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The Symbolic Construction of Community
Tony Blackshaw
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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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Hotspots and Coldspots: Household and village-level variation in orphanhood prevalence in rural Malawi
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Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: Limitations, Potential and Possibilities of Community-Based Consumer Co-ops
TL;DR: In this article, the conditions under which community-based consumer food co-ops can foster pro-environmental food practices are explored, and a case study methodology is employed to study five UK food coops and identify opportunities and challenges to developing capacities in those coops towards: building a shared sense of purpose around environmentally sustainable food consumption; making sustainable food choices accessible and affordable; and, encouraging member participation.
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Jazz, pop, improvisation, national identity and the role of the jazz drummer
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the constructed nature of musical practice, interrogating the notion that the distinctions between music, whether it is genre specific or geographically determined, are natural and innate.
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Conceptualising Discursive Communities: Developing Community in Contemporary Society.
TL;DR: The notion of community development and social constructions are most certainly crucial in the representation and debates surrounding this phenomenon as mentioned in this paper, and the notions and theories of association and associated life, social capital, and civic community are conceptualised in this paper.