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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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Counterpublics, Abled Sex, and Crip Discourses on Twitter: A Discourse Analysis of Conversations of Sexuality and Disability

TL;DR: Garcia Mendoza et al. as mentioned in this paper conceptualized disabled Twitter as a counterpublic and argued that their conversations about sexuality are activist and citizenship claims, and analyzed tweets from two different readings: a neoliberal and a queer.
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The look of sympathy: religion, visual culture, and the social life of feeling

TL;DR: In this paper, a textual and visual discourse in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe and North America considered "sympathy" or fellow feeling to be the basis of moral conduct and the glue of social life, and images have played an important role in mediating sympathy by promoting moral causes, acting as propaganda, and eliciting deeply felt reactions to injustices.
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Values of Engagement: Exploring Digital Media through Generation and Neoliberalism

TL;DR: This paper explored the multi-modal value of digital engagement within an original and empirically-grounded "cascade" model, which aligns four original modes of engagement: fan-like, guarded, routinised, and restricted, with distinct forms of value: community, personal, habitual, and reflective.
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Technology with the Environment in Mind

Lin Chao
TL;DR: The delivery of Pb-free packaging solutions across FLI, 2LI, and STIM applications as well as HF substrate technology has strongly reinforced Intel’s One Generation Ahead (OGA) philosophy in micro-electronic packaging.
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Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the administrative and legal records of the duchess of Brittany (c.1326-1384) to explore her co-rule with her husband, the social implications of ducal authority, and her strategies of legitimization in the face of conflict.