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Priming The Printing Press: The Growing Print Media In Bhutan, Philippa Wood
Priming The Printing Press: The Growing Print Media In Bhutan, Philippa Wood
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
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Diarios Bajo Democracia: La Prensa Escrita En Chile, Hoy En Día, Jake Pearson
Diarios Bajo Democracia: La Prensa Escrita En Chile, Hoy En Día, Jake Pearson
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This investigation is focused on the written, printed press in Chile. The basic thesis question is this: how can it be that under democracy, there is such an anti-democratic printed press? Since Pinochet’s defeat by the ‘No’ vote in 1988 and the restoration of democracy, leftist, independent, critical publications have not been able to survive. The Chilean governments under La Concertación have been blatantly preferential, giving around 70% of $500 million dollars in state sponsored ads—each year—to two main printing companies and the papers they own: Edwards group and Copesa. The lack of a diverse printed press has obviously harmful …
Radio Sawa In Jordan: Different Perceptions, Together?, Michael Turner
Radio Sawa In Jordan: Different Perceptions, Together?, Michael Turner
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This study attempted to take the issue of Radio Sawa - a United Sates Congress funded endeavor that has enjoyed significant recent popularity in much of the Middle East - and expound upon issues of its perceived motivations, intentions, attractiveness, credibility and effectiveness in relation to the Jordanian public, primarily the younger generation that constitutes the station's target audience.
An Exploration Of Language Dominance, Michael Bishop
An Exploration Of Language Dominance, Michael Bishop
MA TESOL Collection
When two or more cultural groups make contact and interact over a period of time, language dominance often occurs. In this situation, one dominates the others both culturally and linguistically. This in turn, causes the weaker to start using the language of the more powerful until eventually it shifts its language and then its culture over to that of the more dominant group. Eventually its own language and culture dies. Language dominance, language shift and language death are social and linguistic phenomena that has been occurring for thousands of years. Historically, there were two great waves of language dominance, and …