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Showing 1 to 20 of 324 for “"the public sphere"”.
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Gender, discourse and the public sphere
<p>This thesis aims to develop an analytical framework that will combine the insights of critical discourse analysis and a range of feminist perspectives on discourse as social practice. This framework is then employed in an investigation of women's participation in a number of 'communities of …
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Redefining journalism : convergence in the public sphere
… structure and production practices at the publicly funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto (CBC). Using practical action research I examine two sites of study that offer unique strategies on incorporating everyday citizens into the news production process: the use of citizen …
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Socially inherited memory, gender and the public sphere in Poland
More recent theories of the 'revolutions' of 1989 in the societies of Eastern and Central Europe now suggest that the underlying dynamic was continuity rather than disjuncture in terms of social and political relations. Yet such theories fail to explain the nature of and the reasons for this …
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Spirit and the letter : trauma, warblogs and the public sphere
This research investigates the personal and political emancipatory potential of digital media, specifically the weblog, and asks the following question: How does individual trauma translate into public space? The research focus is the self-selected, unpaid and civilian bloggers forming the core of …
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Dewey and Kuyper: A Common Grace in the Public Sphere
… (1859-1952), share a similar appreciation for the scope and depth of religiosity in public life. Although Kuyper was a Christian and Dewey did not consider himself a theist, each understands religious experience as informing every sphere of existence. According to their thought, a distinction …
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Protestants and the public sphere in Brazil, c.1870 - c.1930
This dissertation examines the circulation of Christian print and the making of Protestant thought in Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It investigates one of the central methods of Protestant evangelisation deployed in the country: the production and diffusion of evangelical …
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Affective identification with animals in the public sphere in earth, the movie.
… Dissemination; "I will not feign, according to the code, either premeditation or improvisation. These texts are assembled otherwise, it is not my intention here to present them." Animal films are tied to a system of liberalism and the objectification of nature that has developed through the …
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The print that binds : local journalism, civic life and the public sphere
In the current political climate in the United States, much attention has been paid to the role of the press in our increasingly polarized society and to what extent it exacerbates or mends divisions. While the majority of that analysis is focused on national politics and news outlets, the role of …
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Long-Wellesley & Publicity: The Role of Celebrity in the Public Sphere (1788-1832)
This thesis explores the relationship between celebrity and the public-sphere through a case study of the life of William Long-Wellesley (1788-1857). A junior member of the powerful and well-connected Wellesley family, Long-Wellesley married into the largest fortune in Regency Britain, became a …
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The genesis of French Romanticism: P.-N. Guerin's studio and the public sphere
… of Romanticism, which are often predicated on the ideologies of individualism and the avant-garde. In contrast, this dissertation argues French Romantic painting was actually defined in the realm of the bourgeois public sphere, where painters, the press, pamphleteers, agents of artistic …
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Monument and sign : the intersection of art, advertising and protest in the public sphere
In the late 20th Century, a common strategy has developed among a small but highly visible cross section of artists. They create and enact transient events, 'interventions', in public spaces in a way that both refers to the spatial language of the site and offers a critique of its dominant values. …
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Religion and the public sphere: the spatial theory of Michel de Certeau and religious space
The public and academic debate of the relationship of religion and secularity is ongoing. Religion continues as a matter of increasing interest as public expressions of religion challenge perceived social norms that are often expressed using dichotomies of private and public, reason and belief, …
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The rise and fall of the public sphere? Public Service Broadcasting in Ireland, a wasted opportunity?
The following thesis has set itself the task of answering the following questions. Does RTEs news and current affairs constitute a public sphere? Does it provide the viewer or listener with a detailed, substantive analysis of the issues it covers, providing the viewer with an arsenal of political …
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