The Role of Information and Communications Technologies in Migrants from <scp>T</scp>unisia's Jasmine Revolution

Paradiso, Maria

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2257.2012.00603.x

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“…Inherent within the concept of Web 2.0 is the group of technologies—social media—that have facilitated the creation of a more socially connected Web, where anyone can participate by adding and editing content (Anderson ; Del Giudice, Peruta and Carayannis 2013; Kaplan and Haenlein ; Paradiso ). More specifically, Constantinides and Fountain (:232) describe the social‐media driven Web 2.0 as “a collection of open‐source, interactive and user‐controlled online applications expanding the experience, knowledge, and market power of the users as participants in business and social processes … facilitating the flow of ideas and knowledge by allowing the efficient generation, dissemination, sharing, and editing/refining of informational content.”…”

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Place Marketing, Place Branding, and Social Media: Perspectives of Municipal Practitioners

Cleave¹,

Arku²,

Sadler³

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Growth and Change

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The purpose of this paper is to examine how social media is used as a promotional tool for economic development at the municipal level through place marketing and branding, to identify and explore what specific tools are being used, and to discuss the strengths and limitations of use. Primary data was collected through in‐depth interviews with 16 municipal economic development practitioners in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Additional data collected from municipal social media accounts was used to further reinforce the qualitative data and allow for triangulation and greater breadth of analysis. The findings suggest that social media is being used as a tool to promote local services and political information rather than communicate a brand position. Additionally, limited interaction with the audience reduces not only the effectiveness of place marketing efforts but also enhancement of place brands. While some findings are place specific (as study design limited research participants to municipalities in Ontario), these findings can be shared with other locales in advanced economies to provide them with information to make improvements in the way communication technology is utilised. This research paper provides a better understanding of how social media is being used by municipalities and how it fits into place marketing and place branding.

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Place Marketing, Place Branding, and Social Media: Perspectives of Municipal Practitioners

Cleave¹,

Arku²,

Sadler³

et al. 2016

Growth and Change

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“…In what follows I draw upon a paper resulting from fieldwork in Lampedusa, which I discussed at an AE social sciences session in Paris 2011 and which benefited from Manuel Castells’s comments as the session’s discussant 44 . I further draw upon another (joint) paper on Tunisian–Italian activists’ mobilities, 48 and upon my ongoing fieldwork in FP7 Marie Curie IRSES Euro–Mediterranean Changing Relationships – MEDCHANGe.…”

Section: Bridging De-bordering and Cross-bordering: Mobilities Encmentioning

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“…Rather than the traditional model of subjectivity predicated on the rational individual (e.g. homo economicus), the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in the political mobilization of the Tunisian people points to the catalytic role of collective emotions and affect, which have long been dismissed as irrational or insignificant in the literature on regional change 44 . It is evident from the tales by migrants that the cause igniting mass mobilization was a shared emotional state dominated by indignation, anger, and outrage.…”

Section: Bridging De-bordering and Cross-bordering: Mobilities Encmentioning

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The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality

Paradiso

2016

European Review

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If we look at the Mediterranean only as a space, a dissonant geography is obvious. Its diversity is mistakenly reduced in a process of ‘diorthosis’, a cognitive and operational approach that starts from assuming the nature of things and functionality modes rather than arriving at a proper image via actual analysis.1The study of flows, of networks–i.e. the circulation of ideas, people, finances, and so on – challenges the continuous representation of the Mediterranean between homogeneity and otherness, and re-posits it as both a post-colonial imbricate site of encounters and currents and as a site of new hegemonic and counter-power discourse(s) and alliances. This paper explores the ‘mobility’ paradigm as an initial approach to contemporary geographies of the Mediterranean. The latter are being created not only by the media, powers and ideologies, but also by everyday people’s inter-ethnic, inter-cultural, and emotional interactions in places and digital communication channels. Such interactions are often characterized by blockages of inter-ethnic or inter-cultural exchanges, as well as by inequalities. They present and discuss initial paths of new encounters structuring North–South relationships, and vice versa, but also circular and East–West ones since they are typified by a variety of personal and virtual mobilities in terms of gender, motivations, emotional geographies, impacts, and circulation rather than origin/destination, and so on. It seems to me that the internet and people’s spatial mobility underline a deep process of change for the Mediterranean. A dialectic of diaspora politics, circuits of funds, weapons, empowerments, and emotions, challenge the boundaries of political communities in transformation. The Mediterranean thus appears as a global space of confrontation, emulation, opposition, dialectics, and change. Places, flows, wires and digital TV are the loci for all this. There is no assumption of ‘Mediterranean as a bridge of cultures’; instead, we all are actors in networking communities

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“…2006;Cresswell, T. and Merriman, P. 2011;Montanari, A. and Paluzzi, E. 2016). In addition, the paper conceptually includes mobilities of personal and collective emotions injected in places (Paradiso, M. 2013), the phenomenon of people 'moving' from one religion to another (the 'new Muslims' of Europe), and ideas and discussions in interreligious dialogues and encounters.…”

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Islam in Italy: insights from a Europe-Mediterranean perspective

Paradiso

2017

HunGeoBull

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This paper explores the changing role of Islam in Europe, via the case of Italy. The focus is on the contemporary geographies of the changing identities and relationships in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The article intends to challenge the continuous representation of Islam in Europe between homogeneity and otherness. Indeed, the approach considers that relationships which shape places (and are shaped by places) do not stem only from media narratives, from powers and ideologies in general, but also from people's everyday inter-ethnic, inter-cultural, and emotional interactions. The latter do not occur in a vacuum, but rather in places and digital communication channels under grids of power. They are sometimes characterized by behaviours of self-caging and last but not least they always develop in light of geographical transformative power of encounters as 'situated' dynamics of people. Encounters are further shaped and have transformative potential within realms of 'moral geographies' of people and society's values and beliefs while dealing with 'difference'. The paper is based on a series of fieldwork carried out by the author over the years including expert interviews (interreligious dialogue associations, religious leaders, and researchers) and surveys/interviews with immigrants from across the Mediterranean, and on available data and literature for Italy. Main findings for policy-making can be summarized as follows: Europe is a periphery for Umma, not a central place, but in contrast to some origin countries, Islam versions as Islam as predominant not a minority religion. Conversely, the European tradition of human rights, universalism, and democracy should be re-examined and practiced not only in the abstract but in the concrete form of engaged human relations with 'empathy', while laissez faire multiculturalism, aggressive assimilation or 'culturalism' exceptions should be avoided.

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The Role of Information and Communications Technologies in Migrants from Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Place Marketing, Place Branding, and Social Media: Perspectives of Municipal Practitioners

Place Marketing, Place Branding, and Social Media: Perspectives of Municipal Practitioners

The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality

Islam in Italy: insights from a Europe-Mediterranean perspective

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