Social Media and the Good Life: Do They Connect?

There is a growing desire for a better life in Nigeria. Due to the significant economic inequalities and structural gaps among citizens, the elements of a better life vary and are expressed in different ways. This article focuses on Lagos State. The question, therefore, is what constitutes a good life for people living in Lagos? Research on how Lagos residents conceive of a better life is notably scarce. The good life approach and the capability approach are theoretical frameworks that reflect the human capacity to envision a better life. How Lagosians assign meaning to their life experiences and act upon them was examined. A blended conceptualisation approach (‘good life’ and capability approach) effectively helps to assess and ensure the desired good life. This study draws on unstructured in-person interviews and semi-structured virtual interviews with 30 participants, complemented by digital ethnography of social media discussions. Findings show that good health was the most valued component of a 'beta life', followed closely by education, peace of mind, and secure livelihoods. Economic insecurity, unfavourable governance, and external pressures emerged as the main obstacles to achieving these aspirations.

Sem business competition will rapidly encourage every palm sugar manager to have strategic acumen, so that he excels in competing with his competitors or at least is able to survive to run his business. Therefore, palm sugar managers are not only looking for profit, but are also connected with moral values, it is not justified to take maximum profits without regardto the buyer's condition, as Islam emphasizes that in business trading must be honest, trustworthy, fair and also pay attention to The quality of the raw material for palm sugar must be guaranteed to be halal, for the sake of creating human happiness (falah) and a good life. This study aims to analyze the opportunities and development of the palm sugar business in Kandang Mbelang Mandiri Village, Kec. Moonstone, Kab. Southeast Aceh. The respondents of this study were entrepreneurs managing palm sugar in the village of Kandang Mbelang. Research data obtained by observation and interviews were analyzed descriptively using SWOT analysis, strategy matrix to analyze the strategy determined by the respondents. The results of this study indicate that the IFAS value is 1.447320 and the EFAS value is 2.261670. Therefore the solution obtained for the development of the palm sugar business is to promote products such as on social media, have a brand image, innovate the quality of palm sugar products in the future.

BackgroundAxial spondyloarthritis is a chronic inflammatory joint disease, which mainly attacks the pelvis, back, neck and thorax, but peripheral joints can also be affected. This patient group is affected to...

There is a myth that religious people do not like technology, whether it is the Internet, social media, or medical technologies. In fact, religious people’s concerns with many technologies mirror those of nonreligious people. As for social media, for instance, religious people fear what these technologies can do to relationships. And yet religious people support these technologies for the ways they can grow, strengthen, and connect communities of faith. While religious people are not unique in their concerns about many technologies, there are a few that concern religious people, in particular: reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs), in vitro fertilization (IVF), and human embryonic stem-cell (hESC) research. Biomedical technologies, specifically those related to “human enhancement,” tend to intersect directly with faith and can cause tension with religious groups. In other words, people of faith have theological concerns about these technologies because they seem to have implications for who God is and who human beings are and what it means to have a good life.

Paradoxes of white moral experience

Asianfail examines literary and filmic works by contemporary Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that deal with failure and unhappiness. While the hashtag #Asianfail pokes fun at cultural stereotypes of Asians on social media, the myth of the model minority has serious negative consequences for many young people who feel pressure and anxiety when they do not succeed in professional careers. This book looks at how novelists, such as Ruth Ozeki, Madeleine Thien, Alex Gilvarry, and lê thi diem thúy reveal the "cruel optimism" that characterizes ordinary existence for many people in the 21st century. Films such as The Debut, Red Doors,and Saving Face query immigrant aspirations of the older generation and the feasibility of the American dream. The protagonists in the graphic novels of Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, Keshni Kashyap and Mari Araki express their ugly and painful feelings as they grow up, while Jan Wong and Catherine Hernandez grapple with work and stress-related depression. In Linda Ohama's Obaachan's Garden and Catherine Hernandez' performance, even the aged feel precarity and are burdened with secrets of the past. These works interrogate and expose the limits of our neoliberal notions of the good life and happiness.

The development of information technology is growing very rapidly so it can meet a variety of activities and human needs. Android is able to provide the effectiveness of the good life for humans. In addition to the Android, someone is able to create something useful. Android is now becoming a very popular program in the world has many advantages. The programs in Android provide a variety of interesting applications for learning, education, social media, games, information and so forth. 
 Traditional games themselves are often called folk games this is a game that has been around since the days of our ancestors, which then passed down from generation to generation, like the traditional game of “Engklek” that often played by the children in rural areas. In line with the developments of science and technology traditional game is successfully combined with games thst appear on Takeshi Castle which is death pool, and also can be played on smartphones, especially with Android system, so it will be very easy to play anytime and anywhere.

Digital social media have an essential role in the promotion of tourist destinations representing image and reputation where the visitant assumes an active role, as a prescriber. Destinations must be included in the social media as part of the strategy by well defining their communication strategies mostly for reaching efficiency. The management of promotion, through communication, is relevant for emerging destinations with a weak positioning but with a great potential, as it is the case of the destinations in the South of Ecuador. The tourism development is a priority for the Ecuadorian Government for economic and social policies, gathered within the PLANDETUR2020 and the National Plan for Good Living. This research project analyses the potential of tourist destinations from several towns located in the South Region (Part of the Region 7) of the country: Loja, Vilcabamba, Malacatos, Saraguro and Catamayo, as well as the Natural Park Podocarpus as a dynamic element. Official Facebook accounts were studied to define the projection of their identity in order to create a brand of image—place and the user interaction with the digital social media.

754 Many thanks to Dipesh Chakrabarty, Geoff Eley, Dana Luciano, Nasser Hussain, Roger Rouse, Adam Thurschwell, and Martha Umphrey for their meticulous engagements, as well as to audiences at Amherst, Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, American Political Science Association, American Studies Association, and Cleveland State. Special nostalgic thanks to Virginia Chang, my original collaborator in the Obesity and Poverty conference (2002). 1. See David Harvey, “The Body as Accumulation Strategy,” Spaces of Hope (Berkeley, 2000), pp. 97–116. To call Harvey polemical is not to devalue his profound contributions to understanding the productive destructiveness of capital; in his work, a polemic is a call for precision, not a way of drowning it out. Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)

The talk will focus on the potential of social media to support commoning relations and the actuality of devastating impacts through post-truth, fake-news populism.

Non-technical summaryThe exponential growth of humanity's resource consumption over the last half-century has led to ecological decline while people's basic needs have not been universally satisfied. The ‘doughnut economy’ and sustainable consumption corridor concepts have gained global attention, providing frameworks in which the maximum allowable environmental impacts and the minimum social levels acceptable to lead a good life establish a guiding pathway to meet human needs whilst remaining within the Earth's carrying capacity. We apply this thinking to the urban mobility sector in this article in an attempt to formulate a ‘safe and just space’ for urban mobility.Technical summaryThe theoretical and broad application of the ‘doughnut economy’ and sustainable consumption corridor concepts are lacking in implementation due to a limited understanding of sectoral thresholds. This study highlights the weakness of sustainable urban mobility indicator studies which often lack connections to ecological ceilings and social foundations and, thus, lack the ability to show if a mobility system is intergenerationally sustainable or not. Therefore, this study aims to bridge this knowledge gap and develop a mobility sector-focused sustainable consumption corridor. It does so by using a collection of concepts and associated indicators ranging from sustainable urban mobility, sustainable consumption corridors, ecological thresholds, needs theory and mobility social impacts to mobility poverty. The output of this study is an initial design of a mobility-focused sustainable consumption corridor with suggested themes and indicators to measure the relative performance of a region in relation to the material dimensions of the corridor accompanied by a discussion surrounding spatial, temporal and sectoral corridor-defining thresholds. This work provides a novel first step in the direction of sector-based sustainable consumption corridors which can aid in providing a transformational alternative to the status quo through the implementation of safe and just sectors.Social media summaryThis article applies the ‘doughnut economy’ and sustainable consumption corridors to the urban mobility sector. It provides a framework for evaluating urban mobility systems in terms of their ecological impacts (the ‘ecological ceiling’) and providing for human needs (the ‘social floor’), and for defining a ‘safe and just space for urban mobility’.

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVNewsNEXTAVOIDING FRANKENSTEINEfforts are under way to mitigate the risk that good LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH could be put to bad useBRITT E. ERICKSONView Author Information C&EN WASHINGTONCite this: Chem. Eng. News 2010, 88, 43, 35–37Publication Date (Print):October 25, 2010Publication History Published online27 March 2011Published inissue 25 October 2010https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-v088n043.p035Copyright © 2010 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYArticle Views14Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (1 MB) SUBJECTS:Biofuels,Genetics,Lipids,Pharmaceuticals Get e-Alerts