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Book SynopsisDiese Untersuchung zeigt, wie sich TextproduzentInnen beim Verfassen eines Textes an ihrem Leser orientieren, wie sie die Planung, Formulierung und Überarbeitung ihres Textes auf einen spezifischen Adressaten zuschneiden. Bei der kontrastiven Analyse dreier Schreibaufgaben Spielanleitungen für Computerspiele, Bewerbungsbriefe und Absagebriefe einer Verwaltung wird deutlich, dass die Art der Adressatenorientierung besonders von den (Schreib-)Voraussetzungen der SchreiberInnen abhängt. Als Untersuchungsgrundlage dienen neben Texten und ethnographischen Daten (Fragebogenerhebungen) vor allem Aufnahmen der Gespräche, die bei der gemeinsamen Arbeit der SchreiberInnen entstehen. Ausgehend von den Ergebnissen der Analysen werden Hinweise für die Ausbildung von TextproduzentInnen skizziert.

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Book SynopsisInterkulturelle Mediation wird sowohl in den Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaften als auch in der Praxis interkultureller Bildung und Didaktik zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts als ein Konzept gehandelt, mit dessen Hilfe interpersonale Verständigung und Konfliktbearbeitung in interkulturell bedingten Kontexten besonders konstruktiv gehandhabt werden könnten. Dennoch scheint eine entsprechende kritische und deskriptive Grundlagenforschung erst in ihren Anfängen zu stecken. Dieser Band versammelt 20 Grundlagentexte aus den Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, den Sozialwissenschaften, der Rechtssoziologie sowie der Mediationsforschung aus Deutschland, Frankreich, den USA, Australien und Neuseeland, um Einblicke in aktuelle Problemfelder und Fragestellungen interkultureller Mediation aufzuzeigen.

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Book SynopsisDer für Dritte bisher geschlossene Schauplatz polizeilicher Vernehmungen und grenzpolizeilicher Einreisebefragungen wurde für diese wissenschaftliche Untersuchung erstmals für Videoaufnahmen geöffnet: Anhand realer gedolmetschter Settings in fünf Sprachen gelingt es der Autorin, basierend auf den Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, einen grundlegenden Einblick in Abläufe, ritualisierte Prozesse, Rollen des Dolmetschers und seine Translationshandlungen zu geben. Die akribische, explorative Untersuchung und die transparente Vorgehensweise erlauben es dem Leser, jeden Untersuchungsschritt auch anhand zahlreicher Transkriptionen nachzuvollziehen. Die Untersuchung leistet einen Beitrag zur aktuellen translationswissenschaftlichen Forschung im Bereich des Community Interpreting.

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Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive introduction to English text-linguistics. It deals with those areas of text-linguistics that have enjoyed widespread attention in English linguistics, notably aspects of cohesion and coherence. Further topics are corpus-based studies in lexical patterns and in text classifications, psycholinguistic and cognitive studies in text constitution and decoder-orientation. One special feature of this book is that it not only covers abstract lexical and grammatical structures but also medium-dependent written and spoken presentation.Table of ContentsContents: The scope of text-linguistics – Medium-independent elements and structures – Medium-dependent presentation – Psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects of text constitution – Decoder-orientation – Textual intentions.

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Book SynopsisWhen people are checking in to flights, making reports to their company manager, composing music, delivering papers for exams in schools, or examining patients in hospitals, they all deal with documents and processes of documentation. In earlier times, documentation took place primarily in libraries and archives. While the latter are still important document institutions, documents today play a far more essential role in social life in many different domains and cultures. In this book, which celebrates the ten year anniversary of documentation studies in Tromsø, experts from many different disciplines, professional domains as well as cultures around the world present their way of dealing with documents, demonstrating many potential directions for the emerging broad field of documentation studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the personal and social lives of e-actors interacting within the socio-technical structures of the evolving broadband society by exploring the different ways in which individuals, social groups, institutions, operators, manufactures, policy makers, designers and other parties contribute to human communication and social interaction in contemporary media societies. The volume covers four theoretical and empirical areas of research: the conceptual perspectives of e-actors, the emergence of new forms of agency, subjectivity, and mediated interpersonal communication, the everyday life experiences of e-actors, and finally the shaping policies and regulations in the broadband society.Trade Review«This collection of conference papers, with palpable consistency in quality, comes together as a coherent whole. It beckons us to re-conceptualize the relation between technology and society in light of the new realities created by user empowerment. It will serve as an excellent springboard for scholars seeking to break new theoretical ground.» (Harmeet Sawhney, Editor-in-Chief, The Information Society) «This volume sheds revealing light on the subject of e-actors and their personal and social lives as broadband technology becomes a fundamental part of their daily routines. Though diverse in range and topic, chapter authors do a marvelous job of integrating data from an array of topics to produce a rich and varied mosaic of analysis. Investigations range from the highly personal to that of national policies, yielding valuable insights at levels ranging from the phenomenological and personal to that of institutions and policy.» (Professor James E. Katz, Director, Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University) «This book addresses a variety of complex and vexing questions. It brings together researchers from around Europe to ask just what kind of society are we in and how useful are the labels we commonly deploy to describe it.» (Professor Richard Harper, Principal Researcher, MSR Cambridge)Table of ContentsContents: Leopoldina Fortunati/Jane Vincent/Julian Gebhardt/Andraž Petrovčič/Olga Vershinskaya: Introduction: Approaching the notion of humans as e-actors interacting with Broadband Society – Leopoldina Fortunati: From ICT User to Broadband e-Actor – Gregor Petrič/Andraž Petrovčič/Vasja Vehovar: Communication Technology Use as a Structuration Process: Exploring the Communicative Portraits of Active Users – Hajo Greif/Oana Mitrea/Matthias Werner: Usability vs. Functionality? Mobile Broadband Technologies and User Agency – Giuseppina Pellegrino: Mediated Bodies in saturated environments: Participation as co-construction – Amparo Lasen: Mobile Culture and Subjectivities: an Example of the Shared Agency between People and Technology – Julian Gebhardt: Alfred Schütz and the media: The intersubjective constitution of mediated interpersonal communication in everyday life – Jane Vincent: Me and My Mobile – Vsevolod M. Zherebin: Information Society as the Law-governed Result of the Evolution of Information – Olga Vershinskaya: Theoretical Approach to the Concept of Humans as e-Actors – Lilia Raycheva: Television: The Good, The Bad and the Unexpected Challenges of ICT – Panayiota Tsatsou: Digital Divides in Greece: The Role of Culture and Regulation in Internet Adoption. Implications for the European Information Society – Vesna Dolničar: Regulating on an informed basis: Integrative methodological framework for monitoring the digital divide.

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Book SynopsisThis volume represents a collection of recent thinking and research on the social and cultural aspects of contemporary broadband societies by exploring the social experiences and practices of using new information and communication technologies (ICT) within different contexts and domains of the emerging broadband society. It offers a compendium of the latest thoughts and questions on digitally mediated citizenship, networked identity, and sociality in the 21st Century and covers four main themes and empirical areas of research: uses and practices of new media, with particular focus on underprivileged groups, new media and the social differentiation of their use, ICT use and sustainable development, and finally new technologies, new challenges.Trade Review«This volume offers a range of papers on the user experiences with broadband technologies. It avoids fashionable topics and pays special attention to overlooked areas.» (Harmeet Sawhney, Editor-in-Chief, The Information Society) «This volume offers an impressive collection of empirical research. Drawing on experiences across domains and from around the world, the contributors add substantially to the base of knowledge about what humans do with ever-growing access to digital communication resources. They show just how intensely personal ICTs have become.» (Professor James E. Katz, Director, Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University) «Deploying perspectives from a variety of social sciences, this volume brings together researchers from around Europe and offers a compendium of the latest thoughts and questions on digitally mediated citizenship, networked identity, and sociality in the 21st Century.» (Professor Richard Harper, Principal Researcher, MSR Cambridge)Table of ContentsContents: Julian Gebhardt/Hajo Greif/Lilia Raycheva/Claire Lobet-Maris/Amparo Lasen: Introduction: The Broadband Society and its Citizens – Tim Van Lier/Jo Pierson: Identification of community practices and co-creation by pre-adolescents: the case of Ketnet Kick – Beatriz Galán/Maidana Andrés Legal/D.I. Pedro Senar: Design and communication for local development: technological decisions in collaborative scenarios – Marina Borovik/Ludmilla Shemberko: Social Sciences Information User Behaviour and Searching Strategies in Multifarious Environment – Sarah Gallez/Anne-Claire Orban/Céline Schöller/Claire Lobet-Maris: Teenagers on the Net: Generational Divide, Autonomy, Liberty and Responsibility – Maria Sourbati: Non-Users in the Information Society Learning from the older generation – Inge Røpke/Kirsten Gram-Hanssen/Jesper Ole Jensen: Households’ ICT use in an energy perspective – Kerstin Wüstner: Attitudes towards mobile phone communication technology – Sharon Baurley/Erik Geelhoed/Philippa Brock/Andrew Moore: Communication wear: User feedback as part of a co-design process – Larissa Hjorth: Beyond the frame: The place of mobile and immobile media.

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Book SynopsisTo speak of participation today raises a series of questions on how the presence and use of new media affect modes of social participation. From a variety of theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives, the contributions in this volume explore participation in different social realms – from everyday life, interpersonal relationships, work and leisure activities to collective and political action. This collection demonstrates that participation is a localised notion, assuming a multitude of shapes under a variety of technological, political, socio-economic, linguistic and cultural conditions.Trade Review«An idea with a history, participation is now the watchword for the digital age. This timely book offers a set of genuinely original and conceptually powerful perspectives on the deep cultural and political dynamics of this much-discussed yet elusive phenomenon. Cosmopolitan in disposition, and adventurous in their thinking, the assembled authors offer us an indispensable critical account of participation, its lures and problems, as well as how to assess its rich possibilities. ‘Cultures of Participation’ is required reading for anyone keen to come to grips with this cardinal concept of contemporary technology and society.» (Gerard Goggin, Professor of Digital Communication, University of New South Wales, Sydney) «The Internet is no longer a simple world of email and one-way web. This multinational, multicultural book provides meaty fare, showing how people actively use the diversifying Internet.» (Barry Wellman, S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto)Table of ContentsContents: Hajo Greif/Larissa Hjorth/Amparo Lasén/Claire Lobet-Maris: Introduction – Leopoldina Fortunati: Online Participation and the New Media – Hajo Greif/Matthias Werner: From Information to Broadband Society, Whence and Whither? – Giuseppina Pellegrino: Participatory Frameworks: Re-tracing Participation in the Theoretical Node Technology/Society – Kate Crawford: Listening, not Lurking: The Neglected Form of Participation – Naomi S. Baron: Attitudes towards Mobile Phones: A Cross-Cultural Comparison – Jane Vincent: Emotions and the Mobile Phone – Larissa Hjorth/Ingrid Richardson: Playing the Waiting Game: Complicating Notions of (Tele)presence and Gendered Distraction in Casual Mobile Gaming – Chung Tai Cheng: Imagined Performativity: The Great Virtue of Cyberspace in Contemporary Chinese Workers’ Social Lives – Amparo Lasén/Iñaki Martínez de Albeniz: ‘An Original Protest, at Least.’ Mediality and Participation – Boxu Yang/Yuan Le/Shanshan An: The Less Expected: An Exploration of the Social and Political Activities on the Internet in China – Brian Simpson: The Facebook Family: Information and Communication Technology Redrafting the Rules of Participation in Family Life – Lieve Gies: The Frenzy of Digital Photography: A Biopolitical Assessment – Romina Cachia/Alexandra Haché: Hyperlinked Avatars: Negotiating Identities and Social Relations within Social Networking Sites – Lilia Raycheva: Tracing the Policy Challenges of the Digital Dividend.

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Book SynopsisWhile the assessment of digital games in Germany is framed by a high-culture critique, which regards them as an ‘illegitimate’ activity, they are enjoyed by a wider demographic as a ‘legitimate’ pastime in Australia. The book analyses the social history of digital gaming in both countries and relates it to their socio-cultural traditions. Concerning social history, Australia almost depicts an inverse mirror image of Germany. Its foundational dynamics, closely associated with different egalitarianisms, led to a different form of distinction than in Germany – a country whose national self-conception was closely related to groups which perpetuated an idealistic notion of Kultur and later integrated it into a rigid class system. The book not only demonstrates how the discourses on games follow long-established patterns of rejection and approval of mass media but also regard them as an access to the inner workings of both societies. How the games are perceived tells us a lot about German and Australian identity.Table of ContentsContents: German identity – German history – Australian identity – Australian history – Distinction – Mass culture – Popular culture – Mass media – Digital games – Videogames – Game history – Game discourses – Media history – Cinema – Radio – Television – Kultur – Zivilisation – Egalitarianism – Bushman – Norbert Elias – Pierre Bourdieu – Gerhard Schulze – Theodor W. Adorno – Frankfurt School.

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Book SynopsisThis collection presents essays by leading European and American scholars addressing new research approaches to US Studies and their transatlantic reverberations. Beginning with philosophical discussions of the serious challenges facing civilization from the perspective of philosophical pragmatism, through a critique of the pervasive and enduring media discourse of terrorism, to reflections on the position of scholarship focusing on the United States in difficult times – our times – this volume considers in depth what is called or miscalled «American Studies». The collection’s specific topics range from a fresh look at philosophical pragmatism, through various representations of danger and fear in visual culture, to texts recording new attitudes to the study of the United States. An essay on children confronting the New World, papers on transnational or postnational American studies, and on presidential leadership as therapy signal that the time has come to revise the canon of the study of the United States.Table of ContentsContents: Barbara Tuchańska: Mateusz Oleksy - In Memoriam – Kacper Bartczak: Richard Shusterman’s complementary correction of Richard Rorty’s model of reading literary texts – Katarzyna Dąbrowska: A utopia or a solution? The Deweyan project of participatory democracy and the public sphere – Luis E. Echarte: Neuromythology and the dilemma of ‘dangerous truths.’ Could pragmatism make scientific and social progress compatible? – Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen: Remarks on the Peirce-Schiller correspondence – Alexander Brand/Stefan Robel: Hegemonic governance? Global media, US hegemony and the transatlantic divide – Subarno Chattarji: Mass-mediated terror: some transnational media representations of the 2005 London bombings – William R. Glass/James R. Keller: Movies and foreign policy: from The Third Man to Zentropa – Lars Lierow: «I urge that you transmit that message to the nations of the Earth»: The Day The Earth Stood Still and postwar international communication – Francesca de Lucia: Representations of ethnicity in a postmodern gangster film: the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing – Anna Mazurkiewicz: Coverage of Polish presidential elections (1989-2005) in the New York Times and Chicago Tribune – Grzegorz Nycz: The role of strategic communications, public diplomacy and international broadcasting in the United States’ ‘War Against Terror’ in the Middle East – Paula S. Fass: Children on the edges of history and historiography: confronting the New World – Alfred Hornung: The emergence of transnational American Studies from Ground Zero – Zbigniew Lewicki: East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet: or will they? – Ulf Schulenberg: Empire, theoretical practice, and postnational American Studies – Sabine Sielke: Memory, mediation, American Studies, or: challenging the division of a world before and after 9/11 – Bohdan Szklarski: Presidential leadership as therapy.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the result of an ethnographic study of everyday practices of new media communication among teenagers in Poland. It follows several dozen young people to provide insights on the emergent reality of mobile online life. It is about hanging out, loving, sharing passions and learning in the age of the networked digital media. Youth and Media explores the new forms of cultural participation as the most fundamental coordinates of the social space are reshaped by these new technologies.Table of ContentsContents: Youth – New Media – Digital Media – Networked Media – Ethnography – Cultural Participation.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the use of e-learning in the progresses towards Sustainable Development (SD) or Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Almost three decades after the concept of sustainable development appeared, 2014 is the year where historical goals should be reached, since it is the last year of the United Nations Decade on ESD. Within this decade, research, projects and educational initiatives were developed and deliverables were achieved. Using e-learning is becoming widely accepted in formal and non-formal education proving to have the potential to be effective in expanding Education for Sustainability (EfS). Lifelong learning, adults’ education and the huge increase in the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) lead to e-learning’s significant role within the learning and education processes.Trade Review«This collection of essays is exceptionally well organised, from conceptual overviews of e-learning and its potential in sustainability education to its implementation from the classroom level to the national level, coming full-circle back to the conceptual once again in the final chapters.» (Michael McVey, International Review of Education 62/1 2016)Table of ContentsContents: Anne Sibbel: An experience in developing and implementing blended learning for sustainability – Joop de Kraker/Ron Cörvers/Angelique Lansu: E-learning for sustainable development: linking virtual mobility and transboundary competence development – Ana Paula Martinho/Sandra Caeiro/Fernando Caetano/Ulisses M. Azeiteiro/Paula Bacelar-Nicolau: Training and Employability, Competences from an e-learning undergraduate programme in Environmental Sciences – Francisca Pérez Salgado/Gordon Wilson/Marcel van der Klink: Transforming academic knowledge and the concept of Lived Experience: Intervention Competence in an international e-learning programme – Daniel Otto: Letʼs Play! Using simulation games as a sustainable way to enhance students’ motivation and collaboration in Open and Distance Learning – Anthony Halog/Gary Dishman: Developing E-Learning Materials for Teaching Industrial Ecology and Environmental Sustainability – Sally Caird/Andy Lane/Ed Swithenby: Greening Higher Education qualification programmes with online learning – Joop de Kraker/Ron Cörvers: European Virtual Seminar on Sustainable Development: international, multi-disciplinary learning in an online social network – Mª Carmen Ortega-Navas/Rocío Muñoz-Mansilla/Fernando Latorre/Rosa María Martín-Aranda: Electronic logistics for a sustainable distance education: the new UNED on-site virtualization of evaluation procedure documents – Leanna Archambault/Annie Warren: Leveraging E-learning to Prepare Future Educators to Teach Sustainability Topics – Dzintra Iliško/Svetlana Ignatjeva: The use of information and communication technologies by secondary school teachers for developing a more sustainable pedagogy in Latvia – Rudi W. Pretorius: A critical narrative of e-learning spaces for sustainable development in the Global South – J. Manyitabot Takang/Christine N. Bukania: Cotonou 2012 and Beyond - An Assessment of E-learning for Sustainability in sub-Sahara Africa – Prakash Rao/Yogesh Patil/Manisha Ketkar/Viraja Bhat/Shilpa Kulkarni: Sustainability in an educational institution: analysing the transition to paperless e-processes, an Indian case – Amelia Clarke: Building an Online Masterʼs Program for Deep Learning in Sustainability – Juan A. de la Fuente/Vicente J. Subiela/Baltasar Peñate: First Online Course on Desalination by Renewable Energies, Lessons Learnt – Luisa Aires/Paulo Dias/José Azevedo/M. Ángeles Rebollo/Rafael García-Pérez: Education, Digital Inclusion and Sustainable Online Communities – Walter Leal Filho: E-learning for sustainable development: the way ahead.

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Book SynopsisThe book proposes a multi-perspective analytical model for the understanding of corporate identity meanings embedded in historical discourse for the web. The suggested theoretical framework conflates methodological perspectives derived from Discourse Analysis, Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The contribution of Cognitive Linguistics to the proposed analysis is based on two main assumptions. First, the lack of principled distinction between semantics and pragmatics, whereby meaning is a function of the activation of conceptual knowledge structures in context. Second – and this is crucial for hypertext analysis – language, as the outcome of general properties of cognition, is closely related to visual perception. The originality of this approach to web discourse analysis resides in the deployment of tools considering the cross-modal integration of different resource systems. It also offers interpretive keys for the understanding of mechanisms underlying the formatting of the message as a multimodal construct. The empirical analyses presented in the book illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodological approach.Table of ContentsContents: Spatiotemporality – Cognitive linguistics – Discourse analysis – Multi-perspective analytical model – Corporate identity meanings – Timelines – Multimodal space-time artefacts for the web – Blending theory – Spatiotemporal tools for information visualization – Web corporate histories – Multidisciplinary approaches to organizational discourse.

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Book SynopsisPublic services are increasingly delivered by organizations operating at arms’ length of governments. These organizations occupy one third of the total news and spend huge sums of money on media management. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how public services are affected by their media environment. It describes how public service providers have become mediatized: have adapted their structures and processes to media pressure. The adaptation is profound; some managers use 25% of their time on media and others state that «from day one, how to get it through the media is on your mind». This normative issue of media influence is approached on the basis of extensive international research. At display is a collection of inside stories from the daily encounters between media and public service providers.Table of ContentsContents: News Media – Mediatization – Public Services – Media Influence – Governance – Media Pressure – Media Logic – Organizational Adaptation – Public Organizations – Third Sector Organizations – Non-Profit Sector.

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Book SynopsisThe articles collected in this volume encompass the outcomes of the conference «Media Convergence – Konwergencja Mediów – Medienkonvergenz», held at the Jesuit University «Ignatianum» in Cracow in March 2011. The Conference was organized by the Chair of Media and Social Communication of the Institute of Cultural Studies, founded in 2005. The aim of this interdisciplinary meeting of scholars from European academic centers was an attempt to answer the question what the phenomenon of convergence really is with regard to media, and how the permeation of media phenomena influences contemporary culture. The two-day debate included thematic blocks on literature and art, film, education, theater communication, and media communication. The interdisciplinary character of research is also the «guiding idea» of cultural studies at the Jesuit University «Ignatianum» in Cracow.Table of ContentsContents: Mateusz Nieć: A brief look at the history of media convergence – Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski: Media in the convergentive reading – Mirosław Lakomy: Media mix - the essence of convergence – Christoph Bläsi: The book - civilizing forerunner and media convergence latecomer. Phenomena, challenges and a suitable research infrastructure – Radosław Aksamit: Intermediality and the rejection of media by the receivers – Renata Szczepaniak: Social web: (inter)cultural communication via the Internet. Exemplified by Polish and German experiences – Lilianna Dorak-Wojakowska: The virtual reality of theatre according to Samuel Weber – Kinga Anna Gajda: Photo theatre - norm-breaking encounters between theatre and ‘reality’. Polish examples - Magda Hueckel – Anna Kawalec: The identity of the theater in the world of media «mix» – Wojciech Baluch: Multimedia quality as a new aesthetics in modern culture on the example of new polish drama – Piotr Kletowski: Wagnerian’s idea of Gesamtkunstwerk as the matrix of the cinematographic art and its influence in creating the present operatic art – Urszula Tes: Cultural context of the film Angelus by Lech Majewski – Maciej Białas: Visualising the aural – Monika Białek. Photocasts - radio provided with eyesight – Michael Bachmann: Unpast media? Nostalgia and the culture of media convergence – Antoni Porczak: «The media bunga-bunga». Bunga-bunga moves the stress on perception from the eye to the entire body, i.e. multi-sensorial participation in the party – Małgorzata Więczkowska: The community of manga and anime fans - a new type of subculture in Poland – Anna Nacher: We Tell Stories - storytelling in the age of media convergence – Martyna Harland: Storytelling in brand creation: verbal and visual narration in the reception of print advertisements – Iwona Nowakowska-Kempna/Sandra Camm: Scene construction in advertisement messages and mimetic media convergence – Anna Dąbrowska: Media literacy in Poland – Renata Kowalczyk: The texts of cultural and intertextual games in media education.

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Book SynopsisBy combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The digital turn hereby implies that changes in the use and application of digital technology bring on changes in practice and in the relationships between cultural institutions and audiences. We approach the changes in society from the structural (institutional) as well as from the agential (audiences, users, individuals) perspective. The authors represented in this book share the view that there is no need to fear the new media pushing aside traditional cultural forms, acknowledging at the same time that the scope of this cultural change is far from understood.Table of ContentsContents: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel/Marin Laak/Piret Viires: The Challenge of the Digital Turn – Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel/Agnes Aljas: Orienting the Heritage Institution towards Participatory Users in the Internet – Marju Lauristin: New Media and Changes in the Forms of Cultural Transmission: The Estonian Experience – Tobias Olsson/Anders Svensson: Reaching and Including Digital Visitors: Swedish Museums and Social Demand – Krista Lepik: Changing users of Memory Institutions – Lien Mostmans/Eva Van Passel: Audiovisual Collections in a Digital Culture: Reflections on Providers and Users of Digital Audiovisual Heritage in Flanders – Marin Laak: Heritage, User and the Digital Environment: Rewriting the Narrative of the Literary Past – Katrine Damkjær/Lea Schick: Can You Be Friends with an Art Museum? Rethinking the Art Museum with Facebook – Stijn Bannier/Chris Vleugels: Recommended Friends, Artists, Events and Books: The Opportunities and Risks of Web 3.0 – Joke Beyl: Blogging Writers: (De)Mystification of Authority? – Sari Östman: Life-Publishing on the Internet - a Playful Field of Life-Narrating – Stacey M. Koosel: Exploring Digital Identity: Beyond the Private Public Paradox – David Casado-Neira: From Landscape to Multi-layer Landscape: Landscape as a Tourism Resource on Web 2.0 – Marcus Weisen: Accessible Digital Culture for Disabled People – Nico Carpentier: A Short History of Participation in the Cultural Realm – Anne Kaun: Playful Public Connectivity and Heritage Institutions – Piret Viires/Virve Sarapik: Solitude in Cyberspace – Janne Andresoo/Mihkel Volt: Digital Memory, Risks and Common Sense: Dilemmas in the Context of National Libraries – Markku Eskelinen: Cybertextuality Meets Transtextuality – Raine Koskimaa: From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Internet Galaxy. Digital Textuality and the Change of the Cultural Landscape – Farouk Y. Seif: Between Technology and Teleology: Can the Digital Age Embrace the Analogue Experience of Culture?

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Book SynopsisComputer games have fascinated millions of users for more than 30 years. Today, they constitute the strongest sector in the media-entertainment industry and are part of the experience of digital daily life. Computer Game Studies require a deep understanding of functional and communicational mechanisms of games that support the player’s immersion in virtual worlds. Unfortunately, the discussion and the academic research about usage and effects of computer games mostly takes place isolated within different scientific contexts with various theoretical and methodological approaches. Therefore, this anthology combines the perspectives of Media Studies, Game Studies, and Communication Studies, and presents their findings in an interdisciplinary approach.Table of ContentsContents: Florian Kiefer: Involvierung über Involvierungsbrüche. Eine Strukturanalyse zur Beschreibung des Involvierungspotenzials von Call of Duty 4. Modern Warfare 21 – Matthias Stork: The spectacle of the interface: post-cinematic aesthetics in action computer games and films – Antonio José Planells De La Maza: Sorry, but our princess is in another castle! Towards a theory of video games as ludofictional worlds – Rafael Bienia: Das Computer-Rollenspiel-Genre – Stefan Höltgen: Game Circuits. Platform Studies und Medienarchäologie als Methoden zur Erforschung von Computerspielen – Letícia Perani: Playing for serious reasons: brief notes on the influence of games in early HCI history – Gareth Schott/Jasper Van Vught/Raphaël Marczak: Not knowing: locating player experience between ideal and active play – Benjamin Bigl: If the game goes on. Perceived transfer effects from virtual game worlds into everyday life – Sebastian Koch: Is there a blind spot? An empirical study on the awareness for violence in videogames – Anne Mette Thorhauge: Intended and negotiated gameplay: the interpretive power of the player – Danny Pannicke/Rüdiger Zarnekow: Post-Adoption virtueller Welten – Claus Wohlgemuth: A qualitative study on immersion in videogames: avatar-identification as a factor influencing immersion – Janina Maric: Gaming at the e-sport event: Mediatized confrontations (re)negotiating sport, body and media – Arne Schröder: Playing with the avatar: World of Warcraft avatars as play things – David Gause/Volker Gehrau: The effect of real world-cues on the use of online football manager games – Pascaline Lorentz: Video-ludological socialization – Gabriela T. Richard: Gender and gameplay: research and future directions – Juan F. Belmonte: Identity through free choice? The frontiers of sexuality and gender in computer games – Matthew Barr: Computer games and learning: the current state of play – Felix Kronenberg: Computer games as agentive and immersive spaces for language learners – Mirian Checa/Ana Belén García Varela/Natalia Monjelat/David Herrero/Héctor Del Castillo: Participatory culture and skills for new media learning – Michael Filsecker/Michael Kerres: Designing and studying educational games: Limitations of current design and research approaches in game-based learning – Jasper A. Friedrich: Computerspiele und Medienethik. Zur Systematik des Forschungsfeldes – Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger: Gamecrime und Metacrime - Kriminogene Aspekte virtueller Welten.

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Book SynopsisThinking Media Aesthetics. Media Studies, Film Studies and the Arts brings together contributions from different disciplines from both sides of the Atlantic and from several generations. The book investigates the field between media studies, film and the arts and attempts to consolidate the fruitful interaction we have witnessed between the disciplines during the last decade into a focused interdisciplinary program that combines theoretical argumentation with exemplification and analysis of individual artworks and media phenomena.Table of ContentsContents: Samuel Weber: From Reflection to Repetition: Medium, Reflexivity and the Economy of the Self – Ina Blom: Mediating Sociality: A Contested Question of Contemporary Art – Mary Ann Doane: Has Time Become Space? – Eivind Røssaak: The Moving Image in the Museum: Real-Time, Technology and the Spectator’s Cut – Susanne Østby Sæther: «Are you talking to me?» Spectatorship in Post-Cinema Art – Liv Hausken: Doing Media Aesthetics: The Case of Alice Miceli’s 88 from 14.000 – Arild Fetveit: Medium-Specific Noise – Dieter Daniels/Sandra Naumann: Shifting Aesthetics of Image-Sound Relations in the Interaction between Art, Technology, and Perception – D. N. Rodowick: A Compass in a Moving World (on genres and genealogies of film theory).

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Book SynopsisNew technologies and new media have significantly influenced the process of political communication. They have created new opportunities such as the great interactivity of communication, the personalization of a message or an uncountable number of possibilities for campaigning. This publication is a collection of socio-political studies which analyze the phenomenon of political communication in the 21st century. The main focus is on new media, especially on the Internet as well as on social media or social networks. However, there are also papers which examine traditional channels of political communication in the era of new technologies. Moreover, to the advantage of this book, the chapters explore the phenomenon of political communication not only in the USA and Western Europe, but also in Central Europe, Latin America and Africa.Table of ContentsContents: Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska/Jan Garlicki: The impact of new technologies on political communication. Western patterns and the case of Poland – Barbara Pfetsch/Silke Adam: Democratic Potentials of Online Communication for Political Debate – James Moir: Mediating Politics in Scotland: Information and Ideology – Tendai Chari: Online news media and the limits of the alternative public sphere: the case of Zimbabwe – David J. Jackson/Brian Collins: Social Media, Entertainment and the Politics of Young People in the US – German Espino Sanchez: The participation of Mexican political leaders in Web 2.0 in 2011 – Ewa Krzątała-Jaworska: Municipalities Mastering Social Networks. But For What? – Jakub Nowak: Political Communication, Social Media and Popular Culture: The Adisucks Facebook Protest Case Study – Jürgen Wilke: Between tradition and innovation: Election campaigns for the European Parliament in Germany (1999-2009) – Jan Garlicki/Daniel Mider: The use of new media in election campaigns in Poland – Ilona Grzywińska: Political dialogue on Facebook - myth or reality? A case study of the Law and Justice and Civic Platform parties in Poland – Antonio Momoc: Populist candidates and social media marketing during the 2009 Romanian presidential campaign – Ewa Nowak: The news effect: Shifting salience between media and policy agenda – Łukasz Wojciechowski/Peter Mikuláš/Katarína Fichnová: Billboards in Municipal Elections in Slovakia: Unexpected Contexts – Peter Szabo/Peter Mikuláš/Lucia Spálová: Comparative Media Discourse Analysis of a Selected Political Event in Slovakia.

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Book SynopsisMethods for studying writing processes have significantly developed over the last two decades. The rapid development of software tools which support the collection together with the display and analysis of writing process data and new input from various neighboring disciplines contribute to an increasingly detailed knowledge acquisition about the complex cognitive processes of writing. This volume, which focuses on research methods, mixed methods designs, conceptual considerations of writing process research, interdisciplinary research influences and the application of research methods in educational settings, provides an insight into the current status of the methodological development of writing process research in Europe.Table of ContentsContents: Carmen Heine/Dagmar Knorr/Jan Engberg: Methods in writing process research. Introduction and overview – Kees de Glopper/Jacqueline van Kruiningen/Noortje Hemmen: Context in Writing Process Research. An exploratory analysis of context characteristics in writing process research in educational and workplace settings – Daniel Perrin: Combining methods in AL-informed writing research – Gabriela Ruhmann: Between Experience and Empirical Research. Writing Process Counseling as a natural setting for Writing Process Research – Gary Massey/Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow: Looking Beyond Text. The usefulness of translation process data – Iris Schrijver/Leona Van Vaerenbergh/Mariëlle Leijten/Luuk Van Waes: The translator as a writer. Measuring the effect of writing skills on the translation product – Carmen Heine/Jan Engberg/Dagmar Knorr/Daniel Spielmann: New methods of text production process research combined – Joachim Grabowski/Michael Becker-Mrotzek/Matthias Knopp/Jörg Jost/Christian Weinzierl: Comparing and combining different approaches to the assessment of text quality – Djuddah A.J. Leijen: Applying machine learning techniques to investigate the influence of peer feedback on the writing process – Susanne Göpferich: Methods of measuring students’ text production competence and its development in writing courses – Katrin Lehnen/Lisa Schüler/Martin Steinseifer: A showcase on reading and writing. Visual resources for analyzing, teaching and learning how to write academic texts.

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Book SynopsisDer Fokus der Jugendsprachforschung liegt auf dem Gesprächsverhalten in weiblichen und männlichen Peergruppen, Analysen gemischter Gruppen erfolgten bisher nicht. Diese Studie schließt diese Forschungslücke und untersucht die Sprachhandlungsmuster Lästern, Frotzeln und Blödeln in gemischtgeschlechtlichen jugendlichen Kleingruppen zweier Altersklassen (1215 Jahre, 1619 Jahre). Wie werden Läster-, Frotzel- und Blödelaktivitäten in getrennt- und gemischtgeschlechtlichen Situationen sprachlich ausgestaltet? Welche Funktionen nehmen sie ein? Auf Grundlage des empirischen Materials werden gendertypische Merkmale des Lästerns, Frotzelns und Blödelns sowie verschiedene Konzepte zur Versprachlichung des Doing Gender unter Jugendlichen herausgearbeitet und diskutiert.

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Book SynopsisDie Kreativität menschlichen Sprachgebrauchs spielt eine zentrale Rolle in verschiedenen Sprachtheorien. Ergebnisse der Phraseologie- und der Textforschung haben indes gezeigt, dass der alltägliche Sprachgebrauch durch ein hohes Maß an Konventionalität bis hin zur Stereotypie gekennzeichnet ist. Dieser Band vereint 16 Beiträge, die solchen kommunikativen Routinen in verschiedenen Zusammenhängen nachgehen. Untersucht werden Formeln in mittelalterlichen Testamenten ebenso wie Anreden im Drama und Kirchenliedern, die Funktion von Wiederholungen in literarischen Texten und deren Übersetzung, die Vermittlung und Aneignung kommunikativer Formeln im DaF-Unterricht und deren Gebrauch in Pressetexten, Notrufen, Kaufgesprächen sowie Routinen in Tagebüchern und Parlamentsreden.

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Book SynopsisWorld Wide Web is becoming an utility, not unlike electricity or running water in our homes. This creates new ways of using the web, where Social Media plays a particular role. This gives an unprecedented opportunity to study the emerging social phenomena in the virtual world. In addition, it opens new avenues for improving public services such as schooling and education. This book includes some of the latest developments in employing the information and communications technologies for examining both virtual and real-life social interactions. Investigating modern challenges such as online education, web security or organized cybercrime, this book outlines the state of the art in social applications and implications of ICT.Table of ContentsContents: Blaž Rodič: Issues of Collaboration in a Virtual Environment – Mirna Macur: Use of the Internet - lessons learned from studies among the young in Slovenia – Andi Jambrošić/Blaž Rodič: Perceived effects of web classrooms in primary schools in Slovenia – Olivera Grljević/Laslo Šereš/Ružica Debeljački: Perspectives of Social Media Analytics Application in Higher Education in Serbia – Igor Bernik/Kaja Prislan: Study of Organized Cybercrime and Information Warfare – Blaž Markelj/Igor Bernik: Secure Usage of Mobile Devices - Slovenian Survey – Jernej Agrež/Nadja Damij: Process management: from early beginnings to complex simulations.

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Book SynopsisDie Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen aus einem angewandt-gesprächsanalytischen Zugriff wissensbezogene Aushandlungsprozesse in Gesprächen von Institutionenvertreter/innen mit Klient/innen und ihren Zusammenhang mit institutionellen Aufgaben und Zielen sowie den sozialen Rollen der Interagierenden. Wissen ist in solchen Gesprächen allgegenwärtig: Es bildet in vielfältiger Weise Grundlage und Gesprächsinhalte für professionelles berufliches Handeln und entpuppt sich als interaktional außerordentlich komplex. Die Untersuchung von wissensbezogenen interaktionalen Praktiken, z. B. Praktiken des Wissenstransfers, eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf die institutionelle Praxis. Sie dient damit der aus angewandter Perspektive angestrebten Optimierung wissensbezogener kommunikativer Prozesse.

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Book SynopsisDiese gesprächslinguistische Studie untersucht das anwaltliche Mandantengespräch auf einer breiten Datengrundlage authentischer Gesprächsaufnahmen aus unterschiedlichen Rechtsgebieten und arbeitet typische kommunikative Formen und Probleme heraus. Mandantengespräche gehören zum beruflichen Alltag der meisten Anwälte und Anwältinnen, die Gesprächsführung gilt zudem als eine juristische Schlüsselqualifikation. Mit einem theoretisch und methodisch mehrdimensionalen Zugang werden Gesprächsphasen, kommunikative Aufgaben und verschiedene zentrale sprachliche Handlungsmuster rekonstruiert und miteinander in Bezug gesetzt. Fragebögen und Interviews mit den Beteiligten sowie die Auswertung von Praxisliteratur aus Anwaltssicht ergänzen die Analysen im Sinne einer Angewandten Gesprächsforschung. Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Förderpreis Sprache und Recht 2014 der Universität Regensburg, dem Dissertationspreis 2014 der TU Dortmund sowie dem Peter-Lang-Nachwuchspreis Geisteswissenschaften ausgezeichnet.

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Book SynopsisToday the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media or in one of the approximately 135 religious satellite channels that broadcast guidance and entertainment with an Islamic frame of reference. How do Arab audiences make use of mediated religion in negotiations of identity and belonging? The empirical based case studies in this interdisciplinary volume explore audience-media relations with a focus on religious identity in different countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, and the United States.Table of ContentsContents: Ehab Galal: Where has the authority gone? New imperatives and audience research – Ehab Galal: Audience responses to Islamic TV: Between resistance and piety – Khalil Rinnawi: Cyber religious-national community? The case of Arab community in Germany – Ratiba Hadj-Moussa: Maghrebi audiences: Mapping the divide between Arab sentiment, Islamic belonging and political praxis – Noha Mellor: Religious media as a cultural discourse: The views of the Arab diaspora in London – Vivian Ibrahim: Watching the history of the «present»: Religion and national identity in the Egyptian diaspora – Lise Paulsen Gala: Minority religion mediated: Contesting representation.

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Book SynopsisSprechen Jugendliche in der Schule Jugendsprache und wie gehen die Lehrenden damit um? Ist Jugendsprache ein Thema im Unterricht und wie sprechen die Jugendlichen in anderen Ländern? Wie nutzen Jugendliche Online-Netzwerke erfolgreich? Mit diesen und weiteren Fragen haben sich die Autor/-inn/-en des Bandes beschäftigt. Sie bieten einen Überblick über die Jugendsprachforschung in den Bereichen Sprach- und Schreib(stil)verwendung in der Schule, in den neuen Medien und in anderen Sprachen. Neben Überlegungen zum Einsatz von Jugendsprache im (Fremdsprachen-)Unterricht liefern die Beiträge Einblicke in das Sprachbewusstsein Jugendlicher, den Jugendsprachgebrauch in Österreich, Brabant u.a. sowie sprachübergreifende Gemeinsamkeiten von Jugendsprache.

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Book SynopsisDieser Band präsentiert die Beiträge der VII. Innsbrucker Ringvorlesung zur Translationswissenschaft, die im Sommersemester 2013 am Institut für Translationswissenschaft zu Innsbruck stattfand. International namhafte Translationswissenschaftler aus sieben Ländern Europas stellten zu der traditionellen internationalen Innsbrucker Ringvorlesung ihre Forschungen zum Phänomen Translationskompetenz vor und zur Diskussion. Translationskompetenz Woher kommt sie? Was ist das? Wohin geht sie? Diesen drei programmatischen Fragen lassen sich alle Vorlesungen dieses Bandes zuordnen, der bewusst den Titel Bausteine translatorischer Kompetenz trägt, da die Frage, was die Translationskompetenz ausmacht, bis heute Rätsel aufgibt. Die Beiträge beleuchten einzelne Kompetenzen, über die TranslatorInnen nach Meinung der Ringvorlesenden verfügen (müssen), um professionell übersetzen bzw. dolmetschen zu können. Die AutorInnen des Bandes sind: Gyde Hansen (Kopenhagen), Peter Sandrini (Innsbruck), Pius ten Hacken (Swansea/Innsbruck), Michaela Albl-Mikasa (Winterthur), Vlasta Kuciš (Maribor), Anna Malgorzewicz (Wroclaw), Sebastian Donat (Innsbruck), Wolfgang Pöckl (Innsbruck), Laura Santamaria (Barcelona), Lew Zybatow (Innsbruck).

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Book SynopsisThe book is a scholarly and creative consideration of audiovisual broadcasting and what makes a TV performance professional. It combines an academic approach to TV News with a practical understanding of production and the new pressures bearing down on the industry. Combining a real-world understanding with a scholarly approach, it offers valuable new insights for aspiring journalists, students, researchers and lecturers into what is still the most powerful medium for news and information in the world. «This book is an exciting and challenging look at how we can understand the way we regard people and how we create and make public our views of them in and through television. The author provides a critically engaging and detailed analysis of the practical aspects of television journalism and the ethical values replete within it as well as how it is complicit in the construction of the manifold mediated identities of those caught up in the increasingly two-way relationship between broadcaster and audience. This is a wide ranging and well researched account of the dynamics of the significance and impact of television journalism in all its richness and ambiguity.» (Prof. Jackie Harrison, Chair, Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM), Joint Head of Department and Director of Research Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, UK)Trade Review«This is a fascinating book. It looks at television journalism in a wholly different way from anything I have previously encountered. It makes the notion of the dramaturgy of news its central point of reference. And Dabala writes from the perspective of someone who is as comfortable dealing with theories of the media as he is in dealing with the theory and practice of script-writing. This book will make anyone involved in television news – whether as scholars, students, practitioners or just viewers – rethink almost everything.» (Prof. Ivor Gaber, School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex, UK) «The tragedy of television 'journalism' is that we so often need to put that word in quotes. This book explains the nature of TV production in a hyper-connected, high-velocity world of information and news. It helps us understand why TV news, flawed as it tends to be, is nonetheless a vital medium for public understanding – and offers some hope that a new generation of producers, and audiences, can make the medium match its best potential.» (Prof. Dan Gillmor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, USA) «This new book combines a scholastic approach to TV News with a practical understanding of production and the new pressures bearing down on the industry. As such it combines a real-world understanding with an objective, academic perspective and offers valuable new insights into what is still the most powerful medium for news and information in the world.» (Prof. Richard Sambrook, Director, Centre for Journalism, Cardiff University, UK) «This book takes a new and much more comprehensive approach to Television and its production and role in society. It looks at the production of television both as an art form in which how the presentations are done plays a major role in how their messages are understood and as a technical production process. This new, dual approach is critical for our understanding of the roles television and those who appear in it and produce it as well as for its attraction and its impact both in post-Soviet societies and in traditional Western societies». (Prof. Jane. L. Curry, Department of Political Science, Santa Clara University, USA) «In an age when the TV business is a global exchange of images and cultural connections, Jacek Dabala has examined the phenomenon with an internationalist’s eye. He connects American observers with intellectuals from Europe to examine the dynamics, the ethics and the demands of journalism in the 21st Century. This is the kind of book that demands thinking on the part of young visual journalists and one that can stimulate an interesting debate involving theory and practice.» (Prof. Susan King, Dean, John Thomas Kerr Distinguished Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNC Chapel Hill, USA)Table of ContentsContents: The priority of dramaturgy – The essence of media thinking – Plot and suspense in the news – The quasi-dramaturgy localness – Between sound and picture – The changing style of presenting information – Initiative and creativity in television journalism – Affirmation of the art of presentation – The value of TV presenters – Telegenity – Pitfalls – Self-presentation – The Future.

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Book SynopsisWhile multimodality is one of the most influential semiotic theories for analysing media artefacts, the concepts of this theory are heterogeneous and widespread. The book takes the differences between approaches in Germany and those in international contexts as a starting point, offering new insights into the analysis of multimodal documents. It features contributions by researchers from more than 15 nations and various disciplines, including theoretical reflections on multimodality, thoughts about methodological, empirical, and experimental approaches as well as analyses of various multimodal artefacts.Trade Review«Overall, the volume provides rich information on approaches to multimodal research, which can be readily adopted by discourse analysts. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary theoretical innovations in the book shed light on potential methodological developments for discourse studies.» (Yiqiong Zhang, Discourse Studies 19(3), 2017)Table of ContentsContents: Janina Wildfeuer: Bridging the Gap between Here and There: Combining Multimodal Analysis from International Perspectives – Diane Mavers: Issues in Multimodality: Reflecting on Definitions, Transcription, and Analysis – Hartmut Stöckl: From Text Linguistics to Multimodality: Mapping Concepts and Methods Across Domains – Alina Kwiatkowska: Cognitively Oriented Semiotics as a Common Descriptive Framework for Pictorial and Verbal Representation – Ognyan Seizov: Spotlight on the Image: Adding the Missing Visual Piece to the Multimodal Puzzle – Sandra Handl: Visual Rhetoric and Cognitive Semantics: The Relevance of Entrenched Conceptual Patterns for the Reconstruction of Visual and Multimodal Arguments – Anna Mattfeldt: Conflicts and Pictures: A Study of Images and Agonality in Discourse – Shaimaa El Naggar: Multimodality in Perspective: Creating a Synergy of the Discourse Historical Approach and the Framework of Visual Grammar – Wendy L. Bowcher: Structure and Multimodal Texts – Simone Ponzetto/Hartmut Wessler/Lydia Weiland/Stephan Kopf/Wolfgang Effelsberg/Heiner Stuckenschmidt: Automatic Classification of Iconic Images Based on a Multimodal Model: An Interdisciplinary Project – Marc Debus/Heiner Stuckenschmidt/Hartmut Wessler: On the Use of Different Modalities in Political Communication: Evidence from German Election Manifestos – Martin Kaltenbacher/Thomas Kaltenbacher: Seeing the Unforeseen: Eye-Tracking Reading Paths in Multimodal Webpages – Martin Siefkes/Emanuele Arielli: An Experimental Approach to Multimodality: How Musical and Architectural Styles Interact in Aesthetic Perception – Elisa Vales: Narrative Process Annotation of Comic Strips in Corpus Analysis – Tuomo Hiippala: Combining Computer Vision and Multimodal Analysis: A Case Study of Layout Symmetry in Bilingual In-Flight Magazines – Christina Schmitt: Embodied Meaning in Audio-Visuals: First Steps Towards a Notion of Mode – Assimakis Tseronis: Documentary Film as Multimodal Argumentation: Arguing Audio-Visually About the 2008 Financial Crisis – Jan Krasni: Reflecting on a Gap Between Polyphony and Multimodality in Online Media Formats – Kate Maxwell: When Here is Now and There is Then: Bridging the Gap in Time with «Sumer Is Icumen In» – Dorra Moalla: Visual Literacy in EAP: The Dialogue between Reader/Designer Features and Multimodal Text.

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines a coherent genre history of the personal weblog from the perspective of media linguistics. An analysis of a diachronic corpus (1997–2012) suggests distinct phases in the history of the genre. In addition to media linguistics, the author draws on methods from textual and corpus linguistics as well as the social sciences. He traces the personal weblog’s various relations to different on- and offline genres and describes the blog communication form as well as the communicative situation, structural features and several posting genres characteristic of personal weblogs. The findings are embedded into theoretical considerations on genre change in general as well as stability and change of web-based genres in particular.Trade Review«The Personal Weblog: a Linguistic History [...] is an excellent reading on (corpus-based) genre analysis and more specifically on the diachronic analysis of blogs. It is a recommended reading for linguists and computational linguists interested in genre analysis and in the genre-revealing linguistic features.» (Marina Santini, Linguist List Jan. 2017)Table of ContentsContents: Genre dynamics – Genre change – Patterns of genre change – Inivisible Hand theory – A diachronic blog corpus – Blog communication form – Communicative situation – Language and image on personal weblogs – Posting genres and genre profile of the personal weblog – A genre history – Genre migration – Genre split – Pattern embedding.

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Book SynopsisWas sind verbale Indirektheiten und wie geht die DolmetscherIn mit ihnen um? Auf Grundlage a) theoretisch hergeleiteter Definitionskriterien für eine translationswissenschaftlich/-praktisch orientierte Definition und b) authentischer Daten des Sprachenpaars PolnischDeutsch wird eine operationalisierte Definition erarbeitet: die 2-Komponenten-Indirektheit. Zur Überprüfung des Umgangs der DolmetscherIn mit dieser wird, aufgrund der spezifischen Gesprächsstruktur des gedolmetschten Diskurses, ein passendes Kommunikationsmodell hergeleitet: das Kommunikationsmodell der Dolmetschtriade. Die darin integrierte, schrittweise und systematische Bedeutungsbestimmung der Indirektheit sowie Reflexionsmöglichkeit kann die DolmetscherIn zur Qualitätssicherung in der aktuellen Dolmetschsituation nutzen.

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Book SynopsisDie hier versammelten Aufsätze verdeutlichen anhand konkreter Anforderungen und Erfahrungen aus der Kommunikationspraxis, wie linguistisches Wissen zur Bewältigung kommunikativer Herausforderungen und zur Entwicklung der Kommunikationskompetenz beiträgt. Sie unterstreichen das Potenzial angewandter linguistischer Forschung für den Transfer in Beratungs- und Trainingssituationen. Gleichzeitig rücken Berufsfelder für Linguistinnen und Linguisten in den Fokus, in denen sich Fachforschung sowie deren praktische Umsetzung ergänzen und bereichern. Sprache, Sprachwissen und Sprachreflexion bieten die Grundlagen für Rhetorikseminare, Gesprächstrainings und für die Kommunikationsberatung. Die Linguistik kann und sollte dazu einen wesentlichen Beitrag leisten mit Publikationen sowie durch die Vermittlung und Anwendung ihrer Forschung.

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Book SynopsisThe Jewish Press’ purpose is to promote Jewish Orthodoxy. The book explores this popular American Jewish newspaper and more precisely the development of the paper’s ideology over a period of forty years offering a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy must be understood as a dynamic concept continually changing as a result of historical developments and hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about telling the Jew in modern society how he is to understand himself and the surrounding world.Table of ContentsContents: Jewish Orthodoxy – American Jewry – Holocaust – Rabbi Meir Kahane – Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis – Religious Radicalism – Fundamentalism – Religous Zionism – Ideology – Newspapers – The Trial of Adolf Eichmann – The Camp David Accord – The Oslo Accord – The murder of Yitzhak Rabin – The Six-Day War – Women in Green – Ruth and Nadia Matar.

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Book SynopsisPublic deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable. This volume provides rhetorical analyses of institutional websites, political speeches, scientific presentations, journalistic accounts or visual entertainment. It shows the significance of rhetorical construction of knowledge in the public sphere. It addresses the issues of citizenship and social participation, media agendas, surveillance and verbal or visual manipulation. It offers rhetorical critiques of current trends in specialist communication and of devices used when contested interests or ideologies are presented.Table of ContentsContents: Agnieszka Kampka/Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska: Rhetoric and the public sphere: Making a case for a knowledge society – Cezar M. Ornatowski: Knowledge and surveillance society – Christine Isager: A poor show of knowing: the horror and comedy of unsuccessful writers on film – Marcus Gottschling: Lend me your eyes: Creating immediate understanding through Prezi – Martijn Wackers/Jaap de Jong/Bas Andeweg: Structure strategies for a memorable speech: the use of rhetorical retention techniques by scholars and politicians – Louise Schou Therkildsen: Becoming a citizen: Knowledge and identity in European textbooks for citizenship tests – David Isaksen: From calutrons to Congress: The democratic challenge of specialized knowledge – Gabriela Scripnic: Emotion-invoking strategies in the presentation of Roşia Montană Project in the Romanian public sphere – Hilde van Belle: Polemics and paradoxes in the media: The case of the Dutch TV-show Pauw – Ludmilla A’Beckett: Stigmatizing female oppositionists in Russia: Stances toward comparisons with Joan of Arc – Maureen Daly Goggin: Preparing students for the emergent knowledge society: Rethinking learning and pedagogy in rhetoric – Ove Bergersen: Kindergartens and the civic art of rhetoric: Citizens, character and knowledge – Anne E. Porter: «Responsibilizing» the youth: The rhetoric of civic participation in the World Bank’s 2009 climate change essay competition.

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Book SynopsisDas Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem in den Jahren 2013 und 2014 in Deutschland geführten Asyldiskurs. Obwohl nur wenige Menschen in Deutschland direkten Kontakt zu Asylbewerbern haben, haben die meisten eine dezidierte Meinung zu Asylbewerberheimen, Asylbewerberzahlen oder dem Asylrecht. Dies lässt sich in erster Linie auf die Rezeption von Medieninhalten als meinungsprägende Instanzen zurückführen. Diesen sich in den Medien konstituierenden Asyldiskurs nimmt das Werk in den Blick. Durch die Kombination korpuslinguistischer und hermeneutischer Verfahren werden die Versuche der Diskursakteure, die im Asyldiskurs zentralen Konzepte Verantwortung, Angst und Fremdenfeindlichkeit verschiedentlich zu prägen und dominant zu setzen, analysiert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die auf diese Konzepte verweisenden Ausdrücke durch ihren häufigen Gebrauch im Asyldiskurs ganz eigene Spezifika der Verwendung entwickeln und eingesetzt werden, um Prozesse der Wissensgenerierung und kollektive Einstellungen zu instruieren.

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Book SynopsisSelbstdarstellung, Image- und Beziehungsarbeit spielen in der Wissenschaft eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Buch untersucht aus vornehmlich gesprächsanalytischer Perspektive, wie Images und Beziehungen der Akteure interaktiv konstituiert und ausgehandelt werden. Im Fokus stehen dabei Fachdiskussionen von Wissenschaftlern auf interdisziplinären Konferenzen. Grundlage ist ein von Soziologie und Psychologie befruchtetes linguistisches Methodeninventar. Die Autorin zeigt, wie Wissenschaftler in Diskussionen Images aufbauen, angreifen und verteidigen, wobei die Fachidentität der Akteure von zentraler Bedeutung ist. Sie erklärt ebenso, wie Wissenschaftler Kompetenz auch bei vorhandenem Nichtwissen signalisieren und Humor zur Beziehungsgestaltung nutzen.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together friends and colleagues of Prof. Dr. Ayseli Usluata who cherish her as a person as well as an academic. As we have all experienced, Prof. Usluata’s major passion is advancing academia as an interdisciplinary collaboration. Thus, this book’s aim is to bring together current original works in communication studies and business communication fields. This volume is intended to provide an intellectual, multi-faceted and balanced collection of writings from various academic fields with a communication focus. Academic articles in this book range from branding cases to advertising studies and to media education.Table of ContentsAdvancing academia as an interdisciplinary collaboration – Bring together current original works in communication studies and business communication fields – Intellectual, multi-faceted and balanced collection of writings from various academic fields with a communication focus – Weathering a Crisis and Maintaining Brand Loyalty – The Role of Translation as an Effective Means of Communication – New Alternative in Media Education in Turkey – Personality, Values and Career Concerns as the Employee Related Antecedents of Influence/Political Tactics in Organizations – (Re)presenting gender in children’s television commercials – Storytelling in Digital Advocacy Campaigns – Political Cartoon’s Loss of Symbolic Lynching Power – Presentation of Self in Digital Life – Constructing the Modern Ottoman Policeman in the Police Journals – Happiness Theme in Advertising Messages

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Book SynopsisThis book aspires to make an expedient contribution to the trust-based body of knowledge. Various disciplines analyze the notion of "trust", by addressing it from their own perspectives. The fact that the importance of multilevel and cross-level perspectives is gaining increasing attention in communication management has led to a call for examining trust across levels of communication analysis. The authors approach trust from the standpoint of different sub-branches of communication discipline, including brand management, public relations research, comparative advertising, health communication, political communication and digital communication. In addition, this book provides empirical evidence from a wide range of cases in Turkey, seeking to both reveal the existing situation in details and open up a world of new questions and lines of enquiry to pursue for future research.Table of ContentsAydemir Okay: Trust and Theory of Trust – Nahit Erdem Köker/Mine Yeniçeri Alemdar: Trust in Communication and Public Relations Research: Literature Review – İdil Karademirlidağ Suher/Çisil Sohodol Bir/Esin Yalçıner: Ethos: Communicating Corporate Ethos on the Websites of PR Industry Members in Turkey – Emre Ş. Aslan/Hasan Güllüpunar: The Effect of Brand Trust on Consumers’ Buying Behavior: A Study on Forum Trabzon Shopping Center Consumers – Gonca Yıldırım: Reliability in Communication Management: Analysis of Reliability Phenomenon that Comparative Advertisements Create on Consumers – Çiğdem Karakaya Şatır/Zuhal Gök Demir: The Role of Corporate Reputation on Trust and Behavioural Intentions: A Study on a Private Health Institution in Turkey – Banu Kumbasar: Evaluation of Interpersonal and Institutional Trust in Health Care – Hasan Güllüpunar/Emre Ş. Aslan: The Effect of the Political Leader’s Level of “Trust” on the “Credibility” Perception of the Political Messages: Case of the Turkish General Parliamentary Election on November 1, 2015 – Burcu Zeybek: An Empirical Study on Trust in Political Leaders – Oğuz Göksu/Fatih Özkoyuncu: Reading Public Opinion Polls in the Process of Trust-Focused Political Communication – Mine Yeniçeri Alemdar/Nahit Erdem Köker: Brand Trust in Social Media: Constituents, Premises and Trust Building Mechanisms – Fulya Erendağ Sümer: Social Media and Trust: Understanding Generation Y, Generation X & Baby Boomers’ Use of Social Media and Their Trust Level – Gül Şener/Eda Öztürk/Hasan Kemal Suher: Instaplacement and Its Effect on the Perceived Source Credibility of Instabloggers: A Study on University Students – Ahmet Tarhan: The Reliability Perception of the Corporate News in Social Media.

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Book SynopsisWith the intention of simple getting the point across, this book presents a collection of speeches, each with a specific objective that not only reflects on a issue and projects a particular style, but is also arranged in a manner that implies an upward progression on the eloquence-maturity scale and helps imbibe the various facets and nuances of good public speaking. A heady cocktail of spoken words and pictures, of travels and travails, this book is a must-read for all, be it the corporate honcho, the aspiring professional, or the novice speaker.

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