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Showing 1 to 20 of 345 for “"Censorship"”.
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Robust censorship-resistant communication
A key challenge in censorship circumvention is being able to direct legitimate users to redirection proxies while preventing censors, posing as insiders, from discovering their addresses and blocking them. In this thesis, we study how to protect and/or design censorship circumvention systems to …
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Some Controversial Problems Regarding Censorship
… learned in preparing this volume, believes in censorship....No one goes as far as to suggest prohibition of the publication of anything,” writes Walter Daniels, the editor of an anthology published in 1954 concerned with The Censorship of Books. In the same volume an editor of the Washington …
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Censorship and self-censorship in the public high school libraries of Gloucester County, New Jersey
… lack of such books may be a sign that censorship or self-censorship has hindered the development of the collection, thereby robbing students of their freedom to read.</p> <p>The researcher searched the OPACs of thirteen traditional public high schools for thirty-seven predetermined …
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Self-censorship by middle school librarians
… may willingly or unwillingly participate in self-censorship to avoid confrontation. Middle school librarians in New Jersey were surveyed to investigate self-censorship practices. They were asked to share information about their library collection, their library policies and procedures and their …
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Self-censorship in middle school libraries
<p>Self-censorship and the middle school library was the focus of the research contained in this study. The purpose was to investigate, through OPAC searches, the holdings of fifteen New Jersey public middle school library media centers to determine if thirty titles were included in the …
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The Censorship of Hemingway in Spain
Hemingway's works were subjected to censorship in Spain during the Franco regime, and some of them remain partially or completely censored. This dissertation offers translations of all the official Spanish censorship documents corresponding to Hemingway's works. These documents are housed in the …
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STUDENT CENSORSHIP IN THE SOCIAL WORK CLASSROOMS
… being shared in the classrooms because of self-censorship. The potential impact of this study is to increase awareness that there are underrepresented groups within the MSW population, which decreases the diversity in the field of social work.</p>
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Understanding and circumventing censorship on Chinese social media
… research has explored the technology behind the censorship mechanisms, little work has focused on the effects of censorship on online and offline behaviors. In this thesis, I bridge this gap by conducting a mixed-method study to gain a deeper understanding of these effects. The results of the …
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Circumvention of censorship of internet access and publication
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A history of apartheid censorship through the archive
… the world has seen. The history of apartheid censorship has been told using a variety of approaches, focusing on prominent, legislature-defining cases, on experiences of writers or readers affected, or by discussing it as part of a wider system of suppression. This thesis offers another way to …
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Partisanship, Friendship, and Censorship in Online Social Networks
… factors of partisanship, friendship, and censorship in today’s online social networks. We begin in the first chapter with an overview of social media and the key behaviors of the users of these platforms and the platforms themselves that we will be studying. In the second chapter, we …
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Combating Banned Books and Censorship in the English Classroom
Censorship is a societal struggle that treads into all aspects of life and the classroom is no exception. Real-world, lesson teaching novels of all genres and types are being banned and challenged across the country, simply for containing (what is deemed to be) “inappropriate topics”—including …
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Censorship in public libraries: an analysis using gatekeeping theory
One pressing issue in libraries today is the censorship of information. This study applies Kurt Lewin's gatekeeping theory to examine the decision-makers as well as the different pressures and constraints that are at issue in decisions regarding challenges and censorship attempts that occur in …
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Space and censorship in Nadine Gordimer : a literary geography
In South Africa, questions of space and censorship are inseparable. It is impossible to discuss one without discussing the other. The apartheid censors set themselves up as "guardians of the literary", purporting to create a protected space where a particularly South African literature could …
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User-generated censorship : manipulating the maps of social media
… users. This thesis investigates user-generated censorship: an emergent mode of intervention by which users strategically manipulate social media to suppress speech. It shows that the tools designed to help make information more available have been repurposed and reversed to make it less …
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Russian Internet Censorship and Its Future Perspectives in Comparative Context
… their influence to coerce individuals into self-censorship. The findings, including leaked government documents and interviews, provide a basis for concluding that the Russian government has greatly tightened its grip over the internet in recent years. This analysis also suggests governmental …
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