Social Media

Social media is interactive digitally-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation or sharing/exchange of information, ideas, career interests, and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of social media arise due to the broad variety of stand-alone and built-in social-media services currently available, there are some common features: Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications. User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions—is the lifeblood of social media. Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by …

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Publications

UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

knowledge through a series of videos and a robust social media presence to revitalize Secwépemc ways of knowing


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 5 November 2024 English

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …

not. Coverage in local newspapers, blogs, and social media forums show this ongoing interest in the foreskin


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 4 November 2024 English

The City of Kigali, in collaboration with SUNCASA and its local partners, launched the ‘#IgitiCyanjye’ (#MyTree) community tree planting campaign on October 26, with the goal of ensuring the long-term …

each month. Join the SUNCASA community on social media Share this page: Funded byGovernment of Canada


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English

Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …

have to look back so far as two genera- tions. Social media echo chambers were creating disparate and opposing


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English

A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …

Taking It Further 196 13. Your Writing Life 199 Social Media and Your Platform 201 Library and School Visits me so. They email me or send me a message on social media. At parties, when people ask me what I do, yesterday. Any of the shows, video games, or social media moments you took a look at as you explored her work and reached out to say hi to her on social media. A call from my editor in New YorkS P A R K


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …

and La Meute emerged – some ex- clusively on social media. This effervescence was especially beneficial Canada. They6 THE GREAT RIGHT NORTH eagerly use social media to disseminate their propaganda and to or- ganize sources and for this we turned to the Internet and social media, which we scraped with the help of various of those affiliated with these movements on social media, par- ticularly on Facebook. This led to a snowball websites and blogs. Exploration of the web and social media also provided us with valuable information


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …

the first buds of spring are instantly uploaded to social media to “ encourage” snowbound relations in other initiative’s online pres- ence, reviewing the websites, social media platforms, and, on average, two to four blogs the initiative’s Internet presence (website, social media, blogs, and podcasts) for its explicit beliefs con- versation with leadership, website and social media research, and site visits and focus groups


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …

Marble Hornets takes place over a variety of social media platforms including YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …

We didn’t but wished that we did, and before social media and twenty- four- hour news, it remained a


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2024 English

With a shock, these frankenlines come alive. In Recombinant Theory a monster surges forth, a new freedom is sung.

in itself. We like to think we are shaped by social media. We will “publish” our essential identity, non-linear ways. Assumptions are changing through social media. Technology is an event, not an entity: we


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