Archive: Journal
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Positive Imagery and Community Development in Ethnic Marketing: Contemporary Strategies for Success
Abstract: Minorities, collectively, are becoming the majority. By 2050, African Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos will comprise 50 percent of the U.S. population and hold more than $3 trillion in
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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The Anti-Aging Trend: Capitalism, Cosmetics and Mirroring the Spectacle
Abstract: In some cultures, aging is embraced. The experience and wisdom of elders is held in high regard. In American capitalist culture, however, signs of aging are met with increasing resistance.
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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False Reporting on the Internet and the Spread of Rumors: Three Case Studies
Abstract: The expansion of the Internet has allowed for far greater numbers of people to become involved with the production and dissemination of news. As a consequence, cyberjournalism and the Intern
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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Spectrum Scarcity and the Deployment of Third Generation Wireless Technology in the United States
Abstract: Third generation technology, or 3G, is championed by the wireless industry as the next step of innovative cellular technology. It brings high-speed Internet and data transmission to cellula
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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The Nano-Threats To Privacy: Sci-Fi or Sci-Fact?
Abstract: The biggest threat to personal privacy in the near future might not come from massive government surveillance projects; instead, tiny technology will be implemented by diverse commercial, p
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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Parking Lott: The Role of Web logs in the Fall of Sen. Trent Lott
Abstract: In December 2002, Republican Senate leader Trent Lott said that if Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948 on a segregationist platform, "we wouldn't have had all these problems ov
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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Homosexuality on Television:The Heterosexualization of Will & Grace in Print Media
Abstract: Despite its arrival to primetime television so soon after the demise of Ellen television's first program with an openly homosexual lead character NBC's Will & Grace has incurred no right
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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You've Come A Long Way, Baby: Language in Sports… Can Women Compete?
Abstract: With the highly publicized success of women's sports teams in the 1996 Olympics, social commentators proclaimed that women's sports had finally arrived. A careful analysis of the country's
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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The Influence of American Culture on Software Design: Microsoft Outlook as a Case Study
Abstract: The personal computer has become one of the most ubiquitous appliances in today's modern world. Human interaction with the PC is mediated by software applications, and the functionalities t
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal
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U.S. E-Government Post September 11th
Abstract: As the United States and the rest of world mourned in the wake of September 11th, 2001 and grew incensed by the faceless cowardice of the ensuing Anthrax mailings, few could have suspected
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal