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Righteous patriots, corrupted élites, undeserving poors. The construction of multiple social boundaries in the National Front [PDF]

, 2015
Based on life histories of National Front activists, this article analyses how multiple boundaries - pertaining to ethnic and political, but also class and spatial divides - are constructed and negotiated in the party.
Scrinzi, Francesca
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of Facebook on Political Activism and Radicalism

Psico-USF, 2021
Recently, an increase in radicalism in the political sphere has ocurred. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of the intensity of Facebook use on political radicalism and activism, taking as hypothesis (H1) that the intensity of Facebook use can ...
Cleno Couto, João Gabriel Modesto
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Impossible protest: noborders in Calais [PDF]

, 2013
Since the closure of the Red Cross refugee reception centre in Sangatte, undocumented migrants in Calais hoping to cross the border to Britain have been forced to take refuge in a number of squatted migrant camps, locally known by all as ‘the jungles ...
Agamben G., Agamben G., Agamben G., Agamben G., Badiou A., Balibar E., Bauman Z., Bojadžijev M., Debord G., Diken B., Esposito R., Freedman J., Isin E.F., Joe Rigby, Mezzadra S., Mezzadra S., Mitropoulos A., Mitropoulos A., Mitropoulos A., Nyers P., Papadopoulos D., Rancière J., Rancière J., Rancière J., Rancière J., Rancière J., Raphael Schlembach, Walters W., Žižek S.   +28 more
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A dancing bear, a colleague, or a sharpened toolbox? The cautious adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in digital humanities research

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping the research landscape and carries significant implications for Digital Humanities (DH), a field long intertwined with computational methods and technologies. This study examines how DH scholars are adopting and critically evaluating GenAI in their research. Drawing on an
Rongqian Ma, Meredith Dedema, Andrew Cox
wiley   +1 more source

Veganuary and the vegan sausage (t)rolls: conflict and commercial engagement in online climate-diet discourse

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Social media platforms have become critical venues for a wide spectrum of influence campaigns, from activism to advertising. Sometimes these two ends overlap and it remains unknown how the latter might impact the former.
Mary Sanford, Jamie Lorimer
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Robust online active learning

Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 2023
AbstractIn many industrial applications, obtaining labeled observations is not straightforward as it often requires the intervention of human experts or the use of expensive testing equipment. In these circumstances, active learning can be highly beneficial in suggesting the most informative data points to be used when fitting a model.
Davide Cacciarelli, Murat Kulahci, John Sølve Tyssedal   +2 more
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Offline Student Political Activism: Supported or Thwarted by Online Political Engagement? [PDF]

, 2016
Social media is an integral part of everyday life for the current generation of college-age students. Researchers debate whether the time invested into these sites has a positive or negative influence on offline political activism. Drawing on an original
Jovicevic, Nicole M.
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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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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source