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The Symbolic Construction of Community
Tony Blackshaw
- pp 125-130
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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
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Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations
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The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage
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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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Threat Narratives, Group Identity and Violence: A Study of the Dagomba, Nanumba and Konkomba of Northern Ghana
TL;DR: Aapengnuo et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relationship between value systems and ethnic identity formation and how the difference in value systems influences the salience of identity and conflict.
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Defining Diaspora and Their Online Engagements: Problematic Constructions, Deconstructions
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Diaspora, yearning for roots and moral action
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Krytyczna analiza naukowej ciszy, czyli dlaczego Romowie migrują (z naszego pola widzenia)
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Distributing Money to Commemoration: Collective Memories, Sense of Place, and Participatory Budgeting
Hsin-Yi Yeh,Kuo-Ming Lin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors bring the aspect of collective memories (and thus identity) back "in" to facilitate the understanding of the intriguing relationship among memories, places, and deliberative projects.