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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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Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday

TL;DR: This book presents an overview of the challenges faced by ethnographers who wish to understand activities that involve the internet, and explores both methodological principles and practical strategies for coming to terms with the definition of field sites, the connections between online and offline and the changing nature of embodied experience.
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Designing for learning in an open world

TL;DR: This book discusses the role of Mediating Artifacts in learning design, and the needs of pedagogical planners, in the context of the changing digital landscape of education.
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Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations

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).
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Social Operational Information, Competence, and Participation in Online Collective Action

TL;DR: Antin et al. as discussed by the authors examined the role of social operational information from two distinct but related perspectives, and found that individuals who received information that they were of low relative competence compared to others contributed less to a collective good compared to those who received either average or high relative competence feedback.
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Wales in a global neighbourhood : perception of, and reactions to, local and global citizenship

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how two rural Welsh market towns, Llangefni and Machynlleth, have been affected by the processes of globalization and in particular how their local residents and local business owners perceive and experience these changes.
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Religious involvement and group identification: The case of Hispanics in the United States

TL;DR: The authors examined the link between religious involvement and racial group identification among Hispanics in the United States and found that only church attendance has a significant effect on race group identification; Hispanics who frequently attend church are more likely to identify with Hispanics.