“Do you really enjoy the modern play?”: Beckett on commercial television [PDF]
Television was the key popular medium of the second half of the twentieth century in the UK, and Samuel Beckett’s work was consistently aired by BBC, the British non-commercial TV broadcaster that had already featured his work on radio since the mid ...
Bignell, Jonathan
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God's Presence in the Aisle: How God Salience Encourages Preference for Ultra‐Processed Foods
ABSTRACT God‐related cues are pervasive in consumers' daily lives, yet little research has examined how God salience shapes consumer food choices. Drawing on compensatory control theory and the literature on symbolic healing, we present findings from six studies, including a field experiment, demonstrating that high (vs.
Ali Gohary, Hean Tat Keh
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(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca +2 more
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National, regional, global TV in Algeria : University students and television audience after the 2012 Algerian media law [PDF]
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank the colleagues Saida Kheira Benammar, who helped to set up the survey in Mostaganem, and Mohamed Chihat, who helped to contact and meet researchers in Algiers, for their generous and wholehearted support ...
Kobibi , Hafssa, Sarnelli, Viola
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Modelling Suicide‐Related Communication Dynamics: A Socio‐Cybernetic Framework for Governance
ABSTRACT Suicide‐related phenomena (SPS) are often approached through individual‐level risk factors or moral framings, yet their population‐level dynamics depend critically on how ‘suicide’ becomes observable, circulates and is governed across functionally differentiated systems.
Enrique Fernández Vilas, Juan R. Coca
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
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Leslislating in the Face of New Technology: Copyright Laws for the Digital Age [PDF]
This Note discusses the agendas and proposals of different countries with respect to copyright regulation in the digital age. Part I discusses the present state of copyright law in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Community. Part I
Morano, Michael F.
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Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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Media policy for ethnic and national minorities in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia [PDF]
This chapter describes legal, institutional and professional frameworks for media policy concerning national and ethnic minorities in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Klimkiewicz, Beata
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Multi-cultural Switzerland – multicultural public service media? [PDF]
In this article a special attention is paid to the to the role of public service broadcaster in cultural diversity societies. The main aims of the author was answering the following questions: how cultural pluralism is implemented by the public service ...
Ratajczak, Magdalena
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