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From:International journal of communication (Online) (Vol. 16) Peer-ReviewedThis study examines whether three affordable broadband plans that emerged from merger proceedings in the United States have helped connect low-income households. The study employs a difference-in-difference approach that...
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From:Library Journal (Vol. 133, Issue 17)Arthur C. Clarke once famously said that any sufficiently advanced technology was indistinguishable from magic. The technology that is now a routine part of our lives would have been nearly unfathomable just a decade...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedThis article charts the fracturing of the neoliberal consensus in the United States through the lens of communications policy activism. I employ a framework of cultural political economy to understand the productive role...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedIntroduction We face today a set of policy choices that will define the landscape of the connected world and the United States' place within it. The popularity of smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices has...
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From:Library Journal (Vol. 133, Issue 17)While we've all heard the disclaimer, "Oh, I don't need to do anything on my phone except talk," a recent Pew report shows two-thirds of Americans have used features of mobile devices besides just voice: 86 percent of...
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From:International journal of communication (Online) (Vol. 16) Peer-ReviewedThe COVID-19 pandemic precipitated attention to the public consequences of digital exclusion and to local, state, and federal emergency digital inclusion efforts. In this case study, we examine private sector, municipal...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-Reviewed
Global Digital Capitalism: Mark Zuckerberg in Lagos and the Political Economy of Facebook in Africa.
In 2016, Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Lagos, Nigeria--the first stop on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa. The trip was a commercial endeavor, a digital capitalist exploration of the... -
From: Michigan Quarterly Review[(essay date Fall 1983) In the following essay, Birkerts ponders the role of television in contemporary society, describing its "consciousness" with respect to the social implications of "watching" it.] No one who has...
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From: College LiteratureIn the early part of the twentieth century, multiperspectivity in fiction was seen as elitist and experimental. Many modernist works—T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), The Sound...
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From: CritiqueThe award to A.S. Byatt of the 1990 Booker Prize for her romance Possession virtually assures that her fiction will receive increasing critical attention, perhaps equaling that previously accorded to the novels of her...
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From: English Studies in Canada[(review date June 1995) In the following essay, Godard discusses Brossard's use of quantum theory in her discussion of visualization and lesbian politics in Picture Theory.] Vision, passion, reading, a mathematics of...
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From: Canadian Literature[(essay date Spring 1993) Hoy is one of the editors of The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives (1987). In the excerpt below, she discusses the authorship of The Book of Jessica, examining the text...
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From: French Forum
Lafayette's Confidence Game: Plausibility and Private Confession in La Princesse de Clèves and Zaïde
[(essay date winter 2002) In the following essay, Shoemaker details the ways that Lafayette makes use of confidants as a narrative strategy for revealing the interior, emotional life of the protagonists in The Princess... -
From: Mythlore[(essay date summer 1996) In the following excerpt, Collings discusses the subjective, objective, and universal (what Card refers to as Epick, Critick, and Mythick, respectively) aspects of the mythopoeic in Card's...
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From: Theories of Action in Conrad[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Hubbard examines the nature of agency in Typhoon, noting that, if MacWhirr is truly as unimaginative as the narrator claims, it is impossible to praise or blame him. Hubbard...
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From: Mississippi Quarterly[(essay date Winter 1988) In the following essay, Bowers discusses the inside knowledge that Tyler shares with the readers of her novels.] In her most successful novel, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler's...
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From: Western American Literature[(essay date February 1985) Owens is an American educator and critic of mixed Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish descent. In the excerpt that follows, he examines the theme of misunderstanding between whites and Native...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)It is difficult to say at this point whether the reviewers of Writing in Restaurants, Mamet's collection of essays published in 1987, adopt a condescending, slightly amused, and partially negative attitude towards the...
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From: The Massachusetts Review[(essay date Autumn 1987) In the following essay, Kearney speculates on the political and social dimensions of language as text and subject matter in Friel's Translations and The Communication Cord.] Brian Friel's...
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From: Seminar[(essay date November 1984) In the following review, Wolfe compares the love scenes in the 1954 radio drama to the 1963 stage version of Dürrenmatt's Herkules. She contends that the love scenes were awkward in the radio...