This study examines the production and consumption of a BBC World Service soap opera called New Home, New Life that is produced for the radio listening public of Afghanistan. Ethnographic fieldwork was undertaken at the BBC's radio production unit in northern Pakistan and in Pashtun communities within rural and urban areas in south-east and central Afghanistan. Critically informed by a material culture perspective, this thesis promotes a relational approach to the study of mass media production and consumption, this being perceived to represent an advance on studies that ignore spheres of production in favour of audience consumption. The choices and resources that listeners invest in radio services is addressed from the standpoint of the structuring of relations of trust, which in turn is related to issues of popularity, conflict and domestic radio use. The structures and prosaic daily patterns of radio soap opera production are addressed, with analysis being deepened to examine the production definition and audience appropriation of the soap opera's fictive context and characters. Here, issues of episodic and melodramatic structure also come to the fore. The representation of politics and religion represents a critical aspect of production, consumption and BBC impartiality, yet beneath policy it is shown that a far more social and negotiated form of production occurs. Following this analysis, the issues of localisation, romance and producer-consumer articulations are considered. Finally, the sociality of the soap opera is traced through audience gossip and the impact that emotive storylines have upon male and female listeners. Here, the issues of gender and space emerge in analytical focus.

Thesis (D. Min.)--McCormick Theological Seminary, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Miss.)--Trinity International University, 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-125).

This project proposed methodology that enhances user preference communication, enabling the landscape architect to design spaces which better meet the needs and expectations of the user(s). Semantic and visual preferences were administered to a user core group to determine guidelines that led to a design study master plan that included the design of "outdoor rooms."The advantages and disadvantages of previous written and visual survey methods were reviewed. From this review the proposed methodology was developed and tested. The results showed the users' desires where not predictable more efficient designs were enabled. This method could be used in directing a diverse set of landscape design projects. / Department of Landscape Architecture

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 1995. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-209).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Rogerio Soares dos Santos.pdf: 934170 bytes, checksum: dd17bc809e906d3003085515f3beaac0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-11 / The Life in the Spirit has implications that go beyond a subjective experience of faith. The experience that takes place within the hearts and that makes the one who has been baptized desire intimacy with God, should be manifested by a new manner of living and behaving in society. Moved by divine charity, the Christian cannot retreat into an isolated, intimist experience. According to St John Chrysostom, the possibility of a new world on the Earth is real, by means of the works of the Spirit. This new world, however, is temporal and transient, the firstfruits of the eternal Kingdom prepared by Christ for those who live such new life. Strugling for a better and fairer polis on the Earth will always be necessary, with the awareness that it is just the firstfruits of that eternal polis (cf. Phil 3, 20) for which we have been saved / A Vida no Espírito possui implicações que vão para além de uma experiência subjetiva da fé. A experiência que se realiza no interior dos corações e que leva cada batizado a desejar a intimidade com Deus, deve se manifestar através de um novo modo de viver e comportar-se na sociedade. Movido pela caridade divina, o cristão não pode refugiar-se no interior de uma experiência intimista e isolada. Segundo S. João Crisóstomo, a possibilidade de um novo mundo sobre a terra é real a partir da ação do Espírito. Esse novo mundo, no entanto, é temporal e passageiro, mera primícia do Reino definitivo preparado por Cristo para aqueles que vivem a vida nova. O empenho por uma polis melhor e mais justa sobre a terra será sempre necessário, sob a consciência de que ela será apenas primícia daquela polis definitiva (cf. Fl 3,20) para a qual fomos salvos