Sentences with phrase «public conversations as»

In our forthcoming book, «Talking Climate: From Research to Practice in Public Engagement,» my colleagues Adam Corner and Jamie Clarke go further to make the detailed case for public conversations as a model of public engagement.

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He expressed admiration for platforms like Google Hangouts and Twitter direct messaging that allow for both public, forum - style conversations as well as private ones.

As an analytics tool, Nuvi can see what others can not see in terms of Facebook conversations, including private and public posts.

In general, blogging is about having conversations in a public space that position you as a subject matter expert.

If the public interest is defined as «seizing oil wherever it may be found,» then, well, that's a conversation we need to have... and quick.

I do not use it as much as the Times does, and I think it should not be used in a way that precludes the conversation and persuasion that should be, but is not, the ordinary mode of public discourse.

In short, other people in this conversation have reviewed this evidence as well as the public court documents and verified that these are consistent with her claims here.

An ethic of virtue and character — either in its more Christian form, as in the theology of Stanley Hauerwas (A Community of Character [University of Notre Dame Press, 19821), or its more secular form, as in Alasdair McIntyre's After Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press, 1982)-- can never advance convincing reasons in public conversation.

The idea of broadcasting as a force in the public interest, a display case for the best of America «s creative arts, a forum of public debate — advancing the democratic conversation and enhancing the public imagination — has receded before the inexorable force of audience maximization.11.

Europe now has dozens of laws to stop Christians from speaking out on controversial issues, not just in public spaces but in pulpits and private conversations as well, enforced vigorously through the criminal code.

For example, both Koko and Michael evidence public self - consciousness when they use self - referents in their conversations, as when asked, «Who is a smart gorilla?»

The second is to remain part of the public conversation, but only with sardonic observations: merrily pointing out the perpetual follies of the world, and branding as naïve any Christian foolish enough to believe they might actually change it.

During my public conversation with Professor Bacevich last month, I pointed out that, in the colonies and the early republic, Americans conceived of themselves as participants in a covenant with God.

We were taught to think of prayer as Jesus did — something you did often, but as a private conversation, not a public display.

That conversation is not advanced when, as happened after the CNN broadcast, smug partisans attack a serious Catholic public official by suggesting that he's deficient in both his moral commitment to the poor and his understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

I've heard or read varying degrees of that same attitude when it comes to some of the conversations about «biblical» womanhood as people heap guilt on mothers or fathers for everything from choosing public school education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family structures.

This blog is a limited public forum for discussion and, as host, it is my job to help make it a positive conversation.

This exchange was carried on in numerous meetings, large and small, formally sponsored by Religion and Public Life as well as over informal lunches and dinners and drinks» a conversation among socially and politically and religiously passionate scholars and clergymen and even, sometimes, among the staff during the meetings at which we decided on the contents of the next issue of the magazine.

Meanwhile, the shrill tones of public intellectuals such as Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists have dominated the conversation from the secular side.

And I believe that we can make them while entering into the public conversation, describing what we see in as acceptable and accessible a language as possible.

Advances on those fronts just might, as well, reopen the public conversation about the nature of freedom, offering opportunities to challenge the debasement of freedom into willfulness (license) and reconnecting freedom to the true and the good.

As such, it must make its case sometimes in conversation with and sometimes against other proposals that are advanced in the public square of democratic discourse.

And what I found as I reported was that there is a new and groundbreaking conversation going on, out of the public eye, about childhood and success and failure.

So I'm not cool with touting this photo as a celebration that breastfeeding has «made it» - I am happy about all the conversations I see around it about the way women in non-glamorous situations feel about breastfeeding in public and photos of breastfeeding publicly displayed.

Murdock also took part in nearly two years of public and private conversations about the harbor's management, as the Park District worked with the Wilmette Harbor Association on a possible partnership.

What happened to his wife during those two hours, McCrea and several other notable concussion researchers say, is a microcosm of what has happened in American living rooms throughout the past decade as public perception and media discourse have altered the conversation surrounding concussion.

I have struggled sometimes with conversations with other parents about what school is best, as my kids have moved from an amazing public elementary school to public middle school that has more challenges.

Each of the voices in this conversation brings a breadth of experience, research, and knowledge — and BOND is a tremendous opportunity to bring it all together: research on infant / early child development, attachment, sociology, public health, education, the experience of medical professionals, pediatric support professionals, educators, volunteer, and manufacturers, and of course, our collective minds and skills as a service community working to strengthen human bonding and family health.

In many countries, breastfeeding in public is as mundane an activity as public conversation; no one is concerned when women use their breasts in public for their primary biological function: to feed babies.

These photographs were taken by the amazing Angela Carlyle The Perfect Push did this in an effort to #normalizebreastfeeding and start an honest conversation about hot - topics such as nursing in public, and those not often discussed, like extended breastfeeding and tandem nursing.

Alright so let's meet everybody that's joining our conversation today, I'll kick things off I'll tell you a little bit about me, so I'm Sunny and I'm kind of moderating our conversation today I have four kids and yeah let's see my oldest is five a boy, then I have a four year old boy and then I have twin girls who are two and half and as far as lactation rooms are concerned I have used them out in public, Idon't go out in public a lot because I have four kids and they are all really young and that's really crazy however I do find them to be very helpful when I'm out in public so that's a little bit about me, Rachel tell us about you.

News coverage of the social media platform itself often focuses on its financial woes, but in the political and cultural worlds, it reigns supreme as a tool to inject an idea or phrase into the public conversation.

Judt proffers the public intellectual as a creature of the nation, operating most effectively within a middle register of action, facing great difficulty sparking anything resembling a global conversation.

And just as in the real world, the end result may be NEW social connections, since people who «meet» through this discussion thread can start their own side conversations, as can people who read the comments but don't add their own in public.

My fear, & hence my caution, is they can only do this if the public conversation identifies Labour as a politics of the centre, & the clear & urgent voice of reason & c & c..

This week I began a month of Town Hall meetings on this subject at a crowded North Collins public library as the communitywide conversation began in earnest.

Among the Buffalo Billion related questions were the review of Joe Percoco's disclosure form revealing outside income from Buffalo Billion vendors, details of Cuomo's last conversation with Percoco, the recent disclosure by Solar City of a reduction in the expected number of jobs, why the Public Authorities Control Board delayed a decision of funding certain payments related to Solar City and whether public money funding the Buffalo Billion was treated «as sacred» and if so, why an investigation is occuPublic Authorities Control Board delayed a decision of funding certain payments related to Solar City and whether public money funding the Buffalo Billion was treated «as sacred» and if so, why an investigation is occupublic money funding the Buffalo Billion was treated «as sacred» and if so, why an investigation is occurring.

Much of the difference may have to do with both the narrow sliver of the public represented on Twitter as well as who among that slice chose to take part in any one conversation.

After Labour had largely remained quiet about the issue in the first two years of the Coalition government, Miliband touted his speech as the first step in a new conversation, and offered extensive apologies about Labour's past policies on immigration in a bid to begin to rehabilitate Labour's public image in this policy area.

Public safety chair Vanessa Gibson echoed a similar message during a radio interview, where she described the Right to Know Act as «not dead» and stressed the council would pursue conversations about the proposal with incoming commissioner James O'Neill, who currently serves as chief of department.

«I really wan na have that conversation with our police chief as to from his standpoint in looking at an infrastructure investment that would improve public safety and improve the safety of our police officers.

In this edition of the Campbell Conversations, he discusses the environmental issues he became known for as mayor, economic development, and the current Syracuse mayor's disagreement with the governor over public pensions.

Among the many mobile offerings for the public are Dutchess County's HELPLINE mobile app which is available through Google Play or the Apple store; the launch of texting conversations with the 24/7 HELPLINE; as well as the launch of Text to 911 for emergencies where it is not safe to speak to a 911 operator.

Interfaith dialogue is at the core of the Centre's work and involves actively promoting conversations among Nigeria's faith communities, as well as between leaders in faith and public policy.

«All of us know it's a function almost of the internet when people are participating in perhaps the early hours of the morning, that they don't choose their language as they would often in a public forum... or when they were in conversation.

«As per my conversation with the transition team of County Executive - Elect Curran please do not add her name to any signs, printing or letterhead,» Walker wrote in a Nov. 14 email to five Mangano agency heads, including Public Works Commissioner Commissioner Shila Shah - Gavnoudias and Parks Commissioner Brian Nugent.

The organization said that, «As a government presumably pursuing a change - agenda, Buhari should do things differently from the former Jonathan administration including by proactively engaging the Nigerian people in an honest conversation about the fight against Boko Haram and the use of the public funds so far invested to prosecute it.»

Such an action would provide the public, as well as local officials, with the information needed to begin a conversation about ways to remedy the problems that exist.

But as Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon explains, the public rhetoric is not matched by conversation behind the scenes.

In this way referendums can play a longer term role in raising awareness and reconnecting people with politics, as happened in Scotland where we saw genuine grassroots conversations and movements emerge spontaneously and follow through into more sustained public engagement with politics after the referendum.