The Construction News
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1912
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Steven S. Ross
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : David L. Altheide
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351525271
The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a "discurse of fear" - the awareness and expection that danger and risk are lurking everywhere. Case studies illustrates how certain organizations and social institutions benefit from the explotation of such fear construction. One social impact is a manipulated public empathy: We now have more "victims" than at any time in our prior history. Another, more troubling resutl is the role we have ceded to law enforcement and punishment: we turn ever more readily to the state and formal control to protect us from what we fear. This book attempts through the marshalling of significant data to interrupt that vicious cycle of fear discourse.
Author : W. Russell Neuman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226574400
Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, according to the experts, is an ignorant public, helpless targets of a one-way flow of carefully filtered and orchestrated communication. Common Knowledge shatters this pervasive myth. Reporting on a ground-breaking study, the authors reveal that our shared knowledge and evolving political beliefs are determined largely by how we actively reinterpret the images, fragments, and signals we find in the mass media. For their study, the authors analyzed coverage of 150 television and newspaper stories on five prominent issues—drugs, AIDS, South African apartheid, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the stock market crash of October 1987. They tested audience responses of more than 1,600 people, and conducted in-depth interviews with a select sample. What emerges is a surprisingly complex picture of people actively and critically interpreting the news, making sense of even the most abstract issues in terms of their own lives, and finding political meaning in a sophisticated interplay of message, medium, and firsthand experience. At every turn, Common Knowledge refutes conventional wisdom. It shows that television is far more effective at raising the saliency of issues and promoting learning than is generally assumed; it also undermines the assumed causal connection between newspaper reading and higher levels of political knowledge. Finally, this book gives a deeply responsible and thoroughly fascinating account of how the news is conveyed to us, and how we in turn convey it to others, making meaning of at once so much and so little. For anyone who makes the news—or tries to make anything of it—Common Knowledge promises uncommon wisdom.
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Page : 840 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Building
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Author : CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
Publisher : Cpwr - The Center for Construction Research and Training
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
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The Construction Chart Book presents the most complete data available on all facets of the U.S. construction industry: economic, demographic, employment/income, education/training, and safety and health issues. The book presents this information in a series of 50 topics, each with a description of the subject matter and corresponding charts and graphs. The contents of The Construction Chart Book are relevant to owners, contractors, unions, workers, and other organizations affiliated with the construction industry, such as health providers and workers compensation insurance companies, as well as researchers, economists, trainers, safety and health professionals, and industry observers.
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Construction contracts
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Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Building
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Page : 796 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Architecture
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Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Newsletters
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