My autobiographical research focuses on creating digital heterotopias through social media platforms, providing safe spaces which allow art teacher candidates the opportunity to reflect upon their practicum experiences and question the status quo of institutional myths and inherited discourses in teacher fieldwork. Functions of heterotopic space link together and reflect other pedagogical sites, including institutional spaces. Heterotopias are often designed to be temporal and hidden from public view but are necessary enclaves for exploring non-hierarchical paradigms. Such temporary communal spaces can lead one to a personal praxis in uncovering what sometimes is never fully explored, our own autobiographical narrative of teaching. By creating a digital space utilized by art education student teachers in the midst of their practicum, I recalled my forgotten autobiography of student teaching, where memories of inequities and suppression of difference emerged. Through the lenses of critical theory and resistance theory, this study examines possibilities of crafting digital spaces as forms of artistic resistance and identity reconstruction zones. As such, the goal of examining the student teaching practicum concerning; power inequities, evaluation methods, standardization of teaching, evolving teacher identities, and the social environment of teaching, is to illustrate hegemonic processes and visualize spaces of possibility to deconstruct self and (re) imagine alternative ways of being teachers. Weaving in multiple stories of fieldwork experience allowed for a collocation in visualizing a space of unfolding inquiry, recognizing multiple genres of knowing through the qualitative and emergent methodologies of narrative inquiry and arts-based research.

The word Incel, which stands for “involuntary celibacy”, is characterized and mostly used by young, white heterosexual men. The phenomenon of incels has increased in size and become big over the past years and has now spread in Sweden. Incels has received the society's attention because of different acts of terror committed by men who define themselves as incels. The aim for this study has been, with Raewyn Connell's theory of masculinity, to illustrate dominating discourses regarding gender and sexuality connected with the phenomenon of incels, and illustrate constructed conceptions of being subjected. More specifically we wanted to investigate which conceptions and norms of gender and sexuality that were expressed in connection with the phenomenon of incels. We also wanted to understand how conceptions of being subjected are being constructed linked to the phenomenon of incels. To answer this, we did a netnographic study of the Swedish forum Flashback and studied threads that contained discussions about incels. Our collected empirics were analyzed by the use of discourse analysis. The main results showed that a lot of the forum posts were written on the basis of misogyny as well as racism. A clear conception of dichotomy between men and women also appeared, concerning biological, social and cognitive aspects. Further our results showed how incels, by using different explanations, construct a conception of being subjected by women, other men and society. Our study shows that further research is needed on the phenomenon of incels and about digital communities.

The term incel refers mostly to white heterosexual men who live in involuntary celibate.Sweden is estimated to have one of the most frequent number of incels per capita in the world which has led the Swedish government to raise the anti-terror preparedness, as incels are considered a security risk. The aim of this study is to, with help of gender and exclusion theories, develop a deeper understanding of what this type of exclusion may result in and how new types of groups are created out of societal exclusion. To answer this, a discourse analysis of two threads on the Swedish forum Flashback was made and the chosen threads were designed so incels themselves could discuss their opinions and experiences. Previous research shows that societal exclusion results in health problems, hatred and distancing from women, which motivates the need for this study. The results showed that incels maintain bad boys as the hegemonic masculinity through legitimizing it themselves and that incels can be seen as a separate type of masculinity. Incel, as masculinity, is based and dependent on men experiencing exclusion from society and the sexual market. In order to be included in the community and be allowed to call oneself an incel, the individual must be recognized by an already legitimate incel. If the individual does not meet the criteria for being an incel, he is quickly rejected and discredited by the incel community. / Begreppet incel syftar till största del på vita heterosexuella män som lever i ofrivilligt celibat. Sverige uppskattas vara ett utav det inceltätaste länderna i världen, och den svenska staten har höjt den nationella anti terrorberedskapen då incels anses vara en säkerhetsrisk. Studiens syfte är att med hjälp av genus- och exkluderingsteorier skapa en djupare förståelse för vad denna typ av utanförskap kan leda till och hur nya grupper skapas ur samhällelig exkludering. För att besvara detta utfördes en diskursanalys över två trådar i det svenska forumet Flashback där de utvalda trådarna var formade efter att incels själva kunde diskutera sina upplevelser och åsikter. Tidigare forskning har påvisat hur detta utanförskap leder till hälsoproblem, hat och distansering från kvinnor vilket motiverar till varför studien har genomförts. Resultatet visade att incels upprätthåller den hegemoniska maskuliniteten genom att själva legitimera den samt att incels kan ses som en egen typ av maskulinitet. Incel som maskulinitet bygger på och är beroende av att männen upplever en exkludering från samhället och den sexuella marknaden. För att få vara med i gemenskapen och få kalla sig som incel måste individen bli erkänd av en redan legitimerad incel, om individen inte når upp till kriterierna för att vara incel blir den snabbt avvisad och misskrediterad av incels som gemenskap.

This study aimed to get a deeper understanding of how people interact within groups on social media that originally stems from a hashtag-activistic campaign. The study was conducted on an empirically selected group using the hashtag #Trashtag on Facebook. #Trashtag is a hashtag used when picking up garbage in order to document pictures of ones work on social media. This study attempts to find out how the interaction within this group works and what makes people engage in the matter.  This study is conducted through content- and text analysis as well as ethnographic observation online. The observation method is also the means in which the data for this study is collected. The following three theories is used as the theoretical framework for this study, participatory culture, making is connecting and uses and gratification alongside with an hermeneutic perspective. The main results for this study was found by observing 45 publications from one Facebook group with the mission to clean up a beach in Ireland.  The observation showed that publications posted in the group varied between subjects concerning the constant litter and contamination on the beach too publications designed to inform about possible or direct causes of the problem. The main result of this study was an observation that a recurring way of motivating the group members to participate in the Facebook group was through emotionally charged content designed to provoke some kind of reaction. The engagement however is driven by positiveness and unconditional encouragement between the participants, negative vibes are not answered upon. Furthermore the study found that the urge to participate and contribute gives people a satisfactory feeling of achievement. Therefore activist groups like the one being researched in this study are important not just for the environment itself but also for the individual. The presented material in this study could be used for further research within this subject.

Embedded in the quilt top, the fabric patches are relays, time pathways to stories and memories of their former owners. Through the quilts, the voices of the past survive. The stories trace a path of connection between oral traditions, storytelling, the invention of meaning, and the preservation of cultural memory. The theory and method described herein use the quilt patchwork metaphor as the basis for a web interface for designing and modeling knowledge-based graphical, narrative, and multimedia data. More specifically, the method comprises a digital storytelling and knowledge management tool that allows one or more users to create, save, store, and visually map or model digital stories. The method creates a digital network of a community's stories for digital ethnography work. Digital patches that represent the gateway to the stories of an individual are pieced together into a larger quilt design, creating a visual space that yields the voices of its creators at the click of a mouse. Through this narrative mapping, users are able to deal with complexity, ambiguity, density, and information overload. The method takes the traditional quilt use and appropriates it into a digital apparatus so that the user is connected to multiple points of view that can be dynamically tried out and compared. The hypertextual quilting method fulfills the definition of a deconstructive hypertext and emancipatory social science research methodologies by creating a collaborative, polyvocal interface where users have access to the code, content and conduits to rewrite culture's history with subaltern voices. In this digital place of intertextuality, stories are juxtaposed with images in a montage that denies the authority of a single voice and refuses fixed meaning. In dialogue, contestation, and play, the digitextuality of the Digital Story Quilt provides a praxis for critical theory. The Digital Story Quilt method concerns itself with questions of identity, the processes through which these identities are developed, the mechanics of processes of privilege and marginalization and the possibility of political action through narrative performance against these processes.

La finalidad de este trabajo es analizar la participación de los jóvenes con problemas de salud en comunidades digitales que les brindan soporte. Se analizarán las comunidades digitales de dos influencers en Instagram: Anahí De Cárdenas y Belén Canalejo. Dichas influencers han sido elegidas porque han presentado de manera pública el cáncer de mama que padecen y ahora usan sus redes para brindar soporte a usuarios a través de la transmisión de sus tratamientos, en el caso de Anahí, y mensajes positivos sobre la salud mental, en el caso de Belén. Se utilizará un análisis cualitativo que nos permitirá recopilar información de dichos seguidores. Para ello se propone un estudio etnográfico que aplicará la técnica de entrevista a profundidad en usuarios que pertenecen a dichas comunidades a fin de conocer sus preferencias de contenido, su comportamiento en las redes y los insights que guían su comportamiento. Asimismo, con el fin de triangular esa información se aplicará la técnica de análisis de contenido en videos y podcasts publicados por las influencers con una alta interacción de usuarios, así como en los comentarios y reacciones de los seguidores que evidencian mayor compromiso. / The purpose of this work is to analyze the participation of young people with health problems in digital communities that support them. The digital communities of two influencers on Instagram will be analyzed: Anahí De Cárdenas and Belén Canalejo. These influencers have been chosen because they have publicly presented the breast cancer they suffer from and now they use their networks to provide support to users through the transmission of their treatments, in the case of Anahí, and positive messages on mental health, in the case of Bethlehem. A qualitative analysis will be used that will allow us to collect information from these followers. For this, an ethnographic study is proposed that will apply the in-depth interview technique to users who belong to these communities in order to know their content preferences, their behavior on the networks and the insights that guide their behavior. Likewise, in order to triangulate this information, the content analysis technique will be applied in videos and podcasts published by influencers with high user interaction, as well as in the comments and reactions of followers that show greater commitment. / Trabajo de investigación

Esta investigación se centra en analizar la interactividad dentro de la plataforma Twitch entre streamers y comunidades digitales, permitiendo una evolución audiovisual digital. Dicha investigación se realizará mediante metodología observacional, donde se usará como técnica guías observacionales con aspectos etnográficos digitales. Esto permitirá ver el futuro audiovisual, no sólo en el aspecto de creación de contenido, sino en la importancia de la interactividad en esta etapa de digitalización a la que pertenecemos. El artículo científico permitió describir e investigar la relación que se desarrolla entre estos emisores y receptores, permitiendo dar a conocer la popularidad de este medio digital. Será realizado mediante una investigación aplicada y participativa en dos casos de streamers. Se comprenderá al finalizar el artículo como las comunidades llegan a familiarizarse con un creador de contenido; cómo las comunidades favorecen dentro del ecosistema de Twitch a los streamers; y como estas comunidades pueden llegar a tener un desarrollo interpersonal convirtiéndose en prosumidores. También se adjuntará recomendaciones a futuro para investigaciones respecto a preguntas no resueltas. / This research focuses on analyzing the interactivity within the Twitch platform between streamers and digital communities, allowing a digital audiovisual evolution. This research will be carried out through observational methodology, where observational guides with digital ethnographic aspects will be used as a technique. This allowed us to see the audiovisual future, not only in the aspect of content creation, but also in the importance of interactivity in this stage of digitization to which we belong. The scientific article will describe and investigate the relationship that develops between these transmitters and receivers, allowing to publicize the popularity of this digital medium. It will be carried out through an applied and participatory research in two cases of streamers. It will be understood at the end of the article how communities become familiar with a content creator; how communities favor streamers within the Twitch ecosystem; and how these communities can develop interpersonally by becoming prosumers. Future recommendations for investigations regarding unresolved questions will also be attached. / Tesis

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