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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Media Spotlight"”.
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Of sunsets, savages, and soccer framing Africa during the final days of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
… Africa has many representations within the media. Sadly, many Africans argue, Western media practitioners tend to present "fatalistic and selectively crude" (Kromah, 2002) representations of Africa, portraying a large and diverse continent as homogeneous (Hammett, 2010), if they represent …
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Media, politics and penal reform: the problem of women's imprisonment
… journalists, and policymakers at the crime-media nexus, this interdisciplinary study examines campaign strategies for women and how they have developed and augmented under changing governments and the media spotlight. While penal reform campaigners are able to rely on the discourse of …
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Near to the Green: career decisions in professional golf
Professional golfers are frequently in the media spotlight as they compete in high profile tournaments around the world. Behind this „shop window‟ there is a vast industry in which several thousand „golf professionals‟, members of the Professional Golfers‟ Association [PGA] are engaged, delivering …
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Media coverage, industrial policy, and safety : explaining shifting state and Private ownership in China's coal-mining industry
… in China. It casts new light on the role media coverage and public opinion play in the Chinese policy process, on the party-state's disciplinary (wenze) practices, and on the dynamics of China's state capitalism and the apparent "advance of state and retreat of private firms" (Guo Jin, Min …
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Bullying in a primary school : a case study
… issue for schools and one that has attracted the media spotlight. It has also received considerable attention from the research community since the late 1980s following the tradition established through the work of many Scandinavian researchers. Much of the research has been longitudinal and …
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Cross media promotion: entertainment industries and the trailer
… and the publishing industries came under the media spotlight for using trailers to promote their wares throwing into sharp contrast the normativity of film trailers. Despite increased academic study of the film trailer, few have considered the trailer outside the industrial context of the film …
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A SEARCH FOR CRITICAL COSMOPOLITANISM: AN IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM OF SEXUAL MINORITIES UGANDA’S WEBSITE
… Uganda (SMUG) was thrust into the Western media spotlight through the murder of LGBTIQ activist, David Kato Kasule, and the now-infamous “Kill the Gays Bill.” During the last six years, SMUG and its members have continued to fight oppressive Ugandan governmental systems and conservative …
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From Underground to Elite: Egyptian Bloggers before and after the 2011 Uprising
… dissident voices to mainstream political and media players affected the plurality they add to the public space for discourse in Egypt’s authoritarian settings. The role of the internet – and more recently social media and bloggers – in democratic transition has been studied by various media …
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Green ties, media eyes, and financial tides: exploring the dynamics of corporate environmental sustainability through networks, innovation spillover, and media influence
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01