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Taking political scandal as the entry point, this book presents a study of comparative political communication. It explores themes such as how and why journalists construct their scandal stories, what kind of narratives were told, the impact of political scandal, and what, if anything, this tells readers about the putative power of the press.

From mind/body relations to family relations, from the nature of art and poetry to the role of metaphor in the biological world, the nature of change and stability to the nature of the sacred, Bateson explores the natural history of the relationship between explicit, implicit and embodied ideas in the world of living things.

Contributing to the renewal of interest in Marshall McLuhan and his work, this book contains chapters providing a general discussion of his work, and examining it in light of theory and research.

This text situates media forms and processes as central foci of globalisation processes and gives communications researchers a chance to respond to the theories often devised by those without any intimate involvement in communications theory or practice.

This volume builds on the first decade of work in new media research within English studies, following (and also breaking from) the longer history of hypertext theory. It defines new media only in as much as the individual chapters do so, setting the field as materially rich, ever-changing, and remediating itself, and kairotic.

This work takes up issues of concern in composition studies, sociolinguistics, and ESL - issues concerning academic literacy, critical literacy, expressive versus cognitive approaches to the teaching of writing, and the like.

The essays in this volume provide an international perspective on persistent and emerging questions related to the use of online technologies for teaching and learning. They demonstrate that online literacy practices can be understood only when they are examined within their social, political, economic, cultural, and historical contexts.

Here, the authors explore the position that systemic reform requires addressing the culture of individual schools, and that various reform efforts address school culture in different ways. The chapters promote that the key to success is the match between the strategy in use and the setting.

The mass media in the Arab world has undergone profound changes during the 1990s with the introduction and spread of new technologies which go beyond the regional realm and bypass authoritarian control. This text examines whether this access is sufficient to generate political and social change.

This volume summarizes the evolution in post-war thought about development and communication and identifies the various options in communication policymaking and communication research. Case studies are provided to exemplify the major theoretical arguments.

Much of the theory underlying technical communication, rhetoric, composition, and college English in general comes from a socialist/Marxist perspective, not the larger world-view - free-market, competitive, and capitalistic. This volume asserts a theoretical and practical stance based on free-market mechanisms and behaviors.

This text looks at student writing in a way that reflects upon the compositionists' teaching practices and the current state of composition in the United States. In doing so, it provides all course materials and supplemental documentation online as an integral part of such a project.

Based on the premise that writing centers know how to guide learners toward more productive and successful work, this collection focuses on helping the academy understand writing centers. It articulates how writing centers move beyond remediation and become centers of learning and teaching through fostering productive working relationships.

Presents educational stories that offers a dramatic portrait of basic writing in four-year colleges and universities across the country. This book describes the often hostile responses to basic writing and its students; and the low status of basic writing programs within English departments and universities.

Deals with the teachings and activism of one of the world's most respected critical educators and activists. This volume is suitable for students in educational foundations, social studies education, contemporary issues in education, comparative education, and the philosophy and sociology of education.

Focuses on the development of theories and pedagogies of distance learning in the English class. This book discusses the development of effective means of conveying information, developing knowledge and perfecting skills, and shows how distance learning calls instructors of English to different roles in the performance of their duties.

Media education has gradually obtained an educational status in many countries throughout the world. Where media education is taught today, it is principally carried out using a relaxed, pluralistic and a cross- or multi-disciplinary approach. This book explores this new approach to the subject.

Taking concrete examples drawn from original research on a range of areas-from personal health and home trading in shares to the battle over copyright in the music and film industries-the essays collected here explore how digital engagements are shaped by wider social and cultural dynamics and structures of power and how these forces also generate disconnection and exclusion.

This text investigates some of the most fundamental effects of electric technology that change the human spirit: particularly information overload and our strategies for inhibiting that onslaught. It shows how technical complexity consistently devours simple realities and thus erodes meaning.

A collection of essays addressing sociocultural, ideological, technical and pedagogical concerns relating to digital technologies. The essays fall into three general categories: writing and reading; academic research and publishing; and teaching and learning.

This text demonstrates that identity is materialized in and through communication practices that constitute the social world of everyday meaning. These studies examine how, when and with what consequence identity is represented and becomes contextually relevant.

This is an exploration of the future of narrative discourse. The authors have identified six potential paths, drawing patterns of narrative and visual, pedagogy and possibility.

From a range of disciplinary perspectives, the essays in this book engage with the challenges posed by globalization to notions of civic, social and cultural belonging, with the transformative nature of global forces, and with the tensions and contradictions that arise out of the simultaneous pull of cultural homogenization and push for cultural differentiation.

Includes essays that illustrate and analyze various classroom-based strategies for productive collaboration between literature and composition. This work covers topics that span textuality and critical pedagogy, argumentation and hybrid genres, student engagement and popular culture, and materiality and assessment.

Brings together some ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. This book provides a context for understanding the rationale, conceptual framework, obstacles, and political context of high school reform.

This volume argues that discussing liberation limits our understanding by avoiding the origins of hierarchy. Examining this topic, the author raises the stakes in debates about liberation, challenging what passes for common ground and moving discussions to moral, existential and spiritual realms.