Essays about: "controversy mapping"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words controversy mapping.
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1. Mapping the Terrain and Avoiding the Minefield: identifying the antagonistic constructions and socio-emotional motives of climate change contrarianism in the United States
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Since climate change reached public attention in the US, contrarian platforms have successfully established a counter-narrative to plant an illusion of deep controversy around the reality of climate change, effectively reproduced in conservative media. Despite growing scientific knowledge, a trend of enhanced, rather than decreasing, affiliation to contrarianism is paradoxically evident in the US. READ MORE
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2. Berlin's new rent cap bill : a controversy dividing the city?
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : Urbanisation and growing populations are causing a lack of housing in many metropolitan areas such as Berlin, Germany. Especially tenants of rental units are affected by rapidly increasing housing prices that exhaust a growing share of their income. READ MORE
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3. Appropriating Gaming - A Quantitative Content Analysis and Issue Mapping of the Online Campaign #NotMyBattlefield
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis aims to examine how online engagement in the #NotMyBattlefield campaign can be understood as an online harassment campaign and a continuation of the Gamergate controversy. Research has shown that Gamergate was appropriated by external political groups, such as the Alt-Right. READ MORE
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4. The Sound of Globalization : Mapping the Dynamics in Contemporary Urban Landscape of Concert Venues
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : This study compares and describes the urban landscape of concert venues in Berlin and Stockholm with a focus on popular music. It features research of spatial patterns among concert venues, gathered from participant observations and semi-structured interviews with agencies and officials in the music scene. READ MORE
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5. “Do we have to actually understand all this?” Students’ on-line information search and evaluating the sources when working with Controversy Mapping
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim: The purpose of this thesis is to explore upper-secondary students’ information search and their evaluation of on-line sources in a project work on socio-scientific issues when controversy mapping as a new digital method is implemented in the assignment. Accordingly, the focus of this study is on how students manage on-line information search and how they evaluate web-sources by relating these to their learning activities with specific socio-scientific issues. READ MORE