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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"social landscape"”.
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Navigating the Social Landscape: An Exploration of Social Networking Site Usage among Emerging Adults
… second-year of undergraduate study make use of social networking sites (SNSs) for their day-to-day sociality. This study compares emerging adults’ use of Facebook, which is the most popular and widely used SNS among this particular demographic, to increasingly popular SNSs Twitter and Instagram. …
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Ecosystem Transformation Across a Changing Social Landscape: Landowner Perceptions and Responses to Woody Plant Encroachment
… motivations for owning land have shifted the social landscape of rural areas necessitating a better understanding of landowners’ perspectives about WPE and their subsequent management actions. Towards this purpose, I employed a mail survey to private landowners in the Edwards Plateau of Texas, …
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Environments Of Risk In A Dynamic Social Landscape: Hurricanes And Disaster On The United States Gulf Coast
… adapt and respond to these storms, as do the social institutions that provide support during disasters and their aftermath. This is complicated by the longstanding and ongoing relationship between the oil and gas industry and gulf coastal communities, especially as activities associated with …
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To pave or not to pave: A social landscape analysis of land use decision-making in the Lamprey River watershed
… grounded theory, this study explores the social landscape of land use decision-making in a case study of the towns of the Lamprey River watershed. The qualitative methods include semi-structured interviews with GIS based maps and content analysis in NVivo software. Results include a …
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Applying a Spatio-Temporal Approach to the Study of Urban Social Landscapes in Tianjin, China
… Tianjin has seen dramatic changes in its social landscape during the last three decades. Given this context, this study aims at understanding the different urban socio-spatial patterns of Tianjin and their mechanisms in three distinctive economic contexts by adapting both statistical and …
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Change and stability: Agta kinship in a history of uncertainty
The Agta view their environment in terms of a social landscape and base their exploitation of resources on the availability and quality of social connections. With whom the Agta work is more important to them than whether they act as foragers, traders, paramilitary scouts, farmers, or wage …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
… order, a cluster of ideas that revolved around a social system that championed white superiority, a political system that adhered to republican thinking, and a legal system that prevented lawlessness. To create a well-ordered society, Georgia’s leaders believed that authority flowed from white …
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Developing Dynamic Communication Strategies for Energy Policy
… dissertation explores the dynamic, ever-changing social landscape surrounding the debate through the scholars Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu. Based on the analysis and results, this work sets forth a suggested communications strategy to policymakers that may better inform Canadian citizens on …
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A room in the room : a private spectacle
… and revealing the inside space of our spatial, social, psychological boundaries result in an individual and collective narrative. Thus the transparent boundary as a metaphor of physically constructed psycho-social boundaries, examines my strangeness in a room and realizes the invisible walls in …
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Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City
… spaces of everyday life, they navigate a social landscape structured by the very real practices of an authoritarian state that criminalizes their sexuality. By ethnographically charting how gay men comply with and resist discourses and practices that position them both inside and outside …
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Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa
… South Africa‘s economic, political, and social landscape, is taking shape in small rural towns. It is found that fifteen years after the end of apartheid, Prince Albert’s coloured and white residents remains spatially segregated. It is argued here that this persistent segregation and …
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Leveraging Digital Phenotyping to Predict Outcomes in Youth at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis
… or years prior to their conversion to psychosis. Social functioning impairments are common in individuals with psychosis and predict the transition to psychosis in young people at clinical high-risk for psychosis (CHR-p). Our understanding of the relationship between offline and online social …
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Faking it : the seduction of surface
… but arousing peek at the superficial American social landscape and its effects on sexual personae. In a world that values casual, affordable comforts, this work offers some uncomfortable tension as viewers consider what they "buy into" and "fake" in order to mask their own insecurities and …
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The Cicada Summer
… use, the existence of which has altered the social landscape of the town, just as it has many areas across the Midwest. Also at the center of these conflicts is a natural phenomenon that descends upon this rural community and distracts the various desperate parents, their disaffected …
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Exploring the Impact of Social Media in Shaping STEM Identity and Sense of Belonging Among Women of Color
<p>This study explores the role of STEM-focused social media in shaping STEM identity and fostering a sense of belonging among professional and graduate-level women of color. Despite ongoing diversity initiatives, women of color remain underrepresented across various STEM fields, reflecting …
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What's Race Got To Do With It? A Cannabis Industry Policy Analysis Using Critical Race Theory
… business opportunity presents a complex social landscape in the United States. As of October 2023, 24 states have fully legalized recreational and medical marijuana. This shift has prompted agencies like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to argue that marijuana legalization is a …
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Troubling Citizenship: Latino Immigrants and the Struggle for Participatory Belonging in the Midwest
… solidarity differs in a shifting Midwestern social landscape. Most notably, the following chapters explore the efforts of Mexican residents in Central Indiana to participate and belong as recognized members of local, regional, national, and transnational communities. This study critically …
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A new India: Contestations of national identity at the crossroads of postcolonial aspirations and globalized imagination
… myriad flows of globalization, transforming the social landscape of the postcolonial nation in significant ways. In studying this, my study uses archival data and ethnographic research to adopt a critical approach to communication and cultural studies with a focus on exploring how the country’s …
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"Anarchism and the press in Lima: The case of ""Los Parias"""
… medium, thanks to its timely message and firm social commitment, was able to forge an alliance with the workers of Peru in order to work towards a more socially egalitarian society in an era often recognized as the ""Aristocratic Republic;"" a historical period were old aristocracies and new …
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