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Transcultural Communication
In Transcultural Communication, Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world. Includes examples of mediatization and transcultural communication from a variety of cultural contexts Covers an array of different types of media, including mass media and digital media Incorporates discussion of transcultural communication in media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and media appropriation
Capitalism and Its Legitimacy in Times of Crisis
This volume examines why the 2008 financial crisis with the subsequent Great Recession did not foster a major institutional transformation of the capitalist market economy. It highlights the role of ideas and public discourse in explaining institutional stability and change in the wake of economic crises and other critical junctures. Examining legitimation discourse in four OECD countries (Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States) between 1998 and 2011, the contributions to the volume use different text-analytical methods to bring out the ideas that underpin affirmative and critical media discourse on the capitalist regime. Individual chapters focus on the contours and ...
Political Mistakes and Policy Failures in International Relations
This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration. By starting out from a broad concept of mistakes as “something [considered to have] gone wrong” the edited volume enables comparisons of various kinds of mistakes from a range of analytical perspectives, including objectivist and interpretivist approaches, in order to draw out answers to the following guiding questions: • How does one identify and research a mistake? • Why do mistakes happen? • How are actors made responsible? • When and how do actors learn from mistakes? This book will be of great interest to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners in International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Security Studies, International Political Economy, and Diplomatic History.
A Community of Europeans?
In A Community of Europeans?, a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have at least a secondary "European identity" to complement their national identities. Risse also claims that we can see the gradual emergence of transnational European communities of communication. Exploring the outlines of this European identity and of the communicative spaces, Risse sheds light on some pressing questions: What do "Europe" and "the EU" mean in the various public debates...
Platform Governance and Social Justice
Identifying four traditional approaches that have underpinned hate speech regulation in the contemporary digital landscape, Paloma Viejo Otero proposes a fifth approach called the Social Justice Approach (SJA), an original contribution to the field of research.
Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several scientific fields. Chapters examine whether, and how, today’s scientific identities and communities are subject to fundamental changes, reacting to tangible shifts in research funding as well as more intangible transformations in our society’s understanding and expectations of technoscience. In so doing, this book reinvigorates the concept of scientific community. Readers will discover empirical analyses of newly emerging fields such as synthetic biology, systems biology an...
The Single Currency and European Citizenship
Established in 2002, the Euro is now the currency of 17 countries used by over 335 million people daily. Although the single currency is much discussed in terms of macroeconomics and global finances, policymakers rarely address its impact on European citizenship in social, cultural, political, and everyday life economics terms. This hidden side of the single currency is the focus of the essays, which use various approaches, from economic history and political sociology to citizenship and legitimacy, to reveal the connections between the Euro and European citizenship. This timely contribution by renowned experts provides a greater understanding of the Euro at a time when it is not clear whether it should be celebrated or commemorated, and looks into aspects of the single currency that are the base of the social trust that supports it and that is at stake in the present crisis. It will be an essential tool to anyone studying the political, social, and economic development of the E.U.
Urbane Events
In unterschiedlichen sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen werden aktuell Events als Element posttraditionaler Vergemeinschaftungsformen, als massenmediales Phänomen, als organisationale und koordinatorische Aufgabe sowie als Instrument oder auch Resultat der Stadtentwicklung und Reurbanisierung diskutiert. Die Gesellschaft im Allgemeinen und Städte und Regionen im Speziellen stehen demnach unter Eventisierungsdruck. Diese auch empirisch beobachtbare Entwicklung kann zum Einen als Bedarf nach außeralltäglichen, alle Sinne ansprechenden ‚totalen Ereignissen‘ begriffen werden. Zum Anderen lässt sich die urbane Eventisierung auch als eine Reaktion auf stadtpolitische und -planerische Pr...
Mit den Toten sprechen
Derzeit erleben wir intensive Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Tod in öffentlichen Debatten. Aber auch in Kunst, Literatur, Oper und Film und nicht zuletzt in den Sozialen Medien werden die Übergänge zwischen Leben und Tod ganz neu befragt und überkommene Vorstellungswelten um eine technische und virtuelle Dimension ergänzt. Im Zuge von Modernisierung und Säkularisierung haben sich traditionelle Umgangsweisen mit Sterben, Tod und Trauer verändert und allgemeingültige Bilder vom Tod an Verbindlichkeit verloren. Für viele Menschen sind religiöse Vorstellungen vom Jenseits brüchig geworden – die existenziellen Fragen nach einem ›Leben‹ nach dem Tod aber sind geblieben. Die Beiträge des Bandes fragen danach, mit welchen Bildern und Narrativen heute über ein Jenseits reflektiert wird. Welche Relevanz haben altbekannte Grenzgänger wie Odysseus, Orpheus, Aeneas und Dante und überlieferte Raumvorstellungen von Hades und Orkus, Himmel und Hölle? Aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive schreitet er das Panorama heutiger Jenseitsvorstellungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Überlieferung und Innovation ab und kommt so den vielseitigen Jenseitskonzeptionen der Gegenwart auf die Spur.
Interessenvertretung aus dem Abseits
Politiker, Journalisten und Vertreter verschiedenster Verbände äußern sich gerne und häufig zum Thema Arbeitslosigkeit. Weit weniger gefragt sind hingegen Erwerbsloseninitiativen, deren Forderungen zudem häufig als unberechtigt abgetan werden. Britta Baumgarten untersucht die Kommunikationsstrategien, mit denen sich diese Initiativen in den Diskurs über Arbeitslosigkeit einbringen, um die Interessen von Erwerbslosen zu vertreten.
