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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Community formation"”.
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American Shinto Community of Practice: Community formation outside original context
… Shinto priest. This thesis looks at the community of practice that surrounds this American shrine and examines how membership is negotiated through action. There are three main practices that form the larger community: language use, rituals, and Aikido. Through participation in these …
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City and island : Dominicans in Lawrence : transnational community formation in a globalizing world
As an exploration of the Dominican immigrant community in Lawrence, Massachusetts, this thesis seeks to understand how the continuing motives for migration, as well as the barriers and opportunities facing Dominicans in Lawrence, depend on a complex intersection of political, economic, cultural, …
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Community Formation in the Spanish Colonial Borderlands: San José de las Huertas, New Mexico
… accounts in order to explore processes of community formation and maintenance as they are revealed through the reciprocal relationship of structure and agency, otherwise known as structuration. Since the performance of social identity is a consequence of community creation, its …
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The institutional framework of community formation: the law and economics of municipal incorporation in California
… is that the legal structure governing the formation of communities will significantly affect (1) the number of cities, and (2) the efficiency with which existing cities provide taxpayer/residents with public goods and services. A conceptual basis for such a presumption is presented. The …
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The Scattered Accounts: Trading Dynamics and Community Formation Among Retail Investors (Sanhu) in China’s Stock Market
The Chinese stock market is known for its volatility. Even after more than three decades of establishment, the Chinese stock market continues to be experimental, representing the socialist state’s attempt to explore a market economy that aligns with its governance. Commentators often attribute this …
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Migration and Community Formation: Narratives of Three Generations of Women Living in A Greek Cypriot Diaspora Community.
… study focuses upon the Greek Cypriot community living in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, a unique; small; rather isolated community. Most of its’ members originate in the same village in Cyprus and were initially involved in the service industry. The ethnography involved narrative interviews; …
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Chocolate to Rainbow City: the dialectics of black and gay community formation in postwar Washington, D.C., 1946-1978
This dissertation historicizes popular assumptions which frame “black” and “gay” as exclusive urban identities and which brand black urban communities as embodiments of economic failure, disorderly heterosexuality and criminality and gay communities as embodiments of economic success, safety, urban …
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Affiliating in crisis : a linguistic perspective on community formation on Twitter after the nuclear accident in Japan in 2011
… proportion of an anxious population sought information, assurance and solidarity. This thesis explores the means and bases for affiliation in two key Twitter communities that formed at this time of crisis – a time of prevailing social uncertainty and heightened anxiety. The communities in …
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The urban economic development impacts of ethnic entrepreneurship : a case study of Dominican entrepreneurs in Lawrence, Massachusetts
… entrepreneurship and the process of ethnic community formation plays in urban economic development. I present my arguments by first establishing a series of conceptual frameworks that show the ways in which ethnic entrepreneurship and the process of ethnic community formation influence …
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Por las propias manos/In our own hands: Resistance and representation on the margins of urban Bolivia
… the relationships between one self-identifying community on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia and the larger systems of institutional power and authority to which that community is subordinated. It examines the practices of representation that are ongoing in the barrio of Villa Sebastian …
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Social Virtual Environments as ‘Third Places’: Co-Designing Socio-Relational Spaces For Autistic Young Adults
… within VRChat, identifying key themes related to community formation, identity exploration, and strategies for navigating social interaction in virtual environments. Studies 2 and 3 examine perspectives from clinicians and intervention professionals across Italy, the United States, and Australia, …
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Exploring The Role of Technology in the Educational Resilience of African American Male Students
… setting, plays in the educational resilience and community formation of African American males. The study revolves around a technology infused, three phase intervention for twenty 9th and 10th graders. The phases are: (a) a workshop that will focus on introductory computer applications, (b) a …
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Becoming “Lesbian” in TV land: Television as an Interlocutor of Queer Consciousness & Community
… questions of queer consciousness and queer community as influenced by television, or other visual media formats. Utilizing intersectional queer perspectives, I draw on José E. Muñoz’s queer longing and queer utopia as the basis of my theoretical framework. Extrapolating from queer …
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My pins are my dreams : Pinterest, collective daydreams, and the aspirational gap
… enables new modes of collection, consumption and community formation. This thesis shows that while collections of commercial images of products are often spaces in which we express consumer desires for products and engage in hedonistic imaginative play, the socially-networked nature of Pinterest …
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Just Between Us Girls: Discursive Spaces from America's First Gay Magazine to the World's Last Website for Queer Women, 1947-2019
… on communication technologies for identity and community formation long before the Web but also that queer women have historically invested in and theorized concepts significant to queer theory, like coming out, the relationship between gender and sexuality, and heteronormativity.</p>
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Developing Biblical Community Through Small Groups Ministry at Beavercreek Baptist Church, Beavercreek, Ohio
ABSTRACT DEVELOPING BIBLICAL COMMUNITY THROUGH SMALL GROUPS MINISTRY AT BEAVERCREEK BAPTIST CHURCH, BEAVERCREEK, OHIO John Alan Heading, D.Ed.Min. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Faculty Supervisor: John David Trentham, Ph.D. This project examines the relationship between an …
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"""The Great Spirit of Solidarity"": The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889--1917"
… The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889--1917 uses the concept of transnationlism to examine the processes of Americanization and working class formation. The study focuses on the way in which working class residents of the multiethnic and …
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Overlapping communities on social networks : a self-falsifiable hierarchical detection algorithm
Community detection is a central topic in network studies, whereas no community detection algorithm can be optimal for all possible networks; thus it is important to identify whether the algorithm is suitable for a given network. We propose a multi-step algorithmic solution scheme for overlapping …
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Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa
… provides an account of the dynamics of political community formation amongst this group of activists, how they generate a shared understanding of the world, how they construct borders of belonging and influence, and how these borders sometimes mirror broader social cleavages in post-apartheid in …
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Twitter and the comic book fan community: Building identities and relationships in 140 characters
… study examined identity construction and community formation within the comic book fan community on the social media website, Twitter It had three objectives It investigated how comic book fans constructed their respective identities on Twitter, explored how fans came to identify with the …
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