Seeking health information on the internet: Lifestyle choice or bad attack of cyberchondria?
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The emergence of personalized health websites encourage the citizens to direct and shape their own health biographies, the kind of diet, the style of exercise and linking the ideas of the body, the self and lifestyle. The growing trends toward 'lay' people accessing information about health from the Internet are discussed. Study shows that the kinds of health material young people access is informed by issues of social personality or 'health habitus' complicating individualistic notions of lifestyle 'choice'.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2006
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Narrative and ideology: 50 years of film-making in Zimbabwe
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Film-making in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) from 1948 to 2000 is discussed. The Zimbabwean filmmaking enterprise has struggled with an ideological tension between donor sponsored 'message films' and alternative narratives that reflect as well as define an emergent and collective African identity.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2005
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Order versus access: news search engines and the challenge to traditional journalistic roles
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The article investigates the rise of online news search engines, which offer users personalized access to different viewpoints, versus traditional journalism that offers a finite, ordered news product. The case of Google News illustrates the normative gap between the two forms of journalism.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2007
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