The Iconology of Industrialism, 1830-60

Fisher, Marvin

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“…that some 50 percent of Americans polled shortly before the summit said that they didn't know enough about SDI to have an opinion about it. This is what he told me: 20 of these or 30…”

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Modes of War and Modes of Social Address: The Text of SDI

Manoff

1989

Journal of Communication

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A detailed a d y & of a tekwision report exphres the conjunction of the techwhgks o f wa$are and of communication that reveals &ralptotypes and creates a muster nurrm've for the strategic defme program.Journalists know they write "stories," and we know that we watch "stories" and read them, but we are not sufficiently attentive to the consequences of these acts. For "news" occurs where texts and events come together, at that place where the reporter puts a name to things, tells a story about them, and thereby gives them a structure. Narrative conventions bring order to events by making them something that can be told about; by organizing experience, they exert a powerful pull on journalists and publics alike. As individuals and as a people, we tell the stories we need to hear to make sense of the world. Reality appears to us, but we grasp it through the tales we choose to tell to ourselves, our way (30).Journalists grasp the world by making a text of it, and for those who seek to understand the journalistic act, this textualization of the world thus becomes a primary object of study. This article takes a single television news report and inquires into the strategies that governed the way it made its subject into a story, the way it transformed the world into a text. It does so in a sphere of textual and cultural studies loosely circumscribed by the work of such writers as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault ( 4 ,22, 27,44). But it is in no sense a systematic application of their work. It is rather a provisional attempt to describe the logic according to which meaning is created, an effort to describe how truth-effects are produced, to open up a space of possibility for regarding the discourse of television journalism in the nuclear era.

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“…that some 50 percent of Americans polled shortly before the summit said that they didn't know enough about SDI to have an opinion about it. This is what he told me: 20 of these or 30…”

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Modes of War and Modes of Social Address: The Text of SDI

Manoff

1989

Journal of Communication

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“…Thereafter, the nature-conquering engineer, for us in the shape of Brunei, begins to figure as a hero in Western culture. The machine, and by implication its creator, demonstrated 'human supremacy over nature', the engineer commanding the machine 'as a powerful servant, a beneficent slave to mankind' (Fisher 1961). The engineering profession even became intellectually appealing, with the likes of the critic John Ruskin dabbling in digging, building (rather incompetently) among other things a 'landing pier' at his home.…”

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A Biographical Study of Isambard Kingdom Brunel as Insight Into Entrepreneurial Marketing Endeavour

Fillis

Herman

2005

J. Enterprising Culture

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This paper focuses on a biographical approach to entrepreneurial marketing research. Conventional research methodologies such as in-depth interview and questionnaires have a range of advantages, disadvantages and bias. Biographical research can result in the generation of longitudinal data which can be triangulated with data and theory from these more conventional approaches in order to enhance understanding of entrepreneurial marketing behaviour. In marketing, formal prescriptions of stepwise, linear processes dominate and in entrepreneurship the focus is often on new venture formation rather than in growing the firm. Previous research by the authors has focused on the creativity of individuals, groups and organisations using a combination of conventional research methods and the biographical approach. The paper builds on this research by investigating the entrepreneurial marketing endeavour of perhaps the best known British engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunei. Although Brunei was first and foremost an engineer he was also a shrewd business person who demonstrated understanding of entrepreneurial marketing procedures. Comparing the findings with previous research results, it can be seen that a set of core entrepreneurial marketing constructs hold true over long periods of time. These factors can then be taken into consideration when developing more creative, entrepreneurial marketing theory for the firm. 225 J. Enterprising Culture 2005.13:225-254. Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com by UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON on 03/13/15. For personal use only.

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FOCUS: LITERARY LANDSCAPES —GEOGRAPHY and LITERATURE

Sandberg

Marsh

1988

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The Iconology of Industrialism, 1830-60

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Modes of War and Modes of Social Address: The Text of SDI

Modes of War and Modes of Social Address: The Text of SDI

A Biographical Study of Isambard Kingdom Brunel as Insight Into Entrepreneurial Marketing Endeavour

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