scholarly journals Bisexual Safe Space(s) on the Internet: Analysis of an Online Forum for Bisexuals

2017 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiel Maliepaard
Keyword(s):  
Safe Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Forum

How Queerness Goes Online

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-174
Author(s):  
Ian Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Online Forms ◽  
Media Applications

In this chapter, the author challenges the commonsense claim that the internet provides equally accessible resources that are free from stigma, prejudice, or discrimination. Through the stories of university students in their own words, this intersectional analysis explores how the internet certainly offers substantial benefits to queer and nonconforming youth; however, interpersonal bias and systems of oppression pervade online forms of communication and social media applications. Additionally, the author troubles the notion that the internet is experienced as a ‘safe space' for anonymous or uninhibited explorations of queer identity. In fact, despite the internet's practical affordances of identity work, there are severe limits to tolerance and inclusion in online sociality, and because of this, doing queer identity work online has the potential to exacerbate the isolating effects of homophobia and discrimination.

How Queerness Goes Online

2022 ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Ian Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Online Forms ◽  
Media Applications

In this chapter, the author challenges the commonsense claim that the internet provides equally accessible resources that are free from stigma, prejudice, or discrimination. Through the stories of university students in their own words, this intersectional analysis explores how the internet certainly offers substantial benefits to queer and nonconforming youth; however, interpersonal bias and systems of oppression pervade online forms of communication and social media applications. Additionally, the author troubles the notion that the internet is experienced as a ‘safe space' for anonymous or uninhibited explorations of queer identity. In fact, despite the internet's practical affordances of identity work, there are severe limits to tolerance and inclusion in online sociality, and because of this, doing queer identity work online has the potential to exacerbate the isolating effects of homophobia and discrimination.

scholarly journals Posting on „Nie szczepimy („We don’t vaccinate”) Internet forum

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Dorota Cianciara ◽  
Andrzej Szmigiel
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Internet Forum ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
The Web

INTRODUCTION. In Poland, there is a visible strengthening of hesitant attitudes towards vaccination, as well as institutionalization and politicization of hesitancy. The Internet is an important source of information about vaccinations. People who are looking for such information can find negative opinions on the web, so it is important to keep track of the content there. There is no national research on Internet anti-vaccination content. AIM. To examine posting on the online forum “Nie szczepimy” (We don’t vaccinate). MATERIAL AND METHODS. The number of new users and new posts in the years 2008-2018 was examined, as well as the type of content and design of the selected 407 posts from 2009-2015. Categories according to Wolfe RM et al. (2002) were used for coding content and design of posts. RESULTS. The number of users and posts was increasing for the first four years and then started to decrease. The most frequently discussed topic was the relation between vaccination and idiopathic illnesses (26.1%). The most common design was providing links to anti-vaccine sites (29.9%) CONCLUSIONS. The content of the posts is very diverse and shows numerous users’ doubts. A significant part of the posts had a strongly emotional form. It would be important to regularly monitor various services and forms of communication on the Internet in terms of the content of anti-vaccinaton information.

Beauty is a Fact under Siege: John Ruskin as Critic in a State of Ecological Emergency

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
The Public ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Some of Ruskin’s aesthetic positions become more comprehensible, if not defensible, when viewed in terms of a response to Victorian Britain’s environmental degradation. By his insistence on truth in controversies concerning the beautiful, Ruskin sets himself at variance with the aesthetic tradition that treats the beautiful as a topic of open-ended debate in which different opinions are weighed up and the authority of experts is never final. What Ruskin puts forward in support of his factual account of beauty is the urgency of protecting beauty against the depredations of industrial capitalism. Since the public sphere of aesthetic debate, as he perceives it, is in the nineteenth century too fragmented and, more generally, too jealous of the aesthetic’s distinctness from other areas of human existence to take up arms to save the beautiful, aesthetics has to be overhauled if it is to play its part in meeting modernity’s ecological challenges. Ruskin presses for factual witnessing as the appropriate mode of aesthetically appreciating natural beauty. Yet it can be asked whether what has become of witnessing today – the eternalizing images uploaded to the biologically safe space of the internet – does not in its own manner contribute to the problem by denying the destructibility of the environment. Ruskin’s objection to the relationship between traditional aesthetics and ecology remains in force even as the question of an appreciation of natural beauty fit for the times has yet to be answered.

The Benefit of Social Media: Bulletin Board Focus Groups as a Tool for Co-creation

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 809-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie E. Rolland ◽  
Guy Parmentier
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Bulletin Board ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Interactive Approach ◽  
Board Development

Bulletin board methodology emerged at the end of the 1990s and is becoming the most frequently used qualitative study technique. This interactive approach groups a community of participants in a private or public online forum for a duration that varies from several days to several months. Discoveries, exchanges of view, personal opinions and group reactions are all part of the power and interest of the internet in this era of social media. This article presents the principles of bulletin board development, and specifics to aid understanding of this tool within social networks and to help organisations adapt to a paradigm shift in marketing in which consumer-respondents are co-creators of meaning and knowledge.

scholarly journals It’s my safe space: The life-saving role of the internet in the lives of transgender and gender diverse youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Austin ◽  
Shelley L. Craig ◽  
Nicole Navega ◽  
Lauren B. McInroy
Keyword(s):  
Safe Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Diverse Youth

A hitchhiker’s guide to microscopy and microanalysis using telecommunications, e-mail, and the Internet

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 390-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nestor J. Zaluzec
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
On Line ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Communication Software ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
E Mail

The Information SuperHighway, Email, The Internet, FTP, BBS, Modems, : all buzz words which are becoming more and more routine in our daily life. Confusing terminology? Hopefully it won't be in a few minutes, all you need is to have a handle on a few basic concepts and terms and you will be on-line with the rest of the "telecommunication experts". These terms all refer to some type or aspect of tools associated with a range of computer-based communication software and hardware. They are in fact far less complex than the instruments we use on a day to day basis as microscopist's and microanalyst's. The key is for each of us to know what each is and how to make use of the wealth of information which they can make available to us for the asking. Basically all of these items relate to mechanisms and protocols by which we as scientists can easily exchange information rapidly and efficiently to colleagues in the office down the hall, or half-way around the world using computers and various communications media. The purpose of this tutorial/paper is to outline and demonstrate the basic ideas of some of the major information systems available to all of us today. For the sake of simplicity we will break this presentation down into two distinct (but as we shall see later connected) areas: telecommunications over conventional phone lines, and telecommunications by computer networks. Live tutorial/demonstrations of both procedures will be presented in the Computer Workshop/Software Exchange during the course of the meeting.

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