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Music Popular

Popular Music

Music in various functions plays an increasingly important role both as an indicator of and as a medium for changes...
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Mythology Popular

Popular Mythology

Myth comes from the Greek word mythos meaning “speech” or “story.” Contrary to popular parlance that says a myth is...
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Reality

Reality TV

Reality TV became an increasingly prevalent global entertainment genre in the 1990s and early 2000s. The popularity of reality shows...
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Reification

Reification

“Popular communication” can be characterized by the various ways in which the general public engages popular forms of communication including...
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Popular Religion

Religion and Popular Communication

“Communication” derives from the Latin term communicare meaning to share or impart and to make common. “Popular communication” refers to...
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Popular Rituals

Rituals In Popular Communication

Rituals and ritualization can be found in all aspects of contemporary social life: religion, education, politics, popular culture, work life,...
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Academic Communication

Communication as an Academic Field in East Asia

The community of East Asian communication researchers has been growing rapidly in recent years, which shows that communication studies in...
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Academic Communication

Communication as an Academic Field in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong

The communication discipline in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong is strong and diverse. Although regional research clearly emerged...
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Academic Communication

Communication as an Academic Field in Africa

Present-day communication education in Africa has not been able to build on a rich tradition of a longstanding university system....
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Applied Communication

Applied Communication Research

Applied communication research refers to a type of communication scholarship as well as to a sub-field of communication with which...
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Communication International

International Communication Association (ICA)

The International Communication Association (ICA) began more than 50 years ago as a small association of US researchers and is...
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Association International

International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) is an international professional organization in the field of media and...
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Communication Research

Communication Research and Politics

Communication research is intimately related to politics, especially if politics is understood widely as the deliberate management of society. Research...
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Communication Professions

Communication Professions and Academic Research

Despite a common interest in communicative activity, mass communication professionals and communication scholars have long been at odds with each...
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History Speech

History of Speech Communication

The field of speech emerged out of changing teaching practices in US higher education in the early twentieth century. Between...
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Media Perceptions

Media and Perceptions of Reality

Perceptions of reality, or social reality, can be conceptualized as an individual’s conception of the world (Hawkins & Pingree 1982)....
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Career Sportswriter

Sportswriter Career

Sportswriters cover the news in sports for newspapers and magazines. They research original ideas or follow up on breaking stories,...
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Sports Trainer

Sports Trainer Career

Sports trainers, also referred to as athletic trainers, certified sports medicine trainers, and certified sports medicine therapists, help amateur and...
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Scout Sports

Sports Scout Career

Sports scouts observe athletic contests to gather information that will help the team that employs them. They may attend a...
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Publicist Sports

Sports Publicist Career

There are two types of sports publicists: those who work for professional and amateur teams and those who work for...
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Physician Sports

Sports Physician Career

Sports physicians, also known as team physicians, treat patients who have sustained injuries to their musculoskeletal systems during the play...
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Photographer Sports

Sports Photographer Career

Sports photographers are specialists hired to shoot pictures of sporting events and athletes. They work for newspapers, magazines, and photo...
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Instructor Sports

Sports Instructor and Coach Career

Sports instructors demonstrate and explain the skills and rules of particular sports, like golf or tennis, to individuals or groups....
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Agent Sports

Sports Agent Career

Sports agents act as representatives for professional athletes in many different types of negotiations, providing advice and representation concerning contracts,...
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Goods Sporting

Sporting Goods Production Worker Career

Sporting goods production workers are involved in manufacturing, assembling, and finishing sporting goods equipment such as golf clubs, fishing tackle,...
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Pathologist Speech-Language

Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist Career

Speech-language pathologists and audiologists help people who have speech and hearing defects. They identify the problem and use tests to...
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Anthropology Social

Social Anthropology

While anthropologists in the United States developed cultural anthropology, the British developed social anthropology. In the present, despite the fact...
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Anthropology Visual

Visual Anthropology

The Need for Visual Anthropology Since the advent of modern photographic technology (still and moving), the use of visual methods...
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Anthropology Subdivisions

Subdivisions of Anthropology

Anthropology may be best viewed as the comparative scientific study of human societies and cultures throughout the world and throughout...
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Anthropology Theory

Theory in Anthropology

As the science of humankind, anthropology strives to give a comprehensive and coherent view of our own species within material...
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Anthropometry

Anthropometry

Anthropometry is the measurement of the size and proportions of the human body. Anthropometric measurements include those of the whole...
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Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism

The term is composed of two words of Greek origin: anthropos (man) and morphe (form, aspect). It defines the attribution...
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Aotearoa Zealand

Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Unlike nearby Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand is not a multicultural society, but rather, according to local terminology, a bicultural society. The...
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Biogeography

Ape Biogeography

Evolutionary biogeography addresses the historical relationship between geographic space and the processes of biological differentiation, such as speciation and adaptation....
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Uncategorized

Ape Сognition

Biological anthropologists use the comparative perspective in their efforts to reconstruct human evolutionary history. As our closest living relatives, primates...
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Language

Ape Language

Language is a collection of symbols that represents objects, actions, and thoughts. It is representational, allowing for the transmission and...
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Fertility Population

Fertility and Population in Developing Countries – iResearchNet

In the mid-twentieth century, many developing countries experienced a ‘demographic transition’: a transition from a society in which women had...
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Health Labor

Health Labor Markets in Developing Countries – iResearchNet

Health workers are at the center of health systems, and the health workforce plays a key role in increasing access...
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Health Services

Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries – iResearchNet

A total of 7.6 million children and 287 000 mothers (2010 data) die every year, and approximately 95% of these...
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Economics Transmission

Economics of HIV/AIDS Transmission, Treatment, and Prevention – iResearchNet

At the end of 2011, according to Joint United Nations Program on Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (UNAIDS),...
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Geographical Internal

Internal Geographical Imbalances – Health Economics – iResearchNet

This article discusses internal imbalances of health care in low-and middle-income countries. Throughout this article, ‘internal’ refers to within country,...
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Health Nutrition

Nutrition, Health, and Economic Performance – iResearchNet

Health and nutrition outcomes are critical to the well-being of households and individuals and their economic productivity and prosperity. Although...
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Incentives Pay-for-Performance

Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Health Programs – iResearchNet

Poor performance of health care providers plagues the delivery of health services in many low- and middle-income countries. The underlying...
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Health Pricing

Pricing and User Fees – Health Economics – iResearchNet

Governments throughout the world intervene in the health sector. One motivation is that under Article 25 of the Universal Declaration...
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Supply Water

Water Supply and Sanitation – Health Economics – iResearchNet

Water supply and sanitation are at their core a public health issue. Every year, 2.2 million people die from diarrheal...
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Analysis Cost–Value

Cost–Value Analysis – Health Economics – iResearchNet

Cost–value analysis (CVA) is a type of formal economic evaluation that can be used to inform decision makers in a...
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Science

Big Science

Although Big Science is a rather nebulous term, most commentators have used it to describe an array of perceived changes...
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Citations Scientific

Citations and Scientific Indexing

A classic analytical distinction between a citation and a reference reads: ”if paper R contains a bibliographic footnote using and...
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Commercialization Science

Commercialization of Science

Neither science based industry nor university involvement in commercially relevant science is a new phenomenon. In certain sectors, US firms...
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Ethnographic Studies

Ethnographic Studies of Science

Ethnographic studies of science have their origins in the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS) that emerged out...
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