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Spartan Daily August 25, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 135, Issue 1

The Legacy, August 25, 2010, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

Kekerasan Simbolik Di Media Massa, Roekhan Roekhan

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

The research aims at reviewing the symbolic violence in mass media. The aspect of symbolic violence to be reviewed includes (a) the forms, (b) strategies, and (c) effects of symbolic violence to the reader. The research uses critical discourse analysis design developed by Fairclough. The result of data analyses found the realization of symbolic violence in the news text, in form of (a) blurred meaning, (b) bias logics, and (c) bias value. The blurred meaning, bias logics, and bias value as form of bias information in news text. The strategies of symbolic violence found in this research are (a) the …

Communiqué, August 23, 2010, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

Central Florida Future, Volume 42 No. 50, August 23, 2010

Central Florida Future

Student win Target goodies; Halls of Medicine; High tech med school; New frat starting colony phase; Man found dead in car at B2 lot near Millican Hall; Libra welcomes freshman.

The Use Of Governance To Identify Cyber Threats Through Social Media, David M. Cook

International Cyber Resilience conference

Identifying which website, Facebook page or Linked-in connection could lead to an engagement with a terrorist group is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people. Differentiation of one website from another in terms of cyber threat is a complex problem in terms of separating those that encourage and sponsor radicalization and those that do not. These claims usually exist without evidence, and almost always without the opportunity to know where social justice and human-rights support ends, and reaction, dissidence and subversion begins. By overlaying the new modes of governance (NMG) framework against sites and connections that may be subject to ongoing …

Group-Based Social Network Characterisation Of Hidden Terrorist Networks, Belinda A. Chiera

International Cyber Resilience conference

Hidden networks arise in high-dimensional network structures when the hidden network members camouflage their existence by appearing randomly connected to the larger network structure, but in reality ensure they remain in persistent contact with one another over time. This paper takes a first step towards determining how to locate such hidden networks through the novel use of group-based social network metrics to characterise the features of hidden networks. Micro, meso and macro-level network analyses of the September 11 network and a selection of popular simulated terrorist network structures will show that the simulated networks are highly visible whereas the hidden …

Detecting Money Laundering And Terrorism Financing Activity In Second Life And World Of Warcraft, Angela S M Irwin, Jill Slay

International Cyber Resilience conference

In recent years there has been much debate about the risks posed by virtual environments. Concern is growing about the ease in which virtual worlds and virtual reality role-playing games such as Second Life and World of Warcraft can be used for economic crimes such as financially motivated cybercrime, money laundering and terrorism financing. Currently, virtual environments are not subject to the strict financial controls and reporting requirements of the real world, therefore, they offer an excellent opportunity for criminals and terrorism financers to carry out their illegal activities unhindered and with impunity. This paper demonstrates the need for suitable …

The Impact Of Broadcast Localism On Delaware Valley News And Talk Radio, Brian Nicholas

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to the examine the influence of Broadcast Localism on news/talk radio in the Delaware Valley to determine how it might impact the future of the medium as a viable public relations tool. A non-scientific snowball survey of 19 Delaware Valley public relations professionals was used to forecast the likely impact of localism on radio. In addition, in-depth interviews with Delaware Valley radio executives were conducted to learn what impact localism might have on the radio industry. This research collected and quantified primary data from public relations professionals using surveymonkey.com. Interview responses were collected as …

Intercultural Communication: Its Importance To Various Career Fields And Perspective By Various Authors, Priscilla N. Gitimu

Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development

Globalization has made intercultural communication inevitable. Communicating with other cultures characterizes today’s business, classroom, and community. Technology especially the internet has increased the probability that whatever is documented online will be read by someone from another culture. Intercultural communication is of importance in any career field thus the art of knowing how to communicate with other cultures should be a work place skill that is emphasized. This is a conceptual paper whose purpose is two fold. First the paper gives a synopsis of the importance of efficient and competent intercultural communication in various career fields; namely, education, business, medicine and …

In Appreciation Of The Kind Of Rhetoric We Learn In School: An Institutional Perspective On The Rhetorical Situation And On Education, Kathleen F. Mcconnell

Faculty Publications

Theoretical discussion of the rhetorical situation has been dedicated largely to questions of its ontology and of how it is constituted. Where this ontological orientation has inclined theorists to treat the concept as a theoretical premise, an institutional orientation would instead frame constructivist accounts of the rhetorical situation as a political-pedagogical commitment and treat the ethical obligations that arise from any given situation as bound to specific institutional forms. From an institutional perspective, the rhetorical situation is to conscience as the institution of school is to education. The distinction of both rhetorical situations and schools lies not in their contrivedness …

Central Florida Future, Volume 42 No. 49, August 16, 2010

Central Florida Future

UCF accounting student killed; Come on down!; UCF ID changes to start Monday; New sign still raising questions of its worth; Move nearing for UCF PD.

Unfiltered?: A Content Analysis Of Pro Athletes' "Twitter" Use., Justin A. Shockley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As new media grow, so do the users who navigate the virtual world. People and organizations are forced to adapt in order to stay relevant in a technologically driven marketplace. The sports world has been changed drastically because of new media. Athletes no longer communicate with the general public solely through traditional media outlets such as newspapers. Social networking sites such as Twitterallow athletes to directly communicate with mass audiences. This direct communication raises several questions with regard to dynamics of communication and uses of Internet portals. A content analysis examined professional athletes' "Twitter" posts to help …

The Anonymous Poster: How To Protect Internet Users’ Privacy And Prevent Abuse, Scott Ness

Duke Law & Technology Review

The threat of anonymous Internet posting to individual privacy has been met with congressional and judicial indecisiveness. Part of the problem stems from the inherent conflict between punishing those who disrespect one's privacy by placing a burden on the individual websites and continuing to support the Internet's development. Additionally, assigning traditional tort liability is problematic as the defendant enjoys an expectation of privacy as well, creating difficulty in securing the necessary information to proceed with legal action. One solution to resolving invasion of privacy disputes involves a uniform identification verification program that ensures user confidentiality while promoting accountability for malicious …

Multicultural Competence: Exploring And Monitoring Its Development, Alvino Fantini Phd, Professor Emeritus

Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium

Educators engaged in international, intercultural educational programs are responsible for maximizing the benefits of these experiences for participants. This requires a clear focus on the development of multicultural (or intercultural) competencies (MCC) in participants if students are to deal effectively and appropriately across cultures.

This session explores the development and assessment of MCC abilities. It is based on findings from an international research effort that examined a comprehensive construct of MCC, developed a tool for its assessment, and identified intercultural outcomes in participants as well as their hosts engaged in an intercultural exchange.

The session also explores the nature of …

New Lines Of Inquiry: Arts-Based Research For Bridging Cultures, Sarah Brock Ma, Academic Director

Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium

This paper explores the implications for arts-based research (ABR) methods in fostering cross-cultural dialogue in international study. It reviews the academic arguments for and against the use of arts-based methodologies in qualitative research where more traditional, methodologies in the social sciences are combined with creative inquiry – narrative, poetic, dance, and visual forms of inquiry, for example – as well as the technical challenges and benefits associated with drawing on the humanities and arts as primary modes of inquiry; it explores the relevance and potential for ABR within the broader context of the study and use of the arts and …

Where Do We Go From Here: The Intersection Of Culture, Communication, And Technology, Mokhtar Bouba Ma, Med, Instructional Technologist, Sora Friedman Phd, Associate Professor And Degree Chair

Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium

SIT has long been involved with the nexus between culture and communications. Historically, this has caused us to ask how we can “properly” and “effectively” navigate in cultures that are foreign to us. More recently, however, communication platforms are changing and therefore, we see a rising need for rethinking some of the cross cultural models in use. This session will thus explore the changing nexus between cultures, communication, and technology.

Our context will consider questions such as how students’ experiences are different because of increased use of technology, how social media affects cross cultural experiences, and the degree to which …

Business Community Outreach: Exploration Of A New Service Role, Patrick Griffis, Sidney Lowe

Library Faculty Presentations

Benefits of Business Outreach:

- Promotes value of library in a community
- Increases awareness of library services in a community
- Provides opportunities for external fundraising
- Connects library to other community agencies
- Increases library awareness of community services
- Provides opportunities for programming activities

Demand-Side Programs To Stimulate Adoption Of Broadband: What Works?, James Prieger, Janice A. Hauge

School of Public Policy Working Papers

We examine the evidence available on the efficacy of demand-side programs intended to stimulate broadband adoption. We review studies that attempt to measure results. Our suggestions for future program evaluations are to include cost-benefit analysis as a standard part of program review and to make clear that the purpose of evaluation is to assess progress made toward the ultimate policy goals rather than the program’s proximate implementation goals. Appropriate data must be collected to draw conclusions, and appropriate statistical methods must be used to determine the causal impacts of a program. This has rarely been done to date.

Avatar! (Presented In 3d!), Julie Rorabaugh

SIDLIT Conference

Learn how to make a “Virtual" YOU! During this session, you will create one or more “avatars” (a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet) that you can use to represent your persona in a Learning Management System or a social networking site. No funny glasses needed, but bring your imagination. (Note: the presenter is three-dimensional, hence the title!)

Communiqué, August 3, 2010, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

Relationship Between The Readership Of Online Newspapers And Print Newspapers: A Public Good Perspective [Slides], Louisa Ha, Xiaoqun Zhang, Gi Woong Yun, Kisung Yoon

School of Media and Communication Faculty Publications

Slides from presentation given at Media Management and Economics Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Denver, Co., August 3-6 2010 by Louisa Ha, Xiaoqun Zhang, Gi Woong Yun, and Kisung Yoon.

The Beat: August 2010, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "CentraCare trauma centers meet patients’ critical needs"
• Helicopters transport patients, save lives
• CentraCare volunteers give the gift of time
• St. Cloud Hospital among America’s best for urology
• Peitso part of national health care home study
• Heart Center cardiologists provide care in Brainerd
• Latest robotic system enhances surgical capabilities
• Foundation grants improve health care

Patient Care News: August 2010, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Gorecki House Referral Information

Organ/Tissue/Eye Donation Update

Updating Your EduTrack Record

Reportable Adverse Health Events

Staffing/Scheduling Reminders

Slips, Trips and Falls

Research Article: Nursing Environment

Upcoming Educational & Professional Programs

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: August 2010, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Health Care Matters: Tough Times
• The case for service: Patient feedback
• Patient satisfaction scorecard
• Peitso part of national health care home study
• Clinic sites recognized for quality care
• Recognition for years of service
• Sex, brain, body: Making the connection
• Kudos!
• Loop the Plaza 2010
• CentraCare Wellness site has a new look!
• Robotic system enhances surgical capabilities
  
  

A Phan On Phish: Live Improvised Music In Five Performative Commitments, Jnan A. Blau

Communication Studies

Explored as a series of five interrelated performative commitments, the author takes seriously the notion that live musical performance, especially when it is pervaded by an improvisational ethos, can be quite powerful and well worth close examination. In particular, the band Phish, with its devout subcultural following of “phans,” is mined as a rich site for critical, theoretical, and descriptive fodder. The author writes as both a phan and a scholar, drawing from his own experiences seeing Phish live on many occasions as well as from an interdisciplinary body of scholarly literature. The essay provides insight not only into the …

Presidential Communication To Children: An Analysis Of Persuasive Strategies In Presidential Speeches, Patricia Joyce Grice

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis explores the content of presidential communication to children, specifically the only three presidential speeches that have been designed for children. These three speeches are President Barack Obama's speech to children in 2009, George H.W. Bush's speech to children in 1991, and Ronald Reagan's speech to children in 1988. Through content analysis this thesis was designed to determine whether persuasive strategies were used in these messages to children, and if persuasive strategies were present, which ones were used. Through qualitative analysis conducting a focus group discussion with children exposed to one of the presidential speeches, this thesis also explored …

Dating Preferences Among African-American Female College Students: Attitudes About Appearance, Trust, And Interracial Relationships, Christopher Mcconnell Green

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In-depth interviews were conducted with African-American female college students ranging from freshmen to graduate level. Students were asked about their dating preferences for African-American men. The study investigated how physical appearance, trust, and attitudes about interracial relationships affected their dating selection. Symbolic interactionism and dramatugry were the theories used within this study. This study found evidence that supports existing literature on attitudes of distrust among African-American females toward African-American males, with lying, physical aggression, and cheating as top reasons. Distrust based on the females' viewpoints began with listening to warnings from their mothers about men's behavior. This study, however, found …

Smu President Howard Hunter Passes The Baton To President-Designate Arnoud De Meyer, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases and News

No abstract provided.

Mr Yong Pung How Appointed New Chancellor Of Smu, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases and News

No abstract provided.