Activism - Science topic

In recent years, I have been completely absent from scientific social networks and even from the world of research in general. Health problems, then a permanent commitment to environmental activism and human rights have kept me away from it (and I don't know if it was a good idea in the end, I still lost the use of one eye. I'm back for two reasons: - To publish a last paper in my field of expertise. - To specify that, if the Dolos List has closed, I have kept its databases (in particular those distributed to universities). If a collaborative project emerges to replace it, it will be enough to update them and continue the work. This will not be done on my personal site, but I imagine that suitable platforms must exist.

I thank you for your messages and I am sorry for the concern that my absence may have generated for those who were aware of my health problems. But I am better, rest assured.

With friendship,

Alexandre.

How to study Oatly's activism, profitability, and impact? Oatly launched dozens of new products in 2021, spent millions on R&D, and is running at a loss. What about the profitability, narratives, and impact of these new products? My guess: new Oatly products have poor sales = impact, narratives, and contributions. What do you think? How to write an article combining managerial accounting analysis, narrative/content analysis about individual products, and social impact analysis of individual products? Have you ever seen Oatly's profitability data by product?

I was requested to find measures for actual behavior, rather than behavioral intentions, to be used in online surveys. The problem is that, in my research, I compare Activism and Clicktivism and the action points that could be inserted in online surveys like subscribe buttons, comments, share of content, recommendations, links (...) could identify a Clicktivist's behavior, rather than an Activist's one.

Instead, I need behavioral measures exactly to separate Activism from Clicktivism and understand if real actions toward social change are taken.

Is this possible? If yes, how?

Thank you! :)

Hi, I am currently pursuing my PhD study whereby my topic related to Digital Banking, Fintech and Cryptocurrency with the Financial Inclusion in the Asia Pacific Region.

Is there any articles that I could refer to getting an ideas on what type of proxies / variables being used to measure the following areas:

01. Digital Banking performance in the banking sector with the financial Inclusion

02. Fintech and Digital Banking as the catalyst for the financial inclusion

03.Impact of the crypto currency on the drift of demand for liquidity in jurisdictional currency with the special reference to the substitution of digital banking activism trend

Thanking You

Hello, I’m writing my first thesis as part of my graduation with the topic: Design Activism. I am having problems with making my research question/statement clear and focused.

This is what I have as my current statement: Contemporary socially engaged practices have always been influenced by the past and made it their own.

( What practices of the past influenced the practices in a specific era and how did they make it their own?)

I am focusing on the eras 1960-1969, 2000-2009, and the present ( and maybe the future).

But I was wondering if this statement is clear enough, English is not my first language so I find it a bit hard when it comes to academic writing.

Also if you have interesting sources about Design Activism, and socially engaged design practices. Would you please share them with me?

Thank you in advance.

I am currently investigating social media affordances and how they differ across platforms. I want to know whether these differences have diffeerent discourse structures, content, etc. as output. What theories could be useful?

I am doing my research in hashtag activism. For that I need to collect twitter and facebook data. Which software can help me in doing data collection and analysis? I have tried nvivo n capture. What are the other suggestions? Kindly help Thanks in advance

Are student governments or student movements better at enacting policy change?

Some other aspects to consider:

How do these two concepts overlap? How are they different and how are they similar? What are some examples that would help provide answers to this question?

Hi all, I'm looking for a validated scale that I could use to measure an individual's endorsement of revolutionary change, i.e. dismantling institutions and/or society via activism or conflict, to then rebuild. Preferably politically neutral.

Many thanks,

Drew

If this is so, then we must credit this change to global public awareness and activism against the rampant pollution, degradation and the destruction of the global environment and the mental health of our young generation; caused by consumerism and the insatiable profit-making schemes of monopoly capitalism. It is to the credit of the brave teenagers like Greta Thunberg who inspired and mobilized the world youth to environmental activism and more recently by the profound soul of a data scientist like Frances Haugen; who risked her career and probably her life to expose the greed of corporations that knowingly put profit over the well-being of humanity!

This activism of our fresh and young generation stands in sharp contrast to the conformed, cautious and career minded troops of “scientist-serfs” (a term coined by the Bengali poet Tagore) who willingly enable the rampage of the Frankenstein Monster, commonly known as corporate capitalism. Can we now have hope that the activism of our youth world-wide, will form a Tsunami that will drown the Frankenstein Monster forever and usher in a new dawn?

The prestigious Nobel Award is a yearly ritual that sets the direction and the priorities of scientific research on a global scale. For about a century since Einstein’s theory of general relativity, this Award was mainly and obsessively focused on the esoteric theories of physics and on mysticism about cosmology; that served the interest of the established order and theology; but which has no or little relevance to life in terrestrial Nature. Was this a century-long ploy by the compliant Nobel Committee to divert attention from the ravages being done to mother earth and her children by greedy corporate capitalism?

Hello everyone.

I would really appreciate your help in theorizing Online Activism. Are there any main theories, books, articles on the subject?

Thank you!

I'm a simple qualitative researcher who wants to hire a RA to do some analysis of social media data towards identifying trends in community engagement surrounding the shift to on-line activism in a specific social movement organization. But I don't really know where I'd find grad students who have the skills I need. In what kinds of programs do they teach/learn such things?

Currently working on how digital activists use social media to spread awareness and create change.

I requested access to "Peace and Protest in Ireland: Women's Activism in Ireland, 1918-1937" today, and I was wondering if I could get an estimate about how long it usually takes to go through.

My hypothesis is that from 1980s onwards a neoliberal consensus emerged, favouring a liberal trade agenda and prescribing a reduced role for state actors in governing and managing socio-economic development.

The financial crisis of 2009 and now the Covid-19 pandemic have brought the state back in, bailing out financial institutions with public funds and ordering the closure of large parts of national economies (whilst subsidising income losses and keeping businesses afloat) - seemingly inconceivable developments 15 years ago.

I would be grateful for both: a) literature recommendations and b) further examples of state legislative intervention ('activism' particularly with regards to sustainability regulation and laws).

Many thanks in advance!

I was browsing the Berlin Biennale Archive materials and saw that artists use sociological concepts for both explanation and creation of value there. This is very close to the concepts of social co-creation of value and the change of perspective from competency to activism in action research and design thinking.

Look at this for example:

THE 7TH BERLIN BIENNALE ARCHIVE: DRAFTSMEN'S CONGRESS, PAWEŁ ALTHAMER https://artmuseum.pl/en/archiwum/archiwum-7-berlin-biennale/2054?read=all

FORGET FEAR, Foreword by Artur Żmijewski http://blog.berlinbiennale.de/en/comments/forget-fear-a-foreword-by-artur-zmijewski-19528.html

Can you see any similarities and potential for cooperation? Is a joint conference of these artists and action/design researchers a good idea?

Richard Kleczek

Look also into my discussion: Does the new (attention: shocking) interpretation of Manet's Olympia develop knowledge about social processes of value creation?

ttps://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_the_new_attention_shocking_interpretation_of_Manets_Olympia_develop_knowledge_about_social_processes_of_value_creation

Theory of planned behavior (TPB) developed by Icek Ajzen (1985, 1991) is well recognized and used model to predict and explain behavior across a wide range of different types of behaviors like entrepreneurs, social workers, etc. Its limitations are discussed by many scholars which include assumption of availability of resources and finance; effect of fear, threat, mood, or past experience; environmental and economical factors, linearity in decision making, actual control over behavior and time frame between tension and actual behavior. i want to add one more important factor which is not covered in the model is role of intense emotional feelings in behavior like patriotism and activism. In my opinion, such behaviors are not the results of reflection , fear or threat. I want a discussion among the researchers and scholars on this point.

Africans leaders are using constitution to rule their countries but its constitution without constitutionalism because thy are not following the demands of constitution. Africans leaders are they following their constitution. Focus on the issue of democracy. There is no voice of people in African countries. Activist are now under captivity if they try to raise a voice against the government. So help me with many points to come out with a good argument.

I am probably naïve, but here is a question about ethics in journalism.

In a recent paper Dumas‑Mallet et al. (2020) have raised “concerns about the influence of the media on the research communication and dissemination.”

Is this how science journalism works? Is this journalism or activism?

More about the case can be found here:

https://blogs.helsinki.fi/radun/2020/03/27/journalists-and-researchers-can-one-criticize-the-work-of-a-good-guy-without-being-labeled-as-someone-with-a-grudge/

I try to understand practice and understanding of spirituality within the climate movement. How do values of a (left-wing) political resistance culture of direct action come together with spirituality? What characterizes this spirituality that leads to radical ecological activism?

I am planning to work on increasing the self life of fruit as it turns black after cutting. But couldn't find how to reduce activity of this enzyme. 

I am a Phd Student, would like to explore malware detection system. It would be great if anyone can share Malgenome project dataset as site is not active anymore.

I remember seeing it somewhere some time ago, but I cannot find it any more. I am also not sure whether it was a typology of environmental activism or any kind of activism that could be used also for environmental activism.

Some PR scholars don't consider advocacy as a PR strategy in activism or social change programs. What do you all think about it?

Scientists typically avoid "making waves" and often have difficulty formulating important messages for consumption by the general public. Activism in taking a position that involves any attempts to inform the public about something that affects them falls outside the academic discipline of science and veers into social science. Scientists belong to an intellectual elite but should they remain sequestered in an inner sanctum that precludes notifying the public and providing it with scientific facts that affect their lives?

I am starting off my finance dissertation on shareholder activism in the UK and i am struggling to find any good data sets for my regression analysis. Are there are comprehensive data sets for this area?

I'm working on a piece of social media based research which will function as activism. Trying to locate anything that explores the ethical implications of activism from the position of responsibility of a researcher.

In 1997 Dolly the sheep was introduced to the world by biologists Keith Campbell, Ian Wilmut and colleagues. Not just any lamb, Dolly was a clone. Rather than being made from a sperm and an egg, she originated from a mammary gland cell of another, no-longer-living, six-year-old Fynn Dorset ewe.

With her birth, a scientific and societal revolution was also born.

Some prominent scientists raised doubts; it was too good to be true. But more animals were cloned: first the laboratory mouse, then cows, goats, pigs, horses, even dogs, ferrets and camels. By early 2000, the issue was settled: Dolly was real and cloning adults was possible. Is it ethical doing so and why has there been no organized opposition to it ?

I am developing a new project about social order and the "woman question" in which I plan to compare social movements in the Global North and South (e.g. in Germany, Salone and Kenya). One of the issues I want to look into is activism in favour of FGC/FGM.

Oh, and I heard you met my dear friend Mariam in DC. Isn't she fantastic?

Hope to hear from you soon! Are you coming back to Berlin any time soon?

Best,

Anne

I would like to publish to spread awareness of the problem of over-incarceration of people with mental illness. To encourage the average person to engage in activism, I think it's most important to publish and speak in non-academic venues, but I would also like to publish in academic journals as well, although I wouldn't be terribly disappointed if I didn't publish academically. My question is, how does one continue to access fresh, current research to keep up on an issue and cite in publications if not affiliated with a university? I'm an idealist, but also a realist. I'm 60 years old and have no illusions that any university would want to employ me in any capacity with no track record in academia. So if one is not affiliated with a university, is there a way to access the wealth of information in a university library (without paying ridiculous prices for individual publications)? I think that it's important to keep current on the research out there in my areas of interest in order to share with a broader audience, but I don't know how to do it. I'm not a career academic, and never wanted to be one because I don't believe a person can speak authentically about human issues without adequate and ongoing field experience. I believe all academics should keep their field experience as fresh as their academic credentials, otherwise their academic credentials, in my mind, are not to be trusted completely.

Call for Book Chapters: Tourism and Gender-Based Violence – Challenging Inequalities Publisher: CABI

Dr Paola Vizcaino-Suárez, Bournemouth University, UK

Dr Heather Jeffrey, Middlesex University Dubai

Dr Claudia Eger, Copenhagen Business School

- Deadline extension (abstracts of 500 words + author details):  21st January 2019 - Notification of acceptance by editors: 31st January 2019 - Deadline for full chapters (5,000 words): 1st July 2019

Contributions are welcomed (but not limited to) the following areas:

We welcome a wide variety of methods and approaches to these chapters, such as qualitative methods including autoethnography, fictional ethnography, action research, participative research. Chapters may be research-based, case studies, exploratory or critical literature reviews and conceptual / theoretical analysis of GBV in contemporary tourism.

Please send your proposals to the Tourism and GBV edited collection account: TGBVcollection@gmail.com

Activists (for human, animal and conservation causes) who are truly dedicated to their causes tend to sacrifice a great deal: personal safety, material comforts, interpersonal relationships, peace of mind and public standing. Clearly they are highly motivated and I am curious to know what motivates them. My hypothesis is that the beginnings of their activism lie in childhood influences.

Dear all,

Previously I have used Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate" as the key text for my seminar "The Climate Change Movement - Can Collective Action Save the World?" (Course description below). I really liked used Klein's book but its a tad long for the purposes of this cross-campus freshman seminar.

Thanking you in advance!

Noel

Renowned historian, professor and social activist Howard Zinn once said, “Small acts, when multiplied by millions can transform the world”. How does this statement relate to the current climate change movement? Do you think that individual citizens and students can actually play an effective role in confronting one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century? Amid the contentious backdrop of failed government action on climate change - students, activists, climate change scientists, and environmentally-consciousness citizens are increasing engaging in collective action in an attempt to compel governments and leaders to act on climate change. Through analyzing a range of climate change, environmental and social justice movements this course seeks to develop students’ understandings and skills for participating in local solutions to climate change

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Thank you,

Regards,

Amal.

I'm working on a study on the trend of student activism for the past ten years and I am looking for some references to justify how ten years time can be used to study a trend.

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Framing my research to link academic activism as concepts not to be viewed as vacuums. I am thinking framing along the lines of pedagogical history and the initial goals of pedagogy might help narrow my research or shed some new light on the topic.

I am trying to identify the ways and means of doing activism through tourism. Which types of tourism support activism? How can the results of activism through tourism be detected and seen in spaces and places? Are there any studies that connect geography, activism and tourism? 

I'm interested in this topic, CEO and/or corporate activism. For example, Google, Facebook and other tech giants publicly speaking against Trump's Mexico wall, or Airbnb saying that it will offer free housing for refugees and other people in case they are in danger...

More examples: Patagonia with their fight against climate change, or its CEO, Rose Marcario, who is pretty concerned publicly about this subject and speaks a lot about the DAPL.

There is a lot of articles in Harvard Business and other media sites regarding this topic, but I can't find a lot of scientific research about pros/cons for the reputation of the company, etc. I guess it's a very new concept since traditionally the private sector and CEOs have remained outside issues that affect the public sector or that do not directly concern their businesses, but I'd love to hear from you if you know any sources! Thanks in advance!

Here are some of the articles, news and statemets from companies that I found:

My query could be trival.I have docked an ihhibitor-protein complex and defined the active site of the protein. Ligand was placed roughly at the active site for the docking .After analyzing the out put files the hydrogen bonds were not being formed at the active site residues but with the residues other than in the active sites.I need to carry out the MD study for the same. Can i go ahead???

One suggestion - Since it is the clav 125 that has been recommended by WHO as having Anti TB activity. Why not use Amox /clav 300/125 I.e the pediatric dose so that the dose of amox which is not required can be minimized. Another issue is how do you secure iv line in these patients as they require long term iv therapy with imipenem. It would be really nice to have your views on these.

Hi Maria, we met on the project you led when at York. Would you consider a short - 3000 words or so - chapter that makes the case for why sport and exercise researchers, disabled para-athletes, and sport organisations need to engage with activism rather than simply focusing on performance? We recently published a paper that we’d like to expand on in terms of developing the argument for why people in sport need to engage with disability activism. 

  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305621866_Disability_sport_and_activist_identities_A_qualitative_study_of_narratives_of_activism_among_elite_athletes%27_with_impairment

·      https://theconversation.com/disabled-athletes-should-use-paralympic-spotlight-to-fight-discrimination-64938

I was wondering whether increased protein expression of ATF6, PERK and IRE1alpha reflects increased UPR activation?

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WE is an international program for schools where pupils take action to protect and preserve water. ZA through WESSA is a strong and active member of the group. Schools are a great way to reach adults too, through parents and teachers, in order to implement policy.

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I want to isolate a protein of interest through standard IP methods by pulling it down through Dynabeads protein G. Does any one know how to destroy the antibody protein interactions without disturbing the protein's activity?

Identification, isolation and purification of biomolecules Alcaloids, Flavonoids, glucoside"

Okadaic acid is a phosphatase inhibitor, mainly PP1 and PP2A. I am looking to check its effect on meiosis in yeast. however, all studies i have read so far use okadaic acid to estimate the activity of phosphatases in vitro in cell extracts (yeast cell extract) or in vivo in human or other cells but not in yeast.

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I would like to know if siRNA mediated knock down of my protein has some effects on lysosomal activity or not?

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In order to check cell activity on hydrogel scaffold, which in vitro assay is recommend? Will the absorption property of hydrogel affect the mention assay?

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I'm trying to think through the impact and role of interpersonal relationships and affects as structural places of analysis to understand how small scale grass-roots activism takes place, organizes itself and changes.

Are there any readings that you would recommend, or consider a good introduction to the topic?

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* EFL teachers in secondary schools.

* EFL teachers’ performance refers to teaching practices and activities inside EFL classrooms at secondary schools.

* Teachers' competency refers to certain characteristics or abilities of secondary schools teachers that enable them to demonstrate the appropriate specific actions, thereby leading to effective teaching performance.

* Teachers’ motivations refers to the act of making EFL teachers in secondary schools feel that their work is recognized and valued; and at the same time stimulating them to pay more attention to teaching activities, initiate such activities and continue to perform them successfully. It refers to intrinsic and extrinsic factors of motivation.

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I want similar studies on locomotor activity and slow learning difficulties?

.A protocol for achieving this will be welcomed.

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Brulle's framework (1996) for classifying environmental discourses (or simply, types of environmentalism) includes conservation, preservation, health, deep ecology, environmental justice, Eco-feminism and other strands of environmental philosophy that developed in the course of history of the environmental movement. I am interested in measures (e.g. scales) of individual environmental philosophy. In other words, can we examine which environmental philosophy an activist espouses?

Thank you.

I am working on Inulinase enzyme and having difficulty in calculating its activity.

We form huge Community Development Initiatives in which people participate for development, change and better livelihood. We also find Social Activism that again mobilizes people for all these purposes. Is the difference only in semantics - just because two schools of sociologists used two different terms to mean the same thing?