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This research in brief explores Canadian political consultants’ practices in political marketing, exploring whether they are, as democratic critiques of marketing often argue, encouraging politics to become poll-driven, and whether they fit into previous international studies on consultants in other…

Childhood obesity has prompted an increased scrutiny of the foodscape, along with the call for innovative strategies to make our social environments more supportive of healthy eating. Child-targeted supermarket foods are an increasing, but typically overlooked, part of this food…

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The development project in both capitalist and socialist contexts has augmented the power of technocrats while invalidating alternative knowledge systems rooted in the traditions of local communities, thereby disenfranchising them. Recreating space for the autonomy of such communities requires…

Abstract: Networked communication allows the emergence of a new social reality: knowledge communities in cognitive networks. This paper formulates a model of cognitive networked communication and knowledge communities. This model aims to show the progressive construction of communication and is…

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Montreal's recent controversy over water fluoridation illustrates the challenge to deliberative rhetoric within postmodernity. The dispute ultimately turns on the claim to knowledge of public health officials. No non-controversial meta-narrative stands to legitimate their character
and claims. Rhetorical discourse…

Abstract: The relationship between the knowledge base and the globalization of communication systems is discussed from the perspective of communication theory. The author argues that interhuman communication takes place at two levels. At the first level information is exchanged and…

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