324 results on '"Media and Communication"'
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2. Postdigital Literacies in Everyday Life and Pedagogic Practices
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Lacković, Nataša, Olteanu, Alin, and Campbell, Cary
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- 2024
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3. Fact-checking journalism and political argumentation : a British perspective.
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Birks, Jen
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Journalism -- Objectivity ,Journalism -- Political aspects ,Journalistic ethics ,Journalism ,Media and Communication ,Political Communication - Abstract
Summary: Dr Birks eloquently guides the reader through a complex field of mediated post-truth politics in an engaging and accessible critique of fact checking journalism. In this book we are treated to a highly sophisticated analysis of the dynamics and epistemologies of fact checking journalism, with detailed examples from a UK perspective, where Birks demonstrates the importance of understanding fact-checking in relation to the quality of political debate. The book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the contested nature of fact and truth claims in journalism today.? ?Einar Thorsen, Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK ?In an era of post-factual democracy, fact-checkers should act as an antidote to politician?s ?bullshit?, helping citizens to make informed choices. Birks? important research is a must read for anyone seeking to understand fact checkers or create a fact check system that plays a role in monitoring the health of democratic debate.? ?Darren G. Lilleker, Associate Professor in Political Communication, Bournemouth University, UK This timely book examines the role of fact-checking journalism within political policy debates, and its potential contribution to public engagement. Understanding facts not to operate in a political vacuum, the book argues for a wide remit for fact-checking journalism beyond empirically-checkable facts, to include the causal relationships and predictions that form part of wider political arguments and are central to electoral pledges. Whilst these statements cannot be proven or disproven, fact-checking can, and sometimes does, ask pertinent critical questions about the premises of those claims and arguments. The analysis centres on the three dedicated national British fact-checkers during the UK?s 2017 snap general election, including their activity and engagement on Twitter. The book also makes a close political discourse and argumentation analysis of three key issue debates in flagship reporting from Channel 4 News and the BBC.
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- 2019
4. Citizens at the Gates : Twitter, Networked Publics, and the Transformation of American Journalism.
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Barnard, Stephen R
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American journalism ,Digital media ,Mass media ,Media and communication ,Media Sociology ,Sociology of Culture - Abstract
Summary: Drawing insights from nearly a decade of mixed-method research, Stephen R. Barnard analyzes Twitter's role in the transformation of American journalism. As the work of media professionals grows increasingly hybrid, Twitter has become an essential space where information is shared, reporting methods tested, and power contested. In addition to spelling opportunity for citizen media activism, the normalization of digital communication adds new channels of influence for traditional thought leaders, posing notable challenges for the future of journalism and democracy. In his analyses of Twitter practices around newsworthy events-including the Boston Marathon bombing, protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and the election of Donald Trump-Barnard brings together conceptual and theoretical lenses from multiple academic disciplines, bridging sociology, journalism, communication, media studies, science and technology studies, and political science.
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- 2018
5. Exploring the Utilization of Augmented Reality in Higher Education Perceptions of Media and Communication Students
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Sawsan Taha, Enas Abulibdeh, Juman Qunais, Huda Skaik, Emad M. Alghazo, Sumaya Daoud, and Abdeldjalil Bouzenoun
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augmented reality ,media and communication ,higher education ,palestine student perception. ,Technology (General) ,T1-995 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
The present study aims to explore the perceptions and usage of Augmented Reality (AR) technology among media students in Palestinian universities. A quantitative approach was adopted, and data was gathered from a web-based survey of 237 media students. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was utilized to gauge participants' perceptions of AR, and descriptive statistics were used for analysis. The findings reveal a generally positive perception of AR as a beneficial tool for skill enhancement, with mean scores ranging from 3.70 to 4.04 indicating strong agreement. The study also found moderate to high AR usage among participants, particularly for translating texts using Google Translate, but noted that usage patterns were more individual-oriented. Additionally, 91.1% of respondents attributed the COVID-19 pandemic to increased technology usage in higher education. The novelty of this study lies in providing insights into the perception and application of AR in higher education within the Palestinian context, an under-researched area. The study sheds light on the potential for integrating AR more formally into curricula, which could foster a more engaging and immersive educational experience. However, it also highlights the need to address barriers such as lack of technical support and possible discomfort with technology. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2023-SIED2-016 Full Text: PDF
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- 2023
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6. Representation and production of city image advertising in China
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Wang, Dian
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advertising ,China ,representation ,media and communication ,marketing ,branding ,city image ,media studies ,Guangzhou ,commercials ,adverts ,imagery ,cities -- China ,Chinese advertising ,self ,thesis - Abstract
City image advertising has become one of the most used means for Chinese cities to promote their images inside and out of China. This thesis aims to investigate city image adverts as a type of advertising from the perspective of media and communication, gain a better understanding of the subject from the production practitioners, and further link the domains of content and production. This thesis takes a sequential research design from a mixed-methods approach and employs three research methods, drawing on the data of the video city image adverts issued in Guangzhou, China, in 2017-2018. By using content analysis, the study examines the city imagery (the visual, verbal and aural representations) and city imaginaries constructed in the adverts. This study is then complemented with a multimodal analysis of the meanings and ideologies carried in the city imagery and city imaginaries. Lastly, semi-structured interviews with production practitioners were conducted to investigate the definition of city image adverts from the practitioners' perspective, the production process, and most importantly, the influential factors on the content in the production process, which links these two important domains. The central contributions of this thesis are the definition of city image adverts in China, from both the perspectives of academic research and production practitioners; a hierarchical system of the constructed different places' identities from the lens of 'self' and 'other'; a model to link the city imagery, city imaginaries and the influential factors on them in the production process; and a linear model of power relations among the three main agents (advertisers, creative and production teams).
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- 2022
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7. MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES AT THE STATE UNIVERSITIES IN SRI LANKA: CHALLENGES OF ENGLISH MEDIUM EDUCATION.
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Madhubhashini Hewage, Galagedarage Thushari
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ENGLISH language ,MEDIA studies ,ZONE of proximal development ,STATE universities & colleges ,COMMUNICATION education - Abstract
Media education was introduced to Sri Lankan university education in 1973. But media education is mainly offered in Sinhala medium in university education. Therefore, students face some challenges in finding job opportunities, foreign scholarships, research and publications etc. due to the English language barrier. In this context, the purpose of the study is to investigate the challenges of offering media education in English medium in state universities by using the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) theory. Therefore, the Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and the in-depth interviews were conducted to collect data for the study. The results showed that there were some challenges in offering media education in English medium in the state universities such as the difficulty of finding visiting academics or resource persons who are capable of teaching media and communication in English medium, the limited permanent members available in the universities, the lack of exposure to the English language by both the permanent academic members and students in the field of Media and Communication Studies etc. Therefore, academics should take the necessary actions to offer media education in English medium. Then only the students and teachers can be familiar with English medium education to empower themselves in finding job opportunities, foreign scholarships, postgraduate opportunities, research, publications etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
8. Narrative Power in an Era of Crisis and Convergence.
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Kanuga, Malav, Funke, Peter, and Wolfson, Todd
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ELECTRONIC commerce , *POLITICAL platforms , *CRISES , *INTERNATIONAL communication , *SOCIAL movements - Abstract
Recognizing the current conjuncture, this article explores the changing role of media and communications in the cohering of social struggles by antisystemic social movements. Transforming structural relations of media and their tactical uses, the authors argue, are key components to shifting the terrain upon which such movements build. In response to a deepening organic crisis, the authors argue for the importance of organizing against and beyond the existing political economy of platform media by building new narrative blocs as bases of power that can serve as one of several determining factors for the direction of popular movements and the generalization of new notions and political programs around which a counterhegemonic consensus may emerge for society. Transformative resistance and collective power will depend on the ability to develop movement‐based media infrastructures to deepen international communication processes with and relationships to an ongoing global mass movement against the rise of antidemocratic politics, popular authoritarianism, and other morbid symptoms of a declining order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Media and Communication in Disaster Risk Reduction
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Ramrakhiyani, Juhi, Jethwaney, Jaishri, Section editor, and Singh, Amita, editor
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- 2023
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10. The Life of a Number: Measurement, Meaning and the Media
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Lawson, B.T., author and Lawson, B.T.
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- 2023
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11. Sociotechnical imaginaries of safety and reporting technologies in US higher education
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Sim, Kate, Nash, Victoria, and Neff, Gina
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Media and communication ,Gender and sexuality - Abstract
This dissertation thesis titled "Sociotechnical imaginaries of safety and reporting technologies in US higher education" examines how reporting technologies reconfigure the ecosystem of campus safety in US higher education. Reporting technologies refer to case management systems for incident reporting developed by third-party vendors and implemented by campus administrators for use by students. In this thesis, I apply Jasanoff and Kim's (2015) concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to argue that product vendors, campus administrators, and students' sociotechnical imaginaries of safety mediate how they articulate and experience campus safety. The central contention of this thesis is that ideas about sexual violence and technology mutually shape sociotechnical imaginaries of safety that mediate how vendors, campus administrators, and students perceive and experience campus safety. This thesis is organized as follows: (1) a brief cultural, sociopolitical, and legal backdrop of campus safety policies and practices through which ideas about sexual violence and technology co-produce safety imaginaries; (2) two case studies of reporting technologies-LiveSafe and Callisto-that trace the sociotechnical imaginaries that mediate the design process; and (3) ethnographically informed examination of how each reporting system operates on campus grounds to mediate the relationship between campus authorities and students. The concluding chapter considers directions in gender and sexuality studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), and science and technology studies (STS) for future scholarship.
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- 2021
12. Yapay Zekâ Teknolojisinin Haber Üretim Süreçlerinde Kullanımı: Otomatik Haber Üretimi.
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Öngel, Alpaslan
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- 2023
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13. What To Do About Conspiracy Theories?
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Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta and Harambam, Jaron
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Conspiracy Theories ,Greek environmentalism ,HPV immunisation ,debunking conspiracy theories ,media and communication ,thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints ,thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies ,thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology ,thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues ,thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNT Social law and Medical law ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of education ,thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology ,thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNQ IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations ,thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBW Internet: general works ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement::JPWC Political campaigning and advertising - Abstract
Increasingly social activists, journalists and policy makers have expressed concern over the proliferation of conspiracy theories in the public space. There is a growing fear of their impact on social cohesion and democracy, their power to erode trust in state institutions and science. These concerns often come with an expectation that it is the responsibility of academics to engage with conspiracy beliefs by countering them. But should they? In this book, contributors show that like everything that relates to conspiracy theories, even the answer to this question is not straightforward and can vary across disciplines and schools, can be influenced by disciplinary ethical codes of conduct, research methodologies, and specific approaches to conspiracy theories. Foregrounding a variety of approaches, from across disciplines (psychology, anthropology, sociology and media studies), academic seniority (from young scholars to full professors), and countries (USA, Ireland, UK, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Greece), the chapters in this book are in deep conversation with each other, offering multiple alternative takes on the issue of what should academics do with conspiracy theories. Together, the book embodies several bold and compelling provocations to dealing differently with conspiracy theories. This timely volume introduces perspectives of scholars representing media studies, anthropology, psychology and sociology and discusses case studies concerning politics, health, environment and security. It will be a key resource for researchers, scholars and practitioners engaged in these fields and will also appeal to anyone interested in conspiracy theories and other related phenomena such as disinformation or fake news. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.
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- 2024
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14. The role of sustainability in media and communication studies’ curricula throughout Europe
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Karmasin, Matthias and Voci, Denise
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- 2021
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15. The profession of public relations in Saudi Arabia : a socio-cultural perspective
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Almahraj, Yazeed
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659.209538 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
This thesis examines public relations in Saudi Arabia as an occupational group. The thesis investigates the knowledge public relations practitioners possess, and how Saudi culture and public communication factors affect public relations practitioners. The thesis offers insights into the cultural background of the country, public communication and public relations practice in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, it provides an analysis of theories of the profession and the relationship between the profession and public relations occupation. For the purposes of this research, in-depth unstructured interviews were used to collect data from 27 practitioners. A constructivist paradigm was utilised to examine the Saudi practitioners’ perceptions of knowledge, culture, public communication. Moreover, the thesis has followed a socio-cultural approach and theories of the profession to investigate the empirical data. The thesis has several contributions to knowledge. Firstly, it brings an understanding of the role of the state in the process of professionalization. Using Vygotsky’s theories the thesis has found that educational institutions influence PR practice and this results in lack of progress and limited opportunities for change, learning and career movement. Secondly, the thesis found that there is disconnection between theories that are taught in universities with PR programmes and PR practices. The thesis found that there is a problematic nature of abstract knowledge, which determines the disconnection between communication theories and PR practice. Moreover, there is a disconnection between the practice immersed in culture and that cultural practices are stronger than professional practice. Finally, the thesis has contributed to the literature by finding out that ethics in Western countries are regarded as something that is developed by a professional body in a way that relates to society, however in Saudi Arabia the Muslim values and ethics are implemented directly in the work context and ethics is not developed by a professional body.
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- 2017
16. Understanding the problem of cultural non-participation : discursive structures, articulatory practice and cultural domination
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Stevenson, David John
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302.23 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
This thesis employs a discursive methodology to analyse the policy problem of cultural non-participation. In so doing it seeks to answer the questions of what the problem is, why a problem exists, and what the existence of the problem does ‘in the real’ (Bacchi, 2009). The study draws on primary data generated in the form of policy texts, speeches and 42 in-depth qualitative interviews with individuals working in or for publicly funded cultural organisations in Scotland. Employing the methodological approach of problematisation (Foucault, 2003a [1981]), the study offers a close analysis of the discursive logics upon which the construction of the problem relies. In so doing it is asserted that the problem construction functions as an articulatory practice (Laclau & Mouffe, 1985) that not only constitutes and organizes social relations but also supports asymmetric relations of power and allows inequality in society to be represented as both inevitable and sensible (Rancière, 2004). Beginning with a discussion of how cultural participation has been constructed as an object of enquiry, the thesis moves on to consider how cultural non-participation is constructed as a problem across the discursive planes of politics and professional practice. Having made visible the discursive logics of the problem construction, the discussion then examines the contingent historical conditions under which the existence of certain subjects, objects, and the intelligible relations between them became possible. Arguing that the Arts should be understood as a discursive institution, it is proposed that the subject identity of the non-participant is not only a necessary part of the discursive logic of this institution, but also provided the ideal boundary object (Star and Griesemer, 1989) around which the legitimacy of the relationship between the Arts and the state could, in part, be based. Drawing on the work of Jacques Rancière (1991; 2004; 2004), it is argued that the manner in which those labelled as non-participants are subjectified obscures their agency and in so doing suppresses their capacity to speak within the field of cultural policy. As such, the field of cultural policy remains characterized by asymmetric relations of power and dominated by those who lay claim to the discursive identity of cultural professionals. The result is state subsidised practices that while doing little to influence individual patterns of behavior, through performing inclusion and equality contribute to the maintenance of a status-quo in which state support will only be provided to individuals who accept the values of those who exercise the most power in the field.
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- 2016
17. Financing sport post-COVID-19: using Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to help make a case for economic recovery through spending on sport and recreation.
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Hammond, Andrew M.
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MONETARY theory ,SPORTS finance ,COVID-19 pandemic ,ECONOMIC recovery - Abstract
This commentary aims to explore the challenges of financing sport in light of the economic and health questions posed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Governments will have to spend large sums of public money to stimulate recovery; therefore, it is asked: how should sport and recreation spending be part of recovery plans? The case of the Montreal Olympics debt and deficit disaster is re-examined. It is argued that if the federal government (a currency issuer) underwrote the games many of the issues that followed may have been avoided. Therefore, this commentary challenges sport and leisure scholars to think about how sport and recreation could be part of the solution when fiscal policy is becoming the preferred antidote to the social and economic consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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18. Communication and media usage of the older generation of Sakhalin repatriates in Japan
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S. L. Sakuma
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migration ,repatriation ,media and communication ,transnational communication ,japan ,sakhalin ,Bibliography. Library science. Information resources - Abstract
The aim of the article is to find out the features of communication and media usage among the older generation of Sakhalin repatriates in Japan. To achieve this aim we set up the following tasks: 1. To define what media and what language are used by the older generation of Sakhalin repatriates; 2. To make it clear what media are used by the older generation of Sakhalin repatriates for communication inside Japan and abroad; 3. To elucidate the changes and their reasons in media usage by the older generation of Sakhalin repatriates occurred since the beginning of their repatriation. This article is based on interviews with 9 respondents conducted between August and October in 2017. All respondents represent the older generation. The field study covered 5 cities (in alphabet order): Asahikawa, Hakodate, Sapporo, Tokyo, Wakkanai. The middle age of respondents is equal to 70 years and 3 months. Previous studies on Sakhalin repatriates in Japan were on the issues of the pre-repatriation period, cultural background, language level, identity factors, adaptation strategies different for each generation of Sakhalin repatriates. However, the issues connected with communication and media usage has never been the subject for a special study. The results of the study can be used for understanding the features of such a phenomena as repatriation, as well as the modern communication processes both in Japan and the world. The author comes to the following conclusions: 1. The older generation of Sakhalin repatriates is able to maintain a multicultural space of living by using multilingual media and conducting transnational communication; 2. There are differences in new media usage among the older generation of Sakhalin repatriates. These differences arise not only from lack of media literacy but also from social and economic status of repatriates and their needs.
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- 2020
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19. "It's complicated" : Facebook and political participation in Italy and the UK
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Casteltrione, Isidoropaolo
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323 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
Drawing from an extensive and unique data set acquired by combining a cross-national comparative approach and a mixed methods methodology, this thesis examines the contributions of Facebook to citizens’ political participation in Italy and the UK. In the last decade there has been a proliferation of academic studies investigating the links between digital technologies and citizens’ political participation, with an increasing number of publications focusing on social networking websites (SNSs). Within this specific sub-field, research has produced contrasting evidence. Some scholars stress the positive impact of the Internet and SNSs on political participation (i.e., optimists), while others minimise their mobilising power, emphasising their tendency to reinforce existing participatory trends (i.e., normalisers) or highlighting their limited or even negative influence on political participation (i.e., pessimists). The present research differs from the majority of investigations in this area in three ways. Firstly, the data for this study were gathered mostly in a non-electoral period and thus the contributions of Facebook to citizens’ political participation were assessed independently of the electoral process, which usually occasions a rise in political participation. In addition, this research tackled two conceptual weaknesses characterising many Internet and political participation studies: the failure to consider political participation as a multidimensional phenomenon and the over-generalised approach to Internet and SNS usages. It did so by differentiating between political communication and political mobilisation activities, and three Facebook non-political usages, i.e., information, interpersonal communication, and social recreation. Thirdly, in response to the lack of cross-national comparative studies in this subject area, the contributions of Facebook to citizens’ political participation were examined in the different contexts of Italy and the United Kingdom. This thesis makes four main contributions to the field of political communication, and more specifically to the strand of research examining the impact of digital technologies on political participation. The first contribution is the Particularised Model of Facebook Political Participation. The model identifies a number of factors mediating the links between Facebook and political participation, demonstrating the relevance of both external, context-related factors related to the British and Italian media and political landscapes, and more personal, subjective ones such as self-presentation, pre-existing levels of political engagement, and the nature and size of the Facebook network. Secondly, this study sheds light on the ways that Facebook functions as a political platform, establishing that dynamics typical of both new and traditional media are in action on this SNS, and that Facebook holds the capacity to activate a virtuous circle, thereby generating an information-led mobilisation. The third contribution is the Dual Routes of Exposure Model which offers clarification on the alleged tendency of digital technologies to promote selective exposure and, consequently, political fragmentation and polarisation, and shows that Facebook can operate as a potential antidote to such trends. The fourth contribution is to the polarised debate between optimists, normalisers, and pessimist, with the present research further highlighting the sterility of such a debate and indicating potentially fruitful approaches for the development of the field.
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- 2015
20. Investigating the Quality of Data Using Situated Learning Theory and Communication Mediation Model: PLS-SEM Approach to Estimate the Reliability and Validity of the Constructs.
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Memon, Sumera, Pahore, Muhammad Ramzan, and Shahid, Sana
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LEARNING theories in education ,POLITICAL socialization ,SCHOLARS ,PARTIAL least squares regression ,TEST validity - Abstract
This article examines the reliability of the instruments by using Partial Least Squares PLS and determined the convergent validity and discriminant validity of the latent variable under study. Specifically, the suggestion for applying PLS-SEM in media and communication studies have followed to prove the potentials of PLS-SEM using 228 datasets. Hence, the current study involves 7–constructs, 51–item which were adopted and adapted from various scholars to measure the complete process of political socialization of youth. The results of the measurement model show that the out of 51 items 42 items are with loadings greater than 0.50. In applying PLS-SEM, the measurement model gives assurance that indicators have a strong relationship with their corresponding latent constructs. Also, items show the convergent and discriminant validity of corresponding constructs. The implication of the measurement model results proved that PLS will assist communication and media studies that are designed as exploratory studied that will lead to theory building. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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21. Wissenschaftskommunikation
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Hagen, Lutz, Lüthje, Corinna, Ohser, Farina, Seifert, Claudia, Hagen, Lutz, Lüthje, Corinna, Ohser, Farina, and Seifert, Claudia
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- Sociology: Environment, Science and Technology, Wissenschafts-, Technik- und Umweltsoziologie, Education and Cultural Studies, Bildung und Kultur, Media and Communication, Medienwissenschaft, Kommunikationsforschung, Media Consumption and Media Impact, Medienwirkungs- und -nutzungsforschung
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Academic communication is characterised by a form of communicative pluralism that is based on both the recipient and the communication channel. This volume highlights the role played by the specific demands, thought processes, insights and routines of various disciplines in academic communication.
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- 2018
22. Die Macht der Strategischen Kommunikation : Medienethische Perspektiven der Digitalisierung
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Kerstin Liesem, Lars Rademacher, Kerstin Liesem, and Lars Rademacher
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- Media Consumption and Media Impact, Computer and Internet, Medienpolitik und Gesellschaft, Media Politics and Society, Medienwirkungs- und -nutzungsforschung, Medienwissenschaft, Kommunikationsforschung, Media and Communication, Computer und Internet, Mass media--Social aspects, Digital media, Communication--Moral and ethical aspects, Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects, Ethik, Ethics, Philosophie, Philosophy
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Die Digitalisierung ermöglicht neue Formen der Einflussnahme durch Kommunikation. Leben wir dadurch in einer medialen Kampfzone der Meinungsbeeinflussung? Die gegenwärtige Konjunktur der Strategischen Kommunikation führt zu Verunsicherungen in Bezug auf die Glaubwürdigkeit des Journalismus und die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Medien. Für viele Interessengruppen sind digitale soziale Netze äußerst hilfreich, um spezifische Interessen wirkungsvoll öffentlich bekannt zu machen. Im Extremfall stellt das Internet jedoch das ideale propagandistische Medium dar.Das Lenken von Menschen oder die Veränderung des Verhaltens von Menschen durch (öffentliche) Kommunikation ist durch Big Data und Algorithmen heute einfacher möglich denn je. Durch große Datenmengen und Computer, die schnell Korrelationen finden und systematisieren, ist das Verhalten von Menschen bereits jetzt zum Beispiel in Werbung und Wahlkampfstrategien zum Teil berechenbar geworden. Es können damit leicht kommunikative Anreize gesetzt werden, die mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit das erwünschte Verhalten hervorrufen.Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich mit Medienhandeln im Zeichen von Propaganda, PR und Big Data und fragt nach Potenzialen und Risiken Strategischer Kommunikation.Mit Beiträgen vonTanja Evers, Markus Feiks, Rüdiger Funiok, Thilo Hagendorff, Jutta Krautter, Thomas Leif, Kerstin Liesem, Uta Müller, Lars Rademacher, Christian Schicha, Christopher Storck, Christian Trentmann, Denise Weigelt, Christian Wiencierz, Markus Wiesenberg und Guido Zurstiege
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- 2018
23. Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones
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Max Schleser, Marsha Berry, Max Schleser, and Marsha Berry
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- Culture and Technology, Journalism and Broadcasting, Digital/New Media, Media and Communication, New media art, Artists--Effect of technological innovations on, Art and telecommunication, Art and technology, Smartphones--Social aspects, Cultural and Media Studies, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Technological innovations, Smartphones
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The participatory turn in media, arts and design along with interrelated developments in the proliferation of social and network media have changed our understanding of the contemporary mediascape. Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones reveals how smartphones and storytelling are forming a symbiosis that empowers twenty-first century citizens and creatives around the world. The edited collection further develops definitions and debate around creative mobile media and its impact on media, art and design. It brings together mobile artists, digital ethnographers, filmmakers working with smartphones, illustrators, screenwriters as well as musicians utilizing apps and mobile devices, who explore new directions in the creative arts with a focus on screen production. Lastly, it demonstrates how mobile devices and smartphones can make a difference in peoples'lives and catalyses creativity in order to tackle current socio-cultural issues.
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- 2018
24. Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ufuoma Akpojivi and Ufuoma Akpojivi
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- African Politics, Media and Communication, African Culture, Media Policy, Development Communication, New democracies--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Ethnology--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Mass media policy--Ghana, Mass media policy--Nigeria, Communication--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Cultural and Media Studies, Democracy--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Mass media--Law and legislation--Africa, Sub-Saharan
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This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these emerging democracies, the policy goals and objectives of the reforms have not been achieved. Consequently, the inherent socio-cultural, economic and political factors, coupled with the historical antecedents of these countries, have also affected the reform process. Drawing from policy documents, analyses and interviews, Ufuoma Akpojivi argues that the lack of citizens'active participation in policy processes has led to neo-liberalization and the continued universalization of Western ideologies such as democracy, media freedom and independence. Akpojivi posits that the recognition of socio-cultural, political and economic factors inherent to these emerging democracies, coupled withthe communal participation of citizens, will facilitate true media reform processes and development of these countries.
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- 2018
25. Migration bildet : Migration Educates
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Manfred Oberlechner, Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen, Patrick Duval, Manfred Oberlechner, Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen, and Patrick Duval
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- Migration and Ethnicity, Medienp¨adagogik, Medienwissenschaft, Kommunikationsforschung, Media Education, Migrationssoziologie und Ethnizit¨at, Media and Communication
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Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit den vielfältigen Bezügen zwischen Migration, Bildung und Medien. Es werden Theorieansätze zur Erklärung internationaler Migration mit Theorien der Integration, Akkulturation bzw. Assimilation von MigrantInnen mit Theorien zur transnationalen Migration sowie unterschiedlichen Forschungs- und didaktischen Anwendungsfeldern zur Migrations- und Diversitätspädagogik verknüpft. Darüber hinaus liegt der Fokus auf der Rolle von Medien in Migrationsprozessen sowie dem Zusammenspiel von Medien und Migration. Hierbei geht es u.a. um die Frage der Darstellung von Migration, MigrantInnen und Diversität in den Medien. Auf diese Weise werden empirische und theoretische Ansätze zu Migration und Medien mit medienpädagogischen und mediendidaktischen sowie migrations- und diversitätspädagogischen Ansätzen und Anwendungsfeldern verknüpft.Mit Beiträgen von:Nancy Andrianne, Wolfgang Aschauer, Georg Auernheimer, Lea Braun, Jonas Christensen, Ricarda Drüeke, Elisabeth Klaus, Anita Moser, Sule Dursun, Helga Embacher, Sylvia Hahn, Birgit Heinrich, Gerhard Hetfleisch, Marc Hill, Mishela Ivanova, Haliemah Mocevic, Alois Nußbaumer, Manfred Oberlechner, Robert Obermair, Michael Offenboeck, Brigitta Pallauf, Lisa Rosen, Argyro Panagiotopoulou, Maximilian Sailer, Wassilios Baros, Brunhilde Scheuringer, Christine Trueltzsch-Wijnen, Elisabeth Vierthaler
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- 2017
26. Medialisierung und Mediatisierung
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Birkner, Thomas and Birkner, Thomas
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- Media Studies: General and History, Media and Communication, Medienwissenschaft, Kommunikationsforschung, Allgemeines und Geschichte der Medien, Theorie, Ans¨atze und Methoden in der Kommunikatio, Mass media--Social aspects, Media Studies: Theory and Research Methods, Media Consumption and Media Impact, Medienwirkungs- und -nutzungsforschung
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Medialisierung und Mediatisierung gehören zu den erfolgreichsten, aber auch häufig diskutierten Ansätzen der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Zentral ist die Frage nach Medienwandel und gesellschaftlichem Wandel. Hier haben sich zwei Traditionen herausgebildet, die auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise (qualitative vs. quantitative Verfahren) die Rolle der Medien in der modernen Gesellschaft erforschen.Während die Mediatisierungsforschung die Veränderungen von Kommunikation im Alltag der Menschen etwa durch Smartphones in den Blick nimmt, konzentriert sich die Medialisierungsforschung auf den Einfluss der Massenmedien in gesellschaftlichen Teilbereichen wie Politik, Wissenschaft und Sport. Der Band erläutert die Herkunft der Ansätze, stellt zentrale Studien und Erkenntnisse vor und diskutiert Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede.
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- 2017
27. Museum Audience's Texts: Toward a Contextual Conceptual Reading.
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Noy, Chaim
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MUSEUM studies , *AUDIENCE participation , *HISTORICAL museums , *MUSEUMS , *READING - Abstract
Museum scholars and professionals agree that audiences' texts are under-researched and are often approached anecdotally. This state limits the ability to advance effective theorizing of, and interventions in, audience participation and engagement with museums. The article addresses this lacuna by promoting a contextual media-centered conceptualization of both audiences' texts and the media that elicit and mediate them. The article responds to the mediatic turn in museum studies and to the recent call for on-the-ground research of media-related museum practice. Taking comment books as a case study, the concept of response vehicles (RVs) is offered, defined as onsite institutional media, serving to elicit, record, and display audiences' texts. The study employs data-rich qualitative methods to depict the participatory affordances of two RVs in two history museums, and to analyze the texts they elicit and display. Four reading strategies ("keys"), tailored specifically to evaluate audiences texts as forms of participation, are demonstrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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28. Evil Children in the Popular Imagination
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Karen J. Renner and Karen J. Renner
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- Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Genre, Cultural and Media Studies, Youth Culture, Media and Communication, Communication, Film genres, Culture--Study and teaching, Youth--Social life and customs, Adolescence, Social groups, Comparative literature, Children
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Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the “evil” child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies.
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- 2016
29. The Visual Divide Between Islam and the West : Image Perception Within Cross-Cultural Contexts
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Hatem N. Akil and Hatem N. Akil
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- Communication Studies, American Culture, Middle Eastern Culture, Media and Communication, Ethnology--Middle East, Culture--Study and teaching, Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Cultural property
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This book considers the ways in which Muslims view the way they are being viewed, not viewed, or incorrectly viewed, by the West. The book underscores a certain “will-to-visibility” whereby Muslims/ Arabs wish just to be “seen” and to be marked as fellow human beings. The author relates the failure to achieve this visibility to a state of desperation that inextricably and symmetrically ties visibility to violence. When Syrian and Palestinian refugees recently started refusing to be photographed, they clearly ushered the eventual but inevitable collapse of the image and its final futility. The photograph has been completely emptied of its last remaining possibility of signification. The book attempts to engage with questions about the ways in which images are perceived within cross cultural contexts. Why and how do people from different cultural backgrounds view the same image in opposing ways; why do cartoon, photographs, and videos become both the cause and target of bloody political violence – as witnessed recently by the deadly attacks against Charlie Hebdo in France and in the swift military response by the US, Jordan, France, and others to videotaped violence by ISIS.
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- 2016
30. Female Olympians : A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline
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Linda K. Fuller and Linda K. Fuller
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- Feminism, Popular Science in Sports, Gender Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Gender identity, Sports, Social structure, Feminist theory, Culture--Study and teaching, Communication, Sex (Psychology), Gender expression, Sports--Sociological aspects, Equality, Sociology
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This book examines women's participation in the Olympic Games since they were allowed to be included in that global arena. Using a holistic, social scientific approach, and emphasizing the rhetoric of sport mediatization, Female Olympians reviews the literature relative to sexism, racism, and ageism before providing historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives such as the gendered language of Olympic reportage, religious considerations, women's bodies relative to their training for the Games, drugs and doping, and female Paralympians. With numerous critical case studies, never-before assembled data, and personal interviews with athletes, this volume offers insights that both investigate and celebrate female Olympians'successes.
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- 2016
31. Electronic Democracy in Europe : Prospects and Challenges of E-Publics, E-Participation and E-Voting
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Ralf Lindner, Georg Aichholzer, Leonhard Hennen, Ralf Lindner, Georg Aichholzer, and Leonhard Hennen
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- Computers and Society, Computers and civilization, European Economic Community literature, Democracy, Political science, Communication, Public administration, R and D/Technology Policy, Media and Communication, European Integration, Economic policy, Political Science and International Relations
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This edited book is the first of its kind to systematically address the intersection of e-democracy and European politics. It contributes to an improved understanding of the role that new media technologies play in European politics and the potential impact that Internet-based political participation processes may have on modern-day representative democracy in Europe. A unique, holistic approach is taken to examine e-democracy's current state and prospects in Europe from three, partially overlapping and interlocking perspectives: e-public, e-participation and e-voting. The authors provide both theory-inspired reflections on e-democracy's contribution to the formation of the European public sphere, as well as rich empirical analyses of contemporary e-participation phenomena such as the European Citizens'Initiative or e-voting practices in Estonia. Based on the presented findings, the concluding chapter combines a prospective outlook with recommendations for future paths towards meaningful integration of e-democracy in European politics and governance.
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- 2016
32. Scripting the Environment : Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space
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Geo Takach and Geo Takach
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- Documentary, Oil sands--Environmental aspects--Alberta, Documentary films, Environmentalism in art, Oil sands--Alberta, Communication in the environmental sciences, Media and Communication, Media Research, Cultural and Media Studies, Motion picture authorship, Sociology
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This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for documentary film, audio-visual and stage formats, focusing on how the identity of a place is constructed and contested in the face of environmental concerns around fossil-fuel extraction in a globalized, visual society--and specifically on the rising, international public-relations war over Alberta's stewardship of the tar sands. Each script is followed by discussion of the author's choices of initiating idea, research sources, format, voices, world of the story, structure and visual style, and other notes on the convergence of synthesis, analysis and (re)presentation in the script. Included are lively analysis and commentary on screenwriting and playwriting theory, the creation and dissemination of the scripts, and reflections to ground a proposed framework for writing eco-themed scripts for screen, audio-visual and stage formats.
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- 2016
33. The Lebanese Media : Anatomy of a System in Perpetual Crisis
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Sarah El-Richani and Sarah El-Richani
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- Media and Communication, Media Studies, Middle Eastern Culture, Communication Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, Ethnology--Middle East, Culture--Study and teaching, Communication, Area studies, Civilization--History
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This book presents an analysis of the current Lebanese media system. From a theoretical angle, it discusses the extent to which this system can be analyzed using the ideal types put forth by Hallin and Mancini in their seminal work Comparing Media Systems. Sarah El-Richani assesses the complex dimensions developed by the two scholars and utilizes their work as inspiration for a process of remodeling, amending the sub-indicators to identify salient factors and suggesting a new model. Featuring the views of over 60 stakeholders, this book gives a rare, critical, and concise account of the Lebanese media system.
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- 2016
34. Speaking in an alien voice : a womanist comparison of the use of language by Scottish and West African female playwrights
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Ojediran, Oludolapo
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813 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
This study explores specific thematic pre-occupations in the works of selected eight women writers from two different geographical and cultural milieus (West Africa and Scotland) with a specific focus on similarities in which these writers use language as a means of exploring women’s positions within their respective societies. The second layer of the study’s enquiry lives within the realm of exploration of womanist discourse, as originally developed by Alice Walker, and a possibility of applying this discourse beyond African American and African shores, as a transracial and transcultural model for creating new readings of dramatic discourse by women writers who come from different generational, racial, cultural and geographical environments. In total, sixteen plays ranging from 1970 to 2008 have been examined by means of close reading and comparative analysis, and against the backdrop of Alice Walker’s womanist theory. The study’s focus has been on the ways in which language is employed in these plays to develop womanish characters, to use Walker’s term, capable of overcoming limitations of their position in societies that confine and silence them within domestic realms. This study shows that while womanist theory per se may be seen as confined to African American discourse, some of its elements such as audaciousness, community, spirituality and capability may find successful application in such two different cultural models as West Africa and Scottish shores.
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- 2012
35. Reading against the veil : gender and politics in popular cinema of post-revolutionary Iran
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Dadar, Taraneh
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791.43 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
This thesis examines gender in the popular cinema of post-revolutionary Iran. It argues that a distinctly feminine discourse gradually emerged in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema and became very visible in the reformist period (1997-2005). This research covers the period between the establishment of the Islamic Republic and the end of the reformist period (1979-2005). Drawing on Stuart Hall (1981), this thesis considers popular culture, and popular cinema by extension, as a site of cultural struggle and focuses on gender representation as a major locus of post-revolutionary socio-political negotiation. Reading Iranian cinema in terms of an art/popular spectrum, the thesis examines four case studies from films that have been commercially successful, and have mobilised generic or formal conventions through their controversial gender representations. Three of these case studies, The Bride (1992), Red (1999) and Hemlock (2000) examine femininity in post-revolutionary popular cinema, while The Snowman (1995) has been included for its transgressive representation of masculinity.
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- 2012
36. Does anybody like being disabled? : a critical exploration of impairment, identity, media and everyday experience in a disabling society
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Cameron, Colin
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155 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
I offer a critical exploration of tensions experienced by disabled people in the construction of positive identities in everyday contexts in which self-understanding is shaped both by social structural relations of inequality and unique individual experience. The empirical evidence I use to develop and support my thesis involves data I have generated using a variety of data collection tools, through a series of interviews, conversations and observations carried out with sixteen disabled people across Scotland and England. I argue that while certain barriers to participation in ordinary community life may be being removed, perceptions of impairment as something ‘wrong’ with the bodies of disabled people remain embedded in dominant disability discourse. There is a structural purpose underlying the continued representation of impairment as misfortune, involving the ascription of a negative role – the disabled role – to those whose bodily configurations pose a challenge to requirements of conformity. Drawing on insights generated in my research, and building on an idea originally proposed by John Swain and Sally French in 2000, I have developed a clarified affirmative model of disability. This I intend as a tool to be used by people with impairments in making sense of the disabling social relations they encounter in everyday contexts, to be used alongside the social model in gaining knowledge to unsettle mainstream assumptions which can only recognise impairment as personal tragedy.
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- 2010
37. ROLA SERWISÓW INTERNETOWYCH JAKO NARZĘDZI OCENY DOROBKU NAUKOWEGO PRZYKŁAD WYKORZYSTANIA SERWISÓW GOOGLE SCHOLAR, RESEARCHGATE I ACADEMIA.EDU PRZEZ WYBRANYCH POLSKICH REPREZENTANTÓW NAUK O KOMUNIKACJI SPOŁECZNEJ I MEDIACH.
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Kowalska-Chrzanowska, Małgorzata and Krysiński, Przemysław
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Copyright of Media Research / Zeszyty Prasoznawcze is the property of Jagiellonian University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2020
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38. Lay and professional constructions of childhood ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) : a discourse analysis
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Gray, Carol Ann
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370.15 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
Childhood ADHD is a contested yet rising public health phenomenon, due to greateruse of inclusive American diagnostic classification. In the UK ADHD is considered to be ‘incompletely medicalised’ with rising incidences predicted. A critical approach was adopted in this thesis, based on a number of social constructionist assumptions in order to examine the emergence and increased use of the construct and to contribute to broader critical debate in the field. Parents and teachers are key adults in childhood ADHD as they may identify and care for diagnosed children yet they have been relatively neglected in the literature. How such adults account for children’s difficulties was the focus of an empirical analysis. A ‘critical discursive psychology’ approach was adopted using Edley’s (2001) framework in order to examine culturally available talk by parents and teachers about ADHD, from semistructured interviews in Scotland. Analysis highlighted how parents deployed contradictory interpretive repertoires in talk using a Biological repertoire as a genetic explanation and an Environmental repertoire in relation to various parenting issues. Such talk was organised to attend to the ideological dilemma of parental moral adequacy and accountability and which sought to accomplish the ‘good parent’. Further analysis considered how parents accounted for competing versions of the difficulties and their positioning in relation to controversial medication talk. Teacher accounts of children’s difficulties deployed an ADHD repertoire as a medical condition and a Not ADHD repertoire as due to temporal difficulties. Through the ‘cases I know’ device, teachers managed their own experiential knowledge and thereby negotiated agency and control for childhood behaviours. Analysis considered accounts of (mis)diagnosis and (mis)treatment as alternative explanations for ADHD. This innovative focus on how health policy for children’s difficulties as ADHD were socially produced by lay parent and teachers accounts, highlighted the limitations for agency in ADHD diagnoses and implicated further critical debate about this topic. Parental talk which drew on current biopsychosocial models for ADHD was largely reductionistic and fragmentary. The reliance on discursive efforts about the ‘good parent’ identity meant that this was a temporal accomplishment in talk rather than achieved by a diagnosis. Analysis of teacher accounts originating from a Scottish context highlighted how they differed from a North American context and provided greater understanding of how teachers succeeded in offering robust alternative explanations to ADHD. The implications for health and education policy of ADHD efforts aimed at the ‘education’ of teachers may be limited in the face of the teacher talk. Finally, within methodological debate in discourse analysis, this work contributes to further arguments for an eclectic discourse analysis as applied to the field of ADHD.
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- 2008
39. An investigation into the host's relationship with the commercial home
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Sweeney, Majella
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338.4791 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
The research presented in this thesis is an investigation of the views of commercial home owners within Scotland. The thesis is designed to deepen understanding of the commercial home sector, and more specifically, the relationship the host has with the commercial home. The host’s relationship with their commercial home contributes to the provision of commercial hospitality within a home setting. The review of the literature points to a number of conceptual gaps in our understanding, notably that there has been no study directly focusing upon the host perspective of the commercial home and how this relationship with the home might potentially impinge upon the guest experience. The specific aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the host and their commercial home and its influences on product construction. As the hospitality product is more of a total sensory experience than has perhaps been acknowledged to date, it is appropriate to seek to understand the host perspective. Prior studies have very largely focused on readily accessible ‘objective’ issues, rather than below the surface issues accessing the inner self, the intangible dimensions of self, which may determine aspects of the hospitality product. The field research involved the researcher taking photographs of the commercial home properties and then using the photographs as prompts to interview the hosts and explore intangible elements such as memories, emotions and senses. A conceptual framework was developed from the data, identifying the main components of the host home relationship, and was revised as each commercial home was analysed. The framework is divided into three sections; Home, Host, and Business. In relation to the Home section themes that emerged include, Meanings of Home, Décor, and Artefacts. In relation to the Host section, themes include Family and Lifestyle. With regards to the Business section, themes include Feelings, Space, Guests, Performance, Target Market, Tourist Board and Competitors.
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- 2008
40. Political and Media Discourses of Illegal Immigration in Ireland
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Elaine Burroughs and Elaine Burroughs
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- Medienpolitik und Gesellschaft, Media Politics and Society, Medienwissenschaft, Kommunikationsforschung, Politische Kommunikation, Communication in politics, Media and Communication
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Während illegale Immigraten zumeist keine öffentliche Stimme haben, werden zahlreiche Repräsentationen dieser Migranten in der irischen Gesellschaft durch das Parlament sowie durch Printmedien verbreitet. Der Band untersucht, wie illegale Immigration im Diskurs zweier irischer Institutionen – das irische Parlament sowie Printmedien – in den 2000er-Jahren dargestellt wird. Durch die Methode der Kritischen Diskursanalyse werden die Hauptargumente identifiziert, die illegale Immigration belegen. Dadurch wird aufgezeigt, dass ein großer Bestandteil des Diskurses negativ ist und eine Kontrolle der illegalen Immigration angestrebt wird. Diese negativen Diskurse tragen dazu bei, den Grundgedanken des Nation-State, Praktiken der Ungleichheit und der Exklusion sowie legitimisierte Ausdrücke von Rassismus zu unterstützen. Dr. Elaine Burroughs unterrichtet zurzeit an der Maynooth University und ist außerdem Research Assistant am University College Dublin, Irland. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der Migration, Repräsentation und Diskursanalyse.
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- 2015
41. Das wundervolle Radiobuch : Moderne Moderation im Radio - Persönlichkeit, Kommunikation, Motivation
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Patrick Lynen and Patrick Lynen
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- Printmedien, Radio, Fernsehen und Kino, Print, Radio, TV and Cinema, Media and Communication, Radio, Fundamentals, History of the Media, (Audio- )Visual Communication, Radio broadcasting, (Audio- ) Visuelle Kommunikation, Allgemeines und Geschichte der Medien, Medienwissenschaft, Kommunikationsforschung
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Viele hundert Sender im deutschsprachigen Bereich wollen unverwechselbare Sendungen ausstrahlen, mit unverwechselbaren Persönlichkeiten. Trotzdem gibt es nur wenige Moderatoren, die es bis zum Kultstatus geschafft haben. Warum ist das so? Was unterscheidet erfolgreiche Kommunikatoren von weniger erfolgreichen? Wer es an die Spitze schaffen will, benötigt viele Kompetenzen: technische Kompetenz, Fachwissen und Sachkompetenz, journalistische Kompetenz, lokale Kompetenz, stimmliche und sprachliche Kompetenz, Unterhaltungskompetenz, kommunikative und kreative Kompetenz, Ausdauer und Stabilität. All diese Bereiche behandelt dieser Beststeller – und dies bereits in der 4. Auflage.
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- 2015
42. Re-presenting Research
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Sterk, Florentine Marnel and van Goch, Merel M.
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popularization discourse ,discourse analysis ,science journalism ,textual features ,media and communication ,linguistic strategies ,science writing ,popular science ,bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences ,bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism - Abstract
This open access book focuses on the textual features, or ‘strategies’, which form popularization discourse. In popularization discourse, research findings from academia are re-presented to make them noteworthy to society and influential for everyday life. Popularization involves recontextualization, or reimagination of findings in an everyday and newsworthy context, and reformulation, the use of audience-appropriate language to increase text comprehension and engagement. ‘Re-presenting research’ presents an empirically grounded, analytic framework for the analysis of popularization texts. Its applicability spans across disciplinary, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary fields, and overarches science communication, science journalism, and research communication. The book offers theoretical background information on popularization discourse, empirical underpinning of the construction of the framework, and practical applicability in examples from multiple text types and academic fields. This book acts as a guide for those working with or on popularization discourse – whether it is to analyze it or learn about it.
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- 2023
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43. Female identity and the British female ensemble drama 1995-1998
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Ball, Victoria
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809.225099287 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
This thesis focuses upon a distinctive form of ‘feminine-gendered’ fiction, that of the British female ensemble drama, that has proliferated across televisual schedules since the late 1970s and which has received little academic attention. Although not a discrete genre, the female ensemble drama is nevertheless identifiable as a distinctive form of ‘feminine-gendered’ fiction that is largely written and/or produced by women, which diegetically focuses on particular communities of female characters and which is predominantly aimed at female audiences. The purpose of this text-based analysis of the female ensemble drama is to engage with a central concern of feminist television criticism, that of the gendered identity of this particular media form and the constructions of gender within it given its association with women at these three sites of production, text and audience. While I provide a historical overview of the development of this form of drama in relation to its textual precedents I isolate a particular moment in the history of this form of drama, that of the late 1990s, for closer analysis. Firstly I isolate the late 1990s to provide knowledge and understanding of the way in which the ‘feminine’ identity of this form of drama has contributed to its academic neglect within this socio-cultural period. Secondly I provide a close textual analysis of the constructions of ‘women’ within three female ensemble dramas in order to engage with and explore the textual negotiations they embody surrounding discourses of feminism and post feminism, de- and re-traditionalization in this particular period. While these themes have begun to be addressed in feminist television criticism they have largely been explored in relation to constructions of femininity in American dramas. This analysis then, allows for an exploration of these discourses in relation to a regional form of British drama. It is through investigating the academic neglect of this form of drama; providing a historical, thematic and aesthetic overview of the female ensemble drama as well as a detailed analysis of three of the female ensemble dramas of the 1990s that I contribute knowledge and understanding of this particular regional form of ‘feminine-gendered’ fiction to the field of Feminist Television Studies.
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- 2007
44. Webfilm theory
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Kurtzke, Simone
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302.23 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
Since its inception in 1989, the World Wide Web has grown as a medium for publishing first text, then images, audio, and finally, moving images including short films. While most new media forms, in particular, hypertext, have received scholarly attention, research into moving image on the Internet had been limited. The thesis therefore set out to investigate webfilms, a form of short film on the WWW and the Internet, over a period of 9 years (1997-2005). The thesis was theoretically embedded in questions regarding new media as new field of research, since the increasing visibility of new media had resulted in the emergence of the discipline of ‘new media studies’. This context raised issues regarding the configuration of new media studies within the existing academic disciplines of media and cultural studies, which were explored in depth in the literature review. The case studies of the thesis explored and analysed webfilms from a vantage point of actor-network theory, since this was arguably the most appropriate methodology to a research object considerably influenced by technological factors. The focus was on the conditions of webfilm production, distribution, and exhibition, and the evolution of webfilm discourse and culture. The aim was to seek answers to the question ‘How didwebfilm arise as (new) form of film?’ In the process of research, a number of issues were raised including the changing definition and changing forms of webfilms, the convergence of media, and the complex interdependency of humans and their computers. The research re-evaluates the relationship between human and non-human factors in media production and presents a fresh approach by focusing on the network as unit of analysis. The thesis as a whole not only provides new information on the evolution of webfilm as a form of film, but also illustrates how the network interaction of humans and nonhumans lies at the heart of contemporary new media and convergence culture.
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- 2007
45. Media Employee Performance and High Work Practices (A Special Context toCOVID-19).
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Mohsin, Shabbir, Taha, and Khanum, Masroor
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EMPLOYEE rules ,SOCIAL media ,TECHNOLOGICAL revolution ,COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
The present study aims to examine the relationship of high performance work practices (training, empowerment and rewards) with employee performance in their media organization in the context ofCOVID-19 pandemic. Three HR practices (training, empowerment and rewards) are examined in a crosssectional sample of 334 male and female media workers by recording responses using self- reported questionnaires. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze the responses. Social exchange theory is used in order to explain the relationship of loyalty between organization and worker. The results show a weak relationship of the selected high performance work practices of media employee during COVID-19. Empowerment is having negative relationship with performance that nullifies the existing evidence. The media organizations have to re-think about the work practices being used in the organizations for achieving better performance. Training and reward regarding using organizational resources may also be considered as a remedy. Using organizational resources and time appropriately with develop trust among the employer and employees thus fostering performance. The fourth industrial context which is the implementation of science and technology in every field is considered for examining the linkages. The final result indicates a weak relation among the media employee because it leads towards the misuse of empowerment. Therefore proper check and balance is recommended before empowering the employees of media houses. This is because the workers may have more inclination towards availing benefits of technological revolution especially during a recent pandemic of COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
46. Feeling Thoughts: The Swarming Sublime in Longinus’s On Sublimity.
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MARCINKOWSKI, ADAM J.
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SUBLIME, The ,AESTHETICS ,MASS media ,CONTEXTUAL analysis - Abstract
Longinus’s concept of the sublime remains elusive because he intentionally avoids offering a clear definition of it. While his text has been given the name On Sublimity, it is uncertain exactly what this on refers to. This article argues that Longinus’s aversion to plainly defining his subject ought to be read as rejecting the requirements for good composition articulated by Plato, one of Longinus’s main interlocuters. Plato’s doctrine of organic unity found in the Phaedrus demands that texts begin with a clear definition; to break from this demand, however, is a constitutive feature of the Longinian sublime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
47. The Master and Mrs Wharton : film adaptations of the work of Edith Wharton and Henry James
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Artt, S. J.
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791.43 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
This thesis is an examination of six films adapted between 1993 and 2000 from novels by Henry James and Edith Wharton: James's The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Portrait of a Lady and Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth and The Buccaneers. All six films have been claimed as part of the costume drama/literary adaptation/heritage genre. The analysis of this cycle of adaptations focuses on the visual expression of four key themes: wealth, desire, decorum and social mobility. Dress and art are deployed within the visual fabric of these adaptations as symbolic objects that make up what Wharton termed the "hieroglyphic world" of society. In this cycle of films, the use of art and dress constitutes a new way of viewing costume and art as elements of the adaptation process. Barthes's aspect of the third meaning, "the passage from language to significance" is conveyed through dress and art as sites of visual meaning, a concept that is also deployed by James and Wharton in their fiction. The mise-en-scene of these six adaptations draws inspiration from a variety of artistic influences, ranging from the paintings of John Singer Sargent and James Tissot to the influence of early cinema and photography. Clothing plays an intrinsic role in both the novels and the film adaptations, in terms of displaying consumption, social class and character, and it also makes up the iconic images created by stars who take on key roles, such as Helen Bonham Carter's portrayal of Kate Croy as a "heritage noir" (cf. Church Gibson, 2000) femme fatale in the film of The Wings of the Dove. James and Wharton's narratives represent an expression of the 'transcultural aesthetic' making their fiction particularly apt for cinematic adaptation in an era of increased global mobility. This concept of the transcultural aesthetic is vital in attempting to widen the debate on 'heritage' cinema. While these films and novels share textual themes rooted in settings ranging from the late 1870s through to the early 1900s, the narratives are adapted in ways that make James and Wharton relevant to contemporary cinema audiences, while also reminding us of the timelessness of James and Wharton's narratives.
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- 2005
48. Learning cultures in cyberspace
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Bayne, Siân
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371.3 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
This thesis is a study of emerging learning cultures. Its focus is on students and teachers who are engaged in using internet technologies for learning in higher education in the United Kingdom. The thesis provides an exploration of theoretical approaches to the cultural impact of new technologies, drawing on cultural, cybercultural and educational theory. It applies these theoretical insights to interview texts generated through discussions with learners and teachers. Its contribution lies in the originality of its empirical material and of the insights applied to their analysis, and in its application of cultural and cybercultural theory to the area of online learning and teaching.
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- 2004
49. The fall and rise of the anicom : the sitcom genre in U.S. TV animation (1960-2003)
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Dobson, Nichola M.
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791.45 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
The thesis examines the animated sitcom, from 1960 until present, and attempts to locate its development within the genre of situation comedy. Television animation has long been regarded among film, television and animation theorists as a 'lower cultural form' than its theatrical, or 'live action' counterparts. This thesis seeks to establish a pattern of generic development, in a form which has been critically and theoretically neglected over that time. A lack of a consistent definition within critics and theorists has subsequently led to a lack of a coherent canon of theory. It is for this reason that animation is approached from several areas including film theory and cultural studies. Through original empirical research, the thesis examines the animated series in terms of its generic status, and contributes to the debates surrounding definitions of animation and the question of genre in animation. The thesis charts the development of the series, and presents the term 'anicom' to convey the unique nature of the form, its contribution to the sitcom genre and the larger form of animation as a whole.
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- 2004
50. Female 'self culture' in Edinburgh : the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society
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Kelman, Kate
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941.1 ,Media and Communication - Abstract
The Ladies's Edinburgh Debating Society met on the first Saturday of each month between 1865-1936 to discuss the books they were reading and to debate prearranged issues. For the first fifteen years its members produced a magazine which carried fictive and general interest articles. This thesis will study the archive of the Society and the magazine that it produced to arrive at an understanding of the women's reading practices, their intellectual lives and their attitudes to the society in which they lived and how these experiences impacted upon them. At a time when women's societal role was limited and access to education was based on wealth or the philanthropy of others, these women were able (through their privileged place in the middle and upper classes) to construct their own canon of improving reading and to set guidelines for the education of others. Working against the hegemonic discourse of the time, yet seeking to exert some controlling influence over others, the women's attempts at self culture throw into rellief the context of their cultural experiences and the correlation between self improvement and women's emancipation. This thesis argues that prevailing ideas about Victorian women's existence in 'separate spheres' needs to be revised. It argues that the members of The Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society make a move from the private to the public sphere through their utilisation of culture. Moreover, they are able to blend this notion of spheres to make society their concern through collective and individual action; improving themselves and the community in which they lived.
- Published
- 2002
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