196,102 research outputs found
Introduction: foundations of the theory and practice of global media and communication policy
No full textMapping Global Media Policy: concepts, frameworks, methods
No full textIt is now recognized by scholars, policymakers and media activists that the environment in which media and communication policy is “made” is undergoing profound transformations. Trying to track, describe and analyze these transformations poses a stimulating challenge, particularly to scholars who see their work as an intervention in policy debates. This article seeks to address what we see as the most difficult yet necessary first steps towards meeting this challenge: defining the boundaries of what we actually mean by “global media policy”, providing a conceptualization of global media policy as a domain, elaborating a consistent analytical framework, and addressing methodological implications.
The conceptual framework that we lay out here is part of a Global Media Policy (GMP) mapping project that has been developed within the context of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), with a view to addressing the many issues faced by researchers and practitioners, as well as policy-makers and advocates operating in this domain. In this article we present an overview of the conceptual journey through which the GMP mapping project has evolved
Government Leeway in the Context of Global Markets and Free Trade Agreements
No full textNo abstract available
Actors and Interactions in Global Communication Governance: the Heuristic Potential of a Network Approach
No full textThis chapter addresses the policy implications of this complexity and suggests a specific standpoint through which it can be examined, theorized and empirically explored. We start by briefly addressing the theoretical and empirical shortcomings of a concept that has recently characterized much of the discourse surrounding media and communication policies: multi-stakeholderism. We contend that this concept is inadequate in that it does not enable us to grasp the essence of GCG as a domain. We do this by offering examples from the GCG field to show how a diversity of actors, combined with dynamics of processes, produce uncertainty and complexity at different levels that must be properly investigated. We then discuss why a network approach to the study of GCG may prove fruitful towards a better understanding of how GCG is structured. Using a short review of former applications of a network approach to governing mechanisms, we outline the heuristic potential of this approach. Finally, we bring our theoretical reflection one step further and propose that in order to empirically investigate the global networked governance of communication, it may be useful to look at different kinds of (complementary) networks through appropriate methodologies. In our concluding remarks, we explore directions in which the proposed theoretical-methodological framework could be applied
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
- …
