Transnational Activism in Support of National Protest: Questions of Identity and Organization [PDF]
, 2017 This article considers the question of whether transnational activism supporting national protest attains a cohesive collective identity on social media whilst organizationally remaining localized.
Mercea, D.
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Re-thinking feminism and democratic politics: the potential of online networks for social change and gender equality in Brazil [PDF]
, 2018 The relationship between women and new technologies has been an important area of research for feminist sociologists and others working with gender and cultural studies (i.e.
Matos, C.
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Towards a conceptualization of casual protest participation: Parsing a case from the Save Roşia Montană campaign [PDF]
, 2014 There is currently an empirical gap in the literature on protest participation in liberal democracies which has overwhelmingly focused on Western Europe and North America at the expense of Eastern Europe.
Mercea, D.
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Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong: Smartphone culture and activism
Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik, 2020 This article focuses on contemporary smartphone culture and activism performed by female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. There are around 330.000 migrant workers in Hong Kong, and wherein 150.000 originated from Indonesia.
Irfan Wahyudi, Panizza Allmark
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Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2020 The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the issues of shareholder activism in Malaysia. The findings shows that shareholder activism already taken place in Malaysia.
Muhammad Aiman Awalluddin
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“I Need Ammunition, Not a Ride”: The Ukrainian Cyber War
Comunicação e Sociedade, 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has shown that cyberwarfare is integral to modern military strategies. Although the Russian army has developed cyber capabilities and capacities over the years, Ukraine has quickly created a new and ...
Tine Munk, Juan Ahmad
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Give CRISPR a chance : the GeneSprout Initiative [PDF]
, 2020 Did you know that a group of early-career researchers launched an initiative enabling open dialog on new plant breeding techniques, such as genome editing?
Boer, Damian +8 more
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic and related public health efforts limiting in-person social interactions present unique challenges to adolescents. Social media, which is widely used by adolescents, presents an opportunity to counteract these challenges and promote
K. Sobowale +3 more
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Conceptualizing a distributed, multi-scalar global public sphere through activist communication practices in the World Social Forum [PDF]
, 2019 This article contributes to debate about how to conceptualize the global public sphere. Drawing on media practice theory and ethnographic research on media activism in the World Social Forum, it shows how ‘global publics’ can be constituted through a ...
Atton C +23 more
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News coverage, digital activism, and geographical saliency: A case study of refugee camps and volunteered geographical information. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The last several decades have witnessed a shift in the way in which news is delivered and consumed by users. With the growth and advancements in mobile technologies, the Internet, and Web 2.0 technologies users are not only consumers of news, but also ...
Ron Mahabir +4 more
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