Articulating Dayak Indigeneity through Gendered Media, Youth Activism, and Global Connectivities

Mass Media and Children. Globality in Everyday Life

Cooperative Mentorship: Negotiating Social Media Use within the Family

For youth activists, digital media are a central tool for awareness raising and mobilisation. At the same time, the pressure to be constantly connected and the negative responses one can encounter through social media, can be significant stressors on youths’ wellbeing. Drawing upon a year-long critical comparative ethnographic research project with Fridays For Future youth climate justice activists in Czechia and Hungary, this paper analyses the multifaceted role of digital media in youth activists’ wellbeing. On one hand, youth activists encountered varied psychological, social, and physical challenges connected to digital media use, which caused stress and contributed to burnout. On the other hand, they individually and collectively developed diverse coping strategies and mechanisms, as well as digital literacy, which were supported by the movement’s community of activists. This in turn strengthened their resilience and positively contributed to their wellbeing. Ultimately, the youth activists’ wellbeing appeared to rely on their own ability to constantly balance between the many challenges encountered related to digital media use for activism, and the resources required to deal with these challenges. Our findings carry important implications for supporting youth activists’ wellbeing.

This study was conducted to answer this simple question: 'Can cultural values explain global social media use?' Along with cultural dimensions introduced by past studies we also added several demographic, socio-economic and personality variables into this study that generated quite interesting findings. We found that there are low levels of suicide, more happiness and more corruption in societies that use social media heavily. We also observed that GDP per capita and median age are negatively related with social media use. Self-esteem stood out as important variable related to social media use intensity along with emotional expressiveness, openness and conscientiousness. Contrary to the common view, nation-level social capital achievement was negatively related with social media use and there was absolutely no relationship between high-context and low-context communication characteristics and local social media use. Some other findings also indicated that conservative and collectivistic countries use social media more often than do individualistic and developed countries. Schwartz's cultural dimensions and the results of the GLOBE study accounted for a considerable amount of variation in country-level social media use where Hofstede and Trompenaars' cultural dimensions were insignificant. Since most of the cultural values failed to explain the intensity of social media use, we also developed a cross-cultural online communication framework called cross-cultural self and others' worth.

Crowdfunding, as an alternative method to fundraising, triggers increased awareness in society, while it is also an effective marketing tool for campaign runners. The production and release of independent print media poses significant hurdles in terms of financing. Including the community in raising funds through crowdfunding seems like a good possible alternative. This paper examines which types of crowdfunding the independent print media use, and why, and also focuses on the possible types of crowdfunding that are the best fit for organizations. The study applies a case example approach on a total of thirty independent print publications that have relied on crowdfunding. We found that independent print media focus on reward-based crowdfunding for the launch of publications, the method being not used solely for fundraising, but also specifically for community building. Practitioners benefit from the insights by being enabled to draft campaigns that are better-suited to the specific needs of the independent media target group, and to secure financing for the start of the operations. The approach of this study is of special value, as the research and empirical insights into the independent media sector are limited.

Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North

Media use, environmental beliefs, self-efficacy, and pro-environmental behavior

Contested values and climate change mitigation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Global environmental activism has been growing significantly over the last century. Both the practices of global environmental activism and the theoretical inquiries informing them have seen simultaneous developments that have helped global environmental activist movements mature and set or update their objectives. These objectives encompass a wide range, including anti-nuclear, anti-pollution, and antiwar struggles in the mid-to-late 20th century, and a recent focus on climate change and environmental sustainability. The objectives of global environmental movements are diverse, complex, and informed by location and the positionality of the actors involved; they both build on historical emphases and create new goals in response to new developments. The sources included here demonstrate that global environmental activism and environmental justice are related frameworks that cannot be researched individually without the other. Global environmental activism does more than merely bring attention to global environmental struggles, it intends to solve tangible societal problems caused by those environmental struggles. The foci and practices of environmental struggles differ around the world and between different communities in the same nation-states. Experiences of environmental action urgency vary between locations and economic positions, most notably between those in the Global South and the Global North. Indigenous populations across the globe have faced environmental struggles since the start of colonization and the theft and colonial exploitation of their natural resources. Research into global environmental activism includes sources on key concepts and philosophies, forms of protest by and solidarity with globally exploited populations, global and local environmental justice movements, and coalition building between underprivileged groups such as workers, people of color, and Indigenous peoples. By examining different dimensions of global environmental activism, this research can help activists streamline their goals and consider the complex contexts and unequal relationships that must be recognized when promoting solutions to environmental struggles. Furthermore, this research can help governments and administrators understand the need for (local) environmental activism and policymaking to solve globally interconnected environmental struggles.

There is no consensus on the role that culture plays in the processes of globalisation for the very simple reason that culture is a difficult and elusive term to define,1 and is subject to global p...

Abstract: For today's student and youth activists in Indonesia, the use of social media as a tool of protest and mobilization seems to be a natural expression of their technologies of the self as the "digital generation." It allowed them to create new forms of protest that blend repertoires of digital and popular cultures, and to mobilize simultaneously online and on the streets on a peer-to-peer basis, as seen in the nation-wide protest movements against controversial bills in September 2019 and October 2020. Yet, as these protest movements also met with new forms of cyber-repression, activist youth developed an ambivalent relationship to social media. This article examines how they navigate the double-edged sword of using social media in activism. It shows how activist youth, on the one hand, have made creative use of social media to engage peers and stimulate their participation in protest; and, on the other hand, how they experience a sense of digital fatigue—growing tired of fighting online battles with pro-government cyber troops and of countering online disinformation about their movement—as well as fears for the state's deepening hegemony on social media. It is argued that such sentiments signal a turning point in their navigation of social media's contradictory attributes, prompting activist youth to redefine their relationship to social media, and to reclaim the "social" in social media activism.

BackgroundThe explosive growth of social media has rendered them powerful communication channels. User generated content is an important source of inspiration and influence among web friends, it generates new activities and consequently affects mobility decisions. Whether to visit a place, or how to get to a place of interest are decisions that can be triggered through people’s interactions on social media.ObjectiveThe main objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of social media use on activity planning and travel arrangements for women and men.MethodsAn online survey was conducted to examine the social media use and the impact of the shared content for women and men, on the phase before any activity in an urban environment. Inferential statistics were applied to detect gender differences in a sample size comprised of 804 respondents.ResultThe significant results showed that the variables gender and social media use for activity planning and travel arrangements are associated with each other. Results have also indicated that the influence of reviews and ratings, photos/ videos and proposed transport mode on activity planning is gender dependent. Photos/ videos influence more often both women (m=3.47) and men (m=3.00) than reviews and ratings (m=3.21 for women and 2.94 for men). Both these contents influence more than proposed transport mode (m=2.62 and 2.37 for women and men).ConclusionThe analysis of the results indicated that before an activity, both women and men tend to use majorly social media for activity planning and travel arrangements, while photos/videos influence women’s decisions more often than men.Travel arrangements of the majority of respondents would be influenced by a post of a designated account related to transport. Finally, social media use affects travel arrangements of both women and men more before performing an activity rather than during.

The population in Central Kalimantan is plural, both in terms of ethnicity and religion. The indigenous people are Dayaks, but other ethnic groups also live side by side and become part of the people of Central Kalimantan such as Banjar, Javanese, Bugis, Madurese, Batak, Chinese, and so on. Those ethnics currently live in Central Kalimantan. Also, the followers of the religion, such as Muslims, Christians, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists, and Kaharingan are developing rapidly in Central Kalimantan. The plurality of ethnicity relations has the potential for conflict because the differences in tradition and culture become cultural boundaries which become boundaries among the communities. In 2001 ago, Central Kalimantan Province had experienced a dark period of riots under the ethnicity reason in Sampit, Kotawaringin Timur Regency. The National Unity, Politics and Community Protection Agency (Kesbangpol) is an office in Central Kalimantan Province which the main task is the development of the values of nationalism and conflict management. Then, the particular study aims to analyze the strategies of Kesbangpol in maintaining harmony among religious & ethnic groups in Central Kalimantan based on Huma Betang Philosophy.

The article explores the impact of global commercial media on young people’s developing perceptions of their own cultural identity. It works from the premise that local cultures are not so much getting replaced by ‘global culture’ as inflecting it by coexisting with it. The discussion draws on data collected in the course of focus group interviews with young adults living in the Mediterranean island of Malta, in order to stress the specificity with which young people from different cultural contexts consume global media. I argue that, as in other postcolonial communities, though the choices available to Maltese youth have become strongly inflected (or ‘hybridized’) by the commercial imperatives of global media, the ways in which they are appropriated and played out retain very idiosyncratic characteristics, which mark them out as uniquely Maltese.

This paper investigates the integration of carbon trading with the indigenous knowledge of the Dayak community in Central Kalimantan as a strategy to enhance food security and bridge development disparities. Given the severe environmental and health risks posed by high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, mainly from industrial activities, this topic is crucial for balancing economic growth with ecological sustainability in a region facing significant climate change and economic inequality challenges. The research employs a descriptive-qualitative approach, using an extensive literature review to explore the synergy between carbon trading mechanisms and traditional forest management practices. The study analyzes data on carbon trading, indigenous practices, and their combined impact on environmental conservation and community welfare in Central Kalimantan. The study finds that integrating carbon trading with the Dayak community's indigenous forest management practices can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, preserve biodiversity, and enhance the economic well-being of local populations. This integration aligns with Islamic financial principles, emphasizing the balanced and sustainable use of natural resources. The findings suggest that this model can effectively improve food security, reduce development disparities, and support inclusive and sustainable development in Central Kalimantan. The insights gained from this study provide valuable guidance for policymakers addressing environmental and socio-economic challenges in regions vulnerable to climate change