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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"radio broadcasts"”.
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Over the airwaves: school radio broadcasts in British Columbia 1960-1982
… the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's school radio broadcasts. Agreement between the CBC and the Ministry of Education ensured that the CBC provided the necessary technical arrangements required to air and distribute the broadcasts, while the Ministry of Education agreed to provide the …
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Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
… women’s gender identity as present in BBC radio programmes aimed at housewives, specifically broadcasts that dealt with rationing and cooking. Broadcasts regularly emphasized women’s ingenuity and ability to cook nutritious meals using limited food options while also devaluing women’s …
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Anti-colonial radio broadcasts to British East Africa and their audiences, c. 1940-1963
… to radical anti-colonial broadcasters including Radio Cairo, All India Radio, Radio Moscow and Radio Peking. By examining broadcast transcripts, colonial reports and personal memoir, it seeks to reconstruct not just who listened to these services but how they imagined their participation in a …
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Discursive practices around film and music piracy in selected newspaper articles and radio broadcasts in South Africa
… made up of selected newspaper articles and radio broadcast over a ten year period, that frames a range of commercial and non-commercial copying activities as criminal acts. Two dominant frames are identified: piracy as an economic issue and piracy as a crime. The thesis shows how the harms …
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Radio Broadcast Communication by the Ministry of Education for Basic School Teacher`s Professional development: A case Study of Lusaka District
… Education employs communication strategies using radio broadcasts to support professional development for teachers. The study sought to establish whether radio broadcast outreach programme is effectively being used to spread information and new innovations in the teaching profession. A sample size …
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Underground Radio
The stories in Underground Radio tell of life in all its forms, be it organic, mechanical, or incorporeal. By making use of the short short story, this collection encompasses the various ways life rises and falls and rises again. "Ascension," the story of a woman who spends her afterlife as an …
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Women and wireless 1929 - 1945. The British Broadcasting Corporation - its percpetion and treatment of women in the period
… period 1929-45. It is largely concerned with the radio listener but also seeks to explore the issue of female representation within the Corporation. Chapter Two offers an insight into the particular genre of programmes for women and includes a comparative analysis of American broadcasting in order …
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Children of the Mexican Miracle: Childhood and Modernity in Mexico City, 1940--1968
… for children, like Walt Disney films and Cri-Cri radio broadcasts, educated children and, in the process, expanded the definition of childhood to include more sectors of society. Finally, print media provided a forum to discuss the rights and needs of children in Mexican society. This discourse of …
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Feeding the hunger of history: society and politics in Dylan Thomas's prose and dramatic works
… undertones of Thomas’s film scripts and radio plays of the 1930s and 1940s, his radio broadcasts and short stories, and the argument is framed within, and draws substantially on, existing criticism. Socialism is explored here in both the strong, ideological sense, and in a more …
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Bolshevik voices: radio broadcasting in the Soviet Union, 1917 - 1991
Radio broadcasting has a long and varied history in many industrialized nations yet research into radio in the Soviet Union has been given little attention from scholars. Radio offers the power to unite distant people and reinforce the party agenda yet also leaves the door open to unauthorized …
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Mass media and public understandings of nature in interwar Britain
… explores British non-fiction films and radio broadcasts about the natural world from the 1920s to the 1930s. During the years between the First and Second World Wars, natural history films and radio programmes flooded into Britain’s cinemas and its airwaves, at a moment when the …
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Marshall Plan Films and Americanization
… propaganda campaign included pamphlets, posters, radio broadcasts, traveling puppet shows, and finally 250 films created between 1949-1953. Marshall Plan Films discussed productivity, multilateral trade, and labor unions. For Marshall Planners these issues were the key to both revitalizing the …
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New speaker language and identity: Practices and perceptions around Breton as a regional language of France
… Breton gathered from media sources, comprising radio broadcasts, social media and print publications. Insights are also provided from interviews that were carried out with employees of Breton-language media to gain additional information on speakers' individual practices and beliefs. The …
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Corruption, information, and reelection chances of incumbent parties' presidential candidates in developing countries
… for corruption, (2) whether information on the radios enhances reelection chances of the incumbent parties in developing countries and (3) whether or not information about corruption changes the response of voters. Analyzing 48 elections from 33 developing countries using probit, the study …
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"Get Listenin' Kids!": Independence as Social Practice in American Popular Music
… focuses on independent record labels and local radio broadcasts in the first half of the twentieth century, when "independent" referred to either a record label that distributed outside major label channels, or a radio station unaffiliated with a network. In the second section, I show how the …
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The Mosaic Negative: Ahrt-Voik and Antisemitism in Ezra Pound's Work and Thought
… the draft into dialogue with the poet’s Rome Radio broadcasts from 1941-1945, the extent of Pound’s commitment to naming the Jews as his cultural enemies across different propagandistic projects emerges. In my third chapter I explore the interplay between the ambiguous emergence of American …
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Commemorations and conflicts in the production of South African national pasts : the 1952 Jan van Riebeeck tercentenary festival
… interviews with organisers and participants, radio broadcasts and documentary film footage, this thesis argues that the festival in 1952 selected elements from these various pasts to construct a Van Riebeeck as the founder figure of a racially exclusive settler nation in South Africa. The …
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Race and Online Hate: Exploring the Relationship between Race and the Likelihood of Exposure to Hate Material Online
… of websites, weblogs, newsgroups, online games, radio broadcasts, online newsletters and a myriad of other online platforms has proliferated race-based hate groups in the US (Shafer 2002). According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the number of hate groups has been on the rise since …
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Language Models as Opinion Models: Techniques and Applications
… tempo and tone. Using 518,000 hours of U.S. talk-radio broadcasts and 26.6 million tweets from elite and mass users, we show that Twitter discourse (i) moves faster at both take-off and fade-out stages of a news event and (ii) sustains greater outrage than radio – despite radio’s often explicitly …
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Using Computer Visualisations to Educate and Communicate Volcanic Hazards to At-Risk Communities
… presentations, maps, diagrams, TV and radio broadcasts. In recent years, there has been a shift towards the use of more creative media to communicate volcanic hazards and engage populations in outreach activities. These have included films, comic strips, puppet shows, board games and …
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