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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"political expression"”.
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Political Expression in Web Defacements
… its origins. This thesis investigates the use of political communication through hacked websites. It is at the same time an exploratory description of the research tools and methods needed to find and retrieve such material. The dissertation frames political expression through hacking as …
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Silent Control: The Ideological Construction in Xi’s Era and the Political Expression from Grassroots
… serve to manufacture and consolidate the party’s political legitimacy. The second half of this thesis investigates the vernacular responses to this top-down propaganda. It argues that grassroots actors have constructed a parallel “micro-structure of resistance” that operates outside the state’s …
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The Deliberative Potential of Social Media: Face Threat and Face Support in Online Political Expression
Engaging in productive political discussion has long been a valued aspect of American democratic life. Due to ease of access and the potential for exposure to diverse views, the Internet and social media may support mediated political talk. Literature on the concept of face and politeness theory …
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Participatory effects of political satire revisited in the age of digital media : the role of hard news, political expression and social media
This study examines the participatory effects of political satire, specifically late-night talk shows, in the age of digital media. Based on the O-S-R-O-R (background Orientation-Stimulus-Reasoning-outcome Orientation-Response) model of communication effects, this study theorizes and tests …
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Protest Beyond Representation: The Vitalism of Digital Protest Art's Political Aesthetics
… polity, we look for the comfort in knowing that political expression can enact change. Protest art, or acts of creative expression intended to resist dominant powers, forces, and structures, models the potential for political expression to create change that is not immediate, direct, or obvious, …
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Lucretian stillness and motion as political metaphors in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… three polarities as analogous and gives them political meaning, with stillness representing political sleepiness and suppression, and motion representing political freedom. Moreover, Ovid accomplishes this by politicizing Lucretius’s naturalistic treatment of stillness and motion. In Chapter …
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Brothers in Motion: Religious Practice, Political Action, and the Mobilization of the Early Muslim Brotherhood
… pious training regimen, scouting programs, political expression, and social welfare projects. I argue that the Muslim Brotherhood was mobilized through al-Banna's revival of traditional Islamic practices concerning the body, reconfigured for the goal not of otherworldly transcendence, but of …
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Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie
This project discusses the cultural and political significance of a number of lyrics by songwriter and political activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. By drawing on both the singer's personal experiences and relevant American history, I lay out how larger political and cultural forces in society …
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Gaming Like a State: Historical Strategy Game Victoria and "Keyboard Politics" in China
… China, where traditional channels for political expression are tightly controlled. Specifically, the study focuses on Victoria, a video game that allows one to "game like a state" in its simulation of the long-nineteenth-century global history. By examining the game design and analyzing …
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The European Union, state of exception and state transformation - Romania, Turkey and ethnic minority politics
… that the modern national sovereignty is the political expression of modern subjectivity and it dominates as such the contemporary discourse of human life, ethnic minorities included, in world politics. The analytical mechanism is grounded in social constructivist theorisations of discourse …
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Complicating the nation: the archival legacies of amateur cine-culture in Ireland (1900-1984)
… culturally relegated form of personal and socio-political expression in Ireland from 1900-1980. Amateur cine-culture and filmmaking have existed in Ireland since the earliest days of cinema, though these efforts are often marginalised in established historical accounts, characterised as minor …
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Navigating Identity and Place: The Role of Displacement Camps in Community Rebuilding and Identity Preservation in Sudan
… resilience, and everyday acts of spatial and political agency. This thesis explores how communities in Kalma have remade space, redefined home, and preserved identity in the face of prolonged uncertainty. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, spatial analysis, and critical urban theory, it …
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“Taco Art” and the End of “The Barrio”: Murals, Community and Politics in Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood
This dissertation examines the political and aesthetic transformation of muralism in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood over more than five decades. Through archival research, interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork, it traces how public art evolved across three overlapping eras: the Social Movement Era, …
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How Do Discussion Heterogeneity and Incivility Affect Opinion Expression and Polarization
… predictors to examine their effects on opinion expression, political polarization and response incivility. It fills a research gap by comparing 2 types of heterogeneity and homogeneity. It integrates group polarization theory in social psychology with empirical studies in communication by …
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Social Media and the Dual Role of Lawyers from Supporting Human Rights to Activism in the 2019 Algerian Hirak
… lawyers, both as legal professionals and political activists, during the 2019 Hirak movement. It pays particular attention to their strategic use of social media. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, the study combines qualitative semi-structured interviews and content analysis with …
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‘The balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities‘: political tensions and religious transitions in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
… climate on the evolving religious and political views of the young Coleridge, and their expression through his published works from 1794-1800. I consider how Coleridge‘s continuing use of religious imagery evolved, following his transition from the established tradition of Dissenting …
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Rapping feminism, rapping the family: hip hop, the Mudawwana, and the monarchy in Morocco
… gender equality, and accepted modes of feminist political engagement in public space. This rapidly shifting sociopolitical landscape has raised questions among Moroccan and international observers alike as to the efficacy of the nation’s protest culture in light of the regime’s cooptive power. …
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The Effect of Political Affiliation or Political Ideology Match/Mismatch Between High School Teachers and Students on Student Academic Outcomes
Background: The current American political divide is expanding to levels unseen in previous decades due to a combination of factors such as increased polarization and mass party sorting. The educational system has been unable to escape the effects of these political divisions, which has led to …
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Lumpen: Vagrancies of a Concept from Marx to Fanon (and on)
… of capital valorization and as a foundation for political action? </p><p>Contemporary engagement with the category of the lumpenproletariat has typically focused on the latter as a symbol of the irreducible autonomy of the political, ignoring the concept’s empirical referent. Separately, a …
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Playing American: race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during the Great War, 1917-1919
… preparedness would be the conformity of opinion, political expression, and outward signs of loyalty. Those who could or would not fit into the newly defined narrow view of proper American citizenship expression found themselves in the dangerous position of being outsiders. Those of German descent …
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