Global Student Protests in the News

Information literacy practices and student protests: mapping community information landscapes

Introduction. This paper provides a contribution to understandings of information literacy regarding context and transferability of information practices. Specifically, the paper analyses the subset of information practices in situations of student protests and addresses issues of transfer of information literacy practice from a highly formal landscape to a highly non-formal and unstructured la...

An Educational Response to Student Protests. Learning from Hannah Arendt

investigating the translation expectancy norms of iranian college student readership in terms of english fiction in persian

مفهوم هنجار برای اولین بار توسط دانشمندی به نام گیدون توری در اواخر دهه 70 مطرح شد. هنجارها توسط محققان مختلفی طبقه بندی شده اند؛ نوع هنجاری که در این تحقیق مورد بحث است "هنجار انتظارات" است. مطالعات ترجمه یک رشته ی نوپا و مستقل است که هنوز به رشد کامل خود نرسیده و بسیاری از شاخه های آن نیاز به پژوهش دارند. یکی ازاین حوزه ها که نیاز به پژوهش دارند، هنجارهای ترجمه هستند به ویژه هنجارهای انتظارات...

Triggering the Protest Paradigm: Examining Factors Affecting News Coverage of Protests

Communication scholars have articulated the concept of protest paradigm to capture the news media’s tendency to portray social protests as deviant, threatening, or impotent. Developments in the media and social environment have led to more diversified media representations of protests, however. Correspondingly, scholars have started to treat the protest paradigm as a variable. Extending this li...

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WHAT DOES ‘DRINK RESPONSIBLY’ MEAN? All injury prevention advocates will agree that alcohol is a major risk factor in most injuries. An article in Fair Warning describes a study from Johns Hopkins suggesting that slogans such as ‘drink responsibly’ or ‘enjoy in moderation’ are meaningless. Nevertheless, such messages are popular with the alcohol industry because they reduce criticism and may mi...