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A Global Perspective on Public Relations Professionalism: Mapping the Structure of Public Relations Associations’ International Networks
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2014-09-01)
Associations play a powerful role in socializing practitioners. The presence of public relations associations across the world is one more step toward professionalization for the entire profession. This study examines the ...
Where Are the Women? The Presence of Female Columnists in U.S. Opinion Pages
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2014-06-01)
Empirical and anecdotal evidence shows that the news media are male-dominated. This study updates the extant literature on women’s representation in the op-ed pages of ten U.S. newspapers. A content analysis showed that ...
Transformative Autoethnography: An Examination of Cultural Identity and its Implications for Learners
(Adult Learning, 2014-02-01)
The cultural experiences of minority learners are often omitted from the formal curriculum leading to exclusion and a sense of cultural loss. In this study, the researcher’s lived experience serves as the basis to develop ...
Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research
(Media, Culture & Society, 2014-03-01)
In January 1994 the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico inaugurated a new era of media use for dissent. Since that time, an array of dissenting collectives and individuals have appropriated media technologies in order ...
Revising the Western: Connecting Genre Rituals and American Western Revisionism in TV’s Sons of Anarchy
(Cultural Studies ‚Üî Critical Methodologies, 2014-06-01)
In this article, I analyze the TV show Sons of Anarchy (SOA) and how the cable drama revisits and revises the American Western film genre. I survey ideological contexts and tropes that span Western mythologies like landscape ...
General Strain Theory for LGBQ and SSB Youth: The Importance of Intersectionality in the Future of Feminist Criminology
(Feminist Criminology, 2014-10-01)
This study applies an intersectional general strain theory (GST) framework to understand the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning (LGBQ) youth, and youth involved in same-sex sexual behavior (SSB). Using a ...
Ecological opportunity and the adaptive diversification of lineages
(2014-12-17)
The tenet that ecological opportunity drives adaptive diversification has been central to theories of speciation since Darwin, yet no widely accepted definition or mechanistic framework for the concept currently exists. ...
Conceptually meeting expectations of Generation Y by building personalised-customised hybrid bundles to target action sports consumers
(2014-04-03)
This paper conceptually explores how bundling could lead to greater revenue and brand loyalty in the action sports industry by meeting the expectations of Generation Y. The author defines personalised-customised hybrid ...
Genome Sequence of Thermoanaerobaculum aquaticum MP-01T, the First Cultivated Member of Acidobacteria Subdivision 23, Isolated from a Hot Spring
(2014-05)
Thermoanaerobaculum aquaticum MP-01T is currently the only cultivated and described member of Acidobacteria subdivision 23. Here, we report the genome sequence for this novel microorganism that was isolated from a hot spring.
Public diplomacy in a networked society: The Chinese government–NGO coalition network on acquired immune deficiency syndrome prevention
(International Communication Gazette, 2014-11-01)
In the era of globalization, the line between domestic and international communication is becoming increasingly blurred. Public diplomacy communication is one such case. Public diplomacy has evolved from a focus on mass ...