Today Is a New Day

Your tomorrows are as bright as you want to make them. There is no reason to carry the darkness of the past with you into today.     

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DEMOCRATIZING COMMUNICATION? COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION AND POWER edited by Mashoed Bailie and Dwayne Winseck (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press “The Hampton Communication Series,”; 1997—$85.00/32.50, ISBN 1–57273–064–1 hard, 1–57273‐O65‐X paper, 450 pp., photos, tables, charts, notes, references, index)

INTERNATIONAL MEDAI RESEARCH: A CRITICAL SURVEY edited by John Corner, Philip Schlesinger, and Roger Silverstone (London/New York: Routledge, 1997—$100.00/24.00, ISBN 0–415–09035–0 hard 0–415–18496–7 paper, 238 pp., notes, index)

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY OF BRITISH BROADCASTING by Andrew Crisell (London and New York: Routledge, 1997—£12.99 [paper], ISBN 0–415–12802–1 hard, 0–415–12803‐X paper, 280 pp., bibliography, index, chapter recommended readings)

THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY RESEARCH SERIES (CRC Press, 2000 Corporate Blvd. NW, Boca Raton, FL 33431) offers three volumes on important Asian countries. Specifically:

THE KOREAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Michael Pecht, et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3172–2, 126 pp., tables, charts, references, index).

THE SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES by Donald Beane et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3171–4, 103 pp., tables, charts, references, index).

THE TAIWAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Chung‐Shing Lee and Michael Pecht (1997—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3170–6, 157 pp., tables, charts, references).

EUROPEAN MEDIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW (Media Group, Business Research &; Development Centre, Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland [fax: 011–358–2‐3383–515 or e‐mail: mmr@tukkk.fi ]‐$195.00 per year/5 issues, ISSN not given, first issue January 1998)

CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION: EASTERN PERSPECTIVES edited by David French and Michael Richards (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage “Communication and Human Values,”; 1996—$52.00/24–95, ISBN 0–8039–9282–3 hard, 0–8039–9283–1 paper, 371 pp., references, tables and figures, index)

TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Andrew Hart (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum “LEA's Communication Series,”; 1998—prices not given, ISBN 0–8058–2476–6 hard, 0–8058–2477–4 paper, 208 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index)

GETTING TO WAR: PREDICTING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT WITH MASS MEDIA INDICATORS by W. Ben Hunt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997—$49.50, ISBN 0–472–10751–8, 304 pp., tables, charts, appendices, notes, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RESTRUCTURING WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS WORLDWIDE edited by Harry C. Katz (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University Press “Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, No. 32,”; 1997— $49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8014–3286–3 hard, 0–8014–8361–1 paper, 401 pp., tables, notes, references, index)

SECRET STATE SILENT PRESS: NEW MILITARISM, THE GULF AND THE MODERN IMAGE OF WARFARE by Richard Keeble (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1997—£14.95, paper, ISBN 1–860–20–539, 222 pp., bibliography, index)

EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION: WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? edited by Manfred Meyer (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media “Communication Research and Broadcasting, No. 12,”; 1997—$32.00 paper, ISBN 1–86020–528–3, 246 pp., photos, tables, diagrams, notes, abbreviations)

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALIZATION: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION edited by Ali Mohammadi (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997—$75.00/26.95, ISBN 0–7619–5553–4 hard, 0–7619–5554–2 paper, 228 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN WESTERN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EASI edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1997—$55.00, ISBN 0–19–510202–9, 244 pp., tables, charts notes, references, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1998—$65.00, 1SBN0–19–510200–2, 265 pp., tables, chapter references, index)

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR GOVERNMENT (Paris: Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development “STI: Science, Technology, Industry,”; 1997—$9.00 paper, ISBN 92–64–15512–0, 84 pp., annex, notes)

MEDIA COURSES UK edited by Lavinia Orton (London: British Film Institute/Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997 [5th ed.]—$15.95, paper, ISBN 0–85170–649–5, 230 pp., appendices, index)

MEDIA LAW AND REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: NATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL, AND U.S. PERSPECTIVES by Emmanuel E. Paraschos (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1998—$44.95, ISBN 0–8138–2807–4, 288 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

STATISTICAL YEARBOOK ‘98: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE (European Audiovisual Observatory, 76 Allee de la Robertsau, F‐67000 Strasbourg, France—890ff or about $150.00, paper, ISBN 92–871–3590–8, 412 pp., charts, tables, notes)

CHANGING CHANNELS—THE PROSPECTS FOR TELEVISION IN A DIGITAL WORLD edited by Jeanette Steemers (Luton, England: John Libbey Media, University of Luton Press, 1998—£14.95, ISBN 1–86020–544–5, 156 pp., figures, bibliography, index)

NETWORK COMPETITION FOR EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Oliver Stehmann (Oxford University Press, 1995—£40.00, ISBN 0–19–828925–1, 327 pp., figures, tables, glossary, index)     

Individual differences and compliance gaining message selection: The effects of verbal aggressivencess,argumentativeness, dogmatism,and negativism

Recent work in the area of communication and individual differences has produced measures of two traits which promise to be important to the process of selecting compliance gaining messages. In the study reported in this paper the effects of these two traits, argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness, on compliance gaining message chokes were assessed, while controlling for the effects of two known predictors, negativism and dogmatism. The data indicate that the impact of these variables is situationally dependent. This finding is discussed in terms of recent hypotheses concerning the impact of trait by individual difference interactions on human communication behavior.     

British and European communications

EUROPE'S NETWORK INDUSTRIES: CONFLICTING PRIORITIES by Lars Bergman, et al. (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research “Monitoring European Deregulation 1,”/Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998—$25.00, paper, ISBN 1–898128–37–5, 258 pp., tables, charts, notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

GERMAN COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK edited by Hans‐Bernd Brosius and Christina Holtz‐Bacha (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1999—$26.50, paper, ISBN 1–57273–296–2, 304 pp., tables, charts, references)

A DECADE OF EU BROADCASTING REGULATION: THE DIRECTIVE “TELEVISION WITHOUT FRONTIERS”; by Emmanuelle Machet (Düsseldorf, Germany: The European Institute for the Media, 1999—DM 20.00, paper, ISBN 929673–33–9, 100 pp., tables, notes, bibliography)

CONVERGENCE IN EUROPEAN DIGITAL TV REGULATION edited by Chris Marsden and Stefaan Verhulst (London: Blackstone Press “Law in Its Social Setting,”; 1999—£19.95, paper, ISBN 1–85431–990–6, 247 pp., notes, references, index)

MEDIA POLICY: CONVERGENCE, CONCENTRATION & COMMERCE edited by Denis McQuail and Karen Siune (London: Sage, 1998—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–7619–5940–8, 231 pp., charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index)

TELEVISION AND THE PRESS SINCE 1945 by Ralph Negrine (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press”; Documents in Contemporary History,”; 1998; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999—$79.95/24.95), ISBN 0–7190–4920–2 hard, 0–7190–4921–0 paper, 212 pp., tables, bibliography, references)

THE MEDIA IN BRITAIN: CURRENT DEBATES AND DEVELOPMENTS edited by Jane Stokes and Anna Reading (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999—$59.95, ISBN 0–312–22528–8 [St. Martin's], 316 pp., charts, tables, references, index)     

Should great lakes city build a new power plant? How youth navigate socioscientific issues

There is a growing consensus that simply learning enough science to decipher public debates on socioscientific issues will not make citizens better equipped to handle the complex and ill‐structured problems these controversial issues present. This study highlights the interaction and complex interplay between youth authored and appropriated frames for making sense of socioscientific issues. To do so, we analyze how two middle‐school aged youth, in an after‐school program focused on green energy technologies, made sense of and took a stance on whether their city should build a new hybrid power plant over the course of a 13‐week unit. Using critical sociocultural perspectives on learning and qualitative case study, we examined how the two youth navigated the issue and the resources, scientific and otherwise, they leveraged in defining the problem spaces involved in whether their city should build a new power plant. Our findings indicate that the scientific knowledge youth brought with them and acquired over the course of the investigation influenced how they made sense of the issue, but their knowledge was deeply connected to a range of personal and public discourses that influenced how they defined the issue and why it mattered to them. In particular, it was through how they framed their range of knowledge and experiences that they were able to recognize the multi‐dimensional nature of the problem and propose complex solutions resonant with the science they understood. Our study offers conceptual tools for teaching and learning socioscientific issues. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 49: 541–567, 2012     

Promoting deep learning in a teacher education programme through self- and peer-assessment and feedback

The incorporation of self- and peer-assessment and feedback has significant potential as a pedagogical strategy to promote deep learning in project based coursework. This study examined the impact of a deeper approach to learning on pre-service teachers’ critical thinking and metacognitive skills. It also examined the impact on student learning outcomes within a project based module with a significant design element. Forty-seven students participated in the pilot of an online peer feedback system. Results suggest that the quality of students’ reflections through peer feedback and overall satisfaction with the module remained high despite students’ citing a preference for instructor feedback. The data also indicate that the incorporation of self- and peer-assessment and feedback resulted in higher quality learning outcomes and enhanced critical thinking skills.     

Apparent hyperglycemic and hypoglycemic conditioned responses with exogenous insulin as the unconditioned stimulus

Rats were injected with either insulin or saline and placed in one of two distinctive environments for 25 min on each of several days. On test trials for conditioning, the animals were injected with saline in both environments and blood glucose levels were measured. Apparent conditioned changes were obtained, but the direction of the conditioned response depended upon the environment in which the animals were placed. A conditioned hyperglycemic response occurred in one environment, and a conditioned hypoglycemic response occurred in the other environment. This pattern occurred in both within-subject and between-subjects designs and was not influenced by route of insulin injection (ip or sc). The hypoglycemic, but not the hyperglycemic, response was blocked by methyl atropine. The occurrence of both CR patterns with the same low insulin dose is contrary to previous speculation that the different CR patterns are due to different dose levels of insulin.     

Examining Sender and Judge Variability in Honesty Assessments and Deception Detection Accuracy: Evidence for a Transparent Liar but No Evidence of Deception-General Ability

A round-robin experiment unpacked message veracity, sender believability (demeanor), judge truth-bias, sender transparency, and judge deception detection accuracy. Generally, more variance was observed in senders than in judges. The data were suggestive of the existence of an unusually transparent liar, but the data were not consistent with a deception-general ability. The results highlight the importance of considering variability in addition to central tendency and the importance of individual differences in senders in deception detection.     

Global-local divides and ontological politics: feminist STS perspectives on mobile learning for community health workers in Kenya

ABSTRACT

This theoretical paper argues that Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FSTS) can help advance the emancipatory project in critical Ed Tech research. To support this claim, we deploy Tsing’s concept of ‘scale-making projects’ (2005. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) to connect ‘global’ narratives to ‘local’ users in a mobile learning project for Kenyan health workers. Drawing from this exemplar case, we discuss more broadly how FSTS provides useful theory and methods for tracing the trans-national power relations of digital technologies ‘on the ground’. The paper concludes by advocating for new forms of emancipatory Ed Tech research – ones framed not only within oppositional pairings such as ‘global’ versus ‘local’, but which elucidate how binaries themselves are constituted through far-flung trans-national arrays of sociomaterial practice.