Essays about: "BLM"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the word BLM.

1. 1. Hawkes Processes on Socialand Mass Media: : A Causal Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement inthe Summer of 2020

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistik, AI och data science

   Author : Alfred Minh Lindström; [2023]
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   Abstract : In this work we study interactions in social media and the reports in mass media during the Black LivesMatter (BLM) protests following the death of George Floyd. We implement open-source pipelines to process the data at scale and employ the self-exciting counting process known as Hawkes process to address our main question: is there a causal relation between interactions in social media and reports of street protests in mass media? Specifically, we use distributed label propagation to identify such interactions in Twitter, that supported the BLM movement, and compared the timing of these interaction to those of news reports of street protests mentioning George Floyd, via the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project. READ MORE

3. 2. How to Redesign an Atlas Copco Industry Tool for a Circular Economy

   University essay from KTH/Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.)

   Author : Hanna Magnusson; [2022]
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   Abstract : Atlas Copco BLM, a competence centre for quality assurance tightening solutions, was the client of this master thesis project. This project focused on circular economy and how to improve the design of their STRwrench. This was done by utilizing existing knowledge and tools about circular economy, materials, and service design. READ MORE

4. 3. Protests in Europe: Is violence the answer? : A comparative case study on protest violence and success in democracies

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Catrin Andersson; [2022]
   Keywords : Protests; Protest violence; Democracy; Europe; Concession;

   Abstract : This thesis has empirically investigated the relationship between violent protest and concession in democracies. Previous research has focused on maximalist movements that aim to overthrow sitting governments using violent methods. READ MORE

5. 4. Creating National Relevance : A Qualitative Study on “Black Lives Matter Sweden”

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Adia Atwell; [2022]
   Keywords : BLM; Black Lives Matter; Race; Sweden; Qualitative; Transnationalism; Digital Activism; Facebook; Digitally Networked Action;

   Abstract : Black Lives Matter protests and rallies erupted in the summer of 2020 following several cases of police brutality in the US, including the death of George Floyd after video of him being killed by a police officer were shared in the media. These protests quickly spread internationally and pushed countries to face their own histories and structurally embedded racism, including Sweden. READ MORE

6. 5. Framing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: a socio-legal study of partisan news coverage

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Leander Clément; [2022]
   Keywords : Black Lives Matter; Protest Paradigm; Moral Foundations Theory; police brutality; racial bias; news coverage; CNN; Fox News; New York Times; framing; legal culture; socio-legal; sociology of law; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. READ MORE