Media, informations- &kommunikationsindustri

A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture booksbooks intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman...

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Despite the accuracy of the critiques of the international 'competence education and testing movement', which promote narrow approaches to education based on delivering and testing prepackaged knowledge in simplistic and practically ineffective mo...

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This study is a revision of the author's dissertation (in political studies) from the Queen's U. in Kingston, Ontario. The distorted view westerners had of the Ottomans and their culture is described based on the accounts of Europeans. Following a...

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Making Knowledge Common looks at how ordinary people in ordinary workplaces use literacy to make the global knowledge economy happen. It challenges established views of what « counts as knowledge at work, of how ICT (information and communica...

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Although educational research advocates the perspective of the learner, who or what is it advocating against? The governments of all European Union countries give learning the most prominent place on their policy agendas; the European Commission w...

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Figures of Fantasy explores the popularization of the idea of the Internet as a «cyberspace» and considers the implications this has for discussions of gender and identity. The book analyzes the standard figures used to conceptualize and explain t...

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Here is a concise overview of everything you want to know about the magazine production process, from the conception of article ideas through printing and distribution. Looking at magazine publishing from the « micro view -- individual magazi...

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From payola to podcasting, from the advertising office to the DJ booth to the station antenna, Radio: A Complete Guide to the Industry offers a concise, one-stop introduction to all aspects of the radio industry. Readers are taken on a lively tour...

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Strictly speaking, James Carey wrote, there is no history of mass communication research. This volume is a long-overdue response to Careys comment about the fields ignorance of its own past. The collection includes essays of historiographical self...

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From payola to podcasting, from the advertising office to the DJ booth to the station antenna, Radio: A Complete Guide to the Industry offers a concise, one-stop introduction to all aspects of the radio industry. Readers are taken on a lively tour...

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