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Fantastic Bodies: Girls, Cosmetic Surgeries, And Cartesian, Meenakshi Durham Jul 2011

Fantastic Bodies: Girls, Cosmetic Surgeries, And Cartesian, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.


Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town”: The New York Times’, Meenakshi Durham Jul 2011

Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town”: The New York Times’, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.


Participatory Journalism In The East And The West: A Comparative Study Of The Performance Of Online News Media, Alice Lee Jun 2011

Participatory Journalism In The East And The West: A Comparative Study Of The Performance Of Online News Media, Alice Lee

Dr. LEE, Alice

When the Internet moves from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, online news media has a new face. This study puts forward a concept of “participatory open media code” to depict the new format of online news media in the new participatory media environment. In total 15 news sites in western countries and eastern countries were examined. The purpose of the study is to compare the performance of these sites and explore how participatory journalism has been practiced in different countries. In terms of overall performance, research results show that the US online news sites rank number one and the UK …


Accessing, Using, Writing For, Submittng To, Editing, And Reviewing For An Online Journal For Polytechnic Universities, Li Chen Jun 2011

Accessing, Using, Writing For, Submittng To, Editing, And Reviewing For An Online Journal For Polytechnic Universities, Li Chen

Li Chen

No abstract provided.


Library As A Research Source, James Pokrywczynski May 2011

Library As A Research Source, James Pokrywczynski

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.


New Media Environment, Net Generation And Participatory Media Literacy Education, Alice Lee Apr 2011

New Media Environment, Net Generation And Participatory Media Literacy Education, Alice Lee

Dr. LEE, Alice

In Chinese: 新媒體環境、網絡世代與「參與式媒介素養教育。「浙江省媒介素養教育研究會學術會議」論文。二零一一年五月十四日,中國杭州。


Repetition Of Ads Helps Ncaa Networks, James Pokrywczynski Apr 2011

Repetition Of Ads Helps Ncaa Networks, James Pokrywczynski

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.


Body Matters, Meenakshi Durham Feb 2011

Body Matters, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

An essay is presented on genderscapes, the physical conditions of women's lives that challenge the notion of a virtual disembodied self in cyberspace as people focus on social networking, tweeting and texting. Hidden beneath cyberscapes are what the author terms genderscapes as more women are reportedly becoming victims of injustice including domestic violence, and women's bodies experiencing real pain. The author discusses materiality in terms of economics, social power and opportunity which lead to corporeality.


New Media For A New China, James Scotton Feb 2011

New Media For A New China, James Scotton

James Scotton

No abstract provided.


Body Matters, Meenakshi Durham Feb 2011

Body Matters, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

An essay is presented on genderscapes, the physical conditions of women's lives that challenge the notion of a virtual disembodied self in cyberspace as people focus on social networking, tweeting and texting. Hidden beneath cyberscapes are what the author terms genderscapes as more women are reportedly becoming victims of injustice including domestic violence, and women's bodies experiencing real pain. The author discusses materiality in terms of economics, social power and opportunity which lead to corporeality.


Internet Pornography: Another Step Towards Proletarianization, Marcus Breen Dec 2010

Internet Pornography: Another Step Towards Proletarianization, Marcus Breen

Marcus Breen

Within the current period of shifting international trade, sexuality has been “globalized” in new ways. Rather than working with the generalization that characterizes globalization in line with the somewhat predictable binaries of the WTO/US market opening hegemonic model versus the anti-hegemonic opponents of this same capitalist enterprise, sex as presented in pornography on the World Wide Web offers a counterintuitive way of thinking about globalization. Internet pornography presents a system of unintended consequences. That is, it offers a site where the full investigations of human ambition, desire and degradation are represented and played out, offering the voiceless and the powerless …


Media And Cultural Studies - Keyworks, Meenakshi Durham, Douglas Kellner Dec 2010

Media And Cultural Studies - Keyworks, Meenakshi Durham, Douglas Kellner

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

MA.: Blackwell Inc. [First edition published in 2001.] A revised edition was published in 2006. The new edition is a major revision, with new sections added on social networking and globalization and social movements, several new essays, and a completely rewritten introduction and section overviews.


The World News Prism, James Scotton, William Hachten Dec 2010

The World News Prism, James Scotton, William Hachten

James Scotton

No abstract provided.


Chicago White Sox, James Pokrywczynski Dec 2010

Chicago White Sox, James Pokrywczynski

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.


Event Hospitality, James Pokrywczynski Dec 2010

Event Hospitality, James Pokrywczynski

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.


Hong Kong’S Leftist Media 1950-1970, Alice Lee Dec 2010

Hong Kong’S Leftist Media 1950-1970, Alice Lee

Dr. LEE, Alice

No abstract provided.


Pluralism And The Urban Context: How And When Does Community Environment Matter?, Leo Jeffres, Edward Horowitz, Cheryl Bracken, Sukki Yoon, Gouwei Jian Dec 2010

Pluralism And The Urban Context: How And When Does Community Environment Matter?, Leo Jeffres, Edward Horowitz, Cheryl Bracken, Sukki Yoon, Gouwei Jian

Cheryl C Bracken

No abstract provided.


Chicago Bulls, James Pokrywczynski Dec 2010

Chicago Bulls, James Pokrywczynski

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.


Tax The Rich, Michael I. Niman Ph.D. Dec 2010

Tax The Rich, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

No abstract provided.