Download or read book Teaching Democracy by Being Democratic written by Ted Becker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best way to teach democracy has been the subject of an ongoing debate for 2,500 years. Unlike most books about teaching democracy, this one spends more time on how to teach democracy than the what and why of teaching democracy. It punctures the irony of teaching democracy by lectures and superior teachers. In its place, this book provides a variety of illustrations for the teaching of democracy in an experiential and egalitarian fashion. The introduction presents a theoretical and analytical framework of democracy and democratic pedagogy. The six chapters cover topics such as structuring a democratic classroom; democratic practices that empower students; problem solving and community service that make the classroom a laboratory for democracy; and university-based programs of democratic alternatives that serve the community. The volume's treatment of community organization, students as collaborators, personal empowerment, the community of need and response, and the democratic organization expresses its preference for direct democratic participation.

Download or read book The Future of Teledemocracy written by Ted Becker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the new physics as the scientific foundation of transformational politics, Becker and Slaton write compellingly about teledemocracy, social energy, and democratic quanta. They outline their quantum political theory in rich detail, demonstrating how we have entered a phase of highly charged, erratic, and sometimes self-contradictory packets of social political energy that appears to occur with a rough regularity but with differing levels of velocity and force. Becker and Slaton explore the current state and future of televoting, electronic town meetings, and other initiatives designed to put the public back into public affairs. This book will prove to be a fascinating read for scholars, students, researchers, and policymakers interested in new political paradigms, politics, and public administration.

Download or read book ETransformation in Governance written by Matti Mälkiä and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: eTransformation in Governance: New Directions in Government and Politics is about transformation in government and governance due to the information society development. The book provides conceptual clarification of the e-transformation in governance, and presents empirical findings on the recent developments in Western countries. The book provides innovative and fresh views to recent developments and practices of e-governance.

Download or read book Engaging the Public written by Thomas J. Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of original essays by leading political scientists and media scholars examines the nature of political disengagement among the public and offers concrete solutions for how the government and media can stimulate public engagement in the political process.

Download or read book The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon written by Adam Dubin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) written over the last two decades, this book consolidates and recognizes the ESC's relevance in academia by analysing its contribution to different fields of study. The book brings together leading ESC scholars from across disciplines and from across the globe to reflect on the intersection between their academic fields of study and the ESC by answering the question: what has the ESC contributed to academia? The book also draws from fields rarely associated with the ESC, such as Law, Business and Research Methodologies, to demonstrate the contest's broad utility in research, pedagogy and in practice. Given its interdisciplinary approach, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in cultural, media, and music studies, as well as those interested in the intersections between these areas and politics, law, education, pedagogy, and history.

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Download or read book The Eurovision Handbook 2014 written by Adrian Kavanagh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Eurovision Handbook 2014" seeks to dispel some of the false myths that have been developed about the Eurovision Song Contest and, in turn, it aims to answer some of the questions that people may have about Eurovision. As a political geographer at NUI Maynooth in the Republic of Ireland, Dr. Adrian Kavanagh is particularly interested in the geographical aspects of the contest and hence offers a different take in this book to that offered in other studies of the Eurovision Song Contest. This book does have a certain Irish dimension to it, but it tries to avoid being solely focused on the Irish Eurovision story and seeks to offer a significant degree of coverage to all of the Eurovision participating countries, both present and past. The book also looks at other dimensions of the contest, such as the growing influence of the English language in recent decades and the development of friends and neighbours and diaspora voting trends in the wake of the major rule changes of the late 1990s.

Download or read book Eurovision and Australia written by Chris Hay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Australia’s relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019. Beginning with an overview of Australia’s Eurovision history, the contributions explore the contest’s role in Australian political participation and international relations; its significance for Australia’s diverse communities, including migrants and the LGBTQIA+ community; racialised and gendered representations of Australianness; changing ideas of liveness in watching the event; and a reflection on teaching Australia’s first undergraduate course dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest. The collection brings together a group of scholar-fans from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives — including history, politics, cultural studies, performance studies, and musicology — to explore Australia’s transition from observer to participant in the first thirty-six years of its love affair with the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Download or read book The Complete Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 written by Simon Barclay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7th annual edition. Details of all the Contests from 1956 to 2014, the performers, composers & writers. Full details of the national qualifying competitions, voting histories for each country, analysis of best and worst countries, who favours who and who doesn't, the best position in the running order to perform and lots more. The expanded Guide this year includes even more pages of facts, statistics and records, including a detailed round-by-round analysis of the votes to show how each country moved up and down the scoreboard during the voting. Also included are: Average age and gender of previous winners back to 1956, Seven year history of the language each country has performed their songs in, Analysis of the type of entry from each country this year, Worst semi-final runs since last qualifying for the Final, Analysis of the best and worst semi-finals to compete in, national spokespersons & order of announcing the votes. Every fact and statistic for devoted fans of Eurovision!

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Download or read book The Complete Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 written by Simon Barclay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details of all the Contests from 1956 to 2011, the performers, composers & writers. Full details of voting histories for each country, analysis of best and worst countries, who favours who and who doesn't, and the best position in the running order to perform. Includes details of the qualification process for each nation's entry and lots more.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Digital Government written by Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 1916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 250 articles, this three-volume set provides a broad basis for understanding issues, theories, and applications faced by public administrations and public organizations, as they strive for more effective government through the use of emerging technologies. This publication is an essential reference tool for academic, public, and private libraries.

Download or read book Technologies of Power written by Majid Tehranian and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a comparative, theoretical and global network, this volume focuses on the impact of information technologies on the prospects for democratic development. It deals with the hopes as well as the fears for democracy and development that have emerged out of the current technological revolution in information and communication. The volume argues that information technologies have historically played a dual and paradoxical role in political formations. Generally, the Big Media (the national press, broadcasting and mainframe computers) have served the centralizing forces, while the Small Media (the alternative press, small scale audio-video production and transmission facilities and increasingly personal computing networking) have provided the channel for community resistance and mobilization. The volume argues that the new information technologies, like the old, should be viewed neither as technologies of freedom nor of tyranny but primarily as technologies of power that lock into existing or emerging techno-structures of power.

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