharing its monolithic vision of ‘Chineseness.’ Based on the narratives promoted on their social media posts, both elite public kindergartens and private bilingual English-Mandarin ones are conforming with this directive. I also showed that Space2 is shaped by both sovereign and disciplinary power and that both staff and parents behave as ‘obedient bodies’ (Foucault 1991), fully aligned with the official rhetoric’s push for moral education. In Space3 the parents and native English teachers are resisting and negotiating with the Centre, retaining the agency to influence educational content by disseminating American narratives of Halloween and Christmas in the classroom, but exercise self-censorship in public, for example by aligning with the patriotic dominant discourse on social media

SPEC Kit 297: Library Development (December 2006)

This SPEC Kit investigates the staffing, reporting relationships, and duties of library development programs in ARL member libraries to provide a baseline for institutions as they work to create, refine, or advocate for library development programs in their institutions.The survey was distributed to the 123 ARL member libraries in March 2006. Ninety libraries (73%) responded to the survey. Eighty-three (92%) reported that they have a formal library development program. Of those institutions, all have a fundraising professional assigned to the program, 76 (92%) use printed giving materials, 71 (86%) use direct mail, 50 (60%) conduct a phonathon, 50 (60%) have a friends organization, and 47 (57%) raise more than $500,000 a year in private support.This SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents in the form of mission statements, organization charts, job descriptions, budgets, and policies

Social media business model analysis - Case Tencent, Facebook, and Myspace

The term of social media is becoming increasingly popular presently, the amount of social media users is growing dramatically, and the monetization of social media has been discussed in publications but not in details. Nowadays, the most frequently used approach to make money for social media is online advertising. However, the successful company like Tencent proves other potentials of monetization. Because the business model is critical to make profit for a company, a company’s financial performance could be better achieved when it has a good business model. This study will focus on business models analysis of social media companies. The study is conducted based on three case companies, Tencent, Facebook, and Myspace. The objectives are to build the business model framework for social media services analysis, apply this framework into case companies to examine their business models and find out the best performed one, and finally to improve other two less well-performed companies’ business models. Case study, observations, focus group are main methods for collecting data and empirical analysis. Based on literature reviews of social media and business models, this paper formulates a new business model framework, it provides a structure for empirical case analysis. The framework is modified mainly based on Osterwalder’s (2002) e-business model ontology, and other three attributes have also been added into. New framework components include customer relationship, infrastructure management, product innovation, market considerations, technologies, regulations, and financial aspects. Through empirical studies on business models, Tencent emphasizes to focus on users’ personalization and provides integrated solutions, it achieves high financial return mostly through virtual goods channel. Facebook offers young people a specific social networking platform, enable the communication and maintain people’s relationships in a way of content sharing, it collects revenues mainly from online ads. Myspace gives users high personalized experiences through social entertaining platform, and also generate revenues from online ads. Tencent has been found to be the most successful in its business model and financial performance among three companies. To achieve better performance for other two companies, Facebook is suggested to improve its value proposition and provide more social media services based on young people’s needs, to include new mechanisms that can maintain customer relationship, to have new revenue channels like increase virtual item sales and bind with telecommunication services. For Myspace, it is critical to enhance main music solution service in order to keep its competitive advantage. Real name registration policy should be applied to enhance users’ strength of ties and environment safety. Customer relationship is the most important issue due to significant amount of lost users. The study recommends it to develop more features that keep users active on the site, to give them caring service, and to listen to their voices. Finally, Myspace can also try to add new revenue streams besides traditional ads approach

The negotiation and management of sexual and reproductive health behaviour in marital relationships in rural south-western Uganda

Despite changes in availability and uptake of modern contraception and several decades of HIV risk behaviour change intervention, rates of fertility and HIV remain high in south-western Uganda. This thesis set out to explore the reasons why and understand the specific challenges married individuals face negotiating and managing HIV risk and family planning. Data collection took place between 2015-2016 in six villages, located in a pre-existing general population cohort run by the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS in Kyamulibwa. The dataset includes 36 life-stories of men and women at different stages of the marital life-course, focus groups with married individuals, and interviews with religious leaders, health workers and a traditional healer/birth attendant. A social determinants of health approach was used as a base to investigate drivers of sexual attitudes and practices, fertility preferences, family planning use and navigation of HIV. A framework and network mapping technique guided interpretation and data analysis. This thesis identifies social practices that are sustaining high fertility and contributing to a risk environment, which heightens HIV susceptibility for married individuals, particularly women in this setting. Unequal gender power dynamics are played out through practices of transactional sex, early and pressurised marriage for females, gender-based violence and the commonality of male engagement in extra-marital relations. Whilst types of marriage and marital circumstances vary substantially, widespread cultural beliefs underpin expectations of marital roles and obligations relating to unprotected sex. Over the life-course, females often try multiple family planning methods, frequently favouring approaches that do not require spousal involvement. Tensions are highlighted between the ways married individuals are told they should protect against HIV and manage fertility, and the cultural and religious discourses shaping marital gender roles, as well as the context and circumstances in which sex and sexual relations take place

A five year case study of developmental strategies between Atlanta University and its alumni in the promotion of alumni in the promotion of alumni support of Atlanta University's growth, 1974-1979, 1985

The primary purpose in this treatise is an attempt to discover certain distinguishing characteristics of the alumni of Atlanta University who have supported their alma mater as compared to other alumni who have refused to do so: further to redesign a better data base for the effective operation and management of alumni affairs as Atlanta University attempts to design and implement programs for enlisting alumni support in its quest for survival. A sample of two hundred subjects from Atlanta University were used in this research along with interviews with the alumni directress, Office of Development and key alumni. Also telephone interviews were held with the deans of the various colleges. The following research questions link their underlying theory to the actual problem being addressed. They are suggested from the theoretical and applied literature. These research questions represent the writer's hypothetical approach to the proposed problem. Specifically, there are four ;4) research questions which theoretically supported by five (5) basic factors which the literature identifies as influencing alumni giving: communication, numanitarianism, positive feeling and personal attention