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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Communication and media studies"”.
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Decolonising Public Relations in Africa: Centring Local Epistemes in Ghanaian Political Communication
… Africanisation agenda. A quest for decoloniality and Africanity was manifest in many ways. However, efforts to decolonise media and communication studies have so far been “media centric”. Outliers such as Public Relations have been left out of urgent debates on decoloniality. This thesis addresses …
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Ideological Sinicization of China Central Television in Africa A Reception Analysis of African Audiences
China’s booming investment in and trade with many African countries since the early 2000s marks the beginning of a new wave of industrial escalation on a global scale and at the same time a revived campaign for a new world information and communication order. The launch of CCTV-Africa in Nairobi, …
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Remapping Songdo: A genealogy of a smart city in South Korea
… between history, culture, technology, and urban governance in South Korea. It focuses on the technologies and techniques of making and governing a smart city and argues that they have been shaped by the long-term concerns for security, future, development, and globalization. This is not …
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Peripato Telematikos: walking, cartography and software art
… began with walking as a means to explore and investigate the places and spaces we inhabit and our relationships with them. The research asked how can peripatetic art practices inform the methodologies used by individuals to (re)present their environs and what media art practices would be …
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Advertising and media literacy : young people and their understanding of the world of advertising in Australia and Thailand
… thesis demonstrates that Thai, Thai-Australian, and Asian international participants have a stronger knowledge of advertising industry operation compared with Australian participants. Thai and Thai-Australian participants were more sceptical of the rhetorical claims of advertising and aware of …
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Breaking the silence: institutional responses to people who use atypical communication strategies
This study compares the introduction and expansion of non-speech communication for people with receptive impairments with the introduction and expansion of non-speech communication for people with expressive impairments. It documents the introduction of specific nonspeech communication …
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The role of the state in television broadcasting in Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea
… countries in Northeast Asia: Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea, A comparison of the three countries is made with special reference to:(a)the context in which television regulation has been shaped and developed; (b)the relationship between the State and television broadcasters; and(c)the …
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Modeling Group Communication in a Complex System for Achieving Group Goals
This thesis investigates the effect of communication as a function of time on a multi-agent simulation based on a military distillation utilizing reinforcement learning for a group of agents. The original contribution to knowledge is a new model of cooperative learning developed as an enhanced …
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The potential of cinematography as a medium for stimulating interest in and conveying working information about direct drilling to New Zealand farmers : [thesis] presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Hons.) in the University of Canterbury [Lincoln College]
… involved: (a) A literature review on the theory and practice of adoption and diffusion of innovations.The review concentrates on adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations. The review has covered those papers the author considered were most important. The author's opinion has been …
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<b>Strengthening Health Systems for NCD Care in LMICs: Examining Pharmaceutical Industry Multisectoral Partnerships Beyond the Provision of Medicines</b>
… 77% of NCDs-related deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Weak health systems and system barriers worsen inequities in NCDs management, hindering progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In response, international organizations like the WHO and UN have …