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Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the
United States' digital radio transition, chronicling the
technological and policy development of the HD Radio broadcast
standard. A story laced with anxiety, ignorance, and hubris, the
evolution of HD Radio pitted the nation's largest commercial and
public broadcasters against the rest of the radio industry and the
listening public in a pitched battle over defining the digital
future of the medium. The Federal Communications Commission has
elected to put its faith in "marketplace forces" to govern radio's
digital transition, but this has not been a winning strategy: a
dozen years from its rollout, the state of HD Radio is one of
dangerous malaise, especially as newer digital audio distribution
technologies fundamentally redefine the public identity of "radio"
itself. Ultimately, Radio's Digital Dilemma is a cautionary tale
about the overarching influence of economics on contemporary media
policymaking, to the detriment of notions such as public ownership
and access to the airwaves-and a call for media scholars and
reformers to engage in the continuing struggle of radio's digital
transition in hopes of reclaiming these important principles.
Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the
United States' digital radio transition, chronicling the
technological and policy development of the HD Radio broadcast
standard. A story laced with anxiety, ignorance, and hubris, the
evolution of HD Radio pitted the nation's largest commercial and
public broadcasters against the rest of the radio industry and the
listening public in a pitched battle over defining the digital
future of the medium. The Federal Communications Commission has
elected to put its faith in "marketplace forces" to govern radio's
digital transition, but this has not been a winning strategy: a
dozen years from its rollout, the state of HD Radio is one of
dangerous malaise, especially as newer digital audio distribution
technologies fundamentally redefine the public identity of "radio"
itself. Ultimately, Radio's Digital Dilemma is a cautionary tale
about the overarching influence of economics on contemporary media
policymaking, to the detriment of notions such as public ownership
and access to the airwaves-and a call for media scholars and
reformers to engage in the continuing struggle of radio's digital
transition in hopes of reclaiming these important principles.
Since its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has
impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives.
Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an
unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous
applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet
Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network
management that would permit them to discriminate the quality and
speed of access to online content as they saw fit. In response, the
Federal Communications Commission sought to enshrine "net
neutrality" in regulatory policy as a means of preserving the
Internet's open, nondiscriminatory characteristics. Although the
FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues
as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain
the Internet's structure. Regulating the Web brings together a
diverse collection of scholars who examine the net neutrality
policy and surrounding debates from a variety of perspectives. In
doing so, the book contributes to the ongoing discourse about net
neutrality in the hopes that we may continue to work toward
preserving a truly open Internet structure in the United States.
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age is a virtuoso novel hailed as
"a dark jewel" (The Village Voice) and "a dazzlingly unconventional
fiction ... capable of frequently reducing the reader to helpless
(albeit grateful) tears" (Kirkus Reviews). Wise and illuminating,
it is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers,
Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a
famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one
of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the
information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing
things -- behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even
brandishing a knife at his mother -- and K, given to retreating
from reality into abstraction, looks for answers in his lifelong
love of William Blake's poetry. As K struggles to understand his
family and assess his responsibilities within it, he must also
reevaluate himself -- his relationship with his own father, the
political stances he has taken, the duty of artists and writers in
society. A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between
this father and his damaged son, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New
Age is the work of an unparalleled writer at his sparkling best.
"An intimate investigation of love, responsibility, and the nature
of inspiration, from one of world literature's most original
voices." -- Fionn Meade, The Seattle Times "Notable for its]
piercing emotional honesty ... A hopeful book." -- John Freeman,
The Dallas Morning News "Oe's voice resounds in every sentence,
making for rewarding-if melancholy-reading." -- Andrew Ervin, The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the father of the modern novel in
Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught
between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western
values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese
high school students have been expected to memorize passages from
his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese
writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western
readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima. In
this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a
great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in
spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his
life. He traces Soseki's complex and contradictory character,
offering rigorous close readings of Soseki's groundbreaking
experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points
of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and
recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion. Drawing on previously
untranslated letters and diaries, published reminiscences, and
passages from Soseki's fiction, Nathan renders intimate scenes of
the writer's life and distills a portrait of a tormented yet
unflaggingly original author. The first full-length study of Soseki
in fifty years, Nathan's biography elevates Soseki to his rightful
place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant
chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western
contemporaries, anticipated the modernism of the twentieth century.
Public Policy and Higher Education provides readers with new ways
to analyze complex state policies and offers the tools to examine
how policies affect students' access and success in college. Rather
than arguing for a single approach, the authors examine how
policymakers and higher education administrators can work to inform
and influence change within systems of higher education using
research-based evidence along with consideration of political and
historical values and beliefs. Raising new questions and examining
recent developments, this updated edition is an invaluable resource
for graduate students, administrators, policymakers, and
researchers who seek to learn more about the crucial contexts
underlying policy decisions and college access. Special Features:
Case Studies-allow readers to examine strategies used by different
types of colleges to improve access and retention. Reflective
Exercises-encourage readers to discuss state and campus context for
policy decisions and to think about the strategies used in a state
or institution. Approachable Explanations-unpack complex public
policies and financial strategies for readers who seek
understanding of public policy in higher education. Research-Based
Recommendations-explore how policymakers, higher education
administrators, and faculty can work together to improve quality,
diversity, and financial stewardship. New epilogues and a revised
Part III-reexamine themes and encourage critical thinking about
inequality and policy change
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the father of the modern novel in
Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught
between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western
values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese
high school students have been expected to memorize passages from
his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese
writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western
readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima. In
this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a
great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in
spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his
life. He traces Soseki's complex and contradictory character,
offering rigorous close readings of Soseki's groundbreaking
experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points
of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and
recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion. Drawing on previously
untranslated letters and diaries, published reminiscences, and
passages from Soseki's fiction, Nathan renders intimate scenes of
the writer's life and distills a portrait of a tormented yet
unflaggingly original author. The first full-length study of Soseki
in fifty years, Nathan's biography elevates Soseki to his rightful
place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant
chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western
contemporaries, anticipated the modernism of the twentieth century.
Public Policy and Higher Education provides readers with new ways
to analyze complex state policies and offers the tools to examine
how policies affect students' access and success in college. Rather
than arguing for a single approach, the authors examine how
policymakers and higher education administrators can work to inform
and influence change within systems of higher education using
research-based evidence along with consideration of political and
historical values and beliefs. Raising new questions and examining
recent developments, this updated edition is an invaluable resource
for graduate students, administrators, policymakers, and
researchers who seek to learn more about the crucial contexts
underlying policy decisions and college access. Special Features:
Case Studies-allow readers to examine strategies used by different
types of colleges to improve access and retention. Reflective
Exercises-encourage readers to discuss state and campus context for
policy decisions and to think about the strategies used in a state
or institution. Approachable Explanations-unpack complex public
policies and financial strategies for readers who seek
understanding of public policy in higher education. Research-Based
Recommendations-explore how policymakers, higher education
administrators, and faculty can work together to improve quality,
diversity, and financial stewardship. New epilogues and a revised
Part III-reexamine themes and encourage critical thinking about
inequality and policy change
Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece,
although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of
haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a
psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and
exactitude of character revelation that had no precedent in Japan
at the time of its publication and has not been equaled since. With
Light and Dark, Soseki invented the modern Japanese novel.
Recovering in a clinic following surgery, thirty-year-old Tsuda
Yoshio receives visits from a procession of intimates: his
coquettish young wife, O-Nobu; his unsparing younger sister,
O-Hide, who blames O-Nobu's extravagance for her brother's
financial difficulties; his self-deprecating friend, Kobayashi, a
ne'er-do-well and troublemaker who might have stepped from the
pages of a Dostoevsky novel; and his employer's wife, Madam
Yoshikawa, a conniving meddler with a connection to Tsuda that is
unknown to the others. Divergent interests create friction among
this closely interrelated cast of characters that explodes into
scenes of jealousy, rancor, and recrimination that will astonish
Western readers conditioned to expect Japanese reticence. Released
from the clinic, Tsuda leaves Tokyo to continue his convalescence
at a hot-springs resort. For reasons of her own, Madam Yoshikawa
informs him that a woman who inhabits his dreams, Kiyoko, is
staying alone at the same inn, recovering from a miscarriage.
Dissuading O-Nobu from accompanying him, Tsuda travels to the spa,
a lengthy journey fraught with real and symbolic obstacles that
feels like a passage from one world to another. He encounters
Kiyoko, who attempts to avoid him, but finally manages a meeting
alone with her in her room. Soseki's final scene is a sublime
exercise in indirection that leaves Tsuda to "explain the meaning
of her smile."
Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece,
although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of
haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a
psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and
exactitude of character revelation that had no precedent in Japan
at the time of its publication and has not been equaled since. With
Light and Dark, Soseki invented the modern Japanese novel.
Recovering in a clinic following surgery, thirty-year-old Tsuda
Yoshio receives visits from a procession of intimates: his
coquettish young wife, O-Nobu; his unsparing younger sister,
O-Hide, who blames O-Nobu's extravagance for her brother's
financial difficulties; his self-deprecating friend, Kobayashi, a
ne'er-do-well and troublemaker who might have stepped from the
pages of a Dostoevsky novel; and his employer's wife, Madam
Yoshikawa, a conniving meddler with a connection to Tsuda that is
unknown to the others. Divergent interests create friction among
this closely interrelated cast of characters that explodes into
scenes of jealousy, rancor, and recrimination that will astonish
Western readers conditioned to expect Japanese reticence. Released
from the clinic, Tsuda leaves Tokyo to continue his convalescence
at a hot-springs resort. For reasons of her own, Madam Yoshikawa
informs him that a woman who inhabits his dreams, Kiyoko, is
staying alone at the same inn, recovering from a miscarriage.
Dissuading O-Nobu from accompanying him, Tsuda travels to the spa,
a lengthy journey fraught with real and symbolic obstacles that
feels like a passage from one world to another. He encounters
Kiyoko, who attempts to avoid him, but finally manages a meeting
alone with her in her room. Soseki's final scene is a sublime
exercise in indirection that leaves Tsuda to "explain the meaning
of her smile."
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