Language Studies category: 15171 books
The Making of an Abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison's Path to Publishing The Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
William Lloyd Garrison’s life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer. None who have studied Garrison can ignore his editorship of The Liberator but many have not fully understood his belief in the central role of a well-edited newspaper in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
What are the key challenges facing our increasingly digitized democracy, and how might we as citizens contribute to resolving them? This book explores these questions, adopting a multi-disciplinary approach that combines work from media studies, journalism studies, and political science scholars,...
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged...
Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age
Production and Distribution of Information in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The development of technology and the hunger for information has caused a wave of change in daily life in America. Nearly every American's environment now consists of cable television, video cassette players, answering machines, fax machines, and personal computers. Schement and Curtis argue that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
During this period of rapid and significant change in journalistic practices, journalism educators are re-examining their own profession and contributing to the invention of new models and practices. This edited volume of studies by respected international scholars describes the diverse issues journalism...
by Ivan Panovic, Deborah Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
"An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and generically hybrid texts. In an accessible style, Working with Written Discourse illustrates how these texts can be analyzed employing a wide variety...
by Margarita Pérez Pulido
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Ethics Management in Libraries and Other Information Services presents professional ethics from a managerial point-of-view, explaining how to implement ethical management systems in libraries and information services and presenting the necessary tools needed to understand the practical application...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Media, Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent, cutting edge research on Europe, from social, political and cultural perspectives, equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe. The role of the media, communication policy and the question of how the media report...
From Notes to Narrative
Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in cultural...
Deviant Women
Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate...
Communicating Women's Health
Social and Cultural Norms that Influence Health Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core, it illuminates how the most basic element of communication, voice, has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to control...
Newspaper Wars
Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina. Newspaperman John McCray and his allies at the Lighthouse and Informer challenged readers to "rebel and fight"--to reject the "slavery of thought and action" and become "progressive...
Media on the Move
Global Flow and Contra-Flow
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. This comes at a time when the political, economic and technological contexts within which media organisations operate are becoming increasingly global.
The surge in transnational traffic...
by John M. Fyler
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Medieval commentaries on the origin and history of language used biblical history, from Creation to the Tower of Babel, as their starting-point, and described the progressive impairment of an originally perfect language. Biblical and classical sources raised questions for both medieval poets and commentators...