Digital Right Advocacy: Advocacy for Life in the Digital World

Advocacy.

Using Digital Right Management technology in IRANDOC ETD System

Background and Aim: Easing the probability of violation of intellectual property rights and unauthorized access of digital resources is one of the most important consequences of  information and communication technologies like Internet. The purpose of this research is to identify the state of Using Digital Right Management technology in IRANDOC ETD system. Method: This research is an applied re...

Contingency and Hybridity in the Study of Digital Advocacy Networks: Implications of the Egyptian Protest Movement

This chapter proposes an analytic approach for the study of ICTs in contentious politics and human rights advocacy. By applying the analytical frames of contingency and hybridity to study design, this approach aims to promote empirical analyses, strengthen data comparability, and improve understanding into how human rights activists strategically combine digital and grounded communications to r...

Issue advocacy groups and media Running head: ISSUE ADVOCACY GROUPS AND MEDIA Choosing the Right Media for Mobilization: Understanding Issue Advocacy Groups’ Media Choice Strategies

Issue advocacy groups play a central role in today’s political system, but their media and communication use has seldom been examined to date. Grounded in the uses and gratifications approach and the niche theory, this study surveyed media and communication technology usage of 209 issue advocacy groups in the United State. The findings suggest that a variety of media are used for citizen mobili...

The Psychology of Advocacy and the Advocacy of Psychology

This article addresses needs and opportunities for advocacy for the science, education and practice of psychology from the perspectives of three leaders within organized psychology, academia, and hospital practice. The authors make distinctions between knowledge transfer and knowledge translation as well as between lobbying and advocacy. They define proactive and reactive advocacy and draw atte...