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Magic in the Air
In this timely volume, James E. Katz, a leading authority on social consequences of communication technology, analyzes the way new mobile telecommunications affect daily life both in the United States and around the world. Magic in the Air is the most wide-ranging analysis of mobile communication to date. Katz investigates the spectrum of social aspects of the cell phone's impact on society and the way social forces affect the use, display, and re-configuration of the cell phone. Surveying the mobile phone's current and emerging role in daily life, Katz finds that it provides many benefits for the user, and that some of these benefits are subtle and even counter-intuitive. He also identifies...
The Network Society
This volume explores the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its policy dimension, ranging from the knowledge economic, based in technology and innovation, to the organizational reform and modernization in the public sector, focusing also the media and communication policies. The Network Society is our society, a society made of individuals, businesses and state operating from the local, national and into the international arena.
Ascent to Glory
Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives of new readers around the world. How did One Hundred Years of Solitude achieve this unlikely success? And what does its trajectory tell us about how a work of art becomes a classic? Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the mome...
The Mobility of Memory
Migration is most concretely defined by the movement of human bodies, but it leaves indelible traces on everything from individual psychology to major social movements. Drawing on extensive field research, and with a special focus on Italy and the Netherlands, this interdisciplinary volume explores the interrelationship of migration and memory at scales both large and small, ranging across topics that include oral and visual forms of memory, archives, and artistic innovations. By engaging with the complex tensions between roots and routes, minds and bodies, The Mobility of Memory offers an incisive and empirically grounded perspective on a social phenomenon that continues to reshape both Europe and the world.
How To Do Politics With Art
A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art scholars, this is a question of aesthetics—whether politics necessarily pollutes and debases the quality of the arts. From the perspective of social science, it has been primarily a question of meaning—how political messages are conveyed through artistic media. Recent work has begun to broaden the study of the arts and politics beyond semiosis and content focus. Several strands of scholarship are converging around the general issue of the social relationships within which art takes political form, that is, how art and artists do politics. This persp...
Kunstsoziologie
Die Kunstsoziologie wird aktuell wiederentdeckt. In Zeiten der Ästhetisierung des Sozialen rückt die Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von Kunst und Gesellschaft verstärkt in das Zentrum der Gesellschaftsanalyse. Dieser Band bietet eine kompakte und didaktisch durchdachte Einführung in das Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet der Kunstsoziologie. Er gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten klassischen und aktuellen Theorien und Autoren und trägt dazu bei, neue Perspektiven auf Kunst und Gesellschaft zu entwickeln. Ein unverzichtbarer Begleiter für Studium und Lehre.
Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts
Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses. How we see social conflicts depends on how they are presented to us. This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different backgrounds, cultures and locations, but united by a common thread: the conviction that history and current affairs are constructed and presented, not according to the facts themselves, but according to media, culture, politics, gender, religion and other factors.
Music-in-Action
This volume brings together DeNora?s work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and the ?everyday? perspective, to its current focus on music in action. Topics covered include Adorno on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, a theory of music as a space and place for interpretive work, research methods for historical musicology, and the first key statement of her theory of music as an active ingredient in social life. These building blocks are then employed to investigate music and embodied experience, sexuality and gender differentiation, and music?s role as a technology of health. The essays are set in a multi-disciplinary context with an autobiographical introduction.
Artistic Practices
Art matters. It affects us in our daily lives and is full of meanings that are valuable to all of us. As a catalyst for social interactions, art may either cause public conflict and create dissensions or facilitate mutual understanding and strengthen collective bonds. All of this is grounded in practices that develop and change along social interaction, cultural dynamics, as well as technological and economic lines. So how is art formed and produced? What are the relevant constraints and challenges that artists experience in the creative process? And what constitutes artistic agency? This collection of contributions from international, interdisciplinary experts explores particular case studi...
Visual History und Geschichtsdidaktik
Die wachsende Zahl durch künstliche Intelligenz erzeugter Bilder unterstreicht: Kritische Bildrezeption ist unbedingt notwendig. Die Visual History bietet daher Ansätze, um diese Einsicht produktiv umzusetzen. Es scheint angebracht, den geschichtsdidaktischen Diskurs zum Umgang mit bildlichen Medien im weitesten Sinne zu verstärken und die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer Visual History für die geschichtsunterrichtliche Arbeit zu durchdenken. Dieser Band versammelt (interdisziplinäre) Impulse zum aktuellen Diskursstand sowie empirische Studien und konzeptionelle Überlegungen für weiterführende theoretische Beschäftigungen in der Geschichts- und Politikdidaktik. Er widmet sich dabei einer großen Vielfalt an Visualia und Distributions- und Verarbeitungsstrategien und unterbreitet dabei beispielhaft praktische Vorschläge für die Arbeit mit Visualia in historischen Lehr-Lern-Prozessen.
