Analysis of social innovation on social networking services

ABSTRACT

Social network services are allowing more social connectivity and making possible sharing information and knowledge of a different nature. This article analyses if social workers related to active social policies from Malaga province (Spain) are using social network services to share information and knowledge and if there is a mirror between online and offline relationships. Since it is an experimental model, through virtual ethnography and through social network analysis methodology, we observed the presence, connectivity and analysed the structure of relationships that keep 235 professionals from 52 organizations in Facebook®. Moreover, the model uses the statistical technique of modularity for detecting online communities, which are compared with distribution of professionals in their organizations. Results show how social network services applied to social intervention are massively and frequently used by professionals. On the other hand, the detected communities reflect existence of analogy between online and offline relationships. The online structure shows a high degree of cohesion and how certain professionals have higher capacity of influence and diffusion depending on position in the online structure. It argues about the opportunity to incorporate social network services towards social intervention as a manner of social innovation to improve cooperation and diffusion of information and knowledge.     

Suburban road-closures and the ruinous landscapes of privilege in Johannesburg

In this article we trace the emergence of road-closures – i.e. the barricading by local residents of public roads ostensibly in response to crime – in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg in the decade after apartheid. We argue that road-closures manifest an attempt at material “fixing” an urban order of privilege, even as privilege and inequality is increasingly “deterritorialised” in the city of the global South. While conventionally theorised as part of a broader global trend towards the privatisation and securitisation of urban space, we demonstrate that road-closures contain qualitatively different expectations of the urban order to e.g. private gated communities. Whereas gated communities are premised on and driven by a political economy of self-exclusion from urban life, road-closures simultaneously resist and prefigure this “deterritorialised” reordering of privilege in the post-apartheid city. Based on archival research in local community newspapers over a 10-year period between and 2004 (the high-water mark of the so-called road-closure “debates”), we trace shifting discourses about road closures and the city: from anxieties about crime and loss of privilege, to fantasies of abandonment, to the assertion (and rupture) of a mythical suburban utopia. Drawing on a literature on ruins as the material effects of a past order manifest in the urban order of the present, we assert that despite anxieties about the loss of privilege, these enclosed neighbourhoods remain spaces of extreme privilege, now implicated into an emergent geography in which old and new spaces of privilege overlap to reinforce spatial inequalities in post-apartheid Johannesburg.     

新常态下推进"撤村建居"的探索与思考

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异地安置羌民的“第一个羌历年”——四川省邛崃市南宝山木梯村羌历年田野调查报告

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张之洞治鄂论

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解放战争爆发的政治学分析

1946年解放战争的爆发是由于国民党政府当时的刻板、僵硬的政治体制,是国民党政府未能建立一个能够适应不断变化的政治参政模式体制的必然结果。由于国民党政府无法为当时新的社会力量、新的上层分子提供参与政治的渠道和参与政治体系的机会,而当时被排斥于政治之外的社会力量、上层分子又具有参与政治的强烈愿望,这种政治体制和社会力量两种因素一但碰到一起,革命就会爆发。     

建设社会主义新农村诸问题的思考

建设社会主义新农村,是我们党立足农村实际作出的重大选择,是全面落实科学发展观、统筹城乡经济发展、构建和谐社会的必然要求,充分体现了党和政府对“三农”问题的高度重视。建设社会主义新农村是一个艰巨而长期的任务,必须科学规划,充分认识其重大意义,遵循其基本原则,正确处理好相关关系,提供有效保障,才能扎实稳步地推进。     

中国食用农产品安全生产面临的新挑战及其对策

中国食用农产品安全生产面临的新挑战,既包括农业生产环境的恶化趋势、高产与优质的不可兼得、农业生产体系的先天病态化、现行标准的模糊执行等仍较严重的内忧,又包括农业发展的对外依赖性风险、农业体系的世界边缘化风险、国外转基因产品的持续流入、外来生物的不断入侵等日益突出的外患,必须有的放矢地采取坚持实施可持续发展战略,切实搞好农村环境保护,精心搞好综合促动,认真落实农业清洁生产,扎实推进农业标准化升级,积极构筑农业创新体系,尽快健全重大疫病、虫害快速扑灭机制,加紧完善全程监测预警系统等行之有效的应对方略。     

湖湘文化与刘少奇关于新四军发展的韬略思想

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