Future Search explores a highly successful new many for enabling diverse people with a stake in an organization or community to plan their own future. This event brings a "whole system" into the room to explore participants past, present, and desired future as a back-drop to action planning.
A comprehensive history of African Americans in the mass media--music, film, radio, television, advertising, and print and broadcast news--makes this volume a unique contribution to communications studies.
The ownership of the media and issues related to the governance of global media institutions are of immense public significance. Not only are the cultural industries a major source of contemporary power - economic, political, social - they are also the primary definers of consciousness in most parts of the contemporary world. In the shadow of the recent decision by the Federal Communications Co…
Pernahkah Anda mendengar berita atau ulasan di samping ini lewat CNN, Fox News, ABC, CNBC, BBC, atau media utama barat lainnya yang umum- nya kemudian juga direlay media TV lokal di negara- negara lain, termasuk di Indonesia? Tentu saja tidak! Karena mereka hanya melaporkan berita- berita yang mengharumkan nama pemerintah AS sementara kebenaran yang barangkali akan me- ngotori citra itu disingk…
Dalam buku ini, Kevin Hogan menunjukkan bagaimana Anda juga dapat menggunakan berbagai rahasia para komunikator terkenal untuk mencapai kesuksesan dalam karir, dalam hubungan personal, dan paling penting dalam hubungan Anda dengan diri sendiri. Anda akan belajar untuk: 1) Mengatasi delapan kesalahan komunikasi, 2) Menjalin hubungan dengan semua orang, 3) Membaca bahasa tubuh, 4) Tetap tenang da…
In Top Dog , Bronson and Merryman again use their astonishing blend of science and storytelling to reveal what's truly in the heart of a champion. The joy of victory and the character-building agony of defeat. Testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes. Why rivals motivate. How home field advantage gets you a raise. What teamwork really requires. It's baseball, the SAT, sales contests, and L…
It is based on a large volume of collected data, relying equally on quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to establish approaches for measuring social capital and its impact. The book documents the pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services, and easing political transition and recover…
Critiquing the neoliberal economics formulated and imposed by the World Bank and IMF on developing countries generally, and Africa specifically, this book details the consequences of these policies. Demonstrated are the extraordinary economic and human damage these practices have wrought over the past decade, and how they have displaced the originally radical and pro-people orientation of the A…
This book neither pretends nor seeks to be a "definitive" investigation of the media of mass communication in the Soviet Union. The complexity of the Soviet communication system is such that a really exhaustive study of the techniques and institutions utilized for propaganda and agitation would have to be several times the length of the present work. At the same time, it should be recognized th…
September 11 and Political Freedom: Asian Perspectives focuses on political developments in the region following 9/11. In this new volume, arising from a conference of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats on globalisation, thinkers and observers of the region review the impact of 9/11on the development of democracy and freedom in Asia Collecuvely, these 11 essays reflect the after-shocks…