Browsing by Subject "Social media"
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Crowdfunding the Azolla fern genome project: a grassroots approach.
(Gigascience, 2014)Much of science progresses within the tight boundaries of what is often seen as a "black box". Though familiar to funding agencies, researchers and the academic journals they publish in, it is an entity that outsiders rarely ... -
Making History or Celebrating Change? The Role of Twitter in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
(2012-08-30)The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the popular protest movement that led to its success represent a significant departure from recent Egyptian history. Plagued by an authoritarian government and weak civil society, the ... -
Reciprocity in Quarantine: Observations from Wuhan's COVID-19 Digital Landscapes.
(Asian bioethics review, 2020-11-20)The 2003 SARS pandemic heralded the return of quarantine as a vital part of twenty-first century public health practice. Over the last two decades, MERS, Ebola, and other emerging infectious diseases each posed unique challenges ... -
The Adjudicatory Audible: The Impact of Social Media on the Punishments of NFL Athletes
(2016-01-31)Under its Collective Bargaining Agreement, the National Football League (NFL) has the ability to punish players who have been charged with a crime or arrested. Individual teams have the ability to punish players for off-field ... -
Tweeting Feminism: African Feminisms, Digital Counterpublics and The Politics of Gendered Violence
(2019-05)Tweeting feminism is a digital ethnographic and archival study of the ways in which Kenyan feminists appropriate Twitter as a site for community building. Firstly, I explore the mutually enabling modes of gendered violence ...
