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Media, Culture and Society
Volume 31(5), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Waisbord, Silvio, and Peruzzotti, Enrique The environmental story that wasn't: Advocacy, journalism and the asambleismo movement in Argentina. 691-709
 
  The mobilization against the establishment of two paper mill plants in the Rio Uruguay in recent years has been a turning point in the historical trajectory of environmental movements in Argentina 
 
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Central America
South America
politics and government
news
ecology
democracy
 
 
Volz, Yong Z., and Lee, Chin-Chuan American pragmatism and Chinese modernization: Importing the Missouri model of journalism education to modern China. 711-730
 
  Journalism education was an American invention, oriented from the beginning toward the training of vocational skills 
 
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print journalism
education
higher education
studies of the field
 
 
Abah, Adedayo Ladigbolu Popular culture and social change in Africa: The case of the Nigerian video industry. 731-748
 
  The central question driving this article is whether the popular Nigerian video film industry, in its current commerical form, is capable of mediating and encouraging social change in the society 
 
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persuasion
public opinion
visualization
film
television
interpersonal
narrative
gender
race and ethnicity
conflict
 
 
Everitt, Dave, and Mills, Simon Cultural anxiety 2.0. 749-768
 
  Since the naming by Tim O'Reilly (2005) of 'Web 2.0' to signify a new phase in web development and user experience, the '2.0' suffix has been applied in a number of disciplines to indicate a similarly new direction in that field 
 
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technologies
studies of the field
 
 
D'Arma, Alessandro Broadcasting policy in Italy's "Second Republic": National politics and European influences. 769-786
 
  For a long time essentially a national issue, in the last twenty years broadcasting policy in Europe has become exposed to the influence of European Union (EU) policy-making (Harcourt, 2005; Michalis, 2007) 
 
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European Union
technologies
television
broadcasting and media
 
 
Leiva, Maria Trinidad Garcia, and Starks, Michael Digital switchover across the globe: The emergence of complex regional patterns. 787-806
 
  The switch from analogue to digital television is now an established global trend 
 
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technologies
television
broadcasting and media
 
 
Debrett, Mary Riding the wave: Public service television in the multi-platform era. 807-827
 
  The future of public service broadcasting (PSB) has been debated over the last 25 years, generally in anticipation of its demise (Murdock, 2004: 1; Tracey, 1998), which has been variously envisaged as institutional withering driven by excessive populism or elitism, elimination in the marketplace from commercial competition, or privatization/commercialization by neoliberal governments 
 
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broadcasting and media
economics
television
computer
technologies