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Condom use and the popular press in Nigeria*
"... The increased acceptability and use of condoms by men in southwestern Nigeria is reflected in joking references to condoms in the comic-style popular press. Yet these references display an ambivalence about condoms that is mirrored in survey data and in interviews regarding condom use by rural Ekiti ..."
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The increased acceptability and use of condoms by men in southwestern Nigeria is reflected in joking references to condoms in the comic-style popular press. Yet these references display an ambivalence about condoms that is mirrored in survey data and in interviews regarding condom use by rural
Portrayal of lobotomy in the popular press: 1935–1960
- Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
, 1999
"... This study analyzed the content of popular press articles on lobotomy between the years 1935 and 1960. Both a qualitative and quantitative analysis provided evidence that the press initially used uncritical and sensational reporting styles, with the content of articles on lobotomy becoming increasin ..."
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This study analyzed the content of popular press articles on lobotomy between the years 1935 and 1960. Both a qualitative and quantitative analysis provided evidence that the press initially used uncritical and sensational reporting styles, with the content of articles on lobotomy becoming
Popular press and forensic genetics in Portugal:
"... Expectations and disappointments regarding two cases of missing children ..."
Popular press and forensic genetics in Portugal:
"... Expectations and disappointments regarding two cases of missing children ..."
Experiments with the Use of Popular Press in the Computer Science Curriculum
"... With the objective of encouraging and supporting more critical thinking about broad issues of computer science throughout the curriculum, we propose the widespread use of popular press (non-aeadernie) books as supplemental texts for a variety of courses. Our hypothesis that such books, which address ..."
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With the objective of encouraging and supporting more critical thinking about broad issues of computer science throughout the curriculum, we propose the widespread use of popular press (non-aeadernie) books as supplemental texts for a variety of courses. Our hypothesis that such books, which
A Feminist Discourse Analysis of Popular-Press
"... Feminist research has examined a broad range of women’s experiences as mothers. However, relatively few studies exist on postmaternity, colloquially the ‘empty nest’. The present study is a feminist discourse analysis of the variable ways postmaternal experi-ences were described in popular-press acc ..."
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Feminist research has examined a broad range of women’s experiences as mothers. However, relatively few studies exist on postmaternity, colloquially the ‘empty nest’. The present study is a feminist discourse analysis of the variable ways postmaternal experi-ences were described in popular-press
Medicine in the Popular Press: The Influence of the Media on Perceptions of Disease
, 2008
"... In an age of increasing globalization and discussion of the possibility of global pandemics, increasing rates of reporting of these events may influence public perception of risk. The present studies investigate the impact of high levels of media reporting on the perceptions of disease. Undergraduat ..."
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, and have higher disease status than those that infrequently occur in the media, even when the low media frequency conditions were considered objectively ‘worse ’ by a separate group of participants. Estimates of severity also positively correlated with popular print media frequency in both student
Kannada Popular Press: An Appraisal of Tabloid Culture
, 2015
"... Indian language press in the post-Emergency period underwent a quick politicization and witnessed a shift (though not a ‘print revolution’) which was also part of the ongoing socio-cultural democratisation of the nation. And the scene in Karnataka was not different. The Eighties had to witness a pol ..."
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to explore the factors that boosted the tabloid publications in Kannada and their effort to democratise the news coverage which is fundamental to the process of democratic print practices. Tabloid press, due to popular appeal has been considered as a ‘low’, ‘yellow’ or ‘unproductive ’ journalism. Though
Trends and Lags in the Use of Ecotourism Terminology in the Scholarly and Popular Press
"... Whilst the term ecotour was first coined half a century ago, it did not gain significant currency in the academic tourism literature until the 1990s (Weaver and Lawton 2007). Though a much-contested concept in a technical sense, it has found ..."
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Whilst the term ecotour was first coined half a century ago, it did not gain significant currency in the academic tourism literature until the 1990s (Weaver and Lawton 2007). Though a much-contested concept in a technical sense, it has found
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