Word: orientedness
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If the English department has swung to the left, it has not been without resistance. When the first wave of theory-oriented professors prepared to begin teaching in the English department, they were not greeted with tolerant smiles.
"I had a workman here the other day," Laybourne says at her office in Oxygen's loftlike downtown Manhattan headquarters (very new-media-start-up, very exposed-pipes-and-brick). "He said, 'Hmmm. Network for women. What're you going to do, fashion?'" Not exactly. When the channel launches on...
It is beginning to look that way. Today's Web offers a distaff cornucopia much like the practicality oriented formula in women's magazines. Behind giants such as iVillage, Women.com Chickclick.com and Oxygen lies a universe of specialized "affinity portals": fashion and beauty sites like Eve.com and Sephora.com BestSelf.com for...
Aside from teaching, Sachs is also the director of the research-oriented Center for International Development (CID), co-chair of one of the Kennedy School of Government's masters degree programs and chair of an advisory council on international studies.
The ability to alter what we see becomes more important when the line blurs between news organizations and their business-oriented owners. Corporate-media interactions always raise questions of bias, such as when Time magazine (owned by Time Warner) hyped the movie "Twister" and other, similarly mediocre Warner Brothers movies...