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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Media and communication"”.
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Essays in political economy of media and communication
… thesis consists of three chapters on the role of media and communication in forming political opinions of news consumers and politicians. In the first chapter, I study the causal link between the public's self-selective exposure to like-minded partisan media and polarization. I first present a …
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Addressing Relationships among Moral Judgment Development, Narcissism, and Electronic Media and Communication Devices
Recently, Thoma and Bebeau (2008) reported moral judgment developmental trends among various samples of undergraduates and graduates where increases in Personal Interests reasoning and decreases in Postconventional reasoning were observed. In an attempt to explain such trends, they cited recent …
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Günther Anders’ Theory of Media and Communication: Developing a Conception of Technological Domination, Alienation and Ideology with Marx beyond Marx
… 20th century German-Austrian philosopher Günther Anders (1902-1992), whose work is unique for its critical focus on technology. Anders studied under Husserl and Heidegger and was Hannah Arendt’s first husband. He also knew members of the Frankfurt School such as Marcuse and Adorno. However, he …
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Telecommunications services for multimedia data exchange support
Multimedia holds the promise of increased knowledge, creativity and productivity for virtually any application that can be imagined. The ability to present information in both an informative and entertaining way can lead to an enhanced quality of life for an increasingly larger segment of the …
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Internet and diasporic communication: Dispersed Nigerians and the mediation of distance, longing and belonging
This research investigates Internet uses and the potentials for transnational connections, for the development of a sense of nationalism, and for the construction of identity. Its focal point is on the case of the Nigerian diaspora. Though focussing mainly on the Internet, the role of other media …
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Achieving Valuable Education for All: An Exploration of Curricular Challenges in Reforming Malta’s Secondary Education.
… should be taught, developed, managed, examined and reformed. To this effect, this research seeks to explore why Malta is still amongst highest in Europe with ESL in light of current education policy developments taking place to bring about change in the Maltese Secondary Education. In 2015, the …
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Outsourcing Our Memory 2.0: Using Walter Ong's Orality/Literacy Studies to Recognize Technologies Effects on Memory
At the heart of media ecology is the principle that technology not only deeply influences society, but also controls most aspects of daily life. Additionally, media ecology investigates how media and communication processes profoundly affect human perception and understanding. The pervasive role …
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Last night a DJ queered my life : disrupting the mythologies of a popular media practice
… 1970s. The development of its craft, techniques, and technologies over the past five decades has made DJing into a formidable performed cultural practice and art. The metaphors for a disc jockey, or DJ, are many: beat conductor, god, mastermind, and savior, to name a few. The popular perception of …
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Youth-Generated Media in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia
Broadly defined as self-expressive media and communication artifacts, youth-generated media have become more ubiquitous as media-making tools became cheaper, smaller and more accessible. Moving beyond questions of media effects and consumption, this dissertation explores why and how street racing …
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Template B+ trees: an index scheme for fast data streams with distributed append-only stores
… as user-generated content from online social media and communication records from mobile phones. The new generation of distributed data management systems, such as HBase, Cassandra and Riak, are designed to perform queries and tuple insertions only. Other database operations such as deletions …
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The Triptych Tetrad: Marshall McLuhan's Neo-Medieval Communication Theory
… often been reduced to the form of catchphrases and "McLuhanisms," such as the "global village" and "the medium is the message" in the field of communication. Though these phrases capture an aspect of his thought, the scholarly understanding of McLuhan's vision remains incomplete, even within the …
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The nature and impact of cyberbullying among South African youth : an explanatory analysis
Cyberbullying, bullying via electronic media and communication, is on the increase. It has been thrust to the forefront of the public agenda, with concerns about the psychological and health impacts resulting from online victimisation. There is limited research on the phenomenon and the extent of …
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iGeneration: The Social Cognitive Effects of Digital Technology on Teenagers
… world, digital technology changes so rapidly and integrates into our society at such an accelerated rate, it is hard to keep up with it, let alone reflect on the effects it has on our lives. Although Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, did not exist a mere decade ago, they are now ubiquitous forms …
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A comparative, diachronic study of television dubbing in Galicia and Catalonia (1983-2007)
… analysis of dubbing for television in Galicia and Catalonia from the mid-1980s to 2007. Drawing on approaches in comparative translation studies, this thesis aims to analyse, compare and triangulate different forms of historical macro-, meso- and micro-level data from two case studies to …
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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure
… thesis takes the recent increase in on-screen and behind-the-scenes representation in Hollywood film and televison as a launching point for a critique of the manner in which contemporary screenwriting paradigms discipline and control progressive representation. It is my contention that …
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Maltese children's construction of identities through their engagement with the media
… through their engagement with a variety of media and communication technologies. This research was conducted with ten children who were aged between nine and ten at the start of the study and lived in Malta, a small bilingual island in the Mediterranean. Over the past two decades, the media …
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Decolonising Public Relations in Africa: Centring Local Epistemes in Ghanaian Political Communication
… Africanisation agenda. A quest for decoloniality and Africanity was manifest in many ways. However, efforts to decolonise media and communication studies have so far been “media centric”. Outliers such as Public Relations have been left out of urgent debates on decoloniality. This thesis addresses …
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A qualitative study exploring transgender youths’ experiences of using social media
… Internet in recent decades, along with social media and communication platforms, has created an opportunity for transgender individuals to seek out a common alternative identity that may reduce the societal pressure of fitting into a particular gender role dictated by biological sex. The …
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Beyond the Newsroom: Making News in Three Indonesian News Organisations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… disruption due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic as they struggled to navigate routine transitions amid an unexpected crisis. Unlike other crisis events such as conflicts or disasters, COVID-19 is neither visible nor material; it did not physically destroy newsrooms, but there is no …
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The D-Day Landings in First-Person Shooters (1999-2005): A Case Study in Cultural Imperialism and the Americanisation of Popular History
… the extent to which levels featuring the D-Day Landings in six First-Person Shooter games released 1999-2005 contain narrative choices that reinforce the versions of history preferred by the United States government; how they are presented; and how they compare to the cinematic depictions that …
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