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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"public sphere theory"”.
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Art and counter-publics in Third Way cultural policy
… by Arts Council England, in the commissioning of publicly funded visual art and within culture-led regeneration. Hence visual art production was further instrumentalized for the purposes of marketization and privatization. The practice-based research examines the problems issues and contingencies …
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Standards, Shame, and Outrage: A Rhetorical History of Sexual Assault and Policy Change in the US Military
… military. As rhetoricians continue to embrace public sphere theory, the field has started asking what rhetoric's role is in solving public problems. My research questions were twofold: how do rhetorical processes construct social realities around sexual assault and how have these processes …
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The Latino Public Sphere in Minnesota: Enacting Cultural Citizenship Through Media
… The research examines a segment of the Latino public sphere in Minnesota to examine how Latinos engaged in public deliberation online. Using citizenship and public sphere theory, the research shows how Latinos in the Twin Cities formed enclave and counter publics that aimed to transform …
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SPRING INTO ACTION FOR BLACK WOMEN: EXAMINING THE BLACK LIVES MATTER ORGANIZATION’S TWITTER COVERAGE OF STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK WOMEN
… black women. Relying upon intersectional theory and virtual public sphere theory for theoretical framing, a textual analysis of 825 tweets from @BlkLivesMatter, the organization’s official Twitter account was conducted during May 1st – August 31st, 2015. This period is referred to by …
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Deliberation, Dissent, and Advocacy: A Rhetorical Study of Teachers' Lived Experiences with Education Reform
… same time blamed for the perceived failures of public schools. This dissertation examines the impact of such policies and corresponding representations on the lived experiences of K-12 teachers in North Carolina, specifically highlighting the strategies through which teachers gain rhetorical …
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In the ruins of zine pedagogy: a narrative study of teaching with zines
… The project is situated within theories of the public sphere, scholarship on teaching public writing, and existing work on zine pedagogy. Adopting a narrative research design, I collected data in the form of written and telephone interviews with seven teacher/zinesters, their class materials …
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Debating NBN policy : the influence of issue management
… of evidence-based policy and the deliberative public sphere in which “rational critical debate” determines government policies and decisions. Citizens expect governments to deliver policies that lead to beneficial outcomes for society – not just special interests. However, media reporting about …
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Community media and civil society: lessons from the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela
… a theoretical framework that will facilitate publicly supported democratic media systems capable of displacing hegemonic commercial and state models. One major axis of investigation is the utility of public sphere theory for the structuration of participatory media institutions that function …
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Beyond Consensus: A Rhetorical Genre Analysis of the Mountain Valley Pipeline's 401 Public Hearings
This study seeks to understand public and institutional uptake of the public hearing genre. More specifically, this study examines how public hearing genre conventions are established and how those conventions inform and often govern tensions that arise in public discourse about a contested …