Sentences with phrase «of a social movement of»

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At the annual gathering of roughly 3,000 heads of business and state this week, the overarching theme is «Responsive and Responsible Leadership,» which speaks to the idea that business leaders must respond to social and political movements in turn.

In light of a recent Citibank survey that indicates most small business still haven't joined the social media movement, Mashable has highlighted five companies that have — and successfully.

His company created the first commercial website, and it helped pioneer the ideas of open - source software, social media, and the do - it - yourself movement.

If we were to accept lower margins because of our commitment to social responsibility, then we'd be doing the broader socially responsible business movement a disservice because we wouldn't be as competitive or as attractive to investors.»

The ad, which featured Jenner joining a vague protest and giving a police officer a can of soda to diffuse the situation, was accused of trivializing social movements like Black Lives Matter.

There's a real movement to create social media platforms that cut - through the censorship of big brother, and give users more control.

«We're igniting a movement of social good within tech and helping great companies connect with passionatecoderswho've built open portfolios of their work,» says Vanessa Hurst, founder of the event.

Nguyen [Color's founder] has visions of fundamentally changing some aspects of social interaction and local discovery with the app, which he considers part of the so - called Post-PC movement.

I offer over six years of expertise in this demographic, as well as being the catalyst of what is now known on social media as the black / urban travel movement that now has many communities feeding it.

Or maybe that should be the Occupy «Movement,» with scare - quotes softening any suggestion that an actual social movement of any scope has arisen and persisted.

A new graphic from the analytics company Talkwalker, which analyzes social media platforms, shows how the movement spread across the globe — revealing both the scope of harassment and / or sexual assault and the incredible reach of social media platforms in 2017.

«Business leaders can not be bystanders,» he says, adding that he's concerned that the Occupy Wall Street movement is a harbinger of social unrest.

But new was the artist's social justice embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement — several videos on Lemonade and her song Formation prominently feature black women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital strife.

By the way, those movements eventually succumbed to the laws of social gravity and came back down to earth.»

Because of this movement, live streaming video, especially on social channels like Facebook, will continue to grow in importance.

All sorts of social action apps have already sprung up, including Berlin - based «Refugees Welcome,» which has helped dozens of German citizens invite refugees into their homes, as well as «Mobile Justice,» an app related to the #BlackLivesMatter movement and giving users the ability to zap video footage from a phone directly to the American Civil Liberties Union.

But the shortcomings of one game don't mean that augmented reality itself is a flop — if anything, Pokémon Go has whetted audience hunger for a more developed take on gaming that integrates real - world movement and social interaction.

Dowd wrote that she believes «Sandberg has co-opted the vocabulary and romance of a social movement not to sell a cause, but herself.»

«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

Social movements have promoted the «right to the city» to denounce urban processes that generate injustices, such as gentrification, privatisation of public spaces, forced evictions and the mistreatment of urban refugees.

As social media emerges as a commerce vehicle (most recently, Twitter's «Buy Now» button makes it easier for people to purchase via a tweet), e-commerce retailers should be gearing up to be part of the movement.

But the rapid flow of information and ideas also results in a proliferation of choices, volatility in what the market wants, and continuous movement in the political and social landscapes trying to make sense of it all.

Last year's crackdown on social media in China was merely the opening salvo of the Party's war on Western cultural influence and opposition movements.

Mark R. Leary, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University in Durham, N.C., says that while the movement toward open spaces and «social collision» can improve creativity, different spaces are needed for different work functions.

«Emergence of participatory media may change the power media have to frame social movements, as social movement actors can forcefully offer their framing, diffuse their preferred framing to large audiences in ways that would have been simply impossible or prohibitively costly before social media, challenge journalists directly, or create a strong enough attention around their own framing that it becomes harder to ignore.»

People want to be a part of a company and movement that helps others, and an authentic social mission can turn customers into loyal brand evangelists.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

Indeed, even without an insane number of fantastic backlinks / social signs, and so forth a previous online journal about - blogging I possessed was getting a not too bad lump of movement from a couple long - tails.

A constant barrage of negative publicity, including a #deleteUber social media movement, offered Lyft a gift in terms of picking up business.

So in many cases, it's not simply the case that a person is going to work; they're also part of a social movement.

In the wake of revelations that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein apparently sexually harassed many women who were just trying to do their jobs, a social media movement has been born.

A decades - old case of alleged rape and suicide at a prestigious university is giving China a #MeToo moment — and showing the constraints confronted by social movements in the authoritarian - ruled country.

It is therefore no shock that economists and business academics are subverting the social movement to demand corporate accountability by dismantling some of their legal advantage — most notably, personhood rights for corporations.

«Plan Canada is a global movement for change, mobilizing millions of people around the world to support social...

The site, which includes a help desk and crowd - sourced knowledge base, was built to provide activists at the greatest risk of surveillance with culturally relevant digital safety tips, tools and support, vetted by technologists that understand and are participants in social movements.

The Blockchain algorithm will undoubtedly become a useful component of validating transactions, tracking supply chain movements, and all sorts of other applications, but Bitcoin itself is likely to become the same thing to cryptocurrencies as Visicalc was to spreadsheets, or if you're younger, what MySpace was to social networking.

See, the movement of dialogue in short order from development economics on the post-modern social marxian critique, bound up in decades of thought from well before the vertical rise in its popularity in the 1960's to today.

Ms. Caro Diaz is part of the Organizing and Capacity Building Team at the Center for Popular Democracy and provides support to social movements in Puerto Rico struggling against the debt and austerity measures proposed by a Fiscal Control Board.

Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.

«The only way the boycott will be effective is if it creates enough reputational damage that regulation becomes a reasonable option or if advertisers leave en masse,» says Brayden King, a professor at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management who studies how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility and policymaking.

The lab is part of a global movement where several countries are using public and social innovation labs to tackle society's most intractable problems.

May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists, human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]

Canadian designer Nathan Zhang is part of a growing movement around social responsibility sweeping China's major cities.

That Alberta has a government that is committed to Green principles which include, but are not limited to, the 6 principles of the world - wide Green Party movement — Ecological wisdom, Social justice, Participatory democracy, Non-violence, Sustainability and Respect for diversity.

If this movement spreads to society at large, perhaps the social propriety of social media could be called into question.

The articles tapped into the recognition and movement towards more science and less art in the spheres of marketing and sales as well as in overall social strategy.

The movement of goods, services and people is critical to the quality of life, business competitiveness and economic and social future of families and businesses in the Lower Mainland.

Judd was one of the first women in October 2017 to make an on - the - record allegation of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, which soon afterward evolved into the social media #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault.

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American social movements, it seems, remain immutably Puritan no matter what commonsense fact (the goodness of beer, the heterosexual character of marriage) they are directed against.