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  • The Press and Democratic Backsliding

    How Journalism Has Failed the Public and How It Can Revive Democracy

    by Bethany Albertson, Daryl A. Carter, Daniela Grassau, Katherine Haenschen, Jamie C. Higdon, Andrea Hudson, Sharon Jarvis, Patrick R. Johnson, Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye0, Kyser Lough1, Lindsey Meeks2, Andrew Mendelson3, Paul A. Obi4, Constanza Ortega-Gunckel5, Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard6, Mildred F. Perreault7, Valentina Proust8, Joshua M. Scacco9, Anita Varma0, Aaron S. Veenstra1, Joseph Yoo3 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    This edited volume explores the democratic dangers posed by a political press that emphasizes electoral competition, strategy, entertainment, and what Jay Rosen calls “savviness”—praising candidates for being politically smart rather than being honest—in its coverage of a political landscape dominated by a looming authoritarian threat. Contributors document how the American and global political ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • New Media, Campaigning and the 2008 Facebook Election

    Edited by Thomas J. Johnson, David D. Perlmutter ...
    Some political observers dubbed the 2008 presidential campaign as 'the Facebook Election'. Barack Obama, in particular, employed social media such as blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook to run a 'grassroots-style' campaign. The Obama campaign was keenly aware that voters, particularly the young, are not simply consumers of information, but conduits of information as well. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World

    New Agendas in Communication

    Edited by Thomas J. Johnson ...
    Series series New Agendas in Communication Series
    This volume explores agenda-setting theory in light of changes in the media environment in the 21st century. In the decades since the original Chapel Hill study that launched agenda-setting research, the theory has attracted the interest of scholars worldwide.Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World features the work of a new generation of scholars. The research provided by these young scholars reflects two ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • IEO Annual Report, 2008

    by International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office ...
    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    This fifth Annual Report describes the activities of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) during the year to April 30, 2008. This period saw the completion of two evaluations, "Structural Conditionality in IMF-Supported Programs" smf "Governance of the IMF". ... Read more

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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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  • Improving Education with Emerging Technologies

    by Bouaffo Joseph Kouame ...
    The 1980s and 1990s experienced a proliferation of schools implementing Computer-Based Learning (CBL) and/or Computer-Based Training (CBT) because of today's technological growth. As Technology Education (TE) continues to receive significant attention, institutions attempt to better reach the critical goal of quality education by establishing the value that needs to be added to workers and ... Read more

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  • Doing News Framing Analysis

    Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Paul D'Angelo, Jim A. Kuypers ...
    Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames – what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites. Chapters feature framing analysts reflecting on their own empirical work in research, classroom, and public settings to address specific aspects of framing analysis. Taken ... Read more

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  • The Future of the Fifth Child

    An Overview of Global Child Protection Programs and Policy

    by Sid Gardner ...
    The premise of this book is that 400 million childrenone in five children aliveare abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that greater progress in protecting those children is both urgent and possible.The book reviews the long history of child maltreatment from prehistoric times to the present, contrasting statements about precious, innocent children with the ... Read more

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  • Empirical Legal Research

    A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators

    by Frans L. Leeuw ...
    In 1788 John Adams created a sublime ambition for all nations - 'a government of laws and not of men'. In the intervening years we have come to learn that legislation itself works through the interpretations of the many men and women who work on the inside and the outside of the law. Effective regulation thus depends not only on scrupulous legal analysis, with its appeal to precedent, conceptual ... 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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  • Track Two Diplomacy in Theory and Practice

    by Peter Jones ...
    Track Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy.Sadly, those involved in official diplomacy often have little understanding of and appreciation for the complex and nuanced role that Track Two can play, or for its ... Read more

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