Toward new possibilities for library and information science : the use of social media in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike /

The 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike in the USA exemplifies the changing shape of dissent and protest in the digital age. The use of social media has changed the ways such events develop, offering new tools for organizing, strategizing, generating large numbers of participants, and for commu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sikes, Scott (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2023].
Colección:Advances in Librarianship Ser.
Temas:
Libraries > Technological innovations.
Social media and society.
Strikes and lockouts > Libraries > West Virginia.
Public libraries > West Virginia.
Public libraries.
Language Arts & Disciplines > Library & Information Science > General.
Strikes and lockouts > Libraries.
West Virginia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle Page
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Introduction
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Issues of Social Justice in LIS Scholarship and Education
  • Research and the Appalachian Region
  • Aims and Objectives
  • Chapter 1: Mystery and Wonder
  • Higher Education and the Marketplace
  • The Contradictions of My Own Position
  • The Pursuit of Knowledge
  • The Question of Academic Disciplines and the LIS Perspective
  • Dialectical Thinking, Critical Inquiry, and Transcendence
  • A Reflective Journey
  • Chapter 2: The Strike and Issues of Social Media
  • Understanding Collective Action
  • The Decline of Institutions and the Rise of Social Media
  • Appalachian Identity and Resistance
  • Theoretical Implications for the Field of LIS
  • Collective Action and LIS
  • Collective Identity and LIS
  • Chapter 3: Theoretical and Epistemological Frameworks
  • Collective Action and Social Movements
  • Overcoming the Problem of Self-Interest
  • Rationalism, Modernity, and Its Discontents
  • False Dichotomies
  • Meaning in Contradiction: Dialectical Thinking and the Critical Perspective
  • Technology and Social Movements
  • Techno-Centrism and the Modern World
  • Social Media and Contemporary Social Movements
  • Implications for Collective Action
  • Social Media and the Promise of Democracy
  • A Critical Perspective of Social Media and Protest
  • Collective Identity, Place, and Refusal
  • Collective Identity and Social Movements
  • Social Media and Identity
  • Place-Based Identity
  • Imagined Appalachia and Refusal/Resistance
  • Chapter 4: The Puzzle of Academic Research
  • Slaying the Positivist Father
  • A Critical Perspective and the Methodological Conundrum
  • Immanent Transcendence
  • Sociopolitical Positionality
  • Building the Bricolage
  • Using Qualitative and Interpretivist Methods for Critical Inquiry
  • The Spirit of Ethnography
  • Methods of Research
  • Sampling and Procedures
  • Data Analysis
  • Unruly Doubts and Tumultuous Realities
  • Chapter 5: Telling the Story
  • The Importance of Storytelling
  • Assembling the Story
  • Telling the Story
  • Part II: Talking About the Union Can Be Complicated
  • Part III: Caught in the Middle
  • Part IV: It's the Insurance
  • Part V: On Strike
  • Part VI: A Page Went Up on Facebook
  • Part VII: All the Information They Had
  • Part VIII: Where Are You Going to Be?
  • Part IX: 15 Things Could Happen in 10 Minutes
  • Part X: #55Strong
  • Part XI: The Bigger Picture
  • Part XII: It Was About the Kids
  • Processing the Story
  • The Role of Social Media in the Strike
  • The Impact of Social Media on the Strike
  • A Sense of Collective Identity
  • Chapter 6: Beyond Rationalism
  • Social Media and the Strike
  • The Strike as a Successful Failure
  • The Importance of Collective Identity
  • The Transcendent Moment
  • Chapter 7: A Reflective Journey

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