Tibetan
Tibetan

Author: Philip Denwood

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 9027238030

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The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much of vital importance to the study of Buddhism. After surveying all the known varieties of Tibetan, including their geographical and historical background, this book concentrates on a phonological and grammatical description of the modern spoken Lhasa dialect, the standard spoken variety. The grammatical framework which has been specially devised to describe this variety is then applied to the written varieties of Preclassical and Classical Tibetan, demonstrating the fundamental unity of the language. The writing system is outlined, though all examples and texts are given in roman script and where appropriate, the International Phonetic Alphabet. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography.

News for the Rich, White, and Blue
News for the Rich, White, and Blue

Author: Nikki Usher

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0231545606

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As cash-strapped metropolitan newspapers struggle to maintain their traditional influence and quality reporting, large national and international outlets have pivoted to serving readers who can and will choose to pay for news, skewing coverage toward a wealthy, white, and liberal audience. Amid rampant inequality and distrust, media outlets have become more out of touch with the democracy they purport to serve. How did journalism end up in such a predicament, and what are the prospects for achieving a more equitable future? In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market. She details how Google, Facebook, and the digital-advertising ecosystem have wreaked havoc on the economic model for quality journalism, leaving local news to suffer. Usher also highlights how the handful of likely survivors—well-funded media outlets such as the New York Times—increasingly appeal to a global, “placeless” reader. News for the Rich, White, and Blue concludes with a series of provocative recommendations to reimagine journalism to ensure its resiliency and its ability to speak to a diverse set of issues and readers.

The Dragon's Voice
The Dragon's Voice

Author: Bunty Avieson

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 070225357X

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This is a fascinating account of ancient culture colliding with modern media. Tucked between Tibet and India in the Himalayas, the kingdom of Bhutan is one of the most isolated and beautiful countries in the world. In The Dragon's Voice, Australian journalist Bunty Avieson provides a glimpse of life beyond the country's exotic exterior. As a consultant to local newspaper Bhutan Observer, she admires the paper's strong social conscience, but finds her expectations challenged in a country where spirituality and personal happiness are prioritized over work. Avieson also witnesses the tensions that arise as a Buddhist kingdom makes the transition to democracy. The courtship ritual of "night-hunting" and the nation's first public demonstration become controversial news items, while journalists must overcome traditional social hierarchies to keep politicians accountable. With a unique blend of memoir and reportage, The Dragon's Voice is both a deeply personal story and a vivid portrait of a nation on the cusp of revolutionary change.

Hidden Bhutan
Hidden Bhutan

Author: Martin Uitz

Publisher: Haus Publishing

Published: 2017-02-13

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 190797332X

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In 2006 Time magazine listed the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, as one of the 100 "leaders and revolutionaries" who are changing our world today. Yet it was only in the 1960s that the first road linking the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon with India was opened, and since 1974 only a strictly limited number of tourists have been allowed to visit each year. Martin Uitz, a renowned expert on Bhutan, describes how the Bhutanese, in pursuit of the principle of "Gross National Happiness", are carefully moving towards a more modern future, including a constitution and democracy, whilst preserving their traditional society and attempting to conserve the environment. Uitz made many fascinating discoveries in this enigmatic Kingdom. He was able to explain why the only traffic light was taken out of service, why six men are not allowed to go on a journey together, and what the subtle eroticism of a traditional hot-stone bath is all about. Along the way he also discovered that the Bhutanese hills are more alive with Edelweiss than the hills around his native Salzburg.

Enter The World Of Mass Media
Enter The World Of Mass Media

Author: Barun Roy

Publisher: Pustak Mahal

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 812231080X

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Enter The World of Mass Media is an outcome of the author's interactions with numerous readers and Mass Communication enthusiasts all over the nation regarding the need of a good resource book on the subject. Essentially all encompassing, the book does not merely go through the different aspects of Mass Communication, but also sets standards for the future. This book with the help of some of the best known minds in the field of Mass Communication, Marketing and Information Technologies, seeks to set forward, for the first time in India, a germinating set of standards, norms and ethics to be followed on the Internet. Enter The World of Mass Media thus also sets out to lay grounds for the future of Mass Communication. A reader, after going through this book, will not only have an understanding of the subject, but coupled with his own added insights, he would also be capable of being a transforming force in the field.

The Story of a Pumpkin
The Story of a Pumpkin

Author: Hari Tiwari

Publisher: New Hampshire Humanities Council

Published: 2013-02-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780615653792

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A rollicking, sometimes scary, and always magical tale carried to New Hampshire by its new Nepali-speaking neighbors from Bhutan

PISA 21st-Century Readers Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World
PISA 21st-Century Readers Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9264670971

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Literacy in the 21st century is about constructing and validating knowledge. Digital technologies have enabled the spread of all kinds of information, displacing traditional formats of usually more carefully curated information such as encyclopaedias and newspapers.