The Meeting of Two Cultures: Public Broadcasting on the Threshold of the Digital Age

Provides a summary of discussions held in November 2007 on "Public Broadcasting: The Digital Challenge" among representatives of foundations, public broadcasting corporations and academia. Includes essays on visions for the future of public media

Growing Old in America: Expectations vs. Reality

Presents survey results on indicators of old age, "felt age," and the upsides and downsides of growing older, by age, gender, income, and race/ethnicity. Highlights gaps between perceptions of younger adults and the self-reported experiences of seniors

After the Fall: A Roadmap to Michigan's Future

Engineering Society of Detroit Addresshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89065/1/2009_Eng_Soc_Detroit.pd

Chasing Sustainability on the Net : International research on 69 journalistic pure players and their business models

This report outlines how online-based journalistic startups have created their economical locker in the evolving media ecology. The research introduces the ways that startups have found sustainability in the markets of ten countries. The work is based on 69 case studies from Europe, USA and Japan. The case analysis shows that business models can be divided into two groups. The storytelling-oriented business models are still prevalent in our findings. These are the online journalistic outlets that produce original content – news and stories for audiences. But the other group, service-oriented business models, seems to be growing. This group consists of sites that don’t try to monetize the journalistic content as such but rather focus on carving out new functionality. The project was able to identify several revenue sources: advertising, paying for content, affiliate marketing, donations, selling data or services, organizing events, freelancing and training or selling merchandise. Where it was hard to evidence entirely new revenue sources, it was however possible to find new ways in which revenue sources have been combined or reconfigured. The report also offers practical advice for those who are planning to start their own journalistic site

The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast

This working paper explores the consequences for historians' research practice of the twinned transnational and digital turns. The accelerating digitization of historians' sources (scholarly, periodical, and archival) and the radical shift in the granularity of access to information within them has radically changes historians' research practice. Yet this has incited remarkably little reflection regarding the consequences for individual projects or collective knowledge generation. What are the implications for international research in particular? This essay heralds the new kinds of historical knowledge-generation made possible by web access to digitized, text-searchable sources. It also attempts an accounting of all that we formerly, unwittingly, gained from the frictions inherent to international research in an analog world. What are the intellectual and political consequences of that which has been lost

Stylistics in translation

У навчальному посібнику розглянуто основні стилістичні засоби англійської мови та способи їх передання під час перекладу українською. Наведено жанрово-стилістичну класифікацію перекладів. Схарактеризовано стилістичні прийоми, їх застосування в англійських текстах різних жанрів, а також подано шляхи їх передання українською. Розраховано на студентів спеціальності "Прикладна лінгвістика".The book covers main stylistic means of the English language and the ways of their translation in Ukrainian. The classification of translations by text genre and style was given. The stylistic means and their usage in English texts of different genres were considered, and the ways of their rendering in Ukrainian were offered. For the students of "Applied Linguistics"