...This chapter explores the potential of social media as a research tool. There are three key uses of social media: gaining assistance from fellow sport historians and researchers, collecting data, and accessing already-collected data through the social media archive of posts. However, there are some...

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... of this chapter zooms in on grassroots resistance and efforts of abolition, offering a bird's-eye view of WGC (worker-generated content) through a typology of workers' activism and collective action. The chapter then focuses on the actual scenarios of workers using social media on the picket line while...

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...Newsroom norms and values have long been communicated through processes of social control, but this is being replaced with explicit policies, at least in the case of social media. Chapter 4, “Dis/connecting from Policy and Practice,” presents a discourse analysis spanning scholarly literature...

...This chapter turns to the world of social media and how it shapes Christian identities in Kenya, including Juliani's. It explores how even urban churches are tapping into such media to engage youth on matters of faith and lived sociocultural issues. Many Kenyan youth get access to the internet...

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...This epilogue comments on the changes within the Polish American community and the Polish-language press during the most recent decades, including the impact of the Internet and social media on the practice of letter-writing. It also poses questions about the legacy and memory of Paryski in Toledo...

...This chapter examines how place and identity are tied to visual culture for Dominican women, including images circulated in online spaces. The author considers the influence of Facebook, the most popular social media network among Dominican youth in 2010, as a tool for crafting virtual identities...

...This chapter examines the visual archive built when the Obama White House chose to make official photographs made by its photographer, Pete Souza, available to the public via the social media photography site Flickr. The Obama White House Flickr photostream--still preserved in its original form...

...Unicorn foods are a unique social media food trend in North American popular culture, and the specific example of the unicorn latte is informative for thinking through shifting expectations around appearance and taste when it comes to digital images of food. This chapter explores a trademark...

... of community and collectivity in LOHAS culture, which is chiefly occurring through mediated means, particularly through social media. It historicizes LOHAS within social movements, examining the importance of media and the central role of communication in democratic efforts. This sets the stage for a closer...

... circulation took a precipitous fall. Finally, the closing chapter offers a way to think about contemporary black news media by suggesting that discussions of sexuality have migrated to social media spaces such as Facebook and Twitter. Baltimore Afro American African American Chicago Defender New York...

...The Paradox of Connection highlights how journalists use strategies of connection and disconnection to mediate the impact of social media on their professional practice, purpose, and identity. The introduction presents the term “paradoxical” to highlight the often nuanced nature...

...Chapter 2, “Burning Out, Turning Off, and Disconnecting,” introduces the disconnection strategies journalists use to navigate professional use of social media. We argue that new forms of social media connection have also led to journalists’ frustration with increased affective labor, unsafe...

...One of the main ways journalists connect with audiences is through branding practices on social media. Chapter 3, “Maintaining Professional Connections through Branding,” identifies the origins of social media branding practices in journalism and explains their widespread adoption as a response...

... From a Generation Born in Korea and Adopted to Other Countries (1999), to their deployment of social media to connect with one another and members of the broader Korean diaspora through an examination of adoptee hip-hop artist Dan Matthews’ YouTube series asianish (2015-2016...