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Examines the way local, national and cross-national Arab audiences engage with different news sources and how the rapidly expanding news markets have changed news consumption.

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This book offers the most comprehensive look to date at the effort of about forty U.S. media organizations to make themselves more accountable. Nemeth provides a critical assessment of the ombudsmen's work from the ombudsmen themselves, their editors, media critics, and scholars.

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This is an examination of how developments in the organization, financial structures and regulation of news media, combined with changes in journalism's composition and news-gathering practices, have resulted in shifting editorial standards in newspapers, radio and television.

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Jana Wendt sets out to discover what drives us in the work we do. She follows a compelling group of people, from a boxer set for a comeback to a maverick priest, and a CEO whose company is mired in scandal to a forensic anthropologist investigating murder. The result is a wonderfully observed and entertaining portrait of modern work.

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In this book, media professionals and scholars of media studies examine how the Nigerian media industry has changed in the era of globalization and digitization. They provide history on the Nigerian media industry and examine changes in media law, journalism, broadcasting, sports media, and digital news.

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The media's most important job is to present unbiased information about events, issues, and policies to the public. Arguing that the press failed to do its job since the 9/11 attacks, here, the author compares how the US and international media covered key events during this period and explores the ramifications for democracy of a weak press.

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Focuses on the insidious and increasing portion of the news media that, due to the dangerously extreme speed at which it is produced, is only half thought out, half true and lazily repeated from anonymous sources interested in selling opinion and wild speculation as news.

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Offers a look at the state of journalism in the age of the 24-hour news cycle. This book demonstrates how media blitz scrambles the public's perspective in ways that potentially shape how we think, act and react as a global society.

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A compilation of scholarly articles on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to the cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. They examine how Nordic culture has played a part in shaping the American experience.

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Richard Pells not only shows how the Europeans have resisted and altered American culture to fit their own needs and tastes, but how Americans were attracted to Europe's fashions and consumer goods just as Europeans were influenced by America's technology and mass entertainment.

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This complex look at surf culture explores its inherent masculinity, as well as the violence, racism, misogyny, turf wars, and homophobia that are as much a part of the sport as ocean swells. This analysis reveals the unwritten codes that rule all aspects of a surfer's life - from body image and national identity to politics and friendship.

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Why does nudity mean so many contradictory things, and why is it treated so differently in different contexts Drawing on a wealth of examples from popular culture, literature, philosophy and religion, as well as first-hand interviews, this work goes deep into the naked underworld to answer these questions.

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Through an analysis of Iranian media reports, this book offers a unique perspective on the often difficult relations between Iran and the West.

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Designed as a resource for artists, writers and behavioural scientists, this compilation of the myths and symbols of old age lists over 400 entries ranging from Abraham and acacia to Zorya and Zurvan. Featured are mythical figures, symbolic attributes, animals, objects, locations, and more.

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The history, global trade and current western revival of interest in used garments as a new form of fashion consciousness has corollaries in consumer cultures around the world. The Japanese, for example, have a long tradition of salvaging sections of kimonos, while in India garments are inexhaustibly recycled.

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Presents a three-part focus on the history, the trading culture, and the contemporary refashioning of second hand clothing. This book is useful for those interested in fashion and dress, material culture, consumption and anthropology, as well as to dealers, collectors and wearers of second hand clothes.

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This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences.

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Using depth psychology to develop a globally rooted psychoanalytic perspective, the author explores the psychological underpinnings of events, conflicts and changes that may have deeper symbolic meanings than we generally suppose.

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One of America's foremost historians discusses the intellectual arrogance and spiritual impoverishment at the heart of structuralism and shows how they have led to a trivializing of the Holocaust.

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"A new approach to digital culture and how it makes meaning, mediation and planetary impact"--

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Examines how nationalism and religion are threatening democracy, the rule of the law, and freedom of expression throughout the world. The book points to nations who, by closing their borders to the tide of illegal immigrants, are abandoning their commitment to the international rights of man.

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This one-volume encyclopedia examines jobs and occupations from around the world that are unique and out of the ordinary, from bike fishermen in the Netherlands and professional wedding guests in South Korea to elephant dressers in India.