Sentences with phrase «major social shifts»

We think they have relatively weak secondary effects, such as building the animal advocacy movement and increasing the likelihood of a major social shift away from factory farming.

We think online ads have relatively weak secondary effects, such as building the animal advocacy movement and increasing the likelihood of a major social shift away from factory farming.

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Social media is fuelling a fundamental shift in labour relations and corporate communications, and is showing it can do more than just complicate negotiations — it can affect control of major business announcements like divestments, layoffs, mergers and acquisitions.

It's a major change for Facebook, which over the years has shifted from being a social networking service connecting friends and family to one of the world's biggest distributors of news and online ads.

Major brands already are shifting their online ad dollars from Google to Facebook — the latter of which is expected to rake in $ 2 billion in global advertising next year, said Ciaran Norris, Mindshare's global head of social media.

Amidst this major shift, our study also reveals how social media has surfaced as the enduring platform - of - choice where employers and candidates alike connect and engage in the job market.»

But we need a major cultural shift because the problem is the expectation that all of these public social services are free — and they are free.

GICS is set to undergo a major shift with the introduction of the communications services sector, which will encompass not just telecom companies, but internet media companies, mobile gaming app makers, online streaming services, search engines, social media platforms and more.

The major challenge for the federal government in the budget expected this month is to maintain its commitment to progressive social and economic policies in the context of a major shift to the political right in the United States.

Facebook Inc. said it's making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting users» news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets — a transition that is likely to mean people spend less time on the site.

This shift is leading to major changes in cultural perception, thought and social organisation.

We are currently in the midst of a major paradigm shift in world societies from primarily literate - based communication and social organisation to electronic - based communication.

Legend says it's important to tell the story because athletes have always played a major role in shifting culture's view of social issues.

Instead, the estimated $ 10 million that Coke will spend on its #colouryoursummer campaign will, in a major shift in its marketing strategy, go to digital and social media.

As with the last great crisis of social democracy in the 1970s, today's stark choices are being posed as the result of a major economic shift within capitalism: the deep disruption of capital accumulation as a consequence of the crisis in global financial markets unleashed in 2008.

As social media becomes increasingly present in our everyday lives, a major democratic cultural shift is underway.

That is the MAJOR shift now occurring in research, to listen to the patients, and your effort, using social media, puts it out there so the researchers can hear what is working for this patient population.

This leads to the second major change for AF, which has been the shift from lyrical earnestness and melodrama to aloofness and social critique, and it's here where their success really begins to unravel.

The major reveal is part of the fundamental flaw in the narrative that undermines all that has gone on before; it shifts the story from being a light - hearted and touching social commentary that sexual inhibitions are perfectly normal to a melodramatic and morose tale with daddy issues.

David Deming: The Achievement Gap: A Preschool Problem Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «There is a strong argument that the roots of inequality are in early childhood and therefore we could use a major shift in social policy toward early intervention.

Emphasizing creativity, technology - enabled learning, project - based intellectual adventures, and social / emotional intelligences, Education Nation encompasses the well - being of the whole child and the major shift to student - centered learning.

While these strategies and genres have for sure been used in traditional media outlets, they have also been part of a major paradigm shift within peace movement campaigns towards online social media based campaigns for peace.

Informal / Social learning is one of the major revolutions happening around us that demands a shift in the mere thinking of...

In his 10 years as president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1955 - 65, during his tenure as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Johnson Administration, and recently, as chairman of Common Cause and Independent Sector, Mr. Gardner has developed a keen perception of shifts in public attitudes toward major social issues.

Tectonic social changes — including demographic shifts that have placed most women with school - age children in the labor force, research breakthroughs in the learning sciences and in socio - emotional and brain development, and daunting national achievement worries — have all converged to place a major new emphasis on the quality of a child's learning experiences throughout the typical school day, after school, weekends, and across the year, including summers.

Thus, he is in a position to anticipate not only major shifts in social and fiscal policy, but also smaller cultural changes.

This exhibition will illuminate major shifts in portraiture in the United States during the past century, and will explore the deeper aesthetic, intellectual, social, political, and technological undercurrents that have helped bring about these transformations.»

«We did it because we recognised that artists are often like social researchers, picking up major cultural shifts in society.

Facebook Inc.said it's making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting users» news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets — a transition that is likely to mean people spend less time on the site.

Stopping it altogether will take time and a major shift in social consciousness.