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Link, search, interact: the co-evolution of NGOs and interactive technology

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The recent transformation from mass communication to networking and interactive media provides the opportunity for a host of different and faster ways to communicate. NGOs have greatly benefited from this proliferation and have shifted from information transmission to knowledge networks in the virtual domain thereby shifting focus from autarky to collaboration in their way of functioning.

Author: Stark, David, Bach, Jonathan
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2004
United States, Evaluation, Social networks

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The new visibility

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The characteristics of a new form of visibility which has become a pervasive feature of the modern world and which is linked to the development of communication media is examined. The rise of this new form of mediated visibility has transformed the relations between visibility and power and hence has become the source of a new and distinctive kind of fragility.

Author: Thompson, John B.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2005
Communications industry, Media coverage, Mass media, Current events, Current events in mass media

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Heterarchies of value in Manhattan-based new media firms

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Sociology of worth that obscures the traditional disciplinary divide between economic value and social values is evolved. The clash of evaluation criteria, which has become a source for innovation and a resource for learning, is also studied.

Author: Girard, Monique, Stark, David
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2003
PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, Radio and Television Broadcasting, New York, Social aspects, Economic aspects, Mass media industry, Manhattan, New York, New York

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Subjects list: Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis
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