This study examined the civic properties afforded by Twitter and considered whether hashtag communities achieve issues-pluralism in order to facilitate at least some viewpoints to popular expression otherwise absent from print media. Data sources included Twitter hashtag communities that formed around the 2013 Alberta Budget and the associated print media coverage. This inquiry found that while diverse actors contribute to the formation of Twitter hashtag communities, the associated discussion failed to drive issues-pluralism. Twitter's most apparent value to civil society is information exchange--both in terms of tweet content and hyperlinked content and multimedia. In spite of this strength, Twitter is ill-suited as a communicative forum for civil society. Discussion uptake and opinion expression were relatively modest among participants, and the conversation was overwhelmingly dominated and driven by agents of traditional news media intent on perpetuating roles in content gatekeeping and who operated in the service of profits.

This descriptive study focuses on analyzing the factors influencing public debate on intensified Finnish-Swedish defence cooperation, using qualitative abductive content analysis (a combination of Grounded theory analysis and text/content analysis) as the research method. The study was conducted using a model adapted from Tomas Valasek’s hypothesis on pooling and sharing (Surviving Austerity - The case for a new approach to EU military collaboration, 2011), inducted from a corpus collected from Finnish and Swedish public defence debates from 1.1.2013 to 31.3.2014. The main research question is: what are the driving forces influencing debate on intensified bilateral Finnish-Swedish defence. Secondary research questions were developed from the corpus in four categories: historical, political/military, economic and attitudinal factors. Using these as the analysis model, the corpus was deductively analyzed to increase understanding of the individual factors and to find driving forces. The main result of this study is that the existence or lack of trust is seen as a key driving force influencing debate, either furthering or hindering cooperation. Other driving forces seen as influencing debate are the existence or lack of: understanding of the historical background of cooperation from both countries’ point of view commitment and clarity of political/military goals political commitment to the political/military purposes of cooperation instead of domestic economic gain a legally binding framework for cooperation.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 93-100) Also available in print.

Thesis (D.Ed.) in Literacy Education--University of Maine, 2008. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-132).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 258 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-258). Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2008 July 29.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed March 25, 2010). Advisor: Jon Wergin, Ph.D. "A dissertation submitted to the Ph.D. in Leadership and Change program of Antioch University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2009."--from the title page. Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-245).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Waikato, 2009. / Title from PDF cover (viewed August 31, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-104)

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-97). Also available in print.

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Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-09-20T19:47:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelcortesribeiro.pdf: 848650 bytes, checksum: c265dcf4ddd7f58876a7ba77e6080ba4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-09-26T20:26:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelcortesribeiro.pdf: 848650 bytes, checksum: c265dcf4ddd7f58876a7ba77e6080ba4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-26T20:26:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelcortesribeiro.pdf: 848650 bytes, checksum: c265dcf4ddd7f58876a7ba77e6080ba4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar como uma abordagem sistemática em torno dos gêneros textuais pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento das práticas de oralidade na escola. Tal pesquisa baseia-se em alguns conceitos-chave das teorias de gêneros, seguindo o enquadre sócio-discursivo de Bakhtin e a discussão sobre a transposição didática do gênero empreendida pelo Grupo de Genebra (Dolz & Schneuwly, em particular). Recorre-se também a estudos sobre a importância dos gêneros orais públicos no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de Português. Tomando como base essas perspectivas teóricas, uma proposta pedagógica para o gênero debate foi delineada e, a partir dos dados obtidos com a aplicação da sequência didática, foi possível observar que o trabalho sistemático em sala com os gêneros orais, numa abordagem adequada, pode efetivamente trazer resultados bastante positivos. / This research aims at investigating how a systematic approach in relation to text genres can contribute to the development of orality practices at school.This study relies on some basic concepts from genre theory, such as the Bakhtin sociointeractionist perspective and the discussion about pedagogical implications as discussed by The Genebra Group (mainly Dolz & Schneuwly). We also investigated some studies on the importance of the oral public for the learning and teaching process of Portuguese. Taking as the basis these theoretical perspectives, a pedagogical proposal for the debate genre was delineated and, from acquired data after the didactics sequence application, it was possible to observe that a systematic work in the classroom with the oral genres, in a suitable approach, can effectively bring very positive results.