Call number: LD2668 .T4 1959 M57

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The purposes of this thesis are two-fold-: 1) in light of the information which is now available, to record accurately the events of the long newspaper career of Samuel L. Clemens; and, 2) to attempt to assess the influence of his journalistic experiences on him as a man, as an observer of humanity, as a reporter fulfilling his assignments, as a developing artist, and as a future author of books.

PhD - Arts / Popular fiction columns have been among the most resilient and versatile of the newspaper sub-genres in Kenya. Since the 1970s, these columns have remained a permanent feature in the Kenyan newspapers. Among the most popular of these columns is Whispers, a satirical column written by one of Kenya’s most talented writers of the 1980s—90s decades, Wahome Mutahi. At a time when the state had all but monopolised public sites of expression in the country, Whispers kept the Kenyan popular media porous, opening up spaces for the discussion of social and political issues that could only be ‘whispered’. This study gives a detailed discussion of this column against the historical dynamics of post-independence Kenya. I examine how Whispers became a public space where Kenya’s postcolonial existence, in its many contradictory faces was constantly interrogated. I argue that this column provided its readers certain ‘moments of freedom’; it was a site where the limits of social and political taboos were boldly tested. In Whispers, people could heartily laugh at authority, and at themselves, but ultimately reflect on the reasons for their laughter. By providing such a space for self-reflection and for the critique of society, I argue that the Kenyan newspaper became an important site of cultural production especially in the 1980s through the 1990s. The introductory parts of this thesis attempt a theorisation of the ‘popular’ and later trace the emergence of popular fiction as a category of critical literary exegesis in Kenya. I examine the beginnings and growth of popular fiction, focusing mainly on the role of the popular press. The median chapters examine how the Kenyan newspaper provides the space within which popular fiction interfaces with journalism to constitute ‘publics’, by drawing on popular cultural resources to mediate contemporary and topical issues. The thesis gives a detailed reading of the cultural forms that offer subject populations interpretive frameworks within which to make sense of their world. The last part of the thesis continues this discussion with an analysis of how the ‘popular’ mediates questions of power in postcolonial Kenya.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences. / Department of Communication

Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Dewey. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Benjamin Nitay and Zeev Zurr. / M.S.

Orientador: Juvenal Zanqueta Júnior / Banca: Norma Sandra de Almeida / Banca: Raquel Lazzari Leite Barbosa / Banca: Sônia Aparecida Lopes Benites / Banca: Valdir Heitor Barzoto / Resumo: Essa pesquisa parte da existência de um novo fenômeno, a cibercultura, que implementa um novo espaço de leitura, com ferramentas que possibilitam a construção de novas práticas, interferindo na formação do leitor em processo e modificando-a. A leitura do jornal impresso e do jornal on-line é o objeto de análise desta tese. Com o objetivo de compreender e discutir os indícios que se destacam nessas práticas de leitura em contextos educacionais diferentes foram selecionadas seis professoras e trinta alunos, entre 9 e 10 anos, de quatro escolas públicas, sendo uma do Brasil e três de Portugal. Ao estudar duas realidades histórico-culturais diferentes, mas com o uso da mesma língua, a tese tem o objetivo de contribuir para o avanço nas pesquisas em educação e de levantar questões e reflexões sobre novas tecnologias que surgem no contexto social e, particularmente, no escolar. Trata-se de uma investigação de cunho essencialmente qualitativo e interpretativo. Metodologicamente, o trabalho de pesquisa foi dividido em duas partes: a primeira, foi realizada uma experiência de ensino com 6 alunos brasileiros de uma escola pública de Marília, cujo suporte metodológico foi a pesquisa-ação. A metodologia escolhida para o desenvolvimento da primeira parte deste estudo visava a encontrar indícios de práticas de leitura do jornal impresso transportadas para situações de leitura do jornal on-line. As aulas de leitura do suporte eletrônico e do impresso foram gravadas em vídeo e os relatos verbais dos alunos gravados em fitas cassetes. Na segunda parte da pesquisa, um estudo etnográfico, tem como instrumento principal de coleta a observação e a entrevista semi-estruturada, realizada tanto com professores, como com alunos do Brasil e de Portugal, com o propósito de investigar o uso do jornal impresso e on-line... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research starts from the existence of a new phenomenon, the cyber culture, which implements a new space for reading, with tools that will allow the building of new practices, interfering and modifying the formation of the reader in process. The reading of the print and the on-line newspaper is the object of the analysis of this thesis. With the main goal of understanding and discussing the evidences that stand out in these reading practices, six teachers and thirty students were selected, between 9 and 10 years old, of four public schools, being one from Brazil and three from Portugal, for the development of the research. By studying two different historic-cultural realities, but with the use of the same language, the goal of the thesis is contributing with the advance in educational researches, and raise questions and reflections about new technologies that are brought out on the social and particularly scholar context. It's about an investigation, essentially, qualitative and interpretative. Methodologically, the research job was divided in two parts: in the first part of the research, a study experience was made with 6 Brazilian students of a public school from Marília, whose methodological gadget was the research-action. The chosen method for the development of the second part of this study aimed to find evidences of reading practices of the print newspaper transported to reading situations of the on-line newspaper. The reading classes of the electronic and print supports were recorded in video and the students's verbal reports, taped in video cassette tapes.The second part one is about an ethnographical study, having as main instrument the observation and the semi-structured interview made with teachers as well as students, from Brazil and Portugal, with the purpose of investigating the use of print and on-line newspaper... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

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This art project focuses in a voyeuristic way on the fatality and futility of war. With its accompanying emotional responses; the aim is to reflect on these issues through a cyclical process of construction and destruction. The motivation for this research is to generate a personal and intimate understanding of the experience of war by exploring notions of helplessness and loss through art making processes. The research presumes war exists as a continuous fatal and futile cycle. Within this investigation fatality is defined as accepting the conditions of death, dying and disaster while also alluding to the philosophical concept of fate: futility is defined as pointless, hopeless or useless. Through methods of construction and destruction this project seeks to initiate alternate ways of emotionally processing, responding to, and understanding the experiences of war from a distance. This thesis is constituted as practice based artwork 80% accompanied by an exegesis 20%.

Australian newspapers in recent years have increased significantly the column space devoted to obituaries. The Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, the Age, the West Australian, the Herald Sun, the Canberra Times, the Advertiser, and the Courier-Mail now publish them in dedicated sections, often allocating an entire page to the obituary art. Their popularity in Australia follows a pattern established during the 1980s in Britain and the United States. Australian practice has been influenced in particular by developments in British journalism, which has seen a phenomenon described by the Wall Street Journal as ‘an odd revival…the rebirth of long newspaper obituaries’.† In its first incarnation, the obituary can be traced to the newsbooks of England which appeared in the 1660s, during the Restoration. It flowered in the 18th century, in the first daily newspapers and magazines; it grew luxuriant, and sometimes ornate, in the 19th century; it became unfashionable and fell into some general neglect in the 20th. Then, with the appointment of reformist editors and, particularly in Britain, the publication of bigger newspapers by an industry no longer subjected to labour restraint, the obituary itself experienced restoration. Though the momentum of renewed practice has been of mutual rapidity on three continents, there are some significant variations in its application. The American product generally favours a style faithful to news-writing principles so far as timing and content are concerned and is frequently expansive when relating the details of surviving family and funeral arrangements. In Britain, the emphasis is more on creative composition and a recitation of anecdotes, with less of a sense of urgency about news value and a consequent accent on character sketch. Both models, in recent years, have displayed a propensity for explicit appraisal and an increasing willingness to publish obituaries of those who have undermined, rather than adorned, society. Newspapers in Australia, while adopting the obituary with apparent fervour, have found their delivery of the product restrained by a lack of resources. Obituary desks in this country are staffed by a solitary journalist-editor. This has resulted in a reliance, often to an unhealthy degree, on contributions by readers. The tone of this material, with its intimacy of address and excess in sentiment, sits uneasily when appearing on the same page as obituaries syndicated from overseas sources. Contemporary obituary publication in the United States has been subjected to some scholarly analysis in terms of gender balance, identification of cause of death, and the demographic mix of its subject selection. This thesis, by means of a six-month content analysis, addresses such questions for the first time in an Australian context. In addition, it examines issues of style, origin and authorship. It finds that cause of death is identified much less than is the case in American obituary practice, that women are significantly under-represented, and that editing is sometimes haphazard. Nevertheless, the accumulated body of evidence points resolutely to a remarkable reinvigoration of practice in Australia’s daily newspapers. The thesis, by discussing the views of specialists in the field of obituary publication, pursues mechanisms for sustaining the momentum and for improving the product.