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Navigating the Activist Techno‐Social Landscape: Washington, DC High School Students' Engagement with Social Media Content

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, youth activism has experienced a global resurgence, playing a pivotal role in advocating for social and political change across diverse national and international contexts. Drawing on empirical data from a study of high school students in diverse Washington, DC public schools, this paper offers a unique perspective on youth ...
Vanessa R. Sperduti, Miri Yemini, Laura Engel, Garth Stahl   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doctor Stockmann and Greta Thunberg: Some Implications of Intellectual Resistance, Eco-activism and Unschooling [PDF]

Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, 2021
This paper ascertains how Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Doctor Stockmann of HenrikIbsen’s play "An Enemy of the People" (1882) represent an intellectual activism in two different contexts of world realities.
Habibur Rahaman
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Entangling and Coalescing on Social Media: A Study of Issue Boundary Spanning in Movement of Movements

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how issues across boundaries influence contention dynamics in a movement of movements on social media. Participants utilize social media to support or oppose goals and actions related to their visions regarding societal changes. As the boundaries of movements are fluid on social media, we investigate the actors' identities,
Carol Lee, Pratyush Bharati, Emmanuelle Vaast   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alma Eterea

And, 2020
In the last few years, the increasingly sensitive attention to environmental issues (Friday for Future and Greta Thunberg, the goals of the 2030 agenda) and “sustainability education”, have focused on a topic that has been left in a drawer for ...
Alessio Tanzini, Valentina Zamorano
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‘Like the Oceans We Rise’: News Frames on Youth for Climate

Young, 2023
In early 2019, following the example of the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, youth-led climate movements around the world demonstrated massively and persistently for a more ambitious climate policy.
Freija Poot, Joke Bauwens
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Comparing the Implications of Strategies for Governing the COVID‐19 Pandemic for the Political Robustness of Five European Political Regimes

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between.
Eva Sørensen, Peter Triantafillou, Tiziana Caponio, György Hajnal, Tiina Randma‐Liiv, David Spacek   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
wiley   +1 more source

Impoliteness in Twitter Discourse: a Case Study of Replies to Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
Twitter (X) is a popular social media platform that allows users to express their opinions and interact on various topics, including politics. However, Twitter can provide a space for impolite and aggressive language use, especially when the issues ...
Esmaeel Ali Salimi, Seyed Mohammadreza Mortazavi   +1 more
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Youth Life Writing, Networked Media, Climate Change: The Challenge of Testimony to the Future

European Journal of Life Writing, 2021
This article examines some of Greta Thunberg’s life writing as an example of the creativity and ingenuity with which some young people engage with the identity category of ‘youth’ in their life writing.
Anna Poletti
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greta thunberg — a unique voice in a post-truth era

childhood & philosophy, 2023
Since the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon has arisen on the global stage, as girls have increasingly begun to raise their voices. In an effort to achieve new philosophical understandings of contemporary childhoods in a post-truth era, the present article examines this Girl Rising movement from an existential perspective.
openaire   +3 more sources