Queer Africa and the Fantasy of Virtual Participation

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tavia Nyong’o
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Participation

scholarly journals Best Practices for Virtual Participation in Meetings: Experiences from Synthesis Centers

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie E. Hampton ◽  
Benjamin S. Halpern ◽  
Marten Winter ◽  
Jennifer K. Balch ◽  
John N. Parker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Virtual Participation

scholarly journals Visual Memes as Neutralizers of Political Dissent

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefka Hristova
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Sesame Street ◽  
The Political ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
The North ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Virtual Participation

A meme, conceived as the cultural equivalent of the biological gene by Richard Dawkins, spread through culture like a virus – quickly and widely. Its viral power is in turn understood as product of nature, rather than culture – or rather as threatening to subvert culture into a condition of nature. Firing up over night, and disappearing just as quickly, memes are often allowed to run their course and fade into oblivion, only to return again.  They emerge at moments of contestation of dominant narratives and through their participatory structure of imitation and mutation allow for the dissolution of points of ideological conflict and the reestablishment of a normative narrative. If not too threatening to the health of the state body, these cultural viruses are left unchecked as they build the immunity, and further, in Derrida’s terms, the “autoimmunity” of the nation-state. In this project, I explore the role of visual Internet memes as neutralizers of contested past and present narratives of occupation and dissent by focusing the digital visual memes associated with the Occupy Movement in the United States. More specifically, I examine the emergence of the term “occupy” as an visual Internet meme in and of itself – Occupy Wall Street spurred Occupy Chicago, Oakland and even Sesame Street and the North Pole, as well as a marker of a revolution - revolving viral civil and political dissent. I argue that there is a notable distinction between physical participation the Occupy Movement and virtual participation through the reworking of Occupy’s memes, where as the first modality serves as an active disruptor of the political normative imaginary, the second works in precisely the opposite fashion  - in its reconstitution of a common-sense dominant image of the political.

scholarly journals Exploring the Smart Future of Participation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
John Bricout ◽  
Paul M. A. Baker ◽  
Nathan W. Moon ◽  
Bonita Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Virtual Community Of Practice ◽  
Virtual Participation

COVID-19 is having an enormous impact on civic life, including public services, governance, and the well-being of citizens. The pace and scope of technology as a force for problem solving, connecting people, sharing information, and organizing civic life has increased in the wake of COVID-19. This article critically reviews how technology use influences the civic engagement potential of the smart city, in particular for people with disabilities. The article aims to articulate new challenges to virtual participation in civic life in terms of accessibility, usability, and equity. Next, the article proposes a framework for a smart participation future involving smarter communities that utilize universal design, blended bottom-up, and virtual community of practice (VCoP) approaches to planning and connecting citizens with disabilities to smart cities. Policy and ethical implications of the proposed smart participation future are considered.

Advancing Personal Learning and Transdisciplinarity for Developing Identity and Community

2019 ◽  
pp. 282-305
Author(s):  
Barbara Truman ◽  
Jaclyn M. Truman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Identity Exploration ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Improved Learning ◽  
Virtual Participation ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Personal learning is an idiosyncratic ability built upon metacognition that fosters identity development. When supported with virtual learning using avatars, collaborative virtual environments (CVEs), and combinations of emerging technologies, personal learning advances identity exploration and community development. Virtual participation in groups and events fosters mentoring for community enrichment especially for vulnerable populations such as persons with disabilities, the elderly, and those in need of recovery. Emerging technologies such as extended reality (XR) and the internet of things (IoT) present opportunities to combine physical and virtual world media/interactions useful for improved learning engineering. New expressions of Gemeinschaft and Gesselschaft are possible to co-create the future when empowered stakeholders collaborate to design smart, enabled, blended physical and virtual cities/communities. This chapter explores how concepts from systems thinking, presence research, and transdisciplinarity can advance personal learning and transcend human limitations.

Vā at the time of COVID-19: When an aspect of research unexpectedly turns into lived experience and practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leali‘ifano Albert Refiti ◽  
Anna-Christina (Tina) Engels-Schwarzpaul ◽  
Lana Lopesi ◽  
Billie Lythberg ◽  
Layne Waerea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Initial Report ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Relational Space ◽  
The Times ◽  
Virtual Participation ◽  
Distinct Features

In 2019, the Vā Moana–Pacific Spaces research group at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) began to investigate how core Moana and Māori values can be translated from onsite, embodied engagements into digital environments. This was prompted by our wish to provide access to all those who could not travel to attend a conference in late 2021 for our Marsden-funded research project, ‘Vā Moana: Space and relationality in Pacific thought and identity’ (2019–22). The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally reframed this premise, as providing offsite access was no longer simply a ‘nice option’. The crisis challenged us to find out how virtual participation in events can uphold values of tikanga (correct procedure, custom) and teu le vā (nurturing relational space). In particular, our research examines practices foregrounding vā as the attachment to and feeling for place, as well as relatedness between people and other entities. We have observed an emerging conceptual deployment of vā as relational space and a mode of belonging, especially in diasporic constellations oriented by a cosmopolitan understanding of vā. Due to this focus, we noticed early on that simply moving meetings online is unlikely to create a supportive environment for Indigenous researchers in diaspora, who share principal values and a commitment to a kaupapa (agenda, initiative). This realization led us to interrogate how research collaboration and circulation are influenced by the distinct features of physical and online contexts, protocols and connectivity. To develop the alternative kind of vā we envisaged – together with strategies to sustain it through our online practices – thus became a much larger project in the times of rapid change under COVID-19. This is a very brief, initial report on our experiences.

Burgeoning Growth of eCycling as an eSport

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-103
Author(s):  
Noel Savage ◽  
Norm O'Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Video Game ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
Marketing Tactics ◽  
Virtual Participation

The intriguing maneuvering and distinguished styles of traditional cycling combined with the growth of eCycling as an eSport share an intriguing array of similarities as well as new ways of looking at cycling through competitive sports environments. It is an important discussion, associated with distinguishing the pathways and opportunities available to cycling stakeholders as they experience and engage in their sport, including the virtual participation in eCycling and inclusive competitive options, ever increase and evolve. Virtual cycling is a subset of the eSports genre and offers cycling stakeholders an alternative and a complement to traditional competitive cycling. In 2019, the international federation responsible for cycling globally, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), who acts as the steward and regulator for global cycling activities recognized eCycling as a legitimate discipline and authorized a recognized virtual eSports World Championships. The origins of video game eSports, marketing tactics, and health outcomes are also discussed in the chapter.

scholarly journals Content, Context, Reflexivity and the Qualitative Research Encounter: Telling Stories in the Virtual Realm

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Illingworth
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Virtual Participation

The arrival of the virtual realm and computer-mediated communication (CMC) has attracted considerable interest within the discipline. However, the full potential of computer-mediated conversation as both a research resource and medium of communication within the qualitative research encounter awaits further exploration. In this paper, I discuss the dimensions of the qualitative ‘tradition’, the recent burgeoning interest in biographical methods shaping the research agenda and the significance of the virtual realm as a locus of communication. In so doing, I draw from my recent research exploring 15 women's accounts of their experiences of infertility and assisted reproductive procedures. Often, the qualitative encounter becomes a shared medium of trust, reciprocity and revelation. This research highlights the importance of not just making ‘space’ for participants voices and words but of acknowledging the significance of the context of communication itself – paying attention to ‘where’ and ‘how’ we speak is as critical as paying attention to what might be said. Participants within this study used and translated virtual text and virtual participation into a sense-making vehicle. In this respect, the virtual space offers a new dimension to the qualitative research encounter and we need to remain aware of the opportunities this affords.

Engaging Viewers Through the Connected Studio: Virtual Participation in TV Programs

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamoru Doke ◽  
Hiroyuki Kaneko ◽  
Narichika Hamaguchi ◽  
Seiki Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Participation
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