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Book review : Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher (eds.) (2008). Teaching visual literacy: Using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills.Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press. 195 pages. ISBN 978-1-4129-5311-5, 978-1-4129-5312-2 (2009)
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Rodriguez, J., & Hernandez Perez, M. (2009). Book review : Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher (eds.) (2008). Teaching visual literacy: Using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills.Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press. 195 pages. ISBN 978-1-4129-5311-5, 978-1-4129-5312-2. International Journal of English Studies, 9(2), 171-174

Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity (2009)
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Bekerman, M., Spencer, A., & Roca, I. (2009). Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity. Linguistic Review, 9(1), 27-68. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlir.1992.9.1.27

The article examines vowel alternations in Slavic languages on the basis of Polish CVC - CC alternations mostly involving the vowel 'e'. It links the phenomenon to prosodic structures of Slavic languages and tries to resolve the issue by employing a... Read More about Polish Yers and Lexical Syllabicity.

‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury (2009)
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McKay, G. (2009). ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury. Popular Music, 28(3), 341-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143009990109

This article looks at a remarkable cluster of popular musicians who contracted and survived poliomyelitis (‘infantile paralysis’) epidemics through the twentieth century, and ways in which they managed and, to varying extents, explored their polio-re... Read More about ‘Crippled with nerves’: popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury.

Switch on your mobile phone! (2009)
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Halligan, B. (2009). Switch on your mobile phone!

Discussion of new mores of theatre etiquette

"Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off": theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing (2009)
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Halligan, B. (2009). "Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off": theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 22(9), 193-197. https://doi.org/10.1386/stap.29.2.193_3

This intervention draws on poststructuralist Marxist and post-autonomist theory to analyze the recent spate of ‘mobile phone incidents’ in London's West End theatres, arguing that the context for this newly emerged faux pas must be understood to be t... Read More about "Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off": theatre etiquette in an age of outsourcing.

Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications (2009)
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Simpson, S. (2009). Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications. Information, Communication and Society, 12(8), 1224-1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180902866042

The recent proposal of a European Electronic Communications Market Authority (EECMA) by the European Commission has turned out to be the most high profile and controversial element of the latest review of the EU's telecommunications regulatory framew... Read More about Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications.

New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe (2009)
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Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2009). New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe. Governance, 22(4), 599. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2009.01455.x

Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that... Read More about New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe.

An investigation into resistance practices at an SME consultancy (2009)
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Griffiths, M., & Light, B. (2009). An investigation into resistance practices at an SME consultancy. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 22(1/2), 119-136. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410390910932786

Purpose – Prior research emphasises that organisational founders have a good deal of influence in organisational development and, where information and communication technogies (ICTs) are involved, a generic strategy is usually deployed by managers i... Read More about An investigation into resistance practices at an SME consultancy.

Exploitation of the self in community-based software production: workers’ freedoms or firm foundations? (2009)
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Moore, P., & Taylor, P. (2009). Exploitation of the self in community-based software production: workers’ freedoms or firm foundations?. Capital and Class, 33(1), 99-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680909700106

Free Software and Open Source (FS/OS) constitute a new and open, evolutionary technological arena wherein hundreds and sometimes thousands of users voluntarily explore design codes, spot bugs in codes, and make contributions to the code in a co-opera... Read More about Exploitation of the self in community-based software production: workers’ freedoms or firm foundations?.

Polaroid, aperture, and Ansel Adams: rethinking the industry-aesthetic divide (2009)
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Buse, P. (2009). Polaroid, aperture, and Ansel Adams: rethinking the industry-aesthetic divide. History of Photography, 33(4), 357-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290903283593

This article takes the history of Polaroid photography as an opportunity to question a presupposition that underpins much thinking on photography: the split between industrial (ie useful) applications of photography and its fine art (ie aesthetic) ma... Read More about Polaroid, aperture, and Ansel Adams: rethinking the industry-aesthetic divide.

The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie (2009)
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Hope, W. (2009). The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie. Studies in European Cinema, 5(3), 185-195. https://doi.org/10.1386/seci.5.3.185_1

This article examines how, in the films Puerto Escondido (1992) and Nirvana(1997), Salvatores reworks the paranoid conspiracy thriller and science fiction genre to explore radical and unexpected shifts in the social position of the middle classes as... Read More about The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie.