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Languages : en
Pages : 868
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The Construction News
Author: Supplementary Code of Fair Competition for the Construction News Service Industry as Approved on December 20, 1934
Author: United States. National Recovery AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Western Construction News
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
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Western Construction News
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Common Knowledge
Author: W. Russell NeumanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616117X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, according to the experts, is an ignorant public, helpless targets of a one-way flow of carefully filtered and orchestrated communication. Common Knowledge shatters this pervasive myth. Reporting on a ground-breaking study, the authors reveal that our shared knowledge and evolving political beliefs are determined largely by how we actively reinterpret the images, fragments, and signals we find in the mass media. For their study, the authors analyzed coverage of 150 television and newspaper stories on five prominent issues—drugs, AIDS, South African apartheid, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the stock market crash of October 1987. They tested audience responses of more than 1,600 people, and conducted in-depth interviews with a select sample. What emerges is a surprisingly complex picture of people actively and critically interpreting the news, making sense of even the most abstract issues in terms of their own lives, and finding political meaning in a sophisticated interplay of message, medium, and firsthand experience. At every turn, Common Knowledge refutes conventional wisdom. It shows that television is far more effective at raising the saliency of issues and promoting learning than is generally assumed; it also undermines the assumed causal connection between newspaper reading and higher levels of political knowledge. Finally, this book gives a deeply responsible and thoroughly fascinating account of how the news is conveyed to us, and how we in turn convey it to others, making meaning of at once so much and so little. For anyone who makes the news—or tries to make anything of it—Common Knowledge promises uncommon wisdom.
Western Construction News
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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Creating Fear
Author: David L. AltheidePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351525271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a "discurse of fear" - the awareness and expection that danger and risk are lurking everywhere. Case studies illustrates how certain organizations and social institutions benefit from the explotation of such fear construction. One social impact is a manipulated public empathy: We now have more "victims" than at any time in our prior history. Another, more troubling resutl is the role we have ceded to law enforcement and punishment: we turn ever more readily to the state and formal control to protect us from what we fear. This book attempts through the marshalling of significant data to interrupt that vicious cycle of fear discourse.
Making News
Author: Gaye TuchmanPublisher: Free Press
ISBN: 9780029329603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Simon & Schuster, Making News is Gaye Tuchman's exploration into the study in the construction of reality. The Professor of Sociology at Queens College and City University of New York, Tuchman's latest work is one to cherish. As described by Todd Gitlin of Contemporary Sociology, Making News is "simply the most comprehensive book on the social construction of news by an American sociologist to date."
Construction Disasters
Author: Steven S. RossPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Western Construction News and Highways Builder
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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