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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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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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The presentation of Bushmen in cultural tourism: tourists’ images of Bushmen and the tourism provider's presentation of (Hai//om) Bushmen at Treesleeper Camp, Namibia
Anna Hüncke,Stasja Koot +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine images of Bushmen in Namibian cultural tourism from two angles: that of tourists and that of the community-based tourism provider, and find that tourists' perceptions and the images sought to be transmitted by the local tourism provider are (partly) different.
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Music, dancing and clothing as belonging and freedom among people seeking asylum in the UK
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how dancing, music and clothing provide vital modes of identification and freedom in the lives of people seeking asylum in the UK which are otherwise ostensibly marked by lack of choice.
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Implications and Consequences of Anthropogenic Pollution in Polar Environments
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential importance of photochemistry to organic pollutant processing in snow and ice is investigated, and the role of photochemical alteration of organic pollutants in sunlit snowpacks is discussed.
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On Putnam : Bowling Together - Applying Putnam’s Theories of Community and Social Capital to Public Relations
TL;DR: Putnam's theory of social capital posits that the success of societies greatly depends on the horizontal bonds of collaboration: only long-term relations such as associations and clubs are able to generate the cohesion that brings societal benefits such as lower crime rates, increased health, happiness and even economic prosperity as mentioned in this paper.