138 research outputs found
Condensational symbols in British press coverage of Boko Haram
This study of British press coverage of Boko Haram, a militant group in Nigeria, concentrates on condensational symbols in news reports of one of its major acts of terrorism, the bombing of the United Nations House in Abuja, the country’s capital city, in August 2011. The study examines the visibility of Boko Haram in British newspapers before and after the attack. It identifies the condensational symbols that dominated the coverage and how these provided a particular trajectory that could have shaped newspaper readers’ understanding of the event. The study argues that the symbolic terms that journalists used in their reports were not only easily identifiable but were specifically chosen to simplify a complex story for audiences that were perhaps uninformed about the group and its activities. The terms also reflect the repertoire of news frames that journalists mine to reconstruct reality for their audiences
A Strategic Orientation Model for the Turkish Local e-Governments
Increased environmental uncertainty and complexity along with budget constraints
requires public organizations to manage strategically as never before. The
environments of public organizations have become increasingly turbulent and more
firmly interconnected. During the past two decades, governments have innovated
new management tools such as strategic planning, outsourcing, and performance
measurement to deal with complex governance and networks to provide their
public services. Meanwhile, the drive to implement e-government has resulted in
the formulation of many e-government visions and strategies, driven by their own
sets of political, economic, and social factors and requirements. With this regard,
recent developments in e-service provision of Turkish Local e-Governments
deserve empirical and well-structured research. Building on the recent literature,
this study draws a strategic orientation framework and tests it by analyzing the
contents of strategic documents of 114 Turkish Local e-Governments
Travel journalism: exploring production, impact and culture
Travel journalism has experienced enormous growth over recent decades, with a record number of media organizations now involved in producing information for tourists in one way or another. Correspondingly, journalism and media scholars have begun to pay more attention to this phenomenon. This book gives a comprehensive overview of the burgeoning field of travel journalism studies. The contributors explore travel journalism in newspapers and magazines, on television and online, across a wide range of national and cultural contexts. Individual chapters provide critical discussions of theoretical approaches, present studies of production, content and impact, and explain how travel journalism can be understood through the lenses of postcolonialism, sustainability and cosmopolitanism. This fascinating account offers a thoroughly international and interdisciplinary perspective on an increasingly important field of journalism scholarship
A proposal to hold the 9th International Congress on the Jurassic System in Jaipur (Rajasthan), India
Kirklandia texana Caster—Cretaceous hydrozoan medusoid or trace fossil chimaera?
Volume: 18Start Page: 665End Page: 67
Swaley cross-stratification produced by unidirectional flows, Bencliff Grit (Upper Jurassic), Dorset, UK
Environmental factors determining the distribution of brachiopods
Volume: 17Start Page: 879End Page: 90
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