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Transcript Verlag Mixed Reality and Games – Theoretical and
Book SynopsisVideogames allow us to immerse ourselves in worlds that are reflective of cultural phenomena. At the same time, games are in the process of occupying and utilising the real world as a part of the game. The book provides a combination of theoretical and practical approaches to mixed reality through the lenses of game studies and pedagogy. These novel approaches invite the reader to rethink their conceptions of games and mixed reality. They are complemented with classical analyses of games and applications in educational contexts. In uniting theory and hands-on approaches, the book provides a broad spectrum that facilitates and inspires interdisciplinary thinking and work.
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Transcript Verlag Sensing and Making Sense – Photosensitivity and
Book SynopsisThrough a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybernetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alternative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians - especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.
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Transcript Verlag Passing and Posing between Black and White –
Book SynopsisSince its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. This applies, in the first instance, to featuring mixed-race characters crossing the color line. In a broader sense, however, this also concerns viewing conditions and knowledge configurations. The fact that American film engages itself so extensively with the unbalanced relation between black and white is neither coincidental nor trivial to state it has much more to do with disputing boundaries that pertain to the medium itself. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the post-classical cinema of the turn of the millennium.Trade Review" This is an important book and should be read." Jan-Christopher Horak, Archival Spaces, 283 (2021)
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Transcript Verlag Narrative Mechanics – Strategies and Meanings in
Book SynopsisWhat do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have "many faces", displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society - such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design - of game mechanics.
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Transcript Verlag Beyond the Mirror – Seeing in Art History and
Book SynopsisSince the late 1980s visibility has become a currency of social recognition, and a political issue. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual culture studies, and a hotly contested debate unfolded between art history and visual culture studies over the interpretation of visual culture, whose impact can still be felt today. In this first comparative study Susanne von Falkenhausen reveals the concepts of seeing as scholarly act that underwrite these competing approaches to visuality and society, along with the agendas of identity politics that motivate them. In close readings of key texts spanning from the early 20th century to the present the author crosses expertly between American, German, and British versions of art history, cultural studies, aesthetics, and film studies.
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Transcript Verlag Digital Culture & Society (DCS) – Vol. 7, Issue
Book SynopsisThis double issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the dialectics of play and labour, taking a closer look at the problem of play and work from two overlapping, albeit not mutually exclusive, perspectives. After the first issue explored the notion of laborious play, this second one studies the concept of playful work. The contributions feature critical inquiries into various phenomena of playful work - ranging from interfaces of play and work in the BDSM subculture over labour in digital gaming to high frequency trading. Alongside the articles, the issue features an interview with Fred Turner, Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford University. He talks about the Bauhaus in the US, countercultural cybernetics, technology and consciousness, and work in the Silicon Valley.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Theoretical Reflections; Becoming one's own Polaroid; Instructional Devices; Post-casual Play; Speedrunning the Financial Markets; Making the Virtual a Reality; Entering the Field; Social Production of Hybrid Spaces Through Playbour; The Business of Gamifying School Work; "Work is work and work is good."; Biographical Notes.
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Transcript Verlag Digital Methods in the Humanities – Challenges,
Book SynopsisDigital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of research processes and questions. It also prompts new ways of interdisciplinary communication between humanities scholars and computer scientists. This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools. Problems and solutions with and for training tools as well as the adjustment of research practices are presented and discussed with an interdisciplinary focus.
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Transcript Verlag History in Games – Contingencies of an Authentic
Book SynopsisWhere do we end up when we enter the time machine that is the digital game? One axiomatic truth of historical research is that the past is the time-space that eludes human intervention. Every account made of the past is therefore only an approximation. But how is it that strolling through ancient Alexandria can feel so real in the virtual world? Claims of authenticity are prominent in discussions surrounding the digital games of our time. What is historical authenticity and does it even matter? When does authenticity or the lack thereof become political? By answering these questions, the book illuminates the ubiquitous category of authenticity from the perspective of historical game studies.
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Transcript Verlag Paratextualizing Games – Investigations on the
Book SynopsisGaming no longer only takes place as a "closed interactive experience" in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology examines which paratexts gaming cultures have produced - i.e., in which forms and formats and through which channels we talk (and write) about games - as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur? In short: How does the paratext change the text?
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Transcript Verlag The Supernatural Media Virus – Virus Anxiety in
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world.
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Transcript Verlag Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and
Book SynopsisCampus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development of the project from a historical case study to a mapping platform. Based on the question of what a media experience is, the concepts of the apparatus (dispositif) and the actor-network are translated into a data model. A time-space of twenty-four hours in Vienna in May 1933, marked by a so-called "Turks Deliverance Celebration" (Türkenbefreiungsfeier), serves as an empirical laboratory. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and woven into media-historical networks, spanning from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
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Transcript Verlag Electric Seeing: Positions in Contemporary Video
Book SynopsisWhat is the subject of video? Charlotte Klink traces the development of electromagnetism in the pursuit of "Electric Seeing" that emerged in the 19th century as well as its curious relation to psychoanalysis and the contemporary discovery of the structure of the human psyche. In doing so, she exposes how this development laid the foundation of what we know today as "video". This comprehensive theory of video entails a discussion of the technological, historical, and etymological roots, the media-theoretical concepts of medium and index, the philosophical and art-theoretical environment in which video emerged in the 1960s, the psychoanalytic concept of the phantasm, and artworks by artists such as Yael Bartana and Hito Steyerl.
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Transcript Verlag Practicing Sovereignty – Digital Involvement in
Book SynopsisDigital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The current convergence of multiple crises adds fuel to this debate, as it contextualizes the concept in a foundational discussion of democratic principles, civil rights, and national identities: is (technological) self-determination an option for every individual to cope with the digital sphere effectively? Can disruptive events provide chances to rethink our ideas of society - including the design of the objects and processes which constitute our techno-social realities? The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy-making, and describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic.
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Transcript Verlag Whistleblowing for Change – Exposing Systems of
Book SynopsisThe courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contribute to new courses of action, digital tools, and contents? This urgent intervention based on the work of Berlin's Disruption Network Lab examines this growing phenomenon, offering interdisciplinary pathways to empower the public by investigating whistleblowing as a developing political practice that has the ability to provoke change from within.
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Transcript Verlag Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces
Book SynopsisAre robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation - it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, Pfeiffer shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Digital Capitalism Revisited: again?; The First Blind Spot: Value in Digital Capitalism; Transformation and the Productive Forces; The Second Blind Spot: The Realisation of Value in (Digital) Capitalism; The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: What is New?; The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: Some Clarifications; The Distributive Forces in Digital Capitalism: Some Empirical Illustrations; Digitalisation: Distributive Force or Destructive Force?; Bibliography; List of Figures.
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Transcript Verlag Common Image: Towards a Larger Than Human
Book SynopsisWestern humanism has established a reifying and predatory relation to the world. While its collateral visual regime, the perspectival image, is still saturating our screens, this relation has reached a dead end. Rather than desperately turning towards transhumanism and geoengineering, we need to readjust our position within community Earth. Facing this predicament, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image - understood as a multisensory perception across species; and common ethics - a comportment that transcends species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger than human communism.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Stone; Magic; Matter; Ocean; Points of View; The Time of the Myth; From Myth to Poetry; Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$; Travelling to the Warlpiri Country; Appendix; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Detailed Table of Contents.
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Transcript Verlag Lexicon of Global Melodrama
Book SynopsisThis new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent "arthouse" productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.Table of ContentsIntroduction; A Drunkard's Reformation (1909); Tom Gunning; Blind Husbands (1919); Applause (1929); Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora, 1929); The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel, 1930); Ganga Bruta (1933); Masquerade in Vienna (Maskerade, 1934); Modern Times (1936); Bewitching Kisses (Besos brujos, 1937); Heimat (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); Casablanca (1942); Mashenka (Машенька, 1942); Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945); Nosotros los pobres (1948); Chains (Catene, 1949); Tokyo Story (東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari, 1953); House of Ricordi (Casa Ricordi, 1954); The Night of the Hunter (1955); All that Heaven Allows (1955); The Word (Ordet, 1955); Violent Playground (1958); Hiroshima mon amour (1959); Imitation of Life (1959); Oyster Girl (蚵女,Ke nü, 1963); A Patch of Blue (1965); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); Dark of the Sun (1968); Love Story (1970); The Legend of the Red Lantern (红灯记, Hongdeng ji, 1970); Ariana (אריאנה, 1971); Insiang (1976); Amar Akbar Anthony (1977); The Smoking Fish (El pez que fuma, 1977); An Unmarried Woman (1978); The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun, 1979); Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin, 1979); Babylon (1980); Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984); The Official Story (La historia oficial, 1985); Where Is the Friend's House? (Khane-ye doust kodjast, 1987); Little Vera (Маленькая Вера, Malen'kaia Vera, 1988); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, 1988); Coming Out (1989); Living in Bondage, Part I (1992) and II (1993); Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬, Bawang bie ji, 1993); The Piano (1993); In the Heat of the Sun (陽光燦爛的日子, Yángguāng Cánlán De Rìzi, 1994); Bombay (1995); The Bridges of Madison County (1995); Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏, Kikujirō no natsu, 1999); Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, 2000); Erin Brockovich (2000); In the Mood for Love (花樣年華, Fa yeung nin wa, 2000); Moulin Rouge! (2001); Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, 2001); Devdas ( 2002); Destiny Has No Favorites (El destino no tiene favoritos, 2003); Monsieur Ibrahim (Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, 2003); Osuofia in London, Part I (2003) and II (2004); Brokeback Mountain (2005); Rang De Basanti ( 2006); The Yacoubian Building ('Imārat Ya'qūbīān, 2006); Lust, Caution (色, 戒, Sè, Jiè, 2007); Shanghai Baby (2007); Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula, 2007); The Blind Side (2009); Invictus (2009); The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos, 2009); Jaffa ( כלת הים , Kalat Hayam, 2009); Pumzi (2009); Anchor Baby (2010); Even the Rain (También la Iluvia, 2010); Melancholia (2011); Laurence Anyways (2012); The Cut (2014); The Theory of Everything (2014); Eye in the Sky (2015); Masaan (2015); The Salesman (Forushandeh, 2016); Jackie (2016); The Nest of the Turtledove (Гніздо горлиці, Hnizdo horlytsi, 2016); Cold War (Zimna wojna, 2018); Mirja Lecke; Elevator Baby (2019); The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (A vida invisível, 2019); Joker (2019); Hamilton (2020); No Hard Feelings/FUTUR DREI (2020); Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors.
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Transcript Verlag Migrating Through the Web: Interactive Practices
Book SynopsisHow to study a media object on the web that is at the same time a documentary, a reportage, and a game which combines both fiction and non-fiction elements? Nicole Braida digs into the discursive and material structures and infrastructures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive maps, and data visualizations, in which refugees and migrants become the subject of humanitarian discourse. Although the goal is to arouse empathy towards migrants, these "interactive practices" distinguish who is vulnerable and who is not. It supports the idea of a "migratory crisis", which, the author argues, is actually the symptom of a deeper crisis of the humanitarian system itself.Table of ContentsReconfiguring Identities within the Cityscape: Ideologies of Ukraines Decommunization Renaming; The Friends So Far, the Foes So Near? Ambiguities of Georgias Othering; The Splendid School Assembled: Studying and Practicing International Relations in Independent Ukraine; Toponymy and the Issues of Memory and Identity on the Post-soviet Tbilisi Cityscape; Mediatization of History: Introducing the Concept and Key Cases from Eastern Europe; The Rise of Precarious States: A Shadow Side of Sovereignity Loss; Sovereigntism as a Vocation and Profession: Imperial Roots, Current State, Possible Prospects; Sovereignty as a Contested Concept: The Cases of Trumpism and Putinism; Implementing International Human Rights Law: Recent Sovereigntist and Nationalist Trends; The Evolution of Sovereignty: From Nation State to Human Person; Index.
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Transcript Verlag andererseits Vol. 9/10 (2020/21): Yearbook of
Book Synopsisandererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, and traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. In addition, we welcome contributions by journalists, librarians, archivists, and other commentators interested in German Studies broadly conceived. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This issue features contributions by Leo A. Lensing, Norman M. Klein, Jens M. Gurr, and Julia Faisst.
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Transcript Verlag Just ›A Machine for Doing Business‹?:
Book SynopsisHow is a new intranet involved in an ongoing merger integration process? Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in connection with the implementation of a new company intranet. Based on qualitative data, the study contrasts managerial expectations and everyday usage of the intranet in distinct work settings. Relying on social practice theories and research in Science & Technology Studies, Katja Schönian unpacks the different logics the intranet brings together and, furthermore, interrogates the characteristics that make an (un-)workable technology. The book sheds light on the informal practices and politics surrounding the technology implementation process. It provides readers with new insights into the dynamics of a merger integration process and the increasing digitalization of contemporary knowledge work.
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Transcript Verlag Mental Health Atmospheres Video Games: New
Book SynopsisGaming has never been disconnected from reality. When we engage with ever more lavish virtual worlds, something happens to us. The game imposes itself on us and influences how we feel about it, the world, and ourselves. How do games accomplish this and to what end? The contributors explore the video game as an atmospheric medium of hitherto unimagined potential. Is the medium too powerful, too influential? A danger to our mental health or an ally through even the darkest of times? This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2019 and 2020 to provide answers to these questions.
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Transcript Publishing Digital Culture Society Dcs
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transcript Verlag Food Media Senses
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Transcript Verlag Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a
Book SynopsisAs the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, so that the ontological boundary transgression between the narrated world and the world of the recipient comes into focus. These diverse transgressions-medial and ontological-are the subject of this transdisciplinary compendium, which covers the subject in an interdisciplinary way from various perspectives: game studies and media studies, but also sociology and psychology, to take into account the great influence of storytelling on social discourses and human behavior.
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Transcript Verlag Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate
Book SynopsisHate is being reinvented. Over the last two decades, online platforms have been used to repackage racist, sexist and xenophobic ideologies into new sociotechnical forms. Digital hate is ancient but novel, deploying the Internet to boost its allure and broaden its appeal. To understand the logic of hate, Luke Munn investigates four objects: 8chan, the cesspool of the Internet, QAnon, the popular meta-conspiracy, Parler, a social media site, and Gab, the "platform for the people." Drawing together powerful human stories with insights from media studies, psychology, political science, and race and cultural studies, he portrays how digital hate infiltrates hearts and minds.
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transcript Verlag Beyond Quantity
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transcript Verlag Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction
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transcript Verlag Decolonizing Journalistic Knowledge
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transcript Verlag Diversity Issues in the USA
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity:
Book SynopsisThis book offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to fiction, reality, and narrativity applied to television series from all over the world. Dissecting the almost invisible barrier between fiction and reality in TV series from various perspectives, the chapters cover a wide range of contemporary classics from the post-network age. From "The X-Files" and "Desperate Housewives" to "The Wire" and "Breaking Bad", the chapters sketch TV series' development from the lowest form of mass entertainment to the sophisticated vehicle of highbrow intertextuality on a global scale. Also covering many international cases from Brazil, Serbia, Romania, and Turkey and locating them in the global web of puzzle narratives, the unique contributions draw connections between the most diverse audiences and the way they receive modern storytelling in a culturally globalised world. This timely volume is a great resource for anyone interested in contemporary mass culture.Trade Review"The new perspectives offered by this volume are of great interest for any European and International scholar mainly because the volume brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed. Furthermore it is outstanding that the contributors to this book come from different countries (UK, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania) and somehow reach a common language in their studies." -- Michael Higgins, University of Strathclyde, UK"The book is divided into 14 chapters that bring a new perspective on the study of television series. This allows readers to drill in, even if they are not senior researchers, to easily digest the content and also to acknowledge the impact of television series viewing on reality and on their own lives." -- Stamatis Poulakidakos, University of Athens, Greece
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity
Book SynopsisThis book offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to fiction, reality, and narrativity applied to television series from all over the world. Dissecting the almost invisible barrier between fiction and reality in TV series from various perspectives, the chapters cover a wide range of contemporary classics from the post-network age. From "The X-Files" and "Desperate Housewives" to "The Wire" and "Breaking Bad", the chapters sketch TV series' development from the lowest form of mass entertainment to the sophisticated vehicle of highbrow intertextuality on a global scale. Also covering many international cases from Brazil, Serbia, Romania, and Turkey and locating them in the global web of puzzle narratives, the unique contributions draw connections between the most diverse audiences and the way they receive modern storytelling in a culturally globalised world. This timely volume is a great resource for anyone interested in contemporary mass culture.Trade Review"The new perspectives offered by this volume are of great interest for any European and International scholar mainly because the volume brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed. Furthermore it is outstanding that the contributors to this book come from different countries (UK, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania) and somehow reach a common language in their studies." -- Michael Higgins, University of Strathclyde, UK"The book is divided into 14 chapters that bring a new perspective on the study of television series. This allows readers to drill in, even if they are not senior researchers, to easily digest the content and also to acknowledge the impact of television series viewing on reality and on their own lives." -- Stamatis Poulakidakos, University of Athens, GreeceTable of ContentsDoes the cultural capital compensate for the cultural discount? Why do German students prefer US-American TV series?, by Daniela Schluetz and Beate Schneider Awake, or the multiplication of the realities Contemporary Television Series: Narrative Structures and Audience Perception, by Mathieu Pierre "Three hundred channels and nothing's on": Metaleptic Genre-Mixing in Supernatural, by Michael Fuchs Appreciating Nietzsche in Episodic Drama: The Highbrow Intertextuality and Middlebrow Reception of Criminal Minds, by Michael Wayne The Seed of an Idea and its Cognitive Field: Minding the Gap of Alternate Reality in Flash Forward and Fringe, by Inbar Kaminsky Breaking Narrative: Narrative Complexity in Contemporary Television, by Oliver Kroener The Walking Dead and the Truly Monstrous... on Television, by Atene Mendelyte Television Cosmo-Mythologies: The Return to Mythological Naratives in Television Fiction, from The Prisoner to Lost, by Raquel Crisostomo Galvez and Enric Ros Zofio Breaking Bad, a Character-Based Formula, by Rodrigo Mesonero Representing Occupations in Media and Audience Perceptions of TV Series, by Valentina Marinescu Homeland: War on Terror Revisited, by Marc Perello-Sobrepere Understanding Health in Grey's Anatomy Television Series, by Bianca Mitu Fiction Television in Brazil: New Perspectives, by Lilian Fontes Moreira TV Series Bolji zivot (1987-1991): View from the Future, by Natasa Simeunovic Bajic The X-Factor of Singing Competitions TV Series, by Maria Dicieanu TV Drama as a Narrative form: Scenes from a Gendered and a Sacralized Cultural Sphere in Turkish Society, by Nuran E. Isik The hero's journey, by "Maria Teresa Nicolas Gavilan, Lourdes Lopez Gutierrez,Carmen Silvia Sanchez Arana, Tania Alejandra Benitez Sanchez" About the contributors
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Journal of Soviet and Post–Soviet Politics and S
Book SynopsisThe Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia and beyond.This special issue sets out to launch an interdisciplinary discussion on the Russian information warfare being waged in parallel with the military war in Ukraine. How is the war being packaged and narrated for domestic and international audiences? How are these narratives being received in Russia and in the West? How do we interpret and explain the imperial hysteria and hatred currently on display on Russian TV? What are the appropriate responses? How can we avoid the trap of allowing Kremlin propagandists to shape the terms and language in which the war is viewed? The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY is a new bi-annual journal about to be launched as a companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland, Dr. phil., Ph. D.). Like the book series, the journal will provide an interdisciplinary forum for new original research on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. The journal aims to become known for publishing creative, intelligent and lively writing tackling and illuminating significant issues and capable of engaging wider educated audiences beyond the academy.Trade ReviewFedors book has filled a historiographical gap [] The author gives us the keys necessary for decoding these [] discourses and, beyond that, the worldview of these men, an indispensable method for gaining knowledge of the Soviet past but also, in Putins Russia, for understanding the Russian present. -- Andrei Kozovoi, University of Lille 3, France; Cahiers du monde russe, 52: 4 (2012)Extremely informative and detailed ... an excellent book, well researched, cogently argued, and articulately presented with intelligence and witDavid Gillespie, University of Bath, UK, The Russian Review 72:1 (2013)The motivations for the Pussy Riot singers' trial and conviction in 2012 are all exposed in this book ... written before the actual event Marie Mendras, Sciences Po, France; International Affairs 89: 1 (2013)attentive [and] thoughtful ... Many of the themes touched upon in the book open up interesting research perspectives -- Andriy Portnov, Neprikosnovennyi zapas, Russia, 81:1 (2012)This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and humanities. Jay Winter, Yale UniversityIn an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in-depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory Aleida Assmann, University of KonstanzThe crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem - and some of the solutions. Timothy Snyder, Yale Universityan excellent and innovative study that charts out an extraordinarily complex subject with sensitivity and sophistication Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennsylvania, in Slavic Review, 73:1 (Spring 2014)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Russian Media and the War in Ukraine, by Julie Fedor Putin's Crimea Speech, 18 March 2014: Russia's Changing Public Political Narrative, by Edwin Bacon Filtering Foreign Media Content: How Russian News Agencies Repurpose Western News Reporting, by Rolf Fredheim "Gayromaidan": Gendered Aspects of the Hegemonic Russian Media Discourse on the Ukrainian Crisis, by Tatiana Riabova and Oleg Riabov Historical Myths, Enemy Images, and Regional Identity in the Donbass Insurgency (Spring 2014), by Alexandr Osipian Memory, Media, and Securitization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis, by Elizaveta Gaufman Combating the Russian State Propaganda Machine: Strategies of Information Resistance, by Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya Infiltration, Instruction, Invasion: Russia's War in the Donbass, by Nikolay Mitrokhin Ukraine and the Global Information War: Panel Discussion and Forum, Featuring: Anne Applebaum; Margarita Akhvlediani; Sabra Ayres; Renaud de la Brosse; Rory Finnin; James Marson; Sarah Oates; Simon Ostrovsky; Kevin M. F. Platt; Peter Pomerantsev; Natalia Rulyova; Michael Weiss; Maksym Yakovlyev; Vera Zvereva Reviews Rasmus Nilsson on Andrew Wilson and Richard Sakwa Anders Aslund on Karen Dawisha Mykola Riabchuk on David Marples/Frederick Mills
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Mass Media in the Post–Soviet World – Market
Book SynopsisThis collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term 'media environment' covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and ranges from the political to entertainment and various artistic spheres. What role do market forces play in the process of media democratization, and how do state structures regulate, suppress, or use capitalism toward their own gain? What degree of informational pluralism has been achieved in the newly independent republics? What are the prospects for transparency and the participation of civil society in Russian and Eurasian media? To what degree do trends in post-Communist media reflect global trends? Is there a worldwide convergence with regard to both media formats and political messaging? Western observers usually pay their keenest attention to the role of media in Russia and Eurasia during national elections. While this is a valid focus, the present volume, with contributions by Luca Anceschi, Jonathan Becker, Lee B. Becker, Michael Cecire, Marta Dyczok, Nicola Ying Fry, Navbahor Imamova, Azamat Junisbai, Barbara Junisbai, Kornely Kakachia, Maria Lipman, Oleg Manaev, Marintha Miles, Olena Nikolayenko, Sarah Oates, Tamara Pataraia, Elisabeth Schimpfossl, Abdulfattoh Shafiev, Jack Snyder, Tudor Vlad, and Ilya Yablokov, aims at understanding the deeper overall 'media philosophies' that characterize post-Soviet media systems and environments, and the type of identity formation that they are promoting.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Journal of Soviet and Post–Soviet Politics and S
Book SynopsisSpecial Section: Multilingualism in Ukraine. Rory Finnin, Ivan Kozachenko: Introduction: Ukraines Multilingualism. Taras Koznarsky: The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych. Myroslav Shkandrij: Channel Switching: Language Change and the Conversion Trope in Modern Ukrainian Literature. Laada Bilaniuk: Linguistic Conversion in Ukraine: Nation-Building on the Self. Vitaly Chernetsky: Ukrainian Cinema and the Challenges of Multilingualism: From the 1930s to the Present. Iryna Shuvalova: Multilingualism in the Songs of the War in Donbas. Olenka Bilash: Multilingualism in the Academy: Language Dynamics in Ukraines Higher Education Institutions. Alina Zubkovych: Language Use among Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: Context and Practice. Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN III. Andreas Umland, Yuliya Yurchuk: Introduction: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and European Fascism During World War II. Kai Struve: The OUN(b), the Germans, and Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Galicia during Summer 1941. Yuri Radchenko: The Biography of the OUN(m) Activist Oleksa Babii in the Light of His Memoirs on Escaping Execution (1942). Tomislav Dulić, Goran Miljan: The Ustaas and Fascism: Abolitionism, Revolution, and Ideology (192942).
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon False Mirrors – The Weaponization of Social Media
Book SynopsisIn his timely study, Andrii Demartino investigates the multitude of techniques how social media can be used to advance an aggressive foreign policy, as exemplified by the Russian Federation's operation to annex Crimea in 2014. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Demartino traces the implementation of a series of Russian measures to create channels and organisations manipulating public opinion in the Ukrainian segment of the internet and on platforms such as Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, LiveJournal, and Twitter. Addressing the pertinent question of how much the operation to annex Crimea was either improvised or planned, he draws attention to Russia's ad-hoc actions in the sphere of social media in 2014. Based on an in-depth analysis of the methods of Russia's influence operations, the book proposes a number of counterstrategies to prevent such "active measures." These propositions can serve to improve Ukraine's national information policy as well as help to develop adequate security concepts of other states.
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Transcript Verlag The Aesthetics of Net Literature – Writing,
Book SynopsisDuring recent years, literary texts in electronic and networked media have been a focal point of literary scholarship, using varying terminology. In this book, the contributions of internationally renowned scholars and authors from Germany, USA, France, Finland, Spain and Switzerland review the ruptures and upheavals of literary communication within this context. The articles in the book focus on questions such as: In which literary projects can we discover a new quality of literariness? What are the terminological and methodological means to examine these literatures? How can we productively link the logics of the play of literary texts and their reception in the reading process? What is the relationship of literary writing and programming?With contributions by Jean-Pierre Balpe, Susanne Berkenheger, Friedrich W. Block, Philippe Bootz, Laura Borrás Castanyer, Markku Eskelinen, Frank Furtwängler, Peter Gendolla, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Fotis Jannidis, Thomas Kamphusmann, Mela Kocher, Marie-Laure Ryan, Jörgen Schäfer, Roberto Simanowski and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
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Transcript Verlag Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects of
Book SynopsisFrom media art archeology to contemporary interaction design - the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiences, sensor technologies, telecommunication and new experimental forms of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions and the cultural discourse surrounding them. This book's aim is to give an overview of the current state of interactive art and interface technology as well as an outlook on new forms of hybridization in art, media, scientific research and every-day media applications.
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Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Mass Media and Methods of Education
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Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Media and Learning
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Managing Communication
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Writing a Nation
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Cyber Tech Publications Political Journalism New Challenges
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Mehras Reporter - A Handbook for Every Journalist
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Gyan Books Analysis of Media and Communication Trends
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