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Odencrantz, Joana Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores the impact of an authoritarian state on the university as represented by the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. I examine how academics negotiate their tasks of acquiring, disseminating and producing knowledge within the confines of an authoritarian state. "The 2003 Arab…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Authoritarianism, Government School Relationship
Tsuma, Clive Katiba – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The availability of political information throughout society made possible by the evolution of contemporary information communication technology has precipitated conflicting debate regarding the effects of technology use on real life political participation. Proponents of technology argue that the use of new information technology stimulates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Voting, Citizen Participation
Odutola, Kole Ade – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Postings generated during "natural" online interactions among geographically dispersed/diasporic Nigerians contain ideas from different intellectual sources. A few of the ideas encapsulated within texts produced were brought to the fore, discussed, and analyzed. The consequent search for the presence of indigenous knowledge within the…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Indigenous Knowledge, Activism, Democracy