Sohana Nasrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sohana Nasrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sohana |
| FAMILY NAME | Nasrin |
| SIGNATURE | NASRIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0688-6116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Relationship Building as a Metacognitive News Literacy Behavior
Scholastic Journalists Covering Controversy in the Covid-19 Era: A Textual Analysis
Through a qualitative textual analysis using written work from 17 high school journalism publications over a six-semester span, this research explores the types of controversy scholastic journalists covered during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The analysis focuses on which controversial topics were covered, differences in coverage as related to school demographics, the genres and styles of writing used to cover the topics, concerns based on journ…
New ways of activism: Design Justice and Data Feminism
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock and Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein address ways to help navigate dominations people experience in society. Constanza-Chock’s book is an essential resource for scholars of social movements and activists because the concept of ‘design justice’ represents a new form of activism that could build communities of activists, scientists, s…
Hacking Culture Not Code: How American Racism Fuels Russia's Century-Long Memetic Disinformation Campaign
This study develops upon recent scholarship about the Russian government's digital influence campaign to cultivate Black Americans during the 2016 election by rooting their efforts within a century-long strategy to exploit racial inequality to discredit and damage American democracy. Guided by Shifman’s (2013) construct of memetics, we employed a novel methodology that combined journalistic fact-checking and critical, qualitative analysis to stud…
Understanding Collective Identity in Virtual Spaces: A Study of the Youth Climate Movement
How does collective identity form in virtual spaces and what role do hashtags play? This paper takes advantage of a unique dataset that includes surveys from activists who organized the nationally coordinated climate strikes in the US that began in spring 2019 to answer these questions. Building on the research about collective identity formation online and the role that hashtags play, we employ social network analysis to assess how collective id…
Shifting Coalitions within the Youth Climate Movement in the US
How has the youth climate movement in the US grown since the Climate Strikes began and in what ways did it change as it grew? This article takes advantage of a unique dataset that includes surveys from activists who organized the nationally coordinated climate strikes in the US that began with Fridays for Future in spring 2019. Building on the research on alliance building and strategic coalitions, this article analyzes how the patterns of partic…
Visit to Wëlakamike
In this fictional essay, two ethnographers visit Wëlakamike, a community started by a group of citizens who became disillusioned by the failure of nation states to reign in capitalism and manmade climate change. The researchers learn that the technologies and practices designed by community members are used to minimize harm to the environment by human activity while encouraging citizens to engage in spirited democratic practices and artistic inte…
Climate activism and its effects
As activism including climate strikes have become a common occurrence around the world, it is important to consider the growth in climate change‐focused activism and participation in social movements as a specific type of civic engagement. Although studies have analyzed climate activism and the climate movement, there is limited research that integrates it into the broader literature on civic engagement and which considers how these forms of enga…
Climate activism and its effects
As activism including climate strikes have become a common occurrence around the world, it is important to consider the growth in climate change‐focused activism and participation in social movements as a specific type of civic engagement. Although studies have analyzed climate activism and the climate movement, there is limited research that integrates it into the broader literature on civic engagement and which considers how these forms of enga…
Shifting Coalitions within the Youth Climate Movement in the US
How has the youth climate movement in the US grown since the Climate Strikes began and in what ways did it change as it grew? This article takes advantage of a unique dataset that includes surveys from activists who organized the nationally coordinated climate strikes in the US that began with Fridays for Future in spring 2019. Building on the research on alliance building and strategic coalitions, this article analyzes how the patterns of partic…
Understanding Collective Identity in Virtual Spaces: A Study of the Youth Climate Movement
How does collective identity form in virtual spaces and what role do hashtags play? This paper takes advantage of a unique dataset that includes surveys from activists who organized the nationally coordinated climate strikes in the US that began in spring 2019 to answer these questions. Building on the research about collective identity formation online and the role that hashtags play, we employ social network analysis to assess how collective id…
Climate activism and its effects
As activism including climate strikes have become a common occurrence around the world, it is important to consider the growth in climate change‐focused activism and participation in social movements as a specific type of civic engagement. Although studies have analyzed climate activism and the climate movement, there is limited research that integrates it into the broader literature on civic engagement and which considers how these forms of enga…
Shifting Coalitions within the Youth Climate Movement in the US
How has the youth climate movement in the US grown since the Climate Strikes began and in what ways did it change as it grew? This article takes advantage of a unique dataset that includes surveys from activists who organized the nationally coordinated climate strikes in the US that began with Fridays for Future in spring 2019. Building on the research on alliance building and strategic coalitions, this article analyzes how the patterns of partic…
Visit to Wëlakamike
In this fictional essay, two ethnographers visit Wëlakamike, a community started by a group of citizens who became disillusioned by the failure of nation states to reign in capitalism and manmade climate change. The researchers learn that the technologies and practices designed by community members are used to minimize harm to the environment by human activity while encouraging citizens to engage in spirited democratic practices and artistic inte…
Hacking Culture Not Code: How American Racism Fuels Russia's Century-Long Memetic Disinformation Campaign
This study develops upon recent scholarship about the Russian government's digital influence campaign to cultivate Black Americans during the 2016 election by rooting their efforts within a century-long strategy to exploit racial inequality to discredit and damage American democracy. Guided by Shifman’s (2013) construct of memetics, we employed a novel methodology that combined journalistic fact-checking and critical, qualitative analysis to stud…
Understanding Collective Identity in Virtual Spaces: A Study of the Youth Climate Movement
How does collective identity form in virtual spaces and what role do hashtags play? This paper takes advantage of a unique dataset that includes surveys from activists who organized the nationally coordinated climate strikes in the US that began in spring 2019 to answer these questions. Building on the research about collective identity formation online and the role that hashtags play, we employ social network analysis to assess how collective id…
New ways of activism: Design Justice and Data Feminism
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock and Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein address ways to help navigate dominations people experience in society. Constanza-Chock’s book is an essential resource for scholars of social movements and activists because the concept of ‘design justice’ represents a new form of activism that could build communities of activists, scientists, s…
Scholastic Journalists Covering Controversy in the Covid-19 Era: A Textual Analysis
Through a qualitative textual analysis using written work from 17 high school journalism publications over a six-semester span, this research explores the types of controversy scholastic journalists covered during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The analysis focuses on which controversial topics were covered, differences in coverage as related to school demographics, the genres and styles of writing used to cover the topics, concerns based on journ…
Relationship Building as a Metacognitive News Literacy Behavior
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Social movement (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)