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  • Misogyny across Global Media

    by Deb Aikat, Becky Beamer, Bernadette Bowen, Sana Fatima, Adelina Mbinjama-Gamatham, Shreenita Ghosh, Kruthika Kamath, Khanyile Mlotshwa, Nikhil Moro, Joseph Nyanoti, Thabo Ramphobole0, Sonali Srivastav1, Maria B. Marron3, Masudul Karim Biswas4, Lori F. Brost5, Chloé S. Georas6, K. M. Baharul Islam7, Muthoni E. King'ori8, Nancy Laura Morkel9, Ali Kumael Rizvi0, Wajiha Raza Rizvi1, Cemile Tokgöz Sahoglu2, Tamanna M. Shah3 ...
    Series series Communicating Gender
    Misogyny across Global Media argues that, although women’s experiences under misogyny are by no means universal, patriarchal social and institutional systems facilitate gender-based hostility across the globe. Contributors demonstrate how systemic misogyny and power inequities are at the root of women’s suffering at the hands of misogyny, with consequences ranging from sexual harassment to rape ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Agendamelding

    News, Social Media, Audiences, and Civic Community

    by Carolyn Bronstein, David Perlmutter, Paula M. Poindexter, Richard Waters, Donald L. Shaw, Milad Minooie, Deb Aikat, Chris J. Vargo ...
    Series Book 3 - AEJMC - Peter Lang Scholarsourcing Series
    Agendamelding: News, Social Media, Audiences, and Civic Community builds on the premise that people construct civic community from the information that they seek—as well as the information that seeks them—to trace the processes by which we mix, or meld, agendas from various sources into a coherent picture of the civic community in which we live. Using the presidential elections of 2008, 2012, and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Political Turbulence

    How Social Media Shape Collective Action

    by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, Taha Yasseri ...
    How social media is giving rise to a chaotic new form of politicsAs people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from ... Read more

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  • Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

    Edited by Rachel M. Gisselquist ...
    Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law, and economic revitalization. What has worked, why it has worked, and what is scalable and transferable, are key questions for both development practice and research into how peace ... Read more

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  • Interview Research in Political Science

    Edited by Maria Elayna Mosley ...
    Interviews are a frequent and important part of empirical research in political science, but graduate programs rarely offer discipline-specific training in selecting interviewees, conducting interviews, and using the data thus collected. Interview Research in Political Science addresses this vital need, offering hard-won advice for both graduate students and faculty members. The contributors to ... Read more

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  • Multigrade Teaching In Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons From Uganda, Senegal, And The Gambia

    by Mulkeen Aidan; Higgins Cathal ...
    In Africa, with the expansion of coverage of primary education in recent decades, many of the remaining out-of-school children are in hard to reach areas, with low population density and poor transport. Providing access to education is challenging in such contexts, as the population in any village is often too small to support a conventional primary school. One of the answers is the use of ... Read more

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  • Democracy's Double-Edged Sword

    How Internet Use Changes Citizens' Views of Their Government

    by Catie Snow Bailard ...
    "Playing into the hands of neither the cyber-optimists nor the cyber-pessimists . . . this book makes a major contribution to our understanding." —Talia Stroud, author of Niche News: The Politics of News ChoiceThe beauty of democracy is not only that citizens can vote a candidate into office but that they can also vote one out. As digital media has grown omnipresent, it becomes more important for ... Read more

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  • West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

    Edited by Mora L. McLean ...
    Series series Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
    This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the ... Read more

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  • The Internet and National Elections

    A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning

    Edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, Steven M. Schneider ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Political Communication
    This volume provides a comparative analysis of the use of the World Wide Web in countries around the world for political campaign purposes.Drawing upon a common conceptual framework - the ‘Web sphere,’ and a shared methodological approach called Web feature analysis - in order to examine how the Internet is used by a variety of political actors during periods of electoral activity. Research teams ... Read more

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  • Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa Diagnostic Tool

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions (FAO, 2015). When embedded within a broader rural development framework, stronger coherence ... Read more

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  • Controlling the Message

    New Media in American Political Campaigns

    Edited by Victoria A. Farrar-Myers, Justin S. Vaughn ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016From the presidential race to the battle for the office of New York City mayor, American political candidates’ approach to new media strategy is increasingly what makes or breaks their campaign. Targeted outreach on Facebook and Twitter, placement of a well-timed viral ad, and the ability to roll with the memes, flame wars, and downvotes that might spring ... Read more

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