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Making Human Rights News: Balancing Participation and
Professionalism explores the impact of new digital technology and
activism on the production of human rights messages. It is the
first collection of studies to combine multidisciplinary
approaches, "citizen witness" challenges to journalism ethics, and
expert assessments of the "liberating role" of the Internet,
addressing the following questions: 1. What can scholars from a
wide range of disciplines - including communication studies,
journalism, sociology, political science, and international
relations/studies - add to traditional legal and political human
rights discussions, exploring the impact of innovative digital
information technologies on the gathering and dissemination of
human rights news? 2. What questions about journalism ethics and
professionalism arise as growing numbers of untrained "citizen
witnesses" use modern mobile technology to document claims of human
rights abuses? 3. What are the limits of the "liberating role" of
the Internet in challenging traditional sources of authority and
credibility, such as professional journalists and human rights
professionals? 4. How do greater Internet access and human rights
activism interact with variations in press freedom and government
censorship worldwide to promote respect for different categories of
human rights, such as women's rights and rights to health? This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Human Rights.
This book introduces the technical tools and concepts that are
indispensable for advanced work in philosophy. Beginning with the
fundamentals of set theory, the author guides the reader through
relations, functions and the theory of arithmetic before using
these tools to clarify the metatheory of the predicate calculus.
There are discussions of recursive definitions, Godel's Theorem,
and completeness for the predicate calculus. The text emphasizes
the structure of these systems and the metatheory behind them.
This book is among the first to systematically explore the impact
of community inequality on reporting political and social change.
Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the
impact of media on society, Media and Social Inequality explores
the reverse perspective: the impact of society on media. Using a
'community structure' approach, and rejecting the perspective that
studies of media and audiences can be reduced to the individual
level of psychological phenomena, all contributions examine
connections between community-level 'macro' characteristics and
variations in the coverage of critical issues. This innovative book
differs from previous community structure volumes in two ways.
First, contributions explore a far wider range of community
characteristics by employing creative methodologies, modern
archives, and databases that facilitate larger, more diverse
samples; multilevel and longitudinal analyses; composite measures
of both 'content' and editorial judgment; new technologies; and
social network analysis. Second, a traditional emphasis on media as
instruments of political and social 'control' is replaced by media
as potential mirrors of social 'change,' exploring 'bottom-up'
measures of 'vulnerability', 'concentrated disadvantage', and
'ethnic diversity/pluralism'. The volume contains two original
chapters: one on nationwide US coverage of the "Occupy" movement in
the expanded introduction, and another on nationwide US coverage of
universal health care. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Mass Communication and Society.
This book introduces the technical tools and concepts that are
indispensable for advanced work in philosophy. Beginning with the
fundamentals of set theory, the author guides the reader through
relations, functions and the theory of arithmetic before using
these tools to clarify the metatheory of the predicate calculus.
There are discussions of recursive definitions, Godel's Theorem,
and completeness for the predicate calculus. The text emphasizes
the structure of these systems and the metatheory behind them.
This book is the first collection of original research to explore
links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human
rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human
trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labour; and
same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee rights, immigration reform,
and post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States. The
research asks questions such as: What are the principal catalysts
that propel rights issues into media agendas? Why do some surface
more quickly than others? And how do the demographics of
cross-national reporting differ from those driving multi-city US
nationwide coverage of rights claims? Using community structure
theory and innovative Media Vector content analysis, the eight
chapters of this book reveal three striking patterns that show how
differences in female empowerment, social or economic
vulnerability, and Midwestern newspaper geographic location, link
powerfully with variations in coverage of rights issues. The
patterns connecting demographics and rights claims confirm that
coverage of human rights can mirror the concerns of stakeholders
and vulnerable groups, contrary to conventional assumptions that
media typically serve as "guard dogs" reinforcing the interests of
political and economic elites. This book was originally published
as a special issue of The Atlantic Journal of Communication.
This book is the first collection of original research to explore
links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human
rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human
trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labour; and
same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee rights, immigration reform,
and post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States. The
research asks questions such as: What are the principal catalysts
that propel rights issues into media agendas? Why do some surface
more quickly than others? And how do the demographics of
cross-national reporting differ from those driving multi-city US
nationwide coverage of rights claims? Using community structure
theory and innovative Media Vector content analysis, the eight
chapters of this book reveal three striking patterns that show how
differences in female empowerment, social or economic
vulnerability, and Midwestern newspaper geographic location, link
powerfully with variations in coverage of rights issues. The
patterns connecting demographics and rights claims confirm that
coverage of human rights can mirror the concerns of stakeholders
and vulnerable groups, contrary to conventional assumptions that
media typically serve as "guard dogs" reinforcing the interests of
political and economic elites. This book was originally published
as a special issue of The Atlantic Journal of Communication.
Making Human Rights News: Balancing Participation and
Professionalism explores the impact of new digital technology and
activism on the production of human rights messages. It is the
first collection of studies to combine multidisciplinary
approaches, "citizen witness" challenges to journalism ethics, and
expert assessments of the "liberating role" of the Internet,
addressing the following questions: 1. What can scholars from a
wide range of disciplines - including communication studies,
journalism, sociology, political science, and international
relations/studies - add to traditional legal and political human
rights discussions, exploring the impact of innovative digital
information technologies on the gathering and dissemination of
human rights news? 2. What questions about journalism ethics and
professionalism arise as growing numbers of untrained "citizen
witnesses" use modern mobile technology to document claims of human
rights abuses? 3. What are the limits of the "liberating role" of
the Internet in challenging traditional sources of authority and
credibility, such as professional journalists and human rights
professionals? 4. How do greater Internet access and human rights
activism interact with variations in press freedom and government
censorship worldwide to promote respect for different categories of
human rights, such as women's rights and rights to health? This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Human Rights.
This book is among the first to systematically explore the
impact of community inequality on reporting political and social
change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by
the impact of media on society, "Media and Social Inequality"
explores the reverse perspective: the impact of society on media.
Using a 'community structure' approach, and rejecting the
perspective that studies of media and audiences can be reduced to
the individual level of psychological phenomena, all contributions
examine connections between community-level 'macro' characteristics
and variations in the coverage of critical issues. This innovative
book differs from previous community structure volumes in two ways.
First, contributions explore a far wider range of community
characteristics by employing creative methodologies, modern
archives, and databases that facilitate larger, more diverse
samples; multilevel and longitudinal analyses; composite measures
of both 'content' and editorial judgment; new technologies; and
social network analysis. Second, a traditional emphasis on media as
instruments of political and social 'control' is replaced by media
as potential mirrors of social 'change, ' exploring 'bottom-up'
measures of 'vulnerability', 'concentrated disadvantage', and
'ethnic diversity/pluralism'. The volume contains two original
chapters: one on nationwide US coverage of the "Occupy" movement in
the expanded introduction, and another on nationwide US coverage of
universal health care.
This book was originally published as a special issue of "Mass
Communication and Society."
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Charles George Gordon gained universal respect and affection in the
slums of urban Victorian Britain fighting on spiritual
battlegrounds. Later, he obtained the same reputation as he
commanded in battle Chinese, Egyptian, and African (but never
British) troops, to become a British military hero. General Gordon
died while trying to save Khartoum from fire and sword in 1885, the
mourning from a grateful nation was only surpassed by the death's
of Henry Havelock at Lucknow and Nelson at Trafalgar. Gladstone,
Britain's Prime Minister at the time feared it would bring down his
government. He is now known as one of Britain's greatest military
heroes in the line of Wellington, Nelson, Havelock, Harris and
Montgomery. There are 4 parts to this well researched and exciting
biography: Part One: 'Yellow Jacket', 1833-1864. Part Two: 'The
Liberator' 1865-1879. Part Three: 'The Pillar of Cloud' 1880-1883.
Part Four: 'Too Late' 1884-1885. John Pollock, author of other
highly praised biographies (including Havelock's), draws on
extensive, but little used, manuscript sources to vividly retell a
fascinating and colourful true story of an extraordinary figure.
The story of Hudson Taylor is one of adventure and excitement - of
improbable answers to prayer, opposition from the establishment and
triumphs of faith. Even more interesting is the story of the
relationship at the heart of it all - the story of Hudson and Maria
Taylor. There are few love stories as enchanting as that of Hudson
Taylor, the pioneering missionary, and Maria Dyer. Their
relationship and short marriage flourished in the bitterest of
circumstances because their lives were firmly rooted in their
devotion to God, as well as to each other. They were a perfect
match, (though not perfect people), a couple who show us how to
share our lives at the deepest level. John Pollock draws his
material extensively from original letters and papers. What unfolds
is a picture of courage and adventure in Imperial China, a lost
world of pigtails, Mandarins and dragon-roofed temples. It also
shows how Maria played a crucial role in shaping the ministry of a
Yorkshire lad who, against oriental and western opposition, changed
the way that missionaries work.
Harold Schofield, a brilliant Oxford doctor who had laboured as a
missionary in China for many years, was on his knees praying,
'Lord, give me missionaries from British Universities to help in
China'. The day he died, D. E. Hoste applied to Hudson Taylor for
mission work in the China Inland Mission (Now Overseas Missionary
Fellowship). Schofield's prayer was answered as seven Cambridge
students volunteered to leave behind cosy lives of wealth and
privilege to serve God in whatever way they were led. These seven
inspired thousands of others to think seriously of missionary
service. Included among them was C.T. Studd, captain of England and
the finest cricketer of his day - if he could give all that up,
then so could anyone! The story of these seven are an inspiration
that God can take people and use them in incredible ways - if they
are willing to serve. As Pollock says in his book 'Theirs is the
story of ordinary men, and thus may be repeated'. Will it be
repeated in your life?
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
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