Growing Understanding
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Traumatropic Nuclear Communities and Memories View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Kinga Anna Gajda
There are many definitions and ways of understanding the term "community". It can be defined in terms of physical closeness, shared values, mutual obligations, interaction, belonging, solidarity, historical and hereditary permanence. Societies may exist or be in the process of being created, tangible or symbolic. In this text, a community will be defined as an unlimited community of shared physical location and collective experimentation. The starting point for building a sense of this community will be the loss of ontological security, the sense of the existence of threats beyond the area of direct experience. The study focuses on the idea of a traumatropic nuclear community and memories. In order to define them, I use the art by Polish artist, Monika Niweliska.
A Study on the Correlation between Community Capacity and Happiness: An Empirical Study of Indigenous Tribes in Taiwan View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Yuan Shie Hwang
Most of Taiwan's indigenous tribes are scattered in remote mountainous areas, and the aborigines are often regarded as vulnerable groups in need of assistance. This pathological image makes the aborigines often labelled as an unhappy group. Is it really so? This study adopts an empirical quantitative approach to explore the correlation between tribal capacity and happiness, and to provide relevant suggestions for promoting indigenous well-being accordingly. The survey tool of this study is the "tribal capacity" and "individual happiness" scales. The tribal capacity includes static (including 6 aspects) and dynamic (including 5 aspects) capacities, and happiness includes 4 aspects such as psychological well-being, health well-being, life satisfaction and spirituality. This study takes 4 ethnic groups with the largest population among the 16 indigenous groups as the objects, and 4 townships with the largest number of residents of each ethnic group as the research field. Indigenous people over age 20 from 5 tribes of each townships were interviewed, and a total of 491 valid questionnaires were completed. The results show that both tribal static and dynamic capacities have a significant and positive impact on individual happiness. The explanatory contribution of static capacity mainly comes from relational, financial, environmental and cultural aspects; dynamic capacity mainly comes from participation and mobilization aspects. After discussion and analysis, this study puts forward some suggestions such as introducing a "capacity-based" tribal development approach and creating a harmonious relationship between tribal people and groups, which can serve as a reference for tribal governance that promotes indigenous well-being.
Featured Discussing Motherhood in the Social Media - Transnational Approaches: The Relegation of Medicine through Social Media Groups of Motherhood
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Irini Dragasi
The purpose of the paper is to present, analyse, and interpret the problems that govern a mother of the 21st century, as they are projected in the pre-eminent means of communication and expression, through Internet. More specifically, through closed-ended groups on online platform of Facebook, which are formed exclusively for new or experienced mothers, targeting on the transmission of knowledge, concerns, advice, dangers and others, I focus on the constantly increasing denial and criticism of the Medical Science from the frontier stage of conception of the fetus, until the exit of the new-born into the society, 40 days after his birth, going to the final stage, the baptism. References are given from the ancient motif of the Dodecatheism, up to the present social reality, in order to highlight the common motifs inherent in the modern Greek mother (return to natural childbirth, rationalization, supremacy of religious faith over scientific data, etc.), patterns that become visible transnationally. My research was carried out through participatory observation and my inclusion in a variety of groups on social media, a thorough study of medical textbooks related to motherhood, with folk and medical orientations.
