742 results on '"Mass media and culture"'
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2. Mediated intercultural communication in a digital age.
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Atay, Ahmet and D'Silva, Margaret U.
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Intercultural communication ,Mass media and culture ,Online journalism -- Social aspects - Abstract
Summary: This book focuses on mediated intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Analyzing social and traditional media using qualitative, interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives, contributors engage with diverse topics - ranging from hybrid identities in different communities, to journalistic collaborations in the global media landscape. In addition, the authors also examine the placeless and borderless communities of diaspora members, their transnational identities, and the social media stories that shape and are shaped by them.
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- 2019
3. Haunting hands : mobile media practices and loss.
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Cumiskey, Kathleen M. and Hjorth, Larissa
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Cell phones -- Social aspects ,Information society ,Information technology -- Social aspects ,Loss (Psychology) ,Mass media and culture ,Mobile communication systems -- Social aspects - Abstract
Summary: Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media's ubiquitous presence in our lives, in particular the representing, sharing, and remembering of loss. From Facebook tribute pages during public disasters to the lingering digital traces on a smartphone of the deceased, the digital is both extending earlier memorial practices and creating new ways in which death and loss manifest themselves. The ubiquity of digital specters is particularly evident in mobile media spanning smartphones, iPads, iPhones, or tablets. Mobile media entangle various forms of social, online and digital media in specific ways that are both intimate and public, and yet the use of mobile media in contexts of loss has been relatively overlooked. Haunting Hands seeks to address this growing and important area by helping us to understand the relationship between life, death, and our digital after-lives.
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- 2017
4. Issues in media : selections from CQ researcher.
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Digital media -- Social aspects ,Mass media and culture ,Mass media and public opinion ,Mass media -- Social aspects - Abstract
Summary: Overview: For current coverage of controversial and important issues centering on media, look to the balanced reporting, completer overviews and engaging writing that CQ Researcher has consistently provided for more than eighty years. This brief reader allows students to see the links among media, culture, business and politics. Each article gives substantial background as well as current analysis of the issue, in addition to the following special features: a pro/con box that examines two competing sides of a single question; a detailed chronology; an annotated bibliography and Web resources; photos, charts, graphs and maps.
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- 2016
5. Mediated cosmopolitanism : the world of television news.
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Robertson, Alexa
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Cosmopolitanism ,Mass media and culture ,Television broadcasting of news - Abstract
Summary: Based on the analysis of news reports broadcast on national and global channels and interviews with journalists and audience members, this book illustrates how the same everyday stories about the world can take on different meanings in different cultures.
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- 2010
6. Podcasting and personal brands: Mapping a theoretical path from participatory empowerment to individual persona construction
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Yee, Timothy
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- 2019
7. Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 1 : Otherness, Reactionary Politics, the Class Gaze
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Yiannis Mylonas, Elena Psyllakou, Yiannis Mylonas, and Elena Psyllakou
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- Mass media and culture, Ethnology—Europe, Culture, Ethnology
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This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the Greek media realm. Critically engaging with traditions of class analysis, it brings to light various class perspectives and their explanatory power for the Greek context. In doing so, it embraces intersectional approaches that study class structures in their co-constructions/co-articulations with other forms of social organization and identification, such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, geography and labor. Instead of providing clear-cut definitions, the chapters reveal the complexities and relationalities of class cultures and classed selves in their making. Volume one brings forth studies concerned with intersectional questions of class, notions of otherness, and forms of exclusion as they appear in popular media genres over a variety of social issues. Further, the volume also deals with class-related issues connected to the study of reactionary, far-right, and racist content advancing in Greek public spheres.
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- 2024
8. Game On : How Sports Media Grew Up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of Fans
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David Bockino and David Bockino
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- Mass media and culture, Sports--Social aspects, Mass media and sports
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Game On tells the story of how and why the sports media industry grew to become one of the most important and profitable components of the global entertainment landscape.
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- 2024
9. Bert Brechts Weimarer Geschichten : Soziale Biografie
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Jan Knopf and Jan Knopf
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- Literature, Modern—20th century, Ethnology—Europe, Culture, Mass media and culture, Performing arts, Theater, Musical theater
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Das Songbuch der „Hauspostille“ sowie die Stücke „Baal“, „Im Dickicht“ und „Mann ist Mann“ reichten der „Wiener Morgenpost“ bereits 1927 aus, um Bert Brecht in das Pantheon der Unsterblichen aufzunehmen. Gleichzeitig feierte die deutsche Presse den Singer-Songwriter als „Volkssänger im Zeitalter des Wolkenkratzers“. 1928 avancierte der Dreißigjährige mit der „Dreigroschenoper“ zum Weltstar der Pop-Industrie, die gerade entstand und noch keinen Namen hatte. Brechts Werk der Weimarer Republik, bisher im Vorhof des späteren Klassikers abgestellt, entreißt Jan Knopf mit rasanten Geschichten seinen ideologischen Vereinnahmungen und entdeckt im sozialen Kontext den bisher unbekannten Erfolgsautor. Das Chaos ist aufgebraucht. Es war die beste Zeit. Mit fröhlicher Literaturwissenschaft wird's wieder Ereignis.
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- 2024
10. Introduction to Mass Communication: 2024 Release ISE
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BARAN and BARAN
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- Mass media, Mass media and culture, Media literacy
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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.
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- 2024
11. The Travels of Media and Cultural Products : Cultural Transduction
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Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed
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- Cultural industries, Mass media and culture, Mass media--Marketing
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This book presents the Cultural Transduction framework as a conceptual tool to understand the processes that media and cultural products undergo when they cross cultural and national borders.Using a series of examples from pop culture, including films, television series, video games, memes and other digital products, this book provides the reader with a wider understanding of the procedures, interests, roles, assumptions and challenges, which foster or hinder the travels of media and cultural products. Compiling in one single narrative a series of case studies, theoretical debates and international examples, the book looks at a number of exchanges and transformations enabled by both traditional media trade and the internet. It reflects on the increase of cultural products crossing over regional, national and international borders in the form of video games and TV formats, through music and video distribution platforms or via digital social media networks, to highlight discussions about the characteristics of border-crossing digital production.The cultural transduction framework is developed from discussions in communication and media studies, as well as from debates in adaptation and translation studies, to map out the travels of media and cultural products from an interdisciplinary perspective. It provides a tool to analyse the markets, products, people and processes that enable or constrain the movement of products across borders, for those interested in the practical aspects that underlie the negotiation and transformation of products inserted into different cultural market settings. This volume provides a new framework for understanding the travels of cultural products, which will be of use to students and scholars in the area of media industry studies, business studies, digital media studies, international media law and economics.
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- 2024
12. The Mediaverse and Speculative Fiction Television : Understanding Speculative TV Fandoms
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Ashumi Shah and Ashumi Shah
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- Motion pictures, Television broadcasting, Mass media and culture, Popular Culture
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Some (web) television texts achieve immense commercial success. Certain commercially successful texts boast dedicated, creative, and exponentially growing fandoms. These fan communities engage in specific fan practices that are significantly influenced by the textualities of the texts and their contexts of production, distribution, and consumption. Increased fan engagement resulting in the acceleration of the text's popularity leads to the following inquiries: · How is the series influenced by the interactions among and the relationships between the producers, consumers, distributors, and content? · What are the sites of these interactions? · What are the social, cultural, economic, and political factors that impact the series? · How do the text's contexts of production, distribution, and consumption lead to the text's popularity in mainstream media? In pursuit of an answer to these questions, the analytical lens of the ‘mediaverse'is developed. An inductive study, this book explores four television series'that fall within the scope of speculative fiction to characterise the mediaverse and highlight the interconnectedness among the networked nodes of new media. These wield a significant influence on the production and consumption of media and its presence in our everyday lives, thus outlining the mediaverse as a tool for the analysis of a media texts and practices that shape contemporary media culture.
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- 2024
13. Cue the Sun! : The Invention of Reality TV
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Emily Nussbaum and Emily Nussbaum
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- Mass media and culture, Reality television programs--United States--History and criticism
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The rollicking saga of reality television, a “sweeping” (The Washington Post) cultural history of America's most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer—“a must-read for anyone interested in television or popular culture” (NPR) “Passionate, exquisitely told... With muscular prose and an exacting eye for detail... [Nussbaum] knits her talents for sharp analysis and telling reportage well.”—The New York Times (Editors'Choice)In development as a docuseries from the studio behind Spencer and SpotlightFINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONWho invented reality television, the world's most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can't we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump—Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake.In sharp, absorbing prose, Nussbaum traces the jagged fuses of experimentation that exploded with Survivor at the turn of the millennium. She introduces the genre's trickster pioneers, from the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris; Cops auteur John Langley; cynical Bachelor ringmaster Mike Fleiss; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, the visionaries behind The Real World—along with dozens of stars from An American Family, The Real World, Big Brother, Survivor, and The Bachelor. We learn about the tools of the trade—like the Frankenbite, a deceptive editor's best friend—and ugly tales of exploitation. But Cue the Sun! also celebrates reality's peculiar power: a jolt of emotion that could never have come from a script.What happened to the first reality stars, the Louds—and why won't they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker, the queer roots of Bravo, the dark truth behind The Apprentice, and more. A shrewd observer who adores television, Nussbaum is the ideal voice for the first substantive history of the genre that, for better or worse, made America what it is today.
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- 2024
14. The Mediated World : A New Approach to Mass Communication and Culture
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David T. Z. Mindich and David T. Z. Mindich
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- Mass media--Social aspects, Communication--Social aspects, Mass media and culture, Communication and culture
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A full-color interdisciplinary exploration of how media and mass communication shape society and how students can take control of their media futures.Today's students have a world of knowledge at their fingertips and no longer need books to list names and dates. What they need is the story of how everything fits together and the critical tools to take charge of their place within that story. David T. Z. Mindich's The Mediated World charts the story of media as it has shaped human life and as it infuses every aspect of our modern existence. Mindich's engaging narrative style focuses on concepts and real-world contexts to promote the media literacy students need to understand their personal relationships with media. Empowered as media consumers, creators, and curators, students realize their responsibility to work within the vast world of media to create more positive and productive futures.The second edition of this text brings historical media and overarching themes to life for students. Each chapter opens with a contemporary vignette that meets students in the current moment before encouraging them to consider the past. “Application” sidebars suggest practical activities that allow students to delve deeper into topics while “Reflection” boxes encourage students to think critically about their own media use. With a strong emphasis on media literacy that treats students as media stakeholders who have a vested interest in understanding its workings and effects, Mindich's text is the perfect book for a generation of students looking to take charge of their futures in this mediated world.New to the Second Edition:New chapter-opening vignettes connect with students in the current moment before welcoming them to consider the past.New Chapter 8, “Representation and the Lives that Matter in the Media,” encourages students to think critically about which people get to be heard and which are overlooked.New Chapter 13, “Hot and Cold Video Games,” critically explores a powerful media force in students'recreational lives. Expanded discussions on current cultural, political, and technological references, engaging with controversies.FeaturesFull color layout with photos and graphics to enrich students'reading experience.Integrated focus on representation in media reminds students of the pervasive impact of bias across society. Margin keyword definitions help students develop critical vocabularies. Three different feature boxes (Reflection, Application, and Now and Then) reinforce concepts and engage students'critical thinking skills.Chapter learning objectives, chapter summaries, and discussion questions reinforce historical frameworks and key concepts.Access ancillary materials at https://textbooks.rowman.com/mindich2e.For instructors: a test bank, lecture notes and slides, and a sample syllabus. For the students: chapter flashcards, a digital glossary, and videos and links.
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- 2024
15. Fandom Is Ugly : Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
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Mel Stanfill and Mel Stanfill
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- Social media, Fans (Persons), Harassment, Mass media and culture
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Highlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studiesThe Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the “Unite the Right” rally where hundreds of Confederate monument supporters cried out racist and antisemitic slurs in Charlottesville, and the targeted racist and sexist harassment of Star Wars'Asian American actress Kelly Marie Tran all have one thing in common: they demonstrate the collective power and underlying ugliness of fandoms. These fans might feel victimized or betrayed by the content they've intertwined with their own identities, or they may simply feel that they're speaking truth to power. Regardless, by connecting via social media, they can unleash enormous amounts of hate, which often results in severe real-world consequences.Fandom Is Ugly argues that reactionary politics and media fandoms go hand in hand, and to understand one, we need to understand the other. Mel Stanfill pushes back on two mainstream assumptions: that media and the pleasure of consumption are frivolous and unworthy of study, and that fandoms are inherently progressive. Drawing on a corpus of angry social media posts, Fandom Is Ugly finds that ugly moments happen when deep emotional attachments collide with social structures and situations that have been misunderstood. By holistically examining the forms of ugly fandom in cases that touch upon race, gender, and sexuality, Fandom Is Ugly produces a comprehensive theory of the negative sides of fan attachments.
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- 2024
16. An Introduction to the Uses and Diffusion of the News: Innovations and Cultivation of the Mass Media
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Roger Haney and Roger Haney
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- Mass media and culture, Mass media and technology, Mass media--Social aspects
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What are the ways audiences use the mass media, and what are the gratifications they receive from that usage? What functions do soap operas provide for the audience? Theories and research dealing with these questions are presented in the first chapter of the text.The second chapter concerns how knowledge of news is diffused throughout society, followed by how adoption of new innovations is spread. Research on the Knowledge Gap, as well as the diffusion of public opinion and the Spiral of Silence, is presented. The final two chapters concern Cultivation Theory and how fear is cultivated in children and adults by both entertainment shows and the news. Strategies for reducing such fear are presented. Media also cultivate beliefs about society, such as perceptions of the amount of crime and risk in society, environmental concerns, marital expectations, and attitudes toward racism and homosexuality. A section on International Cultivation is included.
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- 2024
17. Bourdieusian Media Studies
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Johan Lindell and Johan Lindell
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- Mass media--Social aspects, Mass media and culture
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Bourdieusian Media Studies illustrates the merits of Pierre Bourdieu's cultural sociological approach in the field of media studies, explicating exactly what a “Bourdieusian” analysis of media would entail, and what new understandings of the digital media landscape would emerge from such an analysis.The author applies the Bourdieusian concepts of social field, capital, and habitus to understand the social conditions of media and cultural production, media users'practices and preferences, and the power dynamics entailed in social media networks. Based on a careful illumination of Bourdieu's concepts, epistemological assumptions, and methodological approach, the book presents a range of case studies covering television production, the field of media studies itself, media use, and social media networks.Illustrating the craft of Bourdieusian media studies and shedding new light on key dynamics of digital media culture, this book will appeal to scholars and students working in media studies, media theory, sociology of media, digital media, and cultural production.
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- 2024
18. Driving Decisions : How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World
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Sam Hind and Sam Hind
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- Science—Social aspects, Human geography, Mass media and culture, Artificial intelligence
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Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World examines the phenomenon of autonomous driving, and the ongoing, complex, costly, and contentious quest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of algorithmic decision-making, the book considers how different mapping, sensing, and machine learning (ML)-dependent capabilities are gifted to autonomous vehicles through different kinds of technical work: from computer science students annotating visual data in industry-funded research centres to software engineers designing ‘end-to-end'ML models at autonomous vehicle start-ups. The book intends to complicate, and question, typical understandings of autonomous driving by going ‘under the hood', challenging the technological determinism or ‘decisionism'that advocates offer of an inevitable, fully automated, future. Drawing on seven years of research in a range of empirical contexts, the book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of science and technology studies, media studies, digital sociology, human geography, and mobilities and transport studies.
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- 2024
19. Mythen multimedial : Modernste Antike in der Gegenwartskultur
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Markus Janka, Raimund Fichtel, Berkan Sariaydin, Markus Janka, Raimund Fichtel, and Berkan Sariaydin
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- Literature, European literature, Mass media and culture, History, Ancient, Ethnology—Europe, Culture
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Etwa seit der Jahrtausendwende ist ein internationaler und nach wie vor anhaltender Boom von Adaptionen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie und Historie zu verzeichnen. Dieser ist durch eine bemerkenswerte mediale Vielfalt und Vernetzungsfreude gekennzeichnet. Folglich erstreckt sich die „modernste Antike“ unserer Zeit nicht nur auf hochliterarische Texte oder Neuinszenierungen antiker Dramen auf dem Theater, sondern entfaltet auch in gegenwärtigen Massenmedien vom Historienroman, dem Comic bis hin zum Hypermedium Themenpark und zum Alltagsmedium Internet seinen Wandlungsreichtum. Mithin scheint die Zeit der postmodernen Renaissance der Antike angebrochen zu sein. Die vielschichtigen Phänomene, die sich der altertumswissenschaftlichen Antikenrezeptionsforschung als Gegenstände bieten, sind mit dem Philosophen Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) zu verstehen als Erscheinungsformen einer modernen Arbeit am Mythos. Als solche eröffnen sie Anschlussmöglichkeiten für neue Geschichten und Verfahrensmöglichkeiten zur ästhetischen und ethischen Auseinandersetzung mit den eigenen Grundfragen menschlichen Daseins im Spannungsfeld von Veralltäglichung und Entalltäglichung. Diese Forschungsaufgabe ist bislang in zahlreichen, teilweise weit verstreuten Einzeluntersuchungen angegangen worden. Oft handelt es sich um Fallstudien oder Ansätze zur Bündelung des reichen Materials. Dies hat zu einer erheblichen fachlichen und methodischen Heterogenität der Zugänge geführt. Dabei werden die sprach-, kulturraumspezifischen und medialen Unterschiede und Zusammenhänge in den Adaptionsstrategien allerdings oft nicht hinreichend reflektiert. Diese Lücke will dieser Band mit seiner synthetisierenden Anlage schließen. Er setzt sich zum Ziel, im Dialog der Fächer die als aussichtsreich erkannten Forschungsfelder vorzustellen. Innerhalb dieser Themenbereiche werden Untersuchungsdesigns für eine betont interdisziplinäre und intermediale Methodik erprobt. Diese streben eine systematische Zwischenbilanz der bisherigen Forschungserträge an und haben das Ziel, die bisherigen Ansätze synergetisch zu verweben. Der Band schafft eine Grundlage, um im Zusammenwirken der Disziplinen die Präsenz und die Bedeutung von Mythos und Historie der griechisch-römischen Antike in den europäischen Sprach- und Kulturräumen der Gegenwart punktgenau untersuchen und einordnen zu können.
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- 2024
20. Szenen bürgerlicher Festkultur : Theatrale Erfahrungsorte von Geschichte, Nation und Modernisierung um 1900 in Frankfurt am Main
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Christina Vollmert and Christina Vollmert
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- Theater, Site-specific theater, Mass media and history, Mass media and culture, Cities and towns—History
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Am Beispiel der Stadt Frankfurt a.M. untersucht die interdisziplinäre Studie anhand dreier Fallstudien das komplexe Verhältnis zwischen gesellschaftlichen, politischen und medienkulturellen Transformationsprozessen und bürgerlicher Festkultur als Ort sozialer Bedeutungskonstruktion. Von historischen Stadt- und Künstlerfesten über politisch aufgeladene Schützenfeste bis hin zu spektakulären Industrie- und Gewerbeausstellungen werden die untersuchten Feste als theatrale Aufführungen verstanden, die die Veränderungen der Modernisierung um 1900 reflektieren und tiefe Einblicke in die soziokulturellen Umbrüche jener Zeit ermöglichen. Das Theatrale als bewusste und demonstrative Betonung des Zur-Schau-Stellens wird in dieser Studie als kulturelle Praxis gedeutet, die als Vermittler in einer Zeit der Umbrüche agieren kann: Indem die analysierten Feste abstrakte und ideologisch aufgeladene Konzepte wie Geschichte, Nation oder Modernisierung im Moment ihrer sinnlichen Zurschaustellung unmittelbar erfahrbar machen, ermöglichen sie eine Teilhabe an einem ästhetischen Erlebnis, das zum Verständnis und zur Akzeptanz der vermittelten Inhalte führen kann. Die Studie eröffnet damit eine neue Perspektiven auf die bislang gängigen Narrative der Kultur- und Modernisierungsgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts.
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- 2024
21. Cultural Recycling in the Postdigital Age
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Miriam Llamas Ubieto, Johanna Vollmeyer, Miriam Llamas Ubieto, and Johanna Vollmeyer
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- Digital preservation, Mass media and culture, Literature--Adaptations, Cultural property--Technological innovations, Information society, Collective memory
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This volume explores the development towards mass digitisation and datafication and its transforming influence on our way of organising our cultural knowledge and heritage. In this context, cultural recycling plays a crucial role, even if it is in itself not a new phenomenon. However, the quality and quantity of recycling processes have altered profoundly in the postdigital age. The contributions of this volume consider various manifestations of these recycling processes and practices by providing the reader with a wide range of different case studies. Their authors highlight characteristic features of postdigital recycling that differ from the qualities of recycling processes and practices in previous periods. What the case studies show are the different recyclings of canonical texts, folktales, and cultural productions in new postdigital environments, but also what happens to history and memory in today's times and even how self-declared pre-digital authors cannot escape postdigital strategies for cultural recycling.
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- 2024
22. Celebrity Culture
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Ellis Cashmore and Ellis Cashmore
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- Consumers, Commodification, Fame--Social aspects, Celebrities--Social aspects, Mass media and culture
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Haven't we all seen a Black Panther movie and listened to at least a few Harry Styles tunes? Who hasn't seen a Taylor Swift video? Or can't name an incident or two involving the Kardashians? Popular fascination with the rich and famous is an inescapable part of contemporary consumer culture. Celebrity Culture is a comprehensive yet accessible survey of the pervasive phenomenon. This new edition of the textbook is fully revised and updated, incorporating up-to-date examples, case studies and additional features, including a timeline and retrospections at the end of chapters.Whilst recognizing that celebrities have existed for centuries, Cashmore argues that celebrity culture in the 21st century is a novel and unique phenomenon driven by rampant consumerism, advertising and the media. He describes the evolution of a new kind of fame, the growth of consumerism, the rise of the paparazzi, the fluctuating value of sex scandals, the transmutation of blackness, the metamorphosis of the British royal family, the emergence of influencers, the appeal of celebrity couples, the increased visibility of queer culture, the transformation of politics, the reconstruction of talent and the attempts of theories to grasp celebrity culture's magnetism.Celebrity Culture will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience throughout the social sciences and humanities.
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- 2023
23. Organisierte Interessen in der Kultur- und Medienarbeit : Eine Übersicht
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Aljoscha Paulus and Aljoscha Paulus
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- Communication, Information theory, Mass media and culture, Communication in organizations
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Die Studie untersucht, wie Kultur- und Medienarbeiter•innen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ihre arbeitsbezogenen Interessen organisieren und vertreten. Hierzu entwickelt der Autor einen theoretischen Bezugsrahmen, der ein politikwissenschaftliches Grundverständnis von'organisierten Interessen'mittels arbeits- und industriesoziologischen Perspektiven schärft und um Überlegungen aus jüngeren Forschungsprogrammen zu bewegungsorientierten Erneuerungsoptionen für arbeitsbezogene und speziell gewerkschaftliche Organisierung ergänzt. Auf dieser Basis erfolgt eine systematische und kritische Rekonstruktion und Diskussion von vorhandenen wissenschaftlichen Publikationen zu der Thematik. Das Ergebnis der Literaturstudie bilden einerseits theoretisch und empirisch fundierte Informationen zu zentralen Organisationsherausforderungen, zur historischen Genese sowie zum Status quo und zu jüngeren Entwicklungstrends der Interessenorganisierung und -vertretung im Feld kultureller-medialer Arbeit. Andererseits identifiziert die Studie im Forschungsstand zahlreiche offene Fragestellungen und Informationslücken, die abschließend als Forschungsdesiderat diskutiert und zur weiteren Exploration empfohlen werden.
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- 2023
24. Contemporary Challenges in Mediatisation Research
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Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Göran Bolin, Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, and Göran Bolin
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- Mass media--Social aspects, Mass media and culture, Social change
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This book focuses on key challenges related to conducting research on mediatisation, presenting the most current theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges and problems, addressing ignored and less frequently discussed topics, critical and controversial themes, and defining niches and directions of development in mediatisation.With a focus on the under-representation of certain topics and aspects, as well as methodological, technological, and ethical dilemmas, the chapters consider the main critical objections formulated against mediatisation studies and exchange critical positions. Moving beyond areas of common focus – culture, sport, and religion – to emerging areas of study such as fashion, the military, business, and the environment, the book then offers a critical assessment of the transformation of fields and the relevance of new and dynamic (meta)processes including datafication, counter-mediatisation, and platformisation.Charting new paths of development in mediatisation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of mediatisation, media studies, media literacy, communication studies, and research methods.
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- 2023
25. The Media Swirl : Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics
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Carol Vernallis and Carol Vernallis
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- Mass media--Political aspects, Spectacular, The, in motion pictures, Mass media and culture, Mass media--Social aspects, Social media and society, Music videos--Social aspects, Digital media--Social aspects
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From fan-generated content on TikTok to music videos, the contemporary media landscape is becoming ever more vast, spectacular, and intense. In The Media Swirl Carol Vernallis examines short-form audiovisual media—Beyoncé's Lemonade, brief sequences from Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, TikTok challenges, YouTube mashups, commercials, and many other examples—to offer ways of understanding digital media. She analyzes music videos by Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Janelle Monáe, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson.Paak, and others to outline how sound and image enhance each other and shape a viewer's mood. Responding to today's political-media landscape through discussions of Fox News and Presidential inaugurations, Vernallis shows how a media literacy that exceeds newscasts and campaign advertising is central to engaging with the democratic commons. Forays into industry studies, neuroscience, and ethics also inform her readings. By creating our own content and knowing what corporations, the wealthy, and the government do through media, Vernallis contends, we can create a more just world.
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- 2023
26. Introduction to Mass Communication ISE
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Stanley Baran and Stanley Baran
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- Media literacy, Mass media and culture, Mass media
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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.
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- 2023
27. Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture
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Cringuta Irina Pelea and Cringuta Irina Pelea
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- Mental illness in mass media, Mass media and culture, Culture--Psychological aspects
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This volume explores culture-bound syndromes, defined as a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and/or relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups, and their coverage in popular culture.Encompassing a wide range of popular culture genres and mediums – from film and TV to literature, graphic novels, and anime – the chapters offer a dynamic mix of approaches to analyze how popular culture has engaged with specific culture-bound syndromes such as hwabyung, hikikomori, taijin kyofusho, zou huo ru mo, sati, amok, Cuban hysteria, voodoo death, and others. Spanning a global and interdisciplinary remit, this first-of-its-kind anthology will allow scholars and students of popular culture, media and film studies, comparative literature, medical humanities, cultural psychiatry, and philosophy to explore simultaneously a diversity of popular cultures and culturally rooted mental health disorders.
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- 2023
28. Climate Change Education : Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling
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Rebecca L. Young and Rebecca L. Young
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- Climatic changes--Study and teaching, Environmental education, Storytelling in education, Interdisciplinary approach in education, Mass media and culture, Environmental responsibility--Study and teaching
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Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to today's students—climate fiction and protest poetry, fiction and documentary films, video games and social media. The stories are used as exemplars, from exploring space debris to urban design planning to fast fashion, and they provide entry points for investigating particular aspects of climate science, including the local and global impacts of a warming planet. Each chapter provides analyses and strategies for fostering climate (and space) literacy through knowledge, empathy, and agency. Contributors from around the world encourage educators to answer students'calls for comprehensive K–12 climate education by aligning pedagogy with real-world challenges in order to prepare students who understand the myriad injustices of the climate crisis and feel empowered to confront them. They share their own stories and urge educators to join the growing, hopeful movement for action, classroom by classroom.
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- 2023
29. Kulturstiftungen im Trend : Untersuchung zum Einfluss gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen auf Kunst- und Kulturstiftungen in Deutschland
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Viola Kromer and Viola Kromer
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- Communication, Mass media and culture
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In diesem Buch werden die Strukturen der Kunst- und Kulturförderung in Deutschland untersucht. Die Autorin konzentriert sich dabei auf das Phänomen des Kulturstaats, der öffentlichen Kulturförderung, der stifterischen Kulturförderung sowie der Rolle des Staats als Stifter. Mit einem Basisdatensatz von über 7.000 Kulturstiftungen wird die Grundlage für die empirische Forschung geschaffen. In der Studie wird das Verhältnis von Kunst- und Kulturstiftungen zu zukunftsrelevanten gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen analysiert und das Potenzial, das in der Verknüpfung von Kunst und Kultur mit diesen Entwicklungen liegt, untersucht. Anhand einer Befragung unter Stiftungen und einer Auswertung von Stiftungsprojekten werden die Fragen beantwortet, ob sich Kunst- und Kulturstiftungen zukunftsrelevanten gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen widmen möchten und ob sie dies in ihrer Praxis tatsächlich tun. Im abschließenden Kapitel werden die Ergebnisse der Arbeit zusammengefasst, Thesen formuliert und ein Ausblick auf weitere, thematisch einschlägige Forschung gegeben. Die Studie bietet somit einen umfassenden Einblick in die Rolle von Kunst- und Kulturstiftungen im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen und deren Potenzial für die Zukunft.
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- 2023
30. Musik und Internet : Aktuelle Phänomene populärer Kulturen
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Peter Moormann, Nicolas Ruth, Peter Moormann, and Nicolas Ruth
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- Motion pictures, Digital media, Communication and traffic, Mass media and culture, Popular music
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Streaming-Plattformen und soziale Medien sind geprägt von mannigfaltigen musikalischen Formen und Inhalten. Mit ihren jeweiligen Oberflächen bzw. Gestaltungs- und Kommunikationsrahmen ermöglichen und prägen sie aktuelle Musikkulturen. Neben lang etablierten Formen, wie dem Popsong, die mehr und mehr von den Plattformlogiken und verkürzten Aufmerksamkeitsspannen strukturell beeinflusst werden, finden sich auch zahlreiche neue Phänomene, die sich aus alltäglichen Netzkulturen herausgebildet haben. Durch die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und Phänomenaspekte des Bandes wird deutlich, wie relevant das Internet für aktuelle Musikkulturen ist und in welch komplexen Konstellationen dabei Musik gestaltet, distribuiert und rezipiert wird.
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- 2023
31. Medien politisch denken : Stasis und Polemos
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Stavros Arabatzis and Stavros Arabatzis
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- Communication, Information theory, Mass media and history, Mass media and culture, Political science, Political science—Philosophy
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Der hier vorgelegte Band möchte ‚Medien‛ von ihrem traditionellen Ort auf das politische Feld hin verlagern. Medien sind nämlich nicht nur als intellektuelles oder ästhetisches Spiel (kommunikatives, sprachliches, schriftliches, technisches, profitrationales, instrumentelles, hermeneutisches oder mathematisch-informatisches), vielmehr auch als politischer Ernstfall zu begreifen. Daher geht diese „Medientheorie‟ der Frage nach, „warum die Menschheit anstatt in einen wahrhaft menschlichen Zustand einzutreten, in eine neue Art von Barbarei versinkt‟ (Adorno/Horkheimer). Diese Frage, so unsere These, ist eine mediale, die aus der anfänglich ‚verkehrten Setzung‛ (kata-strophen) der Medien resultiert und dann ihren historisch-gesellschaftlichen, sozialen und politischen Fortschritt bestimmt. Die Hauptthese dieses Buches lautet, dass wir es in den ‚Medien‛ nicht mehr mit einem theoretischen, technisch-ästhetischen oder informatischen Spiel zu tun haben. Vielmehr mit dem politischen Ernstfall, wo es nämlich um Wahrheit oder Falschheit innerhalb der Polis und ihren jeweils geltenden Gesetzen geht. Es sind die zwei unterschiedlichen Bereiche (intellektuelles und ästhetisches Spiel hier und politischer Ernstfall dort), die nicht miteinander verwechselt werden dürfen, weil letzterer existenziell ist und darin um Leben oder Tod geht.Medien heute sind selbst zu den kulturellen, technischen, ökonomischen und politischen ‚Waffen‛ geworden, um darin ihr ‚Wesen‛ und ‚Unwesen‛ zu verbergen. Damit hat auch jene ‚technizistische Medientheorie‛ ihren metaphorischen Charakter verloren – der „Krieg als das Eigentliche der Medien‟ (Kittler) – und ist in den politischen, geopolitischen, finanz- und informationsökonomischen Raum überführt worden. Die medientheoretische These Kittlers (Medien als „Heeresgerät‟: Medien als ein zweckentfremdetes Kriegsgerät stellen eine Art Abfallprodukt dar, das solange in seiner Funktion verkanntwird, solange die primäre militärische Funktion ignoriert bleibt), ist somit, so unsere These in diesem Buch, nicht „technisch‟, sondern politisch (staatlich) und ökonomisch-gesellschaftlich-sozial (vorstaatlich) zu verstehen: Medientheorie als „Stasiologie‟ (Theorie des Bürgerkriegs) und „Polemologie‟ (Theorie des Kriegs). Ein antagonistisch-polemisches Prinzip, das alle Medien im öffentlichen Raum scharf stellt, so dass jenes „agonische‟ Kampfprinzip (C. Mouffe) nur eine Vorstufe dazu bildet und daher noch im Raum des Spiels verbleibt. Wir brauchen daher, so unsere abschließende These, kein technisches, hermeneutisches, ästhetisches, phänomenologisches, anthropologisches oder ontologisches Apriori, das Medien in ihrem Wesen oder Unwesen erklärt, sondern eine Stasiologie und eine polemologie, die das ganze antagonistisch-polemische Feld der Medien im öffentlichen Raum zu erschließen vermögen. Erst dieses Scharfstellender Medien im öffentlichen Raum erlaubt es nämlich auch über dieses antagonistisch-polemische Prinzip hinauszugelangen.
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- 2023
32. Self-Tracking im Alltag : Qualitative Aneignungsstudie zur Wechselwirkung zwischen Praktiken der digitalen Selbstvermessung und Körperselbstbild
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Jakob Hörtnagl and Jakob Hörtnagl
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- Digital media, Mass media and culture
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Digitale Selbstvermessungsangebote wie Schrittzähler, Ernährungs-Apps oder Sport-Tracker machen den Körper als Objekt von Daten, Zahlen oder Graphen sichtbar. So bieten sie ihren Nutzer•innen laufend Anlässe, eigene Gewohnheiten, Ziele und Leistungen zu evaluieren und selbstbestimmt zu intervenieren. Diese qualitative Aneignungsstudie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, in welcher Wechselwirkung diese Objektivierung des Körpers zum Körperselbstbild und Wohlbefinden der Nutzer•innen steht. Praktiken der digitalen Selbstvermessung werden im alltäglichen Gebrauch fester Bestandteil etablierter Körperpraktiken und Medienrepertoires, beeinflussen diese durch ihre spezifischen Potenziale aber auch nachhaltig. Die Integration in lebensweltliche Gewohnheiten wird als individueller Balanceakt nachgezeichnet, bei dem die oft mit solchen Angeboten verbundenen Verheißungen der Kontrolle und Selbstermächtigung eng mit Gefühlen des Erwartungsdrucks oder der Insuffizienz verbunden sind. Die vielfältigenAneignungsweisen sowie deren Konsequenzen für das Wohlbefinden werden schließlich in einer Typologie zusammengeführt, um so den Blick auf die individuellen Kompetenzen zu lenken, die zu disruptiven oder protektiven Momenten der Mediennutzung beitragen können.
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- 2023
33. Entgrenzte Öffentlichkeit : Debattenkulturen im politischen und medialen Wandel
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Simone Jung, Victor Kempf, Simone Jung, and Victor Kempf
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- Social media--Political aspects, Mass media and culture
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Mit der Digitalisierung geht eine Entgrenzung der Öffentlichkeit einher. Medientechnologien stellen nicht nur Möglichkeitsräume bereit, in denen Konflikte verhandelt werden. Sie transformieren auch den politischen Diskurs. Vor allem »die sozialen Medien« werden oft als Bedrohung einer konstruktiven Debattenkultur betrachtet. Die Beiträger•innen treten einen Schritt zurück und fragen aus sozial-, kulturwissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Perspektive, wie Öffentlichkeiten hergestellt und transformiert werden. Sie erörtern theoretische sowie empirische Perspektiven und analysieren normative Fragestellungen, die angesichts globaler Dynamiken und neuer Formen von Kulturkonflikten an Bedeutung gewinnen.
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- 2023
34. Scandalogy 4 : Political Scandals in the Age of Populism, Partisanship, and Polarization
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André Haller, Hendrik Michael, André Haller, and Hendrik Michael
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- Scandals in mass media, Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects, Mass media and culture
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This volume examines the growing presence of populism, partisanship, and polarization and analyzes what this means for scandalization processes. While politics appears to have entered a mode of perpetual crisis and growing dysfunctionality, the rapid succession of scandals may be a symptom of this crisis and its catalyst at the same time. The book provides a better definition of political scandals and discusses from an interdisciplinary and critical scientific perspective how such scandals are relevant to political developments and how they impact public discourse and media practices. International experts from various subfields of communication studies, political communication research as well as related disciplines contribute to the volume with conceptual, empirical, and methodological approaches which reflect on political scandals and the role of media and/or communication. Presenting a unique perspective and providing a first in-depth insight into the relationship between polarization, partisanship, populist communication, and scandalization, the book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars from different disciplines, as well as practitioners and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of political scandals, their impact on public discourse and political developments, and their catalyzation through media and communication.
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- 2023
35. Anthropologies of Entanglements : Media and Modes of Existence
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Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell, Tim Othold, Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell, and Tim Othold
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- Mass media--Philosophy, Mass media and culture
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Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human-and also non-human-existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so-called'human nature'to the multitude of cultural, topographical, technical, historical, social, discursive, and media formats with which human existences are entangled.This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of'anthropomedial entanglements.'It fosters an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them. The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand.
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- 2023
36. Media Engagement
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Peter Dahlgren, Annette Hill, Peter Dahlgren, and Annette Hill
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- Mass media and culture, Mass media--Political aspects, Mass media--Social aspects, Social action, Political participation
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Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engagement, not as a metric but as a marker of power relations. This book navigates the reader through a tighter analytical notion of engagement within an understanding of media, culture and democracy. Dahlgren and Hill offer a new definition of engagement as an energising internal force, and as such a powerful means to further human agency. From this definition, the book builds a generative theory of engagement as a nexus of relations we make and break with media on a daily basis, with examples from political activism, news and disinformation, and the global pandemic. Dahlgren and Hill identify five parameters of engagement in order to understand the relations we have with media across changing public and mediated spheres. This new perspective offers students and researchers pathways for investigating the meaning of media engagement as a resource for living.It will be particularly useful for undergraduate courses on media audiences and publics, political communication and democracy, media and cultural theory, journalism, and for media, communication and sociology studies more broadly.
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- 2023
37. Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture
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Christoph Schubert, Valentin Werner, Christoph Schubert, and Valentin Werner
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- Language and culture, Language and languages--Style, Popular culture, Mass media and culture
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This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse. As its point of departure, the book takes the notion of pop culture as a phenomenon characterized by the interaction of linguistic signs with other modes such as imagery and music to examine a diverse range of genres through the lens of stylistics. Each section is grouped around thematic lines, looking at literary fiction, telecinematic discourse, music and lyrics, as well as cartoons and video games. The 12 chapters analyze different forms of media through five central strands of stylistics, from sociolinguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal, to corpus-based approaches. In drawing on these various stylistic frameworks and applying them across genres and modes, the contributions offer readers deeper insights into the role of scripted and performed language in social representation and identity construction, thereby highlighting the affordances of stylistics research in studying pop cultural texts. This volume is of particular interest to students and researchers in stylistics, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, and cultural studies.
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- 2023
38. Playing Software : Homo Ludens in Computational Culture
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Miguel Sicart and Miguel Sicart
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- Video games, Role playing, Play, Human-computer interaction, Mass media and culture, Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects, Information technology--Economic aspects
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The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age.Whether we interact with video games or spreadsheets or social media, playing with software shapes every facet of our lives. In Playing Software, Miguel Sicart delves into why we play with computers, how that play shapes culture and society, and the threat posed by malefactors using play to weaponize everything from conspiracy theories to extractive capitalism. Starting from the controversial idea that software is an essential agent in the information age, Sicart considers our culture in general—and our way of thinking about and creating digital technology in particular—as a consequence of interacting with software's agency through play.As Sicart shows, playing shapes software agency. In turn, software shapes our agency as we adapt and relate to it through play. That play drives the creation of new cultural, social, and political forms. Sicart also reveals the role of make-believe in driving our playful engagement with the digital sphere. From there, he discusses the cybernetic theory of digital play and what we can learn from combining it with the idea that playfulness can mean pleasurable interaction with human and nonhuman agents inside the boundaries of a computational system. Finally, he critiques the instrumentalization of play as a tool wielded by platform capitalism.
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- 2023
39. Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Christina Meyer, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Christina Meyer, and Monika Pietrzak-Franger
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- Multilevel marketing, Mass media and culture, Mass media--History--19th century, Marketing
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This volume provides engaging accounts with transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century and offers model analyses of Victorian media (e.g., theater, advertising, books, games, newspapers) alongside the technological, economic, and cultural conditions under which they emerged in the Anglophone world.By exploring engagement tactics and forms of audience participation, the book affords insight into the role that social agents – e.g., individual authors, publishing houses, theatre show producers, lithograph companies, toy manufacturers, newspaper syndicates, or advertisers – played in the production, distribution, and consumption of Victorian media. It considers such examples as Sherlock Holmes, Kewpie Dolls, media forms and practices such as cut-outs, popular lectures, telephone conversations or early theater broadcasting, and such authors as Nellie Bly, Mark Twain, and Walter Besant, offering insight into the variety of transmedia practices present in the long nineteenth century.The book brings together methods and theories from comics studies, communication and media studies, English and American studies, narratology and more, and proposes fresh ways to think about transmediality. Though the target audiences are students, teachers, and scholars in the humanities, the book will also resonate with non-academic readers interested in how media contents are produced, disseminated, and consumed, and with what implications.
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- 2022
40. How Toddlers Learn the Secret Language of Movies
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Cary Bazalgette and Cary Bazalgette
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- Sociology, Social groups, Early childhood education, Mass media and culture, Developmental psychology
- Abstract
This book takes a radically new approach to the well-worn topic of children's relationship with the media, avoiding the'risks and benefits'paradigm while examining very young children's interactions with film and television. Bazalgette proposes a refocus on the learning processes that children must go through in order to understand what they are watching on televisions, phones, or iPads. To demonstrate this, she offers unique insight from research done with her twin grandchildren starting from just before they were two years old, with analysis drawn from the field of embodied cognition to help identify minute behaviours and expressions as signals of emotions and thought processes. The book makes the case that all inquiry into early childhood movie-viewing should be based on the premise that learning–usually self-driven–is taking place throughout.
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- 2022
41. Mediengeneration und Vergemeinschaftung : Digitale Medien und der Wandel unseres Gemeinschaftslebens
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Andreas Hepp, Matthias Berg, Cindy Roitsch, Andreas Hepp, Matthias Berg, and Cindy Roitsch
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- Digital media, Communication, Information theory, Mass media and culture, Mass media and history
- Abstract
Es ist eine verbreitete These, dass sich mit digitalen Medien unser Gemeinschaftsleben verändert und sich Generationen dabei unterscheiden. Aber gibt es wirklich eine Fernseh-, Facebook- und Instagram-Generation? Und leben diese ihre Gemeinschaften vollkommen unterschiedlich? Dieses Buch bricht mit einfachen Konzepten von Mediengeneration und Gemeinschaft. Es zeigt, dass wir Mediengenerationen nur dann erfassen können, wenn wir die gesamten Repertoires von Medien im Blick haben und den Horizont verschiedener Gemeinschaften. Dieser Zugang eröffnet einen neuen Blick auf die unterschiedlichen Orts- und Themenbezüge von Vergemeinschaftung in verschiedenen Mediengenerationen. Auf der Basis einer breit angelegten, qualitativen Studie bietet das Buch einen vollkommen neuen Zugang dazu, wie die tiefgreifende Mediatisierung unserer Gesellschaft mit dem Wandel von kommunikativer Vernetzung und Vergemeinschaftung zusammenhängt.
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- 2022
42. Erinnerung reloaded? : (Re-)Inszenierungen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses in Kinder- und Jugendmedien
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Gabriele von Glasenapp, Andre Kagelmann, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Gabriele von Glasenapp, Andre Kagelmann, and Ingrid Tomkowiak
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- Children's literature, Collective memory, Civilization—History, Mass media and culture, European literature
- Abstract
Der Band lotet die Bedingungen des Erinnerns und Erzählens und damit einer Re-Inszenierung der Vergangenheit im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus. Besonderes Augenmerk wurde auf das Spannungsfeld von ‚objektiver‘ Geschichtswissenschaft einerseits und Dichtung andererseits gelegt, angesiedelt zwischen den Polen Referenzialität und einem neuen Interesse am vermeintlich Authentischen sowie der Fiktionalisierung von Fakten. Dieser Widerspruch ist von besonderer Bedeutung für die geschichtserzählenden Kinder- und Jugendmedien mit ihrem spezifischen Funktionsrahmen von ästhetischer und pädagogischer Horizontbildung und -erweiterung. Neben den traditionellen kinder- und jugendliterarischen Erinnerungsmedien – erzählende Literatur, historische und zeitgeschichtliche Romane, (autofiktionale) Biographien – sowie Drama und Lyrik werden Bilderbücher, Comics, Filme, Serien und Computerspiele in den Blick genommen.
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- 2022
43. Podcasts : Perspektiven und Potenziale eines digitalen Mediums
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Vera Katzenberger, Jana Keil, Michael Wild, Vera Katzenberger, Jana Keil, and Michael Wild
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- Journalism, Communication in politics, Communication in science, Communication in medicine, Mass media and culture, Communication and traffic
- Abstract
Podcasts boomen: Immer mehr Anbieter drängen mit eigenen Formaten auf den Markt. Gleichzeitig nimmt die regelmäßige Nutzung in allen Publikumsgruppen stetig zu. Diesen vielfältigen Potenzialen des neuen Mediums steht eine in Deutschland noch verhältnismäßig überschaubare Forschungslage gegenüber. Der Sammelband soll dazu beitragen, Podcasts als neues Forschungsfeld der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft abzustecken. Der Sammelband erstreckt sich thematisch von den Podcaster•innen, dem Medium und seinen inhaltlichen Besonderheiten bis hin zum Rezeptionsprozess und den Hörer•innen.
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- 2022
44. Der Weg des Mediums Buch im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung : Eine dreidimensionale Analyse
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Janina Krieger and Janina Krieger
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- Literature, Mass media and culture
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Obwohl jeder Lebensbereich von digitalen Prozessen durchdrungen ist, scheint sich die Mehrheit der Deutschen bezüglich der Tätigkeit Lesen gegen digitale Alternativen zu wehren. Das gedruckte Buch genießt weiterhin wesentlich stärkere Beliebtheit als das eBook. Das erscheint verwunderlich, da sich doch das gesamte Kommunikationsverhalten auf digitale Geräte ausgelagert hat. Was also liegt dahinter? Wieso gibt es in digitalen Zeiten immer noch gedruckte Bücher? Bisherige Untersuchungen des gedruckten Buchs konzentrierten sich primär auf seine mediale Zukunft, da diese durch die Digitalisierung bedroht schien. Janina Krieger untersucht in dieser Arbeit stattdessen die Vergangenheit aus drei Perspektiven, um Erkenntnisse über die Gegenwart gewinnen zu können. Während andere Studien stets eine Methode wählten und diese meist dem quantitativen Vorgehen zugehörig waren, werden hier drei Subjekte identifiziert, die mit unterschiedlichen Methoden untersucht werden und in ihrer Kombination eine Antwort auf die Forschungsfrage liefern können: die Konsumenten von Literatur (die Leser), die Literatur selbst (ausgewähltes Genre ist der Roman) sowie die Medientheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts, die sich mit dem Medienwandel bereits auseinandergesetzt haben.
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- 2022
45. Rewind, Replay
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Walker, Johnny and Walker, Johnny
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- Video recordings industry--Great Britain--History--20th century, Videocassettes--Great Britain--History--20th century, Mass media and culture
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Rewind, Replay explores the birth and maturation of the pre-recorded video entertainment business in the UK. Informed by archival research and the examination of contemporaneous trade periodicals, industrial documentation and ephemera, it scrutinises distributors, wholesalers and shops. It explores industry shifts previoulsy unconsidered in scholarship, including video rental, market rationalisation and the development of ‘sell-though'videocassettes to identify the key factors that led to the video boom.
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- 2022
46. Toxic Cultures : A Companion
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Simon Bacon and Simon Bacon
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- Popular culture--Social aspects, Mass media and culture, Popular culture--21st century
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«We live in an age defined by toxicity. Bacon and the contributors have produced a timely, astute collection that intelligently and creatively engages and analyzes the wide panoply of trauma and poisoned discourse. Entertaining, fascinating and, honestly, terrifying, this book is paradoxically a delight and purgative to read! An antidote to the very thing it explores.» (Professor Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema) What is Toxic? This volume provides a timely and original examination of the concept of «toxic» that today seems to inform all areas of popular culture and society. Connoting many forms of negativity, denial or disillusion, «toxic» has become central to the experience of living in the twenty-first century. Comprising twenty-nine original essays by experts in their fields, this collection offers something of a guide to how areas of toxicity often overlap and/or inform other ones. Topics as diverse as «fake news», environmental denialism, toxic nostalgia, deep fakes, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and cancel culture are covered. Studied texts include popular culture from the film Get Out (2018) to the Pussy Hat Movement, from social media «sadfishing» to governmental responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. This companion unravels the often purposely entangled narratives that are used to fuel much cultural and political populism. It serves as an important intervention into the conversations occurring around extreme partisanship and divisive views on where we might be heading and how dystopian the future will really be.
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- 2022
47. La comunicación y sus guerras teóricas. Introducción a las teorías de la comunicación y los medios : Volumen III. Preguntas y metodolgías de investigación
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Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, Maira Vaca, Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, and Maira Vaca
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- Communication--Research, Communication--Study and teaching, Mass media, Mass media and culture
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Pensar el estudio de la comunicación como una'guerra'implica reconocer que este no es un campo de estudio delimitado por una sola disciplina o una estricta definición del concepto'comunicación'. Exige, también, identificar diversas tradiciones de investigación, así como explorar los principales dilemas que han guiado varias disciplinas en distintas épocas históricas y latitudes del mundo. Esta colección de tres volúmenes propone analizar la comunicación y los medios desde diversas trincheras. Estos diversos panoramas enfoques, tradiciones, épocas, escuelas, autores y sus preocupaciones dialogan entre sí. No hay consensos definitivos; pero tampoco perdedores o ganadores en el debate. La'guerra'consiste, entonces, en identificar lo que está en juego; reconocer la diversidad de opiniones e intereses, y; considerar el vasto arsenal disponible para resolver los grandes dilemas de la comunicación. Volumen III. Preguntas y metodolgías de investigación Este tercer volumen de la colección La comunicación y sus guerras teóricas analiza las principales preguntas y metodologías que han guiado la investigación y la docencia en esta área de estudio. Las aportaciones de las y los autores giran en torno a tres ejes que, de modo general y como revisan los dos tomos anteriores, organizan este campo de estudio: (1) el poder aparentemente ilimitado de los medios; (2) los efectos y los usos de la información, y; (3) el papel que juegan las audiencias en los procesos de comunicación masiva. Organizados en estos tres apartados, los capítulos de este tomo analizan las principales preguntas y las metodologías de investigación que han resultado útiles ante los dilemas que impone el poder de los medios, las perpetuas revoluciones tecnológicas, el constante flujo de contenidos mediáticos o la multiplicación de roles que adquieren las audiencias ante nuevas plataformas, tendencias comunicativas y espacios de participación. El objetivo en esta revisión es exhortar a las nuevas generaciones a plantear alternativas ante retos (quizá aparentemente) insólitos e incluso infranqueables a los que nos enfrentan la comunicación y los medios en estas primeras décadas del siglo XXI.
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- 2022
48. Die Einsamkeiten der Moderne : Eine Theorie der Modernisierung als Zeitalter der Vereinsamung
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Denis Newiak and Denis Newiak
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- Mass media and culture, Sociology, Culture
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Die Moderne zeigt sich als ein Zeitalter zunehmender sozialer Desintegration: Säkularisierung und Rationalisierung, Urbanisierung und Globalisierung, Individualisierung und Digitalisierung machen es Gemeinschaften heute schwer. Die Moderne kommt mit erstrebenswerten Verheißungen, die sie attraktiv werden lassen, doch es gibt sie nicht kostenlos: Ihr Preis sind die eskalierenden modernen Einsamkeiten. Denis Newiak erzählt eine Kulturgeschichte der Modernisierung, die von der Industrialisierung bis zur spätmodernen Netzwerkgesellschaft immer neue und härtere Einsamkeitserfahrungen hervorbringt.
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- 2022
49. Gegenrede digital : Neue und alte Herausforderungen interkultureller Bildungsarbeit in Zeiten der Digitalisierung
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Julian Ernst, Michalina Trompeta, Hans-Joachim Roth, Julian Ernst, Michalina Trompeta, and Hans-Joachim Roth
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- Digital media, Mass media and culture, Digital communications
- Abstract
Die Hoffnung, in Zeiten der Digitalisierung könnten gesellschaftliche Ungleichheitsverhältnisse und Ausgrenzungsprozesse abgebaut werden, scheint sich (bisher) nicht einzulösen: Rassistische und antidemokratische Akteur•innen propagieren ihre ideologisch durchformten Weltbilder mittels Videos mehr denn je, sogenannte Social Bots füllen und polarisieren automatisiert die Kommentarspalten in sozialen Netzwerken und Aktivist•innen wie gesellschaftlich benachteiligte Gruppen werden mittels Memes stereotypisiert, verhöhnt und angefeindet. Auf der anderen Seite bieten digitale Medien kreative und innovative Möglichkeiten der Selbstorganisation, Selbstrepräsentation und Partizipation mit dem Ziel auch der visuellen Emanzipation unterschiedlichster Communities und der Begegnung von Hate Speech: Gegenrede digital. Diskutiert werden im Band neben Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen digitaler Medien für die Artikulation von Gegenrede auch grundlegende Fragen politisch-interkultureller Bildungsarbeit, die sich im Kontext digitaler Gegenrede stellen.
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- 2022
50. Spectacle and Diversity : Transnational Media and Global Culture
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Lee Artz and Lee Artz
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- Culture and globalization, Mass media and culture, Mass media and globalization, Intercultural communication, Communication, International
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This book shows how transnational media operate in the contemporary world and what their impact is on film, television, and the larger global culture. Where a company is based geographically no longer determines its outreach or output. As media consolidate and partner across national and cultural boundaries, global culture evolves. The new transnational media industry is universal in its operation, function, and social impact. It reflects a shared transnational culture of consumerism, authoritarianism, cultural diversity, and spectacle. From Wolf Warriors and Sanju to Valerian: City of 1000 Planets and Pokémon, new media combinations challenge old assumptions about cultural imperialism and reflect cross-boundary collaboration as well as boundary-breaking cultural interpretation. Intended for students of global studies and international communication at all levels, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in the way transnational media work and how that shapes our culture.
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- 2022
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