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Populist styles and meanings in Acun Medya reality shows

Connectist Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences
This article reflects on the relationship between popular culture and populism through Acun Medya reality shows that are influential in the popular culture realm.
Gökçe Baydar Çavdar
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Mass-media ideological policy in Communist Romania

Sfera Politicii, 2013
This article describes how Romanian Communist Party obtained the control of mass-media between 1948 and 1989. Like any totalitarian regime, the communist state put into control printing press, radio and television through centralized institutions ...
Ilarion Ţiu
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Towards automated generation of scripted dialogue: some time-honoured strategies [PDF]

, 2002
The main aim of this paper is to introduce automated generation of scripted dialogue as a worthwhile topic of investigation. In particular the fact that scripted dialogue involves two layers of communication, i.e., uni-directional communication between ...
Piwek, Paul, van Deemter, Kees
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A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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MAINTAINING RENTAL HOUSING AS AN ASSET: Exploring Institutional Investors in Sweden’s Rental Market

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Institutional investors have asserted significant power over rental markets across the transatlantic. However, their stronghold has been contested after rising interest rates in 2022. In this article I address the situated dimensions of the assetization of the built environment by examining the establishment of residential property investors ...
Jennie Gustafsson
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Dealing with Difficult People [PDF]

, 1994
Browning, Bruno, Gilgen, Read
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Cuban socialism and personality cult

, 2020
Desde el triunfo de la Revolución Cubana en 1959, sus adversarios desarrollaronuna gran industria literaria (artículos, libros y vídeos) con el objetivode atacarla, agredirla y difamarla; entre las acusaciones que hicieron estabaque, en Cuba, se promovía el culto a la personalidad de Fidel Castro.
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Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato

Constellations, EarlyView.
Benjamin Hutchens
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