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Book SynopsisMichael Georg Conrad (1846-1927), en qui les historiens de la littérature voient l'un des propagateurs les plus actifs de la modernité munichoise à travers la fondation de la revue Die Gesellschaft, vécut de 1878 à 1882 dans la capitale française avant son installation définitive en Bavière. Il subvenait à ses besoins en travaillant comme maître de langue et comme correspondant de plusieurs journaux allemands. Outre un recueil de nouvelles, les quatre années de son séjour parisien, qu'il présente expressément comme le terme de ses années de voyage et d'apprentissage, sont à l'origine d'une série d'œuvres journalistiques, rédigées dans le but de donner à ses compatriotes un aperçu de la vie culturelle, politique et sociale des débuts de la IIIe République. Cet ouvrage tente de recenser ces contributions, à la fois pour restituer une vision étrangère de la capitale française, de son art et de sa littérature à un moment clé de son histoire, et pour rendre compte des partis pris intellectuels du plus connu des propagandistes de Zola en Allemagne.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED) that was held in Florence (Italy) on 2-3 September 2004. The aim of the Conference was to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent research in the field of news discourse in early modern Britain. The first section of the volume focuses on news discourse in serial publications while the second part examines aspects of news language in non-serial works. Contributions include synchronic and diachronic analyses of reportage, polemic, propaganda, review journalism and advertisements in a wide range of texts including newsletters, pamphlets and newspapers. Each section is structured chronologically so that the reader can appreciate aspects of the general historical development of news discourse. The variety of topics and methodologies reflects some of the most interesting research being carried out in the field.

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Book SynopsisThis book approaches the issue of ideology in specialized communication in professional, institutional and disciplinary settings across domains as diverse as law, healthcare, corporate management, migration, NGOs, etc. What unites the contributors is their commitment to a discourse view of language use, i.e., the view that organisational and professional practices are rooted in social, ideological orders, although a variety of perspectives on the exact nature of the relationship between ideology and discourse can be discerned in individual chapters. The acts of interpretation – by participants and analysts alike – are invested in ideology, explicitly or implicitly. This manifest/hidden duality surrounding ideology-in-discourse constitutes the main focus. Challenging the traditional presumption of objectivity, impersonality and non-involvement that has often characterized research on Language for Specific Purposes, this book demonstrates how the specialized communication setting is a critical site where ideology is intrinsically embodied in discursive practices.Table of ContentsContents: Giuliana Garzone/Srikant Sarangi: Discourse, Ideology and Specialized Communication: a Critical Introduction – Srikant Sarangi: Other-orientation in Patient-centred Healthcare Communication: Unveiled Ideology or Discoursal Ecology? – Giuseppina Cortese: The Right To Be Just Other Children: Protectionist and Liberationist Ideologies in the Discourse of Children’s Rights – Donella Antelmi: Manifest Ideology and Hidden Ideology in Legal Language: Definitions and Terms – Chiara Degano: ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Subjects: Ideology in Social Research – Marc Silver: Rethinking ‘Ideology’: A Critical Analysis of How Historians Read and Respond to Ideology – James Archibald: Responsible Mediation or Communicating the True Message across the Cultural Divide – Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini/Elisa Turra: Organizational Change from Old to New Economy: Exploring Consensus and Conflict in Business Meetings – Gina Poncini/Lorene Hiris: When (Un)ethical Behavior is an Issue for the Industry: An Examination of CEO Letters of Securities Brokerage Firms – Sylvain Dieltjens/Priscilla Heynderickx: Strategic Uses of the Pronoun We in Business Communication – Estrella Montolío Durán: Advising without Committing: the Use of Argumentative Reservation in Texts Written by Consultants – John Douthwaite: Gender and Ideology in Advertising – Robin Anderson: Genre Bending in Economic Journalism: an Analysis of the Lex Column in the Financial Times – Maria Freddi: Ideology and Ethics in the Discourse of Designers: a Corpus Study – Paola Catenaccio: De-humanising the Alien: the Construction of Migrants’ Rights in EU Legislation – Davide Mazzi: The Rhetoric of Judicial Texts: the Interplay of Reported Argumentation and The Judge’s Argumentative Voice – Lidia De Michelis: «A Forward-looking Country»: Britain™ and the Unbearable Lightness of ‘Corporate’ National Identity – Antonio Pinna: Evaluation and Ideology in Political Discourse: the Use of Modal Verbs in G. W. Bush’s Presidential Speeches – Alison Duguid: Men at Work: how Those at Number 10 Construct their Working Identity.

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Book SynopsisScholars in Media Studies increasingly take the view that our understanding of the history of the discipline is deeply inadequate. It is now widely recognised that a large number of important media analysts have simply been omitted from the standard histories. This book aims to fill in some of the gaps by examining the work of eleven neglected writers, each of whom has made a seminal contribution to the analysis of the media but whose work rarely appears in student textbooks, anthologies and readers. In keeping with the interdisciplinary ambitions of contemporary Media Studies, the selected thinkers are drawn from a wide range of historical periods and intellectual backgrounds. There are chapters on sociologists, creative writers, cultural theorists, art critics, journalists and even ancient Greek philosophers. The aims of the book are by no means purely antiquarian. The contributors believe that a revival of interest in the work of their chosen writers can go a long way towards revitalising Media Studies, especially by (1) drawing attention to a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches which have yet to be adequately exploited, (2) suggesting new areas of research, and (3) transforming our understanding of the historical development of Media Studies.Table of ContentsContents: Philip Bounds/Mala Jagmohan: Expanding the Canon: A Polemical Introduction – Ieuan Williams: Plato: Media Theorist – Ieuan Williams: Spinoza as a Theorist of Communication – Kevin Williams: Millionaires and the Public Mind: Norman Angell and the Political Economy of the Press – Mala Jagmohan: Rediscovering Robert Park – Philip Bounds: Orwell and Mass Communication: The Dialogue with British Marxism – Geraint Evans: Elizabeth Eisenstein and the Idea of Media History – Philip Bounds: Beyond Ways of Seeing: The Media Criticism of John Berger – Daisy Hasan: Neil Postman and the Rise of Infotainment in India – Jonathan Smith: Umberto Eco; or, A Portrait of the Semiotician as a Young Media Critic – Helen Fulton: Reading Media Images: The Visual Grammar of Kress and van Leeuwen.

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Book SynopsisCompared with other human and social sciences, communication theory appears to be of recent origin. Appearances deceive, however, for the antecedents of this growing field of work can be found in the classic philosophical treatises of western and non-western thinkers including Plato, Sextus Empiricus and Laozi, reaching forward through the theolinguistic tradition of St Augustine, Boethius, Averroës and Ockham before arriving at the modern age. Following Wittgenstein’s linguistic turn and Husserl’s phenomenology in the early decades of the twentieth century, we arrive at the fertile plains of semiotics, information theory, pragmatics and dialogism out of which communication theory has grown. And yet an unresolved and historically non-coincidental tension remains between the implicit transcendental claims of much of communication theory and our experiences of risk, uncertainty and dissolution in what Zygmunt Bauman has described as our ‘liquid age’. As communication theory matures, it is an opportune moment to reflect on what form a detranscendentalised theory of communication might take. In bringing intentions, understandings, meanings and interactions down to earth this book invites its readers to account for the complex communications between communications, actors and social processes without recourse to transcendental theories of understanding.Table of ContentsContents: History of communication theory – The appeal of communication – Errors in transmission: information and meaning – Communication and autonomy – Interactivity – Multiple meanings, multiple readings – Power, communication, control – Detranscendentalising understanding.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a number of different perspectives on the central theme of evidence' and its interpretation in the study of specialist languages and their various uses. The principal topics include text corpora, citation patterns, some challenging dichotomies, terminology and knowledge management, and specialist translation. Each topic is presented in one of five parts, each with its own introduction. The volume includes contributions from established and new researchers in the field, as well as well-known scholars from other disciplines who bring a fresh eye to LSP studies. The book presents selected papers from LSP2003, the 14th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, in co-operation with the AILA Scientific Commission on Language for Special Purposes.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to ‘belong’ to an online community? What happens to the body in cyberspace? How has the Internet been theorised: as a site of liberation, duplicity, threat? In her reading of cyberculture studies after the affective turn, the author argues for a new cyberculture studies that goes beyond dominant cultural narratives of the Internet as dystopian or utopian space, and pays attention to the ways in which online culture has become embedded in everyday lives. The book intervenes in narratives of virtual reality to propose that the Internet can be re-read as a space of fantasy. This book draws on readings of the everyday, taken-for-granted sites of digital culture that have often been overlooked by cyberculture studies. Specific themes include religious fundamentalist sites and hate speech, online mourning, vampire homepages, virtual fashion and food shopping sites, and pro-anorexic communities. The book is attentive to the continuities and disruptions between online and offline experience. The author examines the ways in which bodies, subjects and communities are produced and reproduced through the stories we tell about online belongings.Table of ContentsContents: Desiring Community – Webs of Affect: Fantasy, Virtuality and Belonging – (Un)deleted Subjects: Mourning, Violence and Community – At-home in Cyberspace: Home, Belonging and Subjectivity – Cyberconsumption: Pleasure, Fantasy and Online Shopping – Pro-Ana: Writing the Virtual Body.

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Book SynopsisDespite its low penetration in China’s vast rural areas, the Internet is generally perceived as a new engine for rural empowerment. By examining five Internet application initiatives in rural China, this book offers a unique view of the diffusion and usage of the Internet and its implications on the lives of rural people. Placed in the political, socioeconomic and infrastructure contexts of rural China, the book departs from the classical diffusion of innovations model and extends the existing knowledge on the adoption and usage of the Internet by rural people. In addition to testing the applicability of the diffusion of innovations theory to the diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies in the rural areas today, the study provides rich empirical evidence regarding the actual impact of the Internet on the livelihood of rural people. It also shows some innovative uses of the Internet in rural development.Table of ContentsContents: Development communication – ICTs and rural development – Diffusion of innovations – Rural China as a testing ground – Yellow Sheep River Town – Jinta County – Tongnan County – Pinggu District – Shouguang City and Huanglou Town – The process of Internet diffusion and rural development.

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Book SynopsisThe essays assembled in this volume focus on philosophical questions regarding various aspects of communication. They are predicated on the author’s conviction that communication between human beings, regardless of the many difficulties involved, is something of sufficient importance to justify a patient philosophical exploration such as that embarked upon here. Interwoven with philosophical considerations readers will find insights gained from psychoanalytical thinkers such as Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva. The essays address a wide range of themes. Sometimes they concern fundamental things, such as the question of the very possibility of communication or the indispensable function of communication in sexual relations. The communicational significance of a certain kind of architecture is scrutinized, as well as that of images in our media-saturated, postmodern world, together with the connection between the latter and the experience of identity today. Other essays concentrate on communicational phenomena such as seduction and Kristeva’s notion of ‘revolt’, the difficulties surrounding communication in the age of ‘Empire’, and the reappearance of communicational sophistry as a theme in contemporary cinema.Table of ContentsContents: After the World Trade Center: Architecture at the crossroads – The (im-)possibility of communication – Sex, literature and communication – Re-affirming the value of the image, and its social implications: Shlain and Lacan – Popular art, the image, the subject and subverting hegemony – Communication and ‘revolt’ – On seduction (and flirting) in the twenty-first century: A communication-theoretical perspective – ‘Communication’ in the era of ‘Empire’ and ‘multitude’ – Postmodernity, globalization, communication and identity – Pseudo-communication and the return of the sophist: Thank you for Smoking, at first sight.

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Book SynopsisThe explicit ambition of this collection is to move ‘beyond’ the Universal Pragmatics of Jürgen Habermas. It is without doubt an ambitious programme whose architect has led since the 1960s a series of reflections on the rational potential of western society from the Enlightenment to the present. However, this theoretical emphasis on the irreducibility of the rational content of debate cannot avoid abstracting communicative universals from the empirical communication practices which are always embedded in multiple contexts of discourse, identity, media and institutions. This tension in Habermas’s œuvre has developed an antagonistic potential. An example of this antagonism can be seen in the distorting effects of a normative theory of communication whose very normativity means turning a blind eye to a history of social communication. For example, Habermas infamously neglects the constitutive role played by the media in constructions of what is held to be ‘public’ and even his more recent revisions do not resolve this dilemma. The nine contributions in this volume from the fields of psychology, politics, media, epistemology and aesthetics set out to move beyond the influence of communicative universals and propose alternative approaches to the challenge of reconciling autonomy, interaction and social organisation.Table of ContentsContents: Colin B. Grant: Introduction – Edmond Wright: Habermas as Lacking in Faith? – Mark Olssen: Discourse, Complexity, Life: Elaborating the Possibilities of Foucault’s Materialist Concept of Discourse – Bart Vandenabeele/Stijn Van Impe: Kant ‘after’ Habermas and Searle. Towards a Pragmatics of Aesthetic Judgements – Siegfried J. Schmidt: The Self-Organisation of Human Communication – João Salgado/Jaan Valsiner: Dialogism and the Eternal Movement within Communication – Katerina Strani: Communicative Rationality and the Challenge of Systems Theory – Loet Leydesdorff: Luhmann Reconsidered. Towards an Empirical Research Programme in the Sociology of Communication? – Tino G.K. Meitz: In Praise of Hubris: Habermas, Epistemology and Theory Formation – Colin B. Grant: Radical Contextualism vs. Universal Pragmatics.

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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 SynopsisIn the last few years we have witnessed the widespread proliferation of video camcorders as a powerful and sophisticated instrument for data collection. Video is increasingly used in broad areas of research throughout the social sciences. It allows for a rich recording of social processes and provides a completely new kind of data. Used as a «microscope of interaction», this «video revolution» is expected to exert profound impact on research practice. But despite its popularity as an instrument, the methodological discussion of video is still underdeveloped. This book gathers a selection of outstanding European researchers in the field of qualitative interpretive video analysis. The contributions discuss the crucial features of video data and present different approaches how to handle, interpret, analyse and present video data collected in a wide range of «real world» social fields. The book thereby aims at providing an overview on contemporary interpretive and qualitative approaches to video analysis.Table of ContentsContents: Hubert Knoblauch/Bernt Schnettler/Jürgen Raab: Video-Analysis. Methodological Aspects of Interpretive Audiovisual Analysis in Social Research – Thomas Luckmann: Some Remarks on Scores in Multimodal Sequential Analysis – Christian Heath/Paul Luff: Video Analysis and Organisational Practice – Lorenza Mondada: Video Recording as the Reflexive Preservation and Configuration of Phenomenal Features for Analysis – Hubert Knoblauch: Videography. Focused Ethnography and Video Analysis – Jürgen Raab/Dirk Tänzler: Video Hermeneutics – Dirk vom Lehn/Christian Heath: Discovering Exhibits. Video-Based Studies of Interaction in Museums and Science Centres – Cornelius Schubert: Video Analysis of Practice and the Practice of Video Analysis. Selecting field and focus in videography – Anssi Peräkylä/Johanna Ruusuvuori: Facial Expression in an Assessment – Monika Wagner-Willi: On the Multidimensional Analysis of Video-Data. Documentary Interpretation of Interaction in Schools – Bernt Schnettler: Orchestrating Bullet Lists and Commentaries. A Video Performance Analysis of Computer Supported Presentations – Elisabeth Mohn: Permanent Work on Gazes. Video Ethnography as an Alternative Methodology – Eric Laurier/Chris Philo: Natural Problems of Naturalistic Video Data – Sigrid Schmid: Video Analysis in Qualitative Market Research - from Viscous Reality to Catchy Footage – Hans-Georg Soeffner: Visual Sociology on the Basis of «Visual Concentration».

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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 SynopsisCharles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), American Scientist, Mathematician, and Logician, developed much of the logic widely used today. Using copies of his unpublished manuscripts, this book provides a comprehensive collection of Peirce’s writings on Phaneroscopy and the outlines of his project to develop a Science of Reasoning. The collection is focused on three main fields: Phaneroscopy, the science of observation, Semeiotic, the science of sign relations, and Logic, the science of inferences. Peirce understands all thought to be mediated in and through signs and its essence to be diagrammatic. The book serves as a timely contribution for the introduction of Peirce’s Phaneroscopy to the emerging research field of Image Sciences.Table of ContentsContents: Phaneroscopy – Science of observation – Semeiotic – Science of sign relations – Logic – Science of inferences.

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Book SynopsisContexual Approaches in Communication is a collection of papers by researchers from several different institutions on a wide range of communication issues: social responsibility, social media, cyberbullying, interpersonal communication, gender issues and the impact of Facebook, advertising, television and mobese cameras. The book addresses educators, researchers, social students and teachers and it will also be useful to all those who interact, one way or another, with both students and teachers in a communication context.Table of ContentsContents: A. Nevin Yıldız Tahincioğlu: The Effects of «Honour» on Communication Between Turkish Immigrants and Swedes: An Example of Stockholm and Uppsala – Adem Burak Çakmak/Barış Yavuz: A Recommendation of Using Location Density Gathered from Wireless Networks for Human Science – Ahmet Tarhan/Mustafa Bal: Corporate Social Responsibility Practice Implications in New Communication Platforms – Aslı Karaarslan: Cyberbullying and Child Abuse: Parent’s Awareness of Cyberbullying and Child Abuse in Facebook Practices – Aysen Temel Eginli/S. Didem Ozsenler: Does Gender Reflect on Interpersonal Communication?: Women’s and Men’s Communication Styles – Betul Onay Dogan: Representation Forms of Cities in New Media: An Analysis of Websites Belonging to the First 10 Cities in the 2013 Mastercard Destination Cities Index – Bünyamin Ayhan/Selahattin Çavuş: Online Game Addiction Among High School Students – Cansu Aydemir: In the Context of Branding: Using Gender Roles, Creating Criteria, and Analysis of Advertisements Broadcasted in Turkey – Cenk Ateş: Historical Transformation of a Gift and Presentation on Television as Consumer Products in the Modern Era: Instance of Valentine’s Day – Ceyda Tetİk: Social Media and Identity Crisis of the Young – Ceyda Deneçli: Impact of Companies’ Facebook Pages on Consumer Brand Preference – Cüneyt Gök: Body: A Means of Expression – Demet Gürüz/Selma Didem Özşenler: Communicative Ecology and Digital Environment (Analyses on the Effects and Barriers of Interpersonal Communication) – Fİgen Algül: Greek Community Radio in Turkey: İHO TIS POLIS – Öykü Ezgi Yıldız: The Role of Advertising Music in Brand Memorability – Emel Karagöz/Güiden Özkan: Presidency as a New Political Field of Power: The Reflections of Field-Habitus Relations on Twitter – Emel Baştürk Akca/İdİl Sayimer: Secondary School Students’ Attitudes to and Awareness of Cyberbullying in Turkey: A Scaling Method Case Study in Ankara – Emre Osman Olkun: Change in the Structure of Media Ownership in Turkey: Example of Milliyet and Vatan Newspapers – Eylİn Babacan/Özge Mutlu: The Effect of Corporate Personality and Credibility on Organisational Commitment: Rotary and Rotaract Clubs – F. Betul Aydın/Sukru Balcı: Political Effect and Ideology in the News Discourse: An Example of the 2014 Local Elections – Ferİde Akim: Academicians’ Use of Social Media Tools for Education: An Assessment of Communication Faculties in Turkey and in Baltic Countries – Gül Coşkun Değirmen: The Representation of Public Relations as a Profession in Turkish Cinema after 2000 – Gülseren Yücel: From «the Golden City» to «the City of Darkness»: the Changing Image of Istanbul in the Turkish Cinema – İlknur Doğu Öztürk: The Effects of Culture on Marketing Communication in Positioning: An Examination Regarding Yandex Positioning in the Turkish Market – Mehmet Alİ Gazİ: Reflections of Gatekeeping on Social Media – Mehmet Oğulcan Turan: The Use of the Images of MOBESE Cameras in Television news: A New Type or Source? – Metİn Kasim/Özlem Güleç Kinali: A Study for Measuring Effects of Children Oriented Food Advertisements Broadcasted on Television on Primary School Freshmen – Murat Kocyigit/M. Nejat Ozupek: Personality Factors that Affect the Use of Facebook: A Research Study on University Students – Murat Yetkin/Yaşar Yiğit Kaçmaz: Do We Need Mobile Applications in Tourism: Case of Alanya – Nurettin Güz/Hayrullah Yanik/Ozan Kocabaş: Gatekeeping and Online Journalism –

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