Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1972377
Heather L. Storer, Eva X. Nyerges, Maria Rodriguez
ABSTRACT Social media platforms are essential tools for contributing to feminist social movement building. There has been limited research theorizing how domestic and sexual violence (DV/SA) organizations use social media in their work with youth. Using thematic content analysis, this study interviews DV/SA (n = 35) staff to explore the role of social media in organizational settings. Results indicate that social media is used to advance organizational functionality including publicizing services, fundraising, and youth engagement. There is limited use of movement-oriented hashtags and numerous barriers to social media optimization. This work addresses strategies for expanding social media usage in DV/SA organizations.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1980477
Kimberly A. Bender, D. Littman, A. Dunbar, Madi Boyett, Tara Milligan, Marisa Santarella, Trish Becker-Hafnor
ABSTRACT A rapid emergent media scan, describing 1) how mutual aid emerged as a response to COVID-19 and 2) how digital organizing was used for mutual aid, was conducted using a media bias framework to select media outlets, standardized search terms to identify relevant content, and content analysis to describe themes. A variety of digital tools (e.g., social media, crowdsourcing, video conferencing) were used to coordinate people/resources, raise funds, create connections, and educate others. Findings encourage digital organizing to meet tangible and intangible needs when formal systems fail, while carefully avoiding reifying inequities based on differential access to technology.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1961179
R. Hasson, Kerri Evans, Jennifer L. Siegel
ABSTRACT The Trump administration’s immigration policies, over the course of four years, repeatedly conflicted with social work ethical principles, resulting in family separation and pervasive fear in immigrant communities throughout the US. The ethical principles of the social work profession are reflected in social work education competencies, including engaging in policy practice to advance justice. Using immigration policies as context, this paper provides details of a classroom activity that teaches social work students how to use Twitter to engage in advocacy and policy practice. Guided by experiential learning theory, the classroom activity can inform future pedagogical advancements in social work education.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1982374
P. Stuart, Maria Y. Rodriguez
ABSTRACT This “From the Archives” article provides the text of Eduard C. Lindeman's 1923 article on the farmer's cooperative marketing movement. The article was published in the May, 1923, issue of the Journal of Social Forces, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 447–450.
这篇“来自档案”的文章提供了爱德华·c·林德曼1923年关于农民合作营销运动的文章的文本。这篇文章发表在1923年5月的《社会力量杂志》(Journal of Social Forces)第1卷第1期。4，第447-450页。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1984178
Maria Rodriguez, Heather L. Storer, Jama Shelton
The articles in this special issue illustrate how digital technologies, including social media, have impacted the ways individuals, groups, and communities come together to advocate and effect social change. Individually, these articles showcase key areas where social work scholarship has elevated the potential of digital technologies to spearhead substantive structural, social, and organizational change. Collectively, they offer a gentle nudge for our profession to take a more proactive role in integrating digital technologies in meaningful ways and advocating for digital justice. The social work profession is at a critical crossroads where we can take a proactive role in influencing the ethical use of digital technologies to benefit social good and advance social change, rather than be reactive to the whims of technology companies and developers that thus far, have dictated the rules of digital engagement and participation.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1982802
Tanushree Sarkar, Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Rachel A Hanebutt, Mae Cohen
ABSTRACT Understanding Twitter by individuals and organizations to raise awareness and give voice to the disability community provides important insight into digital discourse around disability. This study examines #disability tweets shared during National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October 2018. Sourced and cleaned, English language tweets (n = 12,963) were analyzed through a mixed-methods approach. As the title of this paper, a tweet from our dataset, suggests, Twitter discourse reflects disability activism and culture as it exists globally. This work highlights important methodological considerations for differentiating the ways individuals and organizations utilize Twitter and highlights the importance of qualitative analysis in this regard.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1963383
Mary L. Ohmer, Jaime M. Booth, Rosta Farzan
Since the 1970s, neighborhoods have adopted various forms of digital technology to encourage community organizing and engagement, particularly through participatory platforms that allow residents to both consume and produce locally relevant information. With the growing popularity of digital and social applications, interest has grown in using digital technology to tackle the challenges facing local communities. Nationwide platforms such as the social networking site Nextdoor or the local news site EveryBlock have drawn considerable attention from the mass media and even local governments as platforms to communicate with and engage citizens. Digital technologies have also been utilized to increase civic engagement (Chen et al., 2012), and mobilize people to solve local issues (Farnham et al., 2015). Digital and social technologies can also foster community engagement, including increasing social capital and connections (Hampton & Wellman, 2003; Kavanaugh & Patterson, 2001). However, these positive outcomes have less frequently benefitted communities of color, particularly young people. Neighborhood mobile apps have sometimes caused harm through racial profiling. Residents in marginalized communities are also impacted by the digital divide (Nielson, 2006) and low-income youth face civic opportunity gaps (Conner & Slattery, 2014). The use of digital technology has also risen in social work, including websites, cell phones, and virtual reality programs designed to understand social problems and develop interventions (Chan & Holosko, 2016). The use of digital technology in assessment and intervention in direct social work practice has led to more targeted services, provided an opportunity for immediate feedback, and allowed social workers to serve individuals who were not previously able to access services (Bender et al., 2014; Berzin et al., 2015; Ramsey & Montgomery, 2014). Despite the promise of using digital technology to improve social work practice, there has been less emphasis on designing mobile and online technology for community social work interventions, particularly engaging youth (Chan & Holosko, 2016). In response, faculty,
自20世纪70年代以来，社区采用了各种形式的数字技术来鼓励社区组织和参与，特别是通过参与式平台，允许居民消费和制作与当地相关的信息。随着数字和社交应用程序的日益普及，人们对使用数字技术来应对当地社区面临的挑战越来越感兴趣。社交网站Nextdoor或当地新闻网站EveryBlock等全国性平台作为与公民沟通和互动的平台，引起了大众媒体甚至地方政府的极大关注。数字技术也被用于增加公民参与（Chen et al.，2012），并动员人们解决当地问题（Farnham et al.，2015）。数字和社交技术也可以促进社区参与，包括增加社会资本和联系（Hampton&Wellman，2003；卡瓦诺和帕特森，2001年）。然而，这些积极的结果很少惠及有色人种社区，尤其是年轻人。邻里移动应用程序有时会因种族貌相而造成伤害。边缘化社区的居民也受到数字鸿沟的影响（Nielson，2006），低收入青年面临公民机会差距（Conner&Slattery，2014）。数字技术在社会工作中的使用也有所增加，包括网站、手机和旨在了解社会问题和制定干预措施的虚拟现实程序（Chan&Holosko，2016）。在评估和干预直接社会工作实践中使用数字技术，带来了更有针对性的服务，提供了即时反馈的机会，并允许社会工作者为以前无法获得服务的个人提供服务（Bender等人，2014；Berzin等人，2015；Ramsey和Montgomery，2014）。尽管有希望使用数字技术来改善社会工作实践，但人们对设计用于社区社会工作干预的移动和在线技术的重视程度较低，尤其是让年轻人参与进来（Chan&Holosko，2016）。作为回应，教员们，
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1938769
Elizabeth Gouin
ABSTRACT Participative research partnerships are a relevant approach for researchers and professionals in planning and architecture as well as for Indigenous communities developing projects coherent with Indigenous planning practices. Yet, research partnerships generally suffer from a lack of theoretical foundations. This scoping review connects relationality – a founding ontological concept in the Indigenous world – to the importance of relational dynamics in partnership projects. I suggest that the coming together of researchers, professionals, and communities occurs in a partnership space, a space of relationality in Indigenous contexts. Partnership authenticity allows for the evaluation of research partnership processes by integrating their factors of success or failure.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1959840
A. Santiago, Richard J. Smith
We write this editorial as the world begins to reopen with the administration of 3.63 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines in more than 214 countries and territories around the globe. At the time of this writing, 1 billion or 12.9% of the world’s population have been fully vaccinated (Our World in Data, 2021). Although these are hopeful developments, we have not quite turned the corner on the pandemic as cases continue to climb. There are more than 191.1 million confirmed cases and 4.1 million deaths worldwide (Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, 2021). The U.S. continues to lead all countries with total confirmed cases and deaths at 34.1 million and 609,000, respectively, but India and Brazil do not trail far behind. Further, countries around the world are bracing for a third, fourth or fifth wave of the pandemic with the spread of highly infectious COVID-19 variants. We also write as the United States nears the 6-month mark of the Biden administration and the country shows fleeting glimpses of recovery from the pandemic and the past four years of political turmoil. While there are signs that recovery may be on the horizon, the country is still reeling from the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and the previous administration on the physical and mental well-being of the population as well as the economic health and vitality of the nation. Nonetheless the unevenness of the economic recovery is marked (CNN Business, n.d.). Despite gains in overall employment, the United States has 7.3 million fewer jobs now than the country had before the start of the pandemic (Congressional Research Services, 2021). The Department of Labor estimates more than 9.5 million U.S. workers lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2021), leading to a record 14.8% unemployment rate in April 2020. Although the overall unemployment rate in June 2021 was markedly lower (5.9%), unemployment remains higher than the pre-COVID rate of 3.5% (Congressional Research Services, 2021). Unemployment continues to be higher among African American and Latino workers – 9.2% and 7.4%, respectively, underscoring the significantly slower jobs recovery experienced by minority workers (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2021). These rates are exacerbated by the anticipated permanent loss of approximately 3 million jobs in the leisure and hospitality as well as retail sectors of the economy where African American and Latino workers are disproportionately employed. The long-term unemployed – those who have been unemployed for six months or more – now total 4.0 million and are 2.9 million more than prior to the pandemic (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2021). JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PRACTICE 2021, VOL. 29, NO. 2, 91–98 https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.1959840
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1935377
Maria V. Wathen, P. L. Decker, C. Weishar
ABSTRACT This study examines how U.S. refugee policy changes from 2014 to 2018 affected the emotional well-being of nonprofit service providers. Participants identified the general political climate, including funding cuts; the Trump administration refugee bans; the unpredictable nature of policy change; and most impactful, negative political rhetoric, as affecting their emotional well-being. Negative effects on emotional well-being included an increase in stress, anger, sadness, despair, depression, helplessness, and caution. Negative rhetoric also impacted professional identities and personal relationships. Positive effects include greater motivation for advocacy. Impact on emotional well-being differed by level of organization at which the participant worked and by organizational characteristics.
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