Soaps such as Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale have dominated ratings on the UK's terrestrial channels for decades. Other popular genres include game shows (Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, The Weakest Link), feature-length detective dramas (Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost), comedy (One Foot in the Grave, Only Fools and Horses) and sport--particularly football. UK prime time sche…
Ken Arnold and James Gosling. 1998. 2nd ed, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. [ISBN 0-201-31006-6. 464 pages, including index. $37.95 (softcover).] As more technical communicators settle into documenting the inner workings of systems and related programming outputs, publications like The Java programming language are settling into places of honor on writers' bookshelves.
This paper posits an approach for the design of programming language courses. The approach consists of 7 steps. Step 1 was thought to help learners to rectify their negative beliefs in order to cope with the learners' emotional aspect. Step 2 proposes the intersection among the learners' knowledge and abilities background in order to help the learners to construct their own knowledge based on t…
Electronic learning (E-learning) has been adopted as a new learning tool overcoming time and place limitations. Although the success of e-learning architectures has been investigated by researchers, little work has been conducted to assess the success and/or effectiveness of E-learning systems. The on-line training environment enables users to undertake customized training at any time and any p…
The disparity between structural and phenomenological perspectives in media studies informs an unacknowledged distinction between two alternative logics of music radio production: programming and editing. Whereas programmers employ predetermined playlists nested in structural considerations, editors consider thematic associations both linearly between songs and simultaneously with shared extern…
In recent years, a renewed interest in how public service media (PSM) generate public value has emerged emphasizing how such value may express itself in multidimensional and nonlinear ways. However, little has been achieved in systematically studying these ways and providing evidence to policy makers. In this article, we propose that content diversity in TV programs and the extent to which PSM …