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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2025Contemporary Slavic horror across media
Cursed zones
by Agnieszka Jezyk
In the Western cultural production that puts individual or collective fear at its center, East/Central Europe has been portrayed as an othered space of horror - lawless, frightening zones where anything can happen. Incorporating articles on literature, film, visual arts, video games, music videos, and music festivals, Contemporary Slavic horror across media: Cursed zones is a pioneering anthology of academic essays devoted to Slavic horror fiction. The book focuses on works from the mid-20th century through the present, particularly the post-Soviet period. Assessing current trends in Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and East/Central European horror media, the book looks at similarities and idiosyncrasies of the genre in its Slavic variant. With this anthology we hope to tame 'the Easterner Other' and start exorcising 'monstrous' East/Central Europe.
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September 2023Trapped by Social Media
How we save our digital sovereignty
by Björn Staschen
— Who is behind the big platforms, what are their alternatives and why do algorithms contribute to polarisation? — A contribution to the discussion on current media policy in the EU It's a paradox: thanks to the countless platforms and channels that are around today, it has never been so easy to express your opinion. And yet never before have so few people decided on the rules of these platforms. Never before has the free formation of opinion, which is essential for our democracies, been in so much danger. And never before have the signs of recognising this been so obvious. So what needs to be done? In a controversial discourse on the effects of TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the rest, Björn Staschen reveals how we are slowly losing our freedom – and how we can get it back again.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019The new pornographies
Explicit sex in recent French fiction and film
by Victoria Best, Martin Crowley
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have, often on this basis, achieved considerable international success. Amongst these artists are a number of French authors and directors - such as Michel Houellebecq, Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, or Catherine Millet - whose work has often been dismissed as trashy or exploitative, but whose use of pornographic material may in fact be indicative of important contemporary concerns. In this, the first study of this significant trend, the authors explore how the reference to pornography encodes diverse political, cultural, and existential questions, including relations between the sexes, the collapse of avant-garde politics, gay sexualities in the time of AIDS, the anti-feminist backlash, the relation to the body and illness, the place of fantasy, and the sexualisation of children. It will be of interest to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of French culture, gender, film and media studies.
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The ArtsJune 2021The new pornographies
Explicit sex in recent French fiction and film
by Victoria Best, Martin Crowley
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have, often on this basis, achieved considerable international success. Amongst these artists are a number of French authors and directors - such as Michel Houellebecq, Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, or Catherine Millet - whose work has often been dismissed as trashy or exploitative, but whose use of pornographic material may in fact be indicative of important contemporary concerns. In this study of a very significant trend, the authors explore how the reference to pornography encodes diverse political, cultural, and existential questions, including relations between the sexes, the collapse of avant-garde politics, gay sexualities in the time of AIDS, the anti-feminist backlash, the relation to the body and illness, the place of fantasy, and the sexualisation of children. It will be of interest to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of French culture, gender, film and media studies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024The construction of public opinion in a digital age
by Catherine Happer
This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure. Drawing on a series of empirical studies conducted over nearly a decade, Happer deploys evidence of a 'disconnect' between neoliberal media and the public which is rooted in a disaffection with a mainstream political culture which has failed to deliver the societal outcomes promised. As people are pushed towards alternative digital sources, new communities of opinion are produced in ways which polarise publics and ultimately limit the potential for social change. Offering an innovative and urgently needed new sociological analysis, this book is required reading for an inter-disciplinary field of media, journalism, and politics/IR which has largely abandoned questions of media power and public opinion management, as well as policymakers, science communicators and journalists. Key points of the book: 1) public opinion formation and why people may come to different positions through the development of a new model 2) the societal outcomes produced when a widespread disconnect between journalism and public opinion emerges 3) the atomisation of opinion and its relations to newly constructed opinion communities (with consideration of the role of class) 4) the turn to digitally available alternatives which enable new, less visible power agents to exert control.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2022Nordic Gothic
by Maria Holmgren Troy, Johan Hõglund, Yvonne Leffler, Sofia Wijkmark
Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
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Politics & governmentNovember 2006The European Union and the regulation of media markets
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by Alison Harcourt
National broadcasting and press regulation is undergoing a process of convergence in Europe. This book, newly available in paperback, explains how this process has been shaped by the actions of the European Union (EU) institutions. Alison Harcourt observes that whilst communications is one of the EU's most successful policy areas, European decision-making is eroding the national capacity to regulate for the public interest. European-level efforts to protect public interest goals have been constrained by the European Treaties. The author argues that increased European coordination in public interest regulation could be more conducive to growth and competitiveness than the dismantling of existing national laws. This, however, would require changes to the political composition of the European Union. This book assesses the potential EU media regulation provides for market growth and the protection of media pluralism, the citizen and ultimately democracy itself. These opportunities are presented in the coming decade with the developing European Constitution, EU enlargement, and the implementation and revision of European regulation.
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July 2022Miss Braitwhistle 6. Miss Braitwhistle startet durch
by Sabine Ludwig, Sabine Ludwig, Alexander Rieß, Jens Wawrczeck, Frank Gustavus, Andrea Stegmaier
Hörbuch für Kinder: Magic Miss Braitwhistle ist wieder da! How wonderful! Endlich eine neue Geschichte von der fabelhaften Miss Braitwhistle, Aki, Franz und all den anderen Rabauken der Klasse 4a wie Albtraum. Es ist Projektwoche im sechsten Band von Sabine Ludwigs witziger Bestseller-Reihe, und natürlich wetteifern die 4a und die 4b um das erfolgreichste Projekt. Blöd nur, dass die Streberklasse 4b eine Zirkusvorführung machen soll und die schreibfaule 4a eine Schülerzeitung. Wie gut, dass Miss Braitwhistle wieder da ist und magische Presseausweise dabeihat. Der Hauptgewinn, eine Reise in die Südsee, ist der der 4a schon so gut wie sicher, bis Hugo mal wieder Mist baut. Wird der Sieg noch zu retten sein? Mit so einem Hörbuch macht Schule richtig Spaß – und erst recht die Ferien. Projektwoche mit Miss Braitwhistle: Für Spaß und Chaos ist gesorgt. Der sechste Teil der beliebten Reihe von Erfolgsautorin Sabine Ludwig als ungekürzte Lesung. Herrlich lustig, charmant und magisch und mitten aus dem Schulalltag. Turbulente Story und britischer Humor für Kinder ab 8 Jahren. Perfekt für den Schulstart: 220 Minuten Hörvergnügen auf insgesamt drei CDs. Mit viel Vergnügen gelesen von Jens Wawrczeck, einer der berühmten Stimmen von Die drei ???.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2018Flight MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War
by Kees van der Pijl, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceJanuary 2019Global humanitarianism and media culture
by Michael Lawrence, Rachel Tavernor, Bertrand Taithe
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2024Brave new city
Smart Cities - a survaillance-nightmare?
by Peter Schaar
The dream of the ideal city is as old as the city itself. Since real cities often develop chaotically, the idea of perfecting them, even tearing them down if necessary, and rebuilding them according to the prevailing patterns of thought is an obvious one. The latest manifestation of this utopia is the smart city - the intelligent city, packed with the latest technology and extensively digitised. But will air taxis and hyperloops, ubiquitous sensors, access control systems and data-driven management really make the city of the future a better place to live? Are they the answer to the enormous challenges facing today's fast-growing metropolises? Or will the supposed administrative paradise ultimately mutate into a digital juggernaut?
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022A new naval history
by Quintin Colville, James Davey, Katherine Parker, Elaine Chalus, Evan Wilson, Barbara Korte, Cicely Robinson, Cindy McCreery, Ellie Miles, Mary A. Conley, Jonathan Rayner, Daniel Spence, Emma Hanna, Ulrike Zimmerman, Max Jones, Jan Rüger
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines - through the prism of naval affairs - issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life in ships and naval bases; and the processes of commemoration, journalism and stage-managed pageantry that plotted the interrelationship of ship and shore. This bold and original publication will be essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students of naval and maritime history. Beyond that, though, it marks an important intervention into wider historiographies that will be read by scholars from across the spectrum of social history, cultural studies and the analysis of national identity.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 1997The new woman
by Sally Ledger
Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional representations with the lived experience of the new woman, Ledger's book makes a major contribution to an understanding of the 'woman question' at the fin de siecle. She alights on such disparate figures as Eleanor Marx, Gertrude Dix, Dracula, Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner and Radclyffe Hall. Focusing mainly on the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the book's later chapters project forward into the twentieth century, considering the relationship between new woman fiction and early modernism as well as the socio-sexual inheritance of the 'second generation' new woman writers. ;
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January 2023KoboldKroniken 1. Sie sind unter uns!
by Daniel Bleckmann, Uticha Marmon, Benjamin Ritter, Stefan Kaminski, Thomas Hussung
K wie Kenial: Dein Kobold-Hörbuch mit App. Das klaubt, ähm: glaubt ihr nie: Stellt euch vor, ihr kommt nach den Sommerferien zurück zur Schule und euer bester Freund ist wie ausgewechselt. Einfach total anders. Tja, das genau passiert Dario – seines Zeichens Comiczeichner und voll der Nerd – mit seinem Kumpel Lennard, früher Computergenie und auf einmal … Für Dario ist klar: Hier stimmt was nicht. Zusammen mit Lennards ebenso nicer wie nerviger Schwester Clara-mit-C findet er heraus, dass ... (Vorsicht Spoiler!) Lennard entführt und gegen einen Kobold ausgetauscht wurde! Also macht sich Dario gemeinsam mit Kobold Rumpel, dessen Ümpf (schwer zu erklären, muss man lesen) und Clara-mit-C auf zur Lennard-Rettungsmission in die Koboldwelt. Greg-Fans aufgepasst: Start der von Stefan Kaminski lässig erzählten KoboldKroniken-Reihe – Fortsetzung folgt. Wenn du Abenteuer liebst, bist du hier richtig. Verbindet die Elemente Games, Social Media, Freundschaft und Schule mit Fantasywelten. Mit tollen Zusatzprodukten wie Activity Buch, Exit-Abenteuer, Spielebox … Begleite deine neuen Freund*innen Dario, Clara-mit-C und Lennard von Anfang an auf ihrer Mission.
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February 2024KoboldKroniken 3. Klassenfahrt mit Klabauter
by Daniel Bleckmann, Uticha Marmon, , Benjamin Ritter, Stefan Kaminski, Thomas Hussung
Kobold-krasse Klassenfahrt (Hörbuch mit 3 CDs) Im dritten Teil der KoboldKroniken fahren Dario, Lennard und Clara-mit-C mit der Schule an die Nordsee. Entspannung nach den anstrengenden Missionen in der Koboldwelt Kwertz ist angesagt! Rumpel ist natürlich auch mit von der Partie, obwohl ihm Wasser gar nicht geheuer ist. Die Freunde treffen auf einen Kobold vom Klan der Klabauter und ahnen, dass es für sie bald wieder nach Kwertz gehen wird. Dort warten Klabauterprüfungen, Drakkball-Spiele und eine finstere Bedrohung auf Dario und seine Freunde … Die ultimative Koboldwelt Der ultimative Hörspaß zum 3. Band der KoboldKroniken: Das Hörbuch eignet sich perfekt für Kinder ab 9 Jahren. Neue Freunde, neue Mission: Phänomenal inszeniert von Stimmengenie Stefan Kaminski. Ausgezeichnet: Das Hörbuch zu „KoboldKroniken 1. Sie sind unter uns!“ gehört zu den besten Titeln in der Kategorie „Kinder- und Jugendaufnahmen“ auf der Longlist des Preises der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Cool erzählt: Im trendigen Tagebuchstil, geschrieben von Daniel Bleckmann. Die KoboldKroniken sind lässige Bücher mit coolen Illus, wenig Text und einer genialen App für Kinder ab 9 Jahren. Die Geschichten sind in Tagebuchform geschrieben und superleicht zu lesen. Sie verbinden die Themen Schule, Freundschaft, Social Media und Gaming mit Fantasy. Für alle Fans dieser interaktiven Buchreihe gibt es ein gigantisches Kobold-Universum mit Hörbüchern, Rätseln, Puzzles, Beschäftigungsbüchern, Exit-Abenteuer, Spielen und eine coole App.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2014Theorising Media
Power, form and subjectivity
by John Corner
In this book, John Corner explores how issues of power, form and subjectivity feature at the core of all serious thinking about the media, including appreciations of their creativity as well as anxiety about the risks they pose. Drawing widely on an interdisciplinary literature, he connects his exposition to examples from film, television, radio, photography, painting, web practice, music and writing in order to bring in topics as diverse as reporting the war in Afghanistan, the televising of football, documentary portrayals of 9/11, reality television, the diversity of taste in the arts and the construction of civic identity. Theorising media brings together concepts both from social studies and the arts and humanities, addressing a readership wider than the sub-specialisms of media research. It refreshes ideas about why the media matter and how understanding them better remains a key aim of cultural inquiry and a continuing requirement for public policy. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024Ageing and new intimacies
Gender, sexuality and temporality in an English salsa scene
by Sarah Milton
The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families. With this cohort of men and women in Britain now entering mid and later life, they are also said to be revolutionising the experience of ageing. Are the romantic practices of this 'revolutionary cohort' breaking with tradition and allowing new ways of understanding and doing ageing and relating to emerge? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in salsa classes and life history interviews, this book documents the meanings of desire and romance, and 'new' intimacies, among women in mid and later life. Challenging notions of the revolutionary 'baby boomers', it details how these practices, experiences and identities are intersected and informed by age, class, whiteness, and a pervasive concern to remain respectable.
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The ArtsFebruary 2005New challenges for documentary
Second edition
by Alan Rosenthal, John Corner, Martin Hargreaves
The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and filmmakers, reflecting shifts both in documentary production itself, and in ways of discussing it. Once again, the emphasis has been on clear and provocative writing, sympathetic to the practical challenges of documentary film-making but making connections with a range of work in media and communications analysis. With its wide range of contributors and the international scope of its agenda, New challenges for documentary will be essential reading for general filmmakers and documentary students both of academic and practical inclinations. ;
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January 2018Onboarding – Integrating New Employees
by Moser, Klaus; Souček, Roman; Galais, Nathalie; Roth, Colin
Introducing and integrating new employees successfully, also known as “onboarding”, is of central importance for every company and a core task of Human Resource management / personnel work. Successful onboarding not only avoids mistakes, accidents, and stress, but also initiates learning processes, the development of commitment and promotes team spirit among employees. This book makes it clear that onboarding starts with recruitment and that different priorities have to be set depending on the target group. Key measures that can contribute to the successful integration of new employees are described: realistic job previews, the use of informal recruitment methods, integration by supervisors and colleagues, training and orientation programs, sponsorship and mentoring systems, coaching and supervision, trainee programs, team development, the use of social media and financial incentives. Basic principles, mechanisms of action, evaluation results and case studies are presented. For:• managers, personnel managers• personnel and organizational developers• trainers, consultants, supervisors• personnel psychologists, students and lecturers ofindustrial, business and organizational psychologyas well as business administration
