Senator William Proxmire, D-Wisconsin, famously made fun of government waste with his "Golden Fleece" awards, which were "given to the biggest, most ridiculous or most ironic example of government waste." In December 1978, he selected the United States office of Education: For spending $219,592 to develop a "curriculum package" to teach college students how to watch television. The product o…
This article challenges the well-established finding that persons with higher levels of education are more likely to marry outside their own ethnic group. The empirical research upon which that finding is based has been dominated by studies of groups of either immigrant or low socio-economic status. We revisit the question by examining census of population data on two minorities -- Protestants …
Communication and development are perceived as closely intertwined phenomena in which one is believed to guarantee the other. This paper argues that, sustainable development initiatives are those that guarantee the participation of those who have some interest in the intended change. The paper further argues that, communication facilitates community participation in development projects. Howeve…
The ubiquitous social networking site, Facebook, registered over one billion active users in 2012 and continues to grow (Facebook, 2018a). Not surprisingly, communication researchers around the world noticed this phenomenal shift in communication practice, a practice aided by a combination of digital communication tools--easy to access communication networks, low cost bandwidth, smartphones, ap…
Anyone attempting to write a book on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) needs to be selective, for SLA is, in fact, an umbrella term for a wealth of topics, ranging from language learning theories to language teaching methods and techniques, from individual and psychological issues to sociological and multicultural issues, and from macro bilingual education policies to micro classroom management…