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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"political engagement"”.
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Political engagement and social networking sites exploring the relationship between social networking sites and political engagement in young adults
… of college age. Due to the increasing number of political figures and political information on SNS, this study analyzes the relationship between SNS and political engagement. Specifically, this study seeks to determine if adults' consumption of political information on SNS leads to higher levels …
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Promoting the political engagement of people with intellectual disabilities
Political participation is a human right. However, people with intellectual disabilities vote significantly less than overall populations. Limited research considers this topic. Improved knowledge could inform recommendations to enable people with intellectual disabilities to access this right. A …
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The civic and political engagement of Latinos in Omaha, Nebraska
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Theatre, Performance and Digital Tools: Modelling New Modes of Political Engagement
… artists use new media tools to facilitate political engagement. The chapters cover a diverse range of performancesfrom interventions in video games to mobile phone walking tours to theatre productions that use social media. In contrast to the dominant narrative of intermedial theatre and …
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School determinants of political engagement and participation among South African 'Born Frees'
… area - to explore school determinants of political engagement and participation among South Africa's first post-apartheid generation, the 'born frees'. I ask whether schools have had an impact on 'born free' students' civic engagement and the likelihood that they will participate in legal …
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Exploration of Communicative Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Engagement of the Korean Diaspora
… ethnic community, social capital, and civic and political engagement. More specifically, the study examined how communicative social capital influences civic and political engagement as well as other factors that influence or inhibit civic and political engagement of the Korean diaspora. Previous …
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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL INFLUENCERS IN NEW DYNAMICS OF YOUTH POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
In recent years, transformations in both political and media landscapes have profoundly reshaped the conditions under which young people engage with politics. The decline of traditional agents of political socialization, alongside the rise of social media as their primary source of information, has …
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Time Spent at University: The Impact of Volunteering on Political Engagement During Degree Study and Beyond
… to the discourse around the challenge of political apathy amongst young people by demonstrating how time spent at university participating in volunteering and other ‘real-world’ learning activities can increase political engagement for participants. The research takes place in an epoch …
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Explaining and predicting suggested relationships between human social capital, citizen political trust, and citizen political engagement
… democracy. Citizens engage in various political activities to elect representation to create policies and programs that may benefit individuals, groups of individuals, and special interests. A citizen’s type of political engagement and level of political engagement may be influenced by …
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James M. Dunn and soul freedom : a paradigm for Baptist political engagement in the public arena.
… embodied and articulated a paradigm for Baptist political engagement in the public arena which was based upon the concept of soul freedom: voluntary uncoerced faith and an unfettered individual conscience before God. Dunn defended soul freedom as the historic Baptist basis of religious liberty …
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The Conceptualization of Gender and Race in Rap Music: Its Impact on the Political Engagement of Black Women
… relationship between rap music and the political engagement of Black women, using theories of Black feminist thought: Intersectionality and hip-hop feminism. Rather than seeking a definitive or binary conclusion, the research examines the complexity of how rap influences cultural …
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The Political Power of Diaspora as External Actors in Armed Civil Conflict: Ethnonationalist Conflict-Generated Diaspora Use of Social Media in Transnational Political Engagement in Homeland Conflict: The Case of Rwanda.
… conflict by exploring the nature of their political engagement on a transnational level using Internet Communication technologies (ICTs), with Rwanda as a case study. Virtual ethnography was chosen as the research methodology to explore the online activities of Rwandan CGD using social …
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The faith and civic engagement scale: Principle components and confirmatory factor analysis
… and Expectations section of the Faith and Civic Engagement (FACE) scale, which identified common themes and thus created a new, more concise measure designed for use by colleges and universities. The new measure generated provides a means for colleges and universities to identify students' …
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Food system resilience contributions by urban agriculture
… indicators of social resilience, including civic engagement, political engagement, social capital, and transformational capacity, that were appropriate for UA site operators and participants. Chapter three comprises original research that is part of a four-pronged transdisciplinary assessment of …
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Factors that influence behavioural intention on political party websites in South Africa
… context of this research is a focus on political party websites and citizen usage behaviour. The background of the study investigates how the role of the party website has risen to growing prominence in the online campaign context due to the transformative nature of the Internet on …
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O lugar da mulher é onde ela quiser: o engajamento político de mulheres com deficiência.
Taking on new directions from the 1970s onwards, political mobilization in defense of the rights of people with disabilities led by these individuals significantly altered the theoretical and political perspective globally. Despite these advancements and the recognized importance of women activists …
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Bringing Zombies Back to Life: An Autoethnographical Exploration of Alienation and Political Dis/Engagement in Emerging Adulthood Within Late-Stage Capitalism
… why certain understandings, or assemblages, of political engagement come to have greater meaning in my life and why other assemblages may be more hidden and thus fail to contribute substantially to the meaning of political in my life. Using immanent, Marxist and post-Marxist theories, as well as …
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Immigrants' Political Suitcases: A Theory of Imported Socialization
… logic motivates attention to childhood political socialization, habitual voting, and a host of other phenomena. Yet, when it comes to studies concerning the political behaviors of immigrants to the United States, the scholarly norm has been to assume that these individuals entered the …
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Passionate Political Talk: Social Networks and the Emotional Impact of Political Discussion
… theory of interpersonal influence in political networks by examining the impact of political talk on emotion. Despite scholarly attention to interpersonal communication in political behavior research, the conflicting findings regarding the impact of political talk on opinion formation …
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