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Strelitz, Larry, and Charles Riddle. "Child sex abuse in South Africa: the role of the media in constructing reality." Communicatio 18, no. 2 (1992): 50–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02500169208537711.

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Peltzer, Karl, and Supa Promtussananon. "EVALUATION OF SOUL CITY SCHOOL AND MASS MEDIA LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL LEARNERS IN SOUTH AFRICA." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 31, no. 8 (2003): 825–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2003.31.8.825.

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The study aimed at evaluating Soul City school and mass media life skills education among junior secondary school learners in South Africa using a postintervention design. The sample consisted of 3150 learners, 44.1% were male and 55.9% female, and their mean age was 15.6 yrs (SD=1.6) ranging from 13 to 24 years. Results indicate that Soul City school life skills exposure was positively associated with puberty/body knowledge, HIV knowledge, HIV risk perception, and condom use at last sex. The Soul City life skills mass-media edutainment had mainly a significant positive impact on condom use kn

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Ndonye, Michael M. "Mass-Mediated Feminist Scholarship failure in Africa: Normalised Body-Objectification as Artificial Intelligence (AI)." Editon Consortium Journal of Media and Communication Studies 1, no. 1 (2019): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjmcs.v1i1.47.

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Mass media culture and its role in defining, inculcating and shaping sexual orientation of a society cannot be gainsaid. In this paper, the mass-mediated western feminist scholarship failure in Africa is interrogated in the wake of Sex Robots such as ‘Samantha.’ The argument is that these sex robots function to normalise woman body objectification. The study aims to anchor on Pan African project perspective and the ontological formulation of the African woman as human-being deserving her voice concerning her experiences with patriarchal social structures. The mass media, in its romanticisation

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Aboagye, Richard Gyan, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, et al. "Mass Media Exposure and Safer Sex Negotiation among Women in Sexual Unions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey Data." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 5 (2021): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11050063.

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(1) Background: Improving sexual autonomy among women in sexual unions comes with various benefits, including the reduction of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections. We examined the relationship between mass media exposure and safer sex negotiation among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). (2) Methods: The study involved a cross-sectional analysis of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data of 29 sub-Saharan African countries. A total of 224,647 women aged 15–49 were included in our analyses. We examined the association between mass media exposure and safer sex negotiation using binar

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Murukutla, Nandita, Trish Cotter, Shuo Wang, et al. "Results of a Mass Media Campaign in South Africa to Promote a Sugary Drinks Tax." Nutrients 12, no. 6 (2020): 1878. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12061878.

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Background: In South Africa, the increased consumption of sugary drinks has been associated with increased obesity rates. Mass media campaigns can play a crucial role in improving knowledge, shifting attitudes, and building support for government action on reducing sugary drink consumption. No study to date has evaluated the effectiveness of mass media campaigns on the health harms of sugary drinks in South Africa. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a mass media campaign on knowledge and attitudes around sugary drinks and on public support for a proposed tax on

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Isaacs, Dane Henry. "Social representations of intimate partner violence in the South African media." South African Journal of Psychology 46, no. 4 (2016): 491–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0081246316628815.

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South Africa has one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence in the world. The South African mass media have been recognised as playing an important role in influencing individual cognitions of social issues, including intimate partner violence. However, few studies have investigated how such violence is represented within the South African media. This article explores how the print media constructs men’s perpetrated violence against female partners, attending in particular to how and to what effect extreme acts of violence are represented in data from three newspapers that attract t

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Andersen, Josephine. "Redressing past cultural biases and imbalances in South Africa: a contribution by the Library of the South African National Gallery." Art Libraries Journal 23, no. 1 (1998): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200010749.

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Legislation in South Africa now provides for the inclusion of arts and culture and adult literacy in the education system and art libraries can help promote this Government initiative by distributing their resources widely. The Library of the South African National Gallery is playing an unusual and non-traditional role in helping redress past inequities. It uses visual art, with its concern with expression and communication, to encourage adult learning and stimulate articulacy by encouraging learners to ‘read’ texts from the mass media and visual artworks in order to develop skills in all kind

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Wiley-Yancy, Destiny. "Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) Presidium Committee Nairobi Preparations." Meridians 20, no. 1 (2021): 174–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913162.

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Abstract The Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization’s (AAPSO) Presidium Committee on Women met to prepare for the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya. The committee aimed to tackle the impact of colonialism and imperialism and the ways they disproportionately impacted the lives of women. The AAPSO wanted to do this through a series of workshops focusing on the status of women in apartheid South Africa, the destabilization of women and children in Africa and Asia, the burden of debt in developing countries, and the subversive role of transnational corporations in mass medi

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Lear, Scott A., Lindsei K. Sarna, Timothy J. Siow, G. B. John Mancini, Yaw L. Siow, and Karmin O. "Oxidative stress is associated with visceral adipose tissue and subclinical atherosclerosis in a healthy multi-ethnic population." Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism 37, no. 6 (2012): 1164–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/h2012-107.

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Oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of atherosclerosis. Excess visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) are risk factors for coronary artery disease. We tested the hypothesis that VAT and IMT were associated with systemic oxidative stress. Healthy men and women (n = 565) matched for ethnicity (Aboriginal, Chinese, European, and South Asian) were recruited. Plasma malondialdehyde, a biomarker of oxidative stress, was measured as thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS). VAT and IMT were determined by computerized tomography

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Chisa, Ken, and Ruth Hoskins. "THE EFFECTS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ON INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 32, no. 3 (2016): 49–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/1676.

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When information and communication technologies (ICTs) are introduced in an indigenous environment, they bring along with them mass media, popular culture and global languages such as English. This may cause conflict with existing local traditions and may sometimes erode cultural stability. Paradoxically, these technologies can also empower the same community with new tools to create new economic, social and political opportunities besides preserving, promoting, and even safeguarding its indigenous cultural identity. This dichotomy begs the question: under which conditions can ICTs empower ind

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Belokonev, S. Yu, T. V. Evgenieva, V. V. Titov, and Z. R. Usmanova. "BRICS Countries in Political Consciousness of Russian Citizens." MGIMO Review of International Relations, no. 3(66) (July 28, 2019): 111–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2019-3-66-111-130.

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The article analyzes the Russian citizens’ perceptions of BRICS countries. The authors focus on the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and symbolic aspects characterizing BRICS countries in political consciousness of the Russians as well as common stereotypes, intentions, and associations. Since the Russian Federation has political and economic interests in cooperation with the BRICS countries, it is important to study representations of Brazil, India, China and South Africa in Russian consciousness and identify the possibilities of their transformation. Proceeding from the results of qualitati

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Van Coller, H. P., and J. C. Steyn. "Die Afrikaanse letterkunde in ’n amptelik Engels-eentalige Suid-Afrika." Literator 13, no. 1 (1992): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v13i1.721.

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In this article the situation of Afrikaans literature in an officially English monolingual South Africa is discussed. The growth and decline of languages are influenced by so many factors and processes that it is impossible to predict precisely how loss of official status and the concomitant loss of important legal and conventional language rights presently enjoyed by Afrikaans speakers would affect Afrikaans. Nevertheless it is certain that at least three areas will be affected. Firstly, loss of recognition and the anglicization of tertiary education will bring about a decline in Afrikaans as

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Hanson, Sara K., Richard J. Munthali, Elizabeth A. Lundeen, Linda M. Richter, Shane A. Norris, and Aryeh D. Stein. "Stunting at 24 Months Is Not Related to Incidence of Overweight through Young Adulthood in an Urban South African Birth Cohort." Journal of Nutrition 148, no. 6 (2018): 967–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxy061.

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Abstract Background The role that childhood stunting plays in the development of overweight and obesity later in life is not well understood, particularly in adolescence and young adulthood, because most studies have only followed up through midchildhood. Objective The objective of this study was to examine the relation between stunting and age-specific patterns of overweight and obesity incidence from early childhood to young adulthood in the context of a country in the process of the nutrition transition while these children were growing up. Methods We analyzed data from 895 participants in

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Pîrvu, Simina. "Adaptare și imitație în romanele "No Time Like the Present", de Nadine Gordimer și „Vremea Minunilor", de Cătălin Dorian Florescu / Adaptation and mimicry in the novels “No Time Like the Present”, by Nadine Gordimer and “Vremea minunilor”, by Florescu." Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies 1, no. 1 (2018): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v1i1.16810.

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In a series of lectures in 1994, Nadine Gordimer remarks the different status of Africa which is no longer at the edge of the empire, but on the contrary, in the center of it. In this respect, post-apartheid Africa has rebuilt its national identity on the background of global events that write universal history, offering citizens the chance to escape their country's constraints and bring important key elements in the globalization process. Thus, replacing apartheid themes in a new country is an extreme task by the applicant. Some of the favourite subjects of the "old guard" are the follo

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Handayani, Diah. "Political Identity, Popular Culture, and Ideological Coercion: The Discourses of Feminist Movement in the Report of Ummi Magazine." Jurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat: Media Pemikiran dan Dakwah Pembangunan 5, no. 1 (2021): 185–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jpm.2021.051-08.

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This research examines the rise of Islamic populism in Indonesia and understands it as an instrument to clear a new pathway for populism movement into popular culture. Ummi magazine is one of the religious media used to be political vehicles of stablishing constituencies, especially for the Tarbiyah movement in the Soeharto era to the current tendency to popularize the Tarbiyah identity as a new lifestyle. Historically, The Tarbiyah movement in Indonesia is a social and political movement among Indonesian Muslimah students, especially activists in the Suharto period. Muslim middle class entrep

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Bhandari, Sudhir, Ajit Singh Shaktawat, Bhoopendra Patel, et al. "The sequel to COVID-19: the antithesis to life." Journal of Ideas in Health 3, Special1 (2020): 205–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.47108/jidhealth.vol3.issspecial1.69.

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The pandemic of COVID-19 has afflicted every individual and has initiated a cascade of directly or indirectly involved events in precipitating mental health issues. The human species is a wanderer and hunter-gatherer by nature, and physical social distancing and nationwide lockdown have confined an individual to physical isolation. The present review article was conceived to address psychosocial and other issues and their aetiology related to the current pandemic of COVID-19. The elderly age group has most suffered the wrath of SARS-CoV-2, and social isolation as a preventive measure may furth

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Ncayiyana, Jabulani, Griffin Bell, Ari Solomon, and Micheal Emch. "237Spatial distribution and correlates of HIV prevalence in South Africa." International Journal of Epidemiology 50, Supplement_1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab168.475.

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Abstract Background South Africa has a high HIV prevalence and generalized HIV epidemic. It is now well established that the HIV epidemic and its drivers are highly heterogeneous, even in generalized HIV epidemic settings. Methods This study uses data from South African HIV/AIDS, Behavioural Risks, Sero-status, and Mass Media Impact (SABSSM), 2005, 2008 and 2012 surveys. To identify spatial clusters, we used the spatial scan statistic method in SaTScan, assuming discrete Poisson distributions. Poisson regression models were used to explore the municipality-level correlates of HIV prevalence an

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Beyers, Jaco. "Self-secularisation as challenge to the church." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 71, no. 3 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i3.3178.

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The concept of self-secularisation has been identified by Wolfgang Huber, bishop of the German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD), when he reflected on the context of the church in Germany. Self-secularisation however, is a worldwide phenomenon with effects in South Africa as well. After discussing the origin of the concept and its interpretations, the author tries to identify instances of self-secularisation within especially the Afrikaansspeaking churches, although not limited to them, in South Africa. The theological jargon comes under scrutiny, civil religion, the pluralistic society

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Fagir, Dina M., Nigel C. Bennett, Eddie A. Ueckermann, Alexandra Howard, and Daniel W. Hart. "Ectoparasitic community of the Mahali mole-rat, Cryptomys hottentotus mahali: potential host for vectors of medical importance in South Africa." Parasites & Vectors 14, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04537-w.

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Abstract Background The endemic rodent family of Bathyergidae in Africa, particularly South Africa, are understudied as reservoirs of diseases of significant medical importance. Considering the diversity and wide distribution of African mole-rats in South Africa, many of these bathyergids could act as carriers of zoonoses. Methods The present study assessed the ectoparasite community of the Mahali mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus mahali). We aimed to identify possible parasitic arthropods that may infest this mole-rat species and explore host preference, contributions of seasonality, host sex a

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Setswe, Keitshepile G., and Khangelani Zuma. "Young South Africans’ views on, and perceptions of, abstinence and faithfulness." Health SA Gesondheid 15, no. 1 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v15i1.414.

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The goals of the Abstinence and Be Faithful Among Youth (ABY) project were to enhance local responses among the youth in South Africa to prevent HIV infection through encouraging abstinence,faithfulness and avoidance of unhealthy sexual behaviour among youths over a five-year period. A quantitative baseline evaluation of the ABY project was conducted in five cities in South Africa. Data were collected from learners and youths just before the ABY intervention started at nine randomly selected sites in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Mthatha using a three-stage cluster sampli

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Nonterah, Engelbert A., Nigel J. Crowther, Abraham Oduro, et al. "Poor cardiovascular health is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in apparently healthy sub-Saharan African populations: an H3Africa AWI-Gen study." BMC Medicine 19, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01909-6.

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Abstract Background The cardiovascular health index (CVHI) introduced by the American Heart Association is a valid, accessible, simple, and translatable metric for monitoring cardiovascular health in a population. Components of the CVHI include the following seven cardiovascular risk factors (often captured as life’s simple 7): smoking, dietary intake, physical activity, body mass index, blood pressure, glucose, and total cholesterol. We sought to expand the evidence for its utility to under-studied populations in sub-Saharan Africa, by determining its association with common carotid intima-me

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Omole, Damie Chidinma. "Fighting HIV/AIDS with Edutainment: "An Exploratory Study of the Use of Edutainment by the MTV Shuga Campaign" [Kennesaw State University]." Journal of Student Research, April 21, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47611/jsr.vi.686.

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Communication strategies have an integral role in society and have been used as tools by health, political and media campaigns. Since the development of these strategies the growing concept of edutainment has emerged and has obtained wide spread use (Tufte, 2002). Yet, since its new popularity most research have focused on traditional strategies for communications in regard to behavioral change. To fully understand the edutainment strategy, we must therefore understand the use and the effects. This is done by evaluating the MTV Shuga Campaign in South Africa through a comprehensive content ana

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Rocavert, Carla. "Aspiring to the Creative Class: Reality Television and the Role of the Mentor." M/C Journal 19, no. 2 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1086.

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Introduction Mentors play a role in real life, just as they do in fiction. They also feature in reality television, which sits somewhere between the two. In fiction, mentors contribute to the narrative arc by providing guidance and assistance (Vogler 12) to a mentee in his or her life or professional pursuits. These exchanges are usually characterized by reciprocity, the need for mutual recognition (Gadamer 353) and involve some kind of moral question. They dramatise the possibilities of mentoring in reality, to provide us with a greater understanding of the world, and our human interaction wi

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Oguntola, S. O., M. O. Hassan, R. Duarte, A. Vachiat, P. Manga, and S. Naicker. "Atherosclerotic vascular disease is more prevalent among black ESKD patients on long-term CAPD in South Africa." BMC Nephrology 20, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-019-1583-8.

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Abstract Background Occurrence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the setting of chronic kidney disease (CKD) can be described as a “cruel alliance”, with CVD responsible for about half of all deaths among CKD patients. Chronic kidney disease patients are more likely to die from CVD than progress to end stage kidney disease (ESKD). Dyslipidaemia, a known traditional risk factor for CVD, is highly prevalent among CKD patients and with an even higher frequency among ESKD patients on dialytic therapies. Prolonged exposure of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients to high glucos

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Vos, Alinda G., Klariska Hoeve, Roos E. Barth, et al. "Cardiovascular disease risk in an urban African population: a cross-sectional analysis on the role of HIV and antiretroviral treatment." Retrovirology 16, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12977-019-0497-7.

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Abstract Background Life expectancy is increasing in the HIV-positive population and age-related non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, (CVD) are seen more frequently. This study investigated to what extent HIV and antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with CVD risk in an urban African population. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed in Johannesburg, South Africa, between July 2016 and November 2017. Both HIV-positive adults (ART-naïve, or on first- or second-line ART), as well as age and sex matched HIV-negative controls who were family or friends of the HIV-

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Castrichini, M., V. Nuzzi, G. Sinagra, J. Cleland, and P. Pellicori. "Use of social media by health care professionals: is patients' privacy respected?" European Heart Journal 41, Supplement_2 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.3462.

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Abstract Background The internet has a key role in sharing and expanding medical knowledge. Social networks offer health-care professionals the possibility to communicate, debate and learn from each other in real-time, thereby improving access to expertise and creating new knowledge. On Facebook, there are many groups that health-care professionals can join to discuss clinical cases. However, it is unknown if patient-privacy is respected and whether users are aware that they might be inadvertently involved in a criminal act for which they might be sued. Methods We identified the most popular F

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Hjorth, Larissa, and Olivia Khoo. "Collect Calls." M/C Journal 10, no. 1 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2586.

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   Synonymous with globalism, the mobile phone has become an integral part of contemporary everyday life. As a global medium, the mobile phone is a compelling phenomenon that demonstrates the importance of the local in shaping and adapting the technology. The adaptation and usage of the mobile phone can be read on two levels simultaneously – the micro, individual level and the macro, socio-cultural level. Symbolic of the pervasiveness and ubiquity of global ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in the everyday, the mobile phone demonstrates that the experiences of

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McGowan, Lee. "Piggery and Predictability: An Exploration of the Hog in Football’s Limelight." M/C Journal 13, no. 5 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.291.

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Lincolnshire, England. The crowd cheer when the ball breaks loose. From one end of the field to the other, the players chase, their snouts hovering just above the grass. It’s not a case of four legs being better, rather a novel way to attract customers to the Woodside Wildlife and Falconry Park. During the matches, volunteers are drawn from the crowd to hold goal posts at either end of the run the pigs usually race on. With five pigs playing, two teams of two and a referee, and a ball designed to leak feed as it rolls (Stevenson) the ten-minute competition is fraught with tension. While the pi

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Johnson-Hunt, Nancy. "Dreams for Sale: Ideal Beauty in the Eyes of the Advertiser." M/C Journal 23, no. 1 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1646.

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Introduction‘Dream’ has been researched across numerous fields in its multiplicity within both a physical and emotional capacity. For Pagel et al., there is no fixed definition of what ‘dream’ is or are. However, in an advertising context, ’dream’ is the idealised version of our desires, re-visualised in real life (Coombes and Batchelor 103). It could be said that for countless consumers, advertising imagery has elicited dreams of living the perfect life and procuring material pleasures (Manca et al.; Hood). Goodis asserts, “advertising doesn’t always mirror how people are acting but how they

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Livingstone, Randall M. "Let’s Leave the Bias to the Mainstream Media: A Wikipedia Community Fighting for Information Neutrality." M/C Journal 13, no. 6 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.315.

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Although I'm a rich white guy, I'm also a feminist anti-racism activist who fights for the rights of the poor and oppressed. (Carl Kenner)Systemic bias is a scourge to the pillar of neutrality. (Cerejota)Count me in. Let's leave the bias to the mainstream media. (Orcar967)Because this is so important. (CuttingEdge)These are a handful of comments posted by online editors who have banded together in a virtual coalition to combat Western bias on the world’s largest digital encyclopedia, Wikipedia. This collective action by Wikipedians both acknowledges the inherent inequalities of a user-controll

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Brien, Donna Lee, Leonie Rutherford, and Rosemary Williamson. "Hearth and Hotmail." M/C Journal 10, no. 4 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2696.

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   Introduction It has frequently been noted that ICTs and social networking applications have blurred the once-clear boundary between work, leisure and entertainment, just as they have collapsed the distinction between public and private space. While each individual has a sense of what “home” means, both in terms of personal experience and more conceptually, the following three examples of online interaction (based on participants’ interest, or involvement, in activities traditionally associated with the home: pet care, craft and cooking) suggest that the utilisation of onli

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Humphreys, Lee, and Thomas Barker. "Modernity and the Mobile Phone." M/C Journal 10, no. 1 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2602.

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   Introduction As the country with the fifth largest population in the world, Indonesia is a massive potential market for mobile technology adoption and development. Despite an annual per capita income of only $1,280 USD (World Bank), there are 63 million mobile phone users in Indonesia (Suhartono, sec. 1.7) and it is predicted to reach 80 million in 2007 (Jakarta Post 1). Mobile phones are not only a symbol of Indonesian modernity (Barendregt 5), but like other communication technology can become a platform through which to explore socio-political issues (Winner 28). In thi

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Stewart, Jon. "Oh Blessed Holy Caffeine Tree: Coffee in Popular Music." M/C Journal 15, no. 2 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.462.

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Introduction This paper offers a survey of familiar popular music performers and songwriters who reference coffee in their work. It examines three areas of discourse: the psychoactive effects of caffeine, coffee and courtship rituals, and the politics of coffee consumption. I claim that coffee carries a cultural and musicological significance comparable to that of the chemical stimulants and consumer goods more readily associated with popular music. Songs about coffee may not be as potent as those featuring drugs and alcohol (Primack; Schapiro), or as common as those referencing commodities li

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Heurich, Angelika. "Women in Australian Politics: Maintaining the Rage against the Political Machine." M/C Journal 22, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1498.

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Women in federal politics are under-represented today and always have been. At no time in the history of the federal parliament have women achieved equal representation with men. There have never been an equal number of women in any federal cabinet. Women have never held an equitable number of executive positions of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) or the Liberal Party. Australia has had only one female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and she was the recipient of sexist treatment in the parliament and the media. A 2019 report by Plan International found that girls and women, were “reluctant to

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Campays, Philippe, and Vioula Said. "Re-Imagine." M/C Journal 20, no. 4 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1250.

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To Remember‘The central problem of today’s global interactions is the tension between cultural homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation.’ (Appadurai 49)While this statement has been made more than twenty years, it remains more relevant than ever. The current age is one of widespread global migrations and dis-placement. The phenomenon of globalisation is the first and major factor for this newly created shift of ground, of transmigration as defined by its etymological meaning. However, a growing number of migrations also result from social or political oppression and war as we witness the c

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Little, Christopher. "The Chav Youth Subculture and Its Representation in Academia as Anomalous Phenomenon." M/C Journal 23, no. 5 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1675.

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Introduction“Chav” is a social phenomenon that gained significant popular media coverage and attention in the United Kingdom in the early 2000s. Chavs are often characterised, by others, as young people from a background of low socioeconomic status, usually clothed in branded sportswear. All definitions of Chav position them as culturally anomalous, as Other.This article maps out a multidisciplinary definition of the Chav, synthesised from 21 published academic publications: three recurrent themes in scholarly discussion emerge. First, this research presents whiteness as an assumed and essenti

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Brien, Donna Lee. "Climate Change and the Contemporary Evolution of Foodways." M/C Journal 12, no. 4 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.177.

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Introduction Eating is one of the most quintessential activities of human life. Because of this primacy, eating is, as food anthropologist Sidney Mintz has observed, “not merely a biological activity, but a vibrantly cultural activity as well” (48). This article posits that the current awareness of climate change in the Western world is animating such cultural activity as the Slow Food movement and is, as a result, stimulating what could be seen as an evolutionary change in popular foodways. Moreover, this paper suggests that, in line with modelling provided by the Slow Food example, an increa

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Moore, Christopher Luke. "Digital Games Distribution: The Presence of the Past and the Future of Obsolescence." M/C Journal 12, no. 3 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.166.

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A common criticism of the rhythm video games genre — including series like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, is that playing musical simulation games is a waste of time when you could be playing an actual guitar and learning a real skill. A more serious criticism of games cultures draws attention to the degree of e-waste they produce. E-waste or electronic waste includes mobiles phones, computers, televisions and other electronic devices, containing toxic chemicals and metals whose landfill, recycling and salvaging all produce distinct environmental and social problems. The e-waste produced by games

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Lyons, Siobhan. "From the Elephant Man to Barbie Girl: Dissecting the Freak from the Margins to the Mainstream." M/C Journal 23, no. 5 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1687.

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Introduction In The X-Files episode “Humbug”, agents Scully and Mulder travel to Florida to investigate a series of murders taking place in a community of sideshow performers, or freaks. At the episode’s end, one character, a self-made freak and human blockhead, muses on the future of the freak community:twenty-first century genetic engineering will not only eradicate the Siamese twins and the alligator-skinned people, but you’re going to be hard-pressed to find a slight overbite or a not-so-high cheek bone … . Nature abhors normality. It can’t go very long without creating a mutant. (“Humbug”

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Kelly, Elaine. "Growing Together? Land Rights and the Northern Territory Intervention." M/C Journal 13, no. 6 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.297.

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Each community’s title deed carries the indelible blood stains of our ancestors. (Watson, "Howard’s End" 2)IntroductionAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term coalition comes from the Latin coalescere or ‘coalesce’, meaning “come or bring together to form one mass or whole”. Coalesce refers to the unity affirmed as something grows: co – “together”, alesce – “to grow up”. While coalition is commonly associated with formalised alliances and political strategy in the name of self-interest and common goals, this paper will draw as well on the broader etymological understanding of coal

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Gao, Xiang. "‘Staying in the Nationalist Bubble’." M/C Journal 24, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2745.

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Introduction The highly contagious COVID-19 virus has presented particularly difficult public policy challenges. The relatively late emergence of an effective treatments and vaccines, the structural stresses on health care systems, the lockdowns and the economic dislocations, the evident structural inequalities in effected societies, as well as the difficulty of prevention have tested social and political cohesion. Moreover, the intrusive nature of many prophylactic measures have led to individual liberty and human rights concerns. As noted by the Victorian (Australia) Ombudsman Report on the

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