Sökning: "online social movements"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden online social movements.

1. 1. Leetocracy : Political participation, social network sites and inequality

   Författare :Nils Gustafsson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political participation; social network sites; social media; Web 2.0; political mobilization; social movements; political parties; democratic theory;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about whether social network sites have the potential to bring about more equal participation. It deals with a phenomenon that has changed the underlying infrastructure of how millions of people communicate. LÄS MER

3. 2. Politics on the net : NGO practices and experiences

   Författare :Pia Brundin; Jan Olsson; Håkan Thörn; Peter Dahlgren; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Internet; ICTs; politics; cyber politics; NGOs; political culture; national political context; online activism; advocacy; interactivity; social movements; political influence; globalisation; civil society; global civil society; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; Statskunskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates how different kinds of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), operating in different national political contexts, perceive and use the Internet as a political space. The political space concept, as defined here, encompasses two dimensions of Internet use: one external, where organisations use the Internet for online activism and campaigning, and one internal, signifying organisational use of the Internet to promote engagement and interactivity with members and/or supporters. LÄS MER

4. 3. Challenging Normative Beauty Ideals by Undressing Online? Body Acceptance, Identity Politics and Construction of Non-normativity : A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

   Författare :Cansu Elmadagli; David Machin; Marc Etienne Lafrance; Åsa Kroon; Jane Mulderrig; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Body positivity; self-acceptance; identity politics; online social movements; non-normativity; multimodal critical discourse analysis;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with the problematics of contemporary identity politics of body acceptance as situated in the visibility logics of digital media. It examines how seemingly progressive narratives of body-acceptance can rely on normative discourses and dominant ideologies. LÄS MER

5. 4. Economic Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility and Responsible Investments

   Författare :Cristiana Manescu; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategic CSR; Socially Responsible Investments; Sustainability; Firm Profitability; Stock Returns; Statistical Learning Techniques; Variable Selection; Smooth Splines; Regression Trees; Data Envelopment Analysis; Difference-GMM; Risk-Factor Test; Market Efficiency; Control Functions Approach.;

   Sammanfattning : Paper 1 (with Catalin Starica): This study conducts an in-depth analysis of the association between a unique ten-dimensional set of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scores and firm profitability, as measured by Return on Assets (ROA). We find that non-linear (semi or non-parametric) regression methods bring important improvements in explaining profitability relative to a classical linear approach. LÄS MER

7. 5. An Embodied Account of Action Prediction

   Författare :Claudia Elsner; Gustaf Gredebäck; Claes von Hofsten; Amanda L. Woodward; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Action prediction; biological motion; direct-matching; embodied simulation; eye movements; eye-tracking; give-me gesture; mirror neuron; motor cortex; point-light; social interaction; TMS; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Being able to generate predictions about what is going to happen next while observing other people’s actions plays a crucial role in our daily lives. Different theoretical explanations for the underlying processes of humans’ action prediction abilities have been suggested. LÄS MER