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The Reality Frame

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785782142
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Reality Frame written by Brian Clegg and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together the great ideas of science, The Reality Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces, life, and the massive transformation that life itself has wrought on the natural world. He reveals that underlying it all is not, as we might believe, a system of immovable absolutes, but the ever-shifting, amorphous world of relativity. From religion to philosophy, humanity has traditionally sought out absolutes to explain the world around us, but as science has developed, relativity has swept away many of these certainties, leaving only a handful of unchangeable essentials – such as absolute zero, nothingness, light – leading to better science and a new understanding of the essence of being human. This is an Ascent of Man for the 21st century, the gripping story of modern science that will fill you with wonder and give you a new insight into our place in the universe.

Image, Reality and Media Construction

Author : Fengmin Yan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813290765
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Image, Reality and Media Construction written by Fengmin Yan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how news media construct social issues and events and thereby convey certain perceptions within the scope of framing theory. By operationalizing media framing as a process of interpretation through defining problem, diagnosing causes, making moral judgments and suggesting solutions, the book proposes a systematic and transparent approach to images in news discourse. Based on a frame analysis, it examines how German news media framed a list of China-related issues and events, and thereby conveyed particular beliefs and opinions on this country. Moreover, it investigates whether there were dominant patterns of interpretation and the extent to which diverse views were evident by comparing two major daily newspapers with opposite political orientations - the FAZ and the taz. Motivated by the relationship between image and reality, the book explores image formation and persistence from media construction of meaning and human cognitive complexity in perceiving others. Media select certain issues and events and then interpret them from particular perspectives. A variety of professional and non-professional factors behind news making may result in biased representations. In addition, from a social psychological perspective, inaccurate perceptions of foreign cultures may arise from categorical thinking, biased processing of stimulus information, intergroup conflicts of interest and in-group favoritism. Accordingly, whether media coverage deviates from reality is not the main concern of this book; instead, it emphasizes the underlying logics upon which the conclusions and judgments were drawn. It therefore contributes to a rational understanding of Western discourse and holds practical implications for both Chinese public diplomacy and a more constructive role of news media in promoting the understanding of others.

Frames of War

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784782491
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Frames of War written by Judith Butler and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and starvation, and can easily be dismissed. In the twisted logic that rationalizes their deaths, the loss of such populations is deemed necessary to protect the lives of ‘the living.’ This disparity, Butler argues, has profound implications for why and when we feel horror, outrage, guilt, loss and righteous indifference, both in the context of war and, increasingly, everyday life. This book discerns the resistance to the frames of war in the context of the images from Abu Ghraib, the poetry from Guantanamo, recent European policy on immigration and Islam, and debates on normativity and non-violence. In this urgent response to ever more dominant methods of coercion, violence and racism, Butler calls for a re-conceptualization of the Left, one that brokers cultural difference and cultivates resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of state violence and its vicissitudes.

Reality Squared

Author : James Friedman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813529899
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Reality Squared written by James Friedman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality-based television has come to play a major role in both production decisions and network strategy. This text examines the representation of reality within the televisual viewing frame, as well as the exponential growth of these programmes.

Ten Billion Tomorrows

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125005785X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Ten Billion Tomorrows written by Brian Clegg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new book about real-life technology derived from science fiction and its impact on the world.

An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame

Author : Anne Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134702752
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame written by Anne Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between therapist and client. This Classic Edition of the book includes a brand new introduction by the author. Anne Gray, an experienced psychotherapist and teacher, uses lively and extensive case material to show how the frame can both contain feelings and further understanding within the therapeutic relationship. She takes the reader through each stage of therapeutic work, from the first meeting to the final contact, and looks at those aspects of management that beginners often find difficult, such as fee payment, letters and telephone calls, supervision and evaluation. Her practical advice on how to handle these situations will be invaluable to trainees as well as to those involved in their training.

What We Can Never Know

Author : David Gamez
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826491618
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book What We Can Never Know written by David Gamez and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, engaging and provocative examination of the limits of philosophy and science through studies of perception, time, madness and knowledge. >

Framing Fat

Author : Samantha Kwan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813560934
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Framing Fat written by Samantha Kwan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to public health officials, obesity poses significant health risks and has become a modern-day epidemic. A closer look at this so-called epidemic, however, suggests that there are multiple perspectives on the fat body, not all of which view obesity as a health hazard. Alongside public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advertisers of the fashion-beauty complex, food industry advocates at the Center for Consumer Freedom, and activists at the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. Framing Fat takes a bird’s-eye view of how these multiple actors construct the fat body by identifying the messages these groups put forth, particularly where issues of beauty, health, choice and responsibility, and social justice are concerned. Samantha Kwan and Jennifer Graves examine how laypersons respond to these conflicting messages and illustrate the gendered, raced, and classed implications within them. In doing so, they shed light on how dominant ideas about body fat have led to the moral indictment of body nonconformists, essentially “framing” them for their fat bodies.

The Power of Framing

Author : Gail T. Fairhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470901322
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Framing written by Gail T. Fairhurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for The Power of Framing "The primary work of leadership involves managing meaning through framing. Fairhurst shows that the way leaders use language to frame people, situations, and events has important consequences for the way individuals make sense of the world and their actions. The Power of Framing is an accessible and inspirational read for leaders who want to shape their organizations in ethically responsible ways." J. KEVIN BARGE, professor, Texas A&M University "An ideal book for MBA students and business professionals who are interested in specific tools for constructing leadership in their professional worlds. By focusing on the language toolbox of leadership, the book empowers anyone to construct leadership through talk and interaction." JOLANTA ARITZ, associate professor, Center for Management Communication, USC Marshall School of Business "Building on her earlier acclaimed work, and written in a highly accessible style, Fairhurst's thoughtful study provides us with a practical and highly relevant analysis of the power of framing language from a leadership perspective. This is a must-have book." DAVID GRANT, professor of organizational studies, University of Sydney "Communication is the most important element of leadership, and framing of the subject and situation is one of the most powerful tools available to leaders. Gail Fairhurst has created the handbook to help leaders do this right. A must-read for anyone in a leadership capacity." RICH KILEY, venture capitalist, and retired Procter & Gamble marketing and HR executive "To be an effective global manager, there is nothing more critical than understanding how to frame an issue so that you are effectively communicating and motivating in a culturally sensitive manner. This book will tune you into these issues and show you how to make certain your communication is properly interpreted by your audience." OLGA JACOB, general sales manager (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg), American Airlines

Faith's Knowledge

Author : Paul Tyson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610978188
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Faith's Knowledge written by Paul Tyson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we know truth even though certain proof is unattainable? Can we be known by Truth? Is there a relationship between belief and truth, and if so, what is the nature of that relationship? Do we need to have faith in reason and in real meaning to be able to reason towards truth? These are the sorts of questions this book seeks to address. In Faith's Knowledge, Paul Tyson argues that all knowledge that aims at truth is always the knowledge of faith. If this is the case, then--against our modernist cultural assumptions about knowledge--truth cannot be had by proof. Yet, if this is true, then mere information and simply objective facts do not (for us as knowers) exist. Knowledge is always embedded in belief, and knowledge and belief is always expressed in relationships, histories, narratives, shared meanings, and power. Hence, a theological sociology of knowledge emerges out of these explorations in thinking about knowledge as a function of faith.

The Psychology of the Internet

Author : Patricia Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521797092
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of the Internet written by Patricia Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delves into the psychological aspects of the virtual world to understand why humans often behave differently in cyberspace.

Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296448
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing written by Klaus-Uwe Panther and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest in 2000. They constitute, according to an anonymous reviewer, "an interesting contribution to both cognitive linguistics and pragmatics." The contributions aim to bridge the gap, and encourage discussion, between cognitive linguists and scholars working in a pragmatic framework. Topics include the metonymic basis of explicature and implicature, the role of metonymically-based inferences in speech act and discourse interpretation, the pragmatic meaning of grammatical constructions, the impact of metonymic mappings on and their interaction with grammatical structure, the role of metonymic inferencing and implicature in linguistic change, and the comparison of metonymic principles across languages and different cultural settings.

Interactive Storytelling

Author : Hartmut Koenitz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319027565
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Interactive Storytelling written by Hartmut Koenitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Interactive Storytelling, ICIDS 2013, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theory and aesthetics; authoring tools and applications; evaluation and user experience reports; virtual characters and agents; new storytelling modes; workshops.

Framing Class

Author : Diana Elizabeth Kendall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442202238
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Framing Class written by Diana Elizabeth Kendall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class action in the media -- Twenty-four-karat gold frames : lifestyles of the rich and famous -- Gilded cages : media stories of how the mighty have fallen -- Fragile frames : the poor and homeless -- Tarnished metal frames : the working class and the working poor -- Splintered wooden frames : the middle class -- Framing class, vicarious living, and conspicuous consumption.

Managing Complex Networks

Author : Walter J M Kickert
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761955481
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Managing Complex Networks written by Walter J M Kickert and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-06-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the concept of policy networks is now well-established in the field, most research has to content itself with description and analysis of their contribution to policy failure. This book goes further. It accepts policy networks as a fundamental characteristic of modern societies and presents an overview of the strategies for the management of these networks, as well as illustrating the various strategies for intervention.

The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction

Author : Fulvio Attina
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137026731
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction written by Fulvio Attina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster policies present a new challenge to the practitioners and students of global politics; this book explains how political science enriches the contribution of the social sciences to the study of disaster relief, aid and reconstruction following the major disaster events, both natural and man-made, of recent times.

Teaching Decision Making To Adolescents

Author : Jonathan Baron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136466533
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Decision Making To Adolescents written by Jonathan Baron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a variety of programs -- firmly based in psychological theory and modern decision analysis -- that are suitable for teaching adolescents how to improve both their own decision making skills and their understanding of the decision making of others. Providing practical advice as well as theoretical analysis, this volume addresses general questions such as the nature and rationale of the enterprise, its implementation, and its evaluation. Relevant to several current adolescent problems including drug abuse, this is an excellent source, either as research, new curriculum, or enrichment of old curriculum.