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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Corporate influence"”.
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Public affairs advertising: corporate influence, public opinion and vote intentions under the third-person effect
This study examined corporate public affairs and brand awareness advertising under the third-person effect. Third-person effect studies examine the interaction between the media and its effect on public opinion. Past research in third-person effect indicates that individuals perceive that the media …
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The Phenomenal <em>Harry Potter</em> Books: A Cultural Study of Corporate Influence on Reading Instruction and Image-Making
… and class. It also interrogates the role of the corporate publisher and the possible influence that the publisher has on both the book's content and the reading instructional approach presented to children in the classroom venue through the instructional guides produced specifically to accompany …
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Filmic Bodies as Terministic (Silver) Screens: Embodied Social Anxieties in Videodrome
… (1983) is an exemplary body horror text that incorporates themes of disease, metamorphosis, and gendering bodies to allude to a litany of social problems facing the larger body politic. I explore how such fears are rooted in the loss of human control surrounding mortality, identity, exploitative …
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An Analysis of Coal Ash Pollution in the State of Georgia
… of coal ash spread. Coal ash illustrates how corporate influence can sustain environmentally damaging practices. This paper also examines the role of government inaction in facilitating such outcomes, particularly in relation to Georgia Power. This paper argues that coal ash pollution and its …
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My own, private Washington
… The division line between national and corporate identities, their spatial relationship to the public realm are beginning to blur. The expanding influence of private entities in public affairs necessitates and exploration of how public architecture is dealt with in responds to the needs …
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Regulating lobbying’s influence on trade policy in South Africa to achieve openness, transparency and integrity.
It is a narrative as ancient as time itself that wherever power is amassed by individuals or groups, others instinctively align themselves with it, seeking to exploit that power for their own interests. This phenomenon is epitomised by lobbyists, whose roots can be traced back, according to …
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The Globalization of Cosmetic Surgery: Examining BRIC and Beyond
… opening countries’ markets to high media and corporate influence—especially in the wake of political oppression and austerity; the exacerbation of pre-existing class, color, race, and gender prejudice by hyper-consumerism; the perception of the beauty industry and global beauty pageants as a …
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Exploring the complex policy formulation process of the draft Control of Marketing of Alcoholic Beverages Bill in South Africa
International literature suggests that corporate influence is evident when governments attempt to regulate products implicated in non-communicable disease, such as tobacco, asbestos, pollution, and foods, such as trans-fat, salt and sugar. These lifestyle diseases are aptly referred to as …