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Czitrom’s Media and the American Mind, I went to the bookcase and pulled out my copy. The book, which had been published relatively recently when I started doctoral work in 1984, had been required for the mass comm theory class. For an erstwhile reporter, the book had offered immediate confirmation of my decision to return to graduate school. Scholarly study of the media could be hugely interesting and important. I felt the weight of what Czitrom was attempting then*and now. If you have not looked at it in a while, I hope the Forum inspires you too to pull out your own copy. The Forum has grown in size from Sue’s original conception. Hanno Hardt learned of the project and contributed an essay. And while we were hoping that Daniel Czitrom himself would submit an essay, we could not count on it. But Daniel very graciously offered us his thoughts. A note thus on the referencing: Because the contributors cite so many of the same works, we have combined the references at the end of the Forum. Finally, a note of thanks: As you know, the journal is changing editorial hands, and this will be the last issue for Linda Steiner and me. I want to thank Linda for the opportunity to create the Critical Forum and to thank you, my colleagues, for all the inspiring ideas, wise contributions, and kind words. It was truly a pleasure.

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the future. History matters to the answer. Memories of historical pre-eminence and humiliation drive nationalism and assertiveness at the same time that China identifies with developing countries as a counterbalance rather than as a leader or enforcer of the global norms and rules. The paper evaluates China

driven by colonial history, and document strong firststage relationships between property rights institutions and the determinants of European colonization strategy (settler mortality and population density before colonization), and between contracting institutions and the identity of the colonizing

18 February 2005Do you suppose that historians labor dumbly in deep trenches, digging up facts so that political scientists can order and explain them? Do you imagine that political scientists, those skilled intellectual surgeons, slice through the fat of history to get at the sinews of rational

Abstract. The development of ontologies involves continuous but relatively small modifications. Existing ontology reasoners, however, do not take advantage of the similarities between different versions of an ontology. In this paper, we propose a technique for incremental reasoning—that is, reasoning that reuses information obtained from previous versions of an ontology—based on the notion of a module. Our technique does not depend on a particular reasoning calculus and thus can be used in combination with any reasoner. We have applied our results to incremental classification of OWL DL ontologies and found significant improvement over regular classification time on a set of real-world ontologies. 1

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of media studies and educational discourses as well as changes in communication technologies, media industries, politics, and popular culture. My research on the history of Media&Values magazine 1977-1993, made possible by the Elizabeth Thoman Media Literacy Archive, illustrates how tracing

This paper explores methods of simulating Polya Urn Models using a spreadsheet. The Polya Urn model provides a statistical model of path dependent behaviour where the final equilibrium is determined by random chance or historical accident.