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Media production by indigenous peoples includes journalism, radio, film, video, cable television and the world wide web and can be considered an important means of political and cultural empowerment that counters long-standing practices of othering indigeneity or rendering it invisible in Western mediascapes. A powerful ideologeme of indigenous communication – as compared with other kinds of ethnic media – is the Western imaginary’s view of indigenous culture as belonging to a primordial state of temporal otherness, a view which is either romantic and idealized or racialized and primitivizing. The historical struggle of indigenous peoples to overcome marginalization in Western mediascapes goes back to a time when the hegemonic culture was predominantly a culture of writing and print media. Turner’s studies of Kayapo media culture also show that the tribe’s understanding of media communication differs considerably from Western media use when it comes to video production.

Objective High-quality chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) play a significant role in surviving cardiac arrest. Chest-compression quality can be measured and corrected by real-time CPR feedback devices, which are not yet commonly used. This article looks at the acceptance of such systems in comparison of equipped and unequipped personnel. Design Two groups of emergency medical services' (EMS) personnel were interviewed using standardized questionnaires. Setting The survey was conducted in the German cities Dortmund and Munster. Participants Overall, 205 persons participated in the survey: 103 paramedics and emergency physicians from the Dortmund fire service and 102 personnel from the Munster service. Intervention The staff of the Dortmund service were not equipped with real-time feedback systems. The test group of equipped personnel of the ambulance service of Munster Fire brigade uses real-time feedback systems since 2007. Main outcome measure What is the acceptance level of real-time feedback systems? Are there differences between equipped and unequipped personnel? Results The total sample is receptive towards real-time feedback systems. More than 80% deem the system useful. However, this study revealed concerns and prejudices by unequipped personnel. Negative ratings are significantly lower at the Munster site that is experienced with the use of the real-time feedback system in contrast to the Dortmund site where no such experience exists-the system's use in daily routine results in better evaluation than the expectations of unequipped personnel. Conclusions Real-time feedback systems receive overall positive ratings. Prejudices and concerns seem to decrease with continued use of the system.

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas. The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, framed and structured, and covers the artistic and political dimensions that have shaped literature, art and popular culture in the region. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics, divided into two parts: 1. Literature and Music deals with inter-American entanglements of artistic expressions in the Western Hemisphere, including music, dance, literary genres and developments. 2. Media and Visual Cultures explores the inter-American dimension of media production in the hemisphere, including cinema and television, photography and art, journalism, radio, digital culture and issues such as freedom of expression and intellectual property. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science; and cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, globalization and media studies.

BACKGROUND The 2010 Resuscitation Guidelines require high-quality chest compression and rapid defibrillation for patients with ventricular fibrillation with rhythm analysis and defibrillation repeated every 2 min. A lack of adherence to the guidelines by medical students was observed during simulated resuscitation training. OBJECTIVES To assess whether real-time cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidance, including an audiovisual countdown timer, a metronome, a display of the chest compression quality and voice prompts, might improve adherence to the guidelines by medical students. DESIGN Randomised cross-over simulation study. SETTING Studienhospital Munster, Faculty of Medicine University Munster, Germany PARTICIPANTS One hundred and forty-one medical students (fifth year) in 47 teams. INTERVENTION Simulated resuscitation with and without real-time cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidance. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The preshock pause, postshock pause, fraction of time without chest compression and defibrillation intervals. Observed quality parameters were chest compression depth and chest compression rate. RESULTS With real-time cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidance, there were improved mean (SD) chest compression rates (105 ± 8 vs. 121 ± 12 bpm; P

Multiculturalism is to this day one of the predominant modes by which western democracies address cultural heterogeneity, migration and postcolonial legacies in political rhetoric and practice. This introductional article deals with the political conjunctures of multiculturalism in the Americas from the beginning in the 1960s passing through the crisis and neo-conservative backlash in the 1990s to the contemporary post-multicultural identity politics.

Este articulo es una aproximación a la realidad colombiana alrededor de dos temas, la participación ciudadana en Colombia y su cultura política, desde dos experiencias empíricas: el proceso de Asamblea Constituyente de Mogotes y Proyecto Nasa