Protest as Communication for Development and Social Change

Oyedemi, Toks

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“…However, protest as a medium is not without its limitations, and it has certainly not gone unscathed by its critics. Historically, many protests have been largely unsuccessful in achieving what they have set out to change, and those that have been successful have sometimes come at a cost-especially in recent years, protests have been criticized for being too quick to turn violent (Oyedemi 2020). By allowing protest as a topic to take a secondary role as a theme in the campaign, it was my hope that with participants' attention on other issues as well, their ideas surrounding protest and its effectiveness as a tool were in a better position to be influenced by the storyline of the campaign.…”

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A Different Kind of Political Party: The Relationship between Tabletop Role Playing Games and Political Efficacy

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Tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) present a unique opportunity to study political behavior. In educational settings, role-playing games (RPGs) of all kinds have proven to be valuable educational tools, and even when played for fun, participating in role playing games has been shown to increase one's level of confidence. Knowing this, I designed an experiment to attempt to increase internal political efficacy through the use of a politically-themed TRPG. I took inspiration from the original TRPGs of the 1970s and 1980s which were used purely for entertainment purposes to create my own game in a traditional TRPG setting with current issues woven into the story of the game (also called a campaign), and utilized quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze participants' reactions to the campaign and levels of efficacy. In doing so, I seek to determine whether players will recognize real-world issues when presented in a science fiction or fantasy-themed campaign. Furthermore, given that TRPGs have the potential to shape players' understanding of how the world works and their place in it, will players be more motivated to act on said issues presented in-game, even if they do not consciously make the connection between the real-life issues presented in the science fiction/fantasy setting and those same issues in the real world?

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A Different Kind of Political Party: The Relationship between Tabletop Role Playing Games and Political Efficacy

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Mazurkiewicz-Sułkowska

Pociechina

2021

Zeitschrift Für Slawistik

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Summary This essay focuses on the sociocultural and semiotic aspects of the discourse of protests sparked by the rigged presidential election in Belarus, in August 2020. The mass demonstrations, using symbolic items (such as posters, slogans, exclamation marks, performances, posts in the social networks on the Internet, etc.) have been analyzed as a type of social discourse. The focus is on the peculiarity and the most distinctive features of the protest movement in Belarus. In particular, the following socio-political and cultural characteristics of Belarusian protest discourses are considered: 1) rejecting stereotypes (especially the tolerance stereotype, blr. pamjarkoŭnas’c’); 2) Belarusian protest tradition; 3) historical and geopolitical factors of the Belarusian protest movement; 4) the discursive systems; 5) the carnival. The emphasis is on linguistic forms of creativity, especially the protest slogans. In addition, the extensive scientific literature addressing such discourses is discussed.

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Language creativity of the protest discourses in Belarus after the 2020 presidential election

Kiklewicz

Pociechina

2021

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The subject of the article is the use of language and linguistic aspects of social behavior within the protest discourses that took place after the results of the presidential elections in Belarus were falsified in August 2020. The author considers the concept of protest discourse, referring to scientific literature and comparing its interpretation by various researchers. The analysis of around 500 posters, chosen from the corpus of a first month of Belarusian numerous and various protesting activities, is focused on both rhetoric and language means of protesting communicative actions, namely on lexical nomination and code switching, wordplay and structural modifications, neologisms, paronomasia, irony, graphic operations and others, which, in the format of peaceful demonstrations (on behand of the demonstrators) actualizes the features of carnivalization and the acratic type of discourse.

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Protest as Communication for Development and Social Change

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A Different Kind of Political Party: The Relationship between Tabletop Role Playing Games and Political Efficacy

A Different Kind of Political Party: The Relationship between Tabletop Role Playing Games and Political Efficacy

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