"Noch immer wird Afrika mit Stereotypen behaftet, die Unterentwicklung und Armut hervorheben. Und noch immer werden die Perspektiven des Kontinents an westlichen Fortschrittsmaßstäben gemessen, selbst wenn sich diese längst als unbrauchbar, wenn nicht gar zerstörerisch erwiesen haben. Felwine Sa
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rr fordert eine Entkolonialisierung Afrikas, die auch auf die Kolonialzeit zurückgehende Institutionen und Handelsbeziehungen überwindet. Dabei verkennt er nicht die hausgemachten Probleme wie Misswirtschaft und Korruption. Doch könnten diese Probleme nur durch ein umfassenderes Verständnis ihrer Ursachen und nur durch die Afrikanerinnen und Afrikaner selbst gelöst werden. Er entwickelt in seinem Manifest eine Vision, wie eine eigene Form afrikanischen Fortschritts gelingen könnte - durch Entscheidungsautonomie und ein selbst gewähltes Entwicklungstempo. Langfristig könne eine afrikanische Kulturrevolution auch neue Ansätze für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung an anderen Orten der Welt liefern." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"We believe every child should own a hundred books by the age of five. In South Africa, that means giving 600 million free books to children who could never afford to buy them. Every day we lose, more children grow up unable to read and write well, and to enjoy the worlds that books open up. Every o
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ne of us can help to give lots of free books to very young children. Most importantly, these books should be: new, African stories; with characters they recognise; in languages they speak; beautiful enough to love for a lifetime. There are two sides to getting new, better books into children's hands: 1. Book creation: writing, illustration and design, guided by an editor (Output: print and digital files than anyone can download and share); 2. Book distribution: printing, delivering and handing out to children and parents (This includes reading on mobile phones). Book Dash creates books. We support others in distributing them to children. Our book-creation process is where our name comes from: a Book Dash is a single day when volunteer teams of skilled creative professionals come together to create new children's storybooks in just 12 hours. Each team comprises a writer, an illustrator, and a designer. The teams have twelve hours to create one book per team. We provide expert editors, tech support, a great venue, great food and lots of coffee." (Page 3-4)
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"Netnography is an adaptation of ethnography for the online world, pioneered by Robert Kozinets, and is concerned with the study of online cultures and communities as distinct social phenomena, rather than isolated content. In this landmark third edition, Netnography: The Essential Guide provides th
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e theoretical and methodological groundwork as well as the practical applications, helping students both understand and do netnographic research projects of their own. Packed with enhanced learning features throughout, linking concepts to structured activities in a step by step way, the book is also now accompanied by a striking new visual design and further case studies, offering the essential student resource to conducting online ethnographic research. Real world examples provided demonstrate netnography in practice across the social sciences, in media and cultural studies, anthropology, education, nursing, travel and tourism, and others." (Publisher description)
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"The Routledge companion to urban media and communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within medi
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a, cultural and urban studies, where a joint focus on communications and cities has made important innovations in how we understand urban space, technology, identity, and community. Exploring the emergence and growing complexity of urban media and communication as the next key theme for both urban and media studies, the book gathers and reviews fast developing knowledge on specific emergent phenomena such as: reading the city as symbol and text; understanding urban infrastructures as media (and vice-versa); the rise of global cities; urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers, cinema, radio, television and the mobile phone; changing spaces and practices of urban consumption; the mediation of the neighbourhood, community and diaspora; the centrality of culture to urban regeneration; communicative responses to urban crises such as racism, poverty and pollution; the role of street art in the negotiation of 'the right to the city'; city competition and urban branding; outdoor advertising; moving image architecture; 'smart'/cyber urbanism; the emergence of media city production spaces and clusters." (Publisher description)
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"Das Influencer Marketing hat sich in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahren etabliert und entwickelt sich langsam aus der Experimentierphase heraus zu einem wesentlichen Baustein der Marketing-Strategie von Unternehmen. Dabei kristallisieren sich nach und nach Standards und allgemeingültige Regel h
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eraus. Dieses Buch beleuchtet einerseits relevante Aspekte sowie Entwicklungen des Influencer-Marketings und beschreibt andererseits unterschiedliche Typen von Meinungsmachern. Es ordnet das Influencer Marketing als Trend und Kommunikationsform in den Marketing-Mix ein und gibt praktische Tipps für die Umsetzung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven: von der Marketingstrategie und der Auswahl geeigneter Multiplikatoren über das Projektmanagement und den Umgang mit Influencern bis hin zur Erfolgsmessung." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a media-archaeological approach in both theory and practice: The media artist Kaya
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Behkalam speaks about his project The Augmented Archive, a digital topographic archive for Cairo’s urban space, whereas media philosopher Knut Ebeling traces the wider historical and media theoretical context to archival and memory practices of resistance. Behkalam and Ebeling have repeatedly worked together in the past on essays and projects around archival practice and media archaeology." (Abstract)
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"'El Radioteatro. Olvido, renacimiento y su consumo en otras plataformas' nos ofrece las claves del pasado, presente y futuro de un género, de un formato radiofónico que se sustancia en una explosión de creatividad que acaricia nuestros sentidos y nos abre a un mundo de posibilidades en una perfe
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cta conjunción de palabra, efectos especiales y música. El Radioteato es la expresión por excelencia del guion radiofónico ―el más completo de los géneros, el que más pasión y entrega exige de sus actores, guionistas y realizadores; y sin embargo un género que permaneció olvidado durante demasiado tiempo. Pero la esperanza perdida se convierte en realidad cuando renace como ave Fénix con el reto de conquistar a los nativos digitales que empiezan a admirar su riqueza en multipantallas, a la carta, en un medio de transporte o en altavoces inteligentes. Los textos que integran este volumen son la culminación del trabajo realizado en el I Congreso Internacional de Radioteatro celebrado en la Universidad de Málaga en marzo de 2019." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Este libro es una provocación para quienes lean se atrevan también a construir nuevos textos sobre autoras, pensadoras, teóricas, activistas, contadoras de historias que nos hacen faltan para seguir construyendo el mapa del pensamiento de las mujeres de la comunicación." (Cubierta del libro)
"Comunicar Ciência num Mundo em Mudança elegeu como tema central o papel desta actividade num horizonte comunicacional altamente volátil, onde transformações radicais alteram os modos da comunicação, as estruturas produtivas, e acabam tendo pesadas consequências na organização social e pol
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ítica. Para abarcar a complexidade destes fenómenos ocupamos-nos deles em três vertentes, correspondendo às três partes em que se encontra dividido este livro: A Ciência nos Media Jornalísticos e Redes Sociais Digitais, Mulheres na Ciência, e Media, Universidades e Assessorias de Comunicação na Divulgação Científica." (Introdução, página 1)
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"Die standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse stellt ein für die Forschung zur politischen Kommunikation unverzichtbares methodisches Instrumentarium bereit, um die ausufernde Menge an politisch relevanten Mitteilungen im öffentlichen und halböffentlichen Diskursraum systematisch zu beschreiben. Die gegen
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ber dem Untersuchungsmaterial weitgehend non-reaktive Vorgehensweise liefert intersubjektiv nachvollziehbare Befunde. Der Beitrag leistet eine methodologische Auseinandersetzung mit den Grundprinzipien, Stärken und Schwächen der Inhaltsanalyse und ihrem Erkenntnishorizont." (Zusammenfassung)
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"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationship
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s with traumatic events? And how does comics' documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts? The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generative force that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study." (Publisher description)
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"Este libro traza una historia comparada de los cines nacionales de América Latina en diez capítulos que cubren los principales periodos cinematográficos de la región, entre ellos el cine mudo, el cine de estudios, el neorrealismo, el cine de autor, el Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano y el cine contem
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poráneo. Schroeder Rodríguez incorpora un análisis de aproximadamente 50 películas a una narrativa de alto rigor académico y enmarcada por un persuasivo marco teórico de modernidades múltiples. El resultado es una guía obligatoria que transforma la versión heredada de la historia cultural de América Latina en los últimos cien años, pues resalta la forma en que actores sociales como la Iglesia y el Estado han utilizado el poder del cine para definir la esfera pública y moldear nuevas identidades en un continente marcado por luchas continuas de liberación y justicia social." (Editorial)
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"Television was introduced in India in 1959 but for many years it was limited to state-owned broadcaster Doordarshan, which had one channel with twice-weekly, one-hour programs. However, there has been a marked shift in the television entertainment options available in India today, with 48 paid-for
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broadcasters, an estimated 60,000 cable operators, 6000 Multi System Operators (MSOs) and six pay direct-to-home (DTH) operators, all in addition to the public service broadcaster – Doordarshan. In total, there are over 850 TV channels registered with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. 2016 witnessed the arrival of a revolution in content consumption in India, with the entry of OTT (over-the-top) media services. OTT content is defined as the “productized practice of streaming content to customers directly over the web.” This has marked a big shift from the traditional tune-in, “consume-what-you-are-fed” model of conventional terrestrial, cable or satellite dish television, towards a new on-demand era of choice. Given the OTT boom, 82% of users in the Indian market are currently engaged on free-to-view, advertising-led videoon-demand platforms (like YouTube), compared to the 18% who pay for content on subscription-led video-on-demand services (such as Netflix and Amazon Prime). There are many factors that have been conducive to the on-demand model in India, the foremost being the growing penetration of internet and smart phones." (Introduction)
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"Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this book examines the changes that have taken place in the public discourse of the Ukraine and Russia since 2014 and the beginning of the 'Ukrainian Crisis.' Through analysis of the narratives constructed by differ
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ent social groups in Ukraine, Language of Conflict shows how discourse can illuminate the competing worldviews and the conflicting positions of the various stakeholders in this conflict. Through critical discourse analysis and multimodality, this book explores the prevalent narratives and the linguistic features of the salient discourses surrounding this conflict. Using Russian- and Ukrainian-language texts from traditional and social media, contributors from Ukraine, Russia and beyond investigate discourses surrounding the most important topics of the crisis: its causes and goals, the sides, and the values and ideologies of the opposing parties. Highlighting the ways in which the stress produced by social discord, economic hardship and violence, is reflected in verbal aggression, slurs, insults and profane language of extraordinary linguistic creativity, Language of Conflict provides insight into the ways people think about, respond to and experience the reality of conflict in their everyday communication." (Publisher description)
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