Browsing by Subject "Mass media"

Browsing by Subject "Mass media"

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  • Consumption, pastiche and identity in postmodern visual culture 
    Winczewski, Marianna Jadwiga (University of Pretoria, 2008-10-29)
    In this mini-dissertation the ongoing battle between the self and late-capitalist society is explored as a theoretical response to the notion of the fragmented subject in relation to postmodernism. Frederic Jameson links ...
  • ‘Electricity is running through my veins’ : die Symbiose zwischen Mensch und Technologie in Marshall McLuhan’s Medientheorie 
    Kraleva, Valia (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    In contrast to a widespread technical-mathematical media model that reduces electronic media to transmission channels, thereby making information into a quantifiable commodity, Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, as ...
  • An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites 
    Mammola, Stefano; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba; Arabesky, Valeria; Barrales-Alcala, Diego Alejandro; Barrion-Dupo, Aimee Lynn; Benamú, Marco Antonio; Bird, Tharina L.; Bogomolova, Maria; Cardoso, Pedro; Chatzaki, Maria; Cheng, Ren-Chung; Chu, Tien-Ai; Classen-Rodríguez, Leticia M.; Cupic, Iva; Dhiya’ulhaq, Naufal Urfi; Drapeau Picard, Andre-Philippe; El-Hennawy, Hisham K.; Elverici, Mert; Fukushima, Caroline S.; Ganem, Zeana; Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Gonnye, Naledi T.; Hacala, Axel; Haddad, Charles R.; Hesselberg, Thomas; Ho, Tammy Ai Tian; Into, Thanakorn; Isaia, Marco; Jayaraman, Dharmaraj; Karuaera, Nanguei; Khalap, Rajashree; Khalap, Kiran; Kim, Dongyoung; Korhonen, Tuuli; Kralj-Fiser, Simona; Land, Heidi; Lin, Shou-Wang; Loboda, Sarah; Lowe, Elizabeth; Lubin, Yael; Martínez, Alejandro; Mbo, Zingisile; Milicic, Marija; Kioko, Grace Mwende; Nanni, Veronica; Norma- Rashid, Yusoff; Nwankwo, Daniel; Painting, Christina J.; Pang, Aleck; Pantini, Paolo; Pavlek, Martina; Pearce, Richard; Petcharad, Booppa; Petillon, Julien; Raberahona, Onjaherizo Christian; Saarinen, Joni A .; Segura-Hernández, Laura; Sentenska, Lenka; Uhl, Gabriele; Walker, Leilani; Warui, Charles M.; Wiśniewski, Konrad; Zamani, Alireza; Scott, Catherine; Chuang, Angela (Nature Research, 2022-03-28)
    Mass media plays an important role in the construction and circulation of risk perception associated with animals. Widely feared groups such as spiders frequently end up in the spotlight of traditional and social media. ...
  • Is increased consumer control changing media consumption from media business push to media consumer pull? 
    Chakraborty, Devarpan (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    In the war to win the consumer’s attention traditional media is steadily losing ground to new media platforms; which are distributed and consumed digitally, are ubiquitous with the explosive uptake of smart internet connected ...
  • Missionale kerk-wees en die benutting van die Internet in die plaaslike gemeente met spesifieke verwysing na die webblad (Afrikaans) 
    Lazenby, Martin John (University of Pretoria, 2013-04-18)
    AFRIKAANS: Om Kerk van Jesus Christus op aarde te wees, vra dat daar altyd van twee werklikhede kennis geneem word naamlik die Bybelse ekklesiologie en die aardse konteks waarin hierdie ekklesiologie elke dag in die mens ...
  • Pornography : human right or human rights violation? 
    Le Roux, Elisabet (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)
    The article investigates the availability of pornographic media to under-aged users, specifically the already marginalised under-aged sector of the South African population. It argues that the availability of pornography ...
  • The role of information exposure in female university students’ evaluation and selection of eco-friendly apparel in the South African emerging economy 
    Sonnenberg, Nadine Cynthia; Jacobs, Bertha Margaretha; Momberg, Dinele (Sage, 2014-10)
    Increasing consumption in the South African emerging economy necessitates stringent effort toward developing environmental information campaigns that stimulate preferences for eco-friendly alternatives. This qualitative ...
  • Televangelism : a study of the ‘Pentecost hour’ of the Church of Pentecost 
    White, Peter; Assimeng, Abraham Anim (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-31)
    The liberalisation of the Ghanaian media since the 1990s has drastically changed the media landscape of Ghana and given rise to the use of the mass media for evangelism purposes. The advent of the mass media offered ...