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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Media History"”.
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Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes in Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator Treatment: Potential Effects of Informational Media History and Treatment Knowledge
… a social-ecological approach to describe the media through which ICD patients learn about device therapy, how well they understand their treatment, QOL and mental health outcomes, and any relationships between these constructs. The project was conducted in iterative phases, including the …
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From prop to producer: the appropriation of radio technology in opera during the Weimar Republic.
… separately in the fields of musicology and media history. This research adopts a case study approach and combines the disciplines of musicology and media history, in order to create a narrative of the use of radio as a compositional tool in Weimar opera. The journey begins with radio as a …
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On unregulated markets and the freedom of media the transition of the East German press after 1989
… and our understanding of transitioning media in post-socialist countries. It tells the fascinating and complicated story of a press moving from state control to a Western free press model. The focus lies on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between the fall of the Berlin Wall in …
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The Dutch Media Monopoly: A critical-historical analysis of journalism in the Netherlands
… tradition of political economy of the news media as a starting point, this dissertation examines Dutch journalism throughout the twentieth century, with a focus on the present. The argument is that the conclusion drawn by American scholars like Ben Bagdikian, Robert McChesney, Edward Herman …
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
… concentrate more on the fields of feminist and media history. My attempt will be a linguistic analysis of Suffragette periodicals: the main aim is to study the language strategies used for their propagandistic goals, how they significantly challenged the representation of suffrage activists in …
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A history of BBC local radio in England: c1960 – 1980
… chain in 1980 is a neglected area of research in media history. This thesis tells this story, using previously undocumented research from the BBC Written Archive Centre, and supplemented by oral history interviews with key participants. The approach is multi-faceted. Part of the investigation lies …
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Embodied montage : reconsidering immediacy in virtual reality
… space. This approach to the medium, a form of immediacy, effaces the material reality of the medium and can obscure the ways through which a medium can offer new forms of knowledge. Virtual reality's realism is a construct, and by acknowledging this, creators can push the medium to more …
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Gender, Bolshevism & the Popular Press in Britain, 1916-1921
… of the primary ways this is possible is through media. This dissertation examines how the British popular press constructed a gendered hegemony using narratives involving women and Bolshevism during the aftermath of the First World War. These narratives were a response to a perceived crisis of …
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Serial Architectures: Nonfiction Film and the Built Environment, 1896-1920
… on the seriality of film and contemporary visual media, it shows how the introduction of the new medium altered the configuration of knowledge and practice related to architecture, building, and city planning during the first two decades after its inception. In discussing “serial architectures,” …
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BBC School Broadcasting, Progressivism in Education and Literacy 1957-1979
This thesis accounts for the history of BBC television and radio programmes made for use in schools, their relationship with educational progressivism, and the application of linguistic theory to literacy programmes in the period 1957-1979. School broadcasting has been neglected by the disciplines …
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The Burden of Witnessing: Media and Mobilization in the Age of Genocide
… monitoring and response duties have fallen to media actors including journalists and human rights organizations from international NGOs to local grassroots social movements, who use cameras to document abuses and appeal to action. Embedded in these uses is the Enlightenment conviction that …
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Democracy And The Press In The Middle East
<p>This paper examines relationships between Arab media and several different institutions including government in general, democracy specifically, and Islam. The primary purpose of this research is to gain not only broad, but also in-depth understanding of Arab governments and their control of …
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Reading The League of Gentlemen: study of the creation process of a comedy / horror series
… textual analysis with production studies, media history and media anthropology. Through its multi-method approach this study yields new insights into the creation process of The League. Through a very detailed analysis, this case study illuminates how the initial idea and the key textual …
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IL CIMENTO DEL LIBRO ELETTRONICO: L'EDITORIA DALLA 'DEMOCRATIZZAZIONE' DEL COMPUTER AL WEB 2.0.
… publishing to an epilogue or appendix of the history of the book, this research proposes a new periodization. Through the identification and detailed analysis of the three main phases of the informatic-editorial revolution—the era of electronic publishing (1978-1990), the era of multimedia …
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Remediating the Eighties: Nostalgia and Retro in British Screen Fiction from 2005 to 2011
… to contemporary social dramas or to actual history. It shows that incentives for depicting the eighties are wide-ranging; consequently, it situates productions within their cultural and industrial contexts, exploring how these dictate which eighties codes are cited and how they are textually …
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GI Jane Versus Sergeant Jane Doe: How Women’s Images In War Movies Contribute To Conflicting Expectations Of Women In Combat
<p>Research on women’s portrayal in media generally suggests that women continue to be sexualized and objectified as war trophies in the classic Hollywood warrior culture film. The age old question of whether life imitates art or vice versa is important to consider when examining the question of …
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Runaway film production: A critical history of Hollywood's outsourcing discourse
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Netflix and the Development of the Internet Television Network
<p>When Netflix launched in April 1998, Internet video was in its infancy. Eighteen years later, Netflix has developed into the first truly global Internet TV network. Many books have been written about the five broadcast networks – NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and the CW – and many about the major cable …
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Talking Statues: An Italian Communicative Phenomenon from the Renaissance to the Present Day
… the actual impact of Pasquino in public and media spaces. The first part of the thesis focuses on space. First, it contributes to previous research focusing on the significance that the space surrounding Pasquino had for its activation and continuation as a talking statue. Then, the analysis …
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Killing Flies With a Shotgun: How the Internet Set a New Journalistic Standard and Style
… as the story itself. This study shows how online media sets new standards for narrative and continues some print traditions. This study focuses on the dialogue between print and online media. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of this dialogue through story length, readability, shovelware and …
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