Ethics of Media Content
Questions of media ethics address the way media practitioners – journalists, public relations (PR) representatives, bloggers, technical support staff –...
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Fairness Doctrine
The Fairness Doctrine, from its inception in the 1940s to its demise in the 1980s, epitomizes American broadcast law in...
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Structuralism
Structuralism emerged in the 1970s as a departure from the theoretical foundations of structural functionalism. It is among a variety...
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Sudanese Society
Sudan is an ancient African nation; early Stone Age or Paleolithic sites suggest dates as early as 250,000 BCE. The...
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Subcultures
The concept of subculture has a particularly strong, yet controversial trajectory in the social sciences in general and anthropology in...
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Shirley C. Strum
Shirley Strum has had an interest in primitive life since she was a child. This interest was furthered in a...
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Sufi Islam
In most Muslim societies, pioneering Sufi mysticism taught the principles of Islam in a simple way by committing its disciples...
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Sumerian Civilization
Sumerian civilization began in the flood plains between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. Deep beneath the land that now...
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Are science and theology reconcilable in terms of evolution? As both an eminent geopaleontologist and cosmic mystic, Pierre Teilhard de...
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Technology
Technics can be a tool extending human body parts and senses or a combined physical system (man-tool, man-machine, man-natural process)...
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Determining Charges: Role of the Prosecutor
This article explores the pivotal role of prosecutors in the criminal justice process, focusing on the determination of charges in...
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The Complaint and Formal Charging Documents
This article delves into the pivotal stages of the criminal justice process in the United States, focusing on the intricate...
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Initial Appearance before a Judicial Officer
This article delves into the intricacies of the initial appearance before a judicial officer in the US criminal justice process,...
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Bail and Pretrial Release Conditions
This article delves into the multifaceted realm of bail and pretrial release conditions within the United States criminal justice process....
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Extradition Processes Within Jurisdictions
This article explores the intricacies of extradition processes within the jurisdiction of the United States. The introduction delineates the historical...
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The Grand Jury and Preliminary Hearings
This article delves into the intricacies of the United States criminal justice process, specifically focusing on the roles of grand...
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Charging Juveniles: Differences in Procedure
This article delves into the intricacies of charging procedures for juvenile offenders within the United States’ criminal justice process, employing...
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Impact of Media on Arrest and Charging
This article explores the multifaceted impact of media on the arrest and charging stages within the U.S. criminal justice process....
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No-Contact Orders and Protective Measures
This comprehensive article delves into the integral role of no-contact orders and protective measures within the United States criminal justice...
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Asset Forfeiture in Criminal Cases
This comprehensive article explores the intricacies of asset forfeiture within the United States criminal justice process. The introduction provides a...
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Health And Safety ⋆ Beauty and Health, Beauty Treatments ⋆ Lifestyle
Since 1938, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulated the safety, rather than the efficacy, of cosmetic products....
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Hip Hop ⋆ Movements in Beauty Industry ⋆ Lifestyle
In the 1970s, a new type of groove called hip hop that relied on rhythm, technology, and poetry became the...
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How to Look Good Naked ⋆ Beauty Television ⋆ Lifestyle
How to Look Good Naked (United Kingdom, Channel 4, 2006; United States, Lifetime, 2008) is a reality program first begun...
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Infomercials ⋆ Beauty Industry, Beauty Media, Beauty Television ⋆ Lifestyle
Infomercials are television commercials that sell products using programming imitative of noncommercial television shows. They can run anywhere from one...
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Internet ⋆ Beauty Industry, Beauty Media ⋆ Lifestyle
The World Wide Web, accessed through the Internet, is home to retailers from every possible area, and the beauty industry...
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Johnson Products ⋆ Beauty Companies, Beauty Products, Beauty Treatments ⋆ Lifestyle
George Ellis Johnson, born in Richton, Mississippi in 1927, founded the Johnson Products Company in Chicago in 1954. Johnson had...
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Labor ⋆ Beauty Industry, Beauty Professions, Movements in Beauty Industry ⋆ Lifestyle
The fashion industry’s association with a world of glamour and haute couture has been contrasted with the issues of sweatshop...
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Latina Beauty Industry ⋆ Beauty Industry ⋆ Lifestyle
The Latina beauty industry includes hair care, cosmetics, and fragrance products and services. The industry includes mainstream brands and Latina-owned...
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Men’s Magazines ⋆ Beauty Magazines, Beauty Media, Male Beauty ⋆ Lifestyle
Magazines for American men, dealing variously with topics as diverse as politics, health and fitness, fashion and other aspects of...
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Makeovers ⋆ Beauty Media, Beauty Television ⋆ Lifestyle
A makeover is a transformation from an inadequate before to a superior after; it is often used to refer to...
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History of Violence and the Media
For over a century violence in the media has been framed as a “problem” by social commentators. The arrival of...
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Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) has at least three dominant meanings in communications. Though the distinctions blur in some analyses, these largely...
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Watergate Scandal
Watergate was more than a break-in at Democratic national headquarters. It reflected a larger struggle over US foreign policy between...
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Women’s Movement and the Media
In the US, as in many other western countries, the link between the media and organized feminism goes back to...
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Accountability of the Media
The accountability of the media is a normative notion that underlies the balance of freedom and social responsibility across media...
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Accountability of the News
The notion of media accountability concerns how to balance freedom and social responsibility in various aspects such as media structure,...
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Bias in the News
In societies with a tradition of partisan news media, whether news organizations have a political bias in their reporting is...
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Commentary
A commentary is a genre of journalism that provides interpretations and opinions on current events, rather than factual reporting. Interpretations...
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Folk Speech
The designation folk speech is one of various terms that have been used to describe the language of ordinary people...
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer, a British social philosopher and sociologist, was a widely recognized visionary and the founder of the theory of...
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Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler was born in Blankenburg (Harz) in central Germany in 1880, the eldest of four children. As a young...
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Spider Monkeys
Spider monkeys are members of the order Primates, formerly included in the family Cebidae but now placed in the family...
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Stereotypes
Stereotypes are rigid clusters of overly simplified social and cultural characteristics conjoined into a single, imagined identity or schematic theory...
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Julian H. Steward
Julian Haynes Steward is best known for his seminal contributions to cultural ecology, multilinear evolutionism, archaeology, and ethnography of the...
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