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Kennelly, Jacqueline Joan. "Citizen youth : culture, activism, and agency in an era of globalization." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/769.

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This thesis seeks to uncover some of the cultural practices central to youth activist subcultures across three urban centres in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. I undertake this work within the context of rising moral and state claims about the apparent need for ‘good citizenship’ to be exercised by young people, alongside a late modern relationship between liberalism, neoliberalism, and Canada’s history of class- and race-based exclusions. The theoretical framework bridges cultural and political sociology with youth cultural theory. It also draws heavily upon the work of feminist phi

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Fackler, Eliot Henry. "Protesting Portland's freeways : highway engineering and citizen activism in the interstate era /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9842.

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Fackler, Eliot Henry 1982. "Protesting Portland's Freeways: Highway Engineering and Citizen Activism in the Interstate Era." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9842.

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ix, 123 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>From its inception, the Oregon State Highway Department and Portland's political leaders repeatedly failed to address the city's automobile traffic problems. However, in 1955 the Highway Department published a comprehensive freeway plan that anticipated new federal funding and initiated an era of unprecedented road construction in the growing city. In the early 1960s, localized opposition to the city's Interstate system failed to halt the c

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Wetherby, Aelwen D. "In aid of conflict : a study of citizen activism and American medical relief to Spain and China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cd202cbd-932f-44aa-89a5-96a6c1934a63.

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The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 triggered many responses amongst the American public, including a number of private initiatives in medical aid that occupied a borderland between traditional humanitarian relief and political activism. This study is interested in the stories of three organisations arising in this tradition: the American Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy (AMBASD), the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China (ABMAC), and the China Aid Council (CAC). While three separate initiatives in terms of who was responsible for th

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Hartl, Majcher Jessica. "Social justice and citizen participation on Tumblr: Examining the changing landscape of social activism in the digital era." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510428529403768.

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Schwartz, David. "Harnessing Power: Exploring Citizen's Use of Networked Technologies to Promote Police Accountability." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35338.

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In this examination of citizen surveillance, I engage with Foucaultian and Deleuzian conceptualizations of surveillance, power, resistance, control, and desire, to explore the motivation(s) of community members who film and disseminate footage of the police. Methodologically, I conducted semi-structured interviews with community stakeholders to study the latent thematic ideas embedded in their responses. These themes represent the underlying motivational factors a citizen surveiller may have when filming the police. In my analysis of these themes, I explore: citizen surveillers’ logic fo

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Abraham, Tyra. "Watching the Watchmen: The Impact of Citizen Journalism on Unlawful Police-Civilian Interactions." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1175.

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This thesis examines three cases of fatal police-involved killings of black men in order to understand the significance and value of citizen journalism. Citizen journalism, journalism that is produced by ordinary people rather than professional journalists, functions as an alternative to mainstream news media. With technological developments like smartphones and social media, people have the means to produce and disseminate their own news in real-time. There has been a recent trend of witnesses filming videos of acts of police violence against people of color. I argue that these videos are sig

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Hendriks, Carolyn Maree, and C. M. Hendriks@uva nl. "Public Deliberation and Interest Organisations: a Study of Responses to Lay Citizen Engagement in Public Policy." The Australian National University. Research School of Social Sciences, 2004. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20050921.103047.

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This thesis empirically examines how lobby groups and activists respond to innovative forms of public participation. The study centres on processes that foster a particular kind of deliberative governance including citizens’ juries, consensus conferences and planning cells. These deliberative designs bring together a panel of randomly selected lay citizens to deliberate on a specific policy issue for a few days, with the aim of providing decision makers with a set of recommendations. While policy makers worldwide are attracted to these novel participatory processes, little consideration has be

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Pignetti, Daisy. "Writing to (Re)New Orleans: The Post-Hurricane Katrina Blogosphere and Its Ability to Inspire Recovery." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3437.

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Nearly every website or software application these days features a feed to subscribe to, a network to join, or a social timeline to track—all of which do their part to influence public opinion, promote products, and bring people closer together. Being a blogger since 2003 exposed me to these user-generated trends, but never did I expect my blog space, or any others, to play such an important role in my emotional well-being; not until Hurricane Katrina hit. Sharing my story as a transplanted New Orleanian watching the disaster unfold from afar in a public forum quickly linked me to other local

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Schulze, Sheila, and Yvonne Mrukwa. "#GreenRecovery for Europe: A Content Analysis of tweets about the Green Recovery from COVID-19 on Twitter." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36968.

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The aim of this thesis is to investigate how digital activism is conducted on Twitter, particularly in relation to the dialogues and demands for Europe’s green economic recovery plan from COVID-19. It seeks to analyse the communication made using #GreenRecovery on Twitter by various actors over the period of May to June 2020, guided by the theory of public sphere and social movement and literature on digital activism, hashtag activism, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Political Activity (CPA) using a qualitative and quantitative content analysis.By analysing the frequency pa

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Whitener, Olivia. "Farm to Label: A Critique of Consumer Activism in the Sustainable Food Movement." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/202.

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“Local,” “organic,” “natural,” and “Fairtrade” are just several of the many claims adorning the food products that line grocery store shelves. These promises of environmental sustainability and social responsibility are pillars of the “good food revolution” sweeping the nation as consumers demand alternatives to the products of the industrial food system. Green consumerism, the premise that consumer demand for environmentally sustainable goods will bring about ecologically beneficial outcomes, is at the heart of the sustainable food movement. This thesis takes a critical look at the operation

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Katz, Meredith Ann. "The Politics of Purchasing: Ethical Consumerism, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in the United States." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29661.

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Although the United States is the worldâ s leading consumer nation, limited empirical research exists on the relationship between consumer choices and political participation. This study provides the first quantitative analysis of the demographic characteristics, motivations, and political activities of political and ethical consumers in the United States. Ethical consumers are broadly defined as socially responsible consumers including the subset of political consumers. Political consumers, while also socially responsible, are primarily concerned with achievement of political or social chang

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Mellin, Hanna, and Skoogh Jenny Tiuraniemi. ""Hej! Det är patriarkatet. Vi äger dig. Hejdå" : En kvalitativ studie av Instagramkontot Kvinnohats gestaltning av mediekritik." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-35793.

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A qualitative study of the Swedish Instagram account Kvinnohat´s framing of media criticism. The Instagram account Kvinnohat is an example when citizens with a feminist agenda participate in a public debate. With a critical point of view Kvinnohat approach society; which media is a part of. Social network with photo-sharing implement such as Instagram is a quite new type of social media. Instagram has quickly become a part of many peoples everyday life, especially among adolescents. Kvinnohat allows guest admins to do personal photo-sharing from the account Kvinnohat so that different feminist

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Bell, Stephanie A. "Knowing politics : knowledge and democratic citizenship in South Africa's education system." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7ca7a761-e6f2-4d65-a069-14ed18e18c3e.

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This thesis brings together democratic theory's calls for an understanding of the actually existing democratic state and anthropological work on innovative forms of citizen participation. Building on the work of Joao Biehl and Steven Robins, the research focuses on access to knowledge and claims of expertise as grounds upon which politicians and bureaucrats exclude citizen participation. It argues, using an ethnographic case study of South African student activist group Equal Education, that authors such as Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and James Scott are wrong to imply that citizens cannot tra

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Caires, Luiza Helena Gonçalves. "Quem faz a mídia no CMI Brasil: Jornalismo alternativo, ativista e colaborativo na internet." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-08112010-121416/.

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A dissertação teve como objetivo delinear o perfil de dois grupos: aqueles que mantêm a estrutura, como voluntários, do CMI site da Rede Indymedia representante nacional do jornalismo cidadão ou open source e também os que postam conteúdo nele, sem necessariamente ser voluntário. Como método, foram realizadas duas pesquisas empíricas, uma levantando dados mais objetivos do segundo grupo, e outra, baseada em entrevistas abertas, com o primeiro. Dos usuários foram obtidos dados como profissão, gênero, idade, orientação política, hábitos de navegação e postagem; e dos voluntários, valores, cren

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Kensicki, Linda Jean. "Media construction of an elitist environmental movement new frontiers for second level agenda setting and political activism /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034551.

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Fuchs, Grace Frances. "How Community Concerns about Hydraulic Fracturing and Injection Wells can be Addressed Through the Application of Environmental Monitoring Technology." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556136264849063.

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Rhodes-Kubiak, Robert. "Activist citizens : social movement theory, citizenship and the development of LGBT activism in Serbia." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599556.

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Between 1990 and 2010, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LOBT) people in Serbia moved from a legal prohibition of homosexuality and widespread hostility, to a legislative and institutional framework of increasing recognition and protection. Social attitudes, too, 3re shifting towards greater acceptance. A vibrant social movement of LGBT activists has been vitally important in these shifts. This thesis explores and analyses a series of semi-structured interviews with these activists, campaigning materials, and primary and secondary literature to present a contextualised account of the history a

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Brolund, de Carvalho Sara. "Urban Pedagogik: rum för förhandling." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-134098.

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En av huvudmålen med arbetet var att få ökad förståelse för hur medborgarnas makt och inflytande utvecklats historiskt inom stadsplanering. Jag var även intresserad av arkitektens roll i denna process. Jag ville som arkitekt, med stadsplanering som huvudfokus, hitta intressanta vägar att arbeta med medborgare och medborgargrupper och att förstå hur ett reellt lokalt inflytande kan ta form. Därför har jag försökt titta på relationer mellan medborgare, arkitekter, planerare, organisationer och kommun/stat. Jag drevs av en övertygelse att jag lättare kommer att finna argument för mina ”sociala am

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Potgieter, Elnari. "Predictors of political participation in new democracies : a comparative study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85612.

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Thesis (MA)-- Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Comparative studies investigating predictors of political participation in new democracies are rare. This study addresses an identified gap in the literature on predictors of political participation in new democracies in order to build on the rich body of literature concerned with political participation and democratic consolidation which already exists, but also to contribute towards understanding the role of citizens and their decisions pertaining to political participation in new democracies. In order to address the ide

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Sutcliffe, Michael O. "Neighborhood activism in sociohistorical perspective : Columbus, Ohio, 1900-1980 /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260135355212.

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Mata, Joe I. (Joe Israel). "The Effects of Age-Graded Associations on the Political Activism of the Elderly." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501086/.

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Although the graying of the American society has been well documented, the question as to whether the elderly populace will indeed become a political factor has yet to be determined. Some studies indicate that the elderly will soon develop the consensus needed for political action; other studies counter that the elderly will never be a viable political factor. Among the determinants listed as influencing the political participation equation are standard socioeconomic variables (e.g., race, social status, education, and income). These factors have been studied extensively (Campbell 1960; Key 19

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Zettlemoyer, Jaime Nichole, and Jaime Nichole Zettlemoyer. "Trends in LGBT Activism: Defending the Rights of Egypt's Queer Citizens." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625258.

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Egyptians who do not fit into the mold of the ideal, heteronormative citizen as perpetuated by the state face widespread persecution and criminalization. State security forces target homosexual and other queer sexualities and behaviors in the private and public spheres. From fake profiles on dating and social media websites to raids on clubs and private parties, this segment of the Egyptian population struggles to find a space for themselves within Egyptian society. When arrest often means abuse, torture, and coerced confessions, they are further pushed to the fringes of society. Although Egyp

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Galán, Nieto Sergio Manuel. "Designing technologies for unproductive citizens." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21635.

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This is a project to design digital technologies to promote uses of public spaces challenging the social religion of productivism + consumerism. Instead I celebrate participative leisure, free time, political involvement and social relationships. Digital artefacts for what I'm calling the "unproductive city". The goal is to incorporate a different set of values where the “paid work” is not as relevant in our life as it is today.The project is focused on life in cities and works with the integration of computing technologies into everyday urban settings and lifestyles. What it is called “urban

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Trevisan, Filippo. "Connected citizens or digital isolation? : online disability activism in times of crisis." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4561/.

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This thesis asks whether the internet can at all re-configure political participation into a more inclusive experience for disabled users, enhancing their stakes in citizenship. This issue assumes particular relevance at a time in which, amidst the worst economic crisis in decades, the rights of those traditionally excluded from civic life are at risk of being compromised even further. In an effort to transcend the restrictive access/accessibility framework applied so far in disability and new media research, this project focused on the “digitalisation” of disability activism in the wake of th

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Suhonen, Riikka. "Youth civic engagement in Bhutan: Obedient citizens or social activists?" Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23721.

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People’s participation in their own development is at the core of Communication forDevelopment. This study explores the potential and barriers for youth civic engagementespecially among the urban youth in Bhutan, a newly democratised country in theEastern Himalayas. Youth Initiative (YI), a project begun in the fall of 2013 by a groupof local youth and mentored by a local civil society organisation, the Bhutan Centre forMedia and Democracy, was chosen as the case study.The study analyses how and in which arenas youth enact their citizenship inBhutan; how young people themselves see their oppor

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Wright, Bryan D. "Urban Regeneration and Immigrant Representation in Non-Gateway Cities." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1414750325.

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Loy, Beth A. "Willingness to pay for industrial recruitment : a look at local decision-maker activity versus citizen preference." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1998. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=152.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 1998.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 75 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-54).

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Volschenk, Annegret. "The association between physical activity, functional fitness and balance in senior citizens / Volschenk A." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6953.

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During the past decades there has been an increase in longevity. These aging trends have an enormous economic impact and present challenges to policymakers, families, and health care providers to meet the needs of aging individuals. Aging is accompanied with various physiological changes that can limit the elderly’s functional status and their independency. Some of the most noticeable changes occur within the musculoskeletal system, however cardiorespiratory changes, as well as changes in the body composition limits the elderly’s aerobic capacity and therefore increases the risk for cardiovasc

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Wong, Wai Man Natalie. "Beyond NIMBY : the emergence of environmental activism and policy change in two Chinese cities." Thesis, University of York, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11924/.

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The present research article focuses on public participation in the environmental policy-making process in post-Mao China. It is a well-known fact that public administration in socialist China is highly centralised, and that public policies are initiated at the center and then locally administered under the one-party rule. In this monist political system, main stakeholders in the policy process are mainly Chinese Communist Party cadres, together with the ‘authorised’ groups of societies; so far participation from autonomous interest groups and society has been limited at best. In general, the

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Ortiz, Stephen R. ""Soldier-citizens" the Veterans of Foreign Wars and veteran political activism from the Bonus March to the GI Bill /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0006061.

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Turner, Tyler Norman. "Effects of Human Land Use on the Activity, Diversity, and Distribution of Native Bats." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1522839181353869.

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Wight, Philip A. "From Citizens to Consumers: The Countercultural Roots of Green Consumerism." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1368030088.

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DIETRICH, REBECCA KATHLEEN. "THE ROLE OF SELF-EFFICACY AND THE STAGES OF BEHAVIOR CHANGE AS RELATED TO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS OF SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER PARTICIPANTS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1194635948.

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Futerman, Rael Glen. "Design for collaboration in South Africa : an activity theory perspective on participatory design." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2268.

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Thesis (DTech (Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015.<br>Participatory Design (PD) is increasingly being used as a methodology by local government, private designers and design researchers in the Western Cape, South Africa, to democratise the design of product service systems (PSS). Activity theory, specifically Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) offers PD researchers and practitioners involved in the collaborative design and development of socio-technical PSS’s an interpretive lens through which to a) identify existing and potential contradictions and tensions

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Oestrich, Charlotte Rose. "Student Speech Rights: The Ideological Influences of Narrative in Student Activism." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1594906015520059.

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Sastre, Miriam. "e-FEMINISM: The Impact of Engaging Men in Digital Campaigning in Spain : How can men be included as allies in digital activism?" Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18795.

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The fresh idea of including men in feminist campaigning might be a reaction to a postfeminist context with much uncertainty towards the feminist movement and arises a never-ending complex and contested issue within the feminist theory. This research aims at understanding the rise of feminist communication on social media, particularly on Instagram, with a special focus on men’s representation and involvement. Therefore, this paper will study men’s engagement in feminist digital campaigning on Instagram; and their representation and participation in this type of activism without ostracizing wom

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O'Leary, Anna Ochoa. "Of Information Highways and Toxic Byways: Women and Environmental Protest in a Northern Mexican City." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219212.

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Women’s involvement in collective struggles for environmental quality has surged in recent years, as has research focusing on this phenomenon. Consistent with this research, a feminist lens is useful in revealing a model of community struggle that features women’s activities and strategies to expose environmental insult. I use a case study of community protest in Hermosillo, a city in the Mexican state of Sonora, to feature social networks as a means of politicizing the placement of a toxic waste dump six kilometers outside the city. A feminist perspective reveals these social networks to be m

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Chakrabarti, Poulomi Dhar. "How rise of middle class activism in Indian cities is changing the face of local governance : [case of Delhi]." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42271.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-114).<br>Neighborhood Associations, called Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), have assumed an important role in public policy decision making in Delhi as the principal voice of the middle class. This represents a departure from the traditional role of these institutions that was restricted to the boundaries of their neighborhoods. This development also follows a Government of Delhi program, called Bhagidari, that institutionalized citizen governme

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Scanlan, Kyle Thomas. "Fight the power protest, showdown and civil rights activity in three southern cities 1960-1965 /." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0620101-205356/unrestricted/ScanlanK0809a.pdf.

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Dedinja, Semra. "Walk with me : An iterative design process involving senior citizens in the making of a persuasive eHealth system." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160769.

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Digitization of data offers more opportunities for future health and medicine care due to the availability of information technology in our everyday lives. Several studies have provided us with insights in designing persuasive eHealth services, but only a few studies have investigated the design of a persuasive eHealth application by using presently available smartphones and while including the target group. By pursuing an iterative design process, three smartphone application prototypes were created and tested with senior citizens by using cognitive walkthroughs, use case scenarios and semi-s

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Veran, Patrícia Guedes. "Estudo comparado entre idosos do Brasil e Portugal: uma análise da saúde, envelhecimento e qualidade de vida em cidades distintas." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14709.

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Este estudo objetivou analisar comparativamente a Qualidade de Vida entre os idosos que participam de Programas de Atividade Física Públicos em Nisa/Portugal (Programa Activ Sénior) e Florianópolis/Brasil (Programa Floripa Ativa). Foi realizado um estudo descritivo transversal com 258 idosos (129 portugueses e 129 brasileiros) de ambos os sexos no período de outubro a dezembro de 2011 através da aplicação do questionário Short form 36, nas versões portuguesa e brasileira. Foram categorizados por faixa etária, gênero e país. Os resultados da análise descritiva mostraram que os idosos tinham ida

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Wildschut, Angelique Colleen. "Investigating women's participation in protest politics between 1991 and 2001." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53473.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The involvement of women in both conventional and unconventional forms of political participation in South Africa has over the past 10 years, and often at present, been experienced as problematic and limited. Exacerbating the problem of limited access and information, the study of, and literature about, women's participation in unconventional forms of politics have also been limited. It is the aim of this study to contribute to our knowledge in this area. This study investigates women's participation in unconventional p

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Šafářová, Barbora. "Orgány obce-město Dobříš." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-4224.

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Objective of this thesis is to describe the municipal authority. Town Dobříš is used town as an example. First, I define municipality, its force and competence. I describe particular rights of municipality citizens. Further, I characterize local authority, its structure, acts and I introduce specific example of council act -- municipal ordinance of binding force of town Dobříš. Similarly I describe local board, its structure, acts and council committee. I delimitate position of mayor and vice mayors. I characterize municipal office including unions and secretary. I describe particular forms of

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Mangoldt, Charlotte von. "Student environmentalism in Beijing, China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ef524063-dda5-4cda-a73a-f0d56b95f527.

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This dissertation explores student environmentalism in Beijing, China. It traces students' political norms and values, explains their activism and experience of pollution, and investigates the role of environmental non-governmental organisation (ENGOs) in forming youth environmentalism. To serve these objectives, the work takes forward theories on youth activism and agency and recent debates on environmental health, environmentalism and ENGOs. This study was designed as a qualitative research project based primarily on interviews and complemented by ethnographic methods, content analysis, pict

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Rakha, Tarek. "Towards comfortable and walkable cities : spatially resolved outdoor thermal comfort analysis linked to travel survey-based human activity schedules." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99264.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Building Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Outdoor thermal comfort can influence human powered mobility choices, namely walking and biking. As more people are living in cities than ever before in human history, the urban environments we erect and populate are unfortunately contributing to phenomena such as climate change, which is negatively affecting urban life. Our understanding and creation of comfortable environments that are conducive to

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Žiūkienė, Rasa, and Sandra Mikšytė. "Senjorų fizinis aktyvumas ir su juo susijusių veiksnių analizė." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130910_132701-75524.

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Darbo objektas: ryšys tarp senjorų fizinio aktyvumo ir su juo susijusių veiksnių. Tyrimo tikslas: nustatyti senjorų fizinį aktyvumą ir su juo susijusius veiksnius. Uždaviniai: 1. Nustatyti senjorų demografinius rodiklius, fizinį aktyvumą, kūno masės indeksą, gaunamą informaciją apie fizinį aktyvumą, fizinio aktyvumo sąlygas, fizinio aktyvumo žinias, fizinio pasyvumo priežastis, savo sveikatos vertinimą. 2. Palyginti demografinius rodiklius, fizinį aktyvumą, kūno masės indeksą, gaunamą informaciją apie fizinį aktyvumą, fizinio aktyvumo sąlygas, fizinio aktyvumo žinias, fizinio pasyvumo priežast

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Mitchell-Brown, JoAnna L. "Local and Regional Indicators of Suburban Growth: An Analysis and Evaluation of Economic Activity of Kenwood, Ohio." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1212877817.

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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.<br>Advisor: Michael Romanos PhD (Committee Chair), David Edelman PhD (Committee Member), Gregory D. Bickford (Committee Member), Daniel E. Johnson (Committee Member). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Apr. 15, 2010). Includes abstract. Keywords: metrotowns; edge cities; urban villages; Kenwood; suburban growth centers. Includes bibliographical references.

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Tire, Thabo Dennis. "Lobbying disability in South Africa, 1994-2001 : a description of the activities of the disabled people South Africa (DPSA) in the policy-making process." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53487.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research assignment is a detailed descriptive investigation of the lobbying role played by the Disabled People South Africa (DPSA) in the post-apartheid era in South Africa. The period under investigation is 1994-2001. The focus is on the DPSA as a lobbyist attempting to influence policy in favour of the disabled people in South Africa. In doing this, the study gives an overview of the three important concepts in this study, namely policy-making, disability and lobbying. The three concepts are analysed and looked a

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Eriksson, Niklas, and Mikael Forss. "Ålderspensionärers upplevelse av förändringar i vardagsaktiviteter utifrån rekommendationer och restriktioner införda under Covid-19 pandemin." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-84803.

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Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur äldre personer upplever att deras vardagsaktiviteter påverkats av Folkhälsomyndighetens rekommendationer och restriktioner som infördes i samband med Coronapandemin. Metod: Studien genomfördes med en kvalitativ design. Författarna genomförde åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer via telefon med pensionärer som var medlemmar i PRO Gävleborg eller SPF Hälsingedistriktet i Södra Norrland och var 70 år och äldre. Vid analysen användes en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Det insamlade materialet resulterade i sex kategorier: Affärens betydelse, Minsk

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