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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Crowd Theory"”.
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Playing the Crowd: Mass Pageantry in Europe and the United States, 1905-1935
… how to reconstitute "peoples" from the "crowds" produced by mass culture, industrialization and political upheaval. Chapter One locates the emergence of mass pageantry at the intersection of two nineteenth-century intellectual currents: the development of "crowd theory" and the growth of …
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Collective Behavior and Campus Public Order Policing: A Qualitative Case Study of Mixed-Issue Campus Disturbances at Three Midwest Public Universities
… agent, the police - through their interface with crowd participants - can influence positive or negative relationships that subsequently impact disturbance outcomes. The research methodology incorporated naturalistic qualitative methods including: (1) one-on-one interviews of 15 campus police …
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American Multitudes: Immunity and Contagion at the Turn of the Century
… sociologist Gustave Le Bon proclaimed the era of crowds upon us, in his influential work, The Crowd. Le Bon's work was translated into English a year later, inspiring a number of similar works by American sociologists, and almost single-handedly creating the discipline of crowd psychology. …
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Nietzsche vs. Canetti- Zwei Anthropologische Systeme Im Vergleich
… certain number of key theoretical terms, namely "crowds," "power," and "metamorphosis." Each of these terms is analyzed for each author and then compared.For Nietzsche's crowd theory, this thesis comes to the conclusion, that it is part of the narrative frame of "Also sprach Zarathustra." Through …
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Power to the People: A Comprehensive Look at Crowdsourcing Initiatives in Cultural Institutions
<p>Today, crowdsourcing has become an integrative approach to completing projects using the help of the general populous. These projects aid museum staff by processing large quantities of data, which otherwise could not be completed due to time and/or staff restraints. Through crowdsourcing, …