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    We may see a real internet campaign in the lead up to the AV referendum, as long as both sides have a credible online presence and avoid cyber "window-dressing"

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    With campaigning for the Alternative Vote (AV) referendum underway, Rachel Gibson looks at how the online battlefield is shaping up and what we can expect in the blogosphere and beyond in the coming months

    How parties and voters can reclaim the democratising potential of the internet

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    Rachel Gibson discusses some of the ways through which citizen campaigning may revitalise public faith in democracy and the political process, but also how it may create a new political elite

    Author interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: men, masculinity and mediated intimacy

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    In this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry’. In the interview, she discusses the seduction industry as part of a continuum of mediated intimacy, the ways in which neoliberal rationalities are shaping masculine subjectivity today, how the book relates to contemporary discussions surrounding consent and women’s sexual agency and the particular challenges of undertaking this fieldwork. If you are interested in this interview, you can read a review of Seduction on LSE RB here. Q&A with Rachel O’Neill, author of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018

    Rachel Arrington Speaking at the SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. Breakfast Meeting, August 1982

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    Rachel Arrington is shown speaking at the SCLC/WOMEN breakfast meeting alongside Evelyn G. Lowery and other women. Written on verso: The wife of Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington, Mrs. Rachel Arrington, welcomes SCLC/Women to Birmingham.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

    Jackie and Rachel Robinson With Nelson Rockefeller and Others at the Jackie Robinson Testimonial Dinner, July 20, 1962

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    Jackie and Rachel Robinson are shown standing with Nelson Rockefeller and others guests at the Testimonial Dinner held for Robinson at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on July 20, 1962.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

    2010 may not have marked the first ‘internet election’, but digital platforms are of ever increasing importance in political campaigning

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    Predictions that an upcoming national election will be ‘the’ internet election have been circulating in the UK and other advanced democracies since the late 1990s. Rachel Gibson and Marta Cantijoch study the UK’s general election in 2010 and find that while ecampaigning still lagged behind traditional media and mobilisation tools, there is reason to believe the internet will play a much larger role in the 2015 election and politics more generally

    Relationship between animal models and clinical research: using mucositis as a practical example

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    Rachel J. Gibson, Joanne M. Bowen, and Dorothy M. K. Keefehttp://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470248467,descCd-description.htmlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3546176

    Jackie and Rachel Robinson With Branch Rickey at the Jackie Robinson Testimonial Dinner, July 20, 1962

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    Jackie and Rachel Robinson are shown standing behind a podium with Branch Rickey at the Testimonial Dinner held for Robinson at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on July 20, 1962.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
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