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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Public discussion"”.
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"Talking About Down There": The Development of a Public Discussion of Cervical Cancer in the Twentieth Century
… to understand how, when and in what forms did a public discussion of cervical cancer prevention develop in late twentieth century Canada. Cervical cancer is significant in terms of its place in disease history. When discovered in the pre-cancerous stage, cervical cancer is quite preventable. …
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Using text mining and other big data analytics to analyze public discussion of novel food technologies, using cultured meat as an example
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Sina Weibo and its political implications: a case study of the Zhou Yongkang incident
… have the potential to construct a unique online public sphere and contribute to a much deeper social change. However, social media and its social and political implications in such a populous developing country with 710 million Internet users have not been thoroughly addressed due to the …
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Exploring Irish Women's Experiences of Social Climate Around Abortion After the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment
… there was a highly visible campaign for, and public discussion around, legalized abortion. The purpose of this research was to explore whether the campaign for Repeal, and the ensuing shift in abortion discourses, changed the social climate around abortion in Ireland. I conducted interviews …
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The language of sovereignty: Lucien Bouchard and the separatist movement in Quebec
… the Premier plays a vital role in relevant public discussion. The unique aspect in this case is the bilingual component to the debate on sovereignty; separatist appeals must be made to both English-speaking and French-speaking audiences Johannesen's (1975) ethical evaluative criteria for …
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Normative Stories of the Formative Moment : Construction of Estonian National Identity in Postimees during the EU Accession Process
… number of people and then expands into the wider public. Last but not least, this formative moment can be seen as a disciplining sociocultural practice. Here a link between normative public discussion and critical public opinion towards the EU during country s accession process can be drawn. Even …
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Socio-Kinetics : visualizing impressions of people behavior through motion
Online public discussion spaces such as Usenet newsgroups are rich social environments. The social dynamics within the community are not obvious upon looking at the strings of text-based content. Only a careful reading of the threads allows the viewer to discern complexities and nuances of social …
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The face of the German house : modernization and cultural anxiety in twentieth-century architectural photographs
… were addressed within the contested space of public discussion, and that these photographs helped produce the political and cultural changes driving major developments in German architecture and urbanism since the 1920s. My study explores the history of the representational and disciplinary …
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Framing a Kidnapping: Frame Convergence between Online Newspaper Coverage and Reader Discussion Posts of Three Kidnapped Romanian Journalists
… 2,941 of their subsequent online reader discussion posts were content analyzed using the same categories as the news stories to serve as a point of comparison between media reports and public discussion about this bizarre case. Results support evidence of generic media framing and extend …
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Narrative battle: A critical discourse analysis of China and the US's news coverage on COVID-19 origin-tracing
… origin of Covid-19 has been a subject of intense public discussion since early 2020, with different countries such as China and the US engaging in propaganda over which laboratory was responsible for the virus's leak. This narrative battle has not only been fought on the basis of scientific …
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An Equity Council and the Struggle to Transform a School District
… achievement gaps between student populations in public schools. Some research suggests that parents and community members can help hold schools accountable for meeting academic and other goals. The Equity Council serves in an advisory role to the Wilson County school board in a district in the …
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"I Don't Want to Hurt Anyone's Feelings": Using Race as a Writing Prompt in First Year Writing
… Hairston debate in the early 1990s opened up a public discussion of how FYC should be taught. I am arguing that this debate was never fully resolved. Instead of using this historical moment in our field to discuss how topics impact FYC instruction, the use of topics has continued to be …
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Factors in the prevention of collisions at sea
… been the subject of lengthy and sometimes heated public discussion. Many suggestions, at various levels of practicality, have been made for amending the regulations both by individuals and by committees. Two features make an assessment of the discussion difficult. Firstly, the sheer mass of …
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Sharp edges of the horizon: a fissure between “openness” and “emptiness” on the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin
… terrain. By offering spaces for collective and public discussion, these artistic actions and temporary installations cultivate the continuance of the strong civic engagement that opened Tempelhof as a park and has kept it open. This thesis problematizes discourses that render the park space as …
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New priorities for old roads : re-thinking roadway preservation
… bicycle and transit accommodation was ignored. Public offense at this approach to road-building led to new policies and practices for more open, locally-based decision-making. Road construction is now subject to a higher level of scrutiny, yet investment is preserving existing roads is assumed …
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Fear and Fortune: Robbery in London in the Late Eighteenth Century
Public representation of highwaymen and footpads in the press spawned a climate of fear in London. Descriptions of the violence that highwaymen and footpads employed in the course of their crimes generated this fear. Violence set them apart from other non- or less-violent thefts that occurred in …
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Birthers, Hand Signals, and Spirit Cooking: The Impact of Political Fake News Content on Facebook Engagement during the 2016 Presidential Election
Throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential election, public debate and media coverage was shaped by so called "fake news" – news articles which were intentionally false, and designed to influence opinion and policy. Although fake news itself is not a new concept, the way in which it was covered, and the …
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Engaging Vernacular Voices: Exploring Online Public Spheres of Discourse for Everyday Citizens
… the ways in which ordinary citizens engage in public discourse. This work is guided by what Michael Schudson calls the triumph of democratic sensibilities--the expectation that everybody owns public life. A politically active citizenry is, therefore, vital to a healthy democracy. Further, this …
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Improving the transparency of government requests for user data from ICT companies
… their tarnished reputations and encourage public discussion, several companies began to see an incentive in publishing 'transparency reports', providing statistics on user data requested by the government. Since then, publishing these reports has become a norm in the industry but the …
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