1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972492403321

Autore

Baker Frank W

Titolo

Political campaigns and political advertising : a media literacy guide / / Frank W. Baker ; foreword by David Considine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Greenwood Press, , c2009

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

9798400697869

9780313347559

0313347557

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvi, 196 p. ) : ill. ;

Classificazione

AP 17340

Disciplina

324.70973

Soggetti

Advertising, Political - United States

Media literacy - United States

Political campaigns - United States

United States Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / David Considine -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline : a history of media and politics -- Introduction -- Media literacy : understanding the meaning behind the messages -- Propaganda and spin : the power of the image over the word -- The media experts -- Analyzing photographs -- And then there was radio -- Why television? -- Popular appeals and techniques of persuasion in political advertising -- Analyzing campaign events -- The role of new media and new technology tools -- Trying to fix the money problem in elections -- Glossary -- Resources -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Examining political campaigns and political advertising through the analytical lens of media literacy, this well-illustrated and timely handbook guides readers through the maze of blandishments and spin that is the hallmark of the modern political campaign. It dissects the persuasive strategies embedded in the political messages we encounter every day in the media and demonstrates the importance of critical thinking in evaluating media stories. Key concepts of media literacy are applied to political advertising in traditional media (newspapers,



television, radio) and on the Internet, the new frontier of the political advertising wars. Dealing with blogs, social networking, user-generated Web sites, and other electronic formats familiar to young voters, this lively introduction to the new world of political messaging appeals to readers' affinity for visual learning as well as their ability to discern messages in text. Unique in applying media literacy concepts to the political context while directly addressing students and general readers, this book not only explains but graphically demonstrates both established techniques of political framing and the new avenues of persuasion being pioneered in digital media. It will also interest viewers who like their political news in traditional media but unconventional formats.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960222103321

Autore

Weld Theodore Dwight <1803-1895.>

Titolo

American slavery as it is : testimony of a thousand witnesses / / [compiled] by Theodore Dwight Weld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, : distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2011

ISBN

9798890843234

9798890843241

9781469602875

1469602873

9780807869581

0807869589

Edizione

[DocSouth Books ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (552 p.)

Collana

A DocSouth Books edition

Disciplina

326/.0973

326.0973

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Southern States - Social conditions

Slavery - Southern States

African Americans - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Prepared using the transcribed electronic text used in the "Documenting the American South" (DocSouth) Project.



Originally published: New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839.

Nota di contenuto

""V. TREATMENT OF THE SICK.  THE SLAVES SUFFER FROM INHUMAN NEGLECT WHEN SICK.""""PERSONAL NARRATIVESâ€?PART II.""; ""TESTIMONY OF THE REV. WILLIAM T. ALLAN, LATE OF ALABAMA.""; ""NARRATIVE OF MR. WILLIAM LEFTWICH, A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. LEMUEL SAPINGTON, A NATIVE OF MARYLAND.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MRS. NANCY LOWRY, A NATIVE OF KENTUCKY.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. WM. C. GILDERSLEEVE, A NATIVE OF GEORGIA""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. HIRAM WHITEâ€?A NATIVE OF NORTH CAROLINA.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. JOHN M. NELSONâ€?A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA.""

""GENERAL TESTIMONY  TO THE CRUELTIES INFLICTED UPON SLAVES.""""PUNISHMENTS.""; ""PERSONAL NARRATIVESâ€?PART III.""; ""NARRATIVE AND TESTIMONY OF REV. FRANCIS HAWLEY.""; ""TESTIMONY OF REUBEN G. MACY AND RICHARD MACY.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. ELEAZAR POWELL.""; ""TESTIMONY ON THE AUTHORITY OF REV. WM. SCALES, LYNDON, VT.""; ""TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH IDE, ESQ.""; ""TESTIMONY OF REV. PHINEAS SMITH.""; ""TESTIMONY OF PHILEMON BLISS, ESQ.""; ""TESTIMONY OF REV. WILLIAM A. CHAPIN.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MESSRS. T. D. M. AND F. C. MACY.""; ""TESTIMONY OF A CLERGYMAN.""; ""OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.""

""OBJECTION I.â€?""SUCH CRUELTIES ARE INCREDIBLE.""""""OBJECTION. II.â€?'SLAVEHOLDERS PROTEST THAT THEY TREAT THEIR  SLAVES WELL.'""; ""OBJECTION III.â€?'SLAVEHOLDERS ARE PROVERBIAL FOR THEIR KINDNESS,  HOSPITALITY, BENEVOLENCE, AND GENEROSITY.'""; ""OBJECTION IV.â€?'NORTHERN VISITORS AT THE SOUTH TESTIFY THAT THE SLAVES ARE NOT CRUELLY TREATED.'""; ""OBJECTION V.â€?'IT IS FOR THE INTEREST OF THE MASTERS TO TREAT THEIR  SLAVES WELL.'""; ""OBJECTION VI.â€?'THE FACT THAT THE SLAVES MULTIPLY SO RAPIDLY PROVES  THAT THEY ARE NOT INHUMANLY TREATED, BUT ARE IN A  COMFORTABLE CONDITION.'""

""OBJECTION VIII.�'PUBLIC OPINION IS A PROTECTION TO THE SLAVE.'""""INDEX.""

Sommario/riassunto

Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, this book combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling day-to-day conditions of the over 2,700,000 men, women and children in slavery in the United States. It demonstrates how even prisoners - in the United States and in other countries - were significantly better fed than American slaves.