› › Taken For Grantedness

A Dictionary of Media and Communication

Author : Daniel Chandler

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 722 pages

File Size : 17,41 MB

Release : 2016-08-17

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 019105755X

Get eBook

Book Description

The most accessible and up-to-date dictionary of its kind, this wide-ranging A-Z covers both interpersonal and mass communication, in all their myriad forms, encompassing advertising, digital culture, journalism, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture, among many other topics. This new edition includes over 200 new complete entries and revises hundreds of others, as well as including hundreds of new cross-references. The biographical appendix has also been fully cross-referenced to the rest of the text. This dictionary is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students on degree courses in media or communication studies, and also for those taking related subjects such as film studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.



Taken for Granted

Author : Gianno Caldwell

Publisher : Forum Books

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 28,85 MB

Release : 2019-11-12

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0593134931

Get eBook

Book Description

A Fox News political analyst tackles some of our communities’ toughest challenges with timely insight from his own life: the story of how conservative values helped a kid from the South Side of Chicago find a life of opportunity. “A must-read.”—Brian Kilmeade, bestselling author of Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers Born to a mother consumed by drugs and raised by his grandmother in poverty on the South Side of Chicago, Gianno Caldwell saw firsthand how lawmakers from both parties have failed African American voters on issues like poverty, welfare, and education. But as someone who beat the odds growing up under a fear-based mentality that limits what people can achieve, Caldwell believes there’s another way. In this groundbreaking book, the Fox News analyst describes his personal journey while detailing a hopeful vision for a nation no longer beholden to identity politics and self-limitations. Trapped within the expectations and traditions of our communities, families, political parties, faith, race, and gender, we fail to challenge our politicians and ourselves to create real change. Now more than ever, we need to confront preconceived notions about the Democrats and Republicans, public policy, and American history. Looking at the obstacles facing urban communities, such as crime, education, and social mobility, Caldwell digs beneath the statistics. By spotlighting the moments that enabled his rise to success, he proffers steps that can help more people overcome the odds—whether through policy reform or the heroic efforts of men and women who are already working to make a difference in their own communities.



Taken for Granted

Author : Eviatar Zerubavel

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 31,44 MB

Release : 2020-03-10

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0691202435

Get eBook

Book Description

Why is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Offering a revealing and provocative look at the word choices we make every day without even realizing it, Taken for Granted exposes the subtly encoded ways we talk about race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, social status, and more. In this engaging and insightful book, Eviatar Zerubavel describes how the words we use - such as when we mark "the best female basketball player" but leave her male counterpart unmarked-provide telling clues about the things many of us take for granted. By marking "women's history" or "Black History Month," we are also reinforcing the apparent normality of the history of white men. When we mark something as being special or somehow noticeable, that which goes unmarked-such as maleness, whiteness, straightness, and able-bodiedness-is assumed to be ordinary by default. Zerubavel shows how this tacit normalizing of certain identities, practices, and ideas helps to maintain their cultural dominance-including the power to dictate what others take for granted. A little book about a very big idea, Taken for Granted draws our attention to what we implicitly assume to be normal-and in the process unsettles the very notion of normality.



Taken for Grantedness

Author : Richard Ling

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 38,35 MB

Release : 2012-10-26

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0262304341

Get eBook

Book Description

An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society—as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car. Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-for-granted link to the people to whom we are closest; when we are without it, social and domestic disarray may result. In just a few years, the mobile phone has become central to the functioning of society. In this book, Rich Ling explores the process by which the mobile phone has become embedded in society, comparing it to earlier technologies that changed the character of our social interaction and, along the way, became taken for granted. Ling, drawing on research, interviews, and quantitative material, shows how the mobile phone (and the clock and the automobile before it) can be regarded as a social mediation technology, with a critical mass of users, a supporting ideology, changes in the social ecology, and a web of mutual expectations regarding use. By examining the similarities and synergies among these three technologies, Ling sheds a more general light on how technical systems become embedded in society and how they support social interaction within the closest sphere of friends and family.



Logics of Organization Theory

Author : Michael T. Hannan

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 380 pages

File Size : 21,78 MB

Release : 2007-07-22

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0691134502

Get eBook

Book Description

Publisher description



Research in Organizational Behavior

Author : Barry Staw

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 409 pages

File Size : 31,21 MB

Release : 2006-07-25

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0080480675

Get eBook

Book Description

This twenty-seventh volume of Research in Organizational Behavior carries forward the tradition of high-level scholarship on a broad array of organizational topics. Like many previous volumes, this collection is truly interdisciplinary, with chapters ranging from personality and decision making in organizations, to interpersonal dynamics such as helping and group process, to organizational-level analyses of legitimization and change. Each of the essays is well-reasoned, thoughtful, and provocative-- proving, once again, that the field of organizational behavior is flourishing in both its depth and scope.*Interdisciplinary with a wide range of subjects discussed by experts in their fields*Addresses personality development, empowerment, creativity, dysfunctional groups, institutionalization, and more



Taken for granted

Author : peter delbridge

Publisher : BookRix

Page : 25 pages

File Size : 35,25 MB

Release : 2019-10-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3748718969

Get eBook

Book Description

There are so many things that we take for granted. Walking, dre3ssing ourselves and tying up our shoelaces. Technology, like facebook, mobile phones, television and electricity. Even going to the car and going up the street, BUT what would happen if we couldnt do any of these simple tasks. WHAT if you mever see your Mother again. Never hear her voice, never see her smile, She has gone. Was she taken for granted. How do you fare. We dont evere contemplate that going to visit Mum is an event that cant happen. WELL IT CAN. In just 5 short months our mother was taken for ever. Did l take her for granted. Do you take your Mum for granted. YOU BE THE JUDGE..



The Art of Saying No

Author : Damon Zahariades

Publisher :

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 43,86 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Decision making

ISBN : 9781549572746

Get eBook

Book Description

Stop Being A People Pleaser! Learn How To Set Boundaries And Say NO - Without Feeling Guilty! Are you fed up with people taking advantage of you? Are you tired of coworkers, friends, and family members demanding your time and expecting you to give it to them?If so, THE ART OF SAYING NO is for you.Imagine being able to turn down requests and decline invitations with confidence and poise. Imagine saying no to people asking you for favors, and inspiring their respect in the process. DOWNLOAD The Art Of Saying NO: How To Stand Your Ground, Reclaim Your Time And Energy, And Refuse To Be Taken For Granted (Without Feeling Guilty!) Amazon bestselling author, Damon Zahariades, provides a step-by-step, strategic guide for setting boundaries and developing the assertiveness you need to maintain them. You'll learn how to say no in every situation, at home and in the workplace, according to your convictions. And best of all, you'll discover how to get your friends, family members, bosses, coworkers, and neighbors to respect your boundaries and recognize your personal authority.In THE ART OF SAYING NO, you'll discover: my personal struggle with being a people pleaser (and how I overcame the habit!) the top 11 reasons we tend to say yes when we know we should say no 10 simple strategies for turning people down with finesse why saying no to people doesn't make you a bad person (the opposite is true!) the best way to develop the habit of setting personal and professional boundaries how to know whether you're a people pleaser (and how to gauge the severity of the problem) PLUS, BONUS MATERIAL: dedicated sections on saying no to your spouse, kids, friends, neighbors, coworkers, clients, bosses, and even strangers!If you're sick and tired of being taken for granted, grab your copy of THE ART OF SAYING NO today! Start taking control of your life by learning how to say that simple, beautiful word: "No."Scroll to the top of the page and click the "BUY NOW" button!



Microfoundations of Institutions

Author : Patrick Haack

Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 38,70 MB

Release : 2019-11-25

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1787691292

Get eBook

Book Description

The notion of microfoundations has received growing interest in neo-institutional theory along with an interest in microfoundational research in disciplines such as strategic management and economics.



Give and Take

Author : Adam Grant

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 34,43 MB

Release : 2014-03-25

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0143124986

Get eBook

Book Description

A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling author of Think Again and Originals For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.