Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2133407
Lyle S. Kaye, L. Hellsten, Laureen McIntyre, B. Hendry
ABSTRACT This study explored male youth’s reflections of their adolescent online gaming experiences including the similarities and differences between trash-talking and cyberbullying. In 2019, qualitative data was gathered from 19 participants ranging in age from 18 to 25 years of age using individual interviews and focus groups. Participants responded to questions about the types of games played, gaming culture, trash-talking and cyberbullying while playing online, and shared their personal gaming experiences. Using male socialization and social norms as theoretical lenses, analysis of the data resulted in three main themes: (1) the complexity of the gaming culture; (2) the role of cyberbullying in online gaming (including three subthemes: what is cyberbullying, how is cyberbullying different than trash-talking, and frequency of cyberbullying); and (3) the role of trash-talking in online gaming (including three subthemes: when talking trash the genre of the game matters, and when talking trash group matters, and why talk trash?). This study provides new insights into the complexity of online gaming culture and norms including the importance of genres of games and sub-cultures, expanding our current understanding of gamers’ perceptions of what cyberbullying is and is not, and the role of trash-talking in gaming.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2133409
E. Macchioni, Claudia Santoni
ABSTRACT The paper presents the results of an online survey carried out by five Italian Universities to investigate the cyber violence phenomenon between young people aged between 19 and 25 (2365 valid questionnaires). The web transforms social relationships because it moves them out of the ‘real’ context and places them in an undefined space–time dimension where, the identity dimension does not pass only through being passive users but active builders of content and relationships. The web is not without risks, including the well-known phenomenon of cyberviolence. The data collected allow us to focus on formal and informal networks (ref. family and school) that young people activate between real and virtual life to cope with the risks and problems arising from the phenomena of cyberviolence. Within the analysis we adopted a gender approach useful to emphasize the different forms of violence that can be characterized by male and female points of view. In the conclusions we also focus on interventions that can be put in place to address this problem by imagining the characteristics of an alliance between institutions (family and school) that could represent a safety network for boys and girls starting from the awareness of the risks that the network can offer.
{"title":"The youth on-line life: risks, violence and support networks","authors":"E. Macchioni, Claudia Santoni","doi":"10.1080/03906701.2022.2133409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2022.2133409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper presents the results of an online survey carried out by five Italian Universities to investigate the cyber violence phenomenon between young people aged between 19 and 25 (2365 valid questionnaires). The web transforms social relationships because it moves them out of the ‘real’ context and places them in an undefined space–time dimension where, the identity dimension does not pass only through being passive users but active builders of content and relationships. The web is not without risks, including the well-known phenomenon of cyberviolence. The data collected allow us to focus on formal and informal networks (ref. family and school) that young people activate between real and virtual life to cope with the risks and problems arising from the phenomena of cyberviolence. Within the analysis we adopted a gender approach useful to emphasize the different forms of violence that can be characterized by male and female points of view. In the conclusions we also focus on interventions that can be put in place to address this problem by imagining the characteristics of an alliance between institutions (family and school) that could represent a safety network for boys and girls starting from the awareness of the risks that the network can offer.","PeriodicalId":46079,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie","volume":"27 1","pages":"463 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80292347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2133404
I. Crespi, L. Hellsten
ABSTRACT In this paper, the authors introduce some of the main aspects of cyberviolence related to digital life, and online experience with a specific focus on young people. Cyberviolence includes violent and calculated actions carried out through electronic tools. In different situations, the perpetrator(s) can be a single person or a group, which deliberately aims to hurt or damage another who cannot defend themselves, often because the victims are initially unaware and unable to manage the problem emotionally and psychologically. Cyber-stalking, revenge porn, hate speech and cyberbullying are just some forms of online violence (cyber-violence). This issue reflects on the problematic issue of cyberviolence from different perspectives including the social, psychological, and educational.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2121118
Gül Ince-Beqo, Maurizio Ambrosini
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the experiences of children of immigrants coming to Italy from Turkey. It does so by using in-depth interviews and looking at how they conceptualize their sense of belonging to their home country and the transnational ties that they maintain in relation to their parents’ experience. The participants in this research grew up in families whose intention was not to remain in Italy but to continue their journey to Germany. Like their parents, the second-generation members also want to build their lives in Germany, however, the meaning attributed to this place is very different. For these young people, Germany and its diasporas offer a source of identity. Put otherwise, in addition to what Germany can offer in terms of services and economic opportunities, they are also attracted to what diasporas can offer: being Turks and Kurds in Germany. By allowing them to reconnect with the cultural memories of their homeland and enjoy the opportunities and rights offered by a developed country, Germany becomes a diasporic homeland in which to plan a future, a place where, to quote one of them, “one feels at home in the heart of Europe”. The idea of a homeland, then, is not only transformed – it is duplicated.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2135190
Michał Cebula
ABSTRACT While the benefits of social capital are well recognized in sociology, less is known about its distribution in a society. The present study therefore examines individual differences in access to resourceful networks, adding new insight into underlying mechanism of social capital accumulation. Building on the recent development in cultural sociology and social network theories, it is hypothesized that people who consume more diverse cultural items (omnivores) have better social capital as they develop a wider range of social contacts. Social capital is also dependent on structural variables: social status and the nature of social ties. These arguments are tested with a survey data collected in Poland in 2017, on a local representative sample of adults aged 18–75 years. The empirical analyses support the hypothesis on the relationship between cultural tastes and social capital and show that access to social resources is intertwined with stratification. Additionally, maintaining relationships with household members usually lowers the overall amount of social capital, while membership in organizations increases it. Contrary to the cultural reproduction argument, there are indications that cultural tastes are more positively related to social capital among lower than higher status groups which ties in with cultural mobility hypothesis.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2114871
M. Maretti, V. Russo, Barbara Lucini
ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of a case study conducted through digital ethnography and textual analysis methods. The thematic focus concerns the role of online communities of practice as resilience tools in the case of emergency and crisis. The origin of this assumption lies in some reflections developed in view of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially given the varied typology of social responses to this crisis. A fundamental aim in this research is the exploration of the dynamics and spontaneous practices of social support that take place today in digital environments. This study uses the theoretical paradigm of community resilience and its interpretative dimensions, such as proactivity and adaptation. The analysis of the online community Noi Denunceremo - Verità e giustizia per le vittime del COVID-19 (We Will Denounce - Truth and Justice for the Victims of COVID-19) indicates the interdisciplinary relevance of pursuing this avenue of research, especially in view of the findings that identify the role of online communities of practice in promoting inclusive and participatory responses to emergencies and crises.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2089612
Festival Godwin Boateng, K. Ofori-Dua, Peter Dwumah, J. B. Forkuor
ABSTRACT The paper bridges the gap in criminological research on the impact of work systems and conditions on working-class drivers’ commitment to road traffic laws in Africa. Drawing on interviews and focus group discussions with ‘Tro-Tro’ drivers in Ghana, the study shows that, while unquestionably concerning, transgressive driving behaviors (e.g. over-speeding, and dangerous overtaking) are necessary for minibus drivers to cope with the adversities structurally embedded in the power relations that surround, structure, and organize their work. This finding belies the long-standing media and policy narrative which attributes the transgressive behaviors to the drivers themselves (e.g. their unruliness and indiscipline). Approaching risky driving practices among minibus drivers against the backdrop of the power relations underlying the sociotechnical commercial passenger transport system in which they operate opens avenues for more effective countermeasures. The paper hopes to stimulate the further application of criminological theories to model and address road transport problems in Africa.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2089613
Jia Gao
ABSTRACT In the past four or so decades, a significant amount of research efforts has been made to analyse the constant and rapid social change taking place in China and the driving dynamics behind the process, resulting in a rich literature on a wide range of issues and aspects related to China’s recent transformations. However, most of such literature is closely related to the research attentions to either political or policy changes and processes or spontaneous and impermanent societal reactions, if not protests and resistances, to changing socio-economic and -political conditions. What has not been sufficiently analysed is how the majority of the population has reacted to the many changes in society over a longer period of time, the inadequacy of which has restricted our understanding of Chinese society, its dynamics and its changing trend to the standpoints of elitists and their opponents. This analytical article seeks to review the existing literature on China’s recent social change and its dynamics, with a focus on the main analytical problems in the literature. To deal with the latter problems, this review is to suggest looking at social changes and dynamics from a stance of competitive social repositionings among the population.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2089614
C. Morgner, Xihuan Hu, Mariko Ikeda, Peeter Selg
ABSTRACT In proposing a new conceptual framework that systematises and comprehends the complex dynamics of cultural heritage politics in China, the study takes its inspiration from Chinese scholars who have explored the relevance of Guanxi beyond its immediate business context. While current discourse theory acknowledges that heritage-making entails complex relationships that structure this making, there is as yet no systematic theoretical account of how these relationships co-exist, mediate and transform heritage-making. In developing a relational sociological framework based on the work of John Dewey, the analysis of digital heritage-making includes a case study of Nüshu, the dominant language and culture in villages on the southwestern frontier of China’s Hunan Province. Using netnography, the study analyses a range of online accounts and websites that form part of the heritage-making process. Drawing on rich digital material that includes online competitions, virtual conversations or comments and digital certificates, the findings highlight the need for a more dynamic relational perspective that acknowledges the mutuality of heritage producers and the process of heritage-making. The findings contribute to a sociological account of heritage-making in China and to a more generalist theory of relational sociology.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2064666
Luisa De Vita, T. Mazali, Giovanna Campanella
ABSTRACT Before the pandemic, Italy was one of the European countries with the lowest numbers of remote workers, both in the form of tele working and smart working based upon digital mobile technologies. In addition to increasing remote working to 40% in Italy, the pandemic has also led to a noticeable rise in the number of women working from home. This change presents a valuable opportunity to redefine the ways, times, and mechanisms of conducting work. However, it also needs to be assessed more closely in relation to gender impacts. While, on the one hand, evaluations on smart working during the pandemic must necessarily consider the extraordinary emergency conditions in which it has come to be, on the other, its criticalities have primarily affected women. With the aim to analyse the differential impacts of smart working, this paper discusses the results of a web survey conducted during the first lockdown in Italy, involving a total of 470 women working remotely from home. The results of the research are particularly interesting and appear to indicate at least three significant spheres for a differential analysis of the impacts: burden of care; availability of space/equipment, and skills.
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