Media & Communication Studies
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From  Minstrel Show TomFrom: Uncle |
This chapter examines the phenomenon of minstrelsy, and how Uncle Tom came to be depicted in minstrel shows. | Cheryl Thompson | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Newspapers and Magazines:Of Crows and Finches From: Cultural Industries.ca |
In Chris Dornan’s chapter on newspapers and magazines, the changing nature of the audience and technologies serves as the focus | Christopher Dornan | 24 | 2012 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Part 4Is Fake News New? From: Won't Get Fooled Again |
- | Alan Spinney; Erin Steuter | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Thérése Cosgrain (!896-1981) |
- | Madelyn Holmes | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From  The 2011 Distemper |
There are three views on the origins of the 2011 uprising in Syria whose wide circulation is inversely proportional to the degree to which the views have been critically examined. All are highly … | Stephen Gowans | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The Court System |
Chapter three explores the court system and how it operates in Canada. Topics discussed include Judges, Lawyers, Court Staff, Juries, the Courts (The Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Courts, … | Mark Bourrie | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From  The Nuclear FamilyFrom: Imagined Truths |
The author explores more of his family’s history, his early life, and his relationship with his grandparents. | Richard Lemm | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From  The PullFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
The process of the medium, of i-tech itself, is what is attractive; it draws us in. And this draw, or pull effect, is what has the potential to alter behavior. For example, the central concept in … | Mari K Swingle | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Scoop on Sensational StoriesFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the sensationalizing of "uncommon stories", how the boundary-less reporting of these a-typical events traumatically impacts the surviving family … | Tamara Cherry | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! The suspension of disbelief |
This chapter examines the phenomena of news presented as two opposing sides and the role of unregulated social media and fake news. It suggests that conspriacy theories and denial of climate … | Arno Kopecky | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Two FacesFrom: Man at the Airport |
This chapter details the author’s experiences in Abu Dhabi and Dubai as he tried to make friends and find work. He was in the UAE when the conflict in Syria began. | Hassan Al Kontar | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Visiting Canadian Journalists and the AftermathFrom: Bearing Witness |
- | Michael Dupuis | 67 | 2017 | $9.38 Add |
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From  "The debate is closing"The carbonizing of American politics From: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft links the Canadian experience of the oil industry’s influence on politics to the United States to industry ties to the George W. Bush government … | Kevin Taft | 23 | 2017 | $2.30 Add |
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From Between the Camel and the Range RoverFrom: Man at the Airport |
In this chapter, Al Kontar describes his inner conflict as he observed the deepening conflict in Syria from the United Arab Emirates. | Hassan Al Kontar | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Brains on TraumaFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the psychological impacts of traumatic events and includes the responses of various survey participants who have lost loved ones to homicide or traffic … | Tamara Cherry | 15 | 2023 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Burning DataFrom: Reset |
Chapter 4 turns to the often overlooked and largely obscured physical and material infrastructure of social media and the communications ecosystem. Although we tend to think of social media and … | Ronald J. Deibert | 47 | 2020 | $4.70 Add |
