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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

Protests and Reputation Warwick Economic Research Papers Protests and Reputation *

Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest movement depends crucially on how the government responds. We assume that government types are private information so that governments have an interest in building a reputation to...

Colleges react to student protests ; sell off interests in South Africa

As a result o f the increased enro ll­ m ent of disabled students, Assistant Provost Sister John Miriam Jones was appointed last July as co o r­ dinator o f disabled students by Provost T im othy O'Meara. "It was tim e to do som ething dif­ ferent," Jones explained, “We realized w e needed one person to oversee efforts to serve disabled stu ­ dents." Previously, the University C om ­ m ittee fo...

Divergent Discourse Between Protests and Counter-Protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the protest hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has amplified critiques of extrajudicial killings of Black Americans. In response to #BlackLivesMatter, other Twitter users have adopted #AllLivesMatter, a counter-protest hashtag whose content argues that equal attention should be given to all li...