Essays about: "everyday forms of resistance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words everyday forms of resistance.

  1. 1. “PS. If I go missing... i have been banned again” - A netnographic study of users’ opposition to algorithmic censorship of the female body on Instagram

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Linnea Strand; [2022]
    Keywords : Algorithms; Censorship; Technology; User Agency; Algorithmic Resistance; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As algorithmically-driven content moderation has become a common feature of social media platforms to suppress communications deemed undesirable, scholars have started to examine users’ relations to algorithmic systems and problems of machine bias and governmentality. While most researchers have focused on the negative aspects of censorship, few have explored the possibilities of users to oppose algorithmic control. READ MORE

  3. 2. Individual Consumer Identity Formation in a Politicised World

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Marine Hakobyan; Undine Himmelsbach; [2022]
    Keywords : Identity Formation; Consumer Identity; Political Consumerism; Everyday Political Consumption; Consumer Resistance; Sustainable Consumption; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Thesis Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain an understanding of how consumers build their individual identities through everyday political acts of consumption. Methodology & Empirical Data: This study is conducted based on a social constructionist worldview with a qualitative research design, adopting an inductive approach. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Everyday Practices of Resistance in Chinese Social Media: The Uses of Memes for Civic Engagement

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : ZHUOXIU XING; [2022]
    Keywords : social media; digital media; memes; everyday forms of resistance; Chinese civic engagement; collective identity;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand the everyday use of digital media by Chinese ordinary citizens as new forms of civic engagement under strict online censorship and CCP’s authoritarian control. With the announcement of the Third-child Policy as the analytical background, I adopted a qualitative research method and conducted digitally mediated ethnography on Sina Weibo users. READ MORE

  5. 4. Mundane Resistance to Feminism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sofie Tersmeden; Frida Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : Feminism; Femvertising; Mundane Resistance; Brand Activism; Male Perspective; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Title: Mundane Resistance to Feminism - Exploring men’s resistance to feminism through femvertising commercials Date of the Seminar: 2020-06-05 Course: BUSN39 Business Administration: Degree Project in Global Marketing - Master Level Authors: Frida Andersson & Sofie Tersmeden Supervisor: Peter Svensson Key words: Feminism, Femvertising, Mundane Resistance, Brand Activism, Male Perspective. Thesis purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how men express mundane resistance to feminism, when being exposed to femvertising. READ MORE

  6. 5. Disciplining coal resistance : the dynamics of violence and power in disciplining the resistance against the Hambach coal mine in Germany

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Vera Schumann; [2019]
    Keywords : resistance; disciplining dissent; violence; Galtung; power; climate justice;

    Abstract : With climate change being one of the biggest challenges our society is faced with, resistance against fossil fuel companies is on the rise. One such example is the resistance against the Hambach coal mine close to Cologne in Western Germany which is the world’s largest opencast lignite mine. READ MORE