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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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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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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2024Heritage and healing in Syria and Iraq
by Zena Kamash
This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict. It charts a path through the colonial histories and traumatic wars of Syria and Iraq to examine the projects and responses currently on offer and assess their flaws and limitations, including issues of digital colonialism, technological solutionism, geopolitical manoeuvring, media bias and community exclusion. Drawing on current research into the psychology and neuroscience of trauma and trauma recovery, and taking inspiration from artists and creative thinkers who challenge the status quo, this book envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to respond to heritage damaged in conflict that recentre people and their hopes, dreams and needs at the heart of these debates.
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January 2023Diagnosis Digital Disaster
Can the healthcare system still be saved?
by Peter Schaar
— Ways out of the digital disaster — For healthcare professionals and informed patients Modern information technologies can and should contribute to improving the quality and transparency of medical care and making healthcare more economical – and all for the benefit and well-being of patients. Well, that would be the noble approach. All the talk about health insurance cards, telematics infrastructure and electronic patient files stirs up emotions. Peter Schaar, long-standing Federal Data Protection Commissioner, brings light to the dark data and health thicket. Why are innovations in the healthcare sector met with great scepticism by many stakeholders? How can we speed up the development and implementation of meaningful ITsupported solutions? What role does the narrow, small-scale regulatory framework play – not only, but also in data protection?
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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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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2021Doing digital history
by Jonathan Blaney, Jane Winters, Sarah Milligan, Martin Steer
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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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Teaching, Language & ReferenceJanuary 2019Global humanitarianism and media culture
by Michael Lawrence, Rachel Tavernor, Bertrand Taithe
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025The return of the housewife
Why women are still cleaning up
by Emma Casey
An illuminating look at the world of cleanfluencers that asks why the burden of housework still falls on women. Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy. Housework is beautiful. Housework is glamorous. Housework is key to a happy family. Housework shows that you care. Housework is women's work. Social media is flooded with images of the perfect home. TikTok and Instagram 'cleanfluencers' produce endless photos and videos of women cleaning, tidying and putting things right. Figures such as Marie Kondo and Mrs Hinch have placed housework, with its promise of a life of love and contentment, at the centre of self-care and positive thinking. And yet housework remains one of the world's most unequal institutions. Women, especially poorer women and women of colour, do most low-paid and unpaid domestic labour. In The return of the housewife, Emma Casey asks why these inequalities matter and why they persist after a century of dramatic advances in women's rights. She offers a powerful call to challenge the prevailing myths around housework and the 'naturally competent' woman homemaker.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Global networks of Indigeneity
by Bronwyn Carlson, Tristan Kennedy, Madi Day
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2024
The machinic city
Media, performance and participation
by Marcos P. Dias
As human and machine agency become increasingly intermingled and digital media is overlaid onto the urban landscape, The machinic city argues that performance art can help us to understand contemporary urban living. Dias analyses interventions from performance artists such as Blast Theory, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Rimini Protokoll, which draw from a rich history of avant-garde art movements to create spaces for deliberation and reflection on urban life, and speculation on its future. While cities are increasingly controlled by autonomous processes mediated by technical machines, Dias analyses the performative potential of the aesthetic machine, as it assembles with media, capitalist, human and urban machines. The aesthetic machine of performance art in urban space is examined through its different components - design, city and technology actants. This unveils the unpredictable nature and emerging potential of performance art as it unfolds in the machinic city.
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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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PsychologyIntegrating Digital Tools Into Children’s Mental Health Care
by Deborah J. Jones, Margaret T. Anton
How to use digital tools in children’smental healthcare according to the latestevidence• Expert authors examine theevidence-base• Provides hands-on exercises forselecting digital tools• Includes downloadable handoutsand formsPractitioners need to know the evidencebehind using digital mentalhealth approaches and tools, includingtelemental health visits. This accessiblebook provides that help, as the authorsguide the reader through the rationale,options, and strategies forincorporating digital tools into children’smental healthcare drawing ontheir extensive knowledge of both currentresearch and clinical practice.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2022Beckett and media
by Balazs Rapcsak, Mark Nixon, Philipp Schweighauser
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February 2024Wenn sieben kleine Hasen durch neun lustige Geschichten rasen
by Sabine Praml, Ursula Illert, Christiane Hansen, Deluxe Media GmbH
Hasenstark! Sieben kleine Hasen in einem Sammelband Bei den sieben kleinen Hasen ist immer etwas los. Wenn die Sonne scheint, plantschen sie im Badesee, und wenn es regnet, rasen sie in Gummistiefeln durch die Pfützen. Abends sind sie noch so munter, dass sie gar nicht schlafen wollen. Doch dann fallen einem Hasenkind nach dem anderen doch die Augen zu. In diesem Sammel-Hörbuch finden sich gleich neun Sieben kleine Hasen-Geschichten: - Wenn sieben müde kleine Hasen abends in ihr Bettchen rasen - Wenn sieben freche kleine Hasen schnell in die Verstecke rasen - Wenn sieben grummelige Hasen quitschvergnügt durch Pfützen rasen - Wenn sieben kleine Badehasen quitschfidel ans Wasser rasen - Wenn sieben weihnachtliche Hasen fröhliche um die Tanne rasen - Wenn sieben wilde kleine Hasen dem Nachbarn gleich zu Hilfe rasen - Wenn sieben kleine Hasen Schnupfennasen haben - Wenn sieben kleine Hasen zur Geburtstagsparty rasen - Wenn sieben kleine Hasen um Häschen Nr. Sieben rasenVorgelesen von Ursula Illert, untermalt mit vielen Geräuschen und Musik.
