Researchers have overwhelmingly concluded that substantial benefits can be achieved by organizations increasing the level of interactivity on their websites. However, interactivity, with its emphasis on facilitating visitors’ unconstrained exchanges and control over website content, may undermine the communicative purpose of an organization’s website. Taking a perspective based on the duality o...

The Tea Party movement, which rose to prominence in the United States after the election of President Barack Obama, provides an ideal context in which to examine the roles of racial concerns and ideology in politics. A three-wave longitudinal study tracked changes in White Americans' self-identification with the Tea Party, racial concerns (prejudice and racial identification), and ideologies (l...

This article examines the relevant topic of Germany-Russia relations. The goal is set to analyze German perception these relations through prism specific national identity. key task lies in studying identity and its reflection foreign policy Federal Republic Germany with regards Russian Federation. author believes that a crucial factor formation course alongside establishment advantageous busin...

1. Ever since the 1930s, in the context of Great Britain's secular decline from world power status, the historiography of appeasement has been inextricably intertwined with shifting understandings of British national identity. Baldly stated, the assertion is probably unexceptionable: most historians would agree that historical inquiry is a social process, and within this body of work the signif...

Within the theoretical and methodological framework based on the conceptual metaphor theory, the discourse-historical approach, and corpus linguistics, this article examines the various representations of Taiwan indigenous people’s name rectification movement in three major broadsheet newspapers, the United Daily News, the Liberty Times, and the Apple Daily in Taiwan. Using two-tier analysis, w...

This paper analyzes the American drama “Modern Family” by using Stuart Hall’s “encoding/decoding” theory. Modern Family uses universal themes and a “modern” plot to attract Chinese viewers, diverse characters bring sense of psychology identity decoders. The values embodied in show mainly focus on related diversity confident low-context culture. decoders hegemonic position episodes such as way e...

This article aims to address the questions related support and rejection of figures Islamic mass organizations concept caliphate. Some previous literature limited object behavior Muslim community towards ideology caliphate in historical context its relation modern state, neglecting source inspiration for as understood perceived by organization Indonesia. Therefore, using a phenomenological appr...