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E-empowerment: Empowerment by the Internet

Computers in Human Behavior, 2008
This article focuses on the concept of empowerment and the ways in which the Internet is being utilized as an empowering tool. This analysis ranges from the personal to the global levels and the consequences of that empowerment are also discussed. We propose a four-level model that serves to explain what we term E-empowerment and the effects that can ...
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Empowerment

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2007
The term "empowerment" has different meanings in different sociocultural and political contexts. Broadly speaking, empowerment refers to the expansion of assets and capabilities of poor people to participate in, negotiate with, influence, control, and hold accountable institutions that affect people's lives. The paper explores each of these aspects and
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The Road to Empowerment

2019
This chapter examines two distinct approaches which have been applied to the development of community empowerment and regeneration. It argues that the top-down ‘statist’ approach does not give citizens the confidence or control they need. By contrast, the second approach aims to build on the assets and strengths of existing communities, work with ...
Hazel Blears, David Blunkett
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Discourses on empowerment

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 1999
The discourse community of British psychiatric and mental health nursing is a contested realm. The ‘Big Stories’ of policy and planning of services are clearly articulated in disputes in journals, but the ‘Little Stories’ of nurses’ work and patients’ or users’ experiences may be ignored or under‐valued.
Steve Tilley, Louise Tait, L Pollock
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On power and empowerment

British Journal of Social Psychology, 2015
This study presents a conceptual analysis of social power. The most common theories of power are social–relational, an approach instantiated in a range of contemporary experiments that give participants the chance to control other people's outcomes. The relational approach is also reflected in various analyses of international relations.
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Empowerment and Advocacy

1991
In the previous Chapter, we saw that radical and Marxist theories attempt to offer a perspective on social work which concentrates on social change, but, at least in their more sophisticated formulations, these theories recognise that most workers are concerned with relatively small communities or with individuals, families and small groups rather than
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Empowerment Evaluation

Evaluation Practice, 1994
Abstract Empowerment evaluation is the use of evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination (Fetterman, 2001; Fetterman, Kaftarian,, Wandersman, 1996). It is guided by a commitment to truth and honesty (Fetterman, 1998).
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