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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"Social Space"”.
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Technology and social space beyond the modern episteme
… concerns the relations between technology and social space. It traces, on the one hand, modernist approaches to these questions; but then, on the other hand, attempts to find alternative ways to approach these questions through the work of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Henri …
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Classroom Discourse, Identity, and the Production of Social Space
"Data for this thesis were collected from a school year-long ethnography of a group of 36 high school juniors who were students in a ""school within a school."" The research traced the students and their teachers across their English and history courses. Data collection focused upon audio and …
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Educating 'Gangsters': Social space, informal learning and becoming 'Gang' involved
… particular, this thesis outlines the role that social space plays in such educative processes. This focus enables both a new contribution to knowledge in the field of ‘gang’ studies and understandings of the way social space is used, understood and perceived by those involved in ‘gangs’. Much …
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Geographic and Social Space in Latent Factor Models - Four Essays
Geography, social context, time, and cultural mindset are four (out of many) cornerstones of human interaction. When building statistical models, their consideration is vital: They all cause dependency between individual observations, violating assumptions of independence and exchangeability. While …
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Alevis in Britain: emerging identities in a transnational social space
Since the late 1980s Alevi identity has become increasingly visible in a transnational context. Alevis in Turkey and across various European countries have contributed to this process through active involvement in local, national and cross-border activities. From the 1980s on, mainly Kurdish and …
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Ethnography of 'Herero Mall' (Windhoek) as a post-apartheid social space
… reflector of a society in transition. Urban space as a mixture of complex interrelations and social interactions provides a prism through which a society in transition is illuminated. This transition is captured in social spaces. Yet, there is a dearth of studies focusing on locating the …
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SparkInfo : designing a social space for co-creation of multimedia contents
People can have more insights and social experiences when they collaborate on collecting, revisiting, and utilizing their contents, such as images and videos; however, designing a social space that offers rich co-creation and exploration of multimedia contents remains a challenge. I propose a new …
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EMERGING SOCIAL SPACE: THE ROLE OF FACEBOOK IN AUSTRALASIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INTEGRATION
… communicative behaviour continues to shift to Social Network Sites (SNS), namely Facebook (FB). The current study examines the emerging social space created at the crossroad of these two dynamics. Utilizing a large battery of FB-related and academic integration questions, this study asks four …
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Jesus and land: constructions of sacred and social space in Second Temple Judaism
… study by setting out an understanding of sacred space using social anthropology and social space using the theoretical work of Henri Lefebvre. The importance of space to human experience is highlighted with a view to application to the life of Jesus, understood in light of the social situation of …
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Houses and households in early Icelandic society: geoarchaeology and the interpretation of social space
… of activity areas in individual buildings, and space syntax analysis to facilitate the comparison of houses and the detection of patterns in architectural form. The integration of these different techniques and scales of analysis permits a detailed understanding of how households organised …
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The zoo as paradoxical discourse : a social space of paradoxical construction and deconstruction of knowledge about animals
The thesis focuses on the role of the zoo for people in today's context. It explores the construction, deconstruction or reconstruction of the knowledge and meaning of non-domestic animals. It examines the influence of current animal rights and conservation discourse on the evolution of the zoo's …
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Essays in Social Space: Applications to Chilean Communities on Inter -Sector Social Linkages, Social Capital, and Social Justice
The findings have implications for scholars and public policy design in regional and community development, participatory networks, and urban studies.
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Patterns of international migration in the Santiago Metropolitan Area - Characterization of the immigrants' social space and contributions to the national policy debate
… and the characterization of the immigrants’ social space. This study is oriented towards reducing this deficit. Based on a thorough theoretical discussion, recent research publications and international reports, the study pursues mainly four objectives: The first objective is to identify …
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When the Invisible Punishing Machine is everywhere ... : the mechanism of social control (mass incarceration, institutionalized racism, slavery and repression) in the USA shapes the individual as well as the social space
… is everywhere, creeping into my body, life and spaces, it is like living in a colossal architectural nightmare", this thesis serves first as a testimony of the author's personal stories. Second it illuminates the machine as a punitive and disciplinary system affecting the body in visceral ways …
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Creating a Somali Manhood: Navigating Race, Place, and Power in Seattle, WA
This research focuses on the production of social space by young Somali men who live in low-income communities in south Seattle, Washington. Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, this study examines social interactions in key urban spaces. These spaces include the mosque, …
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