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From mind/body relations to family relations, from the nature of art and poetry to the role of metaphor in the biological world, the nature of change and stability to the nature of the sacred, Bateson explores the natural history of the relationship between explicit, implicit and embodied ideas in the world of living things.

Emphasizing the constant motion of sense metaphors of cognition, this work provides readings of Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", Aemilia Lanyer's ""Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"", and Descartes' ""Meditations on First Philosophy"". It is of interest to literary scholars and students of the early modern period, as well as scholars of the history of consciousness.

Contributing to the renewal of interest in Marshall McLuhan and his work, this book contains chapters providing a general discussion of his work, and examining it in light of theory and research.

This text situates media forms and processes as central foci of globalisation processes and gives communications researchers a chance to respond to the theories often devised by those without any intimate involvement in communications theory or practice.

Through a series of specific case studies ranging from Tiger Woods to the now-defunct Golf for Women magazine, this book explores the eccentricities embedded in media discourses surrounding golf, shedding light on a sport that millions play, millions, watch, and yet millions more struggle to understand.

Examines the daily experiences of indigenous youth in an urban, public high school in the southwestern US. Drawing on critical educational studies, the author investigates how power operates in curriculum, extracurricular activities, and daily interactions.

This volume builds on the first decade of work in new media research within English studies, following (and also breaking from) the longer history of hypertext theory. It defines new media only in as much as the individual chapters do so, setting the field as materially rich, ever-changing, and remediating itself, and kairotic.

Explores the following key questions: What is literacy? What do we mean when we profess literacy? And how can we create a theoretical map of writing studies in which to locate the ways we define and situate our notions and assumptions about literacy?

This work takes up issues of concern in composition studies, sociolinguistics, and ESL - issues concerning academic literacy, critical literacy, expressive versus cognitive approaches to the teaching of writing, and the like.

Contributing to a series on policy and research issues in new media, Baker (sociology, Ohio U.-Lancaster) adds to the literature on Internet studies by presenting her research on couples who met in cyberspace. Via an e-mail questionnaire, she studied their online meeting places, modes of communication (e.g. cyber-flirting), and offline meeting. Thr

The essays in this volume provide an international perspective on persistent and emerging questions related to the use of online technologies for teaching and learning. They demonstrate that online literacy practices can be understood only when they are examined within their social, political, economic, cultural, and historical contexts.

This book examines the role that rhetoric plays in the creation and conceptualization of new knowledge claims. It highlights how scientists worked with the linguistic resources available to them to bring into existence abstract concepts and gain new insight into the subject of their study.

This text addresses the power of popular nonviolent action against repression, aggression and oppression. Three case studies are examined, and then attention is turned to theory. Surveys are made of nonviolence and communication theories, probing for insights in the nonviolence-communication nexus.

Here, the authors explore the position that systemic reform requires addressing the culture of individual schools, and that various reform efforts address school culture in different ways. The chapters promote that the key to success is the match between the strategy in use and the setting.

The mass media in the Arab world has undergone profound changes during the 1990s with the introduction and spread of new technologies which go beyond the regional realm and bypass authoritarian control. This text examines whether this access is sufficient to generate political and social change.

This volume summarizes the evolution in post-war thought about development and communication and identifies the various options in communication policymaking and communication research. Case studies are provided to exemplify the major theoretical arguments.

Much of the theory underlying technical communication, rhetoric, composition, and college English in general comes from a socialist/Marxist perspective, not the larger world-view - free-market, competitive, and capitalistic. This volume asserts a theoretical and practical stance based on free-market mechanisms and behaviors.

The main premise of this book is that economic, cultural, political and institutional factors are necessary to fully understand and analyse national media policy developments and impacts, such as deregulation and/or privatization, government and judiciary oversight and media concentration.

This text looks at student writing in a way that reflects upon the compositionists' teaching practices and the current state of composition in the United States. In doing so, it provides all course materials and supplemental documentation online as an integral part of such a project.

Based on the premise that writing centers know how to guide learners toward more productive and successful work, this collection focuses on helping the academy understand writing centers. It articulates how writing centers move beyond remediation and become centers of learning and teaching through fostering productive working relationships.

Presents educational stories that offers a dramatic portrait of basic writing in four-year colleges and universities across the country. This book describes the often hostile responses to basic writing and its students; and the low status of basic writing programs within English departments and universities.

Deals with the teachings and activism of one of the world's most respected critical educators and activists. This volume is suitable for students in educational foundations, social studies education, contemporary issues in education, comparative education, and the philosophy and sociology of education.

Presents a study that examines two minority groups in Israeli society: Russian immigrant who arrived as a ""returning Diaspora,"" and the Arab citizens of Israel. This study focuses on: the content of the media; the way the minority members use domestic and global media in a multimedia and multilingual environment; and the patterns of media usage.

Innovation is universally recognized as key components of first world economies that is vital for continued prosperity. This book presents a highly differentiated model which is capable of serving as a practical foundation for diagnosing, analyzing, optimizing and fostering creativity and innovation in a variety of organizational settings.

Focuses on the development of theories and pedagogies of distance learning in the English class. This book discusses the development of effective means of conveying information, developing knowledge and perfecting skills, and shows how distance learning calls instructors of English to different roles in the performance of their duties.

Media education has gradually obtained an educational status in many countries throughout the world. Where media education is taught today, it is principally carried out using a relaxed, pluralistic and a cross- or multi-disciplinary approach. This book explores this new approach to the subject.

Provides an historical examination of how popular magazines portrayed wage-earning women during the critical interwar years, 1918-1941. Although women had been entering the workplace for some time, their contributions to World War I, the passage of women's suffrage, postwar business expansion, and changing social mores put the cultural conversation over women's employment into high gear.