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Hussain, Serena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Pahari speakers form one of the largest ethnic non-European diasporas in Britain. Despite their size and over 60 years of settlement on British shores, the diaspora is shrouded by confusion regarding official and unofficial categorisations, remaining largely misunderstood as a collective with a shared ethnolinguistic memory. This has had…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Language Minorities
Chen, Hailiang – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As both individuals and businesses are starting to embrace social media, understanding the power and influence of social media becomes an important question. This dissertation aims to address this issue and study the impact of social media in different contexts. It consists of two essays. The first essay examines the effectiveness of social media…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Music, Musicians, Marketing
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Welch, Cindy C. – Library Quarterly, 2012
Children's librarians were active radio broadcasters as early as 1922, when American commercial radio was just beginning. As they utilized the new technology of radio to promote reading, literature and outreach, they transferred techniques and materials already familiar from their work in neighborhood libraries. This article documents children's…
Descriptors: Librarians, Radio, Libraries, Children
Bor, Stephanie E. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2014
In response to the growing demand for digitally competent employees in the news media industry, journalism schools are cautiously integrating social media reporting into their curriculum. This study explores techniques for teaching news reporting on social media platforms focusing on challenges and opportunities for learning engagement that…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Journalism, Teaching Methods, News Reporting
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2011
When 75-year-old Margaret Corston saw a poster in her local library advertising a course in basic radio broadcasting skills, she little thought that some 18 months later she would be hosting her own weekly show, with thousands of listeners, on community radio. From small beginnings--her first course was called "First Steps in Radio"--she began to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Radio, Older Adults
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Selwyn, Neil – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, schools micro-computing in the UK developed from being a niche "hobbyist" activity to a prominent, officially mandated element of the national education system. Drawing on in-depth interviews with key actors of the time, this paper outlines the initial varied interpretations of schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Information Technology, Educational Policy
Greenwood, Brad N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this dissertation I investigate how changes in the availability of information influences decision making in inherently ambiguous environments. As the Internet has not only fostered connectivity, but also catalyzed information generation on an unprecedented scale, my objective is to revisit the concept of information availability and salience…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Knowledge Management, Access to Information, Internet
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Elma, Cevat; Kesten, Alper; Dicle, Abdullah N.; Uzun, Elif Mercan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2010
The purpose of this study is to evaluate school principals', teachers', parents', and students' opinions, arising from participation in a pilot program which used a media literacy curriculum in Turkey. The research population covers all seventh grade students who attended the media literacy course during the 2006-2007 academic year, in five pilot…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Literacy Education, Grade 7
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Misra, Pradeep Kumar – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
Among several uses, educational use of television is a prominent one. The public broadcasters of many countries routinely provide locally-relevant and useful educational television programs. In other side, there has been phenomenal growth in Internet use worldwide. The researchers are of the view that Internet has challenged the supremacy of…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Television, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Beck, Bernard – Multicultural Perspectives, 2010
Two different perspectives on the immigrant struggles are found in a documentary about the radio and television program "The Goldbergs" and a science fiction thriller about the treatment of an immigrant alien community. "Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg" is optimistic and celebrates the achievements of an established ethnic community in America and the woman…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Immigrants, Science Fiction, Cultural Pluralism
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Wenger, Deb Halpern; Owens, Lynn C. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2012
A revolution in delivery methods for news and information has created an urgent need for journalism educators to define critical skills for success in the profession. A content analysis was conducted over three-month periods in 2008 and 2009 for all employment opportunities posted by the top ten American newspaper and broadcast journalism…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, News Media, Journalism Education, Journalism
Csorny, Lauren – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 2009
What do TV news workers do each day? For many of them, contributing to daily news broadcasts has changed greatly over the years. This evolution will likely continue for years to come. And more changes to news production are expected, according to Tom Weir, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina's School of Journalism and Mass…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Occupations, Television, Work Environment
Kidwai, Sabrina – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2008
A delegation of visitors descended on McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C., on February 19 for Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. ACTE staff, several congressional staffers, staff from SkillsUSA, FCCLA and the District of Columbia Department of Career and Technical Education visited the school--a public charter which offers…
Descriptors: High Schools, Vocational Education, Urban Schools, Charter Schools
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Whitmarsh, Lona; Wentworth, Diane Keyser – Career Development Quarterly, 2012
Career development research has often explored gender differences in and development of career patterns (Gottfredson, 2006). Hyde's (2005) meta-analysis indicated that men and women shared more similarities than differences. Applying Hyde's gender similarities hypothesis to careers, the authors conducted a 2-stage study. Stage 1 was an analysis of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Research, Gender Differences, Pattern Recognition
Goble, Don – Principal Leadership, 2009
This article describes the many learning opportunities that broadcast technology students at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Missouri, experience because of their unique access to technology and methods of learning. Through scaffolding, stepladder techniques, and trial by fire, students learn to produce multiple television programs,…
Descriptors: Programming (Broadcast), Media Literacy, Educational Experience, Mass Media
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