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There is no doubt, journalism faces challenging times. Since the
turn of the millennium, the financial health of the news industry
is failing, mainstream audiences are on the decline, and
professional authority, credibility and autonomy are eroding. The
outlook is bleak and it's understandable that many are pessimistic.
But this book argues that we have to rethink journalism
fundamentally. Rather than just focus on the symptoms of the
'crisis of journalism', this collection tries to understand the
structural transformation journalism is undergoing. It explores how
the news media attempts to combat decreasing levels of trust, how
emerging forms of news affect the established journalistic field,
and how participatory culture creates new dialogues between
journalists and audiences. Crucially, it does not treat these
developments as distinct transformations. Instead, it considers how
their interrelation accounts for both the tribulations of the news
media and the need for contemporary journalism to redefine itself.
In the 19 years which passed since the first edition was published,
several important developments have taken place in the theory of
surfaces. The most sensational one concerns the differentiable
structure of surfaces. Twenty years ago very little was known about
differentiable structures on 4-manifolds, but in the meantime
Donaldson on the one hand and Seiberg and Witten on the other hand,
have found, inspired by gauge theory, totally new invariants.
Strikingly, together with the theory explained in this book these
invariants yield a wealth of new results about the differentiable
structure of algebraic surfaces. Other developments include the
systematic use of nef-divisors (in ac cordance with the progress
made in the classification of higher dimensional algebraic
varieties), a better understanding of Kahler structures on
surfaces, and Reider's new approach to adjoint mappings. All these
developments have been incorporated in the present edition, though
the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten theory only by way of examples. Of
course we use the opportunity to correct some minor mistakes, which
we ether have discovered ourselves or which were communicated to us
by careful readers to whom we are much obliged."
Published under the auspices of the Consortium on Human Rights
Development, this book presents a comparative analysis of two legal
instruments: one national--the New Tanzanian Bill of Rights--and
the other regional--The African Charter on Human Rights and
People's Rights. Both are important for the purposes of protection
and promotion of human rights. Human Rights in Africa records the
movement towards anarchy and dictatorship in Africa which
contributed tremendously to the new thinking and re-thinking about
the need to respect human dignity in Africa. In this book, the
author poignantly illustrates the national disregard of human
rights. Taking the case of Tanzania, Peter shows various incidents
of violation of human rights. He then cites examples of violations
at different levels in other African and Third World countries.
Part One of the book presents an historical examination of the
Tanzanian Bill of Rights and the African Charter on Human and
People's Rights. Part Two offers a thorough comparison of these two
legal instruments. Part Three covers the entire scope of people's
rights and Parts Four and Five take a look at the enforcement
mechanism of these legal instruments. Part Six presents the
author's conclusions and summary statements. Both the New Tanzanian
Bill of Rights and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights
can be found in their entirety in the Appendix. This book makes
informative reading to anyone interested in international law,
African history, human rights and related subjects.
Historically, or so we would like to believe, the story of everyday
life for many people included regular, definitive moments of news
consumption. Journalism, in fact, was distributed around these
routines: papers were delivered before breakfast, the evening news
on TV buttressed the transition from dinner to prime time
programming, and radio updates were centred around commuting
patterns. These habits were organized not just around specific
times but occurred in specific places, following a predictable
pattern. However, the past few decades have witnessed tremendous
changes in the ways we can consume journalism and engage with
information - from tablets, to smartphones, online, and so forth -
and the different places and moments of news consumption have
multiplied as a result, to the point where news is increasingly
mobile and instantaneous. It is personalized, localized and
available on-demand. Day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year,
technology moves forward, impacting more than just the ways in
which we get news. These fundamental shifts change what news 'is'.
This book expands our understanding of contemporary news audiences
and explores how the different places and spaces of news
consumption change both our experiences of journalism and the roles
it plays in our everyday lives. This book was originally published
as a special issue of Journalism Studies.
This up-to-date introduction to Griffiths' theory of period maps
and period domains focusses on algebraic, group-theoretic and
differential geometric aspects. Starting with an explanation of
Griffiths' basic theory, the authors go on to introduce spectral
sequences and Koszul complexes that are used to derive results
about cycles on higher-dimensional algebraic varieties such as the
Noether-Lefschetz theorem and Nori's theorem. They explain
differential geometric methods, leading up to proofs of
Arakelov-type theorems, the theorem of the fixed part and the
rigidity theorem. They also use Higgs bundles and harmonic maps to
prove the striking result that not all compact quotients of period
domains are Kahler. This thoroughly revised second edition includes
a new third part covering important recent developments, in which
the group-theoretic approach to Hodge structures is explained,
leading to Mumford-Tate groups and their associated domains, the
Mumford-Tate varieties and generalizations of Shimura varieties.
It's easy to make a rhetorical case for the value of journalism.
Because, it is a necessary precondition for democracy; it speaks to
the people and for the people; it informs citizens and enables them
to make rational decisions; it functions as their watchdog on
government and other powers that be. But does rehashing such
familiar rationales bring journalism studies forward? Does it
contribute to ongoing discussions surrounding journalism's
viability going forth? For all their seeming self-evidence, this
book considers what bearing these old platitudes have in the new
digital era. It asks whether such hopeful talk really reflects the
concrete roles journalism now performs for people in their everyday
lives. In essence, it poses questions that strike at the core of
the idea of journalism itself. Is there a singular journalism that
has one well-defined role in society? Is its public mandate as
strong as we think? The internationally-renowned scholars
comprising the collection address these recurring concerns that
have long-defined the profession and which journalism faces even
more acutely today. By discussing what journalism was, is, and
(possibly) will be, this book highlights key contemporary areas of
debate and tackles on-going anxieties about its future.
There is no doubt, journalism faces challenging times. Since the
turn of the millennium, the financial health of the news industry
is failing, mainstream audiences are on the decline, and
professional authority, credibility and autonomy are eroding. The
outlook is bleak and it's understandable that many are pessimistic.
But this book argues that we have to rethink journalism
fundamentally. Rather than just focus on the symptoms of the
'crisis of journalism', this collection tries to understand the
structural transformation journalism is undergoing. It explores how
the news media attempts to combat decreasing levels of trust, how
emerging forms of news affect the established journalistic field,
and how participatory culture creates new dialogues between
journalists and audiences. Crucially, it does not treat these
developments as distinct transformations. Instead, it considers how
their interrelation accounts for both the tribulations of the news
media and the need for contemporary journalism to redefine itself.
Algebraic geometry is a central subfield of mathematics in which
the study of cycles is an important theme. Alexander Grothendieck
taught that algebraic cycles should be considered from a motivic
point of view and in recent years this topic has spurred a lot of
activity. This book is one of two volumes that provide a
self-contained account of the subject as it stands today. Together,
the two books contain twenty-two contributions from leading figures
in the field which survey the key research strands and present
interesting new results. Topics discussed include: the study of
algebraic cycles using Abel-Jacobi/regulator maps and normal
functions; motives (Voevodsky's triangulated category of mixed
motives, finite-dimensional motives); the conjectures of
Bloch-Beilinson and Murre on filtrations on Chow groups and Bloch's
conjecture. Researchers and students in complex algebraic geometry
and arithmetic geometry will find much of interest here.
Algebraic geometry is a central subfield of mathematics in which
the study of cycles is an important theme. Alexander Grothendieck
taught that algebraic cycles should be considered from a motivic
point of view and in recent years this topic has spurred a lot of
activity. This book is one of two volumes that provide a
self-contained account of the subject as it stands. Together, the
two books contain twenty-two contributions from leading figures in
the field which survey the key research strands and present
interesting new results. Topics discussed include: the study of
algebraic cycles using Abel-Jacobi/regulator maps and normal
functions; motives (Voevodsky's triangulated category of mixed
motives, finite-dimensional motives); the conjectures of
Bloch-Beilinson and Murre on filtrations on Chow groups and Bloch's
conjecture. Researchers and students in complex algebraic geometry
and arithmetic geometry will find much of interest here.
It's easy to make a rhetorical case for the value of journalism.
Because, it is a necessary precondition for democracy; it speaks to
the people and for the people; it informs citizens and enables them
to make rational decisions; it functions as their watchdog on
government and other powers that be. But does rehashing such
familiar rationales bring journalism studies forward? Does it
contribute to ongoing discussions surrounding journalism's
viability going forth? For all their seeming self-evidence, this
book considers what bearing these old platitudes have in the new
digital era. It asks whether such hopeful talk really reflects the
concrete roles journalism now performs for people in their everyday
lives. In essence, it poses questions that strike at the core of
the idea of journalism itself. Is there a singular journalism that
has one well-defined role in society? Is its public mandate as
strong as we think? The internationally-renowned scholars
comprising the collection address these recurring concerns that
have long-defined the profession and which journalism faces even
more acutely today. By discussing what journalism was, is, and
(possibly) will be, this book highlights key contemporary areas of
debate and tackles on-going anxieties about its future.
Historically, or so we would like to believe, the story of everyday
life for many people included regular, definitive moments of news
consumption. Journalism, in fact, was distributed around these
routines: papers were delivered before breakfast, the evening news
on TV buttressed the transition from dinner to prime time
programming, and radio updates were centred around commuting
patterns. These habits were organized not just around specific
times but occurred in specific places, following a predictable
pattern. However, the past few decades have witnessed tremendous
changes in the ways we can consume journalism and engage with
information - from tablets, to smartphones, online, and so forth -
and the different places and moments of news consumption have
multiplied as a result, to the point where news is increasingly
mobile and instantaneous. It is personalized, localized and
available on-demand. Day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year,
technology moves forward, impacting more than just the ways in
which we get news. These fundamental shifts change what news 'is'.
This book expands our understanding of contemporary news audiences
and explores how the different places and spaces of news
consumption change both our experiences of journalism and the roles
it plays in our everyday lives. This book was originally published
as a special issue of Journalism Studies.
This up-to-date introduction to Griffiths' theory of period maps
and period domains focusses on algebraic, group-theoretic and
differential geometric aspects. Starting with an explanation of
Griffiths' basic theory, the authors go on to introduce spectral
sequences and Koszul complexes that are used to derive results
about cycles on higher-dimensional algebraic varieties such as the
Noether-Lefschetz theorem and Nori's theorem. They explain
differential geometric methods, leading up to proofs of
Arakelov-type theorems, the theorem of the fixed part and the
rigidity theorem. They also use Higgs bundles and harmonic maps to
prove the striking result that not all compact quotients of period
domains are Kahler. This thoroughly revised second edition includes
a new third part covering important recent developments, in which
the group-theoretic approach to Hodge structures is explained,
leading to Mumford-Tate groups and their associated domains, the
Mumford-Tate varieties and generalizations of Shimura varieties.
In the 19 years which passed since the first edition was published,
several important developments have taken place in the theory of
surfaces. The most sensational one concerns the differentiable
structure of surfaces. Twenty years ago very little was known about
differentiable structures on 4-manifolds, but in the meantime
Donaldson on the one hand and Seiberg and Witten on the other hand,
have found, inspired by gauge theory, totally new invariants.
Strikingly, together with the theory explained in this book these
invariants yield a wealth of new results about the differentiable
structure of algebraic surfaces. Other developments include the
systematic use of nef-divisors (in ac cordance with the progress
made in the classification of higher dimensional algebraic
varieties), a better understanding of Kahler structures on
surfaces, and Reider's new approach to adjoint mappings. All these
developments have been incorporated in the present edition, though
the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten theory only by way of examples. Of
course we use the opportunity to correct some minor mistakes, which
we ether have discovered ourselves or which were communicated to us
by careful readers to whom we are much obliged.
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