How to study the city on instagram

We introduce Instagram as a data source for use by scholars in urban studies and neighboring disciplines and propose ways to operationalize key concepts in the study of cities. These data can help shed light on segregation, the formation of subcultures, strategies of distinction, and status hierarchies in the city. Drawing on two datasets of geotagged Instagram posts from Amsterdam and Copenhagen collected over a twelve-week period, we present a proof of concept for how to explore and visualize sociospatial patterns and divisions in these two cities. We take advantage of both the social and the geographic aspects of the data, using network analysis to identify distinct groups of users and metrics of unevenness and diversity to identify socio-spatial divisions. We also discuss some of the limitations of these data and methods and suggest ways in which they can complement established quantitative and qualitative approaches in urban scholarship

Filtering feminisms : Emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram

Based on interviews with feminist Instagram users, this article studies emergent feminist visibilities on Instagram through the concept of filtering. Filtering entails both enhancement and subtraction: some feminist sensibilities align with Instagram?s interaction order, while others become subdued and remain at the margins of visibility. Taken together, users? filtering practices contribute to the confident and happy image, individualistic streak, and accommodationist cast of popular feminism, while also amplifying feminist politics that affirm the pleasures of visibility and desire. Instagram proves a more challenging environment for feminists seeking to criticize competitive individualism and aesthetic norms. The notion of filtering enriches existing research on how online environments reconfigure feminist politics and problematizes the avowal of feminism in media culture.Non peer reviewe

Blessed Disruption: Culture and Urban Space in a European Church Planting Network

New Protestant churches are being founded in cities around the world. They are the product of a conscious effort on the part of evangelicals to found, or ``plant,\u27\u27 new churches in urban areas. Behind this effort are a whole host of actors, including denominations, churches, seminaries, and parachurch organizations, who come together in church planting networks to establish theologically conservative churches that will speak to young urban professional audiences. The hope is that these efforts will scale up and turn into a movement bringing about religious revival among culturally influential groups. Among the focal areas for these efforts are European cities. The presence and vitality of newly planted churches in the European metropolis counters the trend of secularization observed in these places since the middle of the previous century. How do church planters go about and succeed in their quest to bring doctrine to hipsters and yuppies in the European metropolis? This dissertation studies the actors, sites and cultural processes behind a European church planting network to answer this question. The focus is on the anatomy of the network enabling church planting, the engagements with urban space and public culture by church planters, and their understanding of pastoral work. The dissertation engages both supply-side and neosecularization theories in the sociology of religion to make sense of the practices, successes and challenges of church planters in contemporary society. While the supply-side theory goes some way in explaining the form and dynamics of church planting efforts, understanding how the church planters engage with cities requires drawing on other bodies of work, such as David Martin\u27s revision of secularization theory. With Martin I argue that culture and the lived experience of urban space matter in the context of religious change, not just market dynamics in the religious economy. The project is based on multisited research employing focused ethnographic and interview methods. The main focus of the field research was on church plants in four German cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Cologne. In order to gain additional comparative insight, additional interviews and observations were conducted for shorter durations of time in Amsterdam, Paris, and Prague. In addition to field research, the dissertation draws on publications by church planting insiders, media reports, and digital resources. In addition to this research on what has been called contemporary evangelicalism\u27s cutting edge and default mode of evangelism, the dissertation also asks how and why Europe came to be seen as a mission field. It argues that the conception of Europe as a mission field dates to the interwar period, when mission societies began framing the European continent in these terms. Analysis of these framing processes shows that early instances of framing Europe as a mission field portrayed Europe as occupying an interstitial space between Christendom and heathendom. This history is a reminder not to exaggerate the novelty of contemporary trends, and it also helps to differentiate what is really distinctive about the contemporary mode of evangelistic engagement

Penerapan Model Project Based Learning (PjBL) Pada Materi Asam Basa di Kelas XI IPA SMA Negeri 2 Tondano

This research aims to determine the effect of implementing the PjBL model in improving the learning outcomes of students in the SMA Negeri 2 Tondano XI IPA class. This research is conducted in two cycles. The research phase includes planning, action, observation and reflection. The subjects of the study are students from the XI IPA SMA Negeri 2 Tondano class in the 2020/2021 academic year, a total of 18 students. Data collection techniques include observation, recording and testing instruments. Data analysis techniques include test results and observation data. The results show that the degree of completion of learning by 75 points has increased by 22.23%, among which the degree of completion of the learning achievements of Cycle I and Cycle II students is 66.67% and 88.90%, respectively. Based on the research results, the application of the PJBL model improves the learning outcomes of students.Penelitian bertujuan mengetahui pengaruh penerapan model PjBL dalam meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa kelas XI IPA SMA Negeri 2 Tondano. Penelitian ini dilakukan dalam dua siklus, tahap penelitian meliputi perencanaan, tindakan, observasi dan refleksi. Objek penelitian adalah siswa kelas XI IPA SMA Negeri 2 Tondano tahun ajaran 2020/2021 semester genap yang berjumlah 18 peserta didik. Teknik pengumpulan data meliputi observasi, pencatatan dan pengujian instrumen. Teknik analisis data meliputi data hasil tes dan observasi. Dalam hasil menunjukkan bahwa tingkat tuntas belajar memperoleh skor 75 meningkat sebesar 22,23%, antara lain tingkat ketuntasan hasil belajar siswa Siklus I dan Siklus II sebesar 66,67% dan 88,90%. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, penerapan model PJBL meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa

Talent acquisition and talent engagement practices significant impact over employee satisfaction

It is observed that talent acquisition and talent engagement practices have a significant impact on employee satisfaction in the deemed universities. It is also disclosed that talent development and talent retention practices are found to be insignificant. It clearly indicates that the deemed universities are keen on talent acquisition and talent engagement, but they are failed in implementing talent development as well as talent retention strategies. Further, this analysis unveiled that talent acquisition and talent development practices have a significant impact on employee satisfaction in business schools. It is also disclosed that the talent engagement and talent retention practices are found to be insignificant. It clearly indicates that business schools are keen on talent acquisition and talent development, but they are failed in implementing talent engagement as well as talent retention strategies

Time-Variable Gravity from Space: Quarter Century of Observations, Mysteries, and Prospects

Any large mass transport in the Earth system produces changes in the gravity field. Via the space geodetic technique of satellite-laser ranging in the last quarter century, the Earth's dynamic oblateness J2 (the lowest-degree harmonic component of the gravity field) has been observed to undergo a slight decrease -- until around 1998, when it switched quite suddenly to an increase trend which has continued to 2001 before sharply turning back to the value which it is "supposed to be"!. The secular decrease in J2 has long been attributed primarily to the post-glacial rebound in the mantle; the present increase signifies an even larger change in global mass distribution whose J2 effect overshadows that of the post-glacial rebound, at least over interannual timescales. Intriguing evidences have been found in the ocean water distribution, especially in the extratropical Pacific basins, that may be responsible for this J2 change. New techniques based on satellite-to-satellite tracking will yield greatly improved observations for time-variable gravity, with much higher precision and spatial resolution (i.e., much higher harmonic degrees). The most important example is the GRACE mission launched in March 2002, following the success of the CHAMP mission. Such observations are becoming a new and powerful tool for remote sensing of geophysical fluid processes that involve larger-scale mass transports

Introduction: Taking stock of security and finance

When, seven years ago, Marieke de Goede first drew attention to the historical and conceptual entanglements between the logics of finance and security, and to the artificial – yet meaningful – divide between the two in modernity, this was not merely a call for a new research programme. Attempting to hold together these two objects of disciplinary enquiry, and becoming aware of the tendency to collapse one into the other inherent to International Political Economy (IPE) or International Relations (IR) analytics, was also a much needed exercise of disciplinary critique, consistent with interrogating divides between the economic and the social, the financial and cultural. In other words, more than just a new object or field of empirical and theoretical research, the finance-security nexus was proposed as a device for critically and genealogically thinking through distinct disciplinary approaches to economy, futurity and populations. To that end, this special issue proposes to take stock of the multiple ways in which the finance-security nexus has been deployed as such a device of (post)disciplinary critique

The Potential of a Novel Class of EPAC-Selective Agonists to Combat Cardiovascular Inflammation

The cyclic 3′,5′-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) sensor enzyme, EPAC1, is a candidate drug target in vascular endothelial cells (VECs) due to its ability to attenuate proinflammatory cytokine signalling normally associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including atherosclerosis. This is through the EPAC1-dependent induction of the suppressor of cytokine signalling gene, SOCS3, which targets inflammatory signalling proteins for ubiquitinylation and destruction by the proteosome. Given this important role for the EPAC1/SOCS3 signalling axis, we have used high throughput screening (HTS) to identify small molecule EPAC1 regulators and have recently isolated the first known non-cyclic nucleotide (NCN) EPAC1 agonist, I942. I942 therefore represents the first in class, isoform selective EPAC1 activator, with the potential to suppress pro-inflammatory cytokine signalling with a reduced risk of side effects associated with general cAMP-elevating agents that activate multiple response pathways. The development of augmented I942 analogues may therefore provide improved research tools to validate EPAC1 as a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of chronic inflammation associated with deadly CVDs