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Responsibility and Resistance
The volume deals with the normative challenges and the ethical questions imposed by, and through, the developments and changes in everyday life, culture and society in the context of media change. It is thus concerned with the questions of whether and how the central concept of (enlightened) ethics must evolve under these premises – or in other words: what form do ethics take in mediatized societies? In order to address this question and to stimulate and initiate a debate, the authors focus on two concepts: responsibility and resistance. Their contributions try to shed light not only on the empirical shreds of evidence of change in mediatized societies, but also on the normative challenges and ethical possibilities of these developments.
»Love it or Loathe it«
Popular newspapers like the British »The Sun« and the German »Bild« regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsibility, political and social impact. At best, their reporting is rejected as trivial, vulgar and tasteless; at worst, it is deemed hazardous to the workings of democratic society. Yet, the papers are able to attract large audiences, and contribute significantly to the daily lives of millions of readers. This book looks at popular newspapers from an audience point of view. Examining the crucial relationship between news and entertainment, it provides timely empirical evidence for the values tabloids really have for readers and modern day Britain and Germany. Contradicting common myths and stereotypes, the book calls for fresh perspectives on the popular media and their audiences. With a foreword by Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Sweden.
Environmental Communication
This handbook reviews extant research and offers critical summaries of key topics and issues in the field, enriched by authoritative analyses of specific cases and examples. It displays pluralism across a number of axes: epistemological, theoretical, geographical, cultural, and thematic. The first part offers historical routes through the international development of the field and explores the epistemological grounds of multiple strands of environmental communication studies. In aiming to map the field broadly, as well as stimulating new thinking, the second part is organized along three core perspectives: arenas, voice, and place. It comprises chapters on various public spaces that are critical to the symbolic constitution of the environment, and sheds light on a range of aspects and social agents that have received insufficient attention, including research about – and carried out in – non-Western countries. Crucially, at a time of profound environmental crisis, the final part of this book discusses possibilities and constraints to social change, and the potential contributions of environmental communication research to ways of understanding and responding to the challenge.
Screens' Puppets
Screens' Puppets: Unveiling the Influence of Media Control Screens' Puppets is a gripping exploration of the hidden forces that shape our thoughts, emotions, and actions in the digital age. In this eye-opening journey, this book exposes media outlets' pervasive influence and astonishing ability to control us like puppets on strings. This book delves into the strategies used by media conglomerates to shape our beliefs, preferences, and identities. It examines the influence of television, the internet, and social media platforms based on research and real-life examples. It reveals how each screen exerts its power and teaches readers to recognize subtle techniques used to manipulate perceptions...
Media Convergence and Deconvergence
This edited volume explores different meanings of media convergence and deconvergence, and reconsiders them in critical and innovative ways. Its parts provide together a broad picture of opposing trends and tensions in media convergence, by underlining the relevance of this powerful idea and emphasizing the misconceptions that it has generated. Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peil, Gabriele Balbi and the other authors look into practices and realities of users in convergent media environments, ambiguities in the production and distribution of content, changes to the organization of media industries, the re-configuration of media markets, and the influence of policy and regulations. Primarily addressed to scholars and students in different fields of media and communication studies, Media Convergence and Deconvergence deconstructs taken-for-granted concepts and provides alternative and fresh analyses on one of the most popular topics in contemporary media culture. Chapter 1 is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
Sigmar Polke
An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar Polke's important early paintings. The artist Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) worked across a broad range of media—including photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and film—and in styles that varied from abstract expressionism to Pop. This volume in Afterall's One Work series offers an illustrated exploration of Freundinnen (Girlfriends 1965/66), one of Polke's important early paintings. Taken from a found image of two young women, and using the raster dots also found in mass media reproductions, Girlfriends offers a statement about the use and social function of images. Stefan Gronert approaches Girlfriends through it...
Midlife Crisis
The phrase “midlife crisis” today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility—an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age—but before it become a gendered cliché, it gained traction as a feminist concept. Journalist Gail Sheehy used the term to describe a midlife period when both men and women might reassess their choices and seek a change in life. Sheehy’s definition challenged the double standard of middle age—where aging is advantageous to men and detrimental to women—by viewing midlife as an opportunity rather than a crisis. Widely popular in the United States and internationally, the term was quickly appropriated b...
Ungleich mächtig
Kanzlerin Merkel und SPD-Kontrahent Steinmeier, Unternehmenschef Mehdorn und Spitzenmanagerin Suckale: Mächtige Männer und Frauen in Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft werden in diesem Band in ihrer medialen Repräsentation analysiert. Die Beiträge dokumentieren die Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes und fragen, wie mit und durch Medien geschlechtsgebundene Bilder von Macht und Einfluss hergestellt werden. Präsentiert werden Befunde aus quantitativer Inhaltsanalyse, qualitativer Textanalyse, Bildanalyse, Gruppendiskussionen und Befragungen von Journalistinnen und Journalisten - eine methodische Verbindung, welche die Fortschreibung tradierter Männlichkeit sichtbar werden lässt und auf Formen der Modernisierung von Weiblichkeiten im Mediendiskurs verweist.
Alltag in den Medien - Medien im Alltag
Den Alltag auffällig zu machen und ihn als Bezugspunkt der Medienkommunikationsforschung in den Blick zu rücken, ist Ziel des vorliegenden Bandes. Im ersten Teil werden Konstruktionen von Alltag in medialen Deutungsangeboten thematisiert: Alltag in den Medien wird u.a. anhand von Reality-TV, Geschlechterinszenierungen in Serien sowie Konventionen im Journalismus untersucht. In den Beiträgen des zweiten Teils stehen Prozesse der Medienaneignung in Alltagskontexten im Mittelpunkt: Um Medien im Alltag zu beleuchten, wird der Gebrauch von Print-, Digital- und anderen Medien in ihrer Verflechtung mit alltäglichen Praktiken analysiert. Die versammelten Beiträge stellen dabei vielfältige Theoriebezüge her, so zu den Cultural Studies, den Gender Media Studies und den Arbeiten von Pierre Bourdieu.
Praxis Grounded Theory
Dieser Band ist ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für theoriegenerierendes Forschen. Die Beiträge erklären Prinzipien der Grounded Theory und diskutieren deren methodisch fundierte Durchführung und Darstellung im Rahmen empirischer Vorhaben. An Beispielen aus der Forschungspraxis wird gezeigt, wie sich Methodologie und Verfahrensrahmen der Grounded Theory zur Analyse medienbezogener Lebenswelten einsetzen lassen.
