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Fedi, Alessandro. "Servizi Web Integrati con Applicazioni di Social Networking tramite Framework Spring Social." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017.
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Il lavoro effettuato in questa tesi prevede la creazione di un sistema configurabile da installare su un’applicazione web che sia in grado di offrire l’interazione con i Social Network più diffusi. Attraverso questo lavoro è stato approfondito lo studio di Spring Social, strumento in grado di gestire la connessione ai Social Network che utilizzano OAuth per concedere l'autorizzazione. Inoltre è stato realizzato un prototipo sviluppato con AngularJS che soddisfacesse i requisiti dati.
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Research, Manager NEXUS. "NEXUS Portal Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2007)." NEXUS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15383.
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Research, Manager NEXUS. "NEXUS Portal Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 2008)." NEXUS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15376.
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Kullberg, Marlene, and Jonas Svensson. "Varsågod och spring!En kartläggning av aktivtetsgraden i ämnet Idrott och hälsa." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Teacher Education, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-4904.
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Uppsatsen handlar om aktivitetsgraden på lektioner i ämnet Idrott och hälsa. Syftet med undersökningen var att mäta hur aktiva ett urval elever var under lektioner i ämnet Idrott och hälsa. Mätningarna gjordes med hjälp av stegräknare vid tre tillfällen i tre olika klasser, skolår 1, 5 och 9. Mätningarna kompletterades med observationer vid varje mättillfälle i vardera klass i skolår 1, 5 och 9. Ordinarie lärare som undervisar klasserna i Idrott och hälsa intervjuades. I forskningsbakgrunden tas tidigare relevant forskning upp samt styrdokument och lokala arbetsplaner. Resultaten visar att aktivitetsgraden påverkas av undervisningseffektivitet och den organisation som förekom under mättillfällena. Genom denna uppsats kom vi fram till att aktivitetsgraden inte alltid kan mätas med hjälp av stegräknare utan den beror på den typ av aktivitet som eleverna utfört.
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Hedlund, Caroline, and Linda Loftman. "Spring ikapp omvärlden : en studie om omvärldsbevakning i friskvårdsbranschen." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19959.
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The aim of this thesis is to investigate how small organisations within the subject field health and training work with their environmental scanning. The main questions in this thesis are: How do the organisations work with business intelligence/environmental scanning? What is their environment like and of which parts does it consist? How extensive is their work with business intelligence/ environmental scanning? Which are their main fields of application and how is the work compiled practically? In order to answer these questions we have chosen to use a qualitative method, which in our case consists of two interviews with people in managerial positions within the health and training subject field. The result of the two interviews is presented in a compilation, and it is thereafter discussed and analyzed. We used an existing theoretical model and altered it in order to correspond to the aim of this research.
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Strenges, Stephen Michael. "Staring Down the Mukhabarat: Rhizomatic Social Movements and the Egyptian and Syrian Arab Spring." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5585.
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Unable to enact change through the existing political institutions of their authoritarian regimes, and consistently repressed by state security forces (the mukhabarat), activists in Egypt and Syria relied on street activism to challenge their conditions. This study analyzes the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Syria through the conceptual lens of a rhizome. Rhizomatic movements are horizontal, grassroots, and allow for the networking of local community-specific grievances, into larger national movements. This networking allows opposition members groups to build solidarity, construct collective identities, and develop a set of shared goals, strategies, and tactics. Furthermore, it provides for the transcendence of existing societal divides (such as religious, ideological, political, socio-cultural, and class), allowing participants to unite as a single force. Since a rhizome is horizontal and lacks a fixed structure, they are significantly more difficult to dismantle, as there is not a set leadership or hierarchy to target. Importantly, this rhizomatic logic integrates itself within the notion of viewing movements within larger cycles of protest or waves of contention. Rhizomatic movements are built through the praxis of networking, rather than through ideological networking. As such, the conditions and history of opposition movements provides important analytical considerations. This study, using process tracing, argues that the Egyptian revolution was rhizomatic in nature and thus able to pose a significant enough force to challenge Mubarak's regime. Although faced with brutal repression, activists remained coordinated, interconnected, and continued to mobilize. Conversely, the Syrian opposition, plagued by years of in-fighting among activists, was unable to develop as a rhizomatic force. Activists failed to sufficiently network, build collective identities, and develop common tactics. This hindered their ability to appeal to and mobilize large segments of the population that were discontent with Assad but still viewed him as the best option for their own interests. When faced with systematic suppression by Assad's regime, the opposition faltered, returning to their own respective individual self-interests and goals, allowing the regime to fragment their attempts at mobilization.
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Schueller, Rebecca. "Tweet Like an Egyptian: The Role of Social Media in the Arab Spring Uprisings." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340294011.
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Dozier, Dara Celeste Reed Cynthia J. "Interactivity, social constructivism, and satisfaction with distance learning among infantry soldiers." Auburn, Ala., 2004. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2004/SPRING/Educational_Foundations,_Leadership_and_Technology/Dissertation/doziedc_15_Dozier_EdD.pdf.
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Randall, Jason. "Cyber-Sovereignty: The Power of Social Media on the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2017. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/108.
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This dissertation assesses the role of social media and its effects on the Arab Spring. The research will be guided by two questions: Could the use of American Dot.com social networking websites (e.g. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube) by Tunisians and Egyptians during the Arab Spring, to overthrow their governments, be characterized as a violation of Tunisia’s and Egypt’s sovereignty (cyber-sovereignty)? Secondly, what was the significance of the abovementioned social networking websites during the Arab Spring?
The first question will be examined by using Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Theory; the problem, policy, and political streams have to converge simultaneously in order to create a window of opportunity to enact change. For this to occur, it is the responsibility of the policy entrepreneur to combine the three streams. The policy entrepreneur is an individual(s) who are tasked with the responsibility of integrating the three streams. During the Arab Spring, social media served as a mechanism for citizens to bypass government censorship to chronicle and narrate events as they occurred. As a result, I assert that it was the use of social media in this manner by the policy entrepreneurs that violated the sovereignty of both Tunisia and Egypt.
The second question will be analyzed by administering questionnaires and reviewing tertiary sources to assess the significance of the abovementioned social networking websites during the Arab Spring. By examining the two research questions together, the conclusion of this analysis will potentially provide the basis for political cooperation towards an international cyber-sovereignty doctrine. The Arab Spring was far greater than Tunisia and Egypt. However, I felt it was of the utmost importance to focus on the origin of the Arab Spring, as well as the significance in which the role of social media became instrumental. Analyzing the role of social media, the transformation of power, and cyber-sovereignty in both countries through four (individual, state, organizational, and international) layers of analysis will help to assess the role of social media during the Arab Spring and to generate layers of protection to mitigate its influence.
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Nilsson, Marielle, and Moa Elfström. ""Spring för livet" : en studie av hur förskolors friytor påverkar barnets vardag." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-74522.
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Studiens syfte har varit att undersöka hur storleken på förskolors friytor påverkar barnets vardag, med fokus på 50 kommunala förskolegårdar i Karlstads kommun. Då gårdarna idag krymper i takt med förtätningens ökade konkurrens om mark, samtidigt som behovet av nya förskoleplatser är stort, är barns rätt till rum ett aktuellt ämne. Studien inleds med en kort bakgrund om förskolans historia och aktuella lagar för att sätta ämnet i en större kontext. Metoderna i studien är både kvalitativa och kvantitativa i sin utformning med empiri insamlad genom geografiska mätningar av förskolegårdar och observationer av förskolebarn. Det empiriska materialet har bland annat analyserats genom kvalitativa innehållsanalyser. Studiens vetenskapliga utgångspunkt är inspirerad av poststrukturalismen och de teorier som presenteras grundar sig i barngeografi och rumsforskning. Av observationerna framkom att barnens uppmätta rörelsegrad inte hade något tydligt samband med gårdarnas storlek. Däremot observerades ett samband mellan typ av lek, rörelse och gårdarnas utrymme. Studiens resultat visar därmed att barnens vardag påverkas av gårdarnas storlek, framförallt den totala storleken, och att barn inom mindre gårdar har sämre förutsättningar för vidlyftig lek och god hälsa. Gårdarnas storlek utgör också en grundförutsättning för andra kvaliteters existens som i sin tur påverkar barnen. Resultatet visade att det fanns stor spridning av förskolegårdar med olika storlekar i kommunen, vilket innebär en ojämlikhet i barnens vardagsmiljö och förutsättningarna för god hälsa och utveckling. En slutsats som kan dras är att barnens rätt till rum bör prioriteras för att förhindra krympande ytor och för att säkerställa jämlika förutsättningar.
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Coen, Stephanie. "NEXUS Portal Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2009) ~ Special issue on knowledge exchange." NEXUS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15375.
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Farmer, Charles E. Saye John W. "An examination of factors affecting the acceptance of innovative social studies curriculum materials." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/Curriculum_and_Teaching/Dissertation/Farmer_Charles_38.pdf.
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El, Berr Luisa. "Regime Survival during the Arab Spring: : A Case study of how the Moroccan leader addressed the popular discontent during and after the Arab Spring in 2011." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-67923.
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The Arab Spring, the protests that spread through the Arab world, led to very different outcomes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. That some regimes survived during the Arab Spring and some experienced regime-change has been explained through political, economic and social perspectives. This desk-study investigates how the Moroccan government addressed popular discontent during and after the Arab spring in 2011. In order to examine the case study through a new theoretical angle, this research applies the Theory of Policy Substitutability by Amy Oakes (2012) to the chosen case study. This study identifies that the Moroccan government used political reform, repression, a sort of economic reform and the use of cultural symbols were put in place to lower the intensity of protests. The findings underline that the government used a number of tactics that can be analyzed through the concept of diversionary tactics, meaning the diversion from internal struggle. This research adds value to the discussion about regime survival in the case of the Moroccan Arab Spring not only by applying the Theory of PS as a structuring device for existing explanations of regime survival, it furthermore adds value by giving an example of how scholars can examine qualitatively how the concept of diversionary tactics (military and non-military responses) can have applicability.
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Thatcher, Melvin P. "Kinship and government in Chu during the Spring and Autumn era, 722-453 B.C. /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10340.
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Burriss, Michael Muñoz Ogayar Jorge Joaquin. "Esnifando mentiras La critica social en Historias del Kronen y Mensaka de José Ángel Mañas /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/Foreign_Languages_and_Literatures/Thesis/Burriss_Michael_18.pdf.
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McCollum, Rick. "Shaping blended worship at Spring Valley Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Pérez-Altable, Laura. "Social movements and network analysis: the case of Tunisia digital activism before and during the Arab Spring (2010-2011)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401386.
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This thesis aims to bridge social movement studies with media and communication studies, taking the case study of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and combining quantitative and qualitative approach. Methodologically, this thesis integrates social network analysis with qualitative content analysis and semi- structured interviews. The main objective is to give an account Tunisia’s digital network before and during the Arab Spring, along with its relationship with the social movement that characterized the Arab Spring in Tunisia. Overall, our research has identified a series of dynamics which determine the patterns of diffusion of information through digital networks. Our findings demonstrate that this networks tends to be highly participatory, but that it is also hierarchical, showing a power- law distribution. Nevertheless, this type of power distribution allows much information to spread quickly and reach a wide audience. Moreover, our study shows that the combination of online and offline networks was essential for the success of the Tunisian uprising.Esta tesis tiene el objetivo de proporcionar un puente entre las disciplinas de sociología y comunicación. Tomando como estudio de caso la primavera árabe en Túnez, esta investigación combina el enfoque cuantitativo y cualitativo. Metodológicamente en esta tesis se lleva a cabo un análisis de redes sociales, combinándolo con análisis de contenido cuantitativo y entrevistas semiestructuradas. El objetico principal es el de dar cuenta de la red digital de Túnez antes y durante la primavera árabe. En general, los resultados han identificado una serie de dinámicas que determinan los patrones de difusión de información a través de redes digitales. Nuestros resultados demuestran que estas redes tienden a ser más participativas, pero también jerárquicas. Esta estructura permite difundir más información en menor tiempo y llegar a un público más amplio. Por otra parte, nuestro estudio ha demostrado, además, que en nuestro caso de estudio resultó esencial la combinación de redes digitales y personales para el éxito de la primavera árabe en Túnez.
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Johnson, Jordan. "Revolutions as rhetorical movements: a movement study of the Egyptian Arab Spring Revolution." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19705.
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Charles J. Griffin
The 2011 Arab Spring Revolutions across the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region drew international attention to the collection action phenomenon of revolutions. Despite having a significant impact on today’s globalized world, revolutions have been widely unexplored by social movement rhetorical scholars. This lack of study has prompted scholars to call for the investigation of the role human agency plays during revolutions (Morris, 2000). Rhetorical scholars are well-suited to meet this call but lack a methodological framework to examine revolutions. In responding to Morris’ call and with an interest in adding to the body of rhetorical social movement literature, this thesis asks two research questions. What are the rhetorical characteristics of revolutions? Are revolutions rhetorically distinct from social movements? To answer these questions, this thesis translates Jack Goldstone’s (1998) Divergent View of Social Movements and Revolutions into a rhetorical model for studying revolutions. This adaptation of the political science model relies heavily on Leland Griffin’s (1969) and Charles Stewart’s (1980) models of social movements. Additionally, the adapted model also incorporates James Wilkinson’s (1989) discussion of revolutionary rhetorical functions. The application of the new rhetorical model to the Egyptian Arab Spring reveals revolutions rhetorically develop and function in ways that creates a clear distinction between revolutions from social movements. These findings prompt discussion of methodological and critical implications.
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Kassem, Majed. "Revolutionary Action in the Arab Spring: A Typological Theory on Popular Revolution." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2017. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/85.
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This dissertation employs a qualitative case study approach to investigate the 2010-2012 Arab Spring. It addresses two research questions: 1) what are the Arab Spring events instances of, and 2) what gave rise to the variation across the Arab Spring outcomes? The ultimate objective of this research is to go beyond theorizing the Arab Spring to advance a typological theory on popular revolution. To that end, the study reviews several bodies of literature in the social sciences, and employs a structured, focused comparison approach to analyze variance across six Arab Spring cases: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain. As a result, four theoretical types of revolutionary action have been identified: elite-imposed popular evolution (EIPR), foreign-imposed popular revolution (FIPR), foreign-blocked abortive revolution (FBAR), and elite-blocked abortive revolution (EBAR). In addition, the research found EIPR to have been the case in Tunisia and Egypt, FIPR in Libya and Yemen, and FBAR in Syria and Bahrain; EBAR was an empty cell in the Arab Spring. Furthermore, the study proposes that cases of EIPR are likely to culminate in a quasi-coup by autonomous elites; FIPR in a foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) by international intervention; FBAR in a foreign-imposed regime maintenance (FIRM) by foreign patrons; and EBAR in an elite-imposed regime maintenance (EIRM) by subservient elites. The contingent generalizations offered by this theory should help scholars and policy makers approximate the trajectory of future revolutionary events by tracing them to the above theoretical types. This should help them improve their overall response to recent and ongoing revolutionary events, especially in the area of conflict resolution.
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Li, Meng. "Creating continuity in social transformation: an ethnographic study of migrant workers' spring festival family reunion rituals in China." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1480.
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This dissertation offers an ethnographic account of "the world's largest annual human migration": the family reunion ritual practiced by hundreds of millions of Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers, who work in cities and travel back to the countryside during the lunar New Year (the Spring Festival) to reunite with family members.
The formation and practice of this ritual is situated in the particular historical moment of China's modernization when rural migrants have gained the freedom to leave the countryside but are met with difficulties in settling in the city and becoming urban citizens. Although migrant workers have contributed directly to China's burgeoning economy, without an institutionalized system that provides them security and full social rights, they experience prolonged liminality between the city and the countryside. The Spring Festival reunion offers migrant workers a once-in-a-year chance to achieve family unity, to reconnect with scattered kith and kin, and to temporarily actualize a sense of normalcy and continuity in the rural community. Drawing on theories of cultural communication, ritual, and family communication, I conceptualize the reunion ritual as a form of "lifeworld re-embedment" on China's pathway to individualization--a social process that engages in cultural resources to cope with the risks of modernity, bridging the disjuncture between the individual and the community.
Built on interviews with migrant workers and participant observation of family reunions in a village in Central China, this dissertation examines the ritual forms, meanings, and functions of the reunion. I first examine the ritualization of the Spring Festival reunion at a national level, focusing on the spectacular movement of passengers during the Spring Festival travel season. I argue that the Spring Festival homecoming has transformed from a transportation issue to a pilgrimage-like national ritual, projecting an image of the collective pursuit of family cohesion and community integration. As a response to the unequal access to urban citizenship, returning to one's countryside home has also become an alternative way for migrant workers to claim their identities and to find a sense of belonging. In communicating about the family reunion, migrant workers employ culturally distinctive languages of place attachment and collectively used discourses of displacement to construct the meaning of home, separation, and unification. In addition, I explore family rituals performed during the reunion that help migrant workers reconnect with left-behind family members, fulfill family obligations, and create family unity.
This study provides a more nuanced understanding of the paradoxical process of individualization in China, in which disembedded individuals have to depend on culturally bound integration provided by the institutions from which the disembedment occurs. In this process, ritual communication not only articulates the tension between the individual and the communal, but also functions as a powerful compensatory solution to the risks of family dislocation. By analyzing the Spring Festival reunion from a micro-level with a focus on how ritualized communication constructs, maintains, repairs, and changes social reality, this study also adds to the body of literature on cultural communication and family communication.
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Arif, Rauf. "Social movements, YouTube and political activism in authoritarian countries: a comparative analysis of political change in Pakistan, Tunisia & Egypt." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4564.
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This dissertation explores the role of social media in political activism in authoritarian societies, using as case studies the use of YouTube as an alternative channel of communication and resistance during the political crises in Pakistan, Tunisia, and Egypt. I studied Pakistan because it is one of the few majority Muslim countries in which social media were part of the media mix during the mass uprisings that led to the overthrow of the regime of military leader, General Pervez Musharraf in 2007. Tunisia and Egypt were chosen because these two countries are seen as the iconic nations of the Arab Spring 2011. The study argues that the term "Arab Spring" itself limits the scope of ongoing online and offline political uprisings in the Muslim World, which is spreading beyond the geographical boundaries of the Middle East.
The investigation uses "social movements" as defined and theorized by Hirschman (1970), Lohmann (1994), Olson (1965), and Tarrow (1994; 1998) as its theoretical foundation, in order to describe and explain how YouTube was part of the information activism of the social movements that sprang up during the revolutions in Pakistan, Tunisia and Egypt. A comparative methodological approach enables me to analyze the "most viewed" YouTube videos of political protests in the three countries.
By examining a purposive sample of 60 most viewed protest-related YouTube videos, the study explores how these videos served as a "voice," (alternative channels of communication) when the authoritarian governments controlled all the media in the three countries. Using quantitative content analysis and thematic analysis approaches, the study investigates YouTube's role and content during Pakistan's political crisis of 2007, and compares it with that platform's role as an alternative avenue of communication, as well as its content in the 2011 political uprising in Tunisia and Egypt, which are the core of the Arab Spring in North Africa.
Eight research questions were asked for this investigation. These questions were derived from Hirschman (1970), Lohmann (1994), Tarrow (1998), and Perlmutter's (1998) works. Issues that were investigated in these questions include: identifying the cultural and ideological frames used in the most viewed videos of each revolution, YouTube videos as "informational cascades," Al-Jazeera's role as "informational cascade," YouTube videos as a "Voice," and the most iconic images of each revolution.
The findings of these research questions suggest that in the absence of traditional media sources, YouTube can serve as an alternative platform of communication and dissent. The study finds that the social movements in the three countries (The Lawyers' Movement of 2007 in Pakistan, the so-called Jasmine Revolution of Tunisia (2010), and the Arab Spring of Egypt 2011) utilized YouTube as an alternate channel of communication to disseminate information on political protests against the dictatorial regimes for purposes of promoting resistance.
The visual content analysis of these videos revealed that the YouTube videos of political protests utilized common religious and national ideologies as a part of cultural and ideological frames to spread the narratives of political protests online.
The findings of this study support that the most viewed videos contributed to serve as informational cascades for the observers (YouTube viewers) of these protest-related videos. The findings also highlight that the pan-Arabic TV channel Al-Jazeera utilized YouTube as an alternative platform to disseminate its protest-related videos, particularly when the channel was banned in the three countries.
The visual content analysis of the most viewed videos of protests suggest that social movements in Pakistan, Tunisia and Egypt used YouTube to amplify their voice against corruption, unemployment, and authoritarianism in the three countries.
The findings of this dissertation identify that three images (one from each country) were treated as the icons of outrage in the 60 most viewed protest-related videos. These icons of outrage include the images of Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation (Tunisia), torture-disfigured face of Khaled Said (Egypt), and the arrest of Pakistani Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudry.
Based on its findings, the dissertation argues that the ongoing political struggle in Muslim-majority countries is a much bigger phenomenon than the "Arab Spring." This study also makes a strong case that Pakistan experienced online informational activism long before the Arab Spring of 2011. Since political communication in Pakistan is a relatively under-researched field, academic archives do not provide sufficient information on the role and emergence of social media in the country, including how the new modes of digital communication serve as alternative channels of political activism against dictatorship. This dissertation intends to fill this void.
The study also contributes to the existing literature on communication, social movements and political activism, which is predominantly specific to Western settings. Since this study applies Western approaches of social movements to non-Western settings, it helps to explicate the applicability of such approaches to non-Western societies and contexts. Furthermore, it is important to understand the role of social media as alternative channels of communication in closed, authoritarian societies where the traditional media serve only the interests of the ruling elites. In addition, the study helps to explain how the increasingly popular social media, e.g. YouTube, are contributing to civil liberties by challenging the authoritarian regimes of the Muslim World.
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Scott, Barry Neil Spencer William Allen. "The role of teacher epistemology in integrating student-centered instructional software a case study in social studies education /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/Educational_Foundations,_Leadership_and_Technology/Dissertation/Scott_Barry_22.pdf.
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Hutton, Cherry Warrington. "Roman Catholic social and economic thought in England c.1880-c.1914 : some tentative steps towards a 'third spring'?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.568566.
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During the latter decades of the nineteenth and opening decades of the twentieth century the Roman Catholic Church in England began, slowly and in small stages, not only to adapt its self image but also to make amendments to perceptions held by outsiders as to what it stood for as an institution, what motivated its leaders and membership and what issues it regarded as important, not only in respect of its own faithful, but also in civil society at large. Its days of being a quietist, self-effacing and unstructured remnant of past times, still cowed by memories of penal times, were over. Too often the historiography of English Catholicism during the second half of the nineteenth century has been dominated by discussion of the residue of anti-papal prejudice, high-profile conversions from the Established Church, criticism of Irish immigrants and the fear engendered amongst non-Catholics by the supposed civil disloyalty of Catholics occasioned by misconceived notions of what allegiance was owed to the pope. These approaches did not look at what the English Catholic Church itself thought was important, the matters to which it chose to devote its energy and topics to which it chose to add its voice. While Catholic writers still considered doctrine, the development of liturgical style and the logistics of building up a parochial structure sufficient to support the needs of rapidly inflated congregations, there was at the same time a growing awareness of the temporal concerns of secular society, the material wellbeing of the faithful as well as the economic problems and social injustices thrown up by post-industrial, urbanized, poverty stricken and, potentially, alienated dispossessed sections of society. The thesis charts the development of a Catholic social programme by the examination of four key subject areas of work, socialism, education and social action, through the methodology of an Weberian Ideal Type construct. It poses the hypothesis that the foundation of a new era of Catholic social thought was laid between c.1880 and c.1914.
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Gevers, Tristan Ronald. "'Leaders like children playing with a grenade?' : an analysis of how the Arab Spring was received in South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006031.
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When the Arab Spring took place, it took the world by surprise and sparked renewed interest in the idea of revolution. With differing opinions on what caused such a revolutionary wave throughout the North African and Middle Eastern region, many began looking at their own countries, and South Africa was no different. A debate was sparked in South Africa, as to whether there would be a revolution or not. What I originally set out to accomplish is to find out which side of the debate would be correct through the philosophical context of revolutionary theory. Initially, we attempted to define and consider the history of revolutionary theory. We found that revolutionary theory has gone through four generation and that even finding a theoretically informed definition is difficult. Following this, we considered some social-psychological theories of revolution as well as theories of moral indignation. We found that these theories were incredibly informative and that they provide some insight into the reasoning for revolutionary fear in the South African debate. Through the use of opinion pieces, we then considered the South African debate, and – using socialpsychological theories and the theories of moral indignation - found that both sides of the argument had valuable points, however, they often lacked some foresight. With tentative agreement, we found that the side arguing that there would a revolution in South Africa had a more valuable argument, despite its limitations. However, far more research is required before one can – with more accuracy – predict a revolutionary occurrence in such a way as was done in South Africa.
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Häggström, Aino, and Emma Andersson. ""...och bena blir fulla med spring" : Pedagogisk grundsyn, barns rörelser och kognitiva lärande." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68493.
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Titel: ”... and legs that will joyfully run…” Pedagogical perspectives, children's movements and cognitive learning. ”...och bena blir fulla med spring”. Pedagogisk grundsyn, barns rörelser och kognitiva lärande. Syftet med studien är att synliggöra fem yrkesverksamma förskollärares inställning till barns rörelsebehov, hur de uppmärksammar betydelsen av barns rörelseaktiviteter för deras kognitiva lärande och hur de arbetar med barns rörelsebehov utomhus. Utifrån syftet har vi formulerat följande frågeställningar: Vad är förskollärarnas inställning till barns rörelsebehov? Vilka kopplingar ser förskollärarna mellan barns rörelseaktiviteter och barns kognitiva lärande? Hur arbetar förskollärarna med barns rörelsebehov utomhus? Studien är genomförd med semistrukturerade djupintervjuer med yrkesverksamma förskollärare utifrån en kvalitativ forskningsmetod som ligger nära en fenomenografisk forskningsansats. Resultatet visar att förskollärares pedagogiska grundsyn, organisatoriska och miljömässiga faktorer påverkar innehållet i verksamheten och hur barn får stimulans i sin rörelseutveckling. De pedagogiska grundsyner som studien fördjupar sig i är förmedlingspedagogik och dialogpedagogik. Studien visar att förskollärare är medvetna om barns rörelsebehov för deras fortsatta rörelseutveckling, sociala och kognitiva lärande men att utevistelsen används på olika sätt beroende på den rådande pedagogiska grundsynen samt organisatoriska och miljömässiga faktorer.
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Abudalu, Muath. "Beyond Cross-National Frameworks: Examining Social Movement Trajectory Variation in Authoritarian Contexts during the Arab Spring, The Case of Jordan." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22357.
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Diese Dissertation Untersucht die verschiedenen Strategie- und Aktionsbündel der Protestbewegungsgruppen, um ihre Ziele für Jordanien während des Arabischen Frühlings zu erreichen. Der Fokus dieser Arbeit liegt dabei auf drei Protestbewegungen, die in diesem Zeitraum im Königreich agierten: die Free Assembly, die Liberation National Social Group und Sadaqa. Mein besonderes Augenmerk gilt der Fragestellung, inwiefern gruppeneigene Ressourcen, ihre Nähe zum Regime, politisches Framing und die Beurteilung politischer Opportunität ihren Verlauf geprägt haben. Basierend auf einer mehr als neunmonatigen Feldforschung und einer gleichzeitig teilnehmenden Beobachtung innerhalb einer der genannten drei Protestgruppen zwischen 2011 und 2013, stelle ich fest, dass sich die Entwicklungsstadien der Gruppen im selben autoritär geprägten Kontext voneinander unterscheiden. Während ich festgestellt habe, dass die Entstehung beziehungsweise die Mobilisierung aller drei Gruppen zu just diesem Zeitpunkt in den regionalen Ereignissen des Arabischen Frühlings begründet sind, bin ich auch der Ansicht, dass dieser regionale Faktor die Entwicklungsverläufe dieser Gruppen nur teilweise erklärt. Vielmehr gilt, dass der Werdegang der Protestgruppen in Jordanien in örtlichen Bedingungen sowohl eingebettet, als auch stark mit ihnen verflochten ist. Namentlich sind diese lokale sozioökonomische Klassenhierarchien, Spannungen zwischen der städtischen und dörflichen Bevölkerung, sowie die umstrittene Geschichte der palästinensischen Jordanier im Land. Diese vorherrschenden Umstände sind für die Analyse, wie die Gruppen ihre Ressourcen mobilisiert, ihre Agenden formuliert und mit der Regierung interagiert haben, um staatliche Unterstützung zu erhalten, von wesentlicher Bedeutung.This dissertation examines the trajectories, or the culmination of strategies and actions that protest groups take toward achieving their intended goals during the Arab Spring in Jordan. I focus on three protest groups in the kingdom during this time period: The Free Assembly, the Liberation National Social Group, and Sadaqa. I specifically look at how each groups’ resources, regime links, framing, and assessment of political opportunity shaped its trajectory. Based on over nine months of fieldwork as well as participant observation within one of the three protest groups from 2011-2013, I find that the groups vary in their trajectories within the same authoritarian context. While I find that the regional events related to the Arab Spring explain why all three groups formed or mobilized at the time they did, I find this regional factor only partially explains the trajectories of these groups. Rather, the trajectories of protest groups in Jordan are also embedded and tied to local circumstances, namely: local socioeconomic class hierarchies, tensions between urban and local populations, and the contentious history of Palestinian-Jordanians in the country. These local circumstances are critical in shaping how the groups mobilized their resources, framed their agendas, and interacted with the regime in ways that allowed them to gain public support.
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Little, Ryan King. "Does Revolution Breed Radicalism? An Analysis of the Stalled Revolution in Syria and the Radical Forces Since Unleashed." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5528.
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This thesis examines the turn to conflict in Syria during 2011 to see if it is revolutionary in nature and if so, why has it not succeeded? This thesis aims to analyze the anatomy of Syria's "revolution" in order to determine the causes behind the initial popular mobilization and transition to conflict. Then, further analysis of the essential elements of successful revolutionary movements will be undertaken to reveal what conditions remain unmet for Syria to culminate in a full revolutionary transformation. Special attention will be paid to the revolutionary Opposition itself, since, to date, it has proved unable to generate the power necessary to destroy the old order and rebuild a new system. The significant role of external intervention will also be addressed, since these forces have simultaneously helped cause the conflict, prolong the conflict and prop up the regime. Finally, the negative consequences of undertaking a revolutionary process, especially when left only partially complete, will be highlighted throughout the study. Syria's own "rise of the radicals," has manifested itself in the phenomenon of ISIL or ISIS, which has proven the strongest and most violent Opposition group to emerge from Syria's revolutionary environment.
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Kunze, Raoul. "The Unpredictability of Conflict - A reconceptualisation of political instability and its potential for forecasting conflict." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23082.
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This thesis is dedicated to developing a concept that allows for predicting the magnitude of political instability periods. To that end existing literature is consulted to explore the most appropriate definitions and explanatory models for creating a elaborated approach to political instability. On the basis of this refined concept, that defines political instability as a latent condition rather than an occurrence, hypotheses are devised. These hypotheses are tested by employing a exploratory correlation analysis on a limited sample, which yields results that encourage confidence in the predictive potential of the developed concept. As suggested in the explanatory framework the analysis finds that the magnitude of conflict, resulting from political instability, is positively correlated with social fragmentation and individual deprivation, while being negatively correlated to military professionalism. A fourth explanatory component - viable alternatives to conflict - was not found to have any effect.
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Mesawa, M. T. "The role of Facebook and Twitter in generating social and political change during the 'Arab Spring' uprisings of Tunisia and Egypt." Thesis, University of Salford, 2016. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/41501/.
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The ‘Arab Spring’ refers to the protests and revolutions that spread across a number of Middle Eastern and North African Muslim countries during late 2010/early 2011. Grounded on the main theoretical framework of the public sphere (along with the complementary theories of technological determinism and technical and cultural appropriation) the aim of this research was to investigate the role of Facebook and Twitter in generating social and political change during the Arab ‘spring’ uprisings of Tunisia and Egypt. Findings from a series of semi-structured interviews with key individuals in both countries offer some support for the validity of these three theories by suggesting that social media worked as an effective public sphere for activism, as well as being a communicative/organisational tool that generated some social/political changes. Nonetheless, this research suggests that the effectiveness of social media began to wane very early into the uprisings. Although this weakening was relatively slow in the more secular Tunisia where the highly westernised youth continued to use social media as a public sphere to discuss political issues, the speed of its demise was far more rapid in the more Islamic Egypt where the traditional public sphere (especially the mosques) and face-to-face communication became more important in driving on the uprising. This implies that although social media played an important role in helping to generate the uprisings in 2010/2011 and in helping to bring some social and political changes, it is not particularly effective in the long-run following regime repression, violence, and media censorship.
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Blanco, Palencia Maria. "Al-Ḥirāk Al-Shabābī Al-ʾUrdunī (the Jordanian Youth Movement) : organisation, strategies and significance for social and political change in Jordan." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29336.
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This study examines Al-Ḥirāk Al-Shabābī Al-ʾUrdunī (the Jordanian Youth Movement), from now on the HSU, and aims to be a first scholarly attempt at mapping the organisation, strategy, challenges, and significance of this youth-led and youth-organised social movement. Taking an interpretive approach to organisational research, this thesis has used a wide range of primary and secondary data, benefited from extensive periods of participant observation as well as interviews with a variety of people including movement participants, in order to achieve a better understanding of the HSU. The main findings that result from this research show that the HSU is ideologically an umbrella to a variety of ideologies, from leftist or communists to Islamists, and that it chooses to organise informally and uninstitutionally in accordance with their political conviction of political parties and traditional opposition groups being a tool of social control for the regime. Politically, therefore, the movement represents a rupture with traditional politics in the country which are perceived by participants as part of a historically constructed system for exercising social control. Finally, the movement challenges traditional frames of ethnic and religious understandings of social and political subjectivities by mobilising a more inclusive discourse that tries to recover the debate on class struggle. Its political independence from other actors in the Jordanian political scene allows participant to raise more radical claims that seek regime removal as well as demands for reform, and these radical discourse within the movement greatly depend on the varying political opportunity structure in time determined by the Jordanian regime’s combination of conciliatory and repressive counter-strategies. An analysis of the strategic conversation between the regime and the HSU is key to exploring the social and political significance of movement strategies in bringing about change in the country as it determines the challenges to organisation encountered. However, relevant transformations in the culture of activism in Jordan are evident, and have the potential to transforming the future of political participation and organisation.
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Zeno, Basil. "Nationalism, Identity, Social Media and Dominant Discourses in Post-Uprising Syria." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1439414162.
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Abudalu, Muath [Verfasser]. "Beyond Cross-National Frameworks: Examining Social Movement Trajectory Variation in Authoritarian Contexts during the Arab Spring, The Case of Jordan. / Muath Abudalu." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/122792514X/34.
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Bizuru, Omar Khalfan. "A Model of Regime Change: The Impact of Arab Spring throughout the Middle East and North Africa." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1621130268165228.
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Ren, Li. "Imagining China in the Era of Global Consumerism and Local Consciousness: Media, Mobility, and the Spring Festival." Ohio : Ohio University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1057001670.
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Al-Emad, Mohammed Abdulrahman. "THE USE OF FACEBOOK IN THE EGYPTIAN JANUARY 25TH REVOLUTION: THE SPIRAL OF VOICE PROCESS." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1073.
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This dissertation was conducted to determine whether Egyptians’ use of Facebook between December 17, 2010 and February 11, 2011 affected their perceptions of majority and minority opinions about President Hosni Mubarak’s government and thus influenced their willingness to express their opinions about that regime, in turn forming a new online public opinion that called for the January 25 revolution. For the purpose of this study, the theoretical framework was the spiral of silence theory. To answer the research questions in this dissertation the researcher used the qualitative approach, combining in-depth interviews with Egyptian Facebook users and qualitative content analysis of their Facebook pages. The results show that as Egyptians used Facebook, they came to believe that others held beliefs about the Mubarak regime similar to their own, they became more hopeful and confident that they could make a difference, and they became more likely to speak out about their opinions. As more voices began to be heard, more voices joined in the chorus of condemnation. These data suggested that the use of Facebook, as a means both of perception and expression, helped facilitate the formation of what can be called a “spiral of voice” among growing numbers of Egyptians. It was concluded that Noelle-Neumann’s spiral of silence may well have been an accurate description of public opinion formation in an age of government-controlled media, but that spiral of voice may be a better descriptor of public opinion formation and action in the age of social media.
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Schindehutte, Genevi. "Remembering is Resistance: In Physical and Virtual Places of Downtown Cairo." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438346291.
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Hessel, Hampus. "Approaching Revolution in the Middle East and the Current Media Landscape : Social Media- and News Agency Material in reporting of the Arab Spring and War in Syria." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsforskning, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-23277.
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The Arab spring has been called a social media revolution and social media have been given large importance and significant space in both academic discussions and analysis in the media. The main focus of this study was to examine whether social media have impacted the news reporting of the conflicts. A sample of articles from four different newspapers was examined, taken randomly from all relevant articles published on the newspapers websites between December 2010 and December 2013. A part of that sample was checked for news agency cable reliance and the entire sample were checked for material from social media. Three newspapers were found to rely heavily on news agency material. The New York Times was the exception, having only 4 percent of articles being based on news agency material. Social media material and quotes were found and were used in the report-ing in different ways, but only in 4 percent of articles. It was mainly used as a way to get protester commentary. Two of the included newspapers were China Daily and the New York Times. The differences between the respective reporting in these newspapers were also examined in yet an-other subsample consisting of 100 articles from each newspaper. Several differences be-tween the reporting were found, with China Daily for example presenting a framing more in favour of the government of Syria than the New York Times.
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Abdel, Wahab Amr. "Investigating social capital and political action in the Middle East." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4730.
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This study addresses the relationship between social capital and political action in the Middle East. The research uncovers indicators of how social capital correlates with democratic action. Using data from the 2005 World Values Survey, the examination centers on indicators of trust and membership in civic organizations and how they relate to political action in the region. The paper concludes with discussion of how trust-building and reciprocity can be interpreted within the political context of the Middle East, and how the relevance of social capital will be an unavoidable consideration in the transition away from autocracy in the region, especially when considering recent events.ID: 030646250; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-89).
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Abdel-Sattar, Nesrine M. A. K. "Innovation in Arabic online newsrooms : a comparative study of the social shaping of multimedia adoption in Aljazeera Net, Almassae and Almasry Alyoum in the context of the Arab Spring." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a442328b-2288-4731-b140-2c3a6d0bd91b.
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This study focuses on the factors shaping innovation in online newsrooms in three nations of the Arab World, with particular interest in the adoption of multimedia news innovations. Applying theoretical perspectives from the social shaping of technology and the diffusion of innovation literature, this study sought to identify the key factors shaping the innovation process. Field studies were based in three Arabic newsrooms: Aljazeera Net in Qatar, Almasry Alyoum in Egypt, and Almassae in Morocco. The case studies are grounded in two weeks of participant-observation field research within each online newsroom, along with over 100 in-depth interviews with those involved in the production of online news, and online archival reviews of the three news portals since their inception. Field research began with participant observation at Aljazeera in 2010, prior to the uprisings of the Arab Spring, and continued through early 2013. The political context of each newsroom during the field research became a major aspect of the innovation process of each case study. The thesis reinforces a wide range of social, economic, and organizational factors in the adoption and adaptation of multimedia technologies in the newsrooms studied, supporting earlier research on newsroom innovation across other regions of the world. For example, conceptions about ‘ideal’ industry multimedia models for the modern newsroom were important in each case. However, in the political context of events related to the Arab Spring, the overriding importance of the larger political context emerged in each case. The significance of this observation suggests that research on news organizations cannot take the political context for granted and should more explicitly embed it in discussion of the social shaping of innovation, even under more stable and liberal political conditions. There is a relative lack of systematic empirical research on Arabic newsrooms among studies of news innovation. Looking at the political context of emergent or weak democracies and their influence on modern multimedia newsrooms especially during crisis events, therefore, can contribute to the development of theory and research in Western democracies; and reintroduce politics into theories of innovation within modern newsrooms. This study suggests that future scholarship brings politics into the study of the social shaping of newsroom innovation without losing the many significant advances of existing research in more liberal democratic Western contexts of the multimedia newsroom.
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Elwe, Josefin. "Tunisiens Demokratisering : En fallstudie om vägen mot ett demokratiskt samhälle." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90993.
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This essay aims to examine how the democratization of Tunisia has taken place since the Arabic spring. It will also analyze how well the country qualifies as a consolidated democracy and what conflicts that have been the driving force of the democratization process. The essay is a qualitive case study and explores the years of 1987 to 2018. Moreover, it is supported by the democratization theory of Dankward A Rustow. The Arabic spring was a consequence of the high unemployment numbers, the poverty in the country and the discontent of the president’s approach of ruling. The road to the democracy has suffered from many difficulties due to influences of the previous authoritarian rule. The situation in Tunisia after the Arabic spring has been unstable and demonstrations in smaller scales has taken place. Today the country has free and fair elections regularly and 2014 a new constitution was introduced. However, people have not gained a better lifestyle from the democratization even though the democracy has flourished. Lastly, the Tunisian democracy is not yet consolidated and still needs to the implemented into the country’s laws and population.
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Heinrich, Isaac. "Tahrir Sq. Location and Goal: On Changes in the Liberal Political Discourse in Post-Revolution Egypt." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22533.
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Liberal Arab thought has long been fighting for elbow room in the political discourse in Egypt. The ruling nationalist–statist ideology from Nasser to Mubarak is renown for its repression of political dissidents, and the Islamist opposition often side with the ruling elite in its resistance against liberal reformers and democratization. Political liberalism is associated with a host of professional andpersonal risks and many are silenced. The Arab Spring revolutions across the MENA from December 2010 throughout the spring of 2011, however, seem to have revived the interest for liberal ideas in the Arab world.This thesis investigates the impact of the Arab Spring on the liberal Arab discourse in Egypt. It asks whether the revolution has lead to increased opportunities for liberal Arabs to voice their opinions, and how the tone of the public debate has been affected. A discourse analytical researchmethod is used to scrutinize thirty opinion pieces from two major Egyptian newspapers in the timeframe November 2010–September 2011, on eight sample days. The work also considers 115 articles published after the revolution on the sample days to monitor the impact of the events on the public debate quantitatively.The study finds that the most salient feature after February 2011 in the op-ed material examined is the forming of the “Tahrir Square discourse,” a symbolically charged ideational entity that associates itself with liberal political rhetoric and values. It is a major influence during the stated period affecting 77% of the 115 post-revolution articles. The Tahrir Square discourse is an expression of a more permissive climate for voicing liberal and reform-friendly opinions, the thesis concludes. The empirical material exhibits more profuse mentioning of and advocacy for these values after the revolution. The tenor and rhetorical mode vary greatly in the studied articles; despite this, a broad support for the revolution itself is present. The study, however, is reluctant as to the permanence of these changes.
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Riboni, Ulrike Lune. ""Juste un peu de vidéo" : la vidéo partagée comme langage vernaculaire de la contestation : Tunisie 2008-2014." Thesis, Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080074.
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Du soulèvement survenu en Birmanie en 2007 aux révoltes qui ont traversé les pays de la Méditerranée en 2011, les usages de la vidéo partagée sur internet n’ont cessé de se développer au cœur des manifestations et des émeutes. À partir d’observations menées sur internet et d’une enquête de terrain en Tunisie, la thèse s’attache à décrire l’évolution des usages de l’image animée sur le temps long du processus révolutionnaire tunisien entre 2008 et 2014, et à questionner la place et le rôle de ces pratiques dans un monde social en ébullition. L’analyse des contenus mais aussi des tensions socio-politiques qui ont présidé et succédé au moment insurrectionnel, suggère que la prise d’images n’est pas seulement une pratique utilitaire et stratégique destinée à sensibiliser ou à produire une information alternative, mais qu’elle sert des objectifs complexes traversés par les enjeux de lutte qui ont animé les différentes périodes. Des premiers usages en période autoritaire aux productions en plan-séquence dans le temps de l’urgence insurrectionnelle, des montages et mises en scènes accompagnant les mobilisations pour la reconnaissance des acteurs de la révolte à ceux réaffirmant les revendications des populations marginalisées, la vidéo partagée s’est affirmée comme le langage vernaculaire de la contestationFrom the Burma uprising in 2007 to the revolutions of the Arab world in 2011, the uses of digital video have continued to grow, from the heart of demonstrations and riots to the internet. Based on observations conducted on the internet and on a field survey in Tunisia, the thesis describe the evolution of moving image uses in the Tunisian revolutionary process between 2008 and 2014, and interrogates the place and role of these practices in a social world in turmoil. Content analysis combined with analysis of the socio-political tensions that led and succeeded the uprising, suggests that taking pictures is not only a strategic utility practice to raise awareness or to produce alternative information, but that it serves complex objectives marked by the struggle issues of the different periods. From the first uses in authoritarian period to the uses during riots weeks, from edited clips for recognition of revolutionary actors to productions for the recognition of marginalized populations, shared videos revealed as the vernacular language of protest
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Aguilar, Carolina Bracco Delgado de. "Produção do espaço urbano a partir da implantação do Trecho Sul do Rodoanel, em São Bernardo do Campo: impasses e perspectivas." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2010. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2657.
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This work focus on social aspects of urban space, and it‟s producing by the interaction of ground circulation, employment and occupation, and theirs impacts on the environment. It is considered that the network of urban infrastructure, especially those linked to traffic and transport of people and merchandise, interferes significantly on the production of new sites and locations, including the production of urban space in accordance to the interests and conflicts of theirs actors. This process is framed by analyzing the urban space production on São Paulo City metropolitan region, focusing the circulation traffic system and the urban sprawl toward country areas. The specific interest of this research is the perimetrical ring road named Rodoanel Mário Covas, whose Southern Section is being built by crossing water springs protection areas in São Paulo, and is setting up conflicts of interests between circulation benefits and environmental protection. This section, that is, the Lot Two, is located in São Bernardo do Campo country region, where it links the Anchieta and Imigrantes Highways; over this point of view, São Bernardo do Campo is a singular city on this hole project, since it is the unique city on whose region two highways access roads are being built. A new law about spring field protection, recently approved, works on this subject, and it seeks to discipline the urban space in partnership with the municipality. From the understanding of a real processes under way, the impasses and the prospects that arise from the production of urban space and the resulting transformation of the landscape in the area of interest of this research, looks forward to contribute to the formulation of urban and environmental policies in support to the management of urban space
Este trabalho trata da produção social do espaço urbano a partir da relação entre circulação, uso e ocupação do solo e meio ambiente. Considera-se que a implantação das redes de infraestrutura urbana, especialmente aquelas ligadas à circulação e transporte, interfere consideravelmente na produção de novas localidades, induzindo a produção do espaço urbano de acordo com os interesses e conflitos entre os atores que o produzem. Esse processo é contextualizado por meio da análise da produção do espaço urbano na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, enfatizando o sistema de circulação e a expansão da mancha urbana em direção às áreas de mananciais, particularmente o processo recente de implementação de parte da futura via perimetral o Rodoanel Mário Covas. Neste contexto, o Rodoanel é caracterizado, com enfoque especial no Trecho Sul, por atravessar as áreas de proteção dos mananciais na porção sul da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, estabelecendo um conflito entre circulação e proteção ambiental. No âmbito deste trecho encontra-se o Lote 2, localizado em São Bernardo do Campo, que interliga as rodovias Anchieta e Imigrantes, único município com duas alças de acesso ao empreendimento viário. A aprovação recente de uma nova lei de proteção dos mananciais incorpora este empreendimento, mas também busca disciplinar a ocupação do espaço urbano em parceria com o município. A partir da compreensão dos processos reais em curso, dos impasses e das perspectivas que se colocam sobre a produção do espaço urbano e, consequentemente da transformação da paisagem na área de influência do lote 2 no município de São Bernardo do Campo, busca-se contribuir para a formulação de políticas urbanas e ambientais articuladas, em prol da gestão do espaço urbano
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Pinkston, Renee. "A Rejuvenating Resort Remembered: The Use of Folklore and Archaeology in the Investigation of the Historic Massey Springs Resort in South-Central Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 2014. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1405.
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Using only one line of evidence for a study of historic sites can be problematic if it does not provide a complete picture of the material culture or lifeways of a people, group, or community. In order to understand the ideas and objects, of culture present at historic sites, it is necessary to use archaeological methodologies with vernacular architecture studies and folklore to create a more holistic image of the world and its inhabitants. To facilitate this, I conducted original research on a mineral spring resort, Massey Springs Resort (Massey Springs) in Warren County, Kentucky, a popular resort in the early 1900s. This project examines the site in terms of its archaeological resources, primary and secondary archival data, and vernacular architectural resources. Since there are no standing structures, Massey Springs is worthwhile example of the explicit need of using a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to investigate past lifeways.
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Shahrani, Shahreena. "In Pursuit of `Good Society’: Navigating Politics, Marriage, and Adulthood in Contemporary Jordan." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471545445.
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La, Follette Tavia. "Sites of Passage: Art as Action in Egypt and the US-- Creating an Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, and Social Practice." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1365450771.
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Bahmad, Jamal. "Casablanca belongs to us : globalisation, everyday life and postcolonial subjectivity in Moroccan cinema since the 1990s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19847.
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This dissertation examines the representations of Casablanca in Moroccan cinema and their articulation of postcolonial subjectivity since the 1990s. To overcome a deep economic recession and simmering social unrest in the early 1980s, Morocco embarked on a comprehensive programme of structural adjustment policies under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund. Market reforms ushered in novel forms of spatial development and social relations in Moroccan cities over the next decades. In the cultural field, a popular cinema emerged in the early 1990s and has projected the complex structures of everyday life in urban space. The New Urban Cinema (NUC) has anchored national cinema in the everyday life and affective economy of a society in transition. The country’s largest city, Casablanca, is the setting for some of NUC’s most original portrayals of the Moroccan subject under globalisation. Taking space, affect and violence as intertwined sites of film analysis, my research project closely examines the new forms of postcolonial subjectivity that have evolved in Morocco through this cinema. Twenty films are read against the backdrop of neoliberal Casablanca and the social, economic as well as political transformation of Morocco and the world under globalisation. The dissertation combines close textual analysis with a cultural studies perspective, which situates films in their historical contexts of production and reception in Morocco and beyond. Drawing on postcolonial, film and urban studies, my aim is to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarship on cinematic responses to neoliberal globalisation, and to a social history of contemporary Morocco.
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Jansson, Stina, and Sofia Lindholm. "Hur sociala miljöinnovationer sprids: en studie med utgångspunkt i initiativet en köttfri dag i veckan." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21529.
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Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för hur man kan sprida sociala miljöinnovationer som bidrar till en hållbar utveckling. I detta examensarbete undersöktes innovationsprocessen av den sociala miljöinnovationen en köttfri dag i veckan. Studien baserades på semistrukturerade intervjuer där innovationsprocessen på två skolor som implementerat en köttfri dag spårats. Vi konstaterade att det är av stor vikt att försöka kartlägga sociala system som delar de normer och värderingar som en social miljöinnovation bidrar till då detta sprider innovationen ytterligare. Vidare medförde studien en förståelse för att det behövs sociala miljöinnovationer för att kunna förändra individers sociala vilja när det kommer till att konsumera hållbart. Detta utgör ett dilemma eftersom det största hindret mot en köttfri dag i veckan är argumentet om den fria viljan. Detta bildar en paradox eftersom sociala miljöinnovationer kan förändra den sociala viljan, men finns det ingen social vilja, finns det ingen social miljöinnovation.The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of how one can diffuse social eco-innovations that contribute to sustainable development. In this thesis we explored the development of the social eco-innovation one meat-free day a week. The study is based on semi-structured interviews where we tracked and trailed the innovation processes of two schools that have implemented a meat free day. We conclude that it is very important to identify social systems that share the norms and values that a certain eco-innovation contributes to, as this affects the diffusion of the innovation. In addition the study led to an understanding of the need for social environmental innovations, as it has an impact on the social willingness to change individuals’ consumption patterns to be more sustainable. This poses a dilemma, as the biggest obstacle to a meat-free day a week is the argument of free will. This forms a paradox as social eco-innovations may change the social will, but if there is no social will, there is no social eco-innovation.
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Holgersson, Malin, Gunnarsson David Payani, and Maria Teleby. ""Att springa till matkön" : Fysisk aktivitet inom fritidshemmets verksamhet." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Pedagogik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20280.
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Bakgrund: Den fysiska aktiviteten behandlas utifrån olika aspekter. Däribland kommer fysisk aktivitet och rörelse, fritidspedagogers deltagande, utomhuspedagogikens och miljöns betydelse för fysisk aktivitet att lyftas. Styrdokumenten och vår teoretiska utgångspunkt är två delar som även presenteras närmare. Syfte: Vårt syfte är att undersöka vad några fritidspedagoger och några barn har för upp-fattningar om fysisk aktivitet i fritidshemmet. Metod: Vi har valt att genomföra en kvalitativ studie med intervju som redskap. Intervju-erna gjordes i tre olika kommuner och innefattar både barn och fritidspedagoger som re-spondenter. Resultat: I vår studie framkom det att barnen uppfattar fysisk aktivitet som en idrott me-dan fritidspedagogerna förknippar det med fysiologiska effekter av en aktivitet. Det visade sig finnas en stor okunskap bland fritidspedagogerna gällande innehållet i styrdokumenten, i förhållande till fysisk aktivitet. Dock fanns en ambition om förbättring och utveckling. Det visade sig finnas ett stort missnöje med de lokaler som fritidshemmen får nyttja. Utomhus-miljön ses som ett extra rum som kompletterar lokalerna i fritidsverksamheten. Lokalerna ses inte som ändamålsenliga för verksamheten. Barnen uppfattar vissa fritidspedagoger som slöa och anser att de sällan deltar i fysiska aktiviteter. Vissa barn tycker att det blir lugnare inne på fritidshemmet om de först får vara ute och aktivera sig fysiskt.
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Karlberg, Olle, and Louise Morreau. "”Man kan springa ifrån det mesta men man kan aldrig springa ifrån sig själv… och själen kommer alltid ikapp en till sist” : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om äldres upplevelser av psykisk ohälsa." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för psykologi (PSY), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95757.
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Studien syftade till att öka kunskapen om äldres syn på psykisk ohälsa utifrån frågeställningen: Hur upplever äldre psykisk ohälsa? Åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes (åldrar mellan 66–84, M=75,25) och analyserades utifrån tematisk analys. Fyra teman identifierades: Det är inte lätt att vara gammal, Ett harmoniskt åldrande, Det finns ju roligare saker att prata om och Man får nog bra vård om man väl kommer till. Resultaten visade att utanförskap till följd av ålder upplevdes påverka den psykiska hälsan negativt och att sociala sammanhang och en meningsfull tillvaro verkar hälsofrämjande. Vidare beskrevs en dubbelhet i attityder där en mer accepterande inställning till psykisk ohälsa utvecklats i samhället men att det fortfarande är skamfyllt för individen. Avslutningsvis beskrevs en kluvenhet till vård för psykisk ohälsa då den upplevs relevant men otillgänglig. Studien påvisar behovet av att tillgängliggöra resurser för äldres psykiska ohälsa samt att ta äldres föreställningar i beaktning i vårdprocessen.The aim of the current study was to promote knowledge surrounding elders’ views on mental health, by employing the research question: How do elders perceive mental health? Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted (ages 66-84, M=75.25) and analyzed using thematic analysis. Four themes were identified: Hardships of being old, Harmonious aging, There are more amusing subjects and There’s good care once you get there. Results indicated an experience of age-related exclusion having negative effects on mental health, while social inclusion and a fulfilling everyday life promoted good health. Furthermore, split attitudes were expressed regarding mental health issues, where society has become increasingly accepting but the individual still may find it shameful. Finally, an ambivalence toward mental health care was discerned where it was perceived as necessary but inaccessible. The study highlights the need to allocate resources to mental health care for elders and to consider their perspectives in the caring process.