This book draws on the perspectives of non-migrants and urban youth in Bamenda, in the Northwest region of Cameroon, as well as on the views of Cameroonian migrants in Switzerland, to explore the meaning and role of New Media in the negotiation of sociality in transnational migration.
This book comprises 19 creative non-fiction pieces and essays centred around the topics of language, thought, art and existence seen through the prism of practising artist in contemporary Africa.
During the 1990s, as the Internet in general and e-mail in particular grew in popularity as a means of communication, a number of Cameroonians residing in various parts of the world established a vibrant and lively electronic forum for the discussion of various issues related to their native land.
West African teachers and professors who are appropriating information and communication technologies (ICT) are making it part and parcel of education and everyday life.
This book examines the ,glocalization, , the adaptation of a global telecommunication technology to local particularities , in West and Central Africa.
Nos encontramos transitando una etapa de cambios de paradigmas sociales; hoy somos más conscientes de las desigualdades, nuestra mirada sobre el mundo es diferente, y esto se refleja en los productos culturales que consumimos.
La presentación del delito en los medios de comunicación es parte de un circuito productivo integral que incluye las condiciones de estructuración del sector de las comunicaciones, las rutinas de trabajo, los criterios, operaciones y encuadres editoriales, su puesta en el aire y su recepción por parte del público.
El esoterismo y sus discursos presenta cinco recorridos analíticos que abordan objetos diversos: empaques de jabones, volantes publicitarios, anuncios clasificados, novenas y horóscopos, géneros discursivos producidos en el campo del esoterismo escasamente indagados por las ciencias del lenguaje.
En este libro, Oscar Iván Londoño Zapata reflexiona sobre el análisis del discurso como campo académico, actividad profesional y práctica interpretativa crítica e interdisciplinaria.
Los films analizados en este libro constituyen un campo de análisis con el que los "momentos de memoria" guardan una estrecha relación con las políticas memorísticas, ya que se vinculan con los diferentes modos de representación de esa memoria.
Este libro presenta los resultados de una investigación cuya meta es comprender las trayectorias de jóvenes periodistas en un contexto signado por un profundo debate sobre la profesión.
La nueva arma mortal no esparce isotopos radioactivos: se llama medios de comunicacion de masas que, en manos de unas cuantas corporaciones, manipulan a su antojo en funcion de sus intereses corporativos, en alianza con las mas reaccionarias fuerzas politicas.
Exigimos "la verdad" sabiendo internamente que no tenemos la más mínima idea de qué hacer cuando la tenemos, ni qué hacer con nosotros y mucho menos con el otro.
Este libro contiene una investigación inédita sobre un aspecto clave de la escena contemporánea: las amenazas comunicacionales en tiempos de Big Data, Fake News y monopolios voraces.
In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it.
The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.
This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.
Numerous studies address the flow of information between nations and states - especially in the era of globalization - and its contribution to the development of relations across physical borders.
Our age is characterized by global access to information, places and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about 'the others': other people and their cultures by 'indirect knowledge' - learning about them via the global information net assisted by electronic and other high-tech communication channels, as well as by 'direct knowledge': personally visiting various parts of the world and meeting local people in their own natural and social environments.
This book is a comprehensive review of the present state and future prospects of the displays used in entertainment television sets and in data terminals and personal computers.
This book adopts the method of grounded theory in studying national communication campaigns in China, referred to as propaganda campaigns in the Chinese linguistic context.
There is an odd contradiction at the heart of language and culture learning: Language and culture are, so to speak, two sides of a single coin-language reflects the thinking, values and worldview of its speakers.
This book proposes a critical public relations approach to analyzing crisis communication with Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (MH370) disappearance (2014-2018) as a case study.
This book explores the possibility and feasibility of building a new model of major-country relations between China and the United States, which is of great significance to the sound interaction between the two countries and the preservation of peace and stability of the world.
This book talks about developing and improvising upon medical presentations by equipping readers with critical technical tips and tricks to use popular presentation programs like PowerPoint or Keynote effectively.
This book provides readers with the latest research on the affective aspect of online interactions between doctors and e-patients in the context of China from a poststructuralist discourse analysis perspective.
This book explored interpreters' role when interpreting for Chinese government press conference and discovered the role deviation of conference interpreters in Chinese-English conference interpreting, by taking corpus-based approach to analyze hedges in interpreting discourse.
This book provides a feminist, critical study of how gender power relations are played out through and across multiple mediated arenas in contemporary Jordan.
