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Globalization and Citizenship

Hans Schattle


This lively and invigorating book explores the complex ways that globalization has profoundly affected the once-static nationally defined boundaries of citizenship. Hans Schattle explores the roles of numerous social movements and advocacy groups at the heart of events such as the “Arab Spring” revolutions, the global contestation on the role and tactics of WikiLeaks. 

The Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory

Robert S. Fortner and P. Mark Fackler

The Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that focus on all aspects of current and classic theories and practices relating to media and mass communication.  Features coverage of a wide variety of theoretical perspectives Pays close attention to the use of theory in understanding new communication contexts, such as social media.

Power of Scandal : Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media

SJ, P. Johannes Ehrat



Power of Scandal finds that the very idea of 'scandal' is derived not from an event, but from public opinion - which, in turn, is construed by media narratives. Scandal is powerful because of its ability to challenge institutions by destabilizing their legitimacy. Ehrat applies classic semiotic and pragmatic thought to contemporary media issues, mainly moralist discourse from sex abuse cases to the phenomenon of televangelism. Arguing that sociological and communications studies of scandal have ignored the media's constructed nature, Ehrat focuses on how meaningful public narrative is produced. 

Medienkomparatistik : Heft 2

Lisa Gotto, Linda Simonis, Annette Simonis, Kay Kirchmann, Peter Klimczak, Markus Krajeski, Alexandra Müller, Dominik Schrey, Martin Sexl, and Annette Simonis



Dieser interdisziplinäre Forschungsbereich erlebt derzeit in den Kulturwissenschaften eine erstaunliche Konjunktur. Neben der vergleichenden Methodologie als wichtige heuristische Grundlage besteht eine weitere Zielsetzung der Medienkomparatistik darin, allgemeine Kriterien zur systematischen Erfassung der einzelnen Medien zu entwickeln und ihre jeweiligen Operationsleistungen in sich wandelnden kulturellen Kontexten zu erkunden. Dabei soll ein weites Spektrum medialer Formen und Verfahren einbezogen werden, das von analogen und digitalen Bild- und Schriftmedien über dispositive Anordnungen bis hin zu diskursiven Wissensformationen reicht.

Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School : Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas

Tara Goldstein, Gordon Pon, Timothy Chiu, and Judith Ngan

Is for teachers and teacher educators working in communities that educate children who do not speak English as a first language. At the center of the book are findings from a four-year critical ethnographic case study of a Canadian high school with a large number of emigrant students from Hong Kong and rich descriptions of the multitude of ways teachers and students thought about, responded to, and negotiated the issues and dilemmas that arose. The book is designed to help readers think about how the issues and dilemmas in the case study manifest themselves in their own communities and how to apply the insights they gain to their own teaching and learning contexts.

A Safer World

Debieuvre Luc

Luc Debieuvre is a French banker who between 2003 and 2005 wrote a fortnightly opinion column for the United Arab Emirate-based English-language daily "Gulf News". The period of Debieuvre's association with the newspaper has been among the most significant and memorable in recent history. The aftermath of America's War on Terror has unleashed forces that the world will have to contend with and endure long after the protagonists have left the stage. Now collated into book form for the first time, Debieuvre's chronicles provide a fascinating insight into how the shifting sands of international relations and Middle Eastern politi were perceived at the time by a writer with a uniquely Gallic perspective.

Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability

R. Douglas Arnold

Is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Using three samples of local newspapers from across the country, Arnold analyzes all coverage over a two-year period--every news story, editorial, opinion column, letter, and list. Examination of an even larger sample, sixty-seven newspapers and 187 representatives, shows why some newspapers cover legislators more thoroughly than do other papers. Arnold then links the coverage data with a large public opinion survey to show that the volume of coverage affects citizens' awareness of representatives and challengers.  The analysis also confirms that only those incumbents or challengers in the most competitive races, and those who command huge sums of money, receive extensive coverage.

Les légendes de la Nuit en Vendée : Traditions, Contes et Superstitions

Edmond Bocquier and Ligaran

Extrait : "La Nuit, l'Ombre mystérieuse a été, en Poitou comme partout ailleurs, la grande et féconde inspiratrice des légendes étranges. La Nuit, alors que la Nature repose et que la Vie semble se ralentir, est, dans l'esprit de l'homme des champs, l'image de la Mort et du Mal. Le paysan peuple l'ombre de revenants, de sabbats, de cierges errants, de lavandières funèbres ; la Nuit est le siège de toute une vie surnaturelle ; elle est l'empire des horreurs et des ensorcellements."

The classic tale of the wonders and terrors lurking in the deep A monster has been wreaking havoc in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The US government has sent forth a team featuring Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist; Ned Land, a Canadian harpoonist; and Aronnax’s servant Conseil to take care of the problem. Their mission: Kill the beast. But what they find is the submarine Nautilus and its helmsman, the fearsome Captain Nemo. Onboard Nemo’s ship, Aronnax has a vision of ocean life that he never believed possible. In Nemo he sees a man who is entirely liberated yet completely shackled to his past—a scientist with the power to go anywhere in the world but held back by fierce anger. Written in 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was one of the earliest novels of science fiction literature and has remained a classic of the genre over a century later. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.