…scale. In the five decades since, the American retail landscape and built environment have been profoundly altered. At the end of 2015, Wal-Mart had 4,614 stores and Supercenters in the United…
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…issues in an ever-changing media environment. She feels there’s a “great appetite” for foreign coverage, but questions whether reporters have the tools to report accurately, even with social media and…
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…Daniel Oppenheimer of UCLA had groups of students — sample sizes ranged from 67 to 151 — watch video lectures in a simulated classroom environment, taking notes either longhand or…
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…environments where a hugely disproportionate percentage of street crime is committed by young men of color. Something happens to people of good will working in that environment. After years of…
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…athletes, hip-hop artists and ordinary citizens come to opine on politics.” Moreover, humor plays a unique role in information sharing in this new “hybrid” media environment. “Infoboxes and Cleanup…
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…Pentagon and the White House, as the ability to independently assess claims about their effectiveness is prevented by the dangerous on-the-ground environment. Much about the campaign’s true character remains unknown….
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…on a recent wave of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, illustrates how people’s perceptions of the political environment contribute to the formation of collective efficacy beliefs. The analysis also examines…
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…the United States. It includes sections on economics, mobility, environment, crime, health and demographics. Keywords: poverty, inequality, race, economics, cities, urban studies, economic development, shrinking cities, legacy cities, rust…
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…the sharing economy and who participates? “Avoiding the South Side and the Suburbs: The Geography of Mobile Crowdsourcing Markets” Jacob Thebault-Spieker; Loren Terveen; Brent Hecht. Urban Environments CSCW 2015, March 14-18, 2015, Vancouver,…
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…do not suggest a radical shift or a totally linear march toward a diffused, distributed and “flattened” environment. Rather, a hybrid media ecosystem has emerged. What, precisely, are its contours?…
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