as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...

this paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine discursive representations of older people in taiwanese newspapers. a total of 926 references to older people were sampled from 62 articles published in four taiwanese newspapers from january to august 2013. the findings suggest that, older people were frequently allocated roles suggestive of dependency. those portrayed in line with the pos...

This study provides an analysis of how the term “critical thinking” has been defined by authors articles published in Journal Media Literacy Education. It answers to three questions: (1) How frequently is mentioned scholars who write about media literacy?; (2) In what ways do convey meaning term?; and (3) To extent presented with a consistent meaning? While appeared more than half examined, the...

regions representing the closed eye, and expansion of Durham, North Carolina 27710 those representing the open eye (Figure 1B). While in normal primates and cats, the thalamic inputs representing the two eyes parse cortical layer 4 into alternating, equal-sized stripes, eye closure during the critical period During a brief period in postnatal life, sensory experiences indelibly shape the behavi...

Detection of visual field progression is of critical importance in the management of patients with glaucoma; however, there is no agreed upon set of criteria for the definition of progression. The most commonly utilized method of progression detection in clinical practice may be subjective assessment of serial visual fields. Event-based and trend-based approaches to the analysis of serial visua...

Because visual analytics is not used in a vacuum, there are no cut-and-dry metrics which can accurately evaluate visual analytic tools. These tools are used inside of existing business processes, thus metrics to evaluate these tools must measure the productivity of information workers on the data-centric critical path of these business processes. In this position paper, we will argue for proces...