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It is simply no longer possible to understand coming of age in the inner city without an appreciation of both the face-to-face and online relations that structure neighborhood life. In The Digital Street, Jeffrey Lane takes readers on- and offline with black teenagers navigating Harlem's rapidly-changing streets to examine how digital social media alters neighborhood life in poor, minority communities.

This article makes the case that street life is characterized by its flow online and offline. Such change requires a new way of doing street ethnography that holds great promise for urban and digital scholars alike. I walk through a set of empirical cases drawn from years of participant observation on the ground and in the network with the same set of teenagers in Harlem. The fieldwork modeled also shifts concepts of public space, reworking Elijah Anderson's Code of the Street through digital study and grounding the concept of networked publics in urban ethnography. This article bridges urban and digital approaches to ethnography to keep pace with the social life of the street.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Disclaimer -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- Chapter 1: Medicine and the investigation thereof -- Definition -- The standard of care -- Two broad approaches to medicine -- Allopathic medicine -- Osteopathic medicine -- Investigation -- References -- Chapter 2: Professional ethics -- Hippocratic Oath -- Professional ethics -- Profession -- Ethics -- The Four Principles Approach -- Autonomy -- Beneficence and nonmaleficence -- Justice -- Influencers of unethical behavior

This article introduces the concept of carceral communication to focus attention on the role of communication in mass incarceration's racialized, criminal justice process. To argue that a communication perspective helps explain how individuals, neighborhoods, and prisons are linked together, the article uses publicly available indictments that charged three New York City youth gangs with violent crimes. It identifies three facets of carceral communication to demonstrate how and why mass incarceration is a communicative phenomenon. First, computer-mediated communication (CMC) has become the most sought-after type of criminal evidence because of its visibility and permanence. Second, law enforcement uses the interpersonal communication and neighborhood networks of incarcerated Black men for crime control and surveillance purposes. Third, carceral communication operates as a communication feedback process, in which marginalized, young, Black men under surveillance know they are being watched and respond to that surveillance with resistance that is also subject to criminalization.

Social media connects youth to peers who share shared experiences and support; however, urban gang-involved youth navigate 'the digital street' following a script that may incite violence. Urban gang-involved youth use SNS to brag and insult and make threats a concept known as Internet banging. Recent research suggests Internet banging has resulted in serious injury and homicide. We argue violence may be disseminated in Chicago through social media platforms like Twitter. We examine the Twitter communications of one known female gang member, Gakirah Barnes, during a two week window in which her friend was killed and then weeks later, she was also killed. We explore how street culture is translated online through the conventions of Twitter. We find that a salient script of reciprocal violence within a local network is written online in real time. Those writing this script anticipate, direct, historicize, and mourn neighborhood violence.

Achieving an AIDS-free generation will require the adoption and implementation of critical health policy reforms. However, countries with high HIV burden often have low policy development, advocacy, and monitoring capacity. This lack of capacity may be a significant barrier to achieving the AIDS-free generation goals. This manuscript describes the increased focus on policy development and implementation by the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). It evaluates the curriculum and learning modalities used for two regional policy capacity building workshops organized around the PEPFAR Partnership Framework agreements and the Road Map for Monitoring and Implementing Policy Reforms. A total of 64 participants representing the U.S. Government, partner country governments, and civil society organizations attended the workshops. On average, participants responded that their policy monitoring skills improved and that they felt they were better prepared to monitor policy reforms three months after the workshop. When followed-up regarding utilization of the Road Map action plan, responses were mixed. Reasons cited for not making progress included an inability to meet or a lack of time, personnel, or governmental support. This lack of progress may point to a need for building policy monitoring systems in high HIV burden countries. Because the success of policy reforms cannot be measured by the mere adoption of written policy documents, monitoring the implementation of policy reforms and evaluating their public health impact is essential. In many high HIV burden countries, policy development and monitoring capacity remains weak. This lack of capacity could hinder efforts to achieve the ambitious AIDS-free generation treatment, care and prevention goals. The Road Map appears to be a useful tool for strengthening these critical capacities.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter One When Social Media Data Disappear -- Chapter Two The Needle in the Haystack: Finding Social Bots on Twitter -- Chapter Three Meeting Youth Where They Are: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Social Media Recruitment for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth -- Chapter Four Qualitative Sampling and Internet Research -- Chapter Five Behind the Red Lights: Methods for Investigating the Digital Security and Privacy Experiences of Sex Workers -- Chapter Six Using Unexpected Data to Study Up: Washington Political Journalism (and the Case of the Missing Press Pass) -- Chapter Seven Social Media and Ethnographic Relationships -- Chapter Eight Ethnographic Research with People Experiencing Homelessness in the Digital Age -- Chapter Nine Going Rural: Personal Notes from a Mixed-Methods Project on Digital Media in Remote Communities -- Chapter Ten Stitching Data: A Multimodal Approach to Learning About Independent Artists' Social Media Use -- Chapter Eleven A Measurement Burst Study of Media Use and Well-Being Among Older Adults: Logistically Challenging at Best -- Chapter Twelve Community-Based Intervention Research Strategies: Digital Inclusion for Marginalized Populations -- Contributors -- Index