Essays about: "online activism"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 81 essays containing the words online activism.

1. 21. Environmental activism in the age of digital media : Netnography of Save Bugoma Forest Campaign

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Aliisa Vulli; [2021]
   Keywords : digital activism; environmental activism; netnography; Uganda;

   Abstract : This thesis is a netnographic study of Save Bugoma Forest Campaign and digitally enhanced environmental activism in Uganda. Save Bugoma Forest Campaign is a crusade run by a loose coalition of Ugandan environmentalists who oppose a planned sugarcane plantation project in Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, western Uganda. READ MORE

3. 22. Consumer responsibilization in sustainable fashion communications on Instagram : A multimodal discourse analysis

   University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

   Author : Vera Sofie Thallinger; Lusanda Ntintili; [2021]
   Keywords : Instagram; Social Media; Multimodal Discourse; Consumer Responsibilization; Sustainable Fashion; Cultural Marketing;

   Abstract : Background, Problem Statement and Gap - Political agendas informed by the negative impacts of increasing consumption (including fashion consumption) have allocated major parts of the responsibility to contribute to sustainable development to individual consumers. These agendas subsequently highlighted the need to provide more information, including through media and social media, about the negative impacts of fashion consumption - and consumption at large - to the consumer. READ MORE

4. 23. #DeleteFacebook and Hashtag Activism in a Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis

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

   Author : Bühring Greta; [2021]
   Keywords : #DeleteFacebook; Hashtag Activism; Digital Colonialism; Power Relations; Antagonism; Critical Discourse Analysis; Framing;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to conduct an in-depth study of the activism surrounding the #DeleteFacebook hashtag by applying Critical Discourse Analysis. By theorizing framing, digital colonialism, power relations, and antagonism, this thesis examines the qualitative analysis of 1.987 Tweets posted on Twitter between 20 February and 4 March 2021. READ MORE

5. 24. The Powers of Poetry: Creative writing from the Niger Delta as a tool for environmental justice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Kerime van Opijnen; [2021]
   Keywords : Human Ecology; Environmental Justice; Poetry; Writer Activism; Niger Delta; Shell; Decoloniality; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Inspired by centuries of activists who used creative writing as a tool to encourage reflections and inspire change, this thesis looks at the possibility of poetry to be used as an environmental justice tool. In particular the ability of poetry from Nigeria to engage Dutch people with problems around Shell’s exploitation of the Niger Delta and its people, is investigated. READ MORE

6. 25. The Effect of Optimism and Locus of Control on the Relationship between Activism and Well-being

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

   Author : Ava M. Sofi; [2021]
   Keywords : activism; locus of control; optimism; well-being; social movement;

   Abstract : The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between activism and well-being and the underlying mechanisms that make up this relationship. The study's hypothesis was that there is a relationship between activism and well-being and that this relationship is either moderated or mediated by optimism and locus of control. READ MORE