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Change agency in social innovation: an analysis of activities in social innovation processes
Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2023 We examine the role of change agency in social innovations. Agency in social innovations can create new resources and capacities for transformative change in a region.
Samuel Wirth +3 more
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Agency within Neighborhoods: Multi-Scalar Relations between Urban Form and Social Actors
LandThis research provides an abstract representation of neighborhoods, accounting for the actors involved in the process of their formation and transformation as local entities embedded in a complex yet specific configuration of historical, social ...
Ilaria Geddes +3 more
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British Journal of Social Work, 2012 The professional project of social work assumes a particular orientation to human agency on the part of social workers. Specifically, the social work educational literature focusing on the nature of the profession suggests that social workers exert considerable control over the means and ends of their practice.
Greg Marston, Catherine Mcdonald
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On-site actors’ agency within international media development [PDF]
Global Media Journal: German Edition, 2023 International efforts aimed at developing a specific region’s or country’s media sector commonly involve both onsite actors (usually from the Global South) and external actors (usually from the Global North). Dependency theory suggests that onsite actors
Ines Drefs
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Bringing social biography to life course studies: Agency and reflexivity in education-to-work transitions in young adults’ biographies [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2022 The paper is based on my longitudinal qualitative study, which takes a “social biography approach” to exploring and interpreting biographical sequences in a person’s life course from early childhood to young adulthood.
Tomanović Smiljka
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Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations for Analyzing Social Interfaces in Agroecosystems
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 The current framework of agroecosystem (AES) knowledge focuses on a systemic approach or static structures rather than on dynamic processes that are defined historically.
Felipe Gallardo-López +2 more
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Effect of Social Actors Perceived Agency on Social Presence in Computer-Mediated Communication
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2022 Nowadays, both text-based and 3D online applications rely on conversational agents and autonomous characters to interact with users. Previous experiments demonstrated that perceived agency, that is to say, one’s belief in interacting with a computer- or another human-controlled entity could impact social interaction.
Poinsot, Killian +4 more
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Collective agency as a leverage point in multi-actor innovation
Agricultural and Food Science, 2023 The aim of this study is to investigate how horticultural firms meet their need for innovation within the innovation system. A comparative process ethnography approach was applied to two cases of long-term collaboration between multiple actors in ...
Lisa Blix Germundsson, Magnus Ljung
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Role Allocation in the Media Representation of Participants in Selected Electoral Discourses in Nigeria [PDF]
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2016 Extant literature on media reports in Nigeria have considered different national issues including electoral matters. Few of such studies that considered electoral matters did not emphasize the distribution of roles in the reports.
Ayo Osisanwo
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Energies, 2021 Non-domestic buildings are frequently characterised as resistant to top-down low-carbon and energy-efficiency policy. Complex relationships amongst building stakeholders are often blamed.
Catherine Willan +2 more
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