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Siegfried the Wrestler
Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.
Genealogy of Popular Science
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations. This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category »popular science« is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods. Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.
Journalists and Knowledge Practices
This multi-disciplinary anthology provides new perspectives on the journalist’s role in knowledge generation in the newspaper age—covering diverse topics from fake news to new technologies. Fake news, journalistic authority, and the introduction of cutting-edge technologies are often viewed as new topics in journalism. However, these issues were prevalent long before the twenty-first century. Connecting for the first time two burgeoning strands of research—a newly perceived history of knowledge and the study of journalism—Journalists and Knowledge Practices provides insights into the journalist’s role in the world of knowledge in the newspaper age (ca. 1860s to 1970s). This multi-d...
Mediatization of Communication
This handbook on Mediatization of Communication uncovers the interrelation between media changes and changes in culture and society. This is essential to understand contemporary trends and transformations. “Mediatization” characterizes changes in practices, cultures and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies themselves. This volume offers 31 contributions by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to globalization to questions on life and death in mediatized settings. The book deals with mass media as well as communication with networked, digital media. The topic of this volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural and political changes. The handbook provides the reader with the most current state of mediatization research.
Öffentliche Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln mit der Frage, wie es den Gesellschaftswissenschaften gelingen kann, ihre Erkenntnisse in Öffentlichkeit zu vermitteln und so aktiv aktuelle Themen und Diskussionen mitzugestalten.
Sound Art
Sound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students. Bridging and blending aspects of the visual and sonic arts, modern sound art first emerged in the early 20th century and has grown into a thriving and varied field. In 13 thematic chapters, this book enables students to clearly grasp both the concepts behind this unique area of art, and its history and practice. Each chapter begins with an exploration of key ideas and theories, followed by an in-depth discussion of selected relevant works, both classic and current. Drawing on a broad, diverse range of examples, and firmly interdisciplinary, this book will be essential reading for anyone studying or teaching the theory, history, appreciation, or practice of sound art.
Elektronik als Schöpfungswerkzeug
Der deutsch-amerikanische Künstler Stephan von Huene (1932-2000) gehört zu den Medienkünstlern der ersten Generation, die sich der Elektronik als Schöpfungswerkzeug bedienten. Sein Œuvre entfaltet sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen Figuration, Akustik, Kinesik und Kommunikationstheorie. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo liefert die erste Monografie, die sich dem Werk von Huenes systematisch widmet und dieses - mit Blick u.a. auf John Cage und La Monte Young - kunsthistorisch einordnet. Die hermeneutische Analyse der letzten großen Arbeit von Huenes (Sirenen Low, 1999) liefert die Grundlage für drei umfangreiche Deutungskreise, die sich jeweils den figurativen, akustischen und systemischen Aspekten seines Werkes zuwenden.
Handbuch Sprache in Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik
Zur Sprache in Naturwissenschaft, Technik und Mathematik liegen zahlreiche Einzelstudien vor. Das Handbuch ordnet das Feld aus einer dezidiert sprachwissenschaftlichen Sicht. Ausgangspunkt ist die Rolle der Sprache in der Wissenskonstitution und -vermittlung. Dieser Zugriff ermöglicht es Linguisten und anderen Wissenschaftlern, mehr über den Zusammenhang zwischen Sprache und Wissen in diesen Disziplinen zu erfahren, und liefert Anknüpfungspunkte für die weitere Forschung. Auf dieser Basis wird ein Überblick über die Funktionsweise der Sprache und weiterer Medien in Naturwissenschaft, Technik und Mathematik geliefert.
