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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Social media and technology"”.
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Adoption reunions: an exploratory study of the ‘lived experience’ of Irish adult intercountry adoptees who have reunions with their birth families in the digital age
… adults who are adopted internationally to Ireland. It examines how intercountry adoptees have reunions with their birth families online and in-person, and how experiences of contact and reunion with their birth family contribute to their identity construction. The rationale for studying reunion …
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Role of Social Media and Computing in Organizations aiding Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants in the United States
… migrants by providing them with essential items and services, housing, and legal advice. Drawing on ethnographic findings, this work presents a situated perspective of how citizen responders utilize technological systems to provide relief to those affected by the immigration crisis. Often, these …
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Reporting the Syria conflict on television (2011-2014): how the use of user generated content (UGC) has shaped BBC World News TV coverage and affected journalistic practices
… BBC journalists to cover the conflict in Syria, and how journalistic working practices have altered. The data collection methods included a content analysis of news reports about Syria which aired on BBC World News TV from 2011 to 2014, staff interviews and newsroom observations. Syria has been a …
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Image Based Sexual Abuse: The Effectiveness of Malawi s Legal Framework
The prevalence of technology and social media has resulted in gender-based violence going beyond the physical and into the digital space. Violence against women which occurs online or with the use of technological means is referred to as technology-facilitated violence, a term which includes a …