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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Public spheres"”.
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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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The Abstract Ecology of Modern Life: Re-imagining Environments as Public Spheres
… geographically situated populations to become public stewards of their local environments. However, in the developed world the hope for ecological self-government is doubly challenged by the atrophy of the civic spirit and the general apathy of most citizens in the face of environmental …
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The digital divide in South Africa : identifying emerging inequalities in Internet access and online public spheres
… will also be evaluated as a possible online public sphere, which will demonstrate how inclusion of exclusion from public spaces such as MyNews24 may be of previously unrecognised consequence.The third and final part of this thesis will investigate how the digital divide is manifesting in the …
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A content analysis on Facebook group, New Political Forum : South African mobile participation in online public spheres
… meets Poor's (20 05) criteria for an Online Public Sphere, as adapted from Habermasian concepts of the Public Sphere (Habermas, 1976). The study employed content analysis as its methodology to investigate a random sample drawn from all the posts and comments posted to New Political Forum on …
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Enhancing Publicity and Promotion: Applying Gerard Hauser's Theory of Reticulate Public Spheres to Encourage Discourse for Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC)
… (IMC), or the unification of advertising, public relations (PR) and marketing functions, is a widely utilized method for publicizing and promoting products and services in today's market. Although IMC has moved to the forefront by replacing traditional marketing methods, it remains unclear …
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A discourse analysis of social activism and social movements on social media networks: Towards an understanding of the emergence of virtual public spheres
… in South Africa. Drawing from the Habermasian public sphere theory’s dimensions i.e., normative and empirical, this study investigates the different yet key role of the discursive use of Facebook and Twitter by social activist engaged in social movements, and the democratic project, to evaluate …
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Theatre of the contact zone : a quest for a means to nurse split psychic spaces in public spheres through the transformation of dramatic texts into performance texts
This study is a theoretical explication of an idea of a theatre called Theatre of the Contact Zone. Its main feature is the collaboration between the playwright and the director in the transformation of dramatic texts into performance texts. Within the pragmatics of this theatre the playwright's …
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On Globalization and Civil Society: Mediating Spatial Practice in Twenty-first-century Latin America
… and participation within local and global public spheres, I take a more hopeful stance as I explore humanizing instances that transcend victimization through the imagination and creation of alternative social orders that destabilize traditional apparatuses of authority through …
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The Persistence of Resistance and the Emancipatory Power of the Aesthetic: On Negt and Kluge’s Critical Theory
… This motivates the formation of counter- public spheres, i.e., oppositional social movements. Counter-public spheres, nevertheless, are not sufficient to build a ‘global’ subject. This also requires the autonomous reconstitution of the public sphere as a whole, i.e. in the construction of …
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The potential of America's Army, the video game as civilian-military public sphere
… Army gamespace as a US civilian-military public sphere of the Information Age, as assessed through Habermasian theories of democratic communication. Interview fieldwork was carried out in several America's Army game communities including those of real-life military personnel, Christian …
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RHETORICS OF CONSUMPTION: IDENTITY, CONFRONTATION, AND CORPORATIZATION IN THE AMERICAN VEGETARIAN MOVEMENT
… has focused primarily on collective action in public spheres. However, important movement activity also takes place in the private sphere between individuals. Such interactions fall outside of traditional definitions of collective action and are often absent from contemporary social movement …
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Gestão de documentos: percepção de gestores de entidades representativas de duas esferas públicas
… research is consisted of local managers of two public spheres, in which one is State and the other one, Federal. To carry out the research, we used a questionnaire, taking as methodological presupposition quantitative and qualitative analysis, of the descriptive type. In this sense the research …
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Incognitos: Modern Slumming Narratives and the Unmaking of Sexual Identity
… and invisibility in modern U.S. literary public spheres."
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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
… shift during this period, both legally and in public meaning, towards hostis humani generis, the enemies of all mankind, has often been portrayed as both inevitable and orchestrated by European states and authorities. In contrast, this thesis reorientates the history of piracy to settlements at …
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Genderová proměna časopisu Vlasta v roce 1991 a 2010
… Vlasta 1991 and 2010 in terms of private and public spheres. Data are analysed by methods of the grounded theory, as described by Strauss and Corbin. The data from the content analysis shows the...
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Public Subjects: Wayne State, Institutional Texts, And Public Rhetoric
<p>Applying a public sphere approach to Wayne State, I argue that the university has defined itself as a public subject within public debates about race, educational access, and economic development in the city of Detroit, even when such commitments to its local urban public sphere have existed …
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PAPER PEOPLE AND DIGITAL MEMORY: RECREATING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN JAPAN
… and writing on digital platforms establishes public and private spheres in Tokyo, Japan. Based upon findings from a group of students at an international University, I develop new modes of thinking about people and their use of Internet capable devices by exploring the paradoxes present in …
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Saying It Through The Maternal Body: understanding maternal subjectivity through art practice
… intergenerational trauma, which span private and public spheres. The methodology research in action has been developed through the use of the „observer-participant? position, as well as the methods of persona and performative acts. Installation has been developed as a shared space, where traumatic …
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
… dividing secular and sacred, private and public spheres, in order to restore this sense of complexity and open up new avenues of inquiry regarding the imagination of evil in the modern age. Much early modern theodicy, I find, contributed to the constitution of the modern in a negative way, …
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