Investigating the Internet’s political consequences in China, current scholarship focuses predominantly on some individuals’ ready contention against state apparatuses and unjustifiably ignores how Internet use may bring about cultural changes with political implications among a larger population. This study examines…

This article addresses the inherent bias in Brazilian telenovelas’ representations of homosexual love. Medium- and genre-specific biases such as the visuality of telenovelas are powerful limiting agents of representation. However, technological determinism must be expanded to read culture itself as…

Celebrated for its capacity to decentralize the processes of knowledge and reputation management, Yelp.com is the subject of this case study, which analyzes the politics of participation on the user-driven consumer evaluation website. A comparative discourse analysis of Yelp’s promotional…

Applying geographical industrialization theory and the political economy of culture approach, this study aims to present a diagnosis of film production in Mexico City and attempts to fill gaps in the knowledge of the endogenous development of this subsector. This…

Despite the continuing accumulation of knowledge of the factors in- fl uencing participation in post-secondary education, there are still gaps in our understanding. For example, very little is known regarding how perceptions of costs and benefi ts are implicated in…

This Special Issue of the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences arises from an inaugural conference on “Mechanism-Based Natural Product Development” held at Whistler Mountain, Canada on September 21-22, 2012.
The aim of the conference was to bring together scientists…

O mergulho recreativo marinho é um dos serviços mais rentáveis dentre os explorados na zona costeira do município do Rio de Janeiro. O estudo caracterizou e avaliou a percepção ambiental de mergulhadores recreativos e os possíveis impactos negativos que essa prática pode causar na zona costeira do…

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Abstract: This manuscript was discovered among Harold Innis’s unpublished writings in his papers at the University of Toronto Archives (B72-0025/025). It bears the title and description given above, and is six…

A short history of an artifact: In the summer of 2005, Mary Bryson made a short video about her Queer Women and the Net research project (http://www.queerville.ca), without ever having met Mél Hogan. There, Mary made illustrative use of Mél's…

The basement membrane is a term, originally given to a layer of variable thickness and distinction found at the basal surfaces of epithelia Michel Ross, (1989). Since the layer was positioned immediately below the bases of the epithelial cells, this…