English in Dutch‐speaking Europe: Features, competence, domains and status
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 284-300, June 2024.Abstract After a description of the area in Europe where Dutch is an official language, the historical developments are discussed that resulted in differences between the Netherlands and Dutch‐speaking Belgium (Flanders) in attitude towards Dutch and foreign languages.
Marinel Gerritsen
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‘All Kinds of Everything’? Queer Visibility in Online and Offline Eurovision Fandom
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2018 The annual televisual spectacle, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an international media event that is a nexus around which questions surrounding identity surface. This paper focuses specifically on the contest’s active promotion of queer visibility,
Jamie Halliwell
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Geography, culture, and religion: Explaining the bias in Eurovision song contest voting [PDF]
, 2006 This paper analyses votes cast in the Eurovision Song Contest in the period 1975 - 2003. We test whether accusations of 'political' voting among participants can be substantiated by looking at geographical influences.
Spierdijk, L., Vellekoop, M.H.
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Online Propaganda: The Case of the “Woke” Eurovision Song Contest
SaeculumFor the last few years, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) – the longest running international music competition, has been present in social media and online outlets as losing its focus on culture and becoming a tool for a left-wing, “woke” ideology.
Cucu Ciprian
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Liminal (trans)formative spaces: A temporary escape from intersectionality
Journal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 126-145, Spring 2024.Abstract This paper is an examination of identity narratives of a small group of trans‐national transpeople in Australia. We reveal the complex identity journey undertaken by this group. Transpeople of Sub‐continental origin consume a temporarily transformational journey negotiating, resisting and subverting the dominant discourses that construct ...
Teresa Davis, Gary Paramanathan
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Managing forced migration: Overt and covert policies to limit the influx of Ukrainian refugees
World Affairs, Volume 187, Issue 1, Page 49-62, Spring 2024.Abstract The Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in massive refugee migration. In this article we consider how the European Union (EU) and the United States have so far managed this influx of people. For reasons explained in the article, the EU is more focused on humanitarian aid, while the United States is especially engaged through military aid.
Alex M. Grosman, Jos C. N. Raadschelders
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The Eurovision Song Contest within formal educational learning contexts : a critical multimodal interpretation of possible inter-disciplinary connections [PDF]
, 2018 The Eurovision Song Contest [ESC] is often viewed by many as pure entertainment followed annually by millions around the globe and by over 95% of the Maltese population.
Connections, Cremona, George
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Comparison of Eurovision Song Contest Simulation with Actual Results Reveals Shifting Patterns of Collusive Voting Alliances. [PDF]
The voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest have attracted attention from various researchers, spawning a small cross-disciplinary field of what might be called 'eurovisiopsephology' incorporating insights from politics, sociology and computer ...
Derek Gatherer
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Using the clustering coefficient to guide a genetic-based communities finding algorithm [PDF]
, 2011 The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23878-9_20Proceedings of 12th International Conference IDEAL, Norwich, UK, September 7-9, 2011.We describe an approach taken for automatically associating entries from
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