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Musolff, Andreas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Sociolinguists have adopted the concept of 'super-diversity' from cultural anthropology to analyse multidimensional changes in ethnolinguistic identities resulting from recent mass migration. Sociolinguistic super-diversity is thus understood as a central aspect of shifts in migration patterns that have increased the complexity of cultural…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Self Concept
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Gal-Ezer, Miri; Tidhar, Chava – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
This study focuses on "Independence Day", an episode of "Arab Labor" (first season, 2008), a pioneer bilingual Hebrew-Arabic satirical Israeli TV series, written by Sayed Kashua, an Arab-Israeli author and journalist. "Arab Labor" was a breakthrough in the Israeli popular TV scape, where, as a rule, Arab-Israeli…
Descriptors: Jews, Political Attitudes, Focus Groups, Arabs
Wang, Fu Lee, Ed.; Fong, Joseph, Ed.; Kwan, Reggie, Ed. – Information Science Reference, 2010
Hybrid learning is now the single-greatest trend in education today due to the numerous educational advantages when both traditional classroom learning and e-learning are implemented collectively. This handbook collects emerging research and pedagogies related to the convergence of teaching and learning methods. This significant "Handbook of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Knowledge Management, Higher Education, Programming Languages
Heintz-Knowles, Katharine E.; Chen, Perry; Miller, Patti; Haufler, Adrienne – 2000
Children understand that media grant recognition and respect to racial groups that are positively portrayed. Approximately half of the programs in the 1999-2000 broadcast prime time entertainment programming exhibited some diversity in their opening credits casts. This study examined the nature of the portrayals of diversity. The study examined 10…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Institutional)
Heintz-Knowles, Katharine E.; Chen, Perry – 2000
Because children today are growing up in an era of increasing racial and ethnic diversity and because television provides a steady educational influence on children's attitudes and perceptions, it is important to examine the extent to which television programming reflects diversity in all its forms. This study was commissioned by Children Now to…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Cultural Pluralism, Disabilities, Diversity (Institutional)
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Kubey, Robert; And Others – Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1995
Examines the issue of diversity and cable television from a content analysis of 1,035 randomly chosen moments from four channels: network, cable, independent, and public. Results demonstrate that there has been little movement towards more accurate proportional representation of historically underrepresented demographic groups across the 32…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Cable Television, Content Analysis, Cultural Differences
Chen, Perry; Kunkel, Dale; Miller, Patti – 1999
News media hold significant power and responsibility in focusing public attention on child-related issues. This document summarizes a study of news coverage of children in national media in 1994 and reports on the follow-up conducted in 1998. The follow-up study was based on a sample of national news coverage collected throughout November 1998…
Descriptors: Children, Content Analysis, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
MacBeth, Tannis M., Ed. – 1996
Research indicates that children are especially vulnerable to the effects of television viewing. Taking a psychological, social-science perspective, this book explores how television viewing affects children. Chapter 1, "Introduction," (MacBeth) discusses the issues involved, how researchers go about studying media effects, whether television…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Aggression