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Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications)
By Thomas Hanitzsch, Josef Seethaler, Vinzenz Wyss. 2019
Der Band liefert eine Zustandsbeschreibung des Journalismus in einer Zeit, in der Medieninstitutionen ökonomisch unter Druck stehen und journalistische Autoritäten…
zunehmend hinterfragt werden. Das Buch berichtet Ergebnisse einer Befragung von über 2500 Journalist*innen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Im Zentrum stehen die soziodemografischen Profile der Journalist*innen, die Anstellungsverhältnisse und Tätigkeitsbereiche, ihre beruflichen Rollenverständnisse und ethischen Orientierungen, ihr Vertrauen in gesellschaftliche Institutionen sowie die Wahrnehmung von redaktioneller Autonomie und Einflüssen auf ihre Arbeit.Media in the Global Context: Applications and Interventions
By Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi. 2019
This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values…
of nationals from the war regions. It identifies the cultural patterns in remote communities that have been ‘diluted’ by IT and the extent to which the changes impacted the values of the indigenes. It also describes the role that IT especially social media and broadcast media play in the understanding of war among residents in highly wired and remote communities, respectively.Thirty-Life Crisis: Navigating My Thirties, One Drunk Baby Shower at a Time
By Lisa Schwartz. 2019
A hilarious essay collection perfect for anyone dealing with the challenges, indignities, and celebrations that come with being a thirty-something…
by actor and YouTube star Lisa Schwartz (Lisbug).THIRTYLIFE CRISIS Lisa Schwartz's stories and musings are all about watching her friends adult like pros, while she tries to understand why she doesn't want or can't seem to find all the things they have for herself. Like a big sister who's already seen it all, Lisa will take readers through her own life experiences to say that one thing we all need to hear: you are so not alone. Unabashed and unfiltered, Schwartz's voice and candor will appeal to anyone in their thirties who just can't deal with the never-ending Facebook feed of friends' engagement photos and baby pictures, the trials of figuring out where their passion meets their career, and everything in between.So, if you've ever had to figure out...Parenting Your Parents (Yikes)Gender Reveal Parties (It's an actual thing.)Discovering That Your Boyfriend Likes Boys (Surprise!)Online Shopping Away Your Anxiety (Don't)or Gender Reveal Parties (Seriously. It's an actual thing.)This book is your new best friend.Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights
By Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Katie McCabe. 2019
&“Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual…
can turn the tides of history.&” —Michelle ObamaIn Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation&’s capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to minister—in all these places, Roundtree sought justice. At a time when African American attorneys had to leave the courthouses to use the bathroom, Roundtree took on Washington&’s white legal establishment and prevailed, winning a 1955 landmark bus desegregation case that would help to dismantle the practice of &“separate but equal&” and shatter Jim Crow laws. Later, she led the vanguard of women ordained to the ministry in the AME Church in 1961, merging her law practice with her ministry to fight for families and children being destroyed by urban violence. Dovey Roundtree passed away in 2018 at the age of 104. Though her achievements were significant and influential, she remains largely unknown to the American public. Mighty Justice corrects the historical record.(Excerpt) "Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt that there is in the entire…
South a place where it has changed less than on the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia. And I do not know in the whole country a place that I should rather see again in springtime - the Georgia springtime, when the air is like a tonic vapor distilled from the earth, from pine trees, tulip trees, balm-of-Gilead trees (or "bam" trees, as the negroes call them), blossoming Judas trees, Georgia crab-apple, dogwood pink and white, peach blossom, wistaria, sweet-shrub, dog violets, pansy violets, Cherokee roses, wild honeysuckle, azalea, and the evanescent green of new treetops, all carried in solution in the sunlight. It is indicative of the fidelity of the plantation to its old traditions that though more than threescore springs have come and gone since Sherman and his army crossed the red cotton fields surrounding the plantation house, and though the Burge family name died out, many years ago, with Mrs. Thomas Burge, a portion of whose wartime journal makes up the body of this book, the place continues to be known by her name and her husband's, as it was when they resided there before the Civil War. Some of the negroes mentioned in the journal still live in cabins on the plantation, and almost all the younger generation are the children or grandchildren of Mrs. Burge's former slaves."Famed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole possessed a unique perspective: that…
of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, she began her career as a healer by helping her mother nurse British officers at nearby military camps. In the 1850s, her compassion aroused by agonizing reports from Crimea, she headed for England to offer her services. Seacole was denied entry to Florence Nightingale's "angel band" of military nurses, possibly on account of her race. Undaunted, she traveled independently to Crimea to set up accommodations near Balaclava that provided treatment and domestic comforts to convalescing soldiers. Seacole's years of service left her bankrupt and impoverished, but her memoirs, published to popular and critical acclaim in 1857, express no regrets. Humorous and tragic by turns, this autobiography recaptures the voice of a fearless adventurer and humanitarian.The Cult Next Door: A True Story of a Suburban Manhattan New Age Cult
By Elizabeth Burchard, Judith Carlone, William Goldberg. 2014
During Thanksgiving vacation of her freshman year at Swarthmore College (1977), Elizabeth, at her mother's insistence, attended a "stress-reduction" session…
with a biofeedback technician on staff at a Manhattan psychologist's office. During that first visit, this man filled her ears with prophetic visions of a glorious future--the inheritance of those fortunate few who might choose to accompany him. His confidence and charisma entranced her, and she soon recruited two of her college roommates. When the psychologist fired his assistant two years later, Elizabeth and her mother followed. Over the next decade, this man, a malevolent genius and master of manipulating metaphysical concepts to benefit a self-serving agenda, organized a small, dedicated band of followers. "The Group" evolved into an incestuous family--a cult. Their brainwashed minds became fused with a distinctive, New Age doctrine. A coterie of spiritual "Navy Seals", they scrambled in terror, training to survive the inevitable cataclysm--one man's divine vision of Armageddon. Subsequent to a momentous event in August 1994, with the guru as high priest, "The Black Dog Religion" was born. Elizabeth sank into a pit of despair, darker than she ever could have imagined was possible. From the adolescent gullibility which seduced her astray, to the enlightenment which led her to freedom, you will travel an incredible journey. For anyone who has ever been trapped by a person who would not let them go, within this book lies a message of hope.Feature and Narrative Storytelling for Multimedia Journalists
By Duy Linh Tu. 2015
Feature and Narrative Storytelling for Multimedia Journalists is the first text that truly focuses on the multimedia and documentary production…
techniques required by professional journalists. Video and audio production methods are covered in rich detail, but more importantly, various storytelling techniques are explored in depth. Likewise, author Duy Linh Tu tackles the latest topics in multimedia storytelling, including mobile reporting, producing, and publishing, while also offering best practices for using social media to help promote finished products. Whether you're a student, a professional seeking new techniques, or simply looking to update your skills for the new digital newsroom, this book will provide you with the information and tools you need to succeed as a professional journalist. Integrated: The lessons in this book deftly combine traditional media production principles with storytelling craft. It is written with the perspective of modern professional journalists in mind. Practical: While rich with theory, this text is based on the real-world work of the author and several of his colleagues. It features Q&As with some of the best editors and video producers from top publications, including NPR, Vice, and Detroit Free Press, as well as profiles of leading video news organizations such as Frontline, Mediastorm, and Seattle Times. Proven: The author uses pedagogy from the world-renowned Columbia Journalism School as well as case studies from his own award-winning work. Interactive: The text is exercise- and drill-based, and the companion website provides multimedia examples and lesson files, as well as tutorials, case studies, and video interviews.Combining English for Specific Purposes (ESP) genre-based analysis, corpus-based language studies, and semi-structured interviews, this book represents the first multi-faceted…
project on the macro-structure of empirical research articles (ERAs) from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and on the “I+LR” patterned introductory phase (comprising two introductory sections, i.e., the Introduction and the Literature Review in RAs drawn from civil engineering and applied linguistics journals) regarding their rhetorical organization, use of citation, and structural and functional links and variations. The project comprises three logically interconnected studies using a multi-perspective (the cross-disciplinary, cross-generic, emic, and published advice vs. actual expert practices perspectives) approach. It will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the genre evolution, rhetorical organization and citation features of ERAs, enrich English for Academic Purposes (EAP) theories, and facilitate the development of EAP pedagogy and materials.Una furtiva lágrima
By Nélida Piñón. 2019
Vuelve la gran escritora brasileña de las últimas décadas y Premio Príncipe de Asturias. «Literatura pura, auténtica, íntegra, hecha a…
partir del amor a la palabra, a la vocación, al arte, a la belleza y a la creación.»Mario Vargas Llosa «Soy mujer, brasileña, escritora, cosmopolita, aldeana, un ser de todas partes, de todos los puertos.» Una furtiva lágrima es el diario luminoso, íntimo y singular de una de las escritoras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana. En este collage impresionista, formado por las reflexiones y los retazos más lúcidos de una inteligencia imparable, Nélida Piñon compone un autorretrato de su historia personal, de su familia y de sus raíces. Las meditaciones en torno a la literatura, el oficio de la escritura, la lengua portuguesa o la historia universal se mezclan de modo natural con un análisis de sí misma, de su condición de mujer, de su condición de escritora y de brasileña. Esta riqueza de enfoques y tentativas son, en el fondo, vías de acceso a una personalidad única y diversa; al fin y al cabo, la propia Nélida Piñon afirma sobre sí misma: «Soy múltiple». La crítica ha dicho...«Nélida Piñon eleva una frase a lo sublime. No se corrompe con sentimentalismos vacuos y disimula sus dolores -quién no lo hace- con la fortaleza de quien ha de tomar sus propias decisiones.»Alberto Barciela, El Progreso «Referencia absoluta de la literatura brasileña actual, escritora carismática y comprometida con la voz de Iberoamérica.»María Luisa Blanco, El País «Una de las protagonistas más relevantes y originales de la cultura brasileña, que nunca duda en participar en todas las formas de lucha.»Le Monde «La magia de Nélida Piñon consiste en unir imaginación y compasión, para dar a sus personajes y sus lectores - una piel con la misma temperatura que la de ellos -.»Carlos Fuentes «Literatura de primerísima calidad. La dimensión amazónica de la imaginación de Nélida Piñon eleva a la autora a la categoría de genio.»Publishers Weekly «Con la fuerza de su imaginación, tiene la capacidad de expresar literariamente los sueños de todo Brasil e incluso de toda la gran familia latinoamericana.»The New York Times Book Review «Nélida Piñon no solo es una de las más grandes escritoras en lengua portuguesa de su tiempo sino una de las más relevantes en el panorama internacional.»Mercedes Monmany, ABC «Tan actual y universal que no tiene nada que envidiar a la obra de autores como John Banville, Philip Roth y Paul Auster, que también fueron galardonados con el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.»Jonatan Silva, Paraná Online «Piñon es una escritora de pulmones poderosos e imaginación desbordante que ha creado una literatura apegada alas pasiones y todo menos aséptica.»La VanguardiaThe Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions)
By William E. Dow, Roberta Maguire. 2020
Taking a thematic approach, this new companion provides an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and international study of American literary journalism.From the work…
of Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman to that of Joan Didion and Dorothy Parker, literary journalism is a genre that both reveals and shapes American history and identity. This volume not only calls attention to literary journalism as a distinctive genre but also provides a critical foundation for future scholarship. It brings together cutting-edge research from literary journalism scholars, examining historical perspectives; themes, venues, and genres across time; theoretical approaches and disciplinary intersections; and new directions for scholarly inquiry. Provoking reconsideration and inquiry, while providing new historical interpretations, this companion recognizes, interacts with, and honors the tradition and legacies of American literary journalism scholarship. Engaging the work of disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, African American studies, gender studies, visual studies, media studies, and American studies, in addition to journalism and literary studies, this book is perfect for students and scholars of those disciplines.Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for…
the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. For the hundredth anniversary of the historic moment the franchise was finally extended to women, here is a selection of suffragette and suffragist activists and pioneering MPs from the pages of Jenni Murray&’s bestselling A History of Britain in 21 Women. Set against the backdrop of a world where equality is still to be achieved, it is a vital reminder of the great women who fought for change.Cinco claves para una vida mejor. Un pequeño libro sobre grandes cuestiones.
By Liv Nilsson. 2018
La vida es una aventura para bien y para mal. Con algún mal nos toparemos, lo queramos o no. Pero…
una gran parte la podemos controlar nosotros mismos. Este libro está escrito después de la enfermedad de mi marido. Una enfermedad que me hizo pensar en las grandes cuestiones de la vida. Hay infinidad de libros que describen cómo sentirse mejor, rendir mejor, verse mejor, etc. Para mí fue importante poner los pies en el suelo y comenzar desde el principio. Con pequeños cambios y puntos de vista que pueden causar enormes efectos. Como ser amable con los demás, animar siempre a "su propio equipo" y dejar que el motor interno de cada uno se coja vacaciones de vez en cuando. Cosas obvias que se olvidan fácilmente cuando uno se propone realizarse a sí mismo o lucha duramente para hacer frente a su vida cotidiana. Espero que mis cinco claves te ayuden a estar un poco más satisfecho contigo mismo y con tu vida. Que puedan hacerte pensar y dar pequeños pasos hacia los cambios que pueden marcar una gran diferencia y hacerte, al menos de vez en cuando, ver la vida como la increíble aventura que realmente es.Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg? (Who Was?)
By Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who Hq. 2019
You've probably seen her on t-shirts, mugs, and even tattoos, well, now that famous face graces the cover of our…
latest Who Is? title.Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is famous for her stylish collars (called jabots) and her commanding dissents. This opera-loving New Yorker has always spoken her mind; as a young lawyer, RBG advocated for gender equality and women's rights when few others did. She gained attention for the cases she won when arguing in front of the Supreme Court, before taking her place on the bench in 1993. Author Patricia Brennan Demuth answers all the question about what makes RBG so notorious and irreplaceableThe Thank-You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time
By Nancy Davis Kho. 2019
Gratitude and happiness go hand-in-hand -- and The Thank-You Project provides an easy-to-follow approach for creating more of both.Who helped…
you become the person you are today? As Nancy Davis Kho approached a milestone birthday, she decided to answer that question by sending thank-you letters to the many people who had influenced her, helped her, and inspired her over the years: family, friends, mentors, teachers, co-workers, even a couple of former friends and exes. While her recipients always seemed genuinely pleased to read the letters, what Nancy never expected was the profound and positive effect the process would have on her. As it turns out, emerging research proves that actively appreciating the formative people in your life, past and present, can lead to a lasting increase in your happiness levels--and The Thank-you Project offers a charming, entertaining roadmap to see, say and savor your way there.Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer
By Carol Sklenicka. 2019
&“Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,&” a New York Times critic said of the prolific short-story…
writer and bestselling novelist whose dozens of published stories and eleven novels illuminate the American Century. Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. After college at Radcliffe and a year in Paris, she moved to San Francisco. Always a rebel in good-girl&’s clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to break the strictures that bound women in midcentury America. Divorced with a child to raise, she worked at secretarial jobs for two decades before she could earn a living as a writer. One of only four winners of the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement, Adams wove her life into her fiction and used her writing to understand the changing tides of the twentieth century. Her work portrays vibrant characters both young and old who live on the edge of their emotions, absorbed by love affairs yet always determined to be independent and to fulfill their personal destinies. With the same meticulous research and vivid storytelling she brought to Raymond Carver: A Writer&’s Life, Carol Sklenicka integrates the drama of Adams&’s deeply felt, elegantly fierce life with a cascade of events—the civil rights and women&’s movements, the sixties counterculture, and sexual freedom. This biography&’s revealing analyses of Adams&’s stories and novels from Careless Love to Superior Women to The Last Lovely City, and her extensive interviews with Adams&’s family and friends, among them Mary Gaitskill, Diane Johnson, Anne Lamott, and Alison Lurie, give us the definitive story of a writer often dubbed &“America&’s Colette.&” Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer captures not just a beloved woman&’s life in full, but a crucial span of American history.The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment (Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies)
By Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, Mónica Bolufer Peruga, Catherine Jaffe. 2020
The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to…
provide a unique transnational overview of the Hispanic Enlightenment, integrating both Spain and Latin America. Challenging the usual conceptions of the Enlightenment in Spain and Latin America as mere stepsisters to Enlightenments in other countries, the Companion explores the existence of a distinctive Hispanic Enlightenment. The interdisciplinary approach makes it an invaluable resource for students of Hispanic studies and researchers unfamiliar with the Hispanic Enlightenment, introducing them to the varied aspects of this rich cultural period including the literature, visual art, and social and cultural history.Total Sportscasting: Performance, Production, and Career Development
By Max Negin, Marc Zumoff. 2015
Whether you want to be in front of the camera, on the microphone, or behind the scenes, Total Sportscasting gives…
you the skills you'll need to become successful in this dynamic industry. This book covers everything from performance and production techniques to all aspects of sportscasting, good broadcast writing techniques, and how best to forge lasting relationships with team personnel. It also delves into the unique issues facing women sportscasters. And when it comes to breaking into the business, Total Sportscasting devotes entire chapters to career development and demo reel production. For important perspective, we've also included chapters on the history of sportscasting and attempts to glimpse into its future. Total Sportscasting is packed with a variety of features for both learning and instructing: Complete coverage of every aspect of the sportscast, helping you prepare for any platform--TV, radio, and the web Interviews with successful sports journalists, producers, and directors who give you an inside look into the real-world practices of the industry A companion website, which provides additional resources for both instructors and students, including video and audio examples and links to additional resources: www.totalsportscasting.comA fresh, unique insider’s view of what it’s like to be a woman aviator in today’s US Navy—from pedicures to…
parachutes, friendship to firefights. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Officer. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and one of the first women to drop bombs on ISIS.Jet Girl tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks, and yet is in many respects still a fraternity. Johnson offers an insider’s view on the fascinating, thrilling, dangerous and, at times, glamorous world of being a naval aviator.This is a coming-of age story about a young college-aged woman who draws strength from a tight knit group of friends, called the Jet Girls, and struggles with all the ordinary problems of life: love, work, catty housewives, father figures, make-up, wardrobe, not to mention being put into harm’s way daily with terrorist groups such as ISIS and world powers such as Russia and Iran.Some of the most memorable parts of the book are about real life in training, in the air and in combat—how do you deal with having to pee in a cockpit the size of a bumper car going 600 miles an hour?Not just a memoir, this book also aims to change the conversation and to inspire and attract the next generation of men and women who are tempted to explore a life of adventure and service.Oklahoma's Atticus: An Innocent Man and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him
By Hunter Howe Cates. 2019
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1953: an impoverished Cherokee named Buster Youngwolfe confesses to brutally raping and murdering his eleven-year-old female relative. When…
Youngwolfe recants his confession, saying he was forced to confess by the authorities, his city condemns him, except for one man—public defender and Creek Indian Elliott Howe. Recognizing in Youngwolfe the life that could have been his if not for a few lucky breaks, Howe risks his career to defend Youngwolfe against the powerful county attorney’s office. Forgotten today, the sensational story of the murder, investigation, and trial made headlines nationwide.Oklahoma’s Atticus is a tale of two cities—oil-rich downtown Tulsa and the dirt-poor slums of north Tulsa; of two newspapers—each taking different sides in the trial; and of two men both born poor Native Americans, but whose lives took drastically different paths. Hunter Howe Cates explores his grandfather’s story, both a true-crime murder mystery and a legal thriller. Oklahoma’s Atticus is full of colorful characters, from the seventy-two-year-old mystic who correctly predicted where the body was buried, to the Kansas City police sergeant who founded one of America’s most advanced forensics labs and pioneered the use of lie detector evidence, to the ambitious assistant county attorney who would rise to become the future governor of Oklahoma. At the same time, it is a story that explores issues that still divide our nation: police brutality and corruption; the effects of poverty, inequality, and racism in criminal justice; the power of the media to drive and shape public opinion; and the primacy of the presumption of innocence. Oklahoma’s Atticus is an inspiring true underdog story of unity, courage, and justice that invites readers to confront their own preconceived notions of guilt and innocence.