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Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit For Humans
by David Brendel Ryan StelzerA brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace. In a time of unusual stress, with a pandemic raging and economic insecurity and dislocation increasing, we need to rediscover the values that make us human, that give us a sense of meaning in order to increase our potential for productivity and success. What stands in the way, however, is a professional culture where human connectedness is a lost art: the frenzied numbers-obsessed, bottom-line thinking, the "scratch and claw" workplace, and organizations where the boss can literally be an algorithm. Through moving stories and a modern spin on the ancient framework of Socratic dialogue, David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer show how to move forward and build workplaces fit for humans through what uniquely defines us as human beings: our ability to think, talk, and create. By thinking carefully about a challenge, engaging peers in dialogue via open-ended questioning, and building a strategy collaboratively. Think Talk Create enables us to cultivate trust and define collective values, seemingly "soft" attributes that nonetheless markedly increase innovation and, ultimately, financial performance. Think: Step back, slow down, avoid impulsive, short-sighted decision making. Talk: Ask non-judgmental, open ended questions, with your mind as a blank slate, pursuing the problem like an empirical scientist or a judge presiding in court. Create: Bring something new and meaningful into play, a novel solution to a pesky problem that can move the world in surprising, positive directions.
Counting My Blessings – Francis Brennan’s Guide to Happiness: How to Make the Most of What Life Throws at You
by Francis BrennanFrancis Brennan is back – to spread a little happiness!‘Life can deal us any kind of hand, good or bad. Often it’s a bit of both, and the only difference is what we make of it. That’s the subject of this book – how we handle what life throws at us and how we learn to make the most of it. In short, it’s a book about happiness.’Full of warm and witty anecdotes, Francis Brennan shares his memories while letting us in on the secret to his success – his belief in happiness. By counting his blessings – such as his childhood, family, friendships, career, travel, spirituality, home life and public life – he outlines what matters to him and what has sustained him in life, and shows how learning to be happy is the most important gift you can give yourself.By sharing how he has dealt with the ups and downs of life, Francis Brennan proves that happiness is something you choose, rather than something that chooses you.Counting Your Blessings: Table of ContentsIntroductionFamily MattersOvercoming ChallengesWork, Glorious WorkPark LifeLiving in the LimelightTravel Broadens the MindA Hug Goes a Long WayA Few of My Favourite Things
Global Advertising Practice in a Borderless World (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy)
by Linda Brennan Lukas Parker Robert CrawfordCultural and regional differences in creating and managing advertising require unique responses to a dynamic, rapidly globalising business environment. To be global in advertising is no longer to be homogenised or standardised, it is to be at the leading edge of social and cultural trends that are changing the world as we know it. Global Advertising Practice in a Borderless World covers a wide range of adaptive advertising practices, from major and emerging markets, in mainstream and digital advertising. It focuses on understanding how the globalisation of advertising works in practice, explored in three sections: globalising advertising in a media and communications context; advertising in a global world; and global advertising in a digital world. Covering past, present and potential futures, through an impressive ensemble of global advertising practitioners and academics, the book combines academic rigour with practical insights to provide a comprehensive analysis of the changing dynamics between advertising and globalisation. It will be of great interest to researchers, educators and advanced students in advertising, global branding, international marketing, international business media, communication and cultural studies.
The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors: How to Take Care of Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself from Start-Up to Sustainability (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Erin BrennerThe definitive guide to starting and running a freelance editing business. You’ve been thinking about shifting into the world of freelance editing, but you don’t know where to start. In a time when editors are seeking greater flexibility in their work arrangements and schedules, freelancing is an increasingly common career option. But deciding to go it alone means balancing the risks with the rewards. From the publisher of The Chicago Manual of Style comes The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors, the definitive guide to running your business and finding greater control and freedom in your work life. In this book, Erin Brenner—an industry leader and expert on the business of editorial freelancing—gathers everything you need to know into a single resource. Brenner has run her own successful editing business for over two decades and has helped hundreds of editors launch or improve their businesses through her teaching, blog writing, and coaching. The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors will walk you through the entire process of conceiving, launching, and working in a freelance editing business, from deciding on services and rates to choosing the best business structure to thinking through branding and marketing strategies and beyond. This book is ideal for beginning freelancers looking to get set up and land their first clients, but it’s equally valuable to those who have already been freelancing, with detailed coverage of such issues as handling difficult clients and continuing professional development. You’ll find a collection of advice from other successful freelance editors in this guide, as well as an extensive list of resources and tools. In the final and perhaps most important chapter, Brenner teaches you how to care for the key component of the business: yourself.
The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors: How to Take Care of Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself from Start-Up to Sustainability (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Erin BrennerThe definitive guide to starting and running a freelance editing business. You’ve been thinking about shifting into the world of freelance editing, but you don’t know where to start. In a time when editors are seeking greater flexibility in their work arrangements and schedules, freelancing is an increasingly common career option. But deciding to go it alone means balancing the risks with the rewards. From the publisher of The Chicago Manual of Style comes The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors, the definitive guide to running your business and finding greater control and freedom in your work life. In this book, Erin Brenner—an industry leader and expert on the business of editorial freelancing—gathers everything you need to know into a single resource. Brenner has run her own successful editing business for over two decades and has helped hundreds of editors launch or improve their businesses through her teaching, blog writing, and coaching. The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors will walk you through the entire process of conceiving, launching, and working in a freelance editing business, from deciding on services and rates to choosing the best business structure to thinking through branding and marketing strategies and beyond. This book is ideal for beginning freelancers looking to get set up and land their first clients, but it’s equally valuable to those who have already been freelancing, with detailed coverage of such issues as handling difficult clients and continuing professional development. You’ll find a collection of advice from other successful freelance editors in this guide, as well as an extensive list of resources and tools. In the final and perhaps most important chapter, Brenner teaches you how to care for the key component of the business: yourself.
Mediation, Information, and Communication
by Brent D. Ruben and Leah A. LievrouwThis third volume of Information and Behavior shows broad continuities with previous volumes in this series, but it also represents an important evolution. In emphasizing theoretical advances in mediation, information, and communication processes, this volume has unifying themes at the cutting edge of communication research, linking communication with areas as far-ranging as cognitive psychology, intellectual history, social psychology, policy, and macroeconomics.A sampling of the contents indicates both continuities and discontinuities of communication research embodied in this volume. Contributions include Joseph Turow, "Mass Communication as Concept"; Gary Grumpert and Robert Cathcart, "A Theory of Mediation;" Leah Lievrouw and T. Andrew Finn, "Common Dimensions of Communication"; Joshua Meyrowitz, "Mediated and Unmediated Behavior"; Kathleen Reardon, "Teaching Children About AIDS"; Sari Thomas, "The Death of Intellectual History and the Birth of the Transient Past"; Sheizaf Rafaeli, "Interacting with Media."The second part of the work, emphasizing research and policy in specific information societies and regions, includes an opening essay by Everett M. Rogers, and follow-up studies by Judith K. Larsen on "Silicon Valley"; Quentin W. Lindsey on "The North Carolina Research Triangle"; Luis Fonseca, "High Technology in Brazil"; Ruyzo Ogasawara, "High Technology in Japan"; and Mitchell Moss, "Telecommunications and Financial Centers."The final two portions of the book cover social theory and cultural processes. They include articles by Jerry Salvaggio and Richard Nelson, "Models for Developing Telecommunications and Information Industries"; Everett M. Rogers and James Dearing, "University-Industry Technology Transfer"; Frederick Williams, "The Communications Revolution Revisited"; Rolf Wigand, "Recurring Questions about the Information Society"; Lee Thayer, "Tropes and Things"; Gordon L. Miller, "The Energy of Intelligence"; David Carr, "Thinking in Museums;" Benjamin J. Bates, "Information as an Economic Good"; Jorge Schement and Daniel Stout, "A Time-Line of Information Technology."
Pre-Schoolers with Autism: An Education and Skills Training Programme for Parents - Manual for Clinicians (PDF)
by Avril Brereton Bruce Tonge'The title is an effective, manualized parent education programme' - Educational Book Review This ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children. Authoritative and extensively tried and tested, it will help both parents and carers to understand the disorder and how it affects child development. Ultimately, the programme is designed to reduce the severity of emotional/behavioural difficulties by managing a child's particular problems and encouraging effective collaboration between professionals and parents. The programme is delivered through two accessible manuals - one for parents and one for clinicians - which provide all the information and materials you need. The Manual for Clinicians explains the purpose and content of each session and includes notes for discussion and teaching, a checklist of 'things to do', and photocopiable task sheets for distribution and discussion. The Manual for Parents features tasks, exercises and discussion points for group sessions, and complements these training materials with engaging personal accounts, an introduction to the history of autism, information about approaches to treatment, and a list of useful websites and further reading. Structured as a series of individual and small group sessions, the programme is designed to run for 20 weeks and covers key areas such as understanding and managing difficult behaviour; changing/encouraging new behaviours; communication problems in verbal and non-verbal children; social problems; and how to work and play together. Together, these manuals will provide you with all the information, support and resources you need to run this programme successfully.
Pre-Schoolers with Autism: An Education and Skills Training Programme for Parents - Manual for Parents (PDF)
by Avril Brereton Bruce Tonge'The title is an effective, manualized parent education programme' - Educational Book Review This ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children. Authoritative and extensively tried and tested, it will help both parents and carers to understand the disorder and how it affects child development. Ultimately, the programme is designed to reduce the severity of emotional/behavioural difficulties by managing a child's particular problems and encouraging effective collaboration between professionals and parents. The programme is delivered through two accessible manuals - one for parents and one for clinicians - which provide all the information and materials you need. The Manual for Clinicians explains the purpose and content of each session and includes notes for discussion and teaching, a checklist of `things to do', and photocopiable task sheets for distribution and discussion. The Manual for Parents features tasks, exercises and discussion points for group sessions, and complements these training materials with engaging personal accounts, an introduction to the history of autism, information about approaches to treatment, and a list of useful websites and further reading. Structured as a series of individual and small group sessions, the programme is designed to run for 20 weeks and covers key areas such as understanding and managing difficult behaviour; changing/encouraging new behaviours; communication problems in verbal and non-verbal children; social problems; and how to work and play together. Together, these manuals will provide you with all the information, support and resources you need to run this programme successfully.
Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication: An A–Z Guide (Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media)
by Pat BreretonThis book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental communications. Addressing this challenge, Essential Concepts for Environmental Communication synthesises summary writings from a broad range of environmental theorists, while teasing out provocative concepts and key ideas that frame this evolving, multi-disciplinary field. Each entry maps out an important concept or environmental idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across the growing field of environmental communication debates. Included in this volume is a full section dedicated to exploring what environmental communication might look like in a post-COVID setting: • Offers cutting-edge analysis of the current state of environmental communications. • Presents an up-to-date exploration of environmental and sustainable development models at a local and global level. • Provides an in-depth exploration of key concepts across the ever-expanding environmental communications field. • Examines the interaction between environmental and media communications at all levels. • Provides a critical review of contemporary environmental communications literature and scholarship. With key bibliographical references and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.
Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication: An A–Z Guide (Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media)
by Pat BreretonThis book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental communications. Addressing this challenge, Essential Concepts for Environmental Communication synthesises summary writings from a broad range of environmental theorists, while teasing out provocative concepts and key ideas that frame this evolving, multi-disciplinary field. Each entry maps out an important concept or environmental idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across the growing field of environmental communication debates. Included in this volume is a full section dedicated to exploring what environmental communication might look like in a post-COVID setting: • Offers cutting-edge analysis of the current state of environmental communications. • Presents an up-to-date exploration of environmental and sustainable development models at a local and global level. • Provides an in-depth exploration of key concepts across the ever-expanding environmental communications field. • Examines the interaction between environmental and media communications at all levels. • Provides a critical review of contemporary environmental communications literature and scholarship. With key bibliographical references and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.
Pieces and Parts in Scientific Texts (Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter #1)
by Florence Bretelle-Establet Stéphane SchmittThis book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences of such textual divisions. How can historians and philosophers of science approach this diversity, and what is at stake in dealing with it? The book addresses these questions, adopting a specific approach to do so. In order to shed light on the diversity of organizational patterns and rhetorical strategies in scientific texts, and to question the rationale behind the choices made to present such texts in one particular way, it focuses on the issue of text segmentation, offering answers to questions such as: What was the meaning of segmenting texts into paragraphs, chapters, sections and clusters? Was segmentation used to delimit self-contained units, or to mark breaks in the physical appearance of a text in order to aid reading and memorizing, or to cope with the constraints of the material supports? How, in these different settings and in different texts, were pieces and parts made visible?
Seriously Funny, and Other Oxymorons (Gift Books)
by Simon Brett'Brilliant! Will make a perfect Xmas stocking filler' Bronya Ralley'Delightful. This dip-in-anywhere book put a smile on my face from the first page . . . for everyone who likes a good chuckle' Ruth MilliganAs we all know, the oxymoron is one of the great beauties of the English language. It has been defined as 'a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory'. Famous examples would include 'bitter-sweet', 'open secret' and 'compassionate Conservatism'.Seriously Funny, and Other Oxymorons brings together a great many examples of the oxymoron genre, amusingly illustrated by Paul Thomas. The book is arranged according to various categories ranging from Popular Culture to Political Principles and Business Ethics, all covered in Simon Brett's inimitably witty style.Anyone with an 'unbiased opinion' will quickly grasp that Seriously Funny makes a 'devilishly nice' book.
Strafrecht in Film und Fernsehen
by Hauke Brettel Matthias Rau Jannik RienhoffDieser Band widmet sich aktuellen Fragen zur Darstellung von Recht und Gerechtigkeit in Filmen und Serien und den transportierten Inhalten oder den Auswirkungen der Mediendarstellungen auf die RezipientInnen bzw. den Wechselwirkungen mit Kriminaljustiz und -politik. Schwerpunkte bilden Ausführungen zur Darstellung von fiktiver und realer Kriminalität im Fernsehen sowie zu bekannten Krimiserien wie „Tatort“ oder „CSI“. Zudem werden populäre Spielfilme wie „Minority Report“ oder SuperheldInnen-Verfilmungen einer kriminologischen Analyse unterzogen. Hierbei eröffnen sich zahlreiche Diskurse über Recht und Gerechtigkeit, um ihren Zusammenhang und ihre Widersprüche, die (nicht nur) in den Medien- und Rechtswissenschaften geführt werden.
Hypergraph Theory: An Introduction (Mathematical Engineering)
by Alain BrettoThis book provides an introduction to hypergraphs, its aim being to overcome the lack of recent manuscripts on this theory. In the literature hypergraphs have many other names such as set systems and families of sets. This work presents the theory of hypergraphs in its most original aspects, while also introducing and assessing the latest concepts on hypergraphs. The variety of topics, their originality and novelty are intended to help readers better understand the hypergraphs in all their diversity in order to perceive their value and power as mathematical tools. This book will be a great asset to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and mathematics. It has been the subject of an annual Master's course for many years, making it also ideally suited to Master's students in computer science, mathematics, bioinformatics, engineering, chemistry, and many other fields. It will also benefit scientists, engineers and anyone else who wants to understand hypergraphs theory.
Die Bundestagswahl 2005: Analysen des Wahlkampfes und der Wahlergebnisse (Veröffentlichung des Arbeitskreises "Wahlen und politische Einstellungen" der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW))
by Frank Brettschneider Oskar Niedermayer Bernhard WeßelsDie Bundestagswahl 2005 war in vielerlei Hinsicht besonders. Die vorgezogenen Neuwahlen stellten die Wahlkampfführung der Parteien vor ungewohnte Aufgaben. In kurzer Zeit musste die SPD eine Strategie entwickeln, den scheinbar uneinholbaren Vorsprung von Schwarz-Gelb wieder wettzumachen. Die Union musste sich zwischen einem offensiven Oppositionswahlkampf und einem im Zuge der Siegesgewissheit gouvernementalen Wahlkampf entscheiden. Besonders war auch die erstmalige Kandidatur einer Frau - verbunden mit der Frage, ob die Deutschen reif seien für eine Kanzlerin. Besonders waren schließlich die Wahlkampfdynamik und das Wahlergebnis. Die bürgerliche Opposition verspielte in wenigen Wochen einen enormen Vorsprung, so dass es am Ende nicht für eine Koalition aus Union und FDP reichte. Die Große Koalition war das Ergebnis.
Stuttgart 21: Ein Großprojekt zwischen Protest und Akzeptanz
by Frank Brettschneider Wolfgang Schuster„Stuttgart 21“ war in den letzten Jahren eines der umstrittensten Infrastrukturprojekte in Deutschland. Es ist zugleich ein Projekt zwischen Protest und Akzeptanz. Im August 2010 entfaltet der Protest mit dem Abriss des Nordflügels des Stuttgarter Bahnhofs seine Dynamik. Die Medienaufmerksamkeit war groß. Es folgte der 30.9.2010, an dem es im Stuttgarter Schlossgarten zu Zusammenstößen zwischen Polizei und Demonstranten kam. Die aufgeheizte Stimmung führte zu der von der damaligen Landesregierung angeregten „Schlichtung“ unter der Leitung von Heiner Geißler. Es folgte im März 2011 die baden-württembergische Landtagswahl, aus der erstmals eine grün-rote Landesregierung hervorging. Am 27.11.2011 fand dann die Volksabstimmung zu „Stuttgart 21“ statt. Bei hoher Beteiligung stimmte sowohl in Baden-Württemberg als auch in Stuttgart eine Mehrheit gegen den Ausstieg des Landes aus der Finanzierung des Projektes. Der Band beschäftigt sich in erster Linie mit der Zeit vom Protest im August 2010 bis zur Akzeptanz im November 2011. Er trägt die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse zahlreicher Autoren zusammen. Zudem wird diskutiert, welche Lehren aus dem Projekt „Stuttgart 21“ gezogen werden können.
Reflexive Grounded Theory: Eine Einführung für die Forschungspraxis
by Franz BreuerDie Grounded Theory-Methodik (GTM) ist eines der meistverwendeten Verfahren der qualitativen Sozialforschung. In diesem Buch werden die Vorgehensschritte der GTM in einer praxisorientierten Weise dargestellt und die GTM in einem methodologischen Rahmen neu interpretiert, bei dem der reflexive Umgang mit der Subjektivität des/der Forschenden zu einer Erkenntnisquelle eigener Art ausgearbeitet wird.
Reflexive Grounded Theory: Eine Einführung für die Forschungspraxis
by Franz BreuerDie Grounded Theory-Methodik (GTM) ist eines der meistverwendeten Verfahren der qualitativen Sozialforschung. In diesem Buch werden die Vorgehensschritte der GTM in einer praxisorientierten Weise dargestellt und die GTM in einem methodologischen Rahmen neu interpretiert, bei dem der reflexive Umgang mit der Subjektivität des/der Forschenden zu einer Erkenntnisquelle eigener Art ausgearbeitet wird.
Nationenimages und öffentliches Vertrauen zwischen Staaten: Der Wandel des politischen Deutschlandbildes in US-Tageszeitungen 1999 bis 2011 (Organisationskommunikation)
by Melanie BreunleinMelanie Breunlein zeigt den Wandel des politischen Deutschlandbildes und Nationenvertrauens gegenüber Deutschland in sechs führenden US-Tageszeitungen zwischen 1999 und 2011. Als theoretische Basis erarbeitet sie ein Nationenbild-Nationenvertrauens-Modell, das die Entstehungsprozesse beider Phänomene und mögliche Zusammenhänge zwischen ihnen darstellt. Mithilfe der neu entwickelten Instrumente Nation Image Index und Nation Trust Index lassen sich Nationenbilder und Nationenvertrauen künftig systematischer analysieren. Die Autorin belegt theoretisch und empirisch, wie wichtig Vertrauensaspekte für Verständnis und Analyse von Nationenimages sind. Die Ergebnisse tragen dazu bei, die hohe Imagerelevanz von öffentlichem Vertrauen künftig stärker in den wissenschaftlichen Fokus zu rücken.
ISDN Technology
by J.R. BrewsterThe Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) represents the current position in about a hundred years of evolutionary growth of the worldwide telecommunications infrastructure. This evolution is by no means complete and the next few years will see the emergence of a "Broad-band" ISDN as the next stage of evolutionary development. It is important to appreciate the evolutionary nature of the telecommunications infrastructure if one is to properly understand much of the thinking that lies behind the current ISDN proposals. This book therefore begins with a number of chapters devoted to a study of the various developments which have eventually led to the concept of an integrated digital network. These include the development of digital transmission of speech using PCM and the development of digital switching techniques based on stored program control. The book then turns to a consideration of those features of the existing telecommunications network which need to be modified in order to make ISDN a realizable practicality. Of particular importance is the digitization of transmission over the links between the user and the local exchange. Next we look at the current practice and proposals for ISDN based on the technology presently in use in the telephone network. Finally, we look at the proposals for a broadband ISDN likely to become widely available by the turn of the century.
Vom Zeitungsverlag zum Medienhaus: Geschäftsmodelle in Zeiten der Medienkonvergenz
by Thomas Breyer-MayländerRenommierte Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis zeigen die Wandlung vom Zeitungsverlag zum crossmedialen Dienstleister der Region auf. Dieser produziert und bietet als Medienhaus alle relevanten Mediengattungen (digitale Produkte, E-Commerce, Services, Sonderprodukte aus dem Medienbereich) an. Dabei werden die Anforderungen an die einzelnen Verlagsfunktionen (Redaktion, Vertrieb, Marketing, Anzeigen) genauso beschrieben wie die neuen Ansprüche an die Managementkapazitäten und Organisationsstrukturen im integrierten Medienhaus. Der Verknüpfung der unterschiedlichen Geschäftsfelder kommt eine besondere Bedeutung zu, um Synergien besser zu realisieren. Auch die Unterschiede in der Umsetzung von Finanzierungsmodellen durch Vertriebs- und Werbeerlöse bei digitalen Produkten werden beleuchtet.
Propaganda and counter-terrorism: Strategies for global change (PDF)
by Emma BriantThis book offers a unique account of British and United States government's attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a post-9/11 media environment. It discusses Anglo-American coordination and domestic struggles that brought in far-reaching changes to propaganda. These changes had implications for the structures of legitimacy yet occurred largely in isolation from public debate and raise questions regarding their governance. The author argues that independent and public reexamination of continuing strategy development is essential for government accountability and the formation of systems and policies that both respect citizens and build constructive foreign relations. The book's themes will appeal to a wide readership including scholars and professionals. It draws on illuminating interviews with high-profile British/US sources including journalists, PR professionals and key foreign policy, defence and intelligence personnel.
Propaganda and counter-terrorism: Strategies for global change
by Emma BriantThis book offers a unique account of British and United States government's attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a post-9/11 media environment. It discusses Anglo-American coordination and domestic struggles that brought in far-reaching changes to propaganda. These changes had implications for the structures of legitimacy yet occurred largely in isolation from public debate and raise questions regarding their governance. The author argues that independent and public reexamination of continuing strategy development is essential for government accountability and the formation of systems and policies that both respect citizens and build constructive foreign relations. The book's themes will appeal to a wide readership including scholars and professionals. It draws on illuminating interviews with high-profile British/US sources including journalists, PR professionals and key foreign policy, defence and intelligence personnel.
Bad News for Refugees
by Emma Briant Greg Philo Pauline DonaldBad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage.*BR**BR*Through forensic research, conducted through interviews and analysis of media accounts, a history of contemporary migration and asylum is written. The authors examine the various catalysts for migration, in doing so reveal how economic migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are often conflated by the media. They explain negative reactions to new arrivals, describing the benefit cheat, criminals and job stealing narratives that dominate anti-migrant discourse. Case studies reveal how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts act to legitimise political action can have terrible consequences both on the lives of refugees and also on established migrant communities.*BR**BR*Based on new research by the renowned Glasgow Media Group, this book is essential reading for those concerned with the negative effects of media on public understanding and for the safety of vulnerable groups and communities in our society.
Teambuilding: Bullet Guides Ebook (Bullet Guides)
by Mac BrideAre you looking for a complete course in Dutch which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Dutch will guarantee success!