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Information, Community, and Action: How Nonprofit Organizations Use Social ...: EBSCOhost - 2 views

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  • Kyra Youngblood on 14 Oct 14
     
    The rapid diffusion of 'microblogging' services such as Twitter is ushering in a new era of possibilities for organizations to communicate with and engage their core stakeholders and the general public. To enhance understanding of the communicative functions microblogging serves for organizations, this study examines the Twitter utilization practices of the 100 largest nonprofit organizations in the United States. The analysis reveals there are three key functions of microblogging updates-'information,''community,' and 'action.' Though the informational use of microblogging is extensive, nonprofit organizations are better at using Twitter to strategically engage their stakeholders via dialogic and community-building practices than they have been with traditional websites. The adoption of social media appears to have engendered new paradigms of public engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] .
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Optimism and positive body image in women: The mediating role of the feared fat self - 1 views

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  • aullkk on 15 Oct 14
     
    Studies the irrational fear women have of gaining weight- and how optimism affects the overall perception of our body image
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Towards a Radical Body Positive: Reading the Online "Body Positive Movement" - 2 views

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  • aullkk on 15 Oct 14
     
    Under the auspices of the "body positive movement" there has, in recent years, been a proliferation of websites dedicated to nurturing bodily acceptance. Responding to the barrage of media images reflecting a narrow bodily ideal, the movement and its related sites provide a space to showcase bodies of all shapes and sizes.
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Re-materialising Cultural Geography : From the Ground Up : Community Gardens in New Yor... - 1 views

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  • tieshaedwards on 16 Oct 14
     
    New York City Community Forum in 2006 tried to get people involved to protect to keep the land they use for their community gardens. This group of upcoming political actors are fighting for space and it discusses the three parts of community gardens and the importance of each branch.
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BUILDING A COMMUNITY GARDEN - 0 views

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    Educating residents on how to care for community gardens and other information for a healthy garden
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Can community gardens and farmers' markets relieve food desert problems? A study of Edm... - 0 views

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  • that neighborhoods that have poor access to supermarkets also tend to have limited access to community gardens.
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      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      Even though the goal of gardens it to provide healthy, nutritious and fresh food for people who live in neighborhoods that are food desert, the location of the community garden can not be access by all that need it.
  • The term “food desert” has frequently been used to describe situations in which consumers lack access to affordable nutritious food, typically a populated low-income area with limited access to full-service supermarkets
    • sconzy
      sconzy on 12 Oct 14
       
      Food desert is referred to as low income communities in which its people don't have easy accessibility to healthy and fresh food to grocery stores.
  • considered low income and high population density as indicators of high need. In addition, we introduced low car access as an indicator of the challenge of getting access to healthy food.
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  • Our results for the case of Edmonton show that community gardens and farmers' markets can help increase fresh food access and relieve food desert problems to a certain extent
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Actors and networks in urban community garden development - 1 views

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  • Harambee gardens have developed and survived through network connections between garden participants and external actors.
  • Connection to larger organizations also provides access to knowledge and information about processes of obtaining permits and applying for grants.
  • Examining the role of social networks in community garden development is important precisely because social networks contain power dynamics.
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  • s we will demonstrate, although networks enable Harambee community garden development, networks formed between citizen groups and other actors also contain unequal power relations and conflicts that can constrain the activities of community garden groups.
  • In gardens managed by Groundwork, groups of citizen volunteer organizers are responsible for regular maintenance and decision-making
  • State disapproval of green space often takes on racialized or classist implications, as the state may promote certain kinds of space at the expense of others, in ways that conscribe what kinds of people belong or do not belong in public space or what forms of public space are legitimate
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