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Discusses the players, theories, and trends that affect how the world communicates and gets their information This book is a definitive text on multinational communication and media conglomerates, exploring how global media influences both audiences and policy makers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-10-11
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Developments in AI, robotics and big data are changing the nature of education. Yet the implications of these technologies for the teaching profession are uncertain. While most educators remain convinced of the need for human teachers, outside the profession there is...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-10-11
Collection :
Digital Futures
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This book explores the dual nature of legitimacy in prison. It examines the inter-connectivity between audience perception of legitimacy (the prisoners’ perception) and the power-holders’ perception of legitimacy (the prison staff perception). It defines legitimacy in...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-10-11
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Undocumented migration is a global and yet elusive phenomenon. Despite contemporary efforts to patrol national borders and mass deportation programs, it remains firmly placed at the top of the political agenda in many countries where it receives hostile media coverage...
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Polity
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2019-10-11
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Die Themen ‚Flucht und Asyl‘ dominieren seit dem langen Sommer der Migration 2015 die Nachrichtenagenda. Neben den stereotypisierten entmenschlichenden Massendarstellungen der frühen visuellen Berichterstattungen ist von besonderem Interesse, inwiefern Geflüchtete im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-11
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Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-10-11
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This edited volume deploys digital ethnography in varied contexts to explore the cultural roles of mobile apps that focus on religious practice and communities, as well as those used for religious purposes (whether or not they were originally developed for that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-10
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Karim Fathi liefert erstmalig einen Überblick über die unterschiedlichen Diskurse und Strategien der Komplexitätsbewältigung auf der Ebene von Teams, Organisationen und Gesellschaften. Unter der Leitdifferenz kommunikativer Komplexitätsbewältigung untersucht...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-10
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From the National Review to Breitbart, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, conservative news is an inescapable feature of modern politics. Since the early days of mass communication, right-wing media producers have blended reporting with commentary, narrating the news of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-10
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Most women will go on the birth control pill at some point in their lives, and our generation owes a lot to it. But it's something most of us know almost nothing about, even though it affects almost every system our body. Column inches and current conversations prove...
Editeur :
Orion Spring
Parution :
2019-10-10
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This volume brings together a selection of Juri Lotman’s late essays, published between 1979 and 1995. While Lotman is widely read in the fields of semiotics and literary studies, his innovative ideas about history and memory remain relatively unknown. The articles in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-09
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This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-09
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The Media Freedom Analyzer developed by Laura Schneider is a new way to measure global media freedom in a more objective, unbiased and transparent way. Grounded in the opinions of around 1000 experts from 126 countries, the index is the first empirically validated tool...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-09
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At a time of significant transformations in Chinese society, this book addresses the key issue of social welfare and the reform of the welfare system in 21st century China. Considering both the theory and policy making across a variety of welfare issues which directly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-08
Collection :
Sociology, Media and Journalism in China
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews from across Colombia—including former child guerillas, former hostages of the guerilla organization, mothers of child soldiers, and humanitarian aid workers— this volume explores the experiences of children involved with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-08
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Manuel Merz liefert eine quantitativ-empirische Typologie der Autorinnen und Autoren der freien Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia, die weit über bisher verfügbare Analysen hinausgeht. Es gelingt dem Autor, die inneren Strukturen und Zusammenhänge der Autorenschaft anhand...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-08
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An accessible, focused exploration of the field of political ecology The third edition of Political Ecology spans this sprawling field, using grounded examples and careful readings of current literature. While the study of political ecology is sometimes difficult to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-10-08
Collection :
Critical Introductions to Geography
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Susanne Benzel untersucht selbstverletzende Handlungen bei jungen Frauen. Im Zentrum ihrer qualitativ-empirischen Studie stehen die Zusammenhänge von Selbstverletzungen, adoleszenten Entwicklungsanforderungen und ihre Krisenpotenziale sowie die Auseinandersetzung mit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-07
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This practical guide will takes you step by step through your social work placement, guiding you through what you will be expected to do, and helping you to make the most of your placement. You will learn how to apply the theory and skills you've learnt in practice, to...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-10-07
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This book focuses on new and innovative spatial approaches based on smart solutions and developed in the field of geography and related interdisciplinary fields such as urban and regional studies, landscape ecology and ecosystem services. It includes contributions from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-05
Collection :
Key Challenges in Geography
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