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Streaming - Social Media, Mobile Lifestyles (The New Book)

STREAMING: #Social Media, Mobile Lifestyles artfully combines relevant and often humorous short stories to explain and support findings from primary research on youth engagement via social networks and mobile phones. In addition to traditional methods such as surveys, focus group sessions and interviews, the author, Marcia Forbes, by way of virtual ethnography, immerses herself in life online to give a sensitive and true to life account of how social media, Twitter and Facebook but also the use of mobile phones (especially smartphones) are changing not only how we communicate and but also our very way of everyday life.

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Music Media and Adolescent Sexuality in Jamaica

Rationale for the Book

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Politicians v/s Media—Battle between Elephants

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Written By: 
Marcia Forbes
Written By: 
Media Specialist
Abstract: 

In a country predominantly served by commercially driven, privately owned media what place is there for Government to mandate the specific placement of Govt.-created content across all electronic media?

“If ‘the people’ are ill-informed, then the question has been asked, who is to
blame? The politicians for not disseminating their policies well enough or the media for not reporting them often enough?” (Ross & Nightingale 2003).