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Leadership

By: Marian Iszatt-White,Christopher Saunders

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Leadership

By: Marian Iszatt-White,Christopher Saunders

This accessible and comprehensive textbook draws on the reader's own experience of leadership in an employment context. The text adopts a critical and thematic approach to the discussion of core debates and emerging topics, while offering a wealth of case studies and other learning tools to help students put leadership theory into practice.

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0198834292

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Farm Fresh Broadband

The Politics of Rural Connectivity

By: Christopher Ali

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Farm Fresh Broadband

The Politics of Rural Connectivity

By: Christopher Ali

An analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural–urban digital divide, with a proposal for a new national rural broadband plan. As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural America has created a stark urban–rural digital divide. In Farm Fresh Broadband, Christopher Ali analyzes the promise and the failure of national rural broadband policy in the United States and proposes a new national broadband plan. He examines how broadband policies are enacted and implemented, explores business models for broadband providers, surveys the technologies of rural broadband, and offers case studies of broadband use in the rural Midwest. Ali argues that rural broadband policy is both broken and incomplete: broken because it lacks coordinated federal leadership and incomplete because it fails to recognize the important roles of communities, cooperatives, and local providers in broadband access. For example, existing policies favor large telecommunication companies, crowding out smaller, nimbler providers. Lack of competition drives prices up—rural broadband can cost 37 percent more than urban broadband. The federal government subsidizes rural broadband by approximately $6 billion. Where does the money go? Ali proposes democratizing policy architecture for rural broadband, modeling it after the wiring of rural America for electricity and telephony. Subsidies should be equalized, not just going to big companies. The result would be a multistakeholder system, guided by thoughtful public policy and funded by public and private support.

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MIT Press

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0262367084

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9780262367080

Framed!

Labor and the Corporate Media

By: Christopher R. Martin

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Framed!

Labor and the Corporate Media

By: Christopher R. Martin

Christopher R. Martin argues that the mainstream news media (and the large corporations behind them) put the labor movement in a bad light even while avoiding the appearance of bias. Martin has found that the news media construct "common ground" narratives between labor and management positions by reporting on labor relations from a consumer perspective. Martin identifies five central storytelling frames using this consumer orientation that repeatedly emerged in the news media coverage of major labor stories in the 1990s: the 1991–94 shutdown of the General Motors Willow Run Assembly Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan; the 1993 American Airlines flight attendant strike; the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, the 1997 United Parcel Service strike, and the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization's conference in Seattle. In Martin's view, the news media's consumer "take" on the labor movement has the effect of submerging issues of citizenship, political activity, and class relations, and elevating issues of consumption and the myth of a class-free America. Instead of facilitating a public sphere, the democratic ideal in which the public can engage in discovery and rational-critical debate, Martin says, news organizations have fostered a consumer sphere, in which public discourse and action is defined in terms of consumer interests—the impact of strikes, lock-outs, shut-downs, and protests on the general consumer economy and the price, quality, and availability of things such as automobiles, airline flights, and baseball tickets.

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Cornell University Press

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1501728547

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9781501728549

Digital Disability

The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

By: Gerard Goggin,Christopher Newell

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Digital Disability

The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

By: Gerard Goggin,Christopher Newell

Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications -- such as the Interact, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting -- have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742518442

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The Sound of Exclusion

NPR and the Latinx Public

By: Christopher Chávez

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The Sound of Exclusion

NPR and the Latinx Public

By: Christopher Chávez

As a network that claims to represent the nation, NPR asserts unique claims about what it means to be American. In The Sound of Exclusion, Christopher Chávez critically examines how National Public Radio conceptualizes the Latinx listener, arguing that NPR employs a number of industry practices that secure its position as a white public space while relegating Latinx listeners to the periphery. These practices are tied to a larger cultural logic. Latinx identity is differentiated from national identity, which can be heard through NPR’s cultivation of an idealized dialect, situating whiteness at its center. Pushing Latinx listeners to the edges of public radio has crucial implications for Latinx participation in civic discourses, as identifying who to include in the “public” audience necessarily involves a process of exclusion. Chávez analyzes NPR as a historical product that has evolved alongside significant changes in technology, industry practice, and demography. In The Sound of Exclusion, Chávez asks these pressing questions: What kind of news organization was NPR intended to be? What has it become over time? In what ways is it evolving to meet the needs of a nation, in which U.S. Latinxs are becoming an increasingly larger portion of the American public that NPR serves? Informed by more than fifty in-depth interviews conducted with public radio practitioners from all aspects of the business, Chávez addresses how power is enacted in everyday broadcast practices. By interrogating industry practices, we might begin to reimagine NPR as a public good that serves the broad and diverse spectrum of the American public.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816544336

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Hydro-Climatic Extremes in the Anthropocene

By: Christopher Ndehedehe

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Hydro-Climatic Extremes in the Anthropocene

By: Christopher Ndehedehe

This book explores how human civilization has contributed to changes in the Anthropocene, an era that marks a fundamental change in the way mankind has interacted with the Earth system. It examines the 21st century in the context of human development of water infrastructures, climate change impacts on freshwater resources, groundwater depletion, rising population, land use change, extreme events (droughts, floods, and wildfires). The implications of climate change impacts on environmental assets and the global water cycle are also highlighted. The book takes a pragmatically trans-disciplinary and holistic approach to the discussion of these issues, and the Earth system in the Anthropocene, drawing from a plethora of case studies. The capabilities of machine learning tools in satellite hydrology applications have been demonstrated as well as the feasibility of remote sensing data and innovative geospatial tools in environmental assessment. The book further showcases the multiple strengths and potential of new multi-disciplinary satellite radar programmes and geodetic missions, to measure and characterize extreme events, and their links to global climate, as well as in remote sensing of the environment. The aim is to provide innovative tools and a scientific framework that underpin our fundamental understanding of environmental systems, and the complexities of socio-hydrological systems in the Anthropocene. Policy issues have also been raised as an important aspect that can strengthen the management and administration of water resources, particularly in emerging economies where observational data is often lacking, limited, or difficult to access. It also highlights the lessons learned from freshwater hotspots (e.g., Lake Chad and Lake Urmia) where prolonged droughts and human activities have led to a permanent loss of surface water. It identifies the role of institutions and stakeholders in driving policies that underpins water management and climate change adaptation. The book articulates the novel applications of remote sensing tools as part of a monitoring framework that can alert stakeholders and the public sector to the dangers of mismanagement of freshwater in these hotspots and help facilitate water governance approaches. The book fills a critical gap in the multi-disciplinary aspect of planetary science, particularly in understanding the impacts of climate change and human actions on freshwater resources, as well as the stability of the Earth system.

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Springer Nature

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3031377273

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White-Collar Crime Online

Deviance, Organizational Behaviour and Risk

By: Petter Gottschalk,Christopher Hamerton

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White-Collar Crime Online

Deviance, Organizational Behaviour and Risk

By: Petter Gottschalk,Christopher Hamerton

This initiating monograph provides the first thorough examination of the concept of white-collar crime online. Applying an offender-based perspective which considers the central role of convenience, it seeks to inform, improve and develop the current literature on cybercrime, whilst paying particular attention to its founding category within criminology. It argues that white-collar crime has receded from criminological perspectives on cybercrime in recent years and that a detailed, rich re-assessment of white-collar crime in contemporary digital societies is needed. Following a theoretical introduction, the book develops to discuss, inter alia, implications for corporate reputation, the various organizational roles utilized in mitigating external and internal threats, the unique considerations involved in law enforcement efforts, and likely future directions within the field. White-Collar Crime Online recognises the strong lineage and correlation that exists between the study of white-collar crime and cybercrime. Using convenience theory within a comparative analysis which includes case-studies, the book explores both European and American paradigms, perspectives and models to determine where white-collar crime exists within the contemporary workplace and how this might relate to the ongoing discourse on cybercrime. In doing so it revaluates criminological theory within the context of changing patterns of business, the workplace, social rules, systems of governance, decision making, social ordering and control. White-Collar Crime Online will speak to criminologists, sociologists and professionals; including those interested in cyber-security, economics, technology and computer science.

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Springer Nature

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3030821323

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9783030821326

Fight Sports and American Masculinity

Salvation in Violence from 1607 to the Present

By: Christopher David Thrasher

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Fight Sports and American Masculinity

Salvation in Violence from 1607 to the Present

By: Christopher David Thrasher

Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvation. This work explains how the dominant fight sports in the United States have changed over time in response to broad shifts in American culture and ideals of manhood, and presents a narrative of American history as seen from the bars, gyms, stadiums and living rooms of the heartland. Ordinary Americans were the agents who supported and participated in fight sports and determined its vision of masculinity. This work counters the economic determinism prevalent in studies of American fight sports, which overemphasize profit as the driving force in the popularization of these sports. The author also disputes previous scholarship's domestic focus, with an appreciation of how American fight sports are connected to the rest of the world.

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McFarland

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1476618232

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9781476618234

Sounds of Change

A History of FM Broadcasting in America

By: Christopher H. Sterling,Michael C. Keith

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Sounds of Change

A History of FM Broadcasting in America

By: Christopher H. Sterling,Michael C. Keith

When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael Keith detail the history of FM, from its inception to its dominance (for now, at least) of the airwaves. Initially, FM's identity as a separate service was stifled, since most FM outlets were AM-owned and simply simulcast AM programming and advertising. A wartime hiatus followed by the rise of television precipitated the failure of hundreds of FM stations. As Sterling and Keith explain, the 1960s brought FCC regulations allowing stereo transmission and requiring FM programs to differ from those broadcast on co-owned AM stations. Forced nonduplication led some FM stations to branch out into experimental programming, which attracted the counterculture movement, minority groups, and noncommercial public and college radio. By 1979, mainstream commercial FM was finally reaching larger audiences than AM. The story of FM since 1980, the authors say, is the story of radio, especially in its many musical formats. But trouble looms. Sterling and Keith conclude by looking ahead to the age of digital radio--which includes satellite and internet stations as well as terrestrial stations--suggesting that FM's decline will be partly a result of self-inflicted wounds--bland programming, excessive advertising, and little variety.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807877557

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9780807877555

Reinventing the Latino Television Viewer

Language, Ideology, and Practice

By: Christopher Chávez

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Reinventing the Latino Television Viewer

Language, Ideology, and Practice

By: Christopher Chávez

Reinventing the Latino Television Viewer: Language, Ideology, and Practice examines how the relationship between language, power, and industry practice is reshaping the very concept of Hispanic television. Chávez argues that as established mainstream networks enter the Hispanic television space, they are redefining the Latino audience in ways that more closely resemble the mainstream population, leading to auspicious forms of erasure that challenge the legitimacy of Spanish altogether. This book presents the integration of English into the Hispanic television space not as an entirely new phenomenon, but rather as an extension of two ongoing practices within the television industry—the exploitation of consumer markets and the suppression of Latino forms of speech.

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Lexington Books

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149850664X

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9781498506649

The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights

The New Enclosures?

By: Christopher May

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The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights

The New Enclosures?

By: Christopher May

It has become a commonplace that there has been an information revolution, transforming both society and the economy. In 1995 the Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement aimed to harmonise protection for property in knowledge throughout the global system. This book considers the contemporary disputes about the ownership of knowledge resources - as in the cases of genetically modified foods, the music industry or the internet - and the problematic nature of the TRIPs agreement. In this highly topical book, Christopher May reveals that, because of such problems, at present the balance in intellectual property rights between public good and private reward is more often than not weighted towards the latter.

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Routledge

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1136361243

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People in Social Organisations and Enterprises. Motivation, Knowledge Transfer and Situated Learning in Their Communities of Practice

By: Christopher Whitworth,Zbigniew Zontek

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People in Social Organisations and Enterprises. Motivation, Knowledge Transfer and Situated Learning in Their Communities of Practice

By: Christopher Whitworth,Zbigniew Zontek

This book functions as a research monograph about people. Specifically why and how do people help others? What do they do, how and why do they get involved, who do they learn from, and teach, also what do they learn and share? Restating this research question in academic English: What motivates individuals to join and take part in social enterpriseÕs and other organizations, what behaviours do they exhibit, do they join or form groups that can be labelled as Òcommunities of practiceÓ, and do they undertake and deliver situated learning, as part of their knowledge transfer processes? The topic has been studied qualitatively via interpretative phenomenological analysis and related methodologies. Over 30 interviews, from disparate groups in the UK and Poland have been analysed in depth. The outcome has been to identify common factors in individuals behaviours, motivations and interactions.

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Lulu.com

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138756384X

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Screening the Operatic Stage

Television and Beyond

By: Christopher Morris

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Screening the Operatic Stage

Television and Beyond

By: Christopher Morris

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology. From the early days of television broadcasts to today’s live streams, opera houses have embraced technology as a way to reach new audiences. But how do these new forms of remediated opera extend, amplify, or undermine production values, and what does the audience gain or lose in the process? In Screening the Operatic Stage, Christopher Morris critically examines the cultural implications of opera’s engagement with screen media. Foregrounding the potential for a playful exchange and self-awareness between stage and screen, Morris uses the conceptual tools of media theory to understand the historical and contemporary screen cultures that have transmitted the opera house into living rooms, onto desktops and portable devices, and across networks of movie theaters. If these screen cultures reveal how inherently “technological” opera is as a medium, they also highlight a deep suspicion among opera producers and audiences toward the intervention of media technology. Ultimately, Screening the Operatic Stage shows how the conventions of televisual representation employed in opera have masked the mediating effects of technology in the name of fidelity to live performance.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226831280

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9780226831282

Mass Producing European Cinema

Studiocanal and Its Works

By: Christopher Meir

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Mass Producing European Cinema

Studiocanal and Its Works

By: Christopher Meir

Equal parts historical study, industrial analysis and critical survey of some of the most important films and television programs in recent European history, this book gives readers an overview of the development and output of this important company while also giving them a ringside seat for the latest round of the oldest battle in the film business. With films like Lucy, The Impossible and Paddington, European studios are producing hits that are unprecedented in terms of global success. Christopher Meir delves into StudioCanal, the foremost European company in the contemporary film and television industries, and chronicles its rise from a small production subsidiary of Canal Plus to being the most important global challenger to Hollywood's dominance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501327100

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Starfinder Rpg: Scoured Stars Adventure Path

By: Eleanor Ferron,Vanessa Hoskins,Thurston Hillman,Jenny Jarzabski,Mikko Kallio,Cole Kronewitter,Lyz Liddell,Shahreena Shahrani,Christopher Wasko,Nicholas Wasko,Larry Wilhelm

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Starfinder Rpg: Scoured Stars Adventure Path

By: Eleanor Ferron,Vanessa Hoskins,Thurston Hillman,Jenny Jarzabski,Mikko Kallio,Cole Kronewitter,Lyz Liddell,Shahreena Shahrani,Christopher Wasko,Nicholas Wasko,Larry Wilhelm

A complete Starfinder campaign debuts in hardcover! With most of the Starfinder Society's agents trapped behind an impenetrable force field, it's up to a new generation of heroes to step forward and uncover the mystery of this interstellar prison--the mystery of the Scoured Stars! Unravel the threat of the merciless alien jinsuls while rebuilding an interplanetary adventuring guild and dealing with the emerging threat of a slumbering god--all in a day's work for a Starfinder! This expansive 256-page hardcover campaign weaves together twelve popular scenarios from Paizo's enormous Starfinder Society organized play campaign, remastering and optimizing them for at-home play in the form of an exciting cosmos-spanning complete campaign from levels 1 to 15. The perfect introduction to the Starfinder RPG, and Starfinder's biggest adventure to date!

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1640785248

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Pathfinder Player Companion

Monster Hunter's Handbook

By: Paizo Publishing

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Pathfinder Player Companion

Monster Hunter's Handbook

By: Paizo Publishing

Sometimes an adventurer needs to take down a specific monstrous threat, and with Pathfinder Player Companion: Monster Hunter's Handbook you can prepare to find and fight any monstrous foe! The never-before-seen character options, equipment, and spells in this volume let Pathfinder RPG characters learn the difference between hunting dinosaurs and dragons, and show why it takes totally different equipment than hunting aberrations, vermin, plants, or magical beasts! Whether you want to know what you need to capture an ooze or are just looking for new options to give your character an edge against specific monstrous foes, this Player Companion gives you the tools to hunt monsters with confidence and style!

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Leadership

Leadership

Farm Fresh Broadband

Farm Fresh Broadband

Framed!

Framed!

Digital Disability

Digital Disability

The Sound of Exclusion

The Sound of Exclusion

Hydro-Climatic Extremes in the Anthropocene

Hydro-Climatic Extremes in the Anthropocene

White-Collar Crime Online

White-Collar Crime Online

Fight Sports and American Masculinity

Fight Sports and American Masculinity

Sounds of Change

Sounds of Change

Reinventing the Latino Television Viewer

Reinventing the Latino Television Viewer

The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights

The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights

People in Social Organisations and Enterprises. Motivation, Knowledge Transfer and Situated Learning in Their Communities of Practice

People in Social Organisations and Enterprises. Motivation, Knowledge Transfer and Situated Learning in Their Communities of Practice

Screening the Operatic Stage

Screening the Operatic Stage

Mass Producing European Cinema

Mass Producing European Cinema

Starfinder Rpg: Scoured Stars Adventure Path

Starfinder Rpg: Scoured Stars Adventure Path

Pathfinder Player Companion

Pathfinder Player Companion

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