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Social Media and Society: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 0 views

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  • angiescott13 on 13 Oct 14
     
    Social media sites have taken over our lives. It's hard to even imagine that 10 years ago there was no Facebook or Twitter! 15 years ago people were actually waiting to hear from each other because even email wasn't that common. How did social media actually influenced our life and the society in general?
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Psychologist: Social Media Causing A 'Distancing Phenomena' To Take Place - 0 views

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  • angiescott13 on 13 Oct 14
     
    WASHINGTON (WNEW) - With over 73 percent of online adults now using a social networking site, social media has dramatically impacted the world in both positive and negative ways. It has left many people to wonder how and if social media can mentally affect people.
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Rise With Us to Choose Meaningful Media - 0 views

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  • angiescott13 on 13 Oct 14
     
    Posted: "Is media good or bad for us?" I am asked when I introduce myself as a media psychologist. It reminds me of my son who asked: "Mommy, is this world good or bad?" "It is what you make it to be," I said. "Then I want to make it good," was his reply.
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Lead With Impact and Purpose: Create Positive Energy in the Workplace and Your Communit... - 0 views

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  • angiescott13 on 13 Oct 14
     
    When you've joined the ranks of the "rich and famous," remember that your commitment to being a good corporate citizen is what has set you far apart from those who remain unfulfilled through just accumulating....
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When Social Kills | David Sable - 0 views

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  • angiescott13 on 12 Oct 14
     
    My fear is that we are beginning to look at our personal technology as a totem. The kind of totem that people once thought (and some still do) protected them from bullets or arrows or bears -- bottom line: an unnatural death....
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Effects of positive youth development programs on school, family, and community systems... - 0 views

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  • abouier on 12 Oct 14
     
    A review of efforts at social system change in 526 universal competence-promotion outcome studies indicated that 64% of the interventions attempted some type of microsystemic or mesosystemic change in
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Can community gardens and farmers' markets relieve food desert problems? A study of Edm... - 0 views

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  • that neighborhoods that have poor access to supermarkets also tend to have limited access to community gardens.
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      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      Even though the goal of gardens it to provide healthy, nutritious and fresh food for people who live in neighborhoods that are food desert, the location of the community garden can not be access by all that need it.
  • The term “food desert” has frequently been used to describe situations in which consumers lack access to affordable nutritious food, typically a populated low-income area with limited access to full-service supermarkets
    • sconzy
      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      Food desert is referred to as low income communities in which its people don't have easy accessibility to healthy and fresh food to grocery stores.
  • considered low income and high population density as indicators of high need. In addition, we introduced low car access as an indicator of the challenge of getting access to healthy food.
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  • Our results for the case of Edmonton show that community gardens and farmers' markets can help increase fresh food access and relieve food desert problems to a certain extent
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Developing 'community' in community gardens.: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      "community gardens have positive community building outcomes, creating a variety of benefits for both individuals and communities" (p. 555 para. 1) Community gardens does not benefit just an individual because of the food it brings forth but also helps make a better community. It increases social capital with the community, skills and training. 
    • sconzy
      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      Activities such as growing, cooking and eating of food are all sociable and allow people of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds s to interact informally" (p. 565, para 1)  Urban gardening can bring people from various cultures and social circumstances together. It promotes a sense of unity and togetherness among people that live in urban environments.
    • sconzy
      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      " The local health authority valued the community  garden as a health promotion resource" (p. 564 para. 2) Community garden does not only produce fresh and nutritious but also help reduce stresses that can impact people' s health.
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15575330809489660 - 0 views

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      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      'It provides opportunities for everyone involved to develop skills in leadership,  community organizing, cultural competency, program planning, implementation, and  evaluation" (para. 3) Having community gardens helps community member to interact with each other. It builds relationship among neighbors and also help individual develop skills like leadership, interpersonal and working in teams. Also it helps individual learn about different culture. Also it becomes a network.
    • sconzy
      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      "addressing the need of green spaces and appearance; and decreased crime in urban neighborhoods" (para. 1) Research have shown that urban agriculture can help reduce crime rates within urban communities because people become familiar with each other and strangers and people new society.
    • sconzy
      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      "the public health benefits of urban agriculture as providing food security, personal Wellness, community betterment, and environmental health"  "provide a more livable physical environment through control of temperature, noise and pollution; create a positive community image" (para. 2) Community garden is more than a piece of land or space that provides foods. In addition to it providing food security it also provides fresh and healthy food for people who live in urban cities.  It can also help create a healthy environment because plants filter the air which will reduce air pollution 
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