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Book SynopsisIn Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance, Jin Feng examines the evolution of Chinese popular romance on the Internet. She first provides a brief genealogy of Chinese Web literature and Chinese popular romance, and then investigates how large socio-cultural forces have shaped new writing and reading practices and created new subgenres of popular romance in contemporary China. Integrating ethnographic methods into literary and discursive analyses, Feng offers a gendered, audience-oriented study of Chinese popular culture in the age of the Internet.Trade Review"Yet, despite the undeniable cultural influence and financial clout of web-based literature, it is only with the 2013 publication of Jin Feng’s Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance, that we have the first English-language book dedicated to a major genre within this hugely significant—as well as simply huge—area of cultural production." Heather Inwood, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Resource Center Publication (August 2014) “Romancing the Internet” is an extremely stimulating read for scholars of gender and women’s studies and for those interested in Chinese popular culture in general and internet literature in particular.” Elisabeth Schleep, University of Freiburg, 1-3 "...Feng undertakes the ambitious but much needed task of examining the immense (and ever-expanding) volume and vibrant culture of Web romance to investigate the ways in which contemporary Chinese women’s reading and writing experiences 'help them to reinvent their gender and cultural identities.' ... this innovative audience-focused literary study adeptly employs various analytical tools, including close reading, linguistic and discourse analysis, sociological data, focus group study, one-on-one interviews, and participant observation." Hui Faye Xiao Asia Pacific Perspectives, Spring/Summer 2014Table of ContentsIntroduction: This is Not Your Mother's Qiong Yao Fan Production Interdisciplinary Improvisation Organization of Chapters 1. A Short Genealogy The Politics and Economics of Web Publishing The Popular Mind Stud, Farming, and Magic-Space Fiction: Characteristics and Trends The Pleasure of Repetition Romantic Love with Chinese Characteristics 2. Addicted to Beauty Three Players and the Text Textual Poaching Time Travel in Danmei Fiction The Androgynous Reader Conclusion 3. "Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind" Clues from Interviews The Supreme Heroine Three Princesses Conclusion 4. Rewriting Classics, Righting Wrongs Tricks of the Trade Rewriting Classics Danmei Fanfic Anti-Qiong Yao Fanfic Conclusion 5. How to Make Mr. Right? Seeking Mr. Right? The Ideal Hero Who Is More "Economical and Serviceable"? Reading Zhifou: Strategies and Negotiations Making Mr. Right Conclusion Coda: What Does Chinese Web Romance Do? Remaking Popular Romance Creating the Self in a Crowd A New Woman Born of the E-Age? Appendix: Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNational identity has been an ongoing political issue in Taiwan since the late-1890s. The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan’s Media, 1896-2012 breaks new ground with the most comprehensive analysis of the development of Taiwan’s media and the construction of national identity in Taiwan’s media. Using a variety of media contents including newspapers, opposition magazines, broadcasting radio, news TV stations and the Internet as well as numerous interviews with journalists, senior media staffs and academics, Dr Hsu provides many original insights into the formation of national identity in Taiwan's media. Taiwan's media began to demonstrate a variety of new identities under democratization. Part of this change responded to market conditions as a majority of Taiwan's population stressed their Taiwan identity.

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Book SynopsisThe recent economic crisis, and the challenges to democracy in an increasingly globalized world, brings into sharp relief the importance of mass communication. This volume explores a range of issues, from the nature of communication, to the role of the media industry, to the way that mass communication has facilitated social movements in many parts of the world. Revisiting the works of Karl Marx and others, the essays bring a new perspective and a renewed interest in critical analyses of communication practices globally. This collection represents the cutting edge of communication research introducing a new generation of scholars to understanding changes in the way we learn about our society. Contributors are: Arthur Asa Berger, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Savaş Çoban, John Bellamy Foster, Christian Fuchs, Douglas Kellner, Robert W. McChesney, David Miller, Marisol Sandoval, Nick Stevenson, Gerald Sussman, Mandy Tröger, and Michael Wayne.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Foreword, Robert W. McChesney About the Authors Introduction, Savaş Çoban 1. The Spectre of Marx, Michael Wayne The Political Crisis The Media Crisis The Economic Crisis 2. Culture, Communication & Ideology = Forms of Work, Christian Fuchs Introduction Work/Communication-Dualism: Jürgen Habermas and Klaus Holzkamp on Communication and Work Raymond Williams’ Cultural Materialism Cultural Production as a Form of Work Communication as a Form of Work Ideological Labour and Critical Work Conclusion 3. Media Power and Class Power: Overplaying Ideology, David Miller Media Power and Class Power The Ideological Effect? Gramsci to the Rescue? Back to Marx Democracy Corporate Power and the Media Corporate and Class Power Beyond the Media Conclusion 4. The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital: An Introduction, John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney Brecht, the Frankfurt School, and the Concept of Cultural Apparatus Mills, Thompson, and Williams Toward a Wider Political Economy of Communication: The 1960s Critique The Critique of Culture and the Media in the 1960s The New Left and Communication: The 1960s and ‘70s and Today 5. The War Against Democracy in the UK, Nick Stevenson 6. Infamy and Indoctrination in American Media and Politics, Arthur Asa Berger Practice Theory 7. U.S. Media and the World, Gerald Sussman Media and Popular Culture: The U.S. Transnational Power Context American Media and Internal Colonization The Future of Capitalist Media 8. The Evolving Business Models of Network News? Oliver Boyd-Barrett Introduction Network History A Question of Complicity Trends of Change in the New Millennium Transitioning from Network to Post-Network Age Conclusion 9. Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility in Media And Communication Industries, Marisol Sandoval Introduction Theories of CSR in Media and Communication Iindustries Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility in Media and Communication Companies Conclusion 10. Media Spectacle and the North African Arab Uprisings: Some Critical Reflections, Douglas Kellner The Rise and Triumph of Media Spectacle Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle The North African Arab Uprisings Sparks in Tunisia Upheaval in Egypt Tumult in the Arab World 2011: From the Arab Spring to Bloody, Summer, Fall and Winter Concluding Comments 11. Turkey’s ‘War and Peace’ The Kurdish Question and the Media, Savaş Çoban The Kurdish Presentation and Perception Internationally Presentation and Perception in the Turkish Media The Kurdish Media Conclusion Epilogue: ‘The Left’ as Needed Ideology, Mandy Tröger Index

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Book SynopsisNews Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the notion that early modern European news, in all its manifestations – manuscript, print, and oral – is fundamentally transnational. These 37 essays investigate the language, infrastructure, and circulation of news across Europe. They range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Americas, focussing on the mechanisms of transmission, the organisation of networks, the spread of forms and modes of news communication, and the effects of their translation into new locales and languages.Trade Review“Every news historian should first study this volume before continuing with his or her own work.” - Rosanne Baars, University of Amsterdam, in: Sixteenth Century Journal 48:2 (2017), pp. 494-496Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Places and Dates Abbreviations and Other Conventions Notes on Contributors 1 News Networks in Early Modern Europe Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham PART 1 Networks 2 European Postal Networks Nikolaus Schobesberger, Paul Arblaster, Mario Infelise, André Belo, Noah Moxham, Carmen Espejo and Joad Raymond 3 The Lexicons of Early Modern News Paul Arblaster, André Belo, Carmen Espejo, Stéphane Haffemayer, Mario Infelise, Noah Moxham, Joad Raymond and Nikolaus Schobesberger 4 News Networks: Putting the ‘News’ and ‘Networks’ Back in Joad Raymond 5 Maps versus Networks Ruth Ahnert 6 International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Prospects Brendan Dooley 7 The Papal Network: How the Roman Curia Was Informed about South-Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean (1645–1669) Johann Petitjean 8 The Iberian Position in European News Networks: A Methodological Approach Javier Díaz Noci 9 Mapping the Fuggerzeitungen: The Geographical Issues of an Information Network Nikolaus Schobesberger PART 2 Modes 10 The History of a Word: Gazette Mario Infelise 11 International Relations: Spanish, Italian, French, English and German Printed Single Event Newsletters Prior to Renaudot’s Gazette Henry Ettinghausen 12 War News in Early Modern Milan: The Birth and the Shaping of Printed News Pamphlets Massimo Petta 13 Elizabethan Diplomatic Networks and the Spread of News Tracey A. Sowerby 14 Time in English Translations of Continental News Sara Barker 15 Cartography, War Correspondence and News Publishing: The Early Career of Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1610–1630 Helmer Helmers 16 News Exchange and Social Distinction André Belo 17 ‘Newes also came by Letters’: Functions and Features of Epistolary News in English News Publications of the Seventeenth Century Nicholas Brownlees 18 ‘My Friend the Gazetier’: Diplomacy and News in Seventeenth-Century Europe Jason Peacey 19 Intelligence Offices in the Habsburg Monarchy Anton Tantner 20 Authors, Editors and Newsmongers: Form and Genre in the Philosophical Transactions under Henry Oldenburg Noah Moxham PART 3 Studies 21 News from the New World: Spain’s Monopoly in the European Network of Handwritten Newsletters during the Sixteenth Century Renate Pieper 22 The Prince of Transylvania: Spanish News of the War against the Turks, 1595–1600 Carmen Espejo 23 ‘Fishing after News’ and the ars apodemica: The Intelligencing Role of the Educational Traveller in the Late Sixteenth Century Elizabeth Williamson 24 ‘It is No Time Now to Enquire of Forraine Occurrents’: Plague, War, and Rumour in the Letters of Joseph Mead, 1625 Kirsty Rolfe 25 ‘Our Valiant Dunkirk Romans’: Glorifying the Habsburg War at Sea, 1622–1629 Paul Arblaster 26 A Sense of Europe: The Making of this Continent in Early Modern Dutch News Media Joop W. Koopmans 27 The Hinterland of the Newsletter: Handling Information in Space and Time Mark Greengrass, Thierry Rentet and Stéphane Gal 28 ‘We have been Informed that the French are Carrying Desolation Everywhere’: The Desolation of the Palatinate as a European News Event Emilie Dosquet 29 Promoting the Catholic Cause on the Italian Peninsula: Printed Avvisi on the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, 1562–1600 Nina Lamal 30 The Acquisition and Handling of News on the French Wars of Religion in Cologne: The Case of Hermann Weinsberg Alexandra Schäfer 31 ‘Secret and Uncertain’: A History of Avvisi at the Court of the Medici Grand Dukes Sheila Barker 32 Words on the Street: Selling Small Printed ‘Things’ in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Venice Laura Carnelos 33 Natural Disasters and the European Printed News Network Carlos H. Caracciolo 34 The ‘Trouble of Naples’ in the Political Information Arena of the English Revolution Davide Boerio 35 Public and Secret Networks of News: The Declaration of War of the Turks against the Empire in 1683 Stéphane Haffemayer 36 From Vienna, Prague or Poland? The Effects of Changing Reporting Patterns on the Ceremonial News of Transylvania, 1619–58 Virginia Dillon 37 The Venetian News Network in the Early Sixteenth Century: The Battle of Chaldiran Chiara Palazzo Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies. It presents 16 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand the Internet and social media in 21st century digital capitalism.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures About the Authors 1. Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco 2. Towards Marxian Internet Studies Christian Fuchs 3. Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media Andreas Wittel 4. The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research Mattias Ekman 5. The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism” Jens Schröter 6. Digital Media and Capital’s Logic of Acceleration Vincent R. Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen 7. How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites Eran Fisher 8. The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology Robert Prey 9. 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism Jernej Prodnik 10. The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era Dal Yong Jin 11. Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China Marisol Sandoval 12. The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund 13. The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and Alternative Social Media: The Case of Diaspora* Sebastian Sevignani 14. ‘A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0’: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts Brian Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase 15. Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions Miriyam Aouragh 16. Marx in the Cloud Vincent Mosco Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the churches are emptying, other virtual religious places – as the religious websites – seem to be filling up. The researcher focusing on religion and internet or digital religion as an object of study must seek answers to a number of questions. Is computer-mediated religious communication a particular communication process whose object is what we conventionally call religion? Or is it a modern, independent form of religious expressiveness that finds its new-born status in the web and its particular language? To examine the questions above, and others, the book collects more empirical data, claiming that the Internet will have a specific or novel impact on how religious traditions are interpreted. The blurring of previous boundaries (offline/online, virtual/local, illegitimate/legitimate religion) is another theme common to all the contributions in this volume.

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Book SynopsisTraffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents texts by international media and cultural scholars that address the relationship between symbolic and infrastructural dimensions of media, analysing traffic in terms of media ecology, as epistemological principle, and as (trans-)formative power. Contributors are: Menahem Blondheim, Grant David Bollmer, Richard Cavell, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Norm Friesen, Elihu Katz, Peter Krapp, Martina Leeker, Jana Mangold, John Durham Peters, Gabriele Schabacher, Michael Steppat, Wolfgang Sützl, Hartmut WinklerTable of ContentsMarion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert: Traffic – Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices: Introduction Section 1: Theorizing Traffic John Durham Peters: Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic Between Nature and Culture Gabriele Schabacher: Traffic as ‘Dirt Experience’: Harold Innis’s Tracing of Media Jana Mangold: Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory Hartmut Winkler: Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? Section 2: Traffic of Concepts Grant David Bollmer: Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality Norm Friesen: Dewey’s Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication Richard Cavell: McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat: Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions Section 3: Time, Space, and Power Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz: Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther Peter Krapp: Nomads of the Technical Sublime Wolfgang Suetzl: Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance Wolf-Dieter Ernst: Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel

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Book SynopsisTaking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume brings together contributions by distinguished experts from different disciplinary fields for a multidimensional view on immersion in the visual arts and media. In the current media debate, immersion has frequently been linked to the advent of digital technology and its capacity to provide vivid sensations of being placed in or surrounded by an artificial space. The idea of ‘liquidity’ contained in this promise to plunge into another world informs wide areas of contemporary cultural imagination, referring to a myriad of phenomena that relate to experiences of uncertainty and instability, of complexity and change. Considering the fact, however, that the idea of ‘liquid’ spaces appeared long before the digital creation of augmented or virtual environments, the contributors to this volume trace its reemerging throughout the history of the visual arts and media. By focusing on selected works of painting and architecture, photography and cinema, video installation and media art, they explore the variability of immersive experiences according to the different media environments and interfaces that constitute the actual sites of historically shifting relations between media and users. Contributors are: Matthias Bauer, Jörg von Brincken, Robin Curtis, Burcu Dogramaci, Thomas Elsaesser, Ole W. Fischer, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Ursula Frohne, Henry Keazor, Matthias Krüger, Katja Kwastek, Fabienne Liptay, Karl Prümm, Martin Warnke.Table of ContentsIntroduction Burcu Dogramaci & Fabienne Liptay Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media Part 1: Materials and Sensations of Immersion Burcu Dogramaci Water, Steam, Light: Artistic Materials of Immersion Robin Curtis Immersion and Abstraction as Measures of Materiality Katja Kwastek Immersed in Reflection: The Aesthetic Experience of Interactive Media Art Fabienne Liptay Neither Here nor There: The Paradoxes of Immersion Jörg von Brincken Phantom-Drug-Death Ride: The Psycho-sensory Dynamic of Immersion in Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void Part 2: Archaeologies and Technologies of Immersion Karl Prümm From the Unchained to the Ubiquitous Motion-Picture Camera: Camera Innovations and Immersive Effects Gundolf S. Freyermuth From Analog to Digital Image Space: Toward a Historical Theory of Immersion Martin Warnke On the Spot: The Double Immersion of Virtual Reality Ursula Frohne Expansion of the Immersion Zone: Military Simulacra between Strategic Training and Trauma Thomas Elsaesser Immersion between Recursiveness and Reflexivity: Avatar Part 3: Landscapes and Architectures of Immersion Henry Keazor Projection Rooms: Film as an Immersive Medium in the Architecture of Jean Nouvel Ole W. Fischer “The Treachery of Images”: Architecture, Immersion, and the Digital Realm Matthias Krüger Painting Immersion: Hans Thoma’s Landscapes Matthias Bauer Immersive Exhibition Design: Titanic Belfast and the Concept of Scenography Notes on Contributors Index of Names

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Book SynopsisGhost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became major box office hits. The emergence of the phenomenally popular “J-Horror” genre inspired similar ghost movie productions in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore. Ghost movies are embedded and reflected in national as well as transnational cultures and politics, in narrative traditions, in the social worlds of the audience, and in the perceptual experience of each individual. They reflect upon the identity crises and traumas of the living as well as of the dead, and they unfold affection and attraction in the border zone between amusement and thrill, secular and religious worldviews. This makes the genre interesting not only for sociologists, anthropologists, media and film scholars, but also for scholars of religion.Table of ContentsPeter J. Bräunlein: ‘Cinema-Spiritualism’ in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Encounters with Ghosts in the 21st Century Section 1: Narratives Vivian Lee: Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia: Universal Hybrids—The Trans/local Production of Pan-Asian Horror Elisabeth Scherer: Well-Travelled Female Avengers: The Transcultural Potential of Japanese Ghosts Martin Platt: Telling Tales: Variety, Community, and Horror in Thailand Maren Wilger: ‘Sundelbolong’ as a Mode of Femininity: Analysis of Popular Ghost Movies in Indonesia Section 2: Cultural Contexts Katarzyna Ancuta: That’s the Spirit! Horror Films as an Extension of Thai Supernaturalism Benjamin Baumann: The Khmer Witch Project: Demonizing the Khmer by Khmerizing a Demon Henri Myrttinen: Stepping Out from the Silver Screen and into the Shadows: The Fearsome, Ephemeral Ninjas of Timor-Leste Section 3: Audience Mary Ainslie: The Supernatural and Post-War Thai Film: Traditional Monsters and Social Mobility Natalie Boehler: Globalized Haunting: The Transnational Spectral in Apichatpong’s Syndromes and a Century and its Reception Patrick Keilbart: Pencak Silat, Ghosts, and (Inner) Power: Reception of Martial Arts Movies and Television Series amongst Young Pencak Silat Practitioners in Indonesia Ghost Movies, the Makers, and their Audiences: Andrea Lauser in Conversation with the Filmmakers Katarzyna Ancuta, Solarsin Ngoenwichit from Thailand and Mattie Do from Laos About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIn Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the “dynamic plant” through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature and film is extended beyond their symbolic function. Plants have been (and still are) seen as closer to static objects than to living, moving beings. Making use of examples from film and literature, Janet Janzen demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants-as-objects to plants-as-living-beings that can be attributed to new technology and also to the return of Romantic and Vitalistic discourses on nature.Trade Review"With its forty illustrations, bibliography, index, and English translations of original German citations, Janzen's book is an invaluable resource not only to scholars in German studies but to anyone across the disciplines with an interest in the nascent field of plant studies." --Alice Kuzniar, (University of Waterloo) Seminar: A Journal for Germanic Studies, Vol. 54, No.1 (2018).Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Flying Plants: Imaginary Media as a Model for Representing the Plant Soul in Kurd Lasswitz’s Sternentau: Die Pflanze vom Neptunsmond (1909) Chapter 2: Animating Glass: Representing the Elusive Plant Soul in Paul Scheerbart's “Flora Mohr: eine Glasblumen-Novelle” (1909) Chapter 3: Empathetic Media: Film and the “Gestures” of Plants in Das Blumenwunder (1926) Chapter 4: The Radical Other: The Metamorphosis of Humans and Animals into Plants in Gustav Meyrink's “Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella” (1905) Chapter 5: The Plant Bites!: Deviant Plants in Nosferatu and Alraune as Metaphors for Social Instability in Weimar Culture Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisJournalism ‘a Peacekeeping Agent’ at the Time of Conflict’ offers various perspectives to the question ‘Could journalism play a role as a peacekeeping agent in many contexts of conflict?’ with the contribution of academics from different countries. The book deals with media’s current issues through different aspects by presenting comparative studies on peace journalism, such as investigative journalism, media freedom, feminist news criticism, alternative media, peace photography, and fear culture. Also, in many chapters it provides a roadmap for implementing peace journalism to resolve conflict-oriented problems. Contributors: Jake Lynch, Samuel Peleg, Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu, Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli, Rukhsana Aslam, Sevda Alankuş, Annabel McGoldrick, Shabbir Hussain, Ece Algan, Maria Ahmad, Aradhana Sharma, Marianne Perez de Fransius, Meah Mostafiz, Steven Youngblood.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors PREFACE by Jake Lynch 1 Media as Conflict Environment: Peace Journalism and the De-Escalation of Strife Samuel Peleg 2 Providing a ‘New Road Map’ to the Obstacles of Peace Journalism in Turkey Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu and Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli 3 It Heals When It Reveals: Building an Alliance between Peace Journalism and Investigative Journalism Rukhsana Aslam 4 Re-Thinking Peace Journalism Theory with Feminist News Criticism and Ethics Sevda Alankuş 5 What Do You See in Time of Conflict? Threats and Terrorists Who Must Be Killed or Human Beings in Need? Annabel McGoldrick 6 Taliban Conflict in Pakistan: Analysis Through the Prism of Peace Journalism Shabbir Hussain 7 Practicing Peace Journalism in a Time of Declining Media Freedoms: The ‘News Watch Turkey’ Initiative as Activist Alternative Journalism Ece Algan 8 Fear and Propaganda: A Case for Peace Journalism Maria Ahmad, Aradhana Sharma and Marianne Perez de Fransius 9 Journalism in a Time of Fear: How Media and Governments Benefit from using Fear Meah Mostafiz 10 Resolving Conflicts Through ‘Peace’ Photography Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli AFTERWORD by Steven Youngblood

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Book SynopsisMedia, Ideology and Hegemony contains a range of topics that provide readers with opportunities to think critically about the new digital world. This includes work on old and new media, on the corporate power structure in communication and information technology, and on government use of media to control citizens. Demonstrating that the new world of media is a hotly contested terrain, the book also uncovers the contradictions inherent in the system of digital power and documents how citizens are using media and information technology to actively resist repressive power. This collection of essays is grounded with a critical theoretical foundation, and is informed by the importance of undertaking the analysis in historical perspective. Contributors are: Alfonso M. Rodríguez de Austria Giménez de Aragon, Burton Lee Artz, Arthur Asa Berger, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Marco Briziarelli, Savaş Çoban, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Junhao Hong, Robert Jensen, Douglas Kellner, Thomas Klikauer, Peter Ludes, Tanner Mirrlees, Vincent Mosco, Victor Pickard, Padmaja Shaw, Nick Stevenson, Gerald Sussman, Minghua Xu.Table of ContentsPreface  Vincent Mosco List of Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction  Savaş Çoban 1Global Media Practices and Cultural Hegemony: Growing, Harvesting, and Marketing the Consuming Audience  Burton Lee Artz 2The Return of Radical Humanism in Marxism and Anarchism? The Art of Refusal, Resistance and Humility  Nick Stevenson 3The Culture of Capitalism  Arthur Asa Berger 4Adorno on Ideology: Ideology Critique and Mass Consumerism  Thomas Klikauer 5Hegemony, Ideology, Media  Savaş Çoban 6Hegemony and the Media: A Culturally Materialist Narrative of Digital Labor in Contemporary Capitalism  Marco Briziarelli and Jeffrey Hoffmann 7Distorted Knowledge and Repressive Power  Peter Ludes 8Counter-Hegemony Narratives: Revolutionary Songs  Padmaja Shaw 9The US Empire’s Cultural Industries, at War: Selling and Subverting the Ideology of Militarism  Tanner Mirrlees 10Donald Trump and the Politics of the Spectacle  Douglas Kellner 11The US Media, State Legitimacy, and the New Cold War  Gerald Sussman 12American Journalism’s Ideology: Why the “Liberal” Media is Fundamentalist  Robert Jensen 13Media Activism from Above and Below: Lessons from the 1940s American Reform Movement  Victor Pickard 14The Role of the Hollywood Motion Picture Production Code (1930–1966) in the Creation of Hegemony  Alfonso M. Rodríguez de Austria Giménez de Aragón 15MH17as Free-Floating Atrocity Propaganda  Oliver Boyd-Barrett 16Commercial Reform and the Ideological Function of Chinese Television: A New Model in a New Era?  Junhao Hong and Minghua Xu  Index

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Book SynopsisOn the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture offers a polyphonic account of mutual interpenetrations of literature and new media. Shifting its focus from the personal to the communal and back again, the volume addresses such individual experiences as immersion and emotional reading, offers insights into collective processes of commercialisation and consumption of new media products and explores the experience and mechanisms of interactivity, convergence culture and participatory culture. Crucially, the volume also shows convincingly that, though without doubt global, digital culture and new media have their varied, specifically local facets and manifestations shaped by national contingencies. The interplay of the common subtext and local colour is discussed by the contributors from Eastern Europe and the Western world. Contributors are: Justyna Fruzińska, Dirk de Geest, Maciej Jakubowiak, Michael Joyce, Kinga Kasperek, Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor, Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki, Łukasz Mirocha, Aleksandra Mochocka, Emilya Ohar, Mariusz Pisarski, Anna Ślósarz, Dawn Stobbart, Jean Webb, Indrė Žakevičienė, Agata Zarzycka.Trade Review“The newly edited book On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture: Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe by Irene Barbara Kalla, Patrycja Poniatowska and Dorota Michuƚka presents eye-opening research and literary experiments that are largely foreign to literary studies in Southeast Asia.” - Florence Toh Haw Ching, Ikhlas Abdul Hadi, Australian International Academic Centre AU in International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies, 2018 pp. 187-188.Table of ContentsIntroduction  Barbara Kalla, Patrycja Poniatowska and Dorota Michułka Part 1: From the Centre to the Fringes and Back Again 1 Two Ends and One Beginning: Notes on the Future of Writing in the Post-Medial Context  Mariusz Pisarski 2 Digital Literature, Deinosis and Haptic Reading  Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor 3 Edgar Allan Poe’s Adventures in Convergence Culture  Agata Zarzycka 4 The Book and the Tablet as Media of Children’s Literature: A Ukrainian Case  Emilia Ohar 5 Literary Experiments with Automatic Translation: A Case Study of a Creative Experiment Involving King Ubu and Google Translate  Aleksandra Małecka and Piotr Marecki 6 Helping Ourselves Out of the Margins: Handbooks for Creative Writing as a Tool for Analyzing Literary Dynamics  Dirk de Geest Part 2: Games: Where Narratives (Do Not) Fear to Tread 7 The Witcher Adventure (Board) Game in The Witcher Transmedia Universe  Aleksandra Mochocka 8 Playing the Future History of Humanity: Situating Fallout 3 as a Narratological Artefact  Dawn Stobbart 9 Storytelling in the Age of Digital Media The Netwars – Out of Control Transmedia Project – A Case Study  Łukasz Mirocha 10 The Pitfalls of Narration: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger  Justyna Fruzińska Part 3: The Literary, the Digital and Their Social (Dis)Contents 11 Alice and Paddington: Digital Migrants from Book to Film  Jean Webb 12 Futures of Copyright: Literature as a Medium of Legal Change  Maciej Jakubowiak 13 Consumers of Popular Culture or Demanding Dictators? The Lithuanian Case  Indrė Žakevičienė 14 Product Placement Novels as a Literary Margin  Anna Ślósarz 15 Book Blogosphere on the Polish Internet  Kinga Kasperek 16 “Children of Our Age”: Digital Media and the Lie of Literature  Michael Joyce

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Book SynopsisTrans-afrohispanismos is an innovative approach to Afro-Hispanic studies. It focuses on the connections between peoples, territories, and media of expression at the confluence of Africa and the Hispanic world. Trans-afrohispanismos es una aproximación innovadora a los Estudios Afrohispánicos. Destaca las conexiones entre gentes, territorios y medios de expresión en la confluencia de África y el mundo hispánico.Table of ContentsAgradecimientos Lista de ilustraciones Notas biobibliográficas de los autores Introducción: ‘Trans-afrohispanismos’  Dorothy Odartey-Wellington Otros hispanismos / otras Áfricas: las fronteras de la afrohispanidad 1 Impresiones y conmociones culturales en el afrohispanismo africano  Justo Bolekia Boleká 2 El mestizaje lingüístico literario entre la lengua hassaniya o hasania y la lengua española hablada en la República del Sáhara Occidental  Bahia Mahmud Awah 3 La isla habitada: paisaje e insularidad  Antonio Becerra Bolaños 4 Afromexicanos: el caminar hacia el reconocimiento étnico  Gloria Lara Millán Diálogos intra- y transcontinentales: redes alternativas de comunicación y de comparación 5 El concepto de la corrupción en Adjá-Adjá y otros relatos de Maximiliano Nkogo Esono y El coronel no tiene quien le escriba de Gabriel García Márquez  Alain Lawo-Sukam 6 Límites poscoloniales – límites de lo poscolonial: ‘La higuera (o El ocaso del patriarca)’ del escritor hispanomarroquí Ahmed El Gamoun  Juliane Tauchnitz 7 El colonialismo y el patriarcado en la literatura afrohispana: los escritos de resistencia de Lehdia Dafa y María Nsue Angüe  Joanna Allan 8 El teatro afrohispano y la emergencia de una ciudadanía global: diálogos del Sur en espacios migratorios  Elisa Rizo 9 Tropos de transculturalidad en la obra de Agnès Agboton  Julia Borst Invenciones y reinvenciones identitarias: rimas y ritmos afro-globalizados 10 Tensiones y resistencia de una comunidad afroecuatoriana: la bomba del Chota  Nayra Pérez Hernández 11 La tradición oral y musical afroperuana, una aproximación  Milagros Carazas 12 La música de Concha Buika en el mercado cultural global: alianzas locales y transnacionales  Dosinda García-Alvite Universos trans-afrohispanos: traducciones, lenguas en contacto e interacciones digitales 13 ¿El nacimiento de una lengua afrohispana?: la influencia del español en el criollo inglés de Guinea Ecuatorial  Kofi Yakpo 14 Narradoras africanas en versión española: políticas editoriales y traducción  Maya García de Vinuesa 15 Temporalidades en red: representaciones artísticas de lo africano y lo afrodescendiente en la era digital  Eduard Arriaga 16 Ubuntu, cultura digital e identidad: literatura hispano-saharaui  Dorothy Odartey-Wellington Índice

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Book SynopsisDisassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible questions the credibility of celebrity brands, exploring how fandoms depend on perceptions and representations of authenticity. It asks how authenticity is projected by global celebrities, and how fans consume these carefully curated personas, and explores how the media breaks down barriers between celebrities and fans. It presents a discussion of celebrities as brands, exploring how their images are maintained after they pass away. It also offers analysis of the ways in which historical figures are later reconstructed as celebrities, and explores how their images are circulated and consumed across contemporary media. Ultimately, the book examines authenticity in celebrity culture by looking at fandom, media representation, branding and celebrity deaths. Contributors are Marie Josephine Bennett, Lise Dilling-Nielsen, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Mingyi Hou, Renata Iwicka, Ephraim Das Janssen, Magdalen Wing-Chi Ki, Celia Lam, Mirella Longo, Aliah Mansor, Jackie Raphael and Millicent Weber.Table of ContentsAssembling Celebrity Analysis  Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael and Millicent Weber Part I Constructed Authenticity: Fan Consumption of Celebrity Persona   Johnny’s Idol Persona Constructions and Female Fandom Consumption   Aliah Mansor   ‘Everyone is so Cynical’: On Authenticity in the World of Gaga   Lise Dilling-Nielsen   Participatory Consumption of Celebrity Products: Gangnam Style and its Parodies   Mingyi Hou Part II Deconstructing Authenticity: ‘Getting Backstage’ Behind Celebrity Personas   Stars Are Like Us: a Discourse Analysis of Printed Celebrity Press   Mirella Maines   Backstage Spaces: The Sherlock Incident   Celia Lam   Every Breath You Take: Sasaeng Fans   Renata Iwicka Part III Structured Authenticity: Eternal Celebrity Brands   Paul Walker: The Facts and the Fiction   Jackie Raphael   Trapped: James Douglas Morrison and His Enduring Celebrity Persona   Kylo-Patrick R. Hart Part IV Reconstructed Authenticity: Contemporary Re-Imagining of Historical Figures   Did it Really Happen? Celebrity and Authenticity   Ephraim Das Janssen   The Biopic Bias and Becoming Jane   Magdalen Wing-Chi Ki   Shamadeus? Reconstructing Mozart: The Continuing Impact of Amadeus and Myths on Mozart Reception   Marie Josephine Bennett

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Book SynopsisWhat does the backlash against Critical Race Theory, the Capitol insurrection, Trumpism, Twitter, and neo-Nazis have in common? This book delves deep into conservative social media and far-right extremist platforms to understand the revival and proliferation of far-right authoritarian populist discourses after Trump’s ascent to power. After the January 6th Capitol insurrection and the role social media have played in normalizing and promoting far-right populist authoritarianism, there is a renewed interest to study digital discursive aggression. Inspired by Critical Theory, Panayota Gounari masterfully uses Critical Discourse Studies to analyze social media data and articulate a discursive, pedagogical and historical project.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction  1 Far-Right Populist Authoritarianism 1 Far-Right Authoritarian Populism, Fascism, New Fascism, Trumpism  1 Introduction  2 A New Fascism?  3 Fascism, Neofascism, Far Right and Trumpism  4 Conclusion 2 One-Dimensional Discourse, Authoritarianism and Social Media: A Theoretical Framework  1 Introduction  2 What Is One-Dimensional Discourse?  3 Features of One-Dimensional Discourse  4 (Social) Media  5 From Mediatization to (Social) Mediatization  6 Conclusion 3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill: One-Dimensional Discursive Extremism and the Language of Digital Aggressiveness  1 Introduction  2 Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies (CDA/S) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)  3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill  4 Trump’s Speech at the Ellipse-Save America Rally  5 One-Dimensional Discourse and The Language of Total Administration  6 Discursive Themes/Argumentative Constructions  7 Conclusion 4 Against Critical Pedagogy: For a Critical Pedagogy with a Radical Political Project  1 Introduction  2 Historical Roots and Main Concepts of Critical Pedagogy: Making the Pedagogical Political  3 Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Today?  4 Moving Forward 5 Emergency Time as a Pedagogical Project: Historical Thinking and Critical Consciousness  1 ‘Actions Committed in the Past’  2 Emergency Time: Unsettled Accounts with History  3 History: A Critical Public Pedagogy Project of Recontextualization  4 Making the Pedagogical Historical and the Historical Pedagogical Appendix A: Trump’s Last Two Tweets on January 8th, 2021 Appendix B: Twitter Blog Post on the Permanent Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account, January 8th, 2021 Appendix C: Donald Trump Talking to Reporters after the Charlottesville Rally Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does the backlash against Critical Race Theory, the Capitol insurrection, Trumpism, Twitter, and neo-Nazis have in common? This book delves deep into conservative social media and far-right extremist platforms to understand the revival and proliferation of far-right authoritarian populist discourses after Trump’s ascent to power. After the January 6th Capitol insurrection and the role social media have played in normalizing and promoting far-right populist authoritarianism, there is a renewed interest to study digital discursive aggression. Inspired by Critical Theory, Panayota Gounari masterfully uses Critical Discourse Studies to analyze social media data and articulate a discursive, pedagogical and historical project.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction  1 Far-Right Populist Authoritarianism 1 Far-Right Authoritarian Populism, Fascism, New Fascism, Trumpism  1 Introduction  2 A New Fascism?  3 Fascism, Neofascism, Far Right and Trumpism  4 Conclusion 2 One-Dimensional Discourse, Authoritarianism and Social Media: A Theoretical Framework  1 Introduction  2 What Is One-Dimensional Discourse?  3 Features of One-Dimensional Discourse  4 (Social) Media  5 From Mediatization to (Social) Mediatization  6 Conclusion 3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill: One-Dimensional Discursive Extremism and the Language of Digital Aggressiveness  1 Introduction  2 Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies (CDA/S) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)  3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill  4 Trump’s Speech at the Ellipse-Save America Rally  5 One-Dimensional Discourse and The Language of Total Administration  6 Discursive Themes/Argumentative Constructions  7 Conclusion 4 Against Critical Pedagogy: For a Critical Pedagogy with a Radical Political Project  1 Introduction  2 Historical Roots and Main Concepts of Critical Pedagogy: Making the Pedagogical Political  3 Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Today?  4 Moving Forward 5 Emergency Time as a Pedagogical Project: Historical Thinking and Critical Consciousness  1 ‘Actions Committed in the Past’  2 Emergency Time: Unsettled Accounts with History  3 History: A Critical Public Pedagogy Project of Recontextualization  4 Making the Pedagogical Historical and the Historical Pedagogical Appendix A: Trump’s Last Two Tweets on January 8th, 2021 Appendix B: Twitter Blog Post on the Permanent Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account, January 8th, 2021 Appendix C: Donald Trump Talking to Reporters after the Charlottesville Rally Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research, Miquel Carandell presents a thrilling story of a controversy on an Spanish “First European” that involved scientists, politicians and newspapers. In the early 1980s, with Spanish democracy in its beginnings, the Orce bone was transformed from a famous human ancestor to an apparently ridiculous donkey remain. With a chronological narrative, this book is not centered on whether the bone was human or not, but on the circumstances that made a certain claim credible or not, from both the scientific community and the general public. Carandell’s analysis draws on the thin line that separates success from failure and the role of media and politics in the controversy.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Rough Guide to the Orce Man 0. Introduction - The Orce Man 1. Discovery (1976-1982) 1.1. Setting the scientific and political scene 1.2. ‘Look what we’ve found!’ The Orce Man among politicians, experts and the public 1.3. The ‘Spanish Olduvai’ and the discoverers’ reward 1.4. A great post-Franco discovery and a small but troubling crest 2. Controversy (1984-1987) 2.1. A painful trip to Paris: From man to donkey 2.2. A country’s ‘obsession’: ‘Is the Orce Man our ancestor?’ 2.3. Science in a ‘different dimension’ 3. Conference (1987-1996) 3.1. Gibert's research team and the conference preparation 3.2. An international conference as a ‘tool’ to convince 3.3. A triple victory (science, media and politics) 3.4. Scientific conferences: much more than debates among colleagues 4. End (1996-2007) 4.1. An unexpected attack 4.2. Control of the remains means control of the research 4.3. The process of isolation 4.4. The hominids that came from the south: Gibert's popular science book 4.5. The end of a long controversy 5. A ‘First’ American to compare with: The Pedra Furada controversy 6. Coda: The ‘Orce Boy’ 7. The Orce Man: controversy, failure, media and politics Appendices Annex I: Anatomical features of the Orce Man Annex II: News from 1983 to 1999 Annex III: The travelling bone Bibliography I. Interviews II: Archives III: Secondary Literature IV: The Press Index

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Book SynopsisThe articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of a global modernity. Recently, this discourse of Othering and national stereotyping has gained fresh political virulence as a result of the rise of “Identity Politics”. What is more, this newly politicized self/other discourse has affected Europe itself as that continent has been weathering a series of economic and political crises in recent years. The present volume traces the conjunction between cultural and literary traditions and contemporary ideologies during the crisis of European multilateralism. Contributors: Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė, Jürgen Barkhoff, Stefan Berger, Zrinka Blažević, Daniel Carey, Ana María Fraile, Wulf Kansteiner, Joep Leerssen, Hercules Millas, Zenonas Norkus, Aidan O’Malley, Raúl Sánchez Prieto, Karel Šima, Luc Van Doorslaer,Ruth WodakTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction Jürgen Barkhoff and Joep Leerssen PART 1: History and Identity Politics 1 Confronting the Other/Perceiving the Self National Historiographies and National Stereotypes in Twentieth-Century Europe  Stefan Berger 2 Claiming a Great Ancient Imperial Past as an Identity Element of a Small Modern Nation The Case of Lithuania  Zenonas Norkus and Aelita Ambruleviit 3 The Longue durée of Brexit Politics, Literature and the British Past  Daniel Carey PART 2: Identity Politics of the Neo-Right 4 From Identity Politics to the Identitarian Movement The Europeanisation of Cultural Stereotypes?  Karel Šima 5 Re/nationalising EU-rope National Identities, Right-Wing Populism, and Border- and Body-Politics  Ruth Wodak PART 3: Strategies of Othering 6 The Camp and the Home Europe as Myth and Metaphor  Joep Leerssen 7 The EU and the East-West Paradox The Case of Greece and Turkey  Hercules Millas 8 The Image of the Wall The Antemurale Christianitatis Myth from an Imagological ­Perspective  Zrinka Blaževi PART 4: Stereotyping in the Media 9 Prime Time Nationalism Patterns of Prejudice in tv Crime Fiction  Wulf Kansteiner 10 Stereotyping by Default in Media Transfer  Luc van Doorslaer 11 The Image of Spain in the Eyes of Austrian, Flemish, French, Italian, Polish and Bulgarian Facebook Users Text-Linguistic Opinion-Mining for Detecting and Analysing National Stereotypes  Raúl Sánchez Prieto PART 5: The Economic Crisis in Literature 12 Resilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from Spain  Ana María Fraile 13 Virtually There Spectral Ireland and European Stereotypes in the Novels of Paul Murray  Aidan O’Malley Index

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Book SynopsisTracing Behind the Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Visual Literacy, discusses how our relationship to images, collectively and individually, is constantly shifting, as we adapt to the evolving image economy of our increasingly screen-based world. This volume offers pedagogies, analyses and strategies for developing visual literacy across education and industry. The language of images embodies highly complex and nuanced statements and readings, the ability to invent and reinvent, it is bursting with opportunities to be lyrical, satirical, rhetorical, to unravel meanings, and to pose as many questions as it answers. It is a language of investigation and experimentation, it both constructs and shatters cultural expectations, and is constantly and rapidly transforming as forced by current social and political climates.Table of Contents List of Figures  Notes on Contributors  Introduction: The Visual Envelope  Julia Lane Part 1: Visual Literacy, Pedagogy, and Research  Introduction to Part 1 1 Understanding the Adolescent I and Eye: The Reading, Writing, Visualizing Nexus   Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar 2 Imaging Pedagogical Processes in Art Education   Marie Fulková and Zuzana Svatošová 3 Virtual Visuals: Exploring the Use of Pinterest as a Tool for Designing in Relation to Ideation   Lee Wright 4 Reimagining Research: Visual Literacies and Visual Pedagogy  Ted Hovet Part 2: Analysis, Interpretation, and Abstraction  Introduction to Part 2 5 Visual Rhetoric: Interdisciplinary Literacy and Graphic Design  Julia Lane 6 Peppa Pig is Gangsta: China’s Challenging Memes  Kay Hearn 7 Experiencing in Images and Thinking in Pictures  Terryl Atkins 8 The Picture-Sign in the Era of Picture Elements Proliferation  Jaroslav Vančát and Daniel Říha Part 3: Application, Adaptation, and Evolution  Introduction to Part 3 9 Visuality (Visual Literacy) Changes in the City Space  Pavla Gajdošíková and Jan Pfeiffer 10 Disadvantaged Children’s Creative Visualisation of Possible Futures  Lelia Green, Kylie J. Stevenson, and Panizza Allmark 11 Instagram and the Transmission of Drag Culture: The Effects of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Image Sharing in the Perth Drag Community  Claire Alexander 12 Virtual Reality Training for Workers in High-Risk Occupations  Kelly Jaunzems, Lelia Green, and David Leith  Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Winner of the 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award This diverse and global collection of scholars, educators, and activists presents a panorama of perspectives on media education and democracy in a digital age. Drawing upon projects in both the formal and non-formal education spheres, the authors contribute towards conceptualizing, developing, cultivating, building and elaborating a more respectful, robust and critically-engaged democracy. Given the challenges our world faces, it may seem that small projects, programs and initiatives offer just a salve to broader social and political dynamics but these are the types of contestatory spaces, openings and initiatives that enable participatory democracy. This book provides a space for experimentation and dialogue, and a platform for projects and initiatives that challenge or supplement the learning offered by traditional forms of education. The Foreword is written by Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) and the Postscript by Roberto Apirici and David García Marín (UNED, Madrid). Contributors are: Roberto Aparici, Adelina Calvo Salvador, Paul R. Carr, Colin Chasi, Sandra L. Cuervo Sanchez, Laura D’Olimpio, Milena Droumeva, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ellen Field, Michael Forsman, Divina Frau-Meigs, Aquilina Fueyo Gutiérrez, David García-Marín, Tania Goitandia Moore, José Gutiérrez-Pérez, Ignacio Haya Salmón, Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi, Michael Hoechsmann, Jennifer Jenson, Maria Korpijaakko, Sirkku Kotilainen, Emil Marmol, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo, Tania Ouariachi, Mari Pienimäki, Anna Renfors, Ylva Rodney-Gumede, Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Mar Rodríguez-Romero, Tafadzwa Rugoho, Juha Suoranta, Gina Thésée, Robyn M. Tierney, Robert C. Williams and María Luisa Zorrilla Abascal.Trade Review“This book offers bold, hopeful, and very timely accounts of grassroots critical media literacy practices in the service of building a participatory democracy worthy of the name in a postmodern world.” – Colin Lankshear, author of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning “A diversity of local projects from around the world, critically presented by authors who explore the convergence of formal, non-formal and informal education spheres with ubiquitous and lifelong education. Media education is represented here as inevitably linked to social justice, environmental education and other burning issues of our time.” – Alfonso Gutiérrez Martín, University of Valladolid (Segovia)Table of ContentsForeword: Lasting Lessons Learned from the “Fake News” Crisis MIL as the 1st Curriculum  Divina Frau-Meigs Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Struggle over Meaning in a World in Crisis  Michael Hoechsmann, Gina Thésée and Paul R. Carr PART 1: Engaging the Community 1 Ubuntu: Innovation and Decolonization in Media and Communication Studies  Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede 2 Participatory Democratic Production: In the Conception and Organization of a Makerspace  Robyn M. Tierney 3 Video Production and Global Civic Education: The School as Sandbox for Democracy 2.0  María Rodríguez-Romero 4 Media Education for the Inclusion of At-Risk Youth: Shades of Democracy 2.0 from Finland  Mari Pienimäki and Sirkku Kotilainen 5 Disability Representation in Digital Media in Zimbabwe  Tafadzwa Rugoho 6 Merging Media and Information Literacy and Human Rights Education: A Powerful Amalgam for Today’s Radical Democracy  Sandra L. Cuervo Sanchez and Tania Goitandia Moore PART 2: Framing Media Literacy 7 The Critical Mindset in Times of Distrust: Critical Thinking and Critical Consciousness and the Biopolitics of the Emerging Media Citizen  Michael Forsman 8 Buying in to Participatory Culture?: Critical Media Literacy and Social Media  Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ignacio Haya Salmón and Adelina Calvo Salvador 9 Gaming Education: Learning about Climate Change through Digital Game-Based Teaching  Tania Ouariachi, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo and José Gutiérrez-Pérez 10 Not without Us: A Feminist Pedagogy for Media Education 2.0  Aquilina Fueyo 11 Is It All Just Emojis and LOL: Or Can Social Media Foster Environmental Learning and Activism?  Ellen Field 12 The Social Media Landscape: Self-Simulation and Social Consequences  Maria Leena Korpijaakko PART 3: Transforming the Classroom 13 Critical Pedagogy for the Media Generation: Youth Media Use and Computational Literacy through Game-Making  Milena Droumeva and Jennifer Jenson 14 Post-Truth Explorers: Information Literacy vs. Fake News  María Luisa Zorrilla Abascal and Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi 15 Nine Key Insights: For a Robust and Holistic Critical News Media Literacy  Emil Marmol 16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere: Blogging, Media Literacy 2.0, and 21st Century Pedagogy  Robert C. Williams 17 Learning Democracy by Doing Wikiversity  Anna Renfors and Juha Suoranta 18 Multiliteracies and the Critical Thinker: Philosophical Engagement with New Media in the Classroom  Laura D’Olimpio Postscript: Bubbles and Baubles: Seeking Democracy 2.0 in a Post-Factual World  Roberto Aparici and David García-Marín Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Winner of the 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award This diverse and global collection of scholars, educators, and activists presents a panorama of perspectives on media education and democracy in a digital age. Drawing upon projects in both the formal and non-formal education spheres, the authors contribute towards conceptualizing, developing, cultivating, building and elaborating a more respectful, robust and critically-engaged democracy. Given the challenges our world faces, it may seem that small projects, programs and initiatives offer just a salve to broader social and political dynamics but these are the types of contestatory spaces, openings and initiatives that enable participatory democracy. This book provides a space for experimentation and dialogue, and a platform for projects and initiatives that challenge or supplement the learning offered by traditional forms of education. The Foreword is written by Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) and the Postscript by Roberto Apirici and David García Marín (UNED, Madrid). Contributors are: Roberto Aparici, Adelina Calvo Salvador, Paul R. Carr, Colin Chasi, Sandra L. Cuervo Sanchez, Laura D’Olimpio, Milena Droumeva, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ellen Field, Michael Forsman, Divina Frau-Meigs, Aquilina Fueyo Gutiérrez, David García-Marín, Tania Goitandia Moore, José Gutiérrez-Pérez, Ignacio Haya Salmón, Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi, Michael Hoechsmann, Jennifer Jenson, Maria Korpijaakko, Sirkku Kotilainen, Emil Marmol, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo, Tania Ouariachi, Mari Pienimäki, Anna Renfors, Ylva Rodney-Gumede, Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Mar Rodríguez-Romero, Tafadzwa Rugoho, Juha Suoranta, Gina Thésée, Robyn M. Tierney, Robert C. Williams and María Luisa Zorrilla Abascal.Trade Review“This book offers bold, hopeful, and very timely accounts of grassroots critical media literacy practices in the service of building a participatory democracy worthy of the name in a postmodern world.” – Colin Lankshear, author of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning “A diversity of local projects from around the world, critically presented by authors who explore the convergence of formal, non-formal and informal education spheres with ubiquitous and lifelong education. Media education is represented here as inevitably linked to social justice, environmental education and other burning issues of our time.” – Alfonso Gutiérrez Martín, University of Valladolid (Segovia)Table of ContentsForeword: Lasting Lessons Learned from the “Fake News” Crisis MIL as the 1st Curriculum  Divina Frau-Meigs Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Struggle over Meaning in a World in Crisis  Michael Hoechsmann, Gina Thésée and Paul R. Carr PART 1: Engaging the Community 1 Ubuntu: Innovation and Decolonization in Media and Communication Studies  Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede 2 Participatory Democratic Production: In the Conception and Organization of a Makerspace  Robyn M. Tierney 3 Video Production and Global Civic Education: The School as Sandbox for Democracy 2.0  María Rodríguez-Romero 4 Media Education for the Inclusion of At-Risk Youth: Shades of Democracy 2.0 from Finland  Mari Pienimäki and Sirkku Kotilainen 5 Disability Representation in Digital Media in Zimbabwe  Tafadzwa Rugoho 6 Merging Media and Information Literacy and Human Rights Education: A Powerful Amalgam for Today’s Radical Democracy  Sandra L. Cuervo Sanchez and Tania Goitandia Moore PART 2: Framing Media Literacy 7 The Critical Mindset in Times of Distrust: Critical Thinking and Critical Consciousness and the Biopolitics of the Emerging Media Citizen  Michael Forsman 8 Buying in to Participatory Culture?: Critical Media Literacy and Social Media  Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ignacio Haya Salmón and Adelina Calvo Salvador 9 Gaming Education: Learning about Climate Change through Digital Game-Based Teaching  Tania Ouariachi, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo and José Gutiérrez-Pérez 10 Not without Us: A Feminist Pedagogy for Media Education 2.0  Aquilina Fueyo 11 Is It All Just Emojis and LOL: Or Can Social Media Foster Environmental Learning and Activism?  Ellen Field 12 The Social Media Landscape: Self-Simulation and Social Consequences  Maria Leena Korpijaakko PART 3: Transforming the Classroom 13 Critical Pedagogy for the Media Generation: Youth Media Use and Computational Literacy through Game-Making  Milena Droumeva and Jennifer Jenson 14 Post-Truth Explorers: Information Literacy vs. Fake News  María Luisa Zorrilla Abascal and Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi 15 Nine Key Insights: For a Robust and Holistic Critical News Media Literacy  Emil Marmol 16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere: Blogging, Media Literacy 2.0, and 21st Century Pedagogy  Robert C. Williams 17 Learning Democracy by Doing Wikiversity  Anna Renfors and Juha Suoranta 18 Multiliteracies and the Critical Thinker: Philosophical Engagement with New Media in the Classroom  Laura D’Olimpio Postscript: Bubbles and Baubles: Seeking Democracy 2.0 in a Post-Factual World  Roberto Aparici and David García-Marín Index

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Book SynopsisIn Polish Jews in Israel: Polish-Language Press, Culture, and Politics Elżbieta Kossewska presents a study of the political history of Polish Jews in Israel and their cultural and intellectual achievements, with particular emphasis on the Polish-language press. The book describes Polish immigrants’ adaptation in Israeli society after World War II, and shows the shifting of emigrants’ attitudes and viewpoints against the backdrop of the Israeli political system. The book contains numerous testimonies, memoirs, and personal documents from Polish journalists and writers that have never been published before. These anecdotes, biographical curiosities, and fascinating details create an evocative and colorful picture of the lives of key figures of post-war Polish life in Israel.Trade Review"This book, originally published in 2015 by Warsaw University Press, is a highly scholarly volume, the product of meticulous and painstaking research, for the most part conducted in archives in Israel. The subject is an interesting and important one — addressing the larger questions of the path of emigrants toward integration and assimila¬tion in a new host culture through the medium of foreign language media in their native language. (…) With its extensive bibliography and detailed footnotes, Polish Jews in Israel is an invaluable reference source." - Mindy C. Reiser, Jewish Study Center, Washington, D.C., in AJL News and Reviews, February | March 2022, Volume II, No.6Table of ContentsList of Tables Introduction 1 Foreign Languages in Israel  1.1 The Status of Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew  1.2 Language and Press Policy  1.3 The Polish Language in Israel 2 Newspapers Published by the Progressive Party and the General Zionists  2.1 The Alliance of Jews from Poland in the Progressive Party  2.2 The Propaganda Policy of the Editors of Opinia  2.3 Nowiny [The News]  2.4 The Gomułka Aliyah 3 Mapai’s Press  3.1 Mapai’s Policy Towards Polish Journalists and Immigration  3.2 The Editorial Office  3.3 Clientelism  3.4 Language, Politics, and Propaganda  3.5 Nowiny versus Kurier  3.6 Nowiny-Kurier  3.7 The Lavon Affair and the Coalition Crisis 4 “Foreigners among Foreigners …” – The March Aliyah  4.1 Ambivalent Identity  4.2 Nowiny-Kurier vis-à-vis the March Aliyah  4.3 The Attitudes of Zionists and Postcommunists Towards the March Aliyah 5 Mapam’s Od Nowa  5.1 Mapam and the New Olim from Poland  5.2 Ignacy Iserles and “Homeless Themis”  5.3 Od Nowa – The Newspaper for Outsiders  5.4 Success with Readers in the Israeli Press  5.5 Between Commercialization and Weekly Opinion  5.6 Difficulties of Adaptation  5.7 Ethnic Politics and National Issues  5.8 Crisis 6 Walka – The Newspaper of the Israeli Communists  6.1 The Gomułka Aliyah and Maki  6.2 Walka  6.3 Controlled Adaptation of Communists  6.4 Israeli Communists and the International Communist Movement  6.5 March Epilogue: Biuletyn Związku Długoletnich Działaczy Ruchu Robotniczego  6.6 The Israeli Epilogue of Po Prostu and the Bund  Conclusion Glossary of Selected Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEducation, the production of knowledge, identity formation, and ideological hegemony are inextricably linked in early modern and modern Korea. This study examines the production and consumption of knowledge by a multitude of actors and across languages, texts, and disciplines to analyze the formulation, contestation, and negotiation of knowledge. The production and dissemination of knowledge become sites for contestation and struggle—sometimes overlapping, at other times competing—resulting in a shift from a focus on state power and its control over knowledge and discourse to an analysis of local processes of knowledge production and the roles local actors play in them. Contributors are Daniel Pieper, W. Scott Wells, Yong-Jin Hahn, Furukawa Noriko, Lim Sang Seok, Kokubu Mari, Mark Caprio, Deborah Solomon, and Yoonmi Lee.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Knowledge Production in the Struggle for Power and State Formation in Korea, 1875–1945  Andrew Hall and Leighanne Yuh Part 1: Education and Language Issues in Late Chosŏn 1 Linguistic Modernity, Education, and Nationalizing the Vernacular in Pre-colonial Korea: Divergences between Western Missionary and Indigenous Discourses  Daniel Pieper 2 Legitimizing Literary Sinitic in Korea’s Pre-colonial Classroom: Yŏ Kyuhyŏng and the Publication of Hanmunhak kyogwasŏ  W. Scott Wells 3 Late Nineteenth-Century Modern Education in Korea: The State, Ideology, and Moral Education  Leighanne Yuh 4 Official Foreign Language Schools in Korea, 1894–1906  Yong-Jin Hahn Part 2: Japanese Colonial Education: Plans, Schools, and Textbooks 5 Japan’s Education Policies in Korea in the 1910s: “Thankful and Obedient”  Andrew Hall 6 The Construction of Elementary Education in Early Colonial Korea: Non-compulsory Education and Japan’s Dissemination of Schools  Furukawa Noriko 7 Korean Language Textbooks, 1895–1932: Mixed Script, Hanmun, and Colonization  Lim Sang-Seok 8 History Education in Colonial-Era Korea: The Rise and Fall of Chōsen Jireki as Local History  Kokubu Mari Part 3: Korean Responses to Colonial Rule 9 Korean Reactions to Japanese Education Policy under Cultural Rule, 1920–1931  Mark E. Caprio 10 “The Spirit of Our Students, Our Children!”: Korean Student Identity and the 1919 March First Movement in The Grass Roof and The Yalu Flows  Deborah B. Solomon 11 Christianity, Western Modernity, and the “Third Space” in Colonial Korea: The US-Educated Elite and the Quest for Democracy  Yoonmi Lee Index

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Book SynopsisMedia constitute a privileged field of analysis as it interferes dynamically with the current popular ideas and myths (myths which narrate, explain and often justify social realities – such as games of power, economic and financial inequalities, drug dealing, disasters, diseases or pandemic threats). In this frame, the archetypal dimensions of the imaginary, of gossiping and of storytelling also seem to play an important role even in the frame of the (so called) “rational discourse”. Media Narratives is an effort to analyze ongoing narratives (either political or fictional) in Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Mexico or United States, expressing interpretations of contemporary events (such as crimes, scandals, diseases or political activism), but also presenting common beliefs and desires revealed by the popular artistic creations. These narratives compose the mythical background of the contemporary globalized world, the “spirit of the time” as Edgar Morin had named it, a spirit which is expressed in current ideas and mentalities. This effort can be characterized as a representative survey of popular beliefs of the 21st Century represented in storytelling. The articles collected in this book will reveal some important facets of the contemporary mythologies. Contributors are: Lucia Acuña-Pedro, Graziela Ares, Eduardo Barbabela, Mercedes Calzado, Omar Cerrillo Garnica, Christiana Constantopoulou, Mariana Fernández, Humberto Fernandes, Jaqueline García Cordero, Enrique García Romero, Leda Maria Caira Gitahy, Yamila Gómez, Vanesa Lio, Melina Meimaridis, José A. Ruiz San Román, Pedro Paulo Martins Serra, Hara Stratoudaki, Leandro R. Tessler, and Gabriela Villen.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Media Narratives of Contemporary Mythologies   Christiana Constantopoulou 2 The New Criminal News Narrative Modalities on Fear of Crime in Newscasts of the City of Buenos Aires, 2015–2019   Mercedes Calzado, Mariana Fernández, Yamila Gómez, and Vanesa Lio 3 ‘Sex, Drugs and Communism’ Far-Right Narratives about Universities in Brazil   Gabriela Villen, Graziela Ares, Leda Maria Caira Gitahy, and Leandro R. Tessler 4 The Business Elite and Media Worked Together? Analyzing Both Narratives in the Brazilian 2016 Impeachment Process   Humberto Fernandes and Eduardo Barbabela 5 Crime or Commiseration The Contingent Framing of Homelessness on Brazilian Television   Pedro Paulo Martins Serra 6 Immortal and Happy! Myths about Vulnerability in the Press   José A. Ruiz San Román, Enrique García Romero, Jaqueline García Cordero, Lucía Acuña-Pedro, and Miranda Claudio Cornejo 7 Blogging National Identity   Hara Stratoudaki 8 Contemporary Mythologies of Television’s Fictional Institutions in the United States   Melina Meimaridis 9 Mexican Drug Dealers in tv Series Symbols of New Heroism or the Adulation of Bandits?   Omar Cerrillo Garnica 10 Mythic Representations of Heterosexual Relations in Popular Serials Romantic Love against “Hyper Realistic” Porn   Christiana Constantopoulou 11 Concluding Remarks Consumer Storytelling in Advanced-Modern Societies   Christiana Constantopoulou Index

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Book SynopsisFashion is an integral part of popular culture, closely intertwined with tales, magazines, photography, cinema, television, music and sports...up to the emergence of dedicated exhibitions and museums. Fashion is undergoing a major digital transformation: garments and apparels are presented and sold online, and fashion trends and styles are launched, discussed and negotiated mainly in the digital arena. While going well beyond national and linguistic borders, digital fashion communication requires further cultural sensitivity: otherwise, it might ignite inter-cultural misunderstandings and communication crises. This book presents the recent transformation of fashion from being a Cinderella to becoming a major cultural attractor and academic research subject, as well as the implications of its digital transformation. Through several cases, it documents intercultural communication crises and provides strategies to interpret and prevent them.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Fashion and (Popular) Culture  2 Fashion and Communication (Technologies)  Concluding Remarks References

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Book SynopsisThe presidency of Donald J. Trump, has had a considerable impacts on American politics and society. One of these was his altering of the comedic mood in America, taking comedy away from many of its traditions. His presidency turned comedy into political weaponry, as comedians on the liberal side of politics turned their efforts to ridiculing Trump’s buffoonish persona, while on the conservative side, a Trump-supportive group of comedians mocked those very comedians who opposed Trump. Trump himself emerged as a comedian, performing his dark, caustic, comical routines with consummate skill at his rallies. If comedy is a pulse for a country, then it is legitimate to ask if that pulse still beating, even after Trump lost reelection in 2020. This book will address this question, examining how Trump’s presidency interrupted the historical flow of American comedic traditions, and how it spread a dark mood throughout American society.Table of ContentsPreface Abstract Keywords  1 American Comedy  2 Buffoonery  3 Dark Comedy  4 The Circus Came and Went  5 A Comedic Nightmare References Index

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Book SynopsisJournalism ‘a Peacekeeping Agent’ at the Time of Conflict’ offers various perspectives to the question ‘Could journalism play a role as a peacekeeping agent in many contexts of conflict?’ with the contribution of academics from different countries. The book deals with media’s current issues through different aspects by presenting comparative studies on peace journalism, such as investigative journalism, media freedom, feminist news criticism, alternative media, peace photography, and fear culture. Also, in many chapters it provides a roadmap for implementing peace journalism to resolve conflict-oriented problems. Contributors: Jake Lynch, Samuel Peleg, Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu, Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli, Rukhsana Aslam, Sevda Alankuş, Annabel McGoldrick, Shabbir Hussain, Ece Algan, Maria Ahmad, Aradhana Sharma, Marianne Perez de Fransius, Meah Mostafiz, Steven Youngblood.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors PREFACE by Jake Lynch 1 Media as Conflict Environment: Peace Journalism and the De-Escalation of Strife Samuel Peleg 2 Providing a ‘New Road Map’ to the Obstacles of Peace Journalism in Turkey Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu and Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli 3 It Heals When It Reveals: Building an Alliance between Peace Journalism and Investigative Journalism Rukhsana Aslam 4 Re-Thinking Peace Journalism Theory with Feminist News Criticism and Ethics Sevda Alankuş 5 What Do You See in Time of Conflict? Threats and Terrorists Who Must Be Killed or Human Beings in Need? Annabel McGoldrick 6 Taliban Conflict in Pakistan: Analysis Through the Prism of Peace Journalism Shabbir Hussain 7 Practicing Peace Journalism in a Time of Declining Media Freedoms: The ‘News Watch Turkey’ Initiative as Activist Alternative Journalism Ece Algan 8 Fear and Propaganda: A Case for Peace Journalism Maria Ahmad, Aradhana Sharma and Marianne Perez de Fransius 9 Journalism in a Time of Fear: How Media and Governments Benefit from using Fear Meah Mostafiz 10 Resolving Conflicts Through ‘Peace’ Photography Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli AFTERWORD by Steven Youngblood

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Book SynopsisBased on papers presented at the Fifth Triennial Conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AERTI) held in 2002 in Hamburg, the twenty-two essays in this volume cover a wide array of intermedial relations and a great variety of media, from medieval architecture to interactive digital art. They have been arranged in sections labeled “History and Identity,” “Cultural Memory,” “Texts and Photographs: Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Memory,” “Mixed-Media Texts: Cartography in Contemporary Art and Fiction,” “Mixed-Media Texts: ‘Yellow-Cover Books’, Artists' Books, and Comics,” “Intermedia Texts: Logotypes,” and “Space, Spatialization, Virtual Space.” Displaying a range of methods and interests, these contributions by scholars from Europe, the United States, and South America working in different disciplines confirm the impression voiced by IAWIS president Charlotte Schoell-Glass in her introduction that “the influence of Visual and Cultural Studies has changed the outlook of many who study the interactions of texts and images”.Table of ContentsCharlotte SCHOELL-GLASS: Introduction History and Identity Pamela J. WARNER: “To Paint the Color of Things”: The Goncourt Brothers and the Pictoriality of History Lauren S. WEINGARDEN : The Mirror as a Metaphor of Baudelairean Modernity Valentin NUSSBAUM : À l’ombre des portraits en fleurs: Symbolisme et troubles de l’identité de Whistler à Hitchcock Andrea GRUNERT : L’Histoire transformée en légende: Andrzej Wajda et la Pologne idéalisée Cultural Memory Marijke JONKER : “From Death and Despair to Hope”: Géricault, Poussin, and Cultural Memory in France Stephanie A. GLASER : “Deutsche Baukunst”, “Architecture Française”: The Use of the Gothic Cathedral in the Creation of National Memory in Nineteenth-Century Germany and France Nathalie ROELENS : La Représentation de la barbarie en littérature, en peinture et au cinéma Texts and Photographs: Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Memory Étienne SAMAIN : Les Risques du texte et de l’image: Autour de Balinese Character (1942), Gregory Bateson et Margaret Mead Rebecca J. DEROO : Boltanski’s Display at the Documenta 5: Personal or Cultural Memory? Ursala REIDEL-SCHREWE : The Burial Place of Heimat Mixed-Media Texts: Cartography in Contemporary Art and Fiction Christina LJUNGBERG : Cartographic Strategies in Contemporary Fiction Susanne DÜCHTING : The Interaction of Art and Cartography in the Work of Simon Patterson and Susanne Weirich Mixed-Media Texts: “Yellow-Cover Books”, Artists’ Books, and Comic Strips Fumiko T. TOGASAKI : Defiance from Within: Cosmopolitan “Innovators” in Isolated Feudal Japan Regine RAPP : Tango with Cows: Russian Futurist Book Art Véronique PLESCH : From Image to Word: The Books of Lucie Lambert Claude DUÉE : Là où le mot se fait image et où l’image se fait mot: Nouvelle bande dessinée et bande dessinée d’avant-garde Intermedia Texts : Logotypes Hans LUND : Alma Mater’s New Face: From University Seals to University Logos Claus CLÜVER : Mini-Icons: Letterforms, Logos, Logopoems Space, Spatialization, Virtual Space Massimo LEONE : On the QuincunX Carrie NOLAND : Graffiti and the Reinvention of Space Alan PROHM : Resources for a Poetics of Visual Poetry James TOBIAS : Gesture, Techniques, and Time: Disorientation at the Interface Notes about the contributors

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Book SynopsisCe volume réunit un ensemble d’études sur et autour de la médiologie de Régis Debray. Il présente l’avantage de comporter des essais explicatifs clairs et précis sur la théorie et la pratique médiologiques par des médiologues eux-mêmes (Régis Debray, Daniel Bougnoux et Louise Merzeau). L’ouvrage comprend également des analyses sur la réception de la médiologie, notamment aux Etats-Unis, ainsi qu’une série d’articles qui situent la médiologie dans le contexte plus large des disciplines dites connexes, notamment la sémiologie, l’anthropologie, les media studies et cultural studies d’inspiration anglo-américaine, la culture internet et le post-média. Cet ensemble d’études « médio-média » fait le point aussi bien sur le personnage de Régis Debray que sur le chantier médiologique qu’il a initié. Un ouvrage utile pour toute personne qui s’interesse à la question essentielle de la transmission culturelle.Table of ContentsStéphane SPOIDEN: Médio-Média – Introduction La médiologie par les médiologues: Régis DEBRAY: Où en est-on « vingt ans après ? » Daniel BOUGNOUX: La condition médiologique Louise MERZEAU: Penser la médiation Médio/Sémio/Média Nathalie ROELENS: Sémiotique et médiologie : frères de lait, plus que jamais Pierre LÉVY: Pour une langue de l’intelligence collective Olivier BLONDEAU: « Become the Media ! » Du post-media au médiascape Régis Debray et la médiologie en Amérique Wayne WOODWARD: Dialogue transatlantique : Harold Innis, James Carey et le project médiologique Stéphane SPOIDEN: Les rendez-vous manqués : de la médiologie en Amérique Jeffrey MEHLMAN: Du tour néo-conservateur dans la pensée française : reflexions d’un ami américain Entretien avec Régis Debray Stéphane SPOIDEN: Propos sur la médiologie – entretien avec Régis Debray Résumés

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Book SynopsisThis book, a first in its kind, offers a survey of the present state of affairs in media accessibility research and practice. It focuses on professional practices which are relative newcomers within the field of audiovisual translation and media studies, namely, audio description for the blind and visually impaired, sign language, and subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing for television, DVD, cinema, internet and live performances. Thanks to the work of lobbying groups and the introduction of legislation in some countries, media accessibility is an area that has recently gained marked visibility in our society. It has begun to appear in university curricula across Europe, and is the topic of numerous specialised conferences. The target readership of this book is first and foremost the growing number of academics involved in audiovisual translation at universities – researchers, teachers and students – but it is also of interest to the ever-expanding pool of practitioners and translators, who may wish to improve their crafts. The collection also addresses media scholars, members of deaf and blind associations, TV channels, and cinema or theatre managements who have embarked on the task of making their programmes and venues accessible to the visually and hearing impaired.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Jorge DÍAZ CINTAS, Pilar ORERO, Aline REMAEL: Media for all: a global challenge Section 1: Subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) Aline REMAEL: Sampling subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing in Europe Clive MILLER: Access symbols for use with video content and information and communications technology devices Christopher STONE: Deaf access for Deaf people: the translation of the television news from English into British Sign Language Josélia NEVES: A world of change in a changing world Vera Lúcia SANTIAGO ARAÚJO: Subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in Brazil Section 2: Audio description (AD) Pilar ORERO: Sampling audio description in Europe Joan GREENING, Deborah ROLPH: Accessibility: raising awareness of audio description in the UK Gert VERCAUTEREN: Towards a European guideline for audio description Andrew SALWAY: A corpus-based analysis of audio description Julian BOURNE, Catalina JIMÉNEZ HURTADO: From the visual to the verbal in two languages: a contrastive analysis of the audio description of The Hours in English and Spanish Karin De COSTER, Volkmar MÜHLEIS: Intersensorial translation: visual art made up by words Anna MATAMALA, Pilar ORERO: Accessible opera in Catalan: opera for all Greg YORK: Verdi made visible: audio introduction for opera and ballet Jessica YEUNG: Audio description in the Chinese world Notes on contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCollective Creativity combines complex and ambivalent concepts. While ‘creativity’ is currently experiencing an inflationary boom in popularity, the term ‘collective’ appeared, until recently, rather controversial due to its ideological implications in twentieth-century politics. In a world defined by global cultural practice, the notion of collectivity has gained new relevance. This publication discusses a number of concepts of creativity and shows that, in opposition to the traditional ideal of the individual as creative genius, cultural theorists today emphasize the collaborative nature of creativity; they show that ‘creativity makes alterity, discontinuity and difference attractive’. Not the Romantic Originalgenie, but rather the agents of the ‘creative economy’ appear as the new avant-garde of aesthetic innovation: teams, groups and collectives in business and science, in art and digital media who work together in networking clusters to develop innovative products and processes. In this book, scholars in the social sciences and in cultural and media studies, in literature, theatre and visual arts present for the first time a comprehensive, inter- and transdisciplinary account of collective creativity in its multifaceted applications. They investigate the intersections of artistic, scientific and cultural practice where the individual and the collective merge, come together or confront each other.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Gerhard Fischer and Florian Vassen: Introduction. Collective Creativity: Traditional Patterns and New Paradigms Historical and Theoretical Reflections on Creative Collaboration Rolf G. Renner: Subversion of Creativity and the Dialectics of the Collective David Roberts: From the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism to the Creative Economy: Reflections on the New Spirit of Art and Capitalism Annette Vowinckel: Is Simulation a Collective Creative Practice? Gerd Koch and Sinah Marx: Collective Creative Processes in Behavioural Studies: Community Theatre as an Agency of Political Research and Action Peter F. N. Hörz and Marcus Richter: Old Know-how for New Challenges: East Germans and Collective Creativity? Two Anthropological Case Studies The Caesura around 1800: Collectivity and Individuality Franz-Josef Deiters: From Collective Creativity to Authorial Primacy: Gottsched’s Reformation of the German Theatre from a Mediological Point of View Gabriele Fois-Kaschel: Synergetic Art Production: Choreography in Classical and Neo-classical Discourse on Performative Arts Susanne Ledanff: Kindred Spirits: Collective Explorations of Individuality in the Classical Period (Goethe, Schiller, Wilhelm von Humboldt) Alan Corkhill: Keeping it in the Family? The Creative Collaborations of Sophie and Dorothea Tieck Axel Fliethmann: Vision around 1800: The Panorama as Collective Artwork Visual Arts, New Media and Internet Danny McDonald, Katherine McDonald and Gavin Lambert: DEXA-Dan: Embedding the Corporeal Body Janet Chan, Roanna Gonsalves and Noreen Metcalfe: Bridging the Two Cultures: The Fragility of Interdisciplinary Creative Collaboration Annette Hamilton: Neo Rauch: Post-socialist Vision, Collective Memories Tara Forrest: Creative Co-productions: Alexander Kluge’s Television Experiments Roman Marek: Creativity Meets Circulation: Internet Videos, Amateurs and the Process of Evolution Collective Writing Thomas Ernst: From Avant-Garde to Capitalistic Teamwork: Collective Writing between Subversion and Submission Christiane Weller: Travelling Companions: Cook’s Second Voyage in the Writing of Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster Alison Lewis: The Romancing of Collective Creativity: The ‘Bitterfelder Weg’ in Brigitte Reimann’s Letters and Diaries Stefanie Kreuzer: Intertextuality as Mandatory Collective Creativity? Textual Interconnection in Klaus Hoffer’s Novel Bei den Bieresch Christopher Kelen: Community in the Translation/Response Continuum: Poetry as Dialogic Play Collectivity and Theatre Arts Florian Vassen: From Author to Spectator: Collective Creativity as a Theatrical Play of Artists and Spectators Ulrike Garde: Spotlight on the Audience: Collective Creativity in Recent Documentary and Reality Theatre from Australia and Germany Meg Mumford: Fluid Collectives of Friendly Strangers: The Creative Politics of Difference in the Reality Theatre of Rimini Protokoll and Urban Theatre Projects Günther Heeg: Transcultural Gestures: Collective Engagement in Theatre, Practice of Separation and Intermedial Crystallizations Appendix Gerhard Fischer: Call for Papers: The Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009 Contributors

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