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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Current Affairs"”.
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Managing Dissent: Institutional Culture and Political Independence in the South African Broadcasting Corporation's News and Current Affairs Division
… Corporation (SABC), in particular its News and Current Affairs division, is widely perceived to lack political independence from the African National Congress-led government and to have neglected its role as a political watchdog in South Africa's young democracy. Most academic studies continue …
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Managing dissent : institutional culture and political independence in the South African Broadcasting Corporation's News and Current Affairs Division
… Corporation (SABC), in particular its News and Current Affairs division, is widely perceived to lack political independence from the African National Congress-led government and to have neglected its role as a political watchdog in South Africa's young democracy. Most academic studies continue …
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BBC Radio 4's Anaylsis, 1970-1983
… with former BBC staff, examines the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme, Analysis between the years 1970 and 1983. It addresses a number of questions about the programme, including the precise reasons for its creation, how it evolved, and how it covered a range of current affairs topics. In …
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BBC TV's Panorama, conflict coverage and the 'Westminster consensus'.
The BBC's 'flagship' current affairs series Panorama, occupies a central place in Britain's television history and yet, surprisingly, it is relatively neglected in academic studies of the medium. Much that has been written focuses on Panorama's coverage of armed conflicts (notably Suez, Northern …
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Queering in the Years: Gay Visibility in the Irish Media, 1974-2008
… Irish visibility, pursuing connections across current affairs programming, documentary, chat shows, soap opera, television drama, film, magazines and broader print media. The methodology of this thesis is predominantly archival research, textual analysis and semi-structured interviews, a …
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The rise and fall of the public sphere? Public Service Broadcasting in Ireland, a wasted opportunity?
… the following questions. Does RTEs news and current affairs constitute a public sphere? Does it provide the viewer or listener with a detailed, substantive analysis of the issues it covers, providing the viewer with an arsenal of political facts in the process? Do we emerge at the end of any …
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The shortening of the work week as a component of economic growth
… but he has a basis for interpreting new data and current affairs. He then is in a position to relate new facts to old ones and to evaluate existing labor policies.
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Equipping Lay Leadership to Teach the Bible at Hope Bible Church in Oakville, Ontario
… of teaching the Bible has warrant from history, current affairs, and an increasingly hostile West. Chapter 4 is a detailed description of the project, both its design and implementation. Chapter 5 provides an evaluation of the project, including an evaluation of its purpose, goals, strengths, …
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Public evaluations of the South African Presidents
… support than to use their cognitive awareness of current affairs. There is an indication that South Africans who share an identity with the president are more likely to approve of the president - especially in recent years. However, South Africans are rational people who are more likely to base …
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Archetypes and the unthought: The projection of the King’s Court in New Zealand television media
… of conflict in Television New Zealand’s news and current affairs as an unthought. The television news and current affairs programmes identified in the thesis relate to issues of conflict between the Maori people of New Zealand, and the Government and Crown agencies of New Zealand. The unresolved …
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A critical evaluation of the Nobis project: a creative-process approach to service-learning and global citizenship education
… and empathy. It guides students to comprehend current affairs and to devise ways to respond to local, national or global issues without direct contact with service recipients. This thesis examines the claims of the Nobis Project program using data collected from a series of five case studies …
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Sonic landscapes: The environmental choral music of R. Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams
… LGBTQ rights, women’s issues, as well as other current affairs. One of the sub-genres of this socially conscious repertoire is choral music that focuses on the ecology and the growing concern of environmental issues. Composers are engaging with this topic in a variety of ways, but few North …
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Neoplatonic identities : literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle
… Henrietta Maria's involvement in international current affairs, illustrating how her political alignments could be manifested in her court productions. Finally, I discuss her position as an exile at the French court during the English civil war, showing how, despite her lack of funds, she …
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The African Union and the right to peace and security
… and security is of utmost importance in the current affairs of the continent and, a right being attached to peace and security, adds extra weight to its attainment as it places a duty on other entities for its realisation. Notwithstanding this importance, the concept of the right to peace and …
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Assessment of the perceptions of Lusaka youths on media coverage of HIV and AIDS issues affecting them: A case study of the Zambia National Broadcasting corporation (ZNBC)
… identified as being reasons for this state of affairs. These included lack of funds and equipment such as cameras and editing machines.In order to increase HIV and AIDS youth programmes on ZNBC radio and television, respondents called for more funding to enable the national broadcaster acquire …
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Media consumption amid contestation: Northern Nigerians’ engagement with the BBC World Service
… transformations it has undergone, and how the current dynamics of global geopolitics and advances in communications technologies are redefining it. It looks at the complex processes and procedures of both media content production and reception. On the production side, it unveils the BBC’s …
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Public Service and Politics: the BBC's Irish history programmes prior to and during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
… initiatives complemented the BBC’s news and current affairs coverage and paralleled the Corporation’s broader shift in the 1970s towards a more comprehensive and assertive approach to covering Northern Ireland, despite intensifying political backlash. This thesis argues that the BBC came to …
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Vexatious Bodies in Modern Ireland
… drama, The Spike (1978), along with influential current affairs programs Today Tonight (1985/1987) and The Late Late Show (1987), providing a context for the examination of the emergence of the AIDS body as one that forced Irish society to confront what it had excluded and acted as a catalyst for …
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Predicting the Outcomes of Important Events based on Social Media and Social Network Analysis
… that lets users post their opinions about current affairs, share their social events, and interact with others. It has now become one of the largest sources of news, with over 200 million active users monthly. It is possible to predict the outcomes of events based on social networks using …
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