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The book Biserica de alături [The church next door] addresses some of the lesser-known rites of the shepherds from the Romanian Carpathians, such as the marriage at the fir trees, the confession, the prayer at the tree, and eating tree buds at Easter. Laura Jiga Iliescu describes these rites following long-term research on the mountain plateaus and in the hearths of the pastoral villages at the foot of the mountains.

This article reviews Gaming and Extremism: The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds (2024), edited by Linda Schlegel and Rachel Kowert. Gaming and Extremism (2024) presents the current state of the literature on the nexus between videogames, gaming spaces, and extremism.

The paper evaluates the contribution of the journal “Inostrannaia literatura” to the reception of P.P. Pasolini’s work in Russia. The research is based on an analysis of the archives of the journal and all published materials related to Pasolini in it, such as translations of his works, informational notes, articles by Ts. Kin, G. and A. Bogemskii, a Literary guide to the 100th anniversary of his birth. Reviewing the materials in chronological order allows us to trace how the attitude towards Pasolini has changed over time, in which measure his creative work has been covered. The publications in the journal do not reflect sufficiently the importance of Pasolini as one of the most original and multifaceted personalities in Italian literature and culture — poet, writer, philologist, literary critic, cinematographer, and influential intellectual — mainly because of the originality of his poetic and prosaic works, which did not correspond in Soviet times to the idea of progressive literature, Pasolini’s scandalous fame, and negative assessments given by authoritative critics. At the same time, the publications of the last years reflect the aspiration to fill this regrettable gap.

Book review of "Haller, Tobias, Karina Liechti, Martin Stuber, François-Xavier Viallon, and Rahel Wunderli (eds.). Balancing the Commons in Switzerland. Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations. 2021. London: Routledge.

This review presents and explores "Homelessness: A Critical Introduction" by Cameron Parsell.

Der Podcast ist ein Format, das zu den Wünschen der Zeit passt: Er bietet eine gezielte, individuelle Suche nach Information oder Unterhaltung, ist abrufbar und hörbar zu jeder Zeit und an jedem Ort. Der von Vera Katzenberger, Jana Keil und Michael Wild von der Universität Bamberg herausgegebene Sammelband beleuchtet die Perspektiven und Potenziale dieses noch jungen Mediums. Die zwanzig versammelten Beiträge bieten einen fundierten und vielseitigen Überblick zum Forschungsstand. In der Einleitung zeigen Katzenberger, Keil und Wild auf, wie sich Podcasts zu einem festen Bestandteil des Medienrepertoires von Hörerinnen und Kommunikatoren entwickelt haben. Für das Verständnis besonders wertvoll ist ihr Überblick zu den Bereichen und Darstellungsformen von Podcasts, in welchem sie darlegen, wie wichtig Innovation, Authentizität und Storytelling sind. Die anschliessende Unterteilung des Sammelbands in fünf Teile nach Kommunikator/-innen, Rahmenbedingungen, Inhalten, Rezipient/-innen und Perspektiven aus der Praxis erleichtert dabei die Orientierung.

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This article reviews Eviane Leidig’s “The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization.”

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Memes – Formen und Folgen eines Internetphänomens [Memes – Forms and Consequences of an Internet Phenomenon] is a monograph in the German language authored by Joanna Nowotny and Julian Reidy. In the introduction, five main chapters, and a conclusion, the authors tackle a relatively young, but booming phenomenon of digital culture and communication: Internet memes. The book provides valuable insights and perspectives on the ever-evolving dynamics of memes and meme culture, and it successfully provides a well-executed counterpoint to often overly romanticized meme literature by shedding light on the “darker” aspects of meme communication. While many previous publications tend to idealize memes, this book takes a courageous step in examining the potential negative implications and consequences associated with their spread. By focusing on the less explored, sometimes problematic, and even controversial aspects of meme culture, the book presents a comprehensive view of the impact of memes.

The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media, written by American media researcher Emily Hund, takes the reader on a scouting expedition into the U. S. influencer industry. Hund is a well-established author in social media influencer research, where her works on gender dynamics in the influencer industry have been particularly notable (e. g., Duffy & Hund, 2015, 2019). These works look at social media influence from a creative industry’s angle, and The Influencer Industry also stands in this lineage. Although the title does not make it clear, the book offers, first and foremost, a chronological history of the influencer industry in the United States. Beginning with the advent of political bloggers in the late 1990s, each chapter focuses on a specific period and the overarching developmental milestones Hund identifies as constituting the period. This way, Hund provides a much-needed historical perspective on the influencer industry. However, the book wants to be more than that – and it definitely is – in that it also reflects on how the influencer industry impacts contemporary forms of sociation.

This article is a review of the publication The Ring Metaphor and the Spirit of Sofia and other essays by Lino Bianco. The book was published by Kite Group, Ħamrun, Malta, 2022 with ISBN 978-9918-23-053-2 (Hardback) / 978-9918-23-054-9 (Paperback). Bianco is an architect and an academic and Ambassador Emeritus of the Republic of Malta to the Republic of Bulgaria.

[rev. of] S. BETTEGA, L. D’ANNA, Gender and Number Agreement in Arabic, Brill, 2023

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This article reviews Christian Picciolini’s White American Youth (2017), a memoir of a former white supremacist punk musician who co-founded the non-profit organization Life After Hate.

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Marlis Prinzing und Roger Blum haben das «Handbuch Politischer Journalismus» herausgegeben, weil es bisher keine vergleichbare Publikation gab, obwohl der politische Journalismus ein zentrales Feld der Berichterstattung ist. Das Handbuch versteht sich als Brücke zwischen aktueller Forschung und Praxis. Es enthält Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und gibt länderübergreifende Einblicke in die vielfältigen Arbeitsfelder des politischen Journalismus – mit Schwerpunkten auf Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Diese Zusammenführung unterschiedlicher Perspektiven verdeutlicht den integrativen Anspruch des 900 Seiten starken Werks. Es hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, «den politischen Journalismus in modernen […] europäischen […] Demokratien einmal gesamthaft darzustellen» (S. 17). Dies war, wie Prinzing und Blum in ihrer Einleitung einräumen, ein arbeitsintensives Unterfangen, das sich aber – wie der Erfolg zeigt – gelohnt hat. Das Handbuch gewinnt sein Publikum in der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, in der Medienpraxis und Politik, in der PR- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit sowie in der Verwaltung und den Staatskanzleien. Der Erfolg gründet in verschiedenen Stärken des Buches.

Gianluigi Negro’s Le voci di Pechino: Come i media hanno costruito l’identità cinese (Beijing’s voices: How the media constructed Chinese identity) presents a much welcome intervention at the intersection of Sinology and Media Studies from a historiographical perspective. By tracking the diachronic shifts and continuities across different communication technologies, practices and policies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the book develops a systematic understanding of the role of media in the construction of modern Chinese national identity. In doing so, it offers a valuable conceptual map for keeping track of the different actors and tensions that have shaped the Chinese media landscape from the rooftop loudspeakers of the Mao era to the Web 2.0 of today.

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