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A former senior editor at the Gallup Poll exposes how pollsters don't report public opinion, they manufacture it.

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This book is a tool for educators at all levels to embrace infusing popular culture into their teaching in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestionssome widely accepted, some somewhat controversialto elicit discussion and spark creativity amongst all students.

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Their story is one of three interacting players: the Croatian government which until recently has sat firmly in control, the compliant press which seemed little motivated to change, and the largely quiescent public which demanded little from its press or its government.

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The only comprehensive overview of media changes in Latin America, charting the course of the Pink Tide in economic, political, and legal regimes from Mexico and Nicaragua to Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Argentina.

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The only comprehensive overview of media changes in Latin America, charting the course of the Pink Tide in economic, political, and legal regimes from Mexico and Nicaragua to Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Argentina.

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A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards. -- .

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The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.

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Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomskys propaganda model to the Peoples Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology.

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Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomskys propaganda model to the Peoples Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology.

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The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies. -- .

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This examination of key CBS broadcasts and the people behind them that helped to establish the network as the prototype for excellence provides a unique perspective on the early era of broadcasting.

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Choi and Murphy seek to analyze the key facets of the debate over PC.

Starting with an examination of the key concepts of PC, Choi and Murphy review the essentials of neo-conservative social philosophy and the Postmodern Alternative as well as neo-conservative critiques of postmodernism.

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"How dating apps are empowering women and sexual minorities in China, even as they reveal and reproduce systematic sexism and heteronormativity"--

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Is shopping for food really a political act Why is it that, in a world with enough food for everyone, more people than ever go hungry From the BSE outbreak in the 1990s through to cultural taboos and the genetic modification of produce and livestock, this book raises provocative questions about how we relate to food in the 21st century.

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A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and malnutrition.

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How might happiness research affect government policy in the United States - and beyond This book examines how governments could use the rapidly growing research data on what makes people happy - in a variety of policy areas to increase well-being and improve the quality of life for all their citizens.

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Is democracy in crisis Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'. -- .

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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female X-Files fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the new relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It questions the possibility of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female "X-Files" fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It also questions the relevance of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.

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Untangles the jargon, and provides you with the knowledge to participate in the production of practical media products. This work is a guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry. It also includes specialist jargon found in a TV studio, and on location.