Essays about: "controversy mapping"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words controversy mapping.

  1. 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/LUCSUS

    Author : Ida Britta Petrelius; [2021]
    Keywords : Sustainability science; climate change contrarianism; antagonism; polarization; counter-narrative; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. Berlin's new rent cap bill : a controversy dividing the city?

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Lisa Huesmann; [2020]
    Keywords : housing; housing policy; affordable housing; urbanisation;

    Abstract :   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

  4. 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)

    Author : Oskar Larsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Gamergate; Alt-Right; SJW; Twitter; Hashtag; Online Campaign; Issue Mapping;

    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

  5. 4. The Sound of Globalization : Mapping the Dynamics in Contemporary Urban Landscape of Concert Venues

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Love Forsberg Hansson; [2017]
    Keywords : Globalization; Music Export; Venues; Stockholm; Berlin; Music Geography;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 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 specialpedagogik

    Author : Réka Izabella Csonka; [2016-07-05]
    Keywords : controversy mapping; mediated learning; information search; information literacy;

    Abstract : 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