Captive Audience

Author : Catherine Gidney
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781771134279

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White Spot, a popular BC restaurant chain, solicits hamburger concepts from third and fourth grade students and one of the student’s ideas becomes a feature on the kids’ menu. Home Depot donates playground equipment to an elementary school, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony culminates in a community swathed in corporate swag, temporary tattoos, and a new “Home Depot song” written by a teacher and sung by the children. Kindergarten students return home with a school district-prescribed dental hygiene flyer featuring a maze leading to a tube of Crest toothpaste. Schools receive five cents for each flyer handed to a student. While commercialism has existed in our schools for over a century, the corporate invasion of our schools reached unprecedented heights in the 1990s and 2000s after two decades of federal funding cuts and an increasing tendency to apply business models to the education system. Constant cutbacks have left school trustees, administrators, teachers, and parents with difficult decisions about how to finance programs and support students. Meanwhile, studies on the impact of advertising and consumer culture on children make clear that the effects are harmful both to the individual child and the broader culture. Captive Audience explores this compelling history of branding the classroom in Canada.

Author : Susan Crawford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300167375

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Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price of broadband. This steady slide backward not only deprives consumers of vital services needed in a competitive employment and business market—it also threatens the economic future of the nation. This important book by leading telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explores why Americans are now paying much more but getting much less when it comes to high-speed Internet access. Using the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal as a lens, Crawford examines how we have created the biggest monopoly since the breakup of Standard Oil a century ago. In the clearest terms, this book explores how telecommunications monopolies have affected the daily lives of consumers and America's global economic standing.

Author : Lucas Mann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525435556

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An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. In Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching "real" people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses achieves a heightened sense of what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person.

Author : Yvonne Jewkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135987756

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This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some media resource, whether radio or television, or with communal or individual access to it. Captive Audience charts for the first time the way in which prisons use media in coping – or failing to cope – with the pressures of prison life, exploring the impact of the media in terms of prisoner identities, shaping power relations between prisoners and other prisoners, and in helping prisoners 'get through' a prison sentence. At the same time this book raises a range of broader issues of theory and practice on the nature of the relationship between prisons, criminal justice systems and society more generally, and on the ways in which the media are conceived in everyday life. It will be of interest to all those concerned with prisons, criminology and the criminal justice system, the social role of the media, and the construction of identity.

Author : Thomas Fahy,Kimball King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135888954

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Captive Audience by Thomas Fahy,Kimball King Pdf

This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre.

Author : Dave Reidy
Publisher : Ig Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015080835989

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Bob Newhart, REM and Abe Vigoda are just a few of the many characters - both real and imagined - who populate the world of Captive Audience, Reidy's paean to the highs, lows and everything in-between of being a performer. From the opening story, the award-winning The Regular', where two lonely music fans bond over a most unusual kind of karaoke, to the final tale about an organ player who gets his big break with REM, this bittersweet and humorous collection of short stories gives voice to those who are driven to perform, no matter the size of the audience.'

Author : Lucas Mann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525435549

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From the national bestselling author of Lord Fear and Class A comes "a tender, humane, comic, brainy, unsettling achievement” (Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship) about what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person. In Lucas Mann's trademark vein—fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating—Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching "real" people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life.

Author : Yvonne Jewkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135987824

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This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some media resource, whether radio or television, or with communal or individual access to it. Captive Audience charts for the first time the way in which prisons use media in coping – or failing to cope – with the pressures of prison life, exploring the impact of the media in terms of prisoner identities, shaping power relations between prisoners and other prisoners, and in helping prisoners 'get through' a prison sentence. At the same time this book raises a range of broader issues of theory and practice on the nature of the relationship between prisons, criminal justice systems and society more generally, and on the ways in which the media are conceived in everyday life. It will be of interest to all those concerned with prisons, criminology and the criminal justice system, the social role of the media, and the construction of identity.

Author : Bob Perelman
Publisher : Geoffrey Young
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : 0935724362

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Poetry. "Bob Perelman's writing covers a lot of (image) territory as fast as a speeding missile which may (almost) be fast enough. His new book, CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, finds us glued to our seats, laughing at death and the devil again." Rae Armantrout"

Author : Stephen Mumford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108994934

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A Philosopher Looks at Sport by Stephen Mumford Pdf

Introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, exploring the place of sport in our lives.

Author : Sam Ham
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781933108919

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Interpretation by Sam Ham Pdf

In the new edition of the international bestseller Environmental Interpretation, Sam H. Ham captures what has changed in our understanding of interpretation during the past two decades. Ham draws on recent advances in communication research to unveil a fresh and invigorating perspective that will lead interpreters to new and insightful pathways for making a difference on purpose through their work.

Author : Charis Cotter
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735269088

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The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story by Charis Cotter Pdf

A creepy, mysterious dollhouse takes center stage in this atmospheric middle-grade mystery for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces. Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip -- the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady. The house is huge, imposing and spooky, and everything inside is meticulously kept and perfect -- not a fun place to spend the summer. Things start to get weird when Alice finds a dollhouse in the attic that's an exact replica of the house she's living in. Then she wakes up to find a girl asleep next to her in her bed -- a girl who looks a lot like one of the dolls from the dollhouse . . . When the dollhouse starts to change when Alice isn't looking, she knows she has to solve the mystery. Who are the girls in the dollhouse? What happened to them? And what is their connection to the mean and mysterious woman who owns the house?

Author : Cullen Bunn
Publisher : Vault Comics
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781638491095

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The Last Book You'll Ever Read by Cullen Bunn Pdf

A supernatural horror thriller for readers of Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby and Haunted: A Novel), Marisha Pessl,(Night Film), and Scarlett Thomas (The End of Mr. Y), The Last Book You’ll Ever Read tells the terrifying story of a woman who knows the horrific truth about the past – and future - of humankind, and, when captured in her book SATYR, it becomes the catalyst for worldwide, mind-numbing violence Read this book at your own peril. Olivia Kade wrote the book that ended the world. Now she needs someone who won't read it. Civilization is a lie. Hidden deep in our genes is the truth. And it is slowly clawing its way to the surface. Olivia Kade knows the truth, and she has become the prophet of the coming collapse. Her book, SATYR, is an international bestseller, and it is being blamed for acts of senseless violence and bloodshed all over the world. Olivia's own life is in danger from those who have read her work. Determined to conduct a book tour, she hires security professional Connor Wilson to act as her bodyguard. She only has one requirement: he cannot read her work. John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness meets Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby in this terrifyingly dangerous tale of the descent of humankind where reality and fantasy collide. Collects the entire smash 8-issue series. For fans of Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Alma Katsu, The Ring, and The Ninth Gate. "I truly hope this terrific horror comic is in no way prescient or timely." - Patton Oswalt “…perfectly disturbing and mysterious.” – The Beat

Author : John Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944853790

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The Family Dolls by John Reed Pdf

Author : Babatunde Olatunji,Robert Atkinson
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592133541

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The Beat of My Drum by Babatunde Olatunji,Robert Atkinson Pdf

Babatune Olatunji's record album Drums of Passion proclaimed that the time had come for America to recognize Africa's cultural contributions to the music world. Through his many albums and live performances, the Nigerian drummer popularized West African traditional music and spread his message of racial harmony. In this long-awaited autobiography, Olatunji presents his life story and the philosophy that guided him. Olatunji influenced and inspired musicians for more than forty years - from luminaries to music students and the many ordinary people who participated in his drum circles. He writes about rhythm being "the soul of life," and about the healing power of the drum. Ultimately, The Beat of My Drum shows why at the time of his death in 2003, Olatunji had become, according to The New York Times, "the most visible African musician in the United States."