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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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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
Covering a broad swathe of time, from colonization to the present day, Forced Migration in/to Canada examines human displacement in a variety of contexts: Indigenous dislocation and settler colonialism, Black …
Indigenous Peoples, and clarify in a statement on social media that “Indigenous peoples are immigrants” and …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
practices, and desires are shaped by corporate platforms such as Pornhub in the same way that social media has affected society at large. It is a powerful argument for law and policy responses to the impact …
used on other social media sites. While porn has always had a social role, its social media character makes … nature of porn on the platform, including its social media character, further facilitates porn’s role … platforms, and the contributions this form of social media is making to our sexual landscapes, this form … of some of this content. Like other forms of social media, the plat- 12 Mainstreaming Pornformization … mainstream porn-streaming platforms, like other social media, play in shaping our cultural landscape, our …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 23 August 2024 English
Manitoba is home to a vibrant commercial net-fishing industry. Each year, this industry produces approximately 13 million kg of freshwater fish, making Manitoba the second-largest commercial producer of freshwater fish …
(Kitch, 2023): “A lot of the news feeds and social media feeds have reached all corners of the planet …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English
Contemporary Vulnerabilities explores vulnerable moments in research committed to social change.
begun following each other on social media at some point. Their social media presence was curated to reflect … since the early 2000s. The proliferation of social media,5 neoliberal and global cultural influences … It is my con- tention that the popularity of social media in determining certain queer10 NRI/OU TSIDER/RET … the same email thread, text message chain, or social media chat service about other things. These were …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English
Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout …
hyper-connected world—traffic, emails, texts, social media, 24/7 connectivity, paperwork, asphalt, concrete …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 20 August 2024 English
Creative sector jobs are driving our economy and offer a viable career path for today's youth.Careers in the creative sector offer flexibility and security. Why then are more young people …
writer; creative writer; marketing specialist; social media strategist Crafts blacksmith, glass artist, … designer, writer, marketing specialist, publicist, social media strategist Theatre director, producer, set …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 August 2024 English
The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious — so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them?“Fascinating and thoughtful ... showcases how …
patriotism. The arrival of the internet and social media allowed fans to join in with complaints about …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 August 2024 English
The entrepreneur Time magazine called “the Bad Boy of banking” is back with crucial insights about the importance of business culture in a dizzyingly complex global marketplace.In business, breaking rules …
services or demanding complaints be made via social media sites such as X.” In one of the worst examples … questioned by stakeholders, employees, and others. Social media, of course, has made it incredibly easy to … aired, the company’s stock was soaring. The social media backlash to the ad, however, was immediate and … said P.T. Barnum. He never had to deal with social media. Fans were so shocked and upset that investors … channelling his inner Caesar — was dismissive of the social media backlash, considering it no real threat to …
CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 28 June 2024 English
This report outlines CIHI's strategic activities and outcomes from the fourth quarter of 2023-2024, and provides the financial highlights and statements.
people in Canada. Social media and impact stories Our reach includes social media engagement and podcast … the following: • Social media engagement: 115,000+ followers across all social media channels (12% increase … annual reports, the press, online media and social media • 7.1: Percentage of engagement activities …
CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 24 June 2024 English
How big is Ontario's credit mills problem
website security, a unique domain name, and a social-media presence. Table 1 provides the results for … Seventy schools (25.7 percent) maintain one active social-media account, and an additional forty schools (14 … than one. For 159 schools (58.5 percent), no social-media account can be found. All schools with a strong … overall-legitimacy scores are less likely to have an active social-media account (figure 6). Of schools with moderate … 9 percent) do not have at least one active social-media account. In fact, out of the total 272 schools …