Observando processos de apropriação de tecnologias de comunicação por povos indígenas, essa dissertação apresenta uma etnografia de práticas midiáticas realizadas pelos povos Kaiowa e Guarani, em Mato Grosso do Sul. Seu principal objetivo é pensar a produção de narrativas midiáticas de autoria indígena como uma forma de objetivação de saberes e de reflexividade cultural, capaz de multiplicar ou atualizar relações eficazes entre pessoas e coletivos. Assim, busca descrever as formas como coletivos indígenas escolhem performar a cultura em plataformas midiáticas, tendo em mente que o uso de tecnologias de comunicação por povos indígenas faz aparecer não apenas produtos. Navegando por redes de relações ameríndias, esses produtos e discursos midiáticos adquirem significados específicos em comunicação com humanos e não-humanos. / Observing processes communication technologies appropriation by indigenous peoples, this dissertation brings up an ethnography on media practices conducted by Kaiowa and Guarani peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul. Its main purpose is to present indigenous driven media processes as a form of objectification of knowledge and cultural reflexivity, which is able to multiply or update effective relations between people and collectives. Thus, it attempts to describe the forms chosen by indigenous collectives to perform \"culture\" in media platforms, keeping in mind that the use of communication technologies by indigenous peoples does not produce and show only its products. Navigating through Amerindian relation networks, these products and media discourses acquire specific meanings in communication with human and non human relations.

This thesis discusses the increased amount of information available online, and how we use it in our daily lives to make decisions. It aims to open a discussion on the complexity of accessing and evaluating digital information. As the Internet has grown, the amount of information available to the public has exploded. Not only have we gained access to what seems to be an unlimited amount of sources, but also the number of producers has grown. By means of a case study, this thesis explores practices of trust assessment within the shared economy. Through the lens of Actor-Network-Theory as well as Modern Social Imaginaries, media practices are studied by using the example of Airbnb, an online, shared economy platform for accommodation. Airbnb users as well as other travelers are asked about their media practices through an online survey with 229 respondents as well as in-depth interviews with 7 users of Airbnb. Results show that practices of trust assessment differ within and outside of the platform. There is a strong dependency on social information, produced by fellow platform users, especially in the form of reviews. In addition the study finds support for a social imaginary, in which the platform defines the accepted behavior for the users of the platform, who within the economic constraint comply with the social norm set by the organization, in order to be able to use the services of Airbnb.

On July 19, 2010, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a story on his website claiming USDA worker Shirley Sherrod was racist in her work with farmers. The edited video included with the story as proof, showed Sherrod speaking at an NAACP banquet. Sherrod was subsequently vilified in the media and fired from her job, only to be exonerated and rehired later that week. Although the media claims their routine writing and reporting practices (such as newsworthiness, source selection, objectivity, and perpetual news cycle) make the industry better, researchers have shown that these practices lead to the use of shortcuts and stereotypes. This is especially detrimental to Black women because of the double-dose of stereotyping they are subject to when they are portrayed in the media. The purpose of this study was to understand how media practices influenced the framing of race and gender in the media coverage of Sherrod. In order to integrate key elements of critical theory (i.e. activism, intersectionality, speaking position, subjectivity) I chose a mixed-methods approach for my framing analysis. This included open-ended reading of the news stories, constant comparative analysis of possible frames, quantitative coding sheet, analysis of statistics in SPSS, and inclusion of qualitative examples. I analyzed a total of 93 news articles from 12 news sources for this study. Most of the news stories came from newer, online publications (n=67, 72.0%) and over half came from new sources with a liberal philosophy (n=47, 50.5%). I found three frames that were used to describe Sherrod in terms of race and gender: victim, good woman, and above her place. I also found that these frames were closely aligned with news values that help determine a story’s newsworthiness. I found seven sources were used repetitively and selectively associated with the frames. I also found differences in frames by news source type and philosophy. Finally, I found that the frames followed an identifiable news cycle. The results of this study show that the media do indeed utilize negative stereotypes of Black women in their products and that media’s use of routine writing and reporting practices exacerbate this problem.

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abstract: As digital media practices become readily available in today's classrooms, literacy and literacy instruction are changing in profound ways (Alvermann, 2010). Professional organizations emphasize the importance of integrating new literacies (New London Group, 1996) practices into language-arts instruction (IRA, 2009; NCTE, 2005). As a result, teachers search for effective ways to incorporate the new literacies in an effort to engage students. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the potential of digital storytelling as participatory media for writing instruction. This case study was conducted during the fall semester of 2012 in one first-grade classroom and one second-grade classroom in the Southwestern United States. The study addressed ten interrelated research questions relating to how primary-grade students performed in relation to the Common Core writing standards, how they were motivated, how they formed a meta- language to talk about their writing, how they developed identities as writers, and how they were influenced by their teachers' philosophies and instructional approaches. Twenty-two first-grade students and 24 second-grade students used the MovieMaker software to create digital stories of personal narratives. Data included field notes, interviews with teachers and students, teacher journals, my own journal, artifacts of teachers' lesson plans, photographs, students' writing samples, and their digital stories. Qualitative data were analyzed by thematic analysis (Patton, 1990) and discourse analysis (Gee, 2011). Writing samples were scored by rubrics based on the Common Core State Standards. The study demonstrated how digital storytelling can be used to; (a) guide teachers in implementing new literacies in primary grades; (b) illustrate digital storytelling as writing; (c) develop students' meta-language to talk about writing; (d) impact students' perceptions as writers; (e) meet Common Core State Standards for writing; (f) improve students' skills as writers; (g) build students' identities as writers; (h) impact academic writing; (i) engage students in the writing process; and (j) illustrate the differences in writing competencies between first- and second-grade students. The study provides suggestions for teachers interested in incorporating digital storytelling in primary-grade classrooms. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2013

Observando processos de apropriação de tecnologias de comunicação por povos indígenas, essa dissertação apresenta uma etnografia de práticas midiáticas realizadas pelos povos Kaiowa e Guarani, em Mato Grosso do Sul. Seu principal objetivo é pensar a produção de narrativas midiáticas de autoria indígena como uma forma de objetivação de saberes e de reflexividade cultural, capaz de multiplicar ou atualizar relações eficazes entre pessoas e coletivos. Assim, busca descrever as formas como coletivos indígenas escolhem performar a cultura em plataformas midiáticas, tendo em mente que o uso de tecnologias de comunicação por povos indígenas faz aparecer não apenas produtos. Navegando por redes de relações ameríndias, esses produtos e discursos midiáticos adquirem significados específicos em comunicação com humanos e não-humanos. / Observing processes communication technologies appropriation by indigenous peoples, this dissertation brings up an ethnography on media practices conducted by Kaiowa and Guarani peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul. Its main purpose is to present indigenous driven media processes as a form of objectification of knowledge and cultural reflexivity, which is able to multiply or update effective relations between people and collectives. Thus, it attempts to describe the forms chosen by indigenous collectives to perform \"culture\" in media platforms, keeping in mind that the use of communication technologies by indigenous peoples does not produce and show only its products. Navigating through Amerindian relation networks, these products and media discourses acquire specific meanings in communication with human and non human relations.

The increasingly entangled correlation between media, sport and activism in the United States has generated an upsurge in new media research that focuses on athletes’ political social media posts from an ‘outsider’s’ perspective. To clearer comprehend the complex relationship of media, sport and activism from an ‘insider’s’ perspective, this thesis aims to converse with collegiate athletes in the United States about how they experience their personalized politics on social media, as well as it observes the collegiate athletes’ activist practices on particularly Twitter and Facebook. As an auxiliary ‘prop’, I utilize former NFL (National Football League) player Colin Kaepernick’s approach to athlete activism to start the discussions about the topic with the collegiate athletes. Kaepernick’s kneel during the national anthem in 2016, prior to a football game displayed on national television, gained a variety of negative responses, but also sparked a difference in conversations about the politization of sport, and ultimately lead to a swift re-appearance of athlete activism on social media (Serazio and Thorson, 2020). Thus, by collecting interview data and observations of the media practices of collegiate athletes, the analysis draws on bottom-up framing and practice theory to better understand how such sportspersons experience the intersection between sports and politics on social media, the implications of athlete activism, and the media practices involved in such performance. Ultimately, the results of this study suggest that appearances of tensions, anxieties and pressures subsist in collegiate athletes’ activism practices on social media, making it an auspicious site for further research seeking to investigate the intersection of media, sport, and activism.

Class-making from a Bourdieusian perspective is an ongoing process based on cultural consumption connected with a specific class. Despite significant research on cultural consumption, little attention has been paid to the internal processes that can influence class-making. Previous research showed that the emerging cultural middle class is more prone than other classes to expect others to “look down on” their media practices. Based on various media and sociological theories, this thesis explored the relationships between the emerging cultural middle class, their media consumption and internal processes of stigma. Consequently, twenty qualitative in-depth interviews with the emerging cultural middle class were conducted that explored three research questions: how does the emerging cultural middle class describe their media practices, how they think about their media practices and what they believe others think of their practices and what are the imagined social origins of the stigmatization of their media practices. Results showed that the sample was digital cultural omnivores – consuming a range of media practices. Simultaneously, they were characterized by a self-reflexivity and self-criticism, implementing the self-stigma in the form of negative beliefs and thoughts about their media practices. The anticipated stigma was connected with practices that were “unproductive” (e.g. wasting time on social media), practices that the sample was not doing (e.g. not consuming the news) and taste-related practices (e.g. listening to jazz). Furthermore, three social origins of anticipated stigma were identified – based on generational distinctions, upper positions in the social space and other lifestyles. Summarizing, this study not only explored the media consumption of the emerging cultural middle class but also the presence of internal processes that influence cultural consumption and thus the process of class-making. By being anxious and self-reflexive regarding their media practices, they “maintained rank” and adapted to the logic of the “cultural” fields they aspired to enter.

The creation and rapid growth of the Spanish political party Podemos has created high expectations among citizens who want to participate in politics beyond voting. With a strategy that combines analogue and digital media, the party has emerged as the third biggest party in the last general elections, June 2016. Podemos has been conceived as a hybrid between a political party and a social movement, striving for wining the elections while relaying on grassroots activism through decentralised groups called “circles”, which operate locally and interact with the party via digital media. Although the potential of digital media for participation has been many times stressed, how the circles use these media depends highly on ongoing power relations and struggles within the party. Through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, this research analyses the perceptions of seven participants in two Podemos circles from the perspective of media practices, and looks into the potential of digital tools for political participation and the way ongoing power relations affect this participation. The results show that media practices within the circles are limited by the position of power of the leaders, who make use of analogue media to convey unidirectional messages that can hardly be countered via digital media. Furthermore, the research analyses the existence of relevant tensions in Podemos as a party that promotes citizen participation within a hierarchical, top-down organisation.

Esta pesquisa apresenta uma exploração teórica e aplicada sobre algumas das premissas fundadoras da teoria da midiatização. Usando como objeto de estudo o subcampo gastronômico da cidade de São Paulo, o trabalho analisa as mudanças produzidas pela saturação midiática nas diferentes fases associadas à análise dos campos de produção cultural de Pierre Bourdieu (1986): articulação histórica do subcampo (França e Brasil) e sua posição em relação ao campo de poder, construção do espaço social do subcampo e articulação das relações entre agentes a partir do seu volume e configuração de capitais durante o período 2014 - 2016, e a análise das práticas constitutivas do habitus dos agentes participantes. Com o objetivo de posicionar nossa abordagem teórica-metodológica, articulamos um panorama abrangente da produção teórica sobre a midiatização que integra tanto contribuições de autores latino-americanos quanto as explorações feitas pela corrente prática. Partindo do entendimento de que preponderância midiática dentro dos campos societários pode ser entendida partir da articulação de um meta-capital midiático (COULDRY, 2012) e a introdução de capitais relacionados com a mídia (DRIESSENS, 2014), a pesquisa examina a incipiente institucionalização de duas práticas midiáticas associadas com a visibilidade e a atenção nas disposições de 4 agentes diferentes: cozinheiro; crítico, guia gastronômico e consumidor. Os resultados da pesquisa evidenciam que se bem os capitais midiáticos ainda sejam pouco valorizados pelos agentes dominantes, sua aquisição - a partir da performatização das duas práticas midiáticas analisadas - está-se transformando em uma estratégia imperativa de manutenção e subversão de posicionamentos no espaço social. / This research presents a theoretical and applied exploration of some of the founding premises of mediatization theory. Using the gastronomic subfield of the city of São Paulo as its object of study, I analyze the changes produced by the mediated saturation of social life on the different phases associated with the analysis of the cultural fields structured by Pierre Bourdieu (1986): historical trajectory of the subfield (France and Brazil) and its position to the field of power, construction of the social space of the subfield and articulation of the relations between agents based on volume and configuration of capitals during the 2014 - 2016 period, and finally, the analysis of the constitutive practices of the habitus of the participating agents. With the objective of positioning our theoretical-methodological approach, we articulate a detailed overview of the mediatization scholarship that integrates both contributions of Latin American authors and the media practice tradition. Based on the understanding that the media\'s role within the cultural fields can be explore through the articulation of a media meta-capital (COULDRY, 2012) and the introduction of media-related capitals (DRIESSENS, 2014), the research examines the incipient institutionalization of two media practices associated with visibility and attention in the social dispositions of 4 different agents: chef; critic, gastronomic guide and consumer. The results show that even though media capitals are still undervalued by the dominant agents, their acquisition -via the performatization of the two analyzed media practices- is becoming an imperative strategy for the maintenance and subversion of positioning in the social space.