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Audiences' willingness to participate in Welsh-language media
No full textPhDContemporary media audiences expect to be able to interact with content, but in a minority language context, audience participation presents challenges related to audiences’ linguistic confidence. This thesis focuses on Wales, where media producers have suggested that audiences are often reluctant to interact with broadcast and online content in Welsh. To begin to understand this unwillingness, and how it might be overcome, the concept of willingness to participate (WTP) is coined as an extension of willingness to communicate (McCroskey & Baer 1985).
First, interviews with producers are analysed qualitatively to identify potential influences on audiences’ WTP. The analysis aims to assess the relative importance of various factors: audiences’ feelings of apprehension, self-perceived competence, language background and Welsh language ability, as well as the modality of participation (oral/written) and the level of demand placed on the audience.
Second, a questionnaire is designed and administered to 358 Welsh speakers, to examine audiences’ perceptions of different opportunities to participate in media content. A path model of WTP is proposed and tested using quantitative data from the survey. The results support the hypothesis that audiences’ apprehension and self-perceived competence predict WTP and that audience response varies according to the media context. While audiences’ Welsh language skills are important in explaining their WTP, other aspects of language background, such as Welsh language acquisition context, are found to be less important.
Third, the survey sample is grouped according to common patterns of WTP, to test whether the above effects are consistent across the population or whether different ‘types’ of audience exist. Using a combination of cluster analysis and thematic analysis of audience comments, four types of audience are proposed and described in detail. Finally, implications for sociolinguistic theory, language maintenance and media production practice are considered and recommendations made.Arts and Humanities Research Counci
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Author Gary Gildner reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner reads "Sleepy time gal," "Pavol Hudak, the poet, is talking," and "Genealogy" then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Dress, law and naked truth : a cultural study of fashion and form
No full textWhy are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life
Letter from Gary Okihiro, professor, Department of Asian American Studies at Cornell University to Michi Weglyn
No full textA letter from Asian American studies professor Gary Okihiro to Michi Weglyn apologizing for a critical review he wrote of her book "Years of Infamy" in 1977.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Portrait of Fred Hilmer [transparency] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title supplied by artist, see acquisition file number 204/08/00063-02.; Part of the collection of photographs of portraits of prominent Australians. "Fred Hilmer (& Prof Lex Donaldson), Prof, associate dean author of the Hilmer Report, AGSM, University of New South Wales."--Note from artist
An investigation of the size and geographical distribution of the English, Welsh, and Channel Islands Merchant Fleet, 1571-72
No full textThis chapter examines the size and geographical distribution of the English, Welsh and Channel Islands merchant fleets. It draws upon a wide variety of sources to provide a detailed quantitative investigation of shipping capacity over 1571-72, a period rich in source material. It also discuses in detail the reliability of Elizabethan ship-surveys, especially when used in conjunction with national customs accounts
Portrait of Helen Hughes [transparency] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title supplied by artist, see acquisition file number 204/08/00063-02.; Part of the collection of photographs of portraits of prominent Australians. Emeritus Professor of Economics Helen Hughes AO joined the CIS staff as a Senior Fellow in April 1998. Helen has had a long association with the Centre, and is co-author of the CIS Monographs Australias Asian Challenge and Working Youth. Helen has worked at the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland and the World Bank before taking the position of Professor of Economics at the Australian National University in 1983. She was also Director of the National Centre for Development Studies, and presented the Boyer Lectures in 1985
Gary Clark
No full textGary Clark visited The College at Brockport in February 1980. He is an author and editor known for guidebooks and illustrated works.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
Kentucky Travel Writer Gary P. West
No full textLeading Kentucky travel writer Gary P. West shared his travel secrets Bowling Green, Kentucky community audience and signed his books in the “Kentucky Live! Series” at the local Barnes & Noble Bookstore on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
Retiring in 2006 West has devoted himself to writing. He writes a syndicated column for seven Kentucky newspapers and is the author of eight books. His latest: Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association: The Real Story of a Team Left Behind was published by Acclaim Press in 2011. Two of his most popular books include Eating Your Way Across Kentucky: 101 Must Places to Eat (updated edition in 2006) and Shopping Your Way Across Kentucky (2008)
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