Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society

Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society

Susheel Chhabra

Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 445

ISBN13: 9781522541974|ISBN10: 1522541977|EISBN13: 9781522541981

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4197-4

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Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development and social change. This can be achieved through a number of methods including public policy and urban development.

The Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society is a critical scholarly resource that examines the unexplored field of applying social change to civic engagement in an effort to enlarge public welfare activities. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as civic education, sustainable development, and child labor, this publication is geared towards academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on civic engagement and public welfare.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Participatory Design for Under-Represented Communities: A Collaborative Design-Led Research Approach for Place-Making (pages 1-15)

Bruno Marques, Jacqueline McIntosh, Philippe Campays

Interdisciplinary collaborative design for culturally diverse and under-represented communities hinges on understanding cultural environments; building trusting relationships and fostering a respectful approach to community. It...

Chapter 2

Participation Sphere: A Model and a Framework for Fostering Participation in Organizations (pages 16-39)

Carlos Quental, Luis Borges Gouveia

In the context of Portuguese teacher unions, the adoption of information and communication technologies is nowadays a reality. This chapter presents a brief analysis of e-participation and e-democracy, proposes a conceptual...

Chapter 3

Student Acceptance of a Civic Engagement Graduation Requirement in an Urban Community College (pages 40-62)

Christopher Chapman

Civic engagement is an essential part of a democratic society, though it has recently tended toward adversarial political conflict. Although many college administrators favor encouraging or requiring student civic engagement, little...

Chapter 4

Higher Education Pedagogy Revisited: Impacting Political Science College Students' Active Learning, Opinion Development, and Participation (pages 63-81)

Christopher McCarthy-Latimer

This chapter is an update that examines the effect of using “deliberation” as a tool for teaching at the college level. The students in this study considered the economic benefits and expenses of a box store. Deliberation provides a...

Chapter 5

Strengthening Performance of Civil Society Through Dialogue and Critical Thinking in Nigeria: Its Ethical Implications (pages 82-102)

Essien Essien

This chapter discusses dialogue and critical thinking as a tool for civil society's performance and achievements in contemporary societies. The problem statement raises the need for knowledge of what dialogue and critical...

Chapter 6

Agriculture Livelihood Security: Industry CSR Initiative (pages 103-118)

Sabyasachi Nayak

This chapter describes how through the prism of CSR, industry can take a stride in evolving its relationship with the stakeholders. Agriculture continues to remain the mainstay of livelihood for chunk of the population. The sector is...

Chapter 7

Leveraging Hybrid Value Chain for Affordable Housing Delivery in the City of Windhoek (pages 119-141)

Isaac Okoth Randa

Hybrid Value Chain (HVC) has emerged both as a business model and development innovation that leverages joint capabilities of the business and citizen sectors to enable the delivery of essential goods and services to low income...

Chapter 8

Indigenous Knowledge as Resource to Sustain Self-Employment in Rural Development (pages 142-158)

Ladislaus M. Semali

This chapter explores the ways African rural youths and women seek opportunities to innovate and adapt indigenous knowledge as a locally developed resource of community resilience in the attempt to reduce household poverty. The two...

Chapter 9

Understanding Private and Public Partnerships (pages 159-168)

Luke Strongman

New public management organisations tend to import managerial processes and behaviour from the private sector, and have been doing so in the post-Keynsian era. Increasingly those economies that were nationalised for large collective...

Chapter 10

Framework for Enhancing Organizational Performance: Haryana Government Departments, India (pages 169-182)

Susheel Chhabra

The government departments in India need overhauling to improve effectiveness in providing services to citizens. The chapter proposes an organizational performance framework of Haryana State Government departments involved in...

Chapter 11

NGOs, Civil Society, and Global Governance in the Era of Sustainability and Consolidation: A Taxonomy of Value (pages 183-206)

Maria Matiatou

The purpose of this chapter is to establish a robust and reliable reference framework on the ecosystem of NGOs and Civil Society for literature review in scholarly contributions and publications. Furthermore, we seek to clarify the...

Chapter 12

Reconnoitering the Fight Against Political Corruption and the Way Forward in Nigeria (pages 207-219)

Babatunde Joshua Omotosho

This chapter describes how one of the challenges developing countries face in their quest for effective service delivery and national development relates to the corrupt practices of political office holders. While there has been a...

Chapter 13

“Don't Be Evil” and Beyond for High Tech Organizations: Ethical Statements and Mottos (and Responsibility) (pages 220-237)

Jo Ann Oravec

Societal pressures on high tech organizations to define and disseminate their ethical stances are increasing as the influences of the technologies involved expand. Many Internet-based businesses have emerged in the past decades;...

Chapter 14

Child Labour: Psychological and Behavioral Challenges (pages 238-252)

Daman Ahuja

This chapter describes how the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act of 1986 talks about hazardous units of employability and prohibits employers to employ children in them and regulate the employability of children in the...

Chapter 15

Do Women Perceive Organizational Culture Differently From Men?: A Case Study of State Bank of India (pages 253-271)

Richa Vij

With the increasing proportion of women in the workforce, need for effective management of gender-diversity is being felt. While much of the effort in gender-diversity management has been on representation of women in the...

Chapter 16

Assessing the Social Media Presence and Activity of Major Greek Cities During 2014-2017: Towards Local Government 2.0? (pages 272-293)

Evika Karamagioli, Eleni Revekka Staiou, Dimitris Gouscos

This chapter describes how little is known about how Greek local authorities capitalize on the potential of social media as a communication channel. The authors present the results of following up on a 2014 study assessing major...

Chapter 17

The Use of Social Media by Local Governments: Benefits, Challenges, and Recent Experiences (pages 294-310)

Diaz Romero Leocadia

This chapter describes how social media, if correctly used, can enhance cultural, political, economic and social engagement. They also represent key communication tools for administrators to highlight the principles of openness...

Chapter 18

Mediation Is the Message: Social Media Ventures in Informational Capitalism (pages 311-327)

Marco Briziarelli, Joseph Flores

In this chapter, the authors explore the deep level of ambiguities that characterizes the relationship between social media and capitalism, and the social, political economic context in which in several regions of world they operate....

Chapter 19

Facebook Losing to WhatsApp: The Changing Social Networking Patterns in India (pages 328-346)

Roshan Lal Raina, Iftikhar Alam, Faizia Siddiqui

This chapter describes how over the past decade, there has been a tremendous growth in the subscriber base of social networking sites. These networking websites or SNS have provided a global platform to people—to connect and express....

Chapter 20

Networked Protests: A Review of Social Movement Literature and the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (2017) (pages 347-363)

Emily Stacey

This chapter explores social movement theories and attempts to modernize and explain contemporary movements with consideration of the digital tools being utilized by citizens on the ground. The ability to transcend borders and...

Chapter 21

Fencism: An Unusual Political Alignment in Twitter Nigeria (pages 364-382)

Noel Ihebuzor, Nwachukwu Andrew Egbunike

Most twitter users supported either All Progressive Party (APC) or Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2015 Nigerian elections. In the midst of this, an unusual political alignment emerged which was called Fencism who neither...

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