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Does shareholder activism help or hinder shareholder value enhancement? : empirical evidence from the UK [PDF]
, 2009 Shareholder activism has increasingly become a widespread value enhancement strategy for institutional investors in the UK. However, thus far only one paper has reported a clinical study to analyse its impact on target firms (Becht et al, 2008) in ...
Broadhurst, Timothy
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Mapping the discursive landscape of data activism: Articulations and actors in an emerging movement
Big Data & SocietyGrowing awareness of the societal consequences of datafication in recent years has given rise to a new form of civil society engagement called data activism.
Agnes Liminga, Simon Lindgren
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Spaces and scales of African student activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean university students at the intersection of campus, nation and globe [PDF]
, 2008 African university students have long engaged in political activism, responding to changing political, social and economic circumstances through protest that has at times exerted considerable influence on the national stage.
Ansell, N, Zeilig, L
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Active learning for microarray data
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2008 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Dimitrios Vogiatzis +1 more
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Practicing environmental data justice: From DataRescue to Data Together
Geo: Geography and Environment, 2018 The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) formed in response to the 2016 US elections and the resulting political shifts which created widespread public concern about the future integrity of US environmental agencies and policy.
Dawn Walker +4 more
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À quoi tient la crédibilité des données citoyennes ?
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2019 For many activists around the world, digital sensors are a way to bridge the gaps in official air quality monitoring. But under what conditions are the so-called “citizen data” credible for official authorities?
Sylvain Parasie, François Dedieu
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, 2003 In some complex domains, certain problem-specific decompositions can provide advantages over monolithic designs by enabling comprehension and specification of the design. In this paper we present an intuitive and tractable approach to reasoning over large and complex data sets.
Richard Arthur +2 more
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The political potential of numbers: data visualisation in the abortion debate
Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2017 Data visualisation has been argued to have the power to ‘change the world’, implicitly for the better, but when it comes to abortion, both sides make moral claims to ‘good’.
Rosemary Lucy Hill
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Krisis, 2018 In this paper I argue that there is an urgent need for more empirical research into everyday experiences of living with datafication, something that has not been prioritised in the emerging field of data studies to date.
Helen Kennedy
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Women and Allies in Action: College Students as 'Diversity Workers' in the Activism Classroom
Engaged Scholar Journal, 2022 Research on feminist pedagogy has analyzed activism-based teaching practices in introductory courses and special topics courses in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS).
Ina Seethaler
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