Higher education corruption in the world media: Prevalence, patterns, and forms

Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. There is a phenomenal growth in the number of media reports on corruption in higher education over the last decade. However, the rigorous systematic research on education corruption is virtually nonexistent. This paper considers corruption in higher education as reflected in the world media, including such aspects of corruption as its prevalence, patterns, and dominating forms. It follows publications in the specialized and the non-specialized media outlets in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation. The publications are grouped depending on the particular problem they address. This criterion has been chosen as best addressing the issue of corruption internationally. Socio-economic context of educational reforms and changes in each country leaves its print on major forms of corruption in higher education. The findings help to determine which aspects of corruption in higher education should be given more consideration in the future research and which ones might be prioritized, as well as how the national systems of higher education can be improved.corruption, higher education, media, Russia, UK, US

Obama: what the world (media) wants

I get to talk to a lot of international journalists and recently they have just one question: what difference will a President Obama make to the rest of the world

A Study on Platform's New Strategy in Media 2.0 Era - Based on “Keystone” concept & Google case

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a new strategy of the platform in Media 2.0 era. This goal is approached by firstly examining conceptual change of the platform strategy from mass media world (Media 1.0) to micro media world (Media 2.0). Then, it will discuss "Keystone" strategy by Iansiti & Levien (2004) who introduced four different types of platform and will give an example, Google. The data shows, how Google's keystone strategy could be successfully accomplished with three sources for value creation, revelation, aggregation and plasticity, and how healthy it is in terms of productivity, robustness, and niche creation. Finally, an applicable framework to Media 2.0 will be constructed on the basis sources for value creation and "Keystone" capabilities of ecosystem management. Three main parts of the keystone strategy are the openness, synchronization, and mass customization focus. --Media platform,Keystone,ecosystem

Leadership Styles and Conflict Management Strategies of Prominent US Female Cable Industry Leaders [Slides]

Slides presented at 8th World Media Economics and Management Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 18‐22, 2008 by Louisa Ha and Chin-Chung Chao

Messages to European Muslims

I have never felt so shocked nor so ashamed as I felt while listening to the world media about the bloody London Bridge attack claiming to be carried out in the name of Allah. I cannot accept it because this is not my faith. This is not the Allah I believe in. My Allah is not a hater! My Allah is not violent! My faith is not the knife! After the civil attack in London and Manchester, Dr. Mustafa Cerić, Grand Mufti Emeritus of Bosnia-Herzegovina, sent An Appeal to the European Muslims: Let Us Have a Common Word with Our Neighbors. There is no recipe for success, but there is a recipe for failure. The recipe for failure is violence in the name of Allah. My faith is not terror. My Allah is Loving and Merciful! My faith is common sense and a warm word. But how am I going to explain it to my neighbors in Europe? After the Manchester and London attacks, they have no will to listen to me anymore. They don\u27t buy my faith\u27s stories of love; they don\u27t care about my faith\u27s beautiful narratives. They are no longer interested in the stories of my faith. They want to know what I have done to stop the bloody violence in the name of Allah in the streets of Europe. I have done a lot, but it seems it is not enough

National Security in the Information Age

The information environment has been changing right along with the broader security environment. Today, the information environment connects almost everyone, almost everywhere, almost instantaneously. The media environment has become global, and there’s no longer such thing as “the news cycle” —everything is 24/7. Barriers between US and global publics have virtual disappeared: Everything and anything can “go viral” instantly, and it’s no longer possible to say one thing to a US audience and another thing to a foreign audience and assume no one will ever set the statements side by side. The Pakistani military has a very clear idea of what the Secretary of Defense tells Congress about Pakistan, for instance—and Congress has an equally clear idea of how Pakistani leaders talk about the United States to their domestic constituencies. Technological changes and lower costs have also democratized the media and information environment: Internet and cell phone access is increasingly ubiquitous, and individuals and organizations are ever more reliant on electronic communication. Today, news, commentary, and video can be produced and accessed equally by first world media producers, Washington decision-makers, Iowa housewives, Afghan shepherds, Chinese university students, Colombian insurgents, and Al Qaeda members. As with the security environment more broadly, the rapidly changing information environment creates both new challenges and new opportunities for the US government. The author emphasizes that this is true across the executive branch. All USG agencies, from Defense to State to Treasury and beyond, are struggling to adapt anachronistic programs and policies

Africa and the media: changing aspects of communication (a working bibliography)

African Studies Center Working Paper No. 17INTRODUCTION: Each year the annual meeting of the African Studies Association has a general theme, on which a major portion of the panels are presented. The Bibliography Sub-committee of the Archives-Libraries Committee of ASA has unqertaken the project of preparing a working bibliography on the theme of each year's annual meeting. The theme of the 1979 meeting, "Africa and the Media: Changing Aspects of Communication", is broad in its scope, challenging and exciting in its impact, and particularly well-suited for a survey of the literature. There is a great deal written about communication and media in and about Africa, in a variety of sources. This bibliography will attempt to pull some of the available sources together, to indicate continuing sources of information, and to mention projects which are in progress or in planning stages. A working paper presents, in a preliminary format, ideas and information for comment and criticism. It is a starting point for a more finished and polished piece of work. A working bibliography is essentially the same kind of preliminary production, a starting point for further work on the part of individual scholars. Obviously it is not an exhaustive survey of the state of the art. The bibliography will address two aspects of the theme: (1) Africa in United States and World Media and (2) Media in Africa. Types of media to be covered are the press, broadcasting, theatre, cinema, publishing and educational media. The approximate cutoff date was set at 1970. Most citations were noted at Boston University, Library of Congress, Northwestern University, Univensity of Illinois and Yale University. The coordinating editor will attempt to supply location information for interlibrary loan or consultation. Since some citations have been obtained from indexing services, locations in the United States cannet necessarily be guaranteed

“The most respected teachers in the world”? Media Representations of the Finnish Teacher in Treacherous Times

This study investigates how different types of teachers are represented and constructed in television fiction. Previous research indicates that fiction is as powerful as non-fiction in shaping and changing peoples’ attitudes, beliefs and opinions. In Finland, the context of this study, there have been many teacher characters in literature, TV and movies and, despite their esteemed status in society, their representation has been mainly negative. Motivated by the current ‘treacherous’ changes in Finnish education (introduction of a new core curriculum, problems of discipline, increasing number of dropouts and marginalized youth), we examine how a recent and popular Finnish TV-series centered on a school, display these societal issues and, at the same time, portray different facets of teacherhood. The main concept used as a tool for analysing the TV-series is representation while content and discourse analyses serve as analytical frameworks. The results of this study show that two main subsets of teachers are present in the TV series: art teachers vs. teachers in general. Compared to the traditional representation of teachers the art teacher is constructed as more positive and as some sort of independent warrior teacher. Yet her representations tend to be not only one-sided but also caricatures, which puts into question the respect and appreciation of teachers in Finnish society.Peer reviewe