Generic intertextuality in online social activism: the case of the It Gets Better project

The It Gets Better project has been held up as a model of successful social media activism. This article explores how narrators of It Gets Better videos make use of generic intertextuality, strategically combining the canonical narrative genres of the exemplum, the testimony, and the confession in a way that allows them to claim ‘textual authority’ and to make available multiple moral positions for themselves and their listeners. This strategy is further facilitated by the ambiguous participation frameworks associated with digital media, which make it possible for storytellers to tell different kinds of stories to different kinds of listeners at the same time, to simultaneously comfort the victims of anti-gay violence, confront its perpetrators, and elicit sympathy from ‘onlookers’. This analysis highlights the potential of new practices of online storytelling for social activism, and challenges notions that new media are contributing to the demise of common narrative traditions.

Deciding What to Use: Introducing Pieces of Digital Learning without Overwhelming the Students

There are many possible ways to introduce social media or academic technologies such as Blackboard, Collaborate, ePortfolio (Digication), blogs, wikis, tests, quizzes, Chalktalk, podcasting, etc. and those are just the ones we use at BCC! What is the best way to introduce these into the classroom and into the distance learning environment? Good question, and discussing it in fifteen minutes will be a GREAT starting point!.

Speak Good English Movement in Singapore : Reactions in Social and Traditional Media

The first Speak Good English Movement, SGEM, took place in 2000, and has been organized annually ever since. Speaking a “standard” form of English is considered to bring increased personal power. However, the SGEM wants the Singaporeans to use “standard” English in their private life as well. A decade after the beginning of the campaign, a Speak Good Singlish Movement was started. Based on studies of language and identity, it is understandable why some Singaporeans might feel the SGEM threatens their identity. However, the reactions towards the campaign are mainly positive. For the purposes of this analysis, Twitter messages, Facebook pages, and newspaper articles from The Straits Times were collected. The SGEM has hailed both direct and indirect praise and criticism in both social and traditional media: Five newspaper articles praise the campaign while five criticize it; the results are nine and seven respectively for social media. This thesis looks at reactions towards the SGEM in both social and traditional media, analyzes how these reactions might relate to the ideas of the power of language, its variety and the relation of language and identity.

Of Facebook, Twitter and Social Networking Sites

For those who have read even one of my musings, it will come as no surprise that I find Facebook, Twitter, social networking sites (SNS), and the rest of Webology less than inspiring. If you had read nothing other than the screed I blathered about Google a few columns back, you’d know that I find all this talk about the Web replacing libraries more than a little silly; I find it downright idiotic. Still, one must keep an open mind.

Santa Catarina e DAPP lançam Parlamento Digital

Com o lançamento de seu novo portal na internet, a Assembleia Legislativa de Santa Catarina começa a implantar o projeto "Parlamento Digital", que vai ampliar a presença da instituição nos meios digitais. O presidente da Casa, Joares Ponticelli, reuniu-se no fim de abril com o diretor da Diretoria de Análise de Políticas Públicas da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (DAPP-FGV), Marco Aurélio Ruediger, e o analista Ricardo Rotenberg, responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento do novo modelo de comunicação.

Tecnologia digital móvel e educação: envolvendo jovens na discussão sobre o ECA

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

Repositório digital como ambiente de inclusão digital e social para usuários idosos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Relações públicas aplicadas à comunicação pública digital: conceitos, práticas e recomendações

The increasing amount of information about public management conveyed by government electronic portals in the internet has attracted the attention of scientific research, which has resulted in reviews of the contribution of such channels of public communication for the expansion of citizenship. It is the duty of the government to inform citizens effectively as well as using effective language to deal with different ways of relating with each public. Based on data collected in the official social media of state government during search for Scientific Initiation PIBIC/CNPq entitled “Digital Democracy and Social Networks: Analysis of Use of Internet by the Government of State of Sao Paulo” and official strategic manuals of the first industry this work of course completion has analyzed practices and recommendations of the area to contribute to the development of strategies of public communication

Comunicação digital, relações públicas e gestão de marcas: Interatividade e relacionamento como ferramentas de branding

This paper aims to present the contribution of Public Relations in the process of branding, using digital communication as a tool for interaction with the public, and through strategic management, building and maintaining strong and lasting relationships with consumers, resulting in building bonds of sympathy, identification, and networks engaged and loyal consumers to brands. Therefore, were performed bibliographical research covering topics such as information society, network society, the dynamics of social networks, digital media, brands, branding, marketing 3.0, Public Relations and Public Relations 2.0. Were also undertaken observations on communication actions that used digital social media, focusing on interactivity, collaboration and relationship, to better understand how organizations are realizing the importance of interaction and relationship management with the public and how they are performing this communication. At the end, some of these actions are presented as examples of the theories studied, and as a demonstration of the benefits brought to these organizations and their brands

Modelagem conceitual DILAM: princípios descritivos de arquivos, bibliotecas e museus para o recurso imagético digital

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

Planejamento e prototipagem de uma rede social de gastronomia convergente com programas de TV e mídias sociais

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

Uma experiência de cibereducação para o letramento digital

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAR

Digital marketing: le nuove opportunità di business per le aziende nell'era del web 2.0

L’elaborato ha lo scopo di presentare le nuove opportunità di business offerte dal Web. Il rivoluzionario cambiamento che la pervasività della Rete e tutte le attività correlate stanno portando, ha posto le aziende davanti ad un diverso modo di relazionarsi con i propri consumatori, che sono sempre più informati, consapevoli ed esigenti, e con la concorrenza. La sfida da accettare per rimanere competitivi sul mercato è significativa e il mutamento in rapido sviluppo: gli aspetti che contraddistinguono questo nuovo paradigma digitale sono, infatti, velocità, mutevolezza, ma al tempo stesso misurabilità, ponderabilità, previsione. Grazie agli strumenti tecnologici a disposizione e alle dinamiche proprie dei diversi spazi web (siti, social network, blog, forum) è possibile tracciare più facilmente, rispetto al passato, l’impatto di iniziative, lanci di prodotto, promozioni e pubblicità, misurandone il ritorno sull’investimento, oltre che la percezione dell’utente finale. Un approccio datacentrico al marketing, attraverso analisi di monitoraggio della rete, permette quindi al brand investimenti più mirati e ponderati sulla base di stime e previsioni. Tra le più significative strategie di marketing digitale sono citate: social advertising, keyword advertising, digital PR, social media, email marketing e molte altre. Sono riportate anche due case history: una come ottimo esempio di co-creation in cui il brand ha coinvolto direttamente il pubblico nel processo di produzione del prodotto, affidando ai fan della Pagina Facebook ufficiale la scelta dei gusti degli yogurt da mettere in vendita. La seconda, caso internazionale di lead generation, ha permesso al brand di misurare la conversione dei visitatori del sito (previa compilazione di popin) in reali acquirenti, collegando i dati di traffico del sito a quelli delle vendite. Esempio di come online e offline comunichino strettamente.

Folk Music in the Baltics at the Age of Digital Globalization

Shaped by factors like global outreach and immediacy, particularly the internet represents the multi-layered nature of contemporary globalization (cf Held et al. 2002). How have digital newspapers, social media and other internet platforms altered the situation of smaller music microcultues, especially in regions that have been on the fringes of global networks? This paper analyses the situation of the Latvian postfolklore band Ilgi between 2001 and 2008. Focusing on the group’s label UPE, the paper highlights how the internet became a significant means of existence during this specific period. Having established a local niche with a sound studio and CD shops, UPE combined this physical basis with outreach strategies, such as marketing and direct internet sales, which guaranteed the survival of the independent label. This strategy was also taken up by the band itself who started to develop a strong presence on social media like MySpace. At the same time, Ilgi has been using the internet as a central means of communicating with diasporic communities in the U.S. and Canada – hereby creating structures that were described as « intercultures » by Slobin (1993). This indicates that the local-global dichotomy can no longer be sufficiently addressed by a horizontal or vertical two-dimensional perception. Falling also back on the fieldwork experiences gained in Latvia, the paper finally addresses the question of how internet representation relates to the actual local situation – and how this has been altering the fieldwork perception. With regard to this situation – how useful are the approaches that have been developed within the context of « Media Anthropology » that investigates mass media items as multi-layered, densified symbolic objects?

Propuesta de desarrollo de aplicaión móvil Social Pharma aplicación móvil multiplataforma.

Usualmente las personas solemos buscar información ya sea escrita o digital acerca de las distintas enfermedades de las cuales padecemos o estamos expuestos medicamentos, así también de los distintos fármacos que nos son recetados por los médicos especialistas y de los laboratorios productores de los mismos. Existen muchos foros en internet especializados en salud y medicina en la cual podemos localizar información útil acerca de nuestros intereses en estos temas, así también podemos encontrar información muy valiosa en las principales redes sociales, pero no sería mejor poder tener toda esta información concentrada en una sola fuente en la cual poder realizar todas nuestras búsquedas acerca de los principales conceptos y definiciones, estadísticas, principales competidores de los fármacos que buscamos y de sus fabricantes al igual que especializadas graficas estadísticas que nos digan cuales son las cosas más importantes que se comentan de ellos y saber quiénes son los principales líderes de opinión en estos temas particulares. Kantar Heatlh España proveerá de un muy poderoso sitio web el cual nos permitirá consultar acerca de nuestras principales inquietudes acerca de estos temas como son: Fármacos, Patologías, Laboratorios, y Líderes de Opinión. Esta herramienta tiene un gran motor de recopilación de información basado en Social Media Listening (SML) la cual mantendrá el sitio siempre actualizado con los últimos comentarios, noticias y eventos que acontezcan en el entorno médico y farmacéutico. El presente proyecto tiene la finalidad de proponer una plataforma móvil basada en los principales servicios provistos por Social Pharma, que desde su origen tendrá un modelo de negocio claro. Este documento abarca el plan de negocio de la aplicación móvil, Social Pharma Aplicación Móvil, basada en sitios de recopilación de información médica, por medio de la cual poder prestar un servicio a los usuarios y a las distintas compañías productoras de fármacos información para que ambos conozcan los intereses y las oportunidades existentes. Además contiene la especificación de requisitos y de los casos de usos, que en conjunto conforman las bases para el diseño de un prototipo de alta fidelidad. Dicho prototipo no solo permite la revisión y validación de los requisitos funcionales sino que también sirve como base para el futuro desarrollo de la aplicación.