MEDIA OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL: A COMMUNICATOR’S REFLECTION OF CROSS-OWNERSHIP OF MEDIA IN KENYA SUSAN MURUGI MUNYI JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY A PAPER PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR A DEGREE IN MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN MASS COMMUNICATION DATE: 20TH JULY 2013 ABSTRACT Media ownership trends and control patterns have been changing world over mainly
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Memory‚ truth and victimhood in post-trauma societies John D Brewer The intensification of organized violence with globalization has created new wars (Kaldor‚ 1999) and transformed old ones (Moore‚ 2000) to fundamentally alter the focus in social science on genocidal nationalism (Shaw‚ 2003). The new interest in social science with memory‚ truth and suffering (on the latter see Wilkinson‚ 2004) can be attributed to the negative impact that several cases of genocidal nationalism have had on our
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John Hick and Pluralism John Hick was born in 1922 in England to a middle class family. He developed an interest in philosophy and religion in his teens‚ being encouraged by his uncle‚ who was an author and teacher at Manchester University. Hick initially pursued a law degree at Hull University‚ but converted to Evangelical Christianity from the fundamentalist Christian beliefs with which he was raised‚ and decided to change his career and enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in 1941.
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diversity especially in opinion and viewpoint of society of cultural‚ religion and ethnic diversity. In other words‚ pluralistic media is also considered as independent media. There are various concepts highlighted for media pluralism which are: i. Pluralist view that the media are independent; ii. The independence of media from government‚ pressure groups and big conglomerations; iii. The relative independence of journalists in writing their articles; iv. Media freedom by reducing media ownership concentration
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Abstract: You first begin this experiment by purchasing the materials needed. Those materials are: stickers‚ markers‚ glue sticks‚ carrot sticks‚ celery sticks‚ colored bags‚ and brown bags. Once you’ve made the purchase of all the items‚ decorate the colored bags with the stickers and make fun designs with the markers and use the glue stick if needed. Next‚ fill the decorated‚ colored bags and the brown bags with either ten carrot sticks or ten celery sticks or five of each. Then‚ take the snacks
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feuds and interactive relationships (or at least the satisfaction of what seems like a relationship) between people. The rise of social media applications like Twitter and Facebook allows people to voice their opinions to wider audience‚ creating a pluralist‚ postmodern medium in which questions raised about the impact of mediated relationships have surely increased. What is particularly interesting about Twitter (and to a lesser extent Facebook) is the newfound proximity we ‘normal people’ have to modern
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Comparative Politic: Key terms Chapter 9: Political Attitude and Behavior Political Culture : the pattern of attitudes‚ values and beliefs about politics‚ whether they are conscious or unconscious‚ explicit or implicit. Pp. 171 Values : basic ethical priorities that constrain and give shape to individual attitudes and beliefs. Pp. 171 Political Identity : the way that people label themselves as belonging to particular group. For example: national-state‚ class or caste‚ ethnic group‚ religious group
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The Political and Legal Environment for International Business Introduction Both the political system of a country and its accompanying legal system are national institutions: they spring from the nation state as an autonomous entity‚ which governs its population and enacts law to carry out its public tasks. For businesses‚ these institutions play a continuing role. They regulate its formation‚ its governance‚ its business activities‚ its relations with stakeholder and its duties to communicate with
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Huey Newton‚ one of the leaders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence‚ stated: “Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” From the late 1960s‚ to the early 1980s‚ the Black Power Movement (BPM)‚ triggered by the shortcomings of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and influenced heavily by Malcolm X‚ used a variety of techniques‚ including an increasingly militant approach‚ to bring about the change African-Americans demanded‚ with some success and
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HRDI 3:4 (2000)‚ pp. 419–433 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES What is managing diversity and why does it matter? Sharon Mavin and Gill Girling University of Northumbria at Newcastle Abstract: In the UK‚ human resource practitioners and academics alike are becoming more aware of the emergence of managing diversity. But what does managing diversity actually mean‚ how does it translate into practice‚ and what does it matter? The following paper brie y debates the rhetoric of managing diversity and considers
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