The Farm Wife Mystery School: Women's use of social media in the contemporary North American urban homestead movement
| العنوان: | The Farm Wife Mystery School: Women's use of social media in the contemporary North American urban homestead movement |
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| المؤلفون: | Antonia Smith |
| المصدر: | Studies in the Education of Adults. 47:142-159 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Middle class, Food security, Sociology and Political Science, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, 050301 education, 050801 communication & media studies, Context (language use), Informal education, Online community, Education, 0508 media and communications, Community of practice, Social media, Sociology, Social science, 0503 education, media_common, Social movement |
| الوصف: | Within the larger North American food security movement, self-professed ‘urban homesteaders’ have been tearing up their backyard lawns to plant vegetable gardens and install chicken coops in search of greater self-sufficiency and independence from industrial agriculture and the corporate food chain. Participants are most often white, middle-class professionals who have no previous experience in food production or preservation and they turn to the internet and social media for support and instruction. This article considers the online community created by the urban homesteading movement as a so-called community of practice, an educational space where adult learners never meet face-to-face, but where significant informal, self-directed learning is taking place. Women's urban homesteading blogs are examined in the context of social movement learning to determine whether the use of social media as an educational and community-building tool is aiding women in furthering their food security goals. Women... |
| تدمد: | 1478-9833 0266-0830 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::68da4d5977eec49f4d7b0240f530b5ec https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2015.11661681 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........68da4d5977eec49f4d7b0240f530b5ec |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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