first offer a critique as well as an overview of the vast history of relevant research, and then they integrate the various findings and the eclectic theories they have produced under a unifying theory of motivated social cognition. ... The theory claims that there is a "matching process that takes place whereby people adopt ideological belief systems that are most likely to satisfy their psychological needs and motives" (341). ... Thus, needs and motives influence the way information is processed because information itself plays a significant "role in the construction and pres...

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: Media Systems and Cultural coordinates in: J. ... Cunningham and Flew highlight a basic power struggle between people, the government and our media system which they recognize to have a "strong corporatist flavour" (Cunningham and Flew, 2000: 237). ... Similar to Kant's theory, "the use of reason must be free in public", Cunningham and Flew continually consider the role of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) and other non-commercial media such as the SBS (Special Broadcasting Station), as the primary channel through which critical reason is accomplished in a commercial environ...

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But since the demise of socialist system in 1991 and then the triumph of liberal capitalism as well as the western-style democracy, the post-Cold War claimed that liberal democracy lays foundation for a new world order led by the U.S. hegemony which aligns democracy with the western emphasis on "civil and political right". ... Besides, I would like to represent this view through the concepts of feminist theories and together with whether women and girls really have a freedom to choose everything on their own. Feminist theories claim that women are oppressed in a multiplicity of ways that de...

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A key feature of the Early Modern Era was the development of scientific theories and their application in new technologies. ... Post-Colonial globalisation is predicated on a liberal financial and political order that underpins global financial systems, security-military networks and technical infrastructure. However, this system, though dominant, is under threat from competition, especially relating to rising countries such as China and Russia who maintain distance, as well as internal problems such as the threatened loss of cultural identity and meaning. ...

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