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Showing 1 to 20 of 287 for “"publics"”.
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Chemical Intimacies and Toxic Publics
In this dissertation, I detail how capitalism has turned pollution into a generally accepted form of violence perpetuated in the name of economic health. Complete with a corps of risk managers and environmental consultants, neoliberal capitalism has fashioned pollution into a universal standard …
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Newspaper campaigns, publics and politics
… the newspaper is acting on behalf of a public or publics. However, it is not clear how these claims are substantiated. Existing mechanisms of accountability and normative conventions of responsibility are based on the liberal model of democracy, whereby the press are responsible for informing …
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Valuing the global environment : publics, politics and participation.
The pursuit of sustainability represents a considerable challenge. It demands on the one hand that cross-media, trans-boundary, inter-generational issues should be addressed while on the other hand suggests that any solutions and actions should be community driven and locally based. However, much …
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Understanding and Measuring Affective Polarisation in Mass Publics
… polarisation and democratic stability in publics. Results from causal models indicate that rising affective polarisation, arguably by leading individuals to view political opposition as illegitimate, diminishes their endorsement of the democratic system and its central norms, while …
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Art and counter-publics in Third Way cultural policy
… Public sphere theory is used to examine ideas of publics and publicness in Third Way cultural policy context, in state cultural institutions and programming. Using Jürgen Habermas’ conception of the public sphere, the research proposes that cultural policy functioned as ‘steering media’, as …
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
… of historians of contemporary Europe and their publics. Chapter IV considers the question of sources for the writing of contemporary history in a European context, by connecting the work of Ottieri to the ideas and work of François-Marie Arouet, ‘Voltaire’ (1694-1778), in France, and Henry St …
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Issue Publics Gone Wild Or The End Of Narrow Interests
… There is reason to believe the nature of issue publics has significantly changed in recent years as a result of profound shifts in the information environment. Many of the traditional findings within the literature are reassessed using data primarily from the 2008 Presidential election. Though …
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L.A. Micro-Publics : expanding the seams of the transportation system
The global city is the privileged site of "repositioning ... citizenship in practice," where traditional notions of identity and citizenship are being radically reconstructed. This thesis examines contemporary Los Angeles as such a site, a heterotopia built on difference, without a coherent civic …
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The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
<p>A great many Victorian novels were originally written, published, distributed, and read in parts over time—that is to say, serially. Yet today we rarely read those novels in serial format. Nor do we consider that format in any way equivalent to what we mean by the form of the novels in question. …
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DuPont and its publics : a lot of good chemistry between them?
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1980.
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Allopoietics in Real Time: Unfolding Among Art, Publics, Space, and Time
… on the real-time processes among artworks, publics, spaces, and time through which meaning dynamically emerges. Drawing on the author’s artistic works—Conjunktion, Looking at the Sun, and Public Eyes—as well as critical engagement with hermeneutics, process philosophy, and media theory, this …
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Processes in the formation of publics: A design case study on dyslexia
… role of design in supporting the formation of publics. In this thesis, the concept of publics is aligned with Dewey’s view, which refers to heterogeneous groups of people concerned about an issue who organize themselves to address it. This thesis aims to contribute to this corpus of research by …
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Acquiring Political Information on the Web: Issue Publics, Domain-Specificity, and Selectivity
Implications for fields of research and the functioning of democracy are discussed.
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Les pouvoirs publics et la diffusion du livre québécois en France (1959-1985)
Cette étude commence avec la mise en place des principaux éléments qui ont contribué à l'essor de la diffusion du livre québécois en France, de 1960 à 1985. Après avoir défini l'implication des gouvernements provincial et fédéral, nous avons tenté de cerner le rôle du Conseil supérieur du livre en …
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Towards a Common Language: Social Movements and Vernacular Publics in Telugu, 1900-1956
… constitution of vernacular languages, and in the publics these languages generate, to posit that the vernacular and its publics are unendingly fractured. This fracturing is significant for comparative and regional literary studies, where even as scholars attend to the exclusions that mark the …
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The university and its publics: the University of Illinois from progressivism to globalism
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Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making
Based on fieldwork with human rights organizations in New York City and Belize, Central America, this dissertation explores--through the prism of ethics--how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) represent violence against indigenous women--in text, image, and action--as human rights "evidence." By …
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Pour des espaces publics dans le centre-ville de Montréal adaptés au contexte hivernal québécois
… le théâtre de la vie publique. Sans ces espaces publics, les villes sont susceptibles de plonger dans une augmentation de la privatisation et de la polarisation de la société. Ainsi, pour de nombreux spécialistes en la matière, le fondement d’une vie urbaine plus durable passe par la création de …
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EXPLORING PUBLIC ACTORS IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: NETWORK-BASED PUBLICS AND THEIR IMPACTS
… the impacts of public actors on motivating other publics to address issues, proposing a public-to-public communication model in the context of emerging technology.First, a series of social network, cluster, and content analyses identified and characterized public actors in the issue network of …
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