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Pour étudier d'un point de vue scientifique l'actualité de l'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes, certains types d'archives n'étant pas encore disponibles, les médias figurent parmi les principales sources exploitables. Ce livre explore la manière dont les médias latino-américains disent et construisent l'actualité de leurs pays. Les auteurs montrent comment ces médias peuvent être considérés à la fois comme « acteurs et auteurs » de l'histoire récente. En favorisant les échanges entre auteurs latino-américains et européens, cet ouvrage adopte volontairement une approche pluridisciplinaire pour traiter l'actualité sociale et politique d'une dizaine de pays, convoquant science politique, sciences du langage, sciences de l'information et de la communication. L'éventail des méthodes (analyse de contenu, lexicométrie, analyse argumentative, entre autres) et de cadres théoriques mobilisés (critical discourse analysis, cultural studies, analyse du discours « à la française ») offre au lecteur de stimulantes perspectives.

Media is a kind of gatekeeper, connecting disparate entities and shielding them from one another at the same time. When we speak of media, we often refer to those entities themselves—to persons, organizations, artifacts, signals, and inscriptions—referencing directors, artists, newspapers, films, iPhones, paper, ink, notes, beats, color, and soundwaves. But as the middle or between, the essence of media itself seems to be distributed across the mix of entities involved, and its location and agency are hard to pin down. This new anthology takes stock of our empirical and historical understanding of the two-sided nature of media and tracks the recent turn in media studies to examining practice itself. A unique discussion of the intersection of media theory and practice theory, Connect and Divide explores how distributions of knowledge, labor, and power may be hidden in what remains untraceable about media, shedding vital light on the social implications of media theory today.

Kein Medium kann Wissenschaft so schnell der Öffentlichkeit vermitteln wie das Web. Blogs spielen dabei eine maßgebliche Rolle, weil sie in puncto Substanz genau zwischen hochkomplexen Papers und sehr vereinfachten Social Media-Beiträgen liegen. Dieses Buch zeigt, wieso Wissenschaftler diese Art des Publizierens in ihre Forschungsarbeit integrieren sollten. Es gibt praktische Ratschläge darüber, wie Blogs geplant werden müssen, wie sich Blogposts strukturieren lassen, welche geschriebenen Formate am effektivsten zur Wissenschaftskommunikation funktionieren und wie die Beiträge so geplant und publiziert werden können, dass sie ihr Publikum erreichen.

This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This work is sorely needed in a world where cybersecurity has become indispensable to protect trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure whilst respecting fundamental values like equality, fairness, freedom, or privacy. The book has a strong practical focus as it includes case studies outlining ethical issues in cybersecurity and presenting guidelines and other measures to tackle those issues. It is thus not only relevant for academics but also for practitioners in cybersecurity such as providers of security software, governmental CERTs or Chief Security Officers in companies.

This eclectic and multicultural volume contains 17 papers, authored or co-authored by 25 scholars and doctoral students representing 11 countries. They discuss a wide range of global issues, including immigration, marginalization, identity, mass media, politics, social networking, education, digital media, advertising, and globalization. This book will be an excellent supplement to senior and graduate-level courses in international communication, cultural studies, mass media, journalism, global studies, political communication, intercultural communication, and related subjects.

Just what is it that we want from the past? History offers us true stories about the past; heritage sells or provides us with the past we appear to desire. The dividing line between history and heritage is, however, far from clear. This collection of papers addresses the division between history and heritage by looking at the ways in which we make use of the past, the way we consume our yesterdays. Looking at a wide variety of fields, including architectural history, museums, films, novels and politics, the authors examine the ways in which the past is invoked in contemporary culture, and question the politics of drawing upon'history'in present-day practices. In topics ranging from Braveheart to Princess Diana, the Piltdown Man to the National History Curriculum, war memorials to stately homes,'History and Heritage'explores the presence of the past in our lives, and asks, how, and to what end, are we using the idea of the past. Who is consuming the past and why?

This book explores the management of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises. Natural disasters, such as the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 and human-made crises, such as the recent political disruption in North Africa and the Middle East, have demonstrated that there is a great need to understand how individuals, government, and non-government agencies create, access, organize, communicate, and disseminate information within communities during crisis situations. This edited book brings together papers written by researchers and practitioners from a variety of information perspectives in crisis preparedness, response and recovery. - Edited by the author who coined the term crisis informatics - Provides new technological insights into crisis management information - Contributors are from information science, information management, applied information technology, informatics, computer science, telecommunications, and libraries

This important volume provides not only an in-depth analysis of those risk communication strategies currently used to inform and educate the public around key health issues, but also the risks and effects of radon, a natural but carcinogenic gas that so far has seen relatively little wider coverage. As the leading cause of lung cancer worldwide after smoking, radon is an important yet hidden public health issue, but informing and educating the public about its hazards and dangers is far from straightforward. As well as offering a detailed overview of issues around radon itself, the book asserts that public health communication should be dialogic and interactive, culturally tailored to specific populations to ensure people comprehend and appreciate risk to themselves and their environments. The challenges are, of course, significant in a pluralistic media landscape where disinformation and misinformation threaten the integrity of any message sent. Featuring chapters from researchers across a range of disciplines, this enlightening book will interest students, scholars and professionals working in Public Health, Environment Health and Communication Studies.

WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the most devastating health scares ever. In the years to come Wakefield would be revealed as a profiteer in league with class-action lawyers, and he would eventually lose his medical license. Meanwhile one study after another failed to find any link between childhood vaccines and autism. Yet the myth that vaccines somehow cause developmental disorders lives on. Despite the lack of corroborating evidence, it has been popularized by media personalities such as Oprah Winfrey and Jenny McCarthy and legitimized by journalists who claim that they are just being fair to “both sides” of an issue about which there is little debate. Meanwhile millions of dollars have been diverted from potential breakthroughs in autism research, families have spent their savings on ineffective “miracle cures,” and declining vaccination rates have led to outbreaks of deadly illnesses like Hib, measles, and whooping cough. Most tragic of all is the increasing number of children dying from vaccine-preventable diseases. In The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin draws on interviews with parents, public-health advocates, scientists, and anti-vaccine activists to tackle a fundamental question: How do we decide what the truth is? The fascinating answer helps explain everything from the persistence of conspiracy theories about 9/11 to the appeal of talk-show hosts who demand that President Obama “prove” he was born in America. The Panic Virus is a riveting and sometimes heart-breaking medical detective story that explores the limits of rational thought. It is the ultimate cautionary tale for our time.

This book —the first of a two-volume monograph— seeks to unify the hitherto perceived-as-disparate foundations of psychology and artificial intelligence. It does this by replacing their constitutive notions with a novel common one: noémon system. The ensued Theory of Noémon Systems is developed in terms of an interdisciplinary, language- based, axiomatic approach. The first volume details the development of the foundations of the theory and expounds ramifications for cognitive science and AI including novel solutions to the AGI debate and Darwin's mental gap issue, while offering the first complete definition of AI. The book concurrently explores the similarities and differences between humans and AI/robot systems with respect to the evolution-dependent phenomena of representation, thinking, understanding and communication. The book is an extensive one; because of it's extensiveness and broad ramifications, this book will appeal to scientists working on the interfaces of psychology, AI, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and the humanities. The complicated and extensive unification of the fields of Artificial Intelligence and psychology is continued in the second volume that breaks further new ground for both disciplines, with thought-provoking and compelling implications for both.

Serielle Dystopien sind omnipräsent; sei es in der Literatur, im Spielfilm, der Fernseh- bzw. Streamingserie oder auch im Videogame. Das Buch verbindet ein wesentliches Erzählverfahren (die Serie) mit gerade kontrovers diskutierten Themen (u.a. Diversity, Covid 19) und dem Genre ihrer medialen Verhandlung. Die Serialität dystopischer Erzählungen ist ein transmediales Phänomen. Der Band geht der Frage nach, wie sich negative Zukunftsvorstellungen, aber auch kontrafaktische Vergangenheitsentwürfe medienspezifisch darstellen, wie sie darüber hinaus im Zuge der Medienkonvergenz größere Erzähluniversen herausbilden. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei vor allem Überlegungen, ob sich die serielle Form in besonderer Weise dafür eignet, von dystopischen Gesellschaftsvisionen zu erzählen.

Spätestens seit der Corona-Pandemie werden Verschwörungstheorien zunehmend als gesellschaftspolitisches Problem wahrgenommen und sind zum Politikum geworden. Wohl noch nie zuvor gab es im öffentlichen Diskurs eine derart hohe Sensibilität für das Thema. Ängste vor Verschwörungen einerseits und Ängste vor Verschwörungstheorien andererseits schaukeln sich offenbar gegenseitig hoch. Dies führt zu einer anwachsenden gesellschaftlichen Polarisierung und zu einem Klima von Misstrauen, Empörung und Gereiztheit. Zehn Jahre nach der Erstauflage des vorliegenden Bandes erscheint die Analyse des gegenwärtigen Verschwörungsdenkens dringender denn je. Im Rahmen von sechs neuen Beiträgen nimmt die erweiterte Neuauflage aktuelle Entwicklungen in den Blick. In Kombination mit den ursprünglichen Aufsätzen soll so zu einem umfassenden und differenzierten Bild des sozialen Phänomens Verschwörungstheorien beigetragen werden.

This is the very first authoritative book on the role of Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) in the history of psychology. Carus was the initiator of the notions of development, unconscious, and archetype in psychology. The book emphasizes the interdisciplinary focus of Carus'work as it was based on the literature and art of his time and is closely related with medicine and Naturphilosophie. The readership of the book will get access to the life course of a key figure of science of the 19th century.

A small but growing number of people in many countries consistently avoid the news. They feel they do not have time for it, believe it is not worth the effort, find it irrelevant or emotionally draining, or do not trust the media, among other reasons. Why and how do people circumvent news? Which groups are more and less reluctant to follow the news? In what ways is news avoidance a problem—for individuals, for the news industry, for society—and how can it be addressed?This groundbreaking book explains why and how so many people consume little or no news despite unprecedented abundance and ease of access. Drawing on interviews in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as extensive survey data, Avoiding the News examines how people who tune out traditional media get information and explores their “folk theories” about how news organizations work. The authors argue that news avoidance is about not only content but also identity, ideologies, and infrastructures: who people are, what they believe, and how news does or does not fit into their everyday lives. Because news avoidance is most common among disadvantaged groups, it threatens to exacerbate existing inequalities by tilting mainstream journalism even further toward privileged audiences. Ultimately, this book shows, persuading news-averse audiences of the value of journalism is not simply a matter of adjusting coverage but requires a deeper, more empathetic understanding of people's relationships with news across social, political, and technological boundaries.

Dieses Fachbuch enthält ein schulklassenbasiertes Durchführungsmanual für Lehrkräfte, Schulsozialarbeiter:innen, Schulpsycholog:innen und weitere an Schulen tätige Trainingskräfte. Das Ziel des SPuR-Präventionsprogramms ist es, frühzeitig einen kompetenten Umgang mit Bildmaterial im Netz zu fördern und der missbräuchlichen Verbreitung von freizügigen Fotos vorzubeugen. Zielgruppe des Programms sind Schüler:innen der 6. und 7. Jahrgangsstufe. In fünf Modulen beschäftigen sich die Schüler:innen mit den Themen Privatsphäre im Internet und dem Austausch von freizügigen Fotos über soziale Medien (sog. Sexting). Was möchte man von sich selbst preisgeben? Welche Gefahren gibt es? Wie kann man sich schützen? Und was kann man tun, wenn ein freizügiges Foto öffentlich geworden ist?Das von Schulpsychologinnen entwickelte, wissenschaftlich fundierte und erprobte SPuR-Präventionsprogramm wird im Buch ausführlich und praktisch erläutert, so dass Sie das medienpädagogische Programm selbstständig an Ihrer Schule durchführen können. Das Buch enthält zudem Hinweise für die Elternarbeit und ergänzende Online-Materialien.

To address today's media-saturated world, Introduction to Mass Communication keeps media literacy and culture at its core. Using examples of the past to show how mass communications got their roots--while keeping current with the latest emerging technologies and trends--Introduction to Mass Communication gives students a deeper understanding of the role media plays in both shaping and reflecting culture. By understanding and evaluating the ways in which media convergence is changing the landscape of media today, students are guided to think critically about their own roles in society as active media consumers and, increasingly, as media producers. Through these lenses, students are encouraged to be more ethical and confident participants in the mediated world.Media literacy is about living in, interacting with, and making the most of the world that surrounds us. That belief is the central philosophy of this Introduction to Mass Communication.

Based on the original 1951 edition by Canadian professor and author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history, Harold A. Innis (d. 1952). Innis explores the role of media in shaping the culture and development of civilizations. He argued that a balance between oral and written forms of communication contributed to the flourishing of Greek civilization in the 5th century BC. But in this ever-relevant work he predicted much of what is going on today and warned that Western civilization is now imperiled by powerful, advertising-driven media obsessed by'present-mindedness'and the'continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.'

Über Kommunikation ist viel kommuniziert worden. Watzlawick schreibt sogar, man könne nicht nicht kommunizieren. Die hier vorgelegte Aufsatzsammlung vereint eine Reihe von Beiträgen, die im Laufe der Jahre in höchst unterschiedlichen Kontexten entstanden sind. Das Thema Kommunikation war oft nicht das Zentrum. Viele Texte entstanden ursprünglich auch in interdisziplinären Kolloquien. Die Arbeiten hier zusammenzufügen entspringt der Absicht, eine vorher teilweise latente Sinnlinie freizulegen. Man könnte von einer Transformation von Publikationen in Spolien sprechen. Das Hauptanliegen ist, einige bislang eher wenig behandelte Horizonte des Themas ins Auge zu fassen, Ränder sozusagen oder Sonderaspekte. Dieser Horizont erscheint bisweilen als Kaleidoskop.

This handbook fills a substantial gap in the international academic literature on animation at large, on music studies, and on the aural dimensions of Japanese animation more specifically. It offers a unique contribution at the intersection between music and popular culture studies on the one hand, and research on Japanese animated productions (often called ‘anime') as popular art forms and formats of entertainment, on the other. The book is designed as a reference work consisting of an organic sequence of theory-grounded essays on the development of music, sounds, and voices in Japanese animation for cinema and television since the 1930s. Each chapter deals with a phase of this history, focusing on composers and performers, films, series, and genres used in the soundtracks for animations made in Japan. The chapters also offer valuable interviews with prominent figures of music in Japanese animation, as well as chapter boxes clarifying specific aspects.

This book presents the restoration of rural mobile cinema network in the Great Triangle region at the conjunction of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet in China in the new century, which has added a new chapter to the long-standing complex relationship between cinema and social change. Based on five years of multi-sited fieldwork, abundant interviews and oral history narratives, this work shows the entanglement of the State, the projectionists and local film viewers in the historical and social context in a holistic analytic framework. By using the key concept of “being present” to examine the tangling relations between the actors in mobile cinema as social practice, the work argues that mobile cinema and contemporary Chinese society are mutually constructed in both textual and practical level.

Die Digital Change Summit bietet als Konferenzformat der Hochschule Mittweida eine jährliche Plattform für Wissenschaft sowie Praxis und ermöglicht spannende Einblicke zu Themen der digitalen Transformation.Im Tagungsband'Digitale Transformation in der Bildung'werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse, Good Practice Fälle sowie Trends aus dem Bereich des digitalen Wandels in der Bildung vorgestellt und diskutiert.

Kommunikatives Handeln kann Macht entfalten, kann anderen ein bestimmtes Handeln nahelegen, ohne dass direkter oder indirekter Zwang dahintersteht. Die Frage ist, weshalb kommunikatives Handeln auch ohne Gewalt und Herrschaft Macht haben kann. Eine Antwort auf diese Frage hat die Soziologie bislang noch nicht geben können. Hier wird eine Antwort entworfen, indem gezeigt wird, dass und wie alltägliche Kommunikationsmacht sich im kommunikativen Mit- und Gegeneinander erst aufbauen muss, um dann wirken zu können. Dabei kommen der Beziehung der Menschen zueinander, deren gegenseitige Anerkennung und die daraus folgenden Auswirkungen auf die Identität der Beteiligten eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Ein solches Verständnis der alltäglichen Macht von kommunikativem Handeln kann dabei auch helfen zu verstehen, wann und unter welchen Bedingungen Kommunikation in den privaten und öffentlichen (digitalen) Medien wirksam sein kann. Ein Verständnis kann jedoch auch dabei helfen, selbst über kommunikatives Handeln Wirkung zu erzielen bzw. sich gegen kommunikative Zumutungen zu wehren.

This book, the second of two-volumes, builds on the Unification of Artificial Intelligence and Psychology: Volume One - Foundations to explore its consequences. In doing so, this volume unifies three pivotal phenomena of Cognitive Science and AI: knowledge, consciousness and emotions. The extended Theory of Noémon Systems expounds ramifications for cognitive science, philosophy of mind, mathematics, and the issue of the unity of science and art. It also discusses the similarities and differences between humans and AI/robot systems with respect to consciousness, emotions and scientific knowledge. As with the first volume, this book will appeal to scientists working on the interfaces of psychology, AI, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and the humanities. The complicated and extensive unification of the fields of Artificial Intelligence and psychology breaks entirely new ground for both disciplines, with thought-provoking and compelling implications for both.

Das diesjährige Motto – Gender, Sex, Diversity – der vierten Ausgabe der Reihe Science MashUp greift aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Debatten ebenso auf wie inhaltliche und technische Entwicklungen im Games-Bereich. Der Band fasst die Tagung im Rahmen der 17. Langen Nacht der Computerspiele sowie weitere Abschlussarbeiten an der Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig (HTWK Leipzig) zusammen. Themen sind die Darstellung und das Identifikationspotenzial von Held•innen in Games, feministisches und barrierearmes Design von Games, inhaltliche und konzeptionelle Analysen von Geschlechter- und Beziehungsrollen in Games, Intersektionalität in Games sowie Grenzüberschreitungen von und mit Games.

Originally published in 1986, this is a nonscientific book about science. It is concerned with the relationships among social science, journalism, public information, and public policy. Reporting Science: The Case of Aggression explores some of the obstacles – and suggestions for overcoming them – to the mutual exchange of information when that information concerns research and theory on a sensitive issue, in this instance, violence.Among the issues explored are: What is the social scientist's responsibility, if any, for the public dissemination of his or her work? How accurate are mass media reports of scientific research on such socially sensitive issues as violence and the effects of mass media portrayals of sex and aggression? How do science journalists select particular pieces of research for study? How can interested scientists more effectively present their work to the public? What are the ethical issues involved in greater scientist-journalist cooperation?

This volume centers on the relationship between media and crisis communication, the need to address which has only been heightened by the recent experience of COVID-19 and the needs for public health crisis communication.With multiple voices and multiple fields engaging simultaneously with crisis communication, this book illuminates the role of media in crisis communication within this complex environment. Both traditional and digital media, including social media platforms, respond to an array of crisis contexts including political crises, public health crises, disasters, and organizational crises. The book presents original research that approaches the effects of media in any of the possible crisis contexts.This collection will interest scholars and students of crisis communication, public relations, risk communication, digital media, and political communication.

Die aktualisierte, neu strukturierte und um 19 Originalbeiträge ergänzte Neuauflage des Handbuchs Journalismustheorien liefert einen systematischen und detaillierten Überblick über die theoretischen Ansätze der Journalismusforschung. Zehn thematische Abschnitte ermöglichen schnelle Einstiege in die jeweiligen Theorienkomplexe und schaffen eine verständliche Orientierung über die Grundlagen, Entwicklungsstränge, Konzepte und Problemfelder der Journalismustheorien sowie darüber hinaus zu theoretischen Ansätzen zu Interrelationen des Journalismus mit Bereichen wie Kultur, Politik, Religion, Sport, Wirtschaft oder Wissenschaft. Für Studierende und Forschende der Journalistik, der Kommunikationswissenschaft und angrenzender Disziplinen bildet das Handbuch ein Standardwerk zum Verständnis des komplexen wissenschaftlichen Diskurses über die theoretischen Ansätze der Journalismusforschung.

Corona as a staged instrument of oppression, secretly kept vaccination deaths or politicians drinking children's blood: at the latest since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, conspiracy ideologies are booming and harm social peace and democratic will formation through their dogmatism. So-called conspiracy theories generate systematic distrust of legitimate political institutions and can contribute to social polarization, dangerous populism and extremist escalation. Conspiracy ideologies have always been a topic in movies and television series, as they have always dealt with the relationship between reality and illusion, truth and fiction, reality and dream, sense and madness through their cinematic means. Series and films not only serve as a discursive space for social self-understanding, but also, through their complex narratives, constellations of characters and aesthetics, offer catchy explanations for the emergence and spread of conspiracy narratives. At the same time, theymake suggestions, some of them astonishingly concrete, for dealing with such collective delusions. What can we learn from the fictional worlds of series and films for dealing with this very real contemporary phenomenon?

This publication investigates an extraordinary moment in the histories of both activist media and AIDS activism: the creation of a community-driven video series about HIV/AIDS for public-access cable television in Toronto at the beginning of the 1990s. Researcher Ryan Conrad has done detailed historical work on the Toronto Living With AIDS series, its creators, public reception, circulation, and censorship by Rogers Cable. The book includes interviews with Debbie Douglas, Richard Fung, John Greyson, Colman Jones, Glace Lawrence, James MacSwain, Ted Myerscough, Ian Rashid, Kaspar Saxena, and Darien Taylor; and contemporary reflections on these seminal videos by Chase Joynt, Alison Duke, Andil Gosine, Peter Knegt, Kiera Boult, Kristin Li, Alexander McClelland, Mikki Burino, Jamie Whitecrow, Jon Davies, and Jessica Whitbread.Toronto Living With AIDS is published by PUBLIC Books and distributed by Wilfrid Laurier University Press

In dieser Studie geht es um junge Menschen, die zur ersten Generation gehören, die in eine hochgradig digitalisierte und mediatisierte Welt hinein sozialisiert wird. Es geht darum zu erforschen, wie die Nutzung digitaler Medien mit den ihnen inhärenten Strukturen sich auf adoleszente Individuation auswirkt. Digitale Medien bieten den Jugendlichen mittels Präsenz und Form sowohl neuartige Möglichkeiten der Individuierung als auch Herausforderungen und Hemmnisse. Man könnte also sagen, sie bieten Adoleszenten einen medial erweiterten Möglichkeitsraum, der mit dem analogen psychosozialen Möglichkeitsraum der Adoleszenz auf je individuelle Weise verschwimmt und dessen mediale Form einerseits auf produktive und andererseits auch auf kontraproduktive Weise in den Prozess der adoleszenten Individuierung eingreifen kann. Digitale Medien können somit zur „Entstehung des Neuen in der Adoleszenz“ beitragen. Es werden typische Aneignungsweisen digitaler Medien im Prozess adoleszenter Individuierung rekonstruiert. Dabei wird den Fragen nachgegangen, inwieweit emanzipierende Potenziale für die Bewältigung adoleszenter Entwicklungsaufgaben entstehen können und ob auch ein Zusammenhang mit einer den Jugendlichen immer wieder zugeschriebenen Konformität bestehen kann.

The urgency and complexity of contemporary social justice issues facing the world today mean that activists, scholars, and storytellers need a readily available compendium of cutting-edge scholarship on media and social justice. The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice gathers over forty leading scholars and presents a state-of-the-art systematic overview of media and social justice. Representing leading voices across positionalities and perspectives, geographies and generations, meta-theories and methods, and issues and identities, the Handbook explores intersecting identities, social structures, and power networks within media ownership, representation, selection, uses, effects, networks, and social transformation. These theories, methods, and practices expose media and digital divides, polarization, marginalization, exclusion, alienation, invisibilities, stigma, and trivializations. Yet, they also showcase how individuals and communities also have agency through refusal and resistance. Each of the 32 chapters includes a brief history, key concepts, contemporary debates and dialogues, and future directions, and the volume concludes with reflections on resistances, reckoning, and reparative justice. Connecting critical media scholarship with intersectional feminism, postcolonial/anticolonial theory, Indigenous approaches, queer theory, diaspora studies, and environmental justice frameworks, the Handbook re-envisions the role of media and technology with an inclusive trauma-informed approach to scholarship that is essential for the future of this research.

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and disease. The authors advance the notion of ‘biomediatization'and demonstrate how health knowledge is co-produced through connections between dispersed sites of knowledge making and through multiple forms of expertise. The chapters offer an innovative combination of media content analysis and ethnographic data on the production and circulation of health news, drawing on work with journalists, clinicians, health officials, medical researchers, marketers, and audiences. New to this edition are new case studies, in particular about the COVID-19 pandemic. The first case study looks at pharmaceutical and biotech news, and how journalists portray the flow of information across the boundaries between science and business. The next two case studies examine pandemic news, beginning with the 2009 H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic and continuing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The final case study examines the treatment of race and racism in health news, looking at the ways it interacts with cultural constructions of health citizenship, and the forces that have produced a shift from deracialization of health news to a much stronger focus on race and racism in contemporary health news. This book is ideal for undergraduate students and scholars across the social sciences, health sciences, cultural studies, and journalism.

„Nun das Wichtigste vom Tag“, so beginnen oft Nachrichtensendungen. Was so selbstverständlich klingt und klingen soll, ist Ergebnis eines Prozesses, der im fertigen Beitrag kaum noch zu erkennen ist. Dabei prägen Redaktionen unser Bild der Wirklichkeit, indem sie ihr Publikum mit Informationen konfrontieren, über die sich reden und streiten lässt. Wie und wann das gelingt, zeigt diese Studie anhand der ZDF-heute-Redaktion. Dort lassen sich Verfahren beobachten, durch die sich die Redaktion ihrem Verständnis der Nachricht nach und nach versichert. Die Ereignisse, organisatorischen Notwendigkeiten und antizipierten Publikumsreaktionen bilden dabei nur den Hintergrund, vor dem über Auswahl und Darstellung der Inhalte entschieden wird. Die einschlägigen Kriterien müssen immer wieder aus der Konfrontation mit Nachrichtenentwürfen entwickelt werden, um das Vertrauen in eine ‚akzeptable‘ Version zu begründen. So schaffen Redaktionen Normalität angesichts von Ereignissen, die uns sonst oftsprachlos machen. Zum Problem wird die routinierte Bearbeitung von Neuigkeit jedoch, wenn existenzielle Notlagen wie die Klimakrise durch ein Weiter-so gerade nicht zu bewältigen sind.

This accessible guide through audience studies'histories outlines a contemporary Cultural Studies approach to audiences for the digital age. This book is not a survey of all existing audience research. Instead, its chapters survey parts of the field in order to draw some ‘through-lines'from older traditions to contemporary debates, giving students a ‘way in'to thinking about the current landscape from an ‘audience-sensitive'perspective. In order to do this, the book utilises a series of verbs to organise and cut a path through audience research and register its ongoing relevance today. These verbs are: audience, anchor, mean, feel and work. The list is not exhaustive and the reader is invited to think about what verbs they would add or change throughout the book. Audience suggests renewing the importance of ‘form'as a cultural process and in ‘circling-back'to Cultural Studies'‘circuit of culture', it proposes a modified framework for ‘the digital circuit'. Each chapter opens with a particular scenario for the reader to reflect upon and asks a specific question to help orient the account of research that is to come, especially for those new to Media and Cultural Studies and to audience studies.Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book is ideal for both students and researchers of Media and Cultural Studies.

Dieser Band befasst sich mit den neusten Serien des Star Trek-Franchise, die seit Erscheinen von Star Trek: Discovery (2017) entstanden sind. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei das augenfällige Interesse dieser Serien an der Geschichte der Franchise-eigenen Zukunftsvisionen. Aus einem breiten Spektrum geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektiven gehen die Beiträge der Frage nach, warum sich gerade die Star Trek-Erzählungen der letzten Jahre mit der (eigenen) Vergangenheit beschäftigen, wie diese Selbstreflexion erzählerisch und ästhetisch umgesetzt wird und wie diese Beschäftigung den Blick der Serien auf die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen der Gegenwart prägt.

The effects of social media can be observed particularly in relation to the religious commitment and religious practices of young people - who today are summarized under terms such as'internet generation','media generation'or'digital natives'. Online media exert a major influence on their lives, their understanding of the world, their religious orientations and actions. Their identity constructions, their cultural and religious orientations are closely intertwined with social media. This is precisely where the present study started with the question of what subjective consequences interaction on the social web has for the religious orientations, practices and self-conceptions of Muslim young people in Austria. The focus was on the connections between media use, media images of Islam and lived religiosity. On the one hand, the results show that the use of social media creates objective spaces of opportunity that can go hand in hand with an expansion of individual scope for action, whereby religious authority is increasingly being questioned. On the other hand, the study also shows that the use of digital media can also lead to a narrowing of individual religious orientations.

This handbook maps the media economy in its entirety against the background of the advancing digitalization of communication, media production, media distribution and the adaptation of regulatory framework conditions from different disciplinary approaches. It provides an integrated view on digitally induced economic transformations of the European media sector, and gives an explicitly European perspective on media economics – challenging the dominant US-American view.Topics covered include, but are not limited to: Theoretical approaches to media economics; media technologies and data management in media economics; building blocks of the media industry; media types and core distribution markets; system aspects and communication culture; media systems and regulatory policy; as well as methods of media economics.The handbook is a must-read for students, teachers and researchers in media and communication economics and science,as well as practicioners and policy-makers at the nexus of media, business and politics.

Die vergangenen Jahre waren für Musikkultur und Musikwirtschaft durch tiefe Krisen gekennzeichnet. Die Maßnahmen gegen die Covid-19 Pandemie griffen nicht nur tief in den Alltag der Menschen ein, sondern mit der zeitweisen Absage jeglicher Clubveranstaltungen, Festivals und dem öffentlichen Konzertwesen kam ausgerechnet jener Bereich komplett zum Erliegen, der in den Jahren davor ein starkes Wachstum verzeichnet hatte und im Tonträgermarkt wegbrechende Einnahmen kompensierte. Für viele AkteurInnen der Branche ist damit zumindest kurzfristig die gesamte Existenzgrundlage zusammengebrochen. Der vorliegende Band richtet sich an ForscherInnen wie auch PraktikerInnen aus Musikwirtschaft und Musikkultur und betrachtet das Thema aus diesem Anlass einmal ganz grundlegend. Denn Musik kann auch und gerade in Krisenzeiten vielfältige Rollen spielen: Sie kann Stellung beziehen, Trends thematisieren oder geteilten Emotionen eine Form geben. Zugleich steckt in jeder Krise ein transformatorisches Potential: Krisen beschleunigen Entwicklungen und können hierzu leider auch missbraucht werden. Der Band liefert Beiträge zu Fragen wie: Wie haben MusikkünstlerInnen auf die Corona-Situation reagiert? Wie verändern sich gegenwärtig der Musikmarkt und Musikkulturen? Welche Rolle spielt (und spielte) Musik in Transformationsprozessen, die durch Krisen ausgelöst werden?

Cultural, social and economic production is always medially constituted, since it is formed through processing, storage and transmission of certain data or materials. This is why the concept of mediality can be used to stress the performative character of all culture, whose multiplicity of techniques conversely interacts with the mediality in question. The contributors focus on a given cultural medium's genuine structure as a particular deployment without falling into some kind of hardware determinism, therefore considering culture beyond textuality.

The motion picture industry is dependent on technology. It is therefore important for scholars and students of film, media, and communication to understand how film audiences and practitioners engage with technology. A critical aspect of scholarly work is to document and interpret these technologies as they emerge, and to provide a detailed understanding of how their use is changing due to social, political, environmental, and cultural factors. The scholars and practitioners that contribute to this volume adopt a diverse range of theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to bridge the philosophical and epistemological differences that often create silos of media studies research. Authors explore topics such as; DIY production, equity and representation in Hollywood, the rise of mobile vertical screens, advancements in the cinematic experience, the relationships between traditional and new media, and social justice filmmaking. The impact of online social movements on the motion picture industry, and the dynamic interaction between makers and audiences, emerge as key areas of inquiry.

This book reconsiders media studies from different philosophical and theoretical perspectives from around the world. It brings together diverse views and visions from thinkers such as Sr Aubrobindo, Jurgen Habermas, Paul Ricoeur, Pope Francis, and Satyajit Ray, among others. The authors focus on the issues of ethics, aesthetics, meditation, and communication in relation to media studies and explore the links between media and mindfulness. The volume includes case studies from India, United States, Switzerland, and Denmark and presents empirical works on new horizons of critical media studies in different fields such as American news media and creative media lab. A unique contribution, this book will be indispensable for students and researchers of journalism, communication studies, social media, behavioural sciences, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, and development studies.

This insightful volume critically explores activist events in their scale and their capacity to attract media attention through a critical event studies lens, offering new perspectives on protests and social movement.This book conceives events of dissent as the public manifestation of counter-narratives that articulate advocacy for policy change. It focuses on the material and virtual manifestation of protest events and the media response to them, associated with three active social movements – Reclaim These Streets, Extinction Rebellion, and Black Lives Matter. In doing so, the text sheds light on how different political orientations within the media articulate the representation of events of dissent manifest by these groups, and how this results in significantly different opinion-forming statements on the issues behind those movements, as well as how this reflects mediated assessment of the responses of politicians, the public, and emergency service responses to protest events. Furthermore, it will explore the role of the Internet in the organisation of protest events and their part in the formation of networks of resistance, enabling the roll out of events with a global reach – demonstrated, more recently, by protests across many European cities against the war in Ukraine.This timely and significant book will appeal to scholars of and those interested in events tourism, protest, political communication, and media, amongst others.

This book employs the figure of curation—the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things—to explore the cultures of platform capitalism. Considering its rise in the global art world as an authorial, meaning-making activity and an organizational-entrepreneurial endeavour, it looks at curation as the interweaving of innovative concepts, elaborate storytelling, and trusted experts leaking out from galleries to hashtags.Its logic encompasses diverse spheres ranging from high-brow art and the fashion world to low-brow experience economies and economies of authenticity, from confidence cultures and relationship gurus to algorithmic spectacles. More than an economy, “curate and be curated” is a diffused imperative amidst the disorienting spread of information that digital platforms enable: What to post, what to wear, what to eat, what friends to have, what music to hear, what films to watch, what places to visit, what socks to choose, and what opinion to have about serious issues like climate change, military coups, AI, genetics, space colonization, and cryonics, or everyday issues like football, fashion, and diet. Drawing on critical platform theory, material culture, and multi-sited ethnography, the book examines curated worlds of coolness, authenticity, and inspiration, including the luxury fashion brands Vetements and Balenciaga, Airbnb food experiences, and the figure of the life coach. The book argues that the curatorial imperative endorses an aspirational class imaginary and the idea that handling self-narratives is a strategic means of socialization that can assist upward mobilities as well as neoliberal narratives of well-being, promotion, and success.This book will be of key interest to academics, researchers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, curating, contemporary art theory, critical management studies, and art history, as well as to more general readers interested in new media, platforms, and digital culture.

This thoroughly revised second edition covers the major areas of research, theory, and practical application in health communication. This textbook takes an in-depth approach to health communication by analyzing and critically evaluating research conducted across multiple paradigmatic perspectives and focusing on translational application of research findings. Using the story of the Montgomery family, a biracial, multigenerational family, and their health experiences as a case study, chapters explore topics including patient–provider communication, health communication in the media, ethical issues, and public health crises. New chapters cover the potential for communication to address discrimination in healthcare settings, health information seeking, social support and caregiving, and the relationship between health and environmental communication. Chapters offer pedagogical features that will prove useful to students and instructors of health communication, such as summary boxes, theory tables, suggestions for in-class activities, discussion questions, and lists of additional resources. Developed for use in advanced undergraduate and master's level health communication and public health courses, this text represents the breadth and depth of health communication theory and research as it exists today. Online resources for instructors including additional theory tables, PowerPoint slides, test questions and assignments, sample syllabi, and lists of additional resources are available at https://www.routledge.com/9781032100470.

Written for the non-specialist media producer, this book offers a practical and engaging guide to basic digital media production using modern equipment and software.As media production tools and software become more pervasive and traditional media jobs scarcer, today's media professionals are now expected to be content creators across multiple forms of media, often working with little more equipment than a smartphone. In this accessible manual, Griffey explains how well-crafted media can help sell products, bolster subscriptions, and influence public opinion—and how to go about crafting it in a landscape of high-speed social media consumption. Topics covered include the basics of photography, film, video, and audio production, as well as animation and building websites. Readers will learn not just how to shoot or record content, but also how to edit, compress, and share it, considering the most appropriate file types, equipment, software, and platforms to use for each scenario. After reading this book, students will understand best practices associated with almost every area of media production and possess the essential skills to get the job done.This book is an essential companion for students in communication disciplines, including PR, advertising, journalism, and marketing, looking for a solid grounding in digital media production to prepare them for the competitive job market.

Dieses Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Produktion digitaler Medieninhalte im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Dabei werden die Inhalte aus den Berufsfeldern Journalismus, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Marketing behandelt. Das Buch gibt einen Einblick, wie Inhalte präsentiert werden und befasst sich mit den rechtlichen und ethischen Fragen, mit denen sich die Produzenten von Inhalten konfrontiert sehen, sowie mit der Frage, wie diese Probleme erfolgreich bewältigt werden können. Die Kapitel enthalten auch Interviews mit Medienfachleuten und Quizfragen, die es den Lesern ermöglichen, das durch die Lektüre des jeweiligen Kapitels erworbene Wissen zu festigen.

Dieser Band führt in Niklas Luhmanns erkenntnistheoretische Perspektive des operativen Konstruktivismus ein und diskutiert auf dieser Grundlage das Zusammenspiel von Massenmedien, Many-to-Many-Kommunikation und publizistischen Angeboten im Social Web in der gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeitskonstruktion. Wie bildet sich in der digitalisierten Gesellschaft, in der das Nebeneinander unterschiedlicher Sichtweisen zur Alltagserfahrung wird, eine gemeinsame Gegenwartsbeschreibung heraus? Welche Chancen und Herausforderungen bieten sich für die Integration neuartiger Standpunkte? Wie wirken Prozesse sozialer Komplexitätsreduktion und algorithmische Selektionsmechanismen ineinander?

Prezentowana publikacja jubileuszowa jest dedykowana Profesor Grażynie Habrajskiej przez jej przyjaciół i uczniów. Wiele tekstów w niej zawartych nawiązuje do badawczych zainteresowań Jubilatki, liczne poświęcone są tematom aktualnie bliskim ich autorom, wszystkie zaś stanowią uhonorowanie niezaprzeczalnych dokonań oraz cenionej postawy naukowej Profesor Grażyny Habrajskiej. Teorie i praktyki komunikacji 2 to książka dedykowana Profesor Grażynie Habrajskiej, honorująca czterdzieści pięć lat jej pracy naukowej i dokonań. Przygotowany zbiór charakteryzuje się wielością problemów, dyscyplin, metod badawczych, sposobów opisu i interpretacji, dla których wspólnym odniesieniem są rozważania usytuowane w obszarze nauki o komunikacji i mediach. Autorzy, balansując między tradycją naukową a poszukiwaniem nowych dróg i rozwiązań, przedstawili innowacyjne ujęcia poruszonych zagadnień. Merytoryczna i metodologiczna różnorodność tomu tworzy bogatą i spójną mozaikę obrazującą stan dzisiejszej komunikologii oraz wiedzy o komunikacji rozwijanej w innych dyscyplinach. Wskazanie płaszczyzn eksploracji wspólnych dla różnych obszarów nauki i ujęć metodologicznych podkreśla wartość dialogu i otwartości w pracy badawczej. Publikacja spełnia tym samym także funkcje edukacyjne, mając potencjał formacyjnego oddziaływania na studentów i młodych badaczy. Z recenzji dr hab. Małgorzaty Kity, prof. UŚ W tomie ukazano efekty badań z wielu dyscyplin i paradygmatów badawczych. Przyjęcie formuły multiscyplinarności dało podstawy poznania różnorodnych zagadnień z zakresu szeroko pojmowanej komunikacji […], z jej intersemiotycznym kodem, w relacjach międzykulturowych, w obliczu nowych problemów społecznych. Z recenzji dr hab. Iwony Benenowskiej, prof. UKW

Während die technische Entwicklung in Bezug auf Informationsverarbeitung und Informations­verbreitung mit rasanten Schritten vorangeht, können Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft die faktische Bedeutung der Entwicklung kaum noch hinreichend erfassen. Ohne eine grundlegende Reflexion der technischen Rahmensetzung von Politik und Gesellschaft wird es aber nicht möglich sein, grundlegende normative Muster von Demokratie und Staatlichkeit vor einem lediglich durch die Technik bedingten Wandel zu schützen. Kann die Demokratie auf diese Weise das Internet überleben? Oder wird sie nicht vielmehr zum Spielball von virulenter Propaganda? Kann vor diesem Hintergrund ein politischer Diskurs noch legitime Antworten auf politische Fragen generieren oder wird die emotionale Verweigerung rationaler Begründung zum Erfolgsfaktor für politische Durchsetzung? Kann die technische Entwicklung nicht auch als eine Öffnung politischer Räume und eine Demokratisierung des Diskurses verstanden werden oder handelt es sich bei dieser Idee lediglich um einen Mythos unter technikbegeisterten?

In today's media rich world, Introduction to Mass Communication keeps media literacy and culture at its core. Using examples of the past to show how mass communications got their roots and keeping current with the presents emerging technologies and trends, Introduction to Mass Communication gives students a deeper understanding of the role media plays in both shaping and reflecting culture. By understanding and evaluating the ways in which media convergence is changing the landscape of media today, students are encouraged to think critically about their own roles in society as active media consumers. Through this cultural perspective, students learn that audience members are as much a part of the mass communication process as are the media technologies and industries. The new edition maintains its commitment to enhancing students'critical thinking and media literacy skills. New and updated material in this edition reflects the latest developments in new digital technologies and highlights the most current research in the field.With Introduction to Mass Communication, students will have access to a suite of assessments and presentation tools to help them become successful and confident communicators in the workplace, including:-Video Capture powered by GoReact™ is the best way to give feedback on student presentations. It makes assigning and providing personalized feedback easy and it helps improve student outcomes and confidence.-SmartBook 2.0 provides a personalized and adaptive learning experience for students, while highlighting the most impactful communication concepts the learner needs to study at that time. -Application-Based Activities are highly interactive, automatically graded, learn-by-doing exercises that provide students a safe space to apply their problem-solving skills to real-world scenarios.-Writing Assignments offer faculty the ability to assign a full range of writing assignments to students (both manual-scoring and auto-scoring) with just-in-time feedback.