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News coverage of 9/11 and the demise of the media flows, globalization and localization hypotheses (2008)
Journal Article
Archetti, C. (2008). News coverage of 9/11 and the demise of the media flows, globalization and localization hypotheses. International Communication Gazette, 70(6), 463-486. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048508096143

An international comparative study of the elite press framing of 9/11 in the US, Italy, France and Pakistan reveals that there is no empirical backing for the claims of three core strands of research about news exchanges within the field of Internati... Read More about News coverage of 9/11 and the demise of the media flows, globalization and localization hypotheses.

Unamerican Views: Why US-developed models of press-state relations don't apply to the rest of the world (2008)
Journal Article
Archetti, C. (2008). Unamerican Views: Why US-developed models of press-state relations don't apply to the rest of the world. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 5(3), 4-26

The article shows the limitations of the 'indexing' hypothesis, an influential conceptualization of state-press relations based on the notion that the media tend to reproduce the range of debate within political elites. The hypothesis, as confirmed b... Read More about Unamerican Views: Why US-developed models of press-state relations don't apply to the rest of the world.

Web mediated market interactions and enterprise software (2008)
Journal Article
Avila-Porro, D., Light, B., & McLean, R. (2008). Web mediated market interactions and enterprise software

With increased consolidation and a few large vendors dominating the market, how can software vendors distinguish themselves in order to maintain profitability and gain market share? Increasingly customers are becoming more proactive in selecting a ve... Read More about Web mediated market interactions and enterprise software.

IT consultants, salesmanship and the challenges of packaged software selection in SMEs (2008)
Journal Article
Howcroft, D., & Light, B. (2008). IT consultants, salesmanship and the challenges of packaged software selection in SMEs. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 21(6), 597-615. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410390810911203

Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the process of packaged software selection in a small organization, focussing particularly on the role of IT consultants as intermediaries in the process.
Design/methodology/approach – This is based upon a longi... Read More about IT consultants, salesmanship and the challenges of packaged software selection in SMEs.

More than just friends? Facebook, disclosive ethics and the morality of technology (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Light, B., McGrath, K., & Griffiths, M. (2008, January). More than just friends? Facebook, disclosive ethics and the morality of technology. Presented at International Conference on Information Systems

Social networking sites have become increasingly popular destinations for people wishing to chat,
play games, make new friends or simply stay in touch. Furthermore, many organizations have
been quick to grasp the potential they offer for marketing,... Read More about More than just friends? Facebook, disclosive ethics and the morality of technology.

Lullabies, laments, and ragtime cowboys : yodeling at the turn of the twentieth century (2008)
Journal Article
Wise, T. (2008). Lullabies, laments, and ragtime cowboys : yodeling at the turn of the twentieth century. American Music, 26(1), 13-36

This empirically-based musicological study deals with yodeling in U. S. American popular music at the turn of the twentieth century as documented in phonograph recordings and, in contrast to previous discussions of yodeling in this context, in printe... Read More about Lullabies, laments, and ragtime cowboys : yodeling at the turn of the twentieth century.

Organisational cultures: Progression and retention barriers to women in the UK construction industry (2008)
Journal Article
Worrall, L., Harris, K., Thomas, A., Stewart, R., Jessop, S., McDermott, P., & Platten, A. (2008). Organisational cultures: Progression and retention barriers to women in the UK construction industry

The UK construction industry employs over two million people and is the country 19s top employer. However, at present the UK is facing a massive shortfall of available skilled workers and this shortage is predicted to continue for the foreseeable fut... Read More about Organisational cultures: Progression and retention barriers to women in the UK construction industry.