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political participation;clicktivism;heuristic;online engagement;slacktivism;e-activism;online activism

political participation;clicktivism;heuristic;online engagement;slacktivism;e-activism;online activism

Abstract: It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that systematic and sustained action is needed to bring an end to domestic food...

Ways to estimate food deserts from high, medium and low. This research also includes time duration from home to supermarket and cost of food.

Finding ways to improving the growth of nutritious food

Connecting community gardens and health living in youth. Community gardens served more than just providing healthy foods but a safe place to play for youth to stay active especially for city kids who may not have safe places to play

Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms did not provide new outlets for the discussion of the Snowden-NSA revelations. People who thought their social media

Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms did not provide new outlets for the discussion of the Snowden-NSA revelations. People who thought their social media

urban gardens

! City bountiful : a century of community gardening in America. [Laura J Lawson] -- Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot gardens, and school gardens.

New York City Lower East Side residents fighting against the Mayor of New York, who was trying to bring gentrification into that area. The article focuses more on the large Hispanic community in the Lower East side and gives the history of why and how Community Gardens in the 70's and 80's came about. The community gardens are being threaten by outside developers

This study examines what drives organizational adoption and use of social media through a model built around four key factors - strategy, capacity, governance and environment. Using Twitter, Facebook, and other data on 100 large US nonprofit organizations, the model is employed to examine the determinants of three key facets of social media utilization: (1) adoption, (2) frequency of use and (3) dialogue.

Through a content analysis of 225 nonprofit organizations' Facebook profiles, the current study examines the impact of cultural orientation when it comes to American, Chinese, and Turkish nonprofit organizations' behavior and communication patterns in the social media sphere. Specifically, the research explored how organizations disclose information about themselves and those managing their Facebook presence, promoting organizational news and accomplishments, and stakeholder engagement in relation to their context, performance, and collectivist/individualist natures, respectively. The study found mixed support for the impact of traditional cultural expectations indicating that the global connectivity of social media may be contributing to blurred cultural boundaries in favor of a virtual culture that promotes the global community. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] .

Although public relations scholarship has often discussed the possibilities of dialogue and engagement using social media, research has not truly explored this dynamic. Instead, research on social media platforms has focused on measuring the content and structure of organizational profiles.

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