Language Studies category: 15171 books
Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle
Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
From the 494 B.C. plebeians' march out of Rome to gain improved status, to Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns in India, to the liberation of Poland and the Baltic nations, and the revolutions in North Africa, nonviolent struggles have played pivotal roles in world events for centuries. Sharp's Dictionary...
Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City
Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society’s National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay’s...
Sexual Injustice
Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
It has become increasingly critical for both novice and experienced educators to bring to their diverse classrooms a set of dispositions, skills, and experiences that will enhance learning for all students, especially pupils from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. Intercultural teaching experiences...
Networked Press Freedom
Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear.
In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. Ananny challenges the idea...
by Captain Basil Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
First published in 1931.
'Hall is the ideal travel-writer. He never wearies his readers, but makes them love him.' Times Literary Supplement
Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels originally appeared in nine volumes. Miscellaneous in their topics, and arranged without any order the volumes...
Travel Journalism
Exploring Production, Impact and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Contributors from diverse backgrounds explore a range of issues in relation to the media and journalism's role in ascribing meaning to tourism practices. This fascinating account offers a thoroughly international and interdisciplinary perspective on an increasingly important field of journalism scholarship.
Globalization and Media
Global Village of Babel
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The fully updated third edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding globalization. Indeed, Jack Lule convincingly shows that globalization could not have occurred without media. From earliest times, humans have used media to explore, settle, and...
Race and News
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The history of American journalism is marked by disturbing representations of people and communities of color, from the disgraceful stereotypes of pre-civil rights America, to the more subtle myths that are reflected in routine coverage by journalists all over the country. Race and News: Critical...
Reputation Management
The Key to Successful Public Relations and Corporate Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Reputation Management is a how-to guide for students and professionals, as well as CEOs and other business leaders. It rests on the premise that reputation can be measured, monitored, and managed. Organized by corporate communication units including media relations, employee communication, government...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled journalism as we know it?
Our media landscape has undergone a seismic shift as digital technology has fostered the rise of "participatory culture,"...
by Gregory G. Curtin, Michael Sommer, Veronika Vis-Sommer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Explore the latest groundbreaking e-government insider information!
The World of E-Government investigates how electronic communication is helping to revolutionize democracies across the globe. Using case studies, cutting-edge research, and commentary from some of the field’s foremost researchers,...
Television and Public Policy
Change and Continuity in an Era of Global Liberalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
The significant changes that have swept the television industry over the last two decades, most notably a shift to deregulation in broadcast media, prompt a discussion on how to ensure that meaningful content is available to the viewer. Television and Public Policy analyzes the current state of television...
The Irish Language in Ireland
From Goídel to Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary society. The possibilities and limitations of the craft of language planning for the revival of the Irish language are outlined and the...