This is the uncorrected proofs version of my review for Peritia of three volumes by Alexander O’Hara:
with Ian Wood (trans), Jonas of Bobbio, Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast;
(ed.), Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe;
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh C…[Read more]

The period from 2013 to 2017 represents a watershed moment for Chinese mobile radio as several breakout shows such as Thinking Logically and the Guo Degang Comedy Show became viral topics across the country. Interestingly, this coincided with what critics in the United States have been calling a “golden age of podcasting,” fueled by such hit pod…[Read more]

Con mucha frecuencia, las vías que a diario son solo holladas por pacíficos caminantes se tornan en sendas cuyo caminar obedece a razones diametralmente opuestas. Es el triste caso que vivimos en la Europa de nuestros días, marcada por el lamentable tránsito hacia el Viejo Continente de los que huyen de conflictos armados en Oriente Medio. Muy poc…[Read more]

Con mucha frecuencia, las vías que a diario son solo holladas por pacíficos caminantes se tornan en sendas cuyo caminar obedece a razones diametralmente opuestas. Es el triste caso que vivimos en la Europa de nuestros días, marcada por el lamentable tránsito hacia el Viejo Continente de los que huyen de conflictos armados en Oriente Medio. Muy poc…[Read more]

Forty years ago, in his seminal essay, ‘The Whites of Their Eyes’, Stuart Hall admonished the left for its – our – collective failure in figuring out how to fight back against racism effectively. Sadly, his criticism is no less valid today than it was then, and we still have a lot to learn about how to defeat racism once and for all. We’ve k…[Read more]

Nature has its due course and disaster is always an aftermath of a catastrophic event. The purpose of this study is to assess the sources of information, training needs, preparation, and response of the community to disaster. To achieve this purpose, the study used a descriptive design with the survey as the instrument for data gathering. For the…[Read more]

This is an academic book that share essays about Venezuela, in different topics: economy, defense policy, human rights, and others.

This is an academic book that share essays about Venezuela, in different topics: economy, defense policy, human rights, and others.

Luis Rothkegel. Proceso de profesionalización de los ejércitos de Argentina y Chile Período 1895-1938. Santiago: CESIM, 2018.

Luis Rothkegel. Proceso de profesionalización de los ejércitos de Argentina y Chile Período 1895-1938. Santiago: CESIM, 2018.

Desde 1912, inúmeros textos – romances, programas de rádio, histórias em quadrinhos, seriados de televisão, filmes – produziram e articularam representações da África em narrativas envolvendo Tarzan, criado pelo estadunidense Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Tomando o nome de “África” como referência, os textos que orbitam e habitam o nome d…[Read more]

Desde 1912, inúmeros textos – romances, programas de rádio, histórias em quadrinhos, seriados de televisão, filmes – produziram e articularam representações da África em narrativas envolvendo Tarzan, criado pelo estadunidense Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Tomando o nome de “África” como referência, os textos que orbitam e habitam o nome d…[Read more]

Short description (video lecture) of what you can do, when you “do chresiology”, part 2 (slides).

This article explores the removal or exclusion in the late 1940s of people in interracial marriages from two corners of the newly formed Commonwealth of Nations, Australia and Britain’s southern African colonies. The stories of Ruth and Sereste Khama, exiled from colonial Botswana, and those of Chinese refugees threatened with deportation and…[Read more]

The study posits a twelve pronged formulation of indices to measure the over coverage and
under coverage of the Indian states and union territories by newspapers on socio-economic,
demographical and political aspects. Union territories (UT), mainly Delhi and Chandigarh
were unjustifiably favoured on all twelve counts which clearly points out…[Read more]

This paper discusses the effect of social media on the occurrence of ‘Arab Spring’. In the
Arab world no country could claim to be truly democratic and most were autocratic coupled
with desertification (68.4 per cent of the total land area), phenomenal rise in population and
scarcity of water. Moreover, about 60 per cent of the population is…[Read more]

This paper examines the dynamics of access and exclusion in children’s Internet use, in
both private and public school spaces and interrogates the role of socioeconomic and
demographic predictors as well as the schooling system in shaping Internet habits. More
specifically, it explores the nature of Internet use by primary school children, m…[Read more]

This research work is an investigation into the reception of anti-smoking advertisements
that make use of “fear appeals”. The objective of the research is to bring audience
perceptions, interpretations and making sense processes of such advertising campaigns to
the limelight. Instead of measuring effects or effectiveness of anti-smoking mes…[Read more]

Patriotism and national unity have become favorite brand positioning propositions for
advertisers in India. The paper explores the reasons behind the popularity of these patriotic
themes that also embrace notions of nationhood, communal harmony and national unity in
commercials and public service advertisements. While these patriotic themes…[Read more]

Social media has altered the design of modern society. It has changed the way people lived
and worked. Though no profession or industry is left untouched by the communication
revolution stirred by social media, yet communication professionals bore maximum impact.
This paper analyzed the usage and perception of public relation (PR) professionals…[Read more]