The essay highlights a potentially model micro-enterprise effort that involves economic and educational development for urban entrepreneurship.
Several laws regulate and influence reporting on crime in the United Arab Emirates, a country in which journalism functions within a Loyalist Press environment. These include elements in the 1980 press law and the recently updated penal code and cybercrimes laws. This legislation can secure the confidentiality of police investigations, protect privacy, and prevent the spread of false informatio…
Can media literacy education promote and improve youth engagement in civic and political life? Unfortunately, to date, there have been almost no quantitative assessments of the frequency of media literacy education, nor of any possible subsequent impacts. This study draws on a unique panel data set of a diverse group of youths in high school and college settings. It finds that exposure to media…
As the world's largest democratic republic and the home to a substantial English-speaking population, India appears poised to establish itself as a powerful engine for global economic growth. Though India, already the fourth-largest economy by purchasing-power parity, is currently believed to be performing below its potential, the following indicators point to a more affluent future: a competit…
Because of an apparent decrease in the business world's sense of ethics and an increase in illegal activities by many executives, America's business schools have taken steps to correct the situation through the education process. Management games, which are played in many schools and simulate the types of competitive conditions faced by real-world executives, maybe useful devices for teaching e…
At the very moment when Freud, still a student, initiated his first works, three economists from different countries--the Englishman Stanley Jevons, the Frenchman Leon Walras and the Austrian Carl Menger--revolutionised economic thought, breaking with the 'objectivism' of the classical economists (Smith, Ricardo, Marx) and introducing 'a psychological, individual and subjective explanation' of …
This study evaluated the perceptions of pre-service teachers in their ability to integrate technology into a learning environment based on coursework and student teaching experiences. Pre-service teachers were surveyed using the 2008 ISTE/NETS*T standards as a framework. Results were collected across four academic years at a university that has identified technology as an underlying theme. Conc…
Have the uneven global flows of capital in the cultural industries changed because of access to distribution platforms like the Apple iOS App Store? Based on a financial analysis of a dataset containing three years of game app revenues (2015-2017), this article asks two questions. First, were game developers and publishers able to generate revenue in their domestic markets in the App Store? Sec…