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Contends that the discourse of genetics is recombining our understanding of who we are and the state of our health by redefining what it means to be competent, knowledgeable, responsible and proactive in our professional, clinical and personal lives.

Deals with the aspect of how people use advanced information technologies to write for community change. This book argues that the work of citizenship is knowledge work - on the same order as that expected of workers in business and industry.

Argues that although corporate media are structurally organized to maximize profits and produce content that generally helps elites achieve their goals; this doesn't mean corporate media have less capacity to facilitate social change than entrepreneurial or other forms of media.

Most communication research and applications of the research acknowledge the process nature of communication. This book argues that communication is a process analogous to the complexity in other living systems. It develops paradigmatic principles and describes the process of information and a model of communication as a socially emergent process.

Presents a study that examines two minority groups in Israeli society: Russian immigrant who arrived as a ""returning Diaspora,"" and the Arab citizens of Israel. This study focuses on: the content of the media; the way the minority members use domestic and global media in a multimedia and multilingual environment; and the patterns of media usage.

Provides readers with a critical self-reflective approach to studying the impact of social, cultural, historical, political, and educational backgrounds on the acquisition of literacy.

Offering opinions regarding the nature, scope, purpose and function of the ""First Amendment"", this volume provides a cursory biography of the authors of 34 major theories concerning the ""Amendment"", a brief excerpt from the author's writing, and a description of the impact or effect of the theory on legal doctrine or societal concerns.

Examines how school districts and national school reform organizations can work together to promote effective school reform district wide. Using a set of urban school district cases, this book analyzes how districts and the SDP learned to collaborate and what mechanisms seem to be especially promising in bringing systemic reform to life.

This book explores the following questions: What is the relationship between democratic ideals and goodness in education? What are the characteristics of good schooling and how can they be integrated into real policies and practices. What are the greatest challenges facing schools and how are they addressed?

This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context of an urban alternative school. It also explores the issue of school and career failure through an ethnographic account of an alternative program.

Contributing to a series on policy and research issues in new media, Baker (sociology, Ohio U.-Lancaster) adds to the literature on Internet studies by presenting her research on couples who met in cyberspace. Via an e-mail questionnaire, she studied their online meeting places, modes of communication (e.g. cyber-flirting), and offline meeting. Thr

This text centres upon full inclusion within the higher education curriculum of such disciplines as women's studies, ethnic studies, criminal studies and teacher education. It has a chapter on each discipline and discusses the topic of marginalization within academia.

Emphasizing the constant motion of sense metaphors of cognition, this work provides readings of Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", Aemilia Lanyer's ""Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"", and Descartes' ""Meditations on First Philosophy"". It is of interest to literary scholars and students of the early modern period, as well as scholars of the history of consciousness.

To date, scholarly work on public support for free expression has been rather sporadic. The authors propose the theory that those who hold power in a society are more likely than the comparatively disenfranchised to support free speech. They support this proposition with survey data gathered in the U.S. Russia, Hong Kong and Israel.

Examines how one can teach composition with computers while reflecting critically on the ways technology affects student literacies, faculty labor issues, and the educational environment at contemporary universities. This book develops an economic, political, and cultural account of the field of computers and composition.

This intertwines the author's personal story of her father's death with the story of her ethnography of a hospice organisation. It is an evocative narrative that seeks to understand and explain the process of communicating with the dying - and their families - and the ways that this communication potentially reinforces and enhances the humanity, life, and sanctity of relationships.

Proposing that orality and literacy play a fundamental role in shaping visual storytelling, this challenges the ways we think about how film stories get shaped, as well as the notion of film as an autonomous mode of storytelling construction.

Examines an important public relations case in great depth over the 6-year period in the 1990s when it was managed: General Motors 1973-1987 C/K pickup trucks, which were alleged to have a defective fuel-system design. Lessons learned from this detailed, deeper examination of public relations offer valuable insights from an active bridging of theory and practice.

Using a critical and cultural framework, this book examines the ways in which the field of communication and development was shaped. It reviews paths to development and their implications for the future of communication and change in developing societies.

Examines the daily experiences of indigenous youth in an urban, public high school in the southwestern US. Drawing on critical educational studies, the author investigates how power operates in curriculum, extracurricular activities, and daily interactions.

Offers the reader a first glimpse of the attitudes of the U.S. swing voter - those voters campaigns most need to pursue and who are uncommitted and believed likely to vote. This book focuses on these voters from a phenomenological standpoint, identifying that which is common among them, and their unexamined attitudes about politics.

This volume suggests new directions for researching and improving communication practices in a variety of service contexts and provides clear guidance for organizations wishing to initiate and evaluate their efforts to improve practices with customers.

This is a historical overview of theory and research in the field of mass communication studies. It is an account of the scholarly discourses that have been concerned with mass communication within a period that extends from the early days of the press to the Internet and other advanced communication and information technologies.

Investigates the fundamental tenets of community radio as a movement through an examination of the experiences of six contemporary Irish community radio stations.

Through a series of specific case studies ranging from Tiger Woods to the now-defunct Golf for Women magazine, this book explores the eccentricities embedded in media discourses surrounding golf, shedding light on a sport that millions play, millions, watch, and yet millions more struggle to understand.