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Challenges And Strategies Of Mobile Advertising In India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Nov 2010

Challenges And Strategies Of Mobile Advertising In India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Advertising is paid communication through a medium in which the sponsor is identified and the message is controlled. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages, including: television, radio, movies, magazines, newspapers, the Internet and today’s growing mobile advertising. Advertisements can also be seen on the seats of grocery carts, on the walls of an airport walkway, on the sides of buses, heard in telephone hold messages and instore PA systems but get paid for reading SMS on our mobile phones .It is the new way of marketing strategy for reaching subscribers. Mobile advertising is the business of encouraging …


Changing Mutual Perception Of Television News Viewers And Program Makers In India- A Case Study Of Cnn-Ibn And Its Unique Initiative Of Citizen Journalism, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Nov 2010

Changing Mutual Perception Of Television News Viewers And Program Makers In India- A Case Study Of Cnn-Ibn And Its Unique Initiative Of Citizen Journalism, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

The Indian television system is one of the most extensive systems in the world. Terrestrial broadcasting, which has been the sole preserve of the government, provides television coverage to over 90% of India's 900 million people. By the end of 1996 nearly 50 million households had television sets. International satellite broadcasting, introduced in 1991, has swept across the country because of the rapid proliferation of small scale cable systems. By the end of 1996, Indians could view dozens of foreign and local channels and the competition for audiences and advertising revenues was one of the hottest in the world. In …


Community Radio:History,Growth,Challenges And Current Status Of It With Special Reference To India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Oct 2010

Community Radio:History,Growth,Challenges And Current Status Of It With Special Reference To India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting content that is popular to a local audience but which may often be overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Modern-day community radio stations often serve their listeners by offering a variety of content that is not necessarily provided by the larger commercial radio stations. Community radio outlets may carry news and information programming geared toward the local area, particularly immigrant or minority groups that are poorly served by other major media outlets. Philosophically two distinct approaches to community radio can be discerned, …


Gems From Iwu’S History, Meg Miner Oct 2010

Gems From Iwu’S History, Meg Miner

Meg Miner

This presentation was made at the request of the Alumni Office, Illinois Wesleyan University.


Panellist Roundtable Discussion On A. Philip Randolph, Cynthia Taylor Oct 2010

Panellist Roundtable Discussion On A. Philip Randolph, Cynthia Taylor

Cynthia Taylor

No abstract available


American Urban History: A Living Canon. Or Is Anyone Listening?, Steven Corey Sep 2010

American Urban History: A Living Canon. Or Is Anyone Listening?, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

No abstract provided.


The Power Of Choice: Reflections On Economic Ability, Status, And Ethnicity Of A Free Black Family In Northwestern New Jersey, Megan E. Springate, Amy K. Raes Sep 2010

The Power Of Choice: Reflections On Economic Ability, Status, And Ethnicity Of A Free Black Family In Northwestern New Jersey, Megan E. Springate, Amy K. Raes

Megan E. Springate

Foodways reflect, among other things, ethnicity, status, and consumer choice. Results of excavations conducted within a free black household in an historically white town in northwestern New Jersey explore these issues. Four generations of the Mann family owned and occupied a small house in Sussex Borough from 1862-1909. Analysis of the archaeological resources indicates a dramatic shift in the family’s social status in the late nineteenth century. Faunal remains, tablewares, and vessels associated with food preparation are compared with other contemporary free black house sites in the Mid-Atlantic. This assemblage is found to vary from models generally proposed for free …


"Trapper And Mountain Man" Participant/Presenter At Annual “The Museum Comes To Life” Event, Barton Barbour Sep 2010

"Trapper And Mountain Man" Participant/Presenter At Annual “The Museum Comes To Life” Event, Barton Barbour

Barton H. Barbour

No abstract provided.


History Of Communication And Its Application In Multicultaral,Multilingual Social System In India Across Ages, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Sep 2010

History Of Communication And Its Application In Multicultaral,Multilingual Social System In India Across Ages, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

The history of communication dates back to the earliest signs of cavemen.Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange, to full conversations and mass communication. Human communication was revolutionized with speech perhaps 200,000 years ago, Symbols were developed about 30,000 years ago and writing about 7,000. On a much shorter scale, there have been major developments in the field of telecommunication in the past few centuries.


Raleigh, Christy Allen, Rebecca Hyman Jul 2010

Raleigh, Christy Allen, Rebecca Hyman

Christy Allen

No abstract provided.


Religious Responses To The Second World War, Jill Gill May 2010

Religious Responses To The Second World War, Jill Gill

Jill K. Gill

No abstract provided.


Polish Immigrants And Chicago's Progressive Parks: Creating Public Space In The City, Dominic Pacyga May 2010

Polish Immigrants And Chicago's Progressive Parks: Creating Public Space In The City, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

No abstract provided.


The Work And Words Of Early Women At Iwu, Meg Miner Apr 2010

The Work And Words Of Early Women At Iwu, Meg Miner

Meg Miner

This presentation draws on facts from well-known IWU history sources and brings to light other facets of these same incidents through the writings and activities of late-19th and early-20th Century IWU women .


Banking On Brownfields, Landfills, And History: Toxic Waste And Urban Renewal In Worcester, Massachusetts, 1986-Present, Steven Corey Mar 2010

Banking On Brownfields, Landfills, And History: Toxic Waste And Urban Renewal In Worcester, Massachusetts, 1986-Present, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

No abstract provided.


Teaching Urban Studies, Steven Corey Mar 2010

Teaching Urban Studies, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

No abstract provided.


Rummaging Through Worcester’S Industrial Ruins: Active Learning And Environmental History, Steven Corey Feb 2010

Rummaging Through Worcester’S Industrial Ruins: Active Learning And Environmental History, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

No abstract provided.


The Choctaw, John Bowes Dec 2009

The Choctaw, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

1699, an expedition of Frenchmen encountered American Indians in the lower Mississippi Valley who referred to themselves as Choctaw. As the settlers expanded throughout America, the Choctaw developed a relationship with and adapted to the demands of these newfound neighbors. The Choctaw examines the history of these Native Americans, beginning with the Choctaw Confederacy, and provides insights into how the Choctaw survived as individuals and sovereign tribes in the aftermath of the removal policy of the 19th century. Today, three federally recognized tribes of Choctaw have a combined membership of nearly 200,000. This new title discusses the struggles and successes …


Hancock's War: Conflict On The Southern Plains, John Bowes Dec 2009

Hancock's War: Conflict On The Southern Plains, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

A review of the book "Hancock's War: Conflict on the Southern Plains," by William Y. Chalfant.


Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies In The Black Hawk War, John Bowes Dec 2009

Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies In The Black Hawk War, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

The Black Hawk War has received an inordinate amount of attention over the years, most recently in Black Hawk: The battle for the Heart of America, by Kerry A. Trask (2006) and The Black Hawk War of 1832, by Patrick J. Jung (2007). Yet not until Uncommon Defense by John W. Hall has anyone closely examined the decisions made by the Menominees, Dakotas, Ho Chunks, and Potawatomis who allied with the forces of the United States in that conflict. In what is an accessible an enlightening study, Hall asserts that those Indian allies “were the true architects of an alliance …


To Whom God Has Spoken: American Women In Word And Spirit, 1700-The Present, Margaret Lowe Dec 2009

To Whom God Has Spoken: American Women In Word And Spirit, 1700-The Present, Margaret Lowe

Margaret Lowe

Although scholars have begun to examine American women's religious history, few published collections of their actual words and creative expressions exist. The proposed volume, an edited, thematic collection of primary source documents will fill this gap. The book will demonstrate the contexts and textures of American women's spiritual authority in the past, including those who claimed to speak for "God" or another deity. Drawing on my expertise in gender history and well-honed archival skills, my project will identify, edit and annotate the most illuminating and representative among American women's diverse religious voices. A FLRG will provide start-up time for the …


The Battle Over The Flag: Protest, Community Opposition, And Silence In The Mennonite Colleges In Kansas During The Vietnam War, Robin Deich Ottoson Dec 2009

The Battle Over The Flag: Protest, Community Opposition, And Silence In The Mennonite Colleges In Kansas During The Vietnam War, Robin Deich Ottoson

Robin Deich Ottoson

No abstract provided.


Great Lakes Indian Accommodation And Resistance During The Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900, John Bowes Dec 2009

Great Lakes Indian Accommodation And Resistance During The Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

In his latest book, Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance, Edmund Jefferson Danziger presents a sound and straightforward argument. Through a series of chapters that cover reservation life, allotment, education policy, and missionary activity, the message is clear: American Indian residents of the Great Lakes region in the second half of the nineteenth century were active agents in their lives, not passive victims of federal government policies or settler invasions. It is an argument that noticeably reflects the critical developments of scholarship over the past several decades. And while some might debate the usefulness of such phrasing as accommodation versus …


Trail Of Tears: Removal In The South, John Bowes Dec 2009

Trail Of Tears: Removal In The South, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

When the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson proposed that eastern Indian tribes could be moved west to this new expanse of land. Jefferson's recommendation was in direct response to the demand by white settlers for more land, especially in the southeastern portion of the United States. As a result, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which set in motion the relocation of thousands of eastern Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River. Among the primary tribes targeted for this large-scale removal was the Cherokee. Despite proving its sovereign status …


Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, And Diplomats In The Founding Of America, John Bowes Dec 2009

Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, And Diplomats In The Founding Of America, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

The article reviews the book "Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America," by Leonard J. Sadosky.


Movable Pillars: Organizing Dance 1956-1978, Katja Kolcio Dec 2009

Movable Pillars: Organizing Dance 1956-1978, Katja Kolcio

Katja Kolcio Ph.D.

Movable Pillars traces the development of dance as scholarly inquiry over the course of the 20th century, and describes the social-political factors that facilitated a surge of interest in dance research in the period following World War II. This surge was reflected in the emergence of six key dance organizations: the American Dance Guild, the Congress on Research in Dance, the American Dance Therapy Association, the American College Dance Festival Association, the Dance Critics Association, and the Society of Dance History Scholars. Kolcio argues that their founding between the years 1956 and 1978 marked a new period of collective action …


Friendship Of My Soul. Selected Letters By Elizabeth Ann Seton 1803-1809, Betty Ann Mcneil Dec 2009

Friendship Of My Soul. Selected Letters By Elizabeth Ann Seton 1803-1809, Betty Ann Mcneil

Betty Ann McNeil, D.C.

            Friendship of My Soul presents selected letters of Elizabeth Ann
Bayley Seton during a period which became pivotal for her vocation in
life and journey of faith. Elizabeth Seton writes to key correspondents
on matters of family, faith, and friendship. The women with whom she
corresponded included a sister-in-law, the wife of her husband’s business
associate, and a life-long friend. Each woman shared her heart and soul with
the other as they mutually supported one another during ebb and flow of
the tides of their lives.

 


A Brief History Of The American Fish Culture Company 1877-1997., Michael A. Rice Dec 2009

A Brief History Of The American Fish Culture Company 1877-1997., Michael A. Rice

Michael A Rice

The American Fish Culture Company operated for nearly 120 years from 1877-1997 in Carolina, Rhode Island growing three species of trout under the under the direction of several generations of the Hazard family of Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The company was one of the first trout producers in the United States, and was considered the largest fish farm in the country by the early 1920s. Major innovations of the company included early adoption of pelleted feeds, and the introduction of photoperiod manipulation to spawn fish out of season. The company ultimately failed due to intense competition from larger producers in …


Gay And Lesbian Elders: History, Law, And Identity Politics In The United States, Nancy J. Knauer Dec 2009

Gay And Lesbian Elders: History, Law, And Identity Politics In The United States, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

The approximately two million gay and lesbian elders in the United States are an underserved and understudied population. At a time when gay men and lesbians enjoy an unprecedented degree of social acceptance and legal protection, many elders face the daily challenges of aging isolated from family, detached from the larger gay and lesbian community, and ignored by mainstream aging initiatives. Drawing on materials from law, history, and social theory, this book integrates practical proposals for reform with larger issues of sexuality and identity. Beginning with a summary of existing demographic data and offering a historical overview of pre-Stonewall views …


“Mair José Benardete,” In Norman Stillman, Ed., Encyclopedia Of Jews In The Islamic World 403-404., Aviva Ben-Ur Dec 2009

“Mair José Benardete,” In Norman Stillman, Ed., Encyclopedia Of Jews In The Islamic World 403-404., Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur

A biography of Hispanist Mair José Benardete.


Schooling, Family, And The Ethnic Working Class Before World War Ii, Ivan Greenberg Dec 2009

Schooling, Family, And The Ethnic Working Class Before World War Ii, Ivan Greenberg

Ivan Greenberg

No abstract provided.