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Showing 1 to 20 of 199 for “"social actors"”.
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Database Assemblages: Understanding Cultural Heritage Collections Infrastructures as Techno-Social Actors
… are always already imbricated with the human social world; the richly complicated portrait of the cultural heritage database infrastructure that emerges through this type of attention firmly establishes the database as an object of critical study, and offers a possible way through the …
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An electronic quit smoking coach : designing computer agents as persuasive social actors
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, 2005
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Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones
The Computers are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm was proposed more than two decades ago to understand humans’ interaction with computer technologies. Today, as emerging media technologies including social robots and smartphones become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to …
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PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING: NONCOMBATANT MOBILIZATION FOR PEACE IN AFRICA
… the 1990s and early 2000s, a number of domestic social actors mobilized for peace in several African countries. They did so under unfavorable political conditions. Some of them went further and pursued their objective for peace at the level of formal negotiations. This particularizing inquiry …
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Governance and Empowerment in Clinical Encounters: An Ethnography of Toronto's Sexual Health Landscape
… governance is an assemblage of institutions, social actors, and expert knowledge, which regulates, counts, and fosters sexual health via technologies of care, surveillance, and metrics. In this dissertation, I ask: How is the sexual health landscape organized, and how does the sexual health …
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Characterization of the Fintech Industry for the Peruvian Market
… This research determines the variables and social actors that characterize the Fintech ecosystem. For this purpose, a descriptive design was employed under the methodology of structural analysis, making use of tools such as a panel of experts and the MICMAC software (Matrix of Crossed …
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The World Is Not Yet Completed: Moral Imaginaries and Everyday Politics in Progressive Religious Communities
… a consistently fruitful question for American social theorists. Religion has often been understood as providing the moral underpinnings of civil society, traditionally in ways that promote cohesion or preserve the status quo. Despite this, there has been a long tradition of progressive …
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Race to the Bottom or Move to the Middle? Globalization and Welfare Regime Transformation in the Developing World
My findings demonstrate that the variations of social welfare systems in the developing world are rooted in the conflicting dynamics of industrialization and globalization. Industrialization in the developing world has an expansionary effect on welfare expenditures as it entails risks that fuel the …
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Visual and textual representations of childhood by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 1999 to 2003
… begun to incorporate new views of children as socially competent, valuable social actors in their own right (a school of thought that has begun to be theorised, most notably, by the 'New Sociology of Childhood'). However, the ideas of children as social actors attains a particular meaning in …
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Observational Animation: An Exploration of Improvisation, Interactivity and Spontaneity in Animated Filmmaking
… and the transformation of ordinary people into ‘social actors’. It is this assumed roll, the everyday presentation of self that audiences relate to and perceive as truthful and authentic and is the backbone of my thesis research. Through the creation of two separate short films, Grandpa and Wade, …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… speeches provided musical metaphors to conjure social and political ideals. Why did music arouse such a widespread interest in this significant period of French history? This dissertation engages with this question using a large body of sources, including print, patents, paintings and …
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Aesthetics and authority: Fin-de-siecle intellectuals and London music-halls
… between literary investigators and the socially marginal groups represented on the music-hall stage, and examine how gender impacted the attempts of social actors to lay claim to London's public spaces."
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Gay male performances in American confessional documentary and reality television.
… It specifically focuses on the representation of social actors involved in performance, as well as contextualising the contribution of producers. Although it does not present an historical analysis, it examines a timescale: between 1971 and 2004. A central context is the hypothesis that …
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Scandalising the NHS- the construction of healthcare and deviance in the BBC and ITV coverage of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal
… and the institutional and individual social actors involved in the process. The failings themselves included the mistreatment and sometimes death of hundreds of patients at a local hospital in Stafford. These events led to an institutional scandal, where not only the local institution …
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English opens doors...for whom?: an ethnography exploring the tensions between English language policy creation, implementation and students' expectations
… dissertation looks to explore the ways in which social actors make meaning about the role of English language policy in the current global and neoliberal context. My goal is to recognize how English language policy requirements are being created and implemented in Chile in effort to understand …
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Transnational Impact on Urban Change. Modern Projects in Vinh, Vietnam
… of modernity (Eisenstadt, 2000) put forward by social actors, as well as into urban change resulting from the implementation of such visions. Focusing on the period from 1973 to 2011, it traces the application of three different visions for urban development in Vinh: The Socialist City, The …
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Becoming Christ Cathedral : the emergence, rise, and transformation of the crystal cathedral /
… Christ Cathedral. The key informants, those social actors in charge of defining and designing the Crystal Cathedral and Christ Cathedral, afforded a unique gaze of this fluid built form. They exposed details about place formation, how leaders made sense of design and worship in a …
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Forest insects, personhood and the environment: Harurwa (edible stinkbugs) and conservation in south-eastern Zimbabwe
… to confine anthropological attention to the social. The study advances the argument that modernist divides/binaries are artificial and impede understanding of environmentalities, especially of relationships between social ‘actors’ in any given space, given that mutual relationships and …
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Jewish Multi -Ethnicities in Post -Soviet Russia: An Eventful Ethnography of the Moscow Choral Synagogue
… which people creatively react to and shape their social worlds. I consider institutional legacies (through archival and ethnographic research) to show how social actors transformed past practices to rebuild their religious institution, as well as to adjust themselves to the uncertainties of the …
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Globalization and ideology: ethics committees and global clinical trials in South Africa and Brazil
… Jürgen Habermas. According to this theory, social actors can be either self-oriented and frame the social context as an instrument (instrumental rationality), or take other actors into account and search for intercomprehension (communicational rationality). Even though the presence of these …
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