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The Symbolic Construction of Community

Tony Blackshaw
- pp 125-130
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The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 944 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Symbolic communication & The Symbolic.

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Imagining the Wikipedia community: What do Wikipedia authors mean when they write about their ‘community’?:

TL;DR: The computer-mediated conversation between editors was investigated using Grounded Theory procedures and yielded an empirically grounded theory of the users’ self-understanding of the Wikipedia community as ethos-action community.
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The invention of transitions: History as a symbolic site for discursive struggles over organizational change:

TL;DR: In this article, a case study presented in this paper combines a historian's account of a newspaper's history with an ethnographic account of the use of history prevalent among newspaper editors, showing how organizational actors use traces of a collective past in their version of "the" history to win consent for change and to counter competing views.
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Competitive sport and the construction of place identity in rural Australia

TL;DR: The authors explored the role of competitive sport in the construction of place identities, focusing on the way in which local narratives, practices and symbols are used to build an apparently shared "sense of place".
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Negotiating Internet Governance

Roxana Radu
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an incisive analysis of the emergence and evolution of global Internet governance, unpacking the complexity of more than 300 governance arrangements, influential debates, and political negotiations over four decades.

Virtually religious: myth, ritual and community in World of Warcraft

TL;DR: In an age dominated by media, religion has been assumed to be resurging, albeit in different forms, and as discussed by the authors hypothesises that the massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game World of Warcraft, with its powerful ludic, narrative and fa
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TL;DR: Different users of public spaces attain a sense of well- being for different reasons: the paper calls for policy approaches in which the social and therapeutic properties of a range of everyday spaces are more widely recognised and nurtured.
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The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage

TL;DR: This article revisited the notion of community within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated, and pointed out the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression.
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What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used meta-analysis of individual and social level factors that influence school belonging. And the average association between each of these factors and school belonging was meta-analytically examined across 51 studies (N = 67,378).