Escaping The Global Village

Author : Niamh Hourigan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109274
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escaping the Global Village written by Niamh Hourigan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of expanding global media, Europe's linguistic minorities have begun to resist the homogenizing forces of television. This book documents and analyzes the Irish campaign for an alternative Irish-language television service.

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Peace in the Global Village written by Marshall McLuhan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas R. McFaul
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313381976
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Truth and Freedom in the Global Village written by Thomas R. McFaul and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a bold forecast of the year 2050 and what life will look like in the emerging global village. Is this profound new work, Thomas McFaul examines the interwoven concepts of truth and freedom in the context of the Modernist movement that has fundamentally reshaped our world. McFaul's thesis? Societies that make truth and freedom their signature values stand the best chance of prospering in the emerging global village. In The Future of Truth and Freedom in the Global Village: Modernism and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century, McFaul relates the two cornerstone ideas of truth and freedom to the development of Modernism and its impact on science, religion, ethics, economics, and politics. This sets the stage for thought-provoking speculation as McFaul forecasts what life might be like in the year 2050, with scenarios that range from moving forward as a unified world embracing new possibilities to sliding back to the "good old days." McFaul's well-reasoned conclusion is that any society's long-term viability rests on having the freedom to adapt to changes in the modern world in new and creative ways.

Author : Charles Piot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618983X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remotely Global written by Charles Piot and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture—subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Through analyses of everyday and ceremonial social practices, Piot illustrates the intertwining of modernity with tradition and of the local with the national and global. In a striking example of the appropriation of tradition by the state, Togo's Kabre president regularly flies to the region in his helicopter to witness male initiation ceremonies. Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State Department's stereotyped images of African village life, Remotely Global aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where persons and things are forever in motion.

Author : Laurenz Volkmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The global village written by Laurenz Volkmann and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554582121
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Radio Eye written by Jerry White and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958–1988, examines the way in which media experiments in Quebec, Newfoundland, the Faroe Islands, and the Irish-Gaelic-speaking communities of Ireland use film, video, and television to advocate for marginalized communities and often for “smaller languages.” The Radio Eye is not, however, a set of isolated case studies. Author Jerry White illustrates the degree to which these experiments are interconnected, sometimes implicitly but more often quite explicitly. Media makers in the North Atlantic during the period 1958–1988 were very aware of each other’s cultures and aspirations, and, by structuring the book in two interlocking parts, White illustrates the degree to which a common project emerged during those three decades. The book is bound together by White’s belief that these experiments are following in the idealism of Soviet silent filmmaker Dziga Vertov, who wrote about his notion of “the Radio Eye.” White also puts these experiments in the context of work by the Cuban filmmaker and theorist Julio García Espinosa and his notion of “imperfect cinema,” Jürgen Habermas and his notions of the “public sphere,” and Édourard Glissant’s ideas about “créolité” as the defining aspect of modern culture. This is a genuinely internationalist moment, and these experiments are in conversation with a wide array of thought across a number of languages.

Author : C. Rojek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230373402
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways of Escape written by C. Rojek and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-06-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern life is often described as an iron cage from which there is no escape. But popular culture venerates leisure and travel as authentic escape routes from routine and monotony. However what kind of escape is tolerated in modern society? How is it shaped by historical expectations of leisure and travel? And what do we actually experience when we engage in leisure or travel activity? This fascinating and accomplished book tries to supply answers to these questions. A major scholarly contribution to the sociological analysis of leisure, pleasure and travel, Dr Rojek's study is a radical challenge to the existing paradigmatic orthodoxy. Bryan S. Turner, University of Essex.

Author : Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847699049
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Media and Minority Languages written by Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes case studies, theoretical debates, international comparisons on minority languages, and presents a research agenda for the development of the field of Minority Language Media studies. It addresses the challenges present in multi-platform, mobile communication environments, focusing on the pitfalls and opportunities brought about by social media and other Web 2.0 applications.

Author : Eddy Li
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130025808X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FROM A GREAT ESCAPE TO A NEW AWAKENING - MY JOURNEY THROUGH CANCER written by Eddy Li and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an autobiography of a cancer survivor, a veteran network news journalist. For 38 years since 1971, the author, as Asia video editor for ABC News, chased news stories round the clock, often without sleep. With early retirement in sight, the sudden diagnosis of cancer one day radically changed his lifestyle overnight. By an unusual coincidence, his links to golf were also linked to his discovery of cancer. Here's a man who led an incredible life even before he overcame his battle with cancer. It took more than the conventional means of treatment. His treatment and road to recovery is a revelation. Today, as a cancer survivor and a retiree who now enjoys a healthier and more fulfilling life, the author tells a compelling story of how he entered into the darkest tunnel and emerged, a more vigilant and environmentally aware individual. Eddy Li shares his painful experience, what he has learned about an increasingly hazardous environment and how you can protect yourself from its toxicity.

Author : Gary Duane Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941213308
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Global Village written by Gary Duane Miller and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our perspective of wealth and what we need to live is affected by the people around us. What if the world population were shrunk to a village of 100 people, and you lived in that village? How would your neighbors live? What would they believe? How would that change your perspective? This book gives a glimpse into the world outside our own communities and helps us see the world through the eyes of Jesus.