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Social media, such as Facebook, is changing adoptive family realities in international adoption. These technologies are making it easier for adopted people and their birth family to search for and contact each other. This article offers an exploration of internationally adopted adults' outlook on the support they received and that they recommend for others who experience virtual contact with their birth family. The results stem from a master's study on contact through social media between internationally adopted adults and their birth family. Qualitative data were collected through individual interviews and analyzed thematically through interpretative phenomenological analysis. The results show the importance for adopted people who experience the studied reality to receive adaptive and varied support, such as encouragement and understanding, from family and friends as well as their wider social circle. Support from adoption competent professionals is also highlighted.
Keywords: Adoption internationale, médias sociaux, quête des origines, retrouvailles, adultes adoptés, soutien, International adoption, social media, search and reunion, adult adoptees, support
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Objective – Information literacy (IL) skills are critical to undergraduate student success and yet not all students receive equal amounts of curriculum-integrated IL instruction. This study investigated whether Facebook could be employed by libraries as an additional method of delivering IL content to students. To test whether students would engage with IL content provided via a library Facebook page, this study compared the engagement (measured by Facebook’s reach and engagement metrics) with IL content to the library’s normal marketing content. Methods – We ran a two-part intervention using the University of Canterbury Library’s Facebook page. We created content to help students find, interpret, and reference resources, and measured their reception using Facebook’s metrics. Our first intervention focused on specific courses and mentioned courses by name through hashtagging, while our second intervention targeted peak assessment times during the semester. Statistics on each post’s reach and engagement were collected from Facebook’s analytics. Results – Students chose to engage with posts on the library Facebook page that contain IL content more than the normal library marketing-related content. Including course-specific identifiers (hashtags) and tagging student clubs and societies in the post further increased engagement. Reach was increased when student clubs and societies shared our content with their followers. Conclusion – This intervention found that students engaged more with IL content than with general library posts on Facebook. Course-targeted interventions were more successful in engaging students than generic IL content, with timeliness, specificity, and community being important factors in building student engagement. This demonstrates that academic libraries can use Facebook for more than just promotional purposes and offers a potential new channel for delivering IL content.
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Web 2.0 or social media changes the way we communicate. The unidirectional communication models are being replaced with bidirectional or conversational models. Museums currently operate in an environment in which each person is free to create and supply information about a subject, even about one for which the museum was the recognised authority. In responding to these new challenges, museums can now better reach the public with Web 2.0 applications and can now invite the public to collaborate in the creative process. Several museums interact with their publics, namely with the help of Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Second Life as well as with the social media applications on their web sites. This article describes the Web 2.0 technologies used by museums as well as the challenges and opportunities these technologies can bring to society.
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This article studies the “imaginary media” at work in Jean-Jacques Pelletier's last three novels : Les Visages de l'humanité (2012), Dix petits hommes blancs (2014), and Machine God (2015). It is postulated that the staging of a terrorist plot instrumentalising social and digital networks (Facebook, Twitter) for a cleverly calculated manipulation of public opinion is both an updating of the author's prior approach (the media as an internal reflection of the plot) and a narrative device to illustrate or to denounce certain adverse effects related to the flow of information in Web 2.0.
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Selon la théorie sociométrique de l'estime de soi (Sociometer Theory; Leary, Tambor, Terdal, & Downs, 1995), la satisfaction des besoins d'affiliation contribue de façon significative à une saine estime de soi. Il est concevable que la plate-forme des réseaux sociaux virtuels permette aux personnes de satisfaire leurs besoins d'affiliation, en plus d'offrir à celles possédant une faible estime de soi l'occasion de combler un manque d'affiliation dans leurs interactions sociales. Toutefois, plusieurs études (Forest & Wood, 2012) suggèrent que les personnes dont l'estime de soi est faible (FES), relativement aux personnes chez qui elle est haute (HES), tendent à se montrer plus négatives sur les réseaux sociaux – Facebook, en particulier – ce qui diminue la quantité de rétroactions positives qu'elles reçoivent et fait en …
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Despite the importance of interpersonal contact to students’ sense of community, little is known about how online students form relationships outside of class. Drawing on interviews with 20 students from one online doctoral program, I explore the ways in which distance learners create community outside of class. In the case study I explore how students use social media and group texting apps to develop relationships with peers. I also explore how online students connect in-person at study groups and sporting events. Lastly, I consider the ways in which a three-day, in-person orientation helped online students connect on and offline. Findings indicate that online students’ perceptions of community were not limited to their in-class experiences. In addition to their in-class interactions, online students were impacted by their extracurricular interactions in digital and physical spaces.
Keywords: community, online learning, social presence, face-to-face interaction, orientation
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Without making an evaluative and comparative analysis of the traditional arguments, we would want to examine the reference of the voluntary servitude when it is used to denounce an illusion of increase of the freedom of the individual, by means of information and communication technology. Basing on the original version (16e s.), is this reference justified ? In this paper, we would like to show that if there is a structure of the voluntary servitude, the debate between the defender of the information and communication technology and their opponents, involves thinking the relation between the humanity with the technology.
Keywords: Philosophie, liberté, servitude volontaire, technologies d'information et de communication, réseaux sociaux, Philosophy, freedom, voluntary servitude, information and communication technologies
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The expansion and systematic use of online networks in the Canadian Arctic regions since the early 2000s open up a new field of observation and analysis in anthropology. Following field researches conducted in Sanikiluaq (Nunavut, Canada) between 2007 and 2010, this paper explores the discourses and practices related to Inuit kinship on social networking websites. Based on the analysis of personal profiles from Bebo and Facebook pages, it especially deals with the Qikirtamiut (i.e. Islanders) relational knowledge and its practices and diffusion on the Internet. The question of the parental use of the Internet in Sanikiluaq is all the more relevant as some young parents describe the context of intergenerational transmission as problematic – both in terms of circulation of knowledge, and family and community settings changes.
Keywords: Dupré, Inuit, parenté, Sanikiluaq, sites de réseaux sociaux, transmission des savoirs, Dupré, Inuit, Kinship, Sanikiluaq, Social Networking Websites, Knowledge Transmission, Dupré, Inuit, parentesco, Sanikiluaq, sitios de redes sociales, transmisión de conocimientos
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This article suggests analyzing the reconfigurations of activism through the lenses of digital technology. Our survey focuses on the life narratives of two (ex)members of the French Socialist Party. We shall see that to militate on-line can be considered at the same time as a form of reconversion, an answer to a “critical moment” in a member's trajectory, and a chance at a political career.
Keywords: Internet, militantisme, désengagement, Facebook, parti politique, Internet, militancy, disengagement, Facebook, political party