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Social Media for Civic Education: Engaging Youth for Democracy
This open access book provides the theoretical and pedagogical foundations for a promising new approach to civic education: using social media to teach civics. While many measures indicate that youth civic engagement has long been in decline, many of these measures fail to take into account all of the ways that youth can interact with civic life. One of these understudied ways is through social…
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- 978-3-031-10865-5
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- Palgrave Studies in Educational Media Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
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- XIX, 161
People or Property
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally…
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- 978-3-031-36872-1
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- XXI, 242
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Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Met…
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255479
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- 1 online resource (xli, 446 pages) :illustrations.
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Growing smarter :achieving livable communities, environmental justice, and re…
Experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269537
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 407 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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- Urban and Industrial Environments
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Design justice :community-led practices to build the worlds we need
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities…
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- 9780262356862
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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Code for what? :computer science for storytelling and social justice
"Challenges the 'Code for All' movement with a framework for critical computational literacy that integrates computer science with journalism, data, art, civic imagination, and social action"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371841
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- 1 online resource
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Collective wisdom :co-creating media for equity and justice
"Collective Wisdom tracks co-creation in media-making, efforts that reach beyond limits of singular authorship, an ancient and under-documented practice"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369869
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- 1 online resource.
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Democracy's dilemma: environment, social equity, and the global economy
A call for a balancing of economic, environmental, and social concerns in the age of global economic integration.The realities of global economic integration are far more complex than many of its supporters or detractors acknowledge. One consequence of simplistic thinking about globalization, claims Robert Paehlke, is that we tend to focus on economic prosperity to the neglect of such other imp…
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- 9780262281164
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- 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages)
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Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300216
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 389 pages).
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Out of the shadows, into the streets! : transmedia organizing and the immigra…
Foreword by Manuel Castells."For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media--newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, community organizers know that social media enhance, rather than replace, face-to-face organizing…
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- 9780262322805
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- 1 online resource (xix, 273 pages) :illustrations
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