The Stepping into Visibility Model: reflecting on consequences of social media visibility – a Global South perspective

Rega, Isabella; Medrado, Andrea

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2021.1954228

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“…This study uses a qualitative approach. A qualitative approach is a scientific research that aims to understand a phenomenon in a natural social context by prioritizing a process of deep communication interaction between researchers and the phenomenon under study (Rega & Medrado, 2021). The informants in the study were selected according to the criteria that the authors had determined and felt they could meet the research objectives.…”

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Forcing a Cultural Understanding of Communication Technology about Vaccine Information in the Era of Covid Pandemic

Roe

Sarmiati

Martha

2023

Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities

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The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on changing mindsets and daily behavior for merchants at Pasar Raya, Padang City. They are forced to be tech savvy to sell their wares. Previously, they did not care about a number of technology applications. They tend to sell their wares manually, interacting directly with buyers. Not only for selling, technology applications on mobile phones also help merchants a lot, especially vaccine information. This study used a qualitative method by taking a phenomenological approach to see how the experience of merchants in Pasar Raya in utilizing communication technology and updates on Covid-19 vaccine information at Pasar Raya. Interviews were conducted with 10 traditional merchants in Pasar Raya. The results of the study explain that the forced literacy of information and communication technology has become a new culture for merchants in Pasar Raya. Using of this technology is very helpful for merchants to keep up to date information, especially information on Covid-19 and the use of vaccines. Merchants are also connected in What's app Merchant groups to communicate.  

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“…The fourth, as for data collection techniques, using primary and secondary data. Primary data obtained from field observations followed by interviews with merchants (Rega & Medrado, 2021).…”

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Forcing a Cultural Understanding of Communication Technology about Vaccine Information in the Era of Covid Pandemic

Roe

Sarmiati

Martha

2023

Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities

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“…With regard in particular to Global South contexts (see Rega & Medrado, 2021), it was clear that this potential to develop media literacy activity as a more overt and measurable component of Media Action's work needed to be fully informed by the challenge presented by the hardest groups to reach with media literacy being at opposite ends of the spectrum. At the one end are those without safe Access to media literacy, for either economic, technological, educational, or political reasons.…”

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“…Across the visibility threshold (Rega & Medrado, 2021) of capability into consequences, we expect Boubli to represent a media literacy intervention which will continue, sustainably, to impact the Tunisian media ecosystem, youth efficacy, and civic intentionality. However, our findings raise questions about the risk of hegemonic colonisation of "the voice" for young people, especially since responses to our questions about the future of Boubli as an alternative platform were the site of the least consensus.…”

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“…Our analysis of this textual data located the connecting points between the media literacies our participants brought to DA-RE and the digital arts contexts the project's third space provided and identified moments of conversion in these connecting points of literacy into capability. We understand these as liminal spaces, visibility thresholds (Rega & Medrado, 2021) with consequences. Neag and Sefton-Green (2021, p. 17) observe how "forging a new life means not only finding a place to stay but, today, also making a presence visible across the migrant's difficult platforms," whilst Marino (2021, p. 8) observes the complex tension between the technological processing of refugee identities into "data subjects" and technology for social good: "an alternative, techno-mediated framework where the possibility of a counter-hegemonic project around a new idea for social justice for refugees can be imagined.…”

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Beyond Solutionism: Differently Motivating Media Literacy

McDougall

Rega²

2022

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This article discusses three research projects conducted in partnerships in diverse societies. We assess the implications of each project for media literacy’s motivations and intentionality through a theory of change. For the first project, BBC Media Action, we developed the theory of change which frames this article and a media literacy training programme for in-country practitioners to strengthen media ecosystems and support resilience to information disorder. Our second project was Dual Netizenship, a youth-led, intercultural partnership between Tunisia and the UK at the intersection of media literacy, civic agency, and decolonisation. Thirdly, Digital Arts—Refugee Engagement<em> </em>(DA-RE) brought together refugee youth in Bangladesh and Turkey to combine media literacy and digital artivism with civic capability development. The status of media literacy as a conduit for positive change (rather than a solution in itself) was different in each partnership—from the production of counter-script youth-led media to capacity-building for refugee participants in host communities to the situating of “mainstream media” itself as the agent of positive intervention in the ecosystem. Our theory of change situates media literacy as a form of context-bound capability development as opposed to a set of neutral, universal competences. The research that we share here was conducted with “third space” media literacy design principles. In addressing both the positive change initiated by these projects and the tensions and challenges in play in the motivating imperatives of partnerships, the article speaks to the complexity of media literacy in diverse societies.

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