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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Media and Communications"”.
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Stepping your game up : technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop
… by an on-going process of aesthetic renewal and reproduction that is expressed through carefully selected media and communications technologies. Hip-hop is also a segment of the pop music industry that manufactures a wide range of commercial products featuring stereotypical images of young …
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Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa
Media and communications analyst, Roger Silverstone (1997) brings our attention to the negative elements of the suburban landscape, a space more often associated with the comfortable life – one filled with luscious garden lawns, large crystal blue swimming pools, double garages and domestic …
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A quarter century of creative chaos: Xinhua News Agency 1980-2005
Chinese media in the context of China's rise have puzzled many scholars who used to understand media and communications phenomena by employing the theories generated from a few affluent Western democracies, notably the US. As a result, a complex but more accurate picture has been ignored. Under …
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Race, Representation, and Recovery: Documenting the 2006 New Orleans Mayoral Elections
This thesis examines the rhetorical and visual manifestations of race as they figured in the months prior to and within the 2006 New Orleans mayoral election discourses, and examines how the Nagin campaign tapped into a strategy that capitalized upon pre-existing racial tensions exacerbated by …
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How College Campuses Are Using Social Media During Severe Weather Events
… explores how college campuses are using social media during severe weather events. This topic surfaced after a tornado devastated Moore, Oklahoma in May 2013 and those displaced flocked to the University of Oklahoma campus after a post made on Twitter went viral prior to an official message …
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Toward an effective and humane counterinsurgency
Preliminary research isolated a set of thirteen candidate principles that military officers need to understand to conduct effective and humane counterinsurgency. A meta-synthesis of eight classical theorists of counterinsurgency sought support for and consensus on these principles and discovered …
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Media, politics and penal reform: the problem of women's imprisonment
… activities of the penal reform network in England and Wales, and less still concerned with those campaigning to reform women’s penal policy. Investigating the under-researched interrelationship between the women’s penal reform network, journalists, and policymakers at the crime-media nexus, …
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The age of interactivity: An historical analysis of public discourses on interactivity in Ireland 1995 - 2009.
Interactivity is integral to media and communications and yet is a contested concept in the literature. There is little agreement on its meaning not least because of its multidisciplinary nature. Previous research, concerned with finding a single definition of interactivity, has focused narrowly on …
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A study of the emergence, impacts, and responses to trolling in the Australian news media
… trolling on journalists in the Australian news media between 2015 and 2021, mapping its emergence and the responses of a variety of stakeholders. By 2015, trolling had cemented itself as a complex social issue prevalent in media discourse and has been the subject of a growing body of media and …
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BBC School Broadcasting, Progressivism in Education and Literacy 1957-1979
… 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 of …
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Military media machine: how the British military communicated Afghanistan at home
Military Media Machine is an investigation into the media management structure, and the increasingly dynamic communication processes, developed and implemented by the UK military. It explores – rather than explains – the proliferation in military media facilitation within defence, at a time when …
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The land of the telenovela in the age of social media : a study of the Brazilian prime-time soap opera and its online mediations from a social semiotic perspective for the purposes of informing communication theory and critical literacy practices
… – also known as telenovela or simply novela – and different groups of viewers, for the purposes of informing communication theory, on the one hand, and critical literacy practices, on the other. The investigated groups of viewers continually consumed this highly popular genre of serialised …
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Designing for a new "ZIP code destiny"
… units that shape who we encounter, the media we consume, what we believe, and ultimately, the opportunities we are able to access in order to positively shape ourselves, families, and communities. These cocoons are fractal in nature, manifesting geographically as schools and …
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Radical Online Video : YouTube, video activism and social movement media practices
… Left. It offers an analytical contribution to media and communication that promotes an understanding of radical online video as modes of political engagement in contemporary online environments. By focusing on YouTube as one of the most prevalent spaces in which radical video is screened and …
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Att bygga broar över kulturgränser : Om svenskars kommunikation med icke-svenskar vid arbete utanför Sverige
… beween the choice of communication strategies and the cultural backgrounds of the respondents - understood in terms of their personal and professional experiences. The basic theoretical frameworks suitable for the analysis and interpretation of the intercultural communication processes in the …
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Medier & fetma : En analys av vikt
The prevalence of overweight and obesity is rising each year not only on a national but also on a global level. The future scenario is troublesome. The media are among the most important social institutions in influencing people’s knowledge, perceptions and actions. The media provide citizens with …
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Att förklara människan : Diskurser i populärvetenskapliga TV-program
… aim of the study is to describe, analyze and problemize the ways in which television science documentaries (within a public service context) discursively represent scientific theories, research results and conclusions about the origins of human nature and the causes of human behavior. The …
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Ο ΧΕΙΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΚΟΜΙΚΣ (1950-ΣΗΜΕΡΑ)
… ILLUSTRATED") MANIPULATE HISTORICAL MEMORY. IT ABANDONS THE TRADITIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES AS WELL AS PART OF SEMIOTIC ONES, ADOPTING A POINT OFVIEW MORE OR LESS DECONSTRUCTIONIST. IT WORKS MAINLY ON COMICS' PREFACES, POINTING OUT THE MAJOR RHETORIC TROPES AS WELL AS …