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Looking for Non-Publics

Edited By Daniel Jacobi, Jason Luckerhoff

2012 | Press de 'Universite du Quebec
Copy Available: Yes

“Non-public” was used for the first time in May, 1968, by those working professionally in the cultural domain in France. At the time, they were gathered in Villeurbanne at the head office of the TNP (French National Popular Theatres), and they use ...

 
 
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Fighting Words and Images: Representing War across the Disciplines

By Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, Adam Muller

2012 | University of Toronto Press
Copy Available: Yes

Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including pri ...

 
 
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Deliberative Communication and Ethnopolitical Conflict

By Donald G. Ellis

2012 | Peter Lang
Copy Available: Yes

Examining the close relationship between principles of deliberative democracy, communication, and conflict resolution, this book argues that the nature of deliberative processes is underappreciated for conflict resolution in ethnopolitically divided ...
 
 
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The Television Entrepreneurs: Social Change and Public Understanding of Business

By Raymond Boyle, Lisa W. Kelly

2012 | Ashgate Publishing Company
Copy Available: Yes

With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next 'apprentice', The Television Entrepreneurs draws upon popular business-oriented shows such ...
 
 
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The Sweet Sixteen

By Linda Kay

2012 | McGill-Queen's University Press
Copy Available: Yes

In 1904, sixteen women travelled together by train to cover the St Louis World's Fair. The Sweet Sixteen traces the fateful ten-day trip that resulted in the formation of a professional club for the advancement of Canadian newspaper women.

 
 
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Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner

By Jerry White

2011 | University of Calgary Press
Copy Available: Yes

Revisioning Europe is among the few existing English-language discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. It brings to light a political cinema that was unsentimental about the possi ...

 
 
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Saving the World: A Brief History of Communication for Development and Social Change

By Emile G. McAnany

2012 | University of Illinois Press
Copy Available: Yes

Invigorating global social change through communication

This far-reaching and long overdue chronicle of communication for development from a leading scholar in the field presents in-depth policy analyses to ...

 
 
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Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell

By Katie King

2011 | Duke University Press
Copy Available: Yes

Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media platforms. Against a backdrop of competing national pr ...
 
 
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The Power of Networks: Organizing the Global Politics of the Internet

By Mikkel Flyverbom

2011 | Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
Copy Available: Yes

With an ever-growing number of users, the Internet is central to the processes of globalization, cultural formations, social encounters and economic development. These aside, it is also fast becoming an important polit ...

 
 
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Diversity in Theory and Practice: News Journalists in Sweden and Germany

Edited By Heike Graf

2011 | Nordicom
Copy Available: Yes

Research on media and diversity has mainly focused on content analysis, or more precisely, on how immigrants are covered by the mass media. This book concentrates on the media workers themselves, and on mass media organizations. News journalists with ...
 
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