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The Effects Of Mass Consumption On American Society, Jon Foster
The Effects Of Mass Consumption On American Society, Jon Foster
Jon Foster
For a generation that doesn’t relate to the ‘eighties’, fondly remembers the ‘nineties’, and came of age in the two thousands, we often think of the sixties with a bit of nostalgia; reminiscing about Woodstock, and hippies, the nuclear family or maybe the Beatles. Unfortunately, much of this understanding is isolated within a bubble; wherein the sincere socioeconomic issues of the time, often become detached from their idealistic counterpart. To clarify, the causal relations that gave rise to what my generation remembers and typifies as the ‘sixties’, becomes distorted within the context of the rapidly changing times.
Higher Education And The Arts And Humanities In A Consumer Society, Eric Bain-Selbo
Higher Education And The Arts And Humanities In A Consumer Society, Eric Bain-Selbo
Eric Bain-Selbo
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The Relationship Between Mass Media And Classroom Discourse, Betsy R. Rymes
The Relationship Between Mass Media And Classroom Discourse, Betsy R. Rymes
Betsy Rymes
In this paper, I illustrate the cyclical proliferation of mass-mediated communicative repertoires through small-scale mechanisms of classroom discourse. I draw on examples of current advertising, classroom discourse data from diverse studies, my own study of an elementary ESL group’s interaction, and mass mediated representations of classroom discourse on websites and TV shows about school to illustrate the relationship between mass media and classroom discourse. I analyze how mass-mediated metadiscourse creates new participation frameworks in classrooms that propel small-scale changes in classroom discourse and potentially facilitate the integration of new voices. Finally I discuss the implications of this analysis for how …
Being Consumed: Economics And Christian Desire, William Cavanaugh
Being Consumed: Economics And Christian Desire, William Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh
Are Christians for or against the free market? Should we not think of ourselves as consumers? Are we for or against globalization? How to we live in a world of scare resources? William Cavanaugh brings us a theological view and practice of everyday economic life with the use of Christian resources. He argues that we should not take the free market, consumer culture, globalization, and scarcity as givens, but change the terms of debate in each case. His consideration of the free market is not a question of for or against, but when exactly a market is truly free. He …
Consuming Asia, Consuming Japan: The New Neonationalist Revisionism In Japan, Aaron Gerow
Consuming Asia, Consuming Japan: The New Neonationalist Revisionism In Japan, Aaron Gerow
Aaron Gerow