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The intifada, which began in December 1987, has become one of the longest running confrontations within the broad context of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Rather, it is about communication and the intifada: what people have been saying, thinking, and writing about the conflict and about the messages being produced by the mass media.

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This exciting new resource incorporates engaging media literacy into the ongoing preparation of students for standardized testing.

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Based on a wide variety of press reports and other sources, this volume describes the rapid global spread of VCRs and cassettes, often by illegal means, into even those countries where censorship is the rule and information control has been for hundreds of years the universal practice.

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What happens when kids are held captive to an endless stream of MTV-like television commercials by creating art projects that mirrored specific commercials, and even by dreaming about commercials (the product, not the dreamer, is the star).

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What happens when kids are held captive to an endless stream of MTV-like television commercials by creating art projects that mirrored specific commercials, and even by dreaming about commercials (the product, not the dreamer, is the star).

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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 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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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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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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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 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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This volume explores in detail the ways that working with word processing interacts with the social processes of classrooms to shape participants' theories and practices of writing.

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This book highlights the socio-political nature of literacy and illuminates the potential in literacy for the empowerment of individuals and communities subordinated by race/ethnicity, culture, language, gender, and class.

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An inquiry into readers' experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.

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An inquiry into readers' experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.

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