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The book is famous for its depiction of life around the time of the division of Macedonia, its characterizations, and its use of language and historical setting. While Ion is in the army, Velika struggles as she watches her children and her village ravaged by war. In one famous scene, Ion, conscripted into the Serbian army, and his brother, conscripted into the Bulgarian army, come face-to-face one night on the battlefield. The author, Petre M. Andreevski, was a Macedonian poet, novelist and playwright who won numerous awards for his works, many of which have been translated into other languages. Pirey is his most famous novel and was a best seller in Macedonia. This is the first translation of Pirey into English.
The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, economic and historical context, avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.
This text deals with the multi-cultural phenomenon of the emotions industry, as well as the cynical manner in which that industry exploits its consumers in various cultures. The book was written in order to illuminate the fact that the culture industry has developed a new configuration dominated by the production and distribution of emotions the emotions industry.
The term walk of shame is deeply rooted in the idea that shame is a difficult emotion stemming from a feeling of inferiority or social discomfort, which causes a person to wish to disappear, become invisible, be swallowed up by the earth. However, sometimes exactly at such a moment of disgrace, individuals are publicly exposed to the full extent of their misery and must walk the walk of shame witnessed by family, friends and acquaintances. Shame, considered by some to have genetic origins, is an integral part of social circumstances and settings in accordance with a set of values, patterns of thought and the individuals physiological make-up. Shame is the result of familial, social and media...
This book deals with personal, social and cultural time perceptions and their impact on love and romantic relationships. By focusing on time orientation and its representation in romantic relationships, this book reveals the latent links between temporality and love. Given that the Western conception of time is based on the ability to distinguish and compare among time units and time intervals, fascinating layers of covert romantic ties are revealed: the representation of temporality in marriage and non-marital relationships as well as in long-term "no strings attached" ones; the blurred boundaries between expectations based on past relationships, present love and future intimacy; the real w...
Combining classic work on radio with innovative research, journalism and biography, Women and Radio offers a variety of approaches to understanding the position of women as producers, presenters and consumers as well as offering guidelines, advice and helpful information for women wanting to work in radio. Women and Radio examines the relationship between radio audiences, technologies and programming and reveals and explains the inequalities experienced by women working in the industry.
Radio is 'Africa's medium', with an ability to transcend barriers to access, facilitate political debate and shape identities.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Martin-Luther-Universit'at, Halle-Wittenberg, 2008.
Privatheit steht im unmittelbaren Zusammenhang mit Identität und Kommunikation – der Band geht diesem Zusammenhang offline im Alltag und besonders im Social Web nach. Dazu wird ein mehrdimensionales handlungstheoretisches Konzept vorgelegt, dessen Nutzen anhand mehrerer empirischer Teilstudien illustriert wird. Dabei zeigen sich unterschiedliche Konzepte von Privatheit und, damit zusammenhängend, differenzierte Handlungsstrategien bei der Selbstpräsentation und Kommunikation auf Social Network Sites. Auch Motive von Nicht-Nutzerinnen werden beleuchtet. Ein Schwerpunkt wird dabei auf die Bedeutung von und den Umgang mit Fotos gelegt. Um tiefergehende Ergebnisse zu erhalten und den Mehrwert einer Mehrebenen-Perspektive aufzuzeigen, wird eine quantitative Fragebogenerhebung mit Leitfaden-Interviews, dem Bewerten und Sortieren von Fotos und einer Inhaltsanalyse kombiniert.