Essays about: "Critical Activism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 64 essays containing the words Critical Activism.

1. 1. “Pardon me if I don't weep for your victimhood” : examining the aftermath of deplatformization through influential far-right activists’ framing and alliance-building on Telegram

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Klara Avsec; [2023]
   Keywords : Moderation; deplatformization; far right; frame analysis; collective identity; alliance-building; Telegram; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the social unfolding of the recent deplatformization of the far-right extremes on Telegram. Leaving prior approaches to moderation behind, this study asks questions around how moderation imprints itself on the complex terrain of meaning and practice, interacts with intensified reflexiveness of the social agents, and leaves affected collectivities changed in unanticipated ways. READ MORE

3. 2. REPOLITICIZING AIRPORT ACTIVISM? Exploring the discursive struggle of environmental movements & news media in the context of depoliticized eco-politics

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation

   Author : Erika Stacke; [2022-09-01]
   Keywords : Environmental movements; activism; news media; discursive struggle; post-politics; depoliticization; political debate; eco-politics;

   Abstract : In a situation of ecological degradation and rapid climate change, environmental movements aim to create debate and attain political change. Here, news media is an important actor, possessing the power to represent movements and their cause in ways that legitimize or disqualify their voice in public debate. READ MORE

4. 3. People help the people: A critical discourse analysis of NGO activism against water privatisation in El Salvador

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Line Lundager Olsen; [2022]
   Keywords : activism; El Salvador; water politics; water privatisation; power; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis concerns itself with the current state of water activism in El Salvador. For 20 years the topic has been a point of conflict for the nation, with both wins and losses for the water activists. The previous academic research into this consists of ethnographic studies. READ MORE

5. 4. The Impact of Technology on Women’s Experience of Gender-based Violence : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the #16DaysofActivism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign

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

   Author : Lauren Bolinger; [2022]
   Keywords : TFGBV; technology; gender-based violence; discourse; social media;

   Abstract : This paper focuses on the topic of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) – forms of violence and abuse perpetrated against individuals on the basis of gender in online spaces or through technological means. It is a recent and highly pervasive issue that the activist, academic and development worlds are working to define. READ MORE

6. 5. Age of Activism in the Face of Fascism : Mobilizing Grandmotherhood through the Movement Identity of OMAS GEGEN RECHTS

   University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Nicola Schäfer; [2022]
   Keywords : OMAS GEGEN RECHTS; Social Movement; Older Women; Activism; Identity; Symbolic Interactionism; Feminist Gerontology; Anti-Fascism; OMAS GEGEN RECHTS; Soziale Bewegungen; Altern; Frauen; Aktivismus; Identität; Symbolischer Interaktionismus; Feministische Gerontologie; Antifaschismus;

   Abstract : In critical times of reawakening right-wing ideologies in Germany, the social movement OMAS GEGEN RECHTS (transl. ‘Grannies against the far right’) sets a determined, yet by many unexpected, political statement against fascism. READ MORE