"Future trends in PR in Europe
Future trends in PR in Europe
EUPRERA is conducting new research into public relations and communications management in Europe. To help with this, I would encourage in-house and consultancy practitioners to complete this survey (it takes about ten minutes). The survey runs until the end of June and topics include strategic issues, upcoming communication channels, new media, corporate social responsibility, evaluation, agency relationships etc.
Habermas speaks on 'post-secularism' in Istanbul
Secularism, Islam and democracy became the main topics of a series of panels at Bilgi University last week drawing top names from the world's political science and philosophy departments.A very nice post here:
Advice on Campus Interviews
Some time ago, I posted some ideas on preparing an application for an academic post. If you are lucky, one or more of the places you applied may ask you to come and visit, often after a phone interview. What are some key things to do and not to do during that visit? [continues below:]Let me begin with a caveat. This is emphatically not about our most recent hires, and if you were one of our visitors who was not offered a position, I urge you not to read too much into it. Likewise, I am not a great interviewer, and so my personal experience largely provides examples of what not to do (though, of course, I have managed to be hired a couple of times). Most of this comes from being on at least a half-dozen hiring committees and having a chance to see a lot of interviews and a lot of job talks. With that in mind:
What to expect. The academic interview is pretty standard. Generally it consists of a day, or often two, of meeting with people one-on-one. The pieces include:
- Meeting with the hiring committee
- A “job talk” or academic presentation to faculty and sometimes open to the public
- Meeting with the chair
- Meeting with the dean
- Meeting with someone from HR
- Meeting with individual faculty in the department
- Meeting with faculty from outside the department who have relevant research
- Touring the university / library
- Touring the area / meeting with real estate people
- Meeting with students / grad students
- Lunch / Dinner
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The Writers’ Strike of 2007–2008: The Economic Impact of Digital Distribution
Source: Milken Institute
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Googling the Life of Muhammad
Google Earth provides a virtual geography for anyone with access to the internet. Now, thanks to Thameen Darby, you can examine over 100 places in the life of the Prophet Muhammad close up. To access the site, click here. Here are the particulars.
Transcending Masculinity
Notions of masculinity have been discussed in film scholarship for decades, with the genre of action films, particularly that of the boxing film, providing a most fertile ground for discourse. While Rocky (1976) did not inaugurate the genre, it remains one of the seminal films of not only the boxing genre, but of all American films, providing an archetype of masculinity that spawned a franchise. Many of these films repeat a theme of triumph against all odds that relies on a negotiation and assertion of masculinity in its most physical (and often violent) forms. Jurgen Reeder (1995) asserts that "these films seem to be a kind of ritual where a seemingly identical dramatic structure is reiterated many times oversuch ritual repetition of dramatic themes express[es] an epoch's need to explore an experience that as yet has not been adequately formulated and thematized" (131).Academics See HAL, Replicants and Space Viruses in Mankind's Future
British academics have rated Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as the science fiction film that most realistically portrays man's future reports Wales News. The pioneering 1968 film, an adaptation of a screenplay by Arthur C Clarke, deals with questions about the evolution of mankind, and the nature of artificial intelligence - epitomised by the supercomputer HAL 9000. 