MASS MEDIA AND CULTURAL MEMORY: IDEALIZATION OF VALUES

Mass Media and Cultural Memory: Idealization of Values

The theoretical approach in defining the means for mass communication expressed in functionalist theory, especially in John Riley’s model, determines mass media as a social subsystem which is functionally connected with other systems in society that arises from their mutual conditionality and their causative and consequential connection with poli

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CRAYFISH PREDATION ON TADPOLES : A COMPARISON BETWEEN A NATIVE (AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS PALLIPES) AND AN ALIEN SPECIES (PROCAMBARUS CLARKII).

In the laboratory, the motivation and/or ability to prey on anuran larvae (Bufo bufo, Rana kl.esculenta and R.italica) were compared between a native European (Austropotamobius pallipes) and an alien North American crayfish species (Procambarus clarkii).Both were skilled predators of tadpoles, adopting a Bar Cabinet sit-and-wait strategy.However, b

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How to turn an ocean liner: a proposal for voluntary degrowth by redesigning money for sustainability, justice, and resilience

Abstract This article argues that many destructive aspects of the contemporary global economy are consequences of the use of general-purpose money to organize social and human-environmental relations, and that the political ideals of sustainability, justice, and resilience will only be feasible if money itself is redesigned.The argument is based on

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