Essays about: "civic engagement"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 74 essays containing the words civic engagement.

  1. 26. Indonesian travel bloggers : the empowered negotiators

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Aryo Prionggo; [2018]
    Keywords : Travel Bloggers; Indonesia; Participatory Culture; Intrinsic Motivation; Extrinsic Motivation; Digital Media; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite aiming for more civic engagement in tourism industry, The Indonesian Tourism Board effort to transform more citizen to become government-version of travel bloggers was faced by a protest since some travel bloggers didn’t feel common values exist. Therefore, this thesis identifies travel blogger’s intrinsic and extrinsic motivations by recognizing the transformation process that develops regular bloggers to be travel bloggers in the context of digital participatory culture. READ MORE

  3. 27. "There's no I in team" : A study of roles of civil society in Holmsund, and it’s connection to constructions of Holmsund

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Kulturgeografi

    Author : Irma Olofsson; [2018]
    Keywords : civic engagement; civil society; centre-periphery; radical democracy; spatialized power relations;

    Abstract : The civil society and civic engagement is a prerequisite for democracy (Putnam, 1994), and in the form of the popular movements it has in many ways defined the Swedish democracy. This thesis focuses on the locality Holmsund located in the municipality of Umeå, Holmsund has a history that are in ways defined by activeness from civil society in similarity with many other places in Sweden (Ambjörnsson, 2001). READ MORE

  4. 28. Museums on Instagram - Engagement with audiences on social media

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Maria Algers; [2018]
    Keywords : Social media; Museum communication; Democratic engagement;

    Abstract : This thesis will explore the engagement modes of museums on Instagram by looking at the content of 1230 posts published by forty museums in Sweden and New Zealand over a three month time period. The analysis will focus specifically on the museums intention behind each post, with the use of an analytical grid developed by Lotina and Lepik. READ MORE

  5. 29. Beyond the "lulz" : audience engagement with political memes in the case of Indonesia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Lestarini Saraswati Hapsoro; [2018]
    Keywords : audience engagement; citizenship; civic engagement; civic agency; civic cultures; democracy; election memes; Pilkada DKI; political memes; political discourse; political dissent; Setya Novanto; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the roles of Internet memes as a form of contemporary political discourse in Indonesia from the individual perspective of audience members. In-depth qualitative interviews with fourteen Indonesian young adults were conducted to understand the ways in which they engage and create meaning of political memes, allowing for a closer examination on the media’s potential for contribution to civic cultures. READ MORE

  6. 30. Post-socialist urban planning : Local needs in the City of Murmansk, Russia

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Kulturgeografi

    Author : Daria Nikitina; [2018]
    Keywords : post-socialist planning; path-dependence; modernization; planning systems; rationality; local needs; municipal decision-making; residential development; civic engagement;

    Abstract : Urban research is aware of being culturally embedded, and inability to break free from history in some cases may explain why the change goes in a particular direction. After more than 70 years of centrally planned community and isolation, present urban structures in Russia stand as arenas for the system transitions. READ MORE