Platforms and Potency: Democracy and Collective Agency in the Age of Social Media [PDF]
Attitudes to digital communication technologies since the 1990s have been characterized by waves of optimism and pessimism, as enthusiasts have highlighted their democratic and liberating potentials, while critics have pointed to the socially ...
Gilbert, Jeremy
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The Use of social media by Spanish feminist roganizations : collectivity from individualism [PDF]
In recent years, social media platforms have become a popular tool for feminist activists and the main medium of communication for new feminist organizations to gain higher visibility.
Gómez-Bernal, Gemma, Navarro, Celina
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Navigating by the stars: A critical analysis of Indigenous events as constellations of decolonization [PDF]
This paper cultivates an approach to leisure scholarship which is more responsive to Indigenous peoples and responsibilities of translation. This study is grounded within kaupapa Māori, an Indigenous perspective specific to Aotearoa New Zealand that ...
Ruwhiu, D, Walters, Trudie
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Questioning public interest journalism in New Caledonia [PDF]
François Hollande’s five-year term of office as President of France overlaps a critical time for the future of New Caledonia, where a referendum is set to take place between 2014 and 2019 to decide whether or not the archipelago will remain within the ...
M'Balla-Ndi, Marie +2 more
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The myth of 'us': digital networks, political change and the production of collectivity [PDF]
This article examines critically the claims that digital networks (digital media infrastructures, especially social media platforms) fundamentally change the conditions of politics over the longerterm.
Couldry, Nick
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The mediated crowd: new social media and new forms of rioting [PDF]
Commentary on the recent riots largely reflects ideological differences with political discourse reviving traditional debates of social inequality and moral decline.
Stephanie Alice Baker +1 more
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Regarding societal change [PDF]
In this paper we introduce our special thematic section on societal change.We begin by providing an overview of the aims of the section, and how these aims grew out of a need to address conceptual and empirical challenges in the study of societal change.
Livingstone, Andrew G. +8 more
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Constructing collectivity in diversity: online political mobilization of a national LGBT political party [PDF]
The internet has opened up a space for discussions of queer sexuality and the interconnectivity made possible by internet technologies enables the active exchange of queer ideologies across distant spaces that facilitate the formation of \u27queer ...
Cheryll Ruth Reyes Soriano +1 more
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Conditional futures: South Asian American cultural production and community formation, 1991-2001 [PDF]
Conditional Futures: South Asian American Cultural Production and Community Formation, 1991-2001 traces the development of a politically engaged diasporic consciousness, expressed in contemporary South Asian American literature and other media during the
Sudhakar, Anantha
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We identified a systemic, progressive loss of protein S‐glutathionylation—detected by nonreducing western blotting—alongside dysregulation of glutathione‐cycle enzymes in both neuronal and peripheral tissues of Taiwanese SMA mice. These alterations were partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotide therapy, revealing persistent redox imbalance as ...
Sofia Vrettou, Brunhilde Wirth
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