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Mind Reading in Stage Magic: The “Second Sight” Illusion, Media, and Mediums

open access: yescommunication +1, 2015
This article analyzes the late-nineteenth-century stage illusion “The Second Sight,” which seemingly demonstrates the performers’ telepathic abilities.
Katharina Rein
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Spreading the Spirit Word: Print Media, Storytelling, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism

open access: yescommunication +1, 2015
Spiritualists in the nineteenth century gave much emphasis to the collection of evidences of scientific meaning. During séances, they used instruments similar to those employed in scientific practice to substantiate their claims.
Simone Natale
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Self-Writing Machines: Technology and the Question of the Self

open access: yescommunication +1, 2015
In order to show that technology mediates between man and machine, I will discuss in this text a literally other or alter-knowledge system that also heavily relied on self-writing machines: spiritualism.
Christian Kassung
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Innovative health financing for tobacco control: the implementation and effectiveness of India's “Movie Rules”

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Tobacco consumption is a critical concern in populous low-income countries, like India. The social acceptability of tobacco perpetuates its use: the positive portrayal of tobacco in the media has been associated with increased consumption of ...
Nandita Murukutla   +7 more
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Contemporary Lyric Poetry in Transitions between Genres and Media

open access: yesInternationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, 2021
More than any other literary form, contemporary poetry is in transition: intermingling with narrative and dramatic genres, combining prose and verse, and even incorporating other media, such as visual art, music, film and digital technology, shifting the
Ralph Müller, Henrieke Stahl
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Fostering Campus-Wide Dialogue and Student-Centered Learning through Film Festivals and Media Projects: Engaging Chinese Environmental Issues beyond the Asian Studies Classroom

open access: yesThe ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2021
Based on a Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment  Pilot-Year Project at Furman University This article discusses how film festivals and other media projects can be used to engage students in hands-on learning while also immersing campus ...
Tami Blumenfield
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The Book as Event: On the Russian Translation of Film Art by D. Bordwell, K. Thompson, and J. Smith [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк
First published in 1979 and originally based on Bordwell’s film studies lectures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, over the last forty-five years in its continuing reissues and translations into other languages, Film Art: An Introduction has come ...
Diane Nemec Ignashev, Polina Yu. Rybina
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Professor Janet Wasko: An Interview with the President of the IAMCR and one of the Key Representatives of the Political Economy of Communication Approach

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2014
This paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition
Jernej Amon Prodnik, Janet Wasko
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Evidence for the Formation of a Copolymer by Simultaneous Electropolymerization of p-Tetraaminophenyl Porphyrin Cobalt (II)) and o-Phenylenediamine on Glassy Carbon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2012
There is relatively little research about the simultaneous electropolymerization of porphyrins and aniline derivatives in aqueous media. Normally, the copolymerization studies are focused in the polymerization of two conducting monomers without a redox ...
Roxana Arce   +6 more
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Media in Action: From Exorcism to Mesmerism

open access: yescommunication +1, 2015
In the Bavaria of 1775, the popular exorcist practices performed by the catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner were discredited and superseded by the enlightened, ‘scientific’ system of Franz Anton Mesmers “Animal Magnetism”.
Stephan Gregory
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