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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"political activism"”.
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Contestational design : innovation for political activism
… aim is promote particular agendas in contested political arenas. I propose a framework for analyzing contestational design processes, which I then apply to two initiatives that developed communications infrastructure for activist groups. The first case study is TXTmob, an SMS-broadcast system …
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The intersection of political activism and brand advertising
… of Missouri. This document explores the use of political activism in brand advertising, defined broadly as brand promotions that take stances on social-political issues that align with the brand's consumers and stakeholders. Research follows a qualitative visual analysis methodology in analyzing …
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Libertinism, Political Activism and Religious Conservatism: Some Correlates of Anomie
… with are libertinism, religious conservatism, political activism, personal anomie, systemic anomie, and probusiness. These are viewed from the perspective that the attitudes and opinions held by the students will influence their behavior. Specifically, this perspective views feelings of anomie …
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Identity, Agency, and Emotion: Political Activism Among Anti-War Military Veterans
… of healing come together in the experience of activism. Using an interpretive approach, I employ in-depth interviews and observation derived primarily from one local chapter, and visual and textual analysis of newspaper articles, organization documents, and video footage of IVAW actions …
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Toward Gaining Knowledge of Young Adult Black Males' Perceptions of Political Activism
… knowledge and understanding of perceptions of political activities, including the influence of education policies, by young adult Black males. There is a gap in our understanding of the formation of perceptions and attitudes. The purpose of this study is to gain a perspective of the perceptions …
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The social media revolution and political activism. A case study of Zimbabwe
… shape voter decision-making and consolidate its political messaging. In contrast, the CCC and other progressive forces, constrained by state repression, adopted alternative strategies that heavily relied on social media platforms to bypass censorship and engage with the electorate. The findings …
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The Chicano Mural Movement of the Southwest: Populist Public Art and Chicano Political Activism
This work examines an art movement that was a direct outgrowth of a populist civil rights movement of the late 1960’s in the Southwest United States. This art, the Chicano Murals created as part of el Movimiento in San Diego, California was intended primarily as a didactic communication medium to …
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The right to be heard' : Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis political activism, 1922-1946
… have become increasingly focussed on Native political activism in Canada. This has brought greater understanding to Native political issues and a degree of legitimization to Native political activism. Despite historians’ interest in Native politics, however, some general weaknesses remain …
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The Effects of Settlement Policy on Refugee Political Activism: Sudanese Refugees in Australia and the US
… motivation has resulted in much transnational political activism on their part. In Australia, Sudanese refugees have concentrated primarily on domestic political and social integration. Why? In this project I examine the possible causes of this difference, including the institutions, the …
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Making sense of political activism : life narratives of political activists from the South African liberation movement
… personal and social construction of meaning that political activists who have been involved in the South African liberation movement attribute to their lives. It examines the lives of a group of activists who were situated at the heart of the anti- apartheid movement for more than four decades. …
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The relationship between cognitive orientation, media usage, political activism, and political deviance from the perspective of context theory.
… between media usage, cognitive orientation, political activism, and political deviance. The present study extended upon the model by including a behavioural aspect, namely, political activism. Subjects for the study consisted of 120 undergraduate Psychology students at the University of the …
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Blackshirts and White Wigs: Reflections on Public Order Law and the Political Activism of the British Union of Fascists
… its roots were established in the inter-war political scene. The violence provoked by Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) was one of the stimulating factors behind the enactment of the Public Order Act 1936. This Act significantly strengthened the powers of the police to …
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"Injustice on Their Backs and Justice on Their Minds": Political Activism and the Policing of London's Afro-Caribbean Community, 1945-1993
… thesis explores the development of grassroots political activism within London’s Afro-Caribbean community around the issue of policing from 1945 to 1993. Using material from local community archives, this thesis represents the first attempt at documenting the history of race and policing in …
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The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina
… I arrived into a context radicalized through activism, campaigning, and a heightened level of legal activity in a temporality of post-transitional, pro-human rights. In this symbolic, discursive, and legal space of justice members of H.I.J.O.S. demonstrate why the violent past counts as …
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Student political activism in the Viet Nam conflict : a case study of the evolution of activist student politics in Viet Nam, from independence to the Paris Accords, l954-l973.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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Mbeki's Africanism : the intellectual and political thought of Thabo Mbeki
… examines and analyses the intellectual and political thought of Thabo Mbeki. The study examines Mbeki’s thought throughout his political career from his political activism during the anti-apartheid movement to his rise as major leader in the ANC and the government. The thesis argues that …
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The Internet as an Anchor: A Comparative Analysis Model of Internet Advocacy and Web Site Production in Japan and the Issue of History Textbook Reform
… of the development of the Internet as a tool for political action in Japan by groups and individuals producing web pages on the issue of history textbook reform. Through the analysis of 14 in-depth interviews, a framework is developed for understanding the role the Internet has taken in political …
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Distributed denial of service actions and the challenge of civil disobedience on the Internet
… denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. DDOS actions have been used in online political activism since the early 1990s, though the tactic has recently attracted significant public attention with the actions of Anonymous and Operation Payback in December 2010. Guiding …
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Rhetorical challenges: Critical studies in strategy, tactics, judgment and argument
… to promote rhetorical criticism as a means of political activism; the individual exercises in rhetorical criticism serve the overarching theme that the selection of a course of political action can never be made with confidence, nor is there any rational mechanism by which we can adjudicate …
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