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Explains how the media have helped bring about economic, political, social, and intellectual progress.

Adopting the currently unfashionable theory that Western culture has improved over time, Perkinson argues that media of communication have played a pivotal role in helping to make things better.

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This book shows how place-based organizing and community action can solve complex problems like long-term recovery after disaster. Jack L. Harris proposes a framework for expanding interorganizational collaborations with communities after disaster through changes in government disaster policy and institutional messages.

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Using the Catalan secessionist movement in Spain, this book examines the historical and contemporary role of journalism and its utility in the development of national identities.

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This volume covers key topics including - perception, attitudes, listening, non-verbal behaviour and communication in groups and organizations. It includes material on transactional analysis and recent developments in electronic communication.

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The ten trials included are the Salem witch trials, the Amistad trial, the Sioux Indian Uprising trials, the Ed Johnson/Sheriff Shipp trial, the Big Bill Haywood trial, the Ossian Sweet trial, the Clay Shaw trial, the Manuel Noriega trial, and the Matthew Shepard trial.

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The ten trials included are the Salem witch trials, the Amistad trial, the Sioux Indian Uprising trials, the Ed Johnson/Sheriff Shipp trial, the Big Bill Haywood trial, the Ossian Sweet trial, the Clay Shaw trial, the Manuel Noriega trial, and the Matthew Shepard trial.

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This book examines the use of utopian imagery in magazine advertisements, positing that these advertisements reflect the publics unbridled desires, rather than reality itself. The authors argue that these reflections can lead the public to be unable or unwilling to recognize real threats to democracy, social justice, and the environment.

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With his unique vision on technology, global politics, and social change, he provides readers with a critical analysis of new communications technologies and their largely unavoidable consequences.

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In this book, Mark Ward Sr. combines ethnographic and autoethnographic research to identify and analyze white evangelicals distinctive speech code and to illumine the complexities of conservative white evangelical culture with an insiders critical yet balanced eye.

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Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) is a holistic approach to the areas of advertising, public relations, branding, promotions, event and experiential marketing, and related fields of strategic communication. This book explores how IMC, as grounded in the communication discipline, creates spaces for community engagement and collaboration.

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Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) is a holistic approach to the areas of advertising, public relations, branding, promotions, event and experiential marketing, and related fields of strategic communication. This book explores how IMC, as grounded in the communication discipline, creates spaces for community engagement and collaboration.

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Intercourse in Television and Film analyses the use of explicit sex in contemporary visual media, drawing on films and television series from several countries and in many genres to raise questions about the choices of actors and directors and the integration of themes of sexuality into visual narratives.

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Lengel takes the reader on a journey from India and Romania, where women preserve cultural rituals through mourning songs, to South Africa, where the body is a site of struggle for meaning and power in contemporary dance.

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Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse explores how U.S. news and social media discourse hierarchies overshadow transnational feminist politics and reinforce femonationalist narratives, thereby unpacking how protesters' voices on the ground are obscured in favor of elite sources who reaffirm U.S Islamophobia.

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Few issues have captured media headlines over the past two decades like Islam and Muslims. This tackles head-on the Australian news media's treatment of Islam and Muslims. It brings together the research and insights of academics, editors and journalists on the representation of Islam and its impact on social relations, the newsworthiness of Muslim issues and the complexities of covering Islam.

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This book provides an argumentation study of the life of the great debater, James Farmer Jr. and analyzes his emergence as a debater in conjunction with the fight for racial equality. It shows how Farmers rhetoric helped him lead the founding of the American Civil Rights Movement and other key events during this time.

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This book provides an argumentation study of the life of the great debater, James Farmer Jr. and analyzes his emergence as a debater in conjunction with the fight for racial equality. It shows how Farmers rhetoric helped him lead the founding of the American Civil Rights Movement and other key events during this time.

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This book studies Episcopal Reverend James Friedrichs work at Cathedral Films during the 1940s and 50s. It offers insight into the way a small, independent B-studio created and distributed religious films for the church, television, and theatrical markets in the postwar American film industry.

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The book explores Jewish US American identity beyond the white and educated "model minority" stereotype. Jewish life and Judaism are explored across personal, socio-cultural, and political-global implications, arguing for more inclusive approaches to relationships among race, ethnicity, culture, and religion in theory, teaching, and practice.

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This book describes language diversity and classroom discourse: language use in the classroom in which children are dialect speakers. Finally, dialect diversity in the classroom is considered in light of the relationship between language, education, and society at large.

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Language, Identity, and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society examines the intersections of language, race, and identity within the family. It offers particular attention to the proscription of identity when language and culture have a direct impact on the understanding of race and ethnicity within the African American community.