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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"mass medium"”.
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"Liquid Poison": picturing a public health crisis through visual storytelling in the Nineteenth Century Press
… awareness and the development of newspapers as a mass medium in the nineteenth century.
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An appraisal of Communication for Antenatal Care of women in the Lusaka Urban District Health Management Board Clinics
… radio was identified as the most commonly used mass medium amongst the expectant women. The Computer was identified as the least used form of mass medium. 82 percent of the expectant women registered for antenatal clinic late. 30 percent of them registered late because they were not sure that …
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An appraisal of Communication for Antenatal Care of women in the Lusaka Urban District Health Management Board Clinics
… radio was identified as the most commonly used mass medium amongst the expectant women. The Computer was identified as the least used form of mass medium. 82 percent of the expectant women registered for antenatal clinic late. 30 percent of them registered late because they were not sure that …
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The use of new media in journalism and news dissemination in Zambia - the case of the internet.
The field of Mass Communication has seen a growing use of new technologies that include news websites, weblogs, mobile news alerts and applications among others, mostly over the internet. Collectively, these technologies are part of the emerging area of ‘new media’, of which the internet is …
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The use of new media in journalism and news dissemination in Zambia - the case of the internet.
The field of Mass Communication has seen a growing use of new technologies that include news websites, weblogs, mobile news alerts and applications among others, mostly over the internet. Collectively, these technologies are part of the emerging area of ‘new media’, of which the internet is …
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The expansion of television in the 1950's and 1960's: institutions, society and culture.
… television developed into an industry and mass medium and this coincided with a cultural shift from a seemingly consensual society of post-war austerity to a society characterised by fragmentation, individualism and consumerism. By combining a re-examination of existing histories of British …
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Teaching television literacy in South African secondary schools
… elements: mastering the basic language of the medium; being able to decode this language; using the medium for personal creative ends; and having the capacity for critical reflection. It is possible to talk in terms of a language of television and so this definition of literacy can be extended …
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The impact of e-Government in the UK
… societies and the internet emerged as a mass medium across many parts of the globe. The thesis investigates the efforts of government to exploit these technologies in the delivery of public services in the UK up to 2004, under the aegis of e-govemment. This thesis critically examines the …
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The press, national elections, and the politics of belonging in Nigeria
… predominantly urban-based elite-to-elite medium, and not in any measurable way a mass medium. The study proves that, in reality, Nigeria does not have a populist press. The study concludes with a proposition that the forum function of the press could still be deployed, from an agonistic …
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Print, Performance, and the European Avant-gardes, 1905-1948
… At stake was the definition of the theatre as a medium--and its power to re-enchant the modern world. This dissertation reveals that even as the avant-gardes rejected the print genre of drama, they fiercely embraced print, producing some of the century's most extraordinary publications. Focusing …
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Secret Identity: Reassessing Jack B. Yeats as a Comic Strip Artist
… known, as part of a novel and widely circulated mass medium, it is necessary to interrogate the absence of this material from art-historical accounts of his work and reassess Yeats as a comic strip artist. In Ireland there has been a tendency to articulate Yeats in terms of national identity, and …
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Hybridity, Style and Identity, the Court Art and Architecture of Lucknow 1770-1850
… courtly style, and the use of the first visual mass-medium, the Panorama, to display Lucknow to the British public. These significant examples are used to illustrate the essentially tripartite nature of the hybrid culture of Lucknow: Indian (mughal), European and Shia; and subverting the …
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Tuning In: Nationalist Radio in China, 1928–1937
… broadcasting before 1949. As radio was a global medium, a history of one without the other would be incomplete. The third aim of this dissertation is to decentre Shanghai in the study of Chinese radio history. To this end, it introduces the history of the Central Broadcasting Station, i.e., …
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Governing the commercial internet: Multistakeholder influences on Clinton era governance of the global internet
… saw the internet through to its development as a mass medium. Still, this was a global network, and the commercial users of the internet benefitted from having access to this global audience. In 1998, the United States dominated the internet globally, with 70 percent of all websites coming from …
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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
… is being subsumed within the larger field of mass communication and competing with an increasingly diverse group of narratives that includes political satire are well-founded. Changes in media technology and acute economic uncertainty have hit traditional news outlets at a time when Americans …
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Ett massmedium för folket : studier i de allmänna kungörelsernas funktion i 1700-talets samhälle
… have treated all such announcements as a type of mass media and the method by which they were transmitted to the public as a process of mass communication. It had been developed to serve the government, which needed efficient channels of communication for its commands and regulations. The public …