Social work and netnography: The case of Spain and generic drugs

García, Miguel del Fresno; Peláez, Antonio López

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“…Para ello existen metodologías emergentes como la netnografía (del Fresno, 2011b;del Fresno & López 2014), una propuesta entre la sociología y la antropología que responde a la necesidad de aproximaciones interdisciplinares para aunar estudio de la estructura y acceso a los significados.…”

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Unveiling climates of opinion through Social Media Mining and Social Network Analysis in Twitter. The case of Common Core State Standards

García

Daly

Supovitz

2015

redes

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ResumenLos cambios derivados de la innovación tecnológica gracias a Internet y sus medios sociales están modificando la estructura de las relaciones interpersonales. El Social Media Mining (SMM) es el proceso de extraer, almacenar, representar, visualizar y analizar datos masivos generados por los usuarios con el objetivo de descubrir patrones significativos a partir de las interacciones sociales en los medios sociales de Internet. La intersección del Análisis de Redes Sociales (ARS) y SMM, en este caso Twitter por medio de sus conexiones explícitas significativas, permite hacer visible lo que hasta ahora permanecía invisible: la estructura en red de climas de opinión y la identificación de aquellos nodos o superhubs que tienen una influencia social desproporcionada en su red. Se presenta el análisis del clima de opinión en Twitter alrededor de los Common Core State Standards (CCSS), uno de las reformas educativas más ambiciosos de los últimos 50 años en EEUU. Palabras clave:Minería social media-Medios sociales-Twitter-Análisis de redes sociales-ARS-Common Core State Standards. AbstractThe changes resulting from technological innovation through the Internet and social media are modifying the structure of interpersonal relationships. Social media mining (SMM) is the process of extracting, storing, representing, visualising, and analyzing massive amounts of user generated data in order to uncover meaningful patterns from interactions within social media. The intersection of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and SMM, in this case with Twitter, allows the visualization of what was previously invisible; the network structure of climates of opinion and the key actors or superhubs within that structure that hold disproportionate social influence. We present an analysis of the climate of opinion on Twitter about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), one of the most ambitious educational reforms over the last 50 years in the US.

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Unveiling climates of opinion through Social Media Mining and Social Network Analysis in Twitter. The case of Common Core State Standards

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2015

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“…Our research has been based upon online data gathered through participative ethnographic observation since 2010, termed 'netnographic' by Kozinets [41] and del Fresno [42]. According to del Fresno and López-Pelaez [43], netnography is (i) naturalistic, (ii) immersive, (iii) descriptive, (iv) multimethod and (v) adaptable. We see these features being at the fore of our own work and it is from within this context that we discuss the Ana websites.…”

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Researching Transgression: Ana as a Youth Subculture in the Age of Digital Ethnography

Crowe

Hoskins

2019

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In this paper, we explore the contribution of material and digital ethnography to providing a deeper understanding of youth subcultures. We provide the context by reviewing some of the research carried out by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) to provide a historical overview of cultural studies and critically appraise how they have drawn on ethnography as a way of deepening our understanding of young people’s subculture. We then draw on digital ethnographic data to explore the lived experiences of Ana girls, that is, young women who advocate anorexic and bulimic behaviours as legitimate lifestyle choices, as they explore and negotiate their identity through online social media platforms with like-minded people. The aim is to demonstrate the potential of longitudinal digital ethnography to provide insights into these girls’ transgressive voices played out through online spaces. In narrating the Ana girls through digital storytelling, we argue that digital ethnography is the only way to access and understand their experiences and as such, has a unique role to play in advancing sociological understanding of their complex lived experiences. Thus, we suggest that digital ethnography provides a unique way of capturing longitudinal data and that this knowledge is important to bring about greater understanding of the challenges facing these girls as they grapple with complex problems. This greater understanding could inform changes to practice needed to better support Ana girls in online spaces.

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“…A basic starting point of any intervention project in the field of social work is to analyze the behavioral patterns of users, their survival strategies and their socio-cultural environment. As a helping profession, the goal of social work is to provide expertise knowledge in order to improve the skills of people, groups and communities so that they can pursue opportunities and cope with problems more successfully (del Fresno and López, 2014;del Fresno, Daly and Supovitz, 2015). To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to identify opinion leaders, the balance and distribution of power, and formal and informal leadership within groups, communities, etc.…”

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Connecting the Disconnected: Social Work and Social Network Analysis. A Methodological Approach to Identifying Network Peer Leaders

García¹

2015

Arbor

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Social network theory and analysis (SNA) offers a useful conceptual framework and a robust set of methods for understanding, analysing, and representing the pattern of social interactions that surround individuals forming an overall network of ties. SNA provides both insights and applications regarding relational structures that may be consequential for individual and collective agency. Despite the fact that both SNA and social work focus on relationships and behaviour, and that each discipline could substantively inform the other, there remains a significant lack of intersection between the two disciplines. In response to this gap, SNA applied to social work can provide additional ways to both diagnose and intervene behaviourally through the following approaches: a) by identifying key players in promoting the dissemination of behavioral changes in networks; b) by segmenting and identifying groups, cliques and communities; c) by supporting behavioural change through social ties surrounding the individual; and d) by aligning and applying specific interventions that draw on mutually interactive processes in terms of individual influences on networks, as well as network influences on individuals. SNA provides social work with an additional lens and set of tools based on the constellation of interactions surrounding individuals, families, groups or communities that supports understanding, diagnosis, and intervention.RESUMEN: La Teoría y Análisis de Redes Sociales (SNA) ofrece un conjunto de métodos de análisis de las interacciones sociales de los seres humanos, que permiten de forma específica investigar las estructuras relacionales y la representación de éstas como redes. SNA proporciona tanto acceso a nuevo conocimiento como la representación de las estructuras relacionales y como éstas pueden ser consecuencia de la acción individual y colectiva. A pesar de que tanto el SNA como el Trabajo Social tienen su foco en las relaciones y el comportamiento, de lo que ambas pueden beneficiarse, es significativa la falta de intersección entre ambas disciplinas. En respuesta a este déficit, el SNA puede ser aplicado al Trabajo Social desde los siguientes enfoques: a) la identificación de individuos claves a la hora de promover la difusión de cambios de comportamiento en redes; b) la segmentación e identificación de grupos, cliques y comunidades; c) el cambio de comportamientos a través de los miembros de la red y no del trabajador social como agente de cambio central; y d) que la intervención orientada al cambio de comportamientos puede ser bidireccional: individuos-red y redindividuos. El SNA aporta al Trabajo Social la base estructuralrelacional para trabajar con individuos, grupos, familias o comunidades basados en patrones de interacción social, traduciendo los conceptos de las Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo Social al servicio del diagnóstico y la intervención en red.

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Social work and netnography: The case of Spain and generic drugs

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

Unveiling climates of opinion through Social Media Mining and Social Network Analysis in Twitter. The case of Common Core State Standards

Unveiling climates of opinion through Social Media Mining and Social Network Analysis in Twitter. The case of Common Core State Standards

Researching Transgression: Ana as a Youth Subculture in the Age of Digital Ethnography

Connecting the Disconnected: Social Work and Social Network Analysis. A Methodological Approach to Identifying Network Peer Leaders

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