"Developed with expert advice from market research agency Patternmakers and digital agency Thirst, together with considerable input from several small arts organisations who were involved throughout the design process, the Audience Research Toolkit is a free online resource for anyone who’s new to
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the world of research as well as for experienced marketers and researchers. More than 200 art workers from Victoria’s small to medium sector contributed to the development of the Toolkit, according to Patternmakers’ Managing Director, Tandi Palmer Williams, and their needs and issues directly shaped its content." (www.artshub.com.au)
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"Am 10. Mai 1933 ließen die Nationalsozialisten in rund 20 deutschen Universitätsstädten die Bücher „undeutscher“ Autoren verbrennen. Besonders öffentlichkeitswirksam inszeniert wurde die Büchervernichtung unter tatkräftiger Beteiligung Studierender und in Anwesenheit von Joseph Goebbels
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auf dem Berliner Opernplatz. Dort war der Schriftsteller Erich Kästner als einziger der Verfemten Augenzeuge der Verbrennung seiner Werke. Die vier Texte „Über das Verbrennen von Büchern“ sind Zeitdokumente: Kästner seziert mit zeitlos gültiger Klarheit Wurzeln und Folgen des Ansinnens, die Freiheit des geschriebenen Wortes zu vernichten." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in rela
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tion to urgent subjects such as public opinion and emotion, solidarity, evidence and verification, censorship and fake news, which are all central to the ways current conflicts are represented and unfold. Essays include a unique range of case studies from different regional and political contexts (Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America) and in connection with different conflict types (war, terror, riots, everyday resistance, etc.). They also consider performative genres such as memes, selfies and appropriations as well as images conforming to the realism and authenticity of conventional photojournalism. In this way, the collection responds to the challenges of swiftly evolving image genres as well as to the continually shifting policies and algorithms of commercial digital platforms." (Publisher description)
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"Organisations ranging from violent extremist groups to the US Army have used online gaming, a popular form of entertainment among the world’s youth, for recruiting purposes. To date, efforts to curtail online recruiting have been siloed to reduce recruitment of certain groups, such as violent ext
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remist groups, or aimed at specific platforms, such as certain online games geared for children. Efforts to address online recruitment in gaming have engaged with governments, NGOs, and the gaming industry, leaving out gamers themselves. This Policy Brief describes why recruiting in online gaming should be understood as a more general problem, involving any armed group recruiting online, which has simple solutions. It then presents several concepts from peacebuilding that can be applied to counter recruiting efforts in online gaming." (Abstract)
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"La representación de la mujer en el cine de Colombia ha tendido a estar asociada a nociones de sumisión, victimización o sexualización, sugiriendo una cierta uniformidad, invisibilidad y repetición acerca de su existencia social y cinematográfica. A pesar de esta complejidad cultural e histó
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rica, existe una serie de producciones colombianas hechas en el nuevo milenio que trascienden los sesgos de género patriarcales y las dicotomías morales sobre la mujer en la pantalla grande. Teniendo en cuenta la sanción de la Ley de Cine 814 de 2003, la cual ha tenido un impacto positivo en el sector cinematográfico colombiano, este libro propone examinar de forma inédita, conjunta y crítica, diversas maneras en que las mujeres son representadas en un grupo de películas de ficción colombianas del siglo XXI. Bajo un prisma interdisciplinario de estudios de cine, feministas, poscoloniales y subalternos, este trabajo ofrece un enfoque temático y un análisis textual de un total de doce películas en el que se analizan imágenes de la mujer en el cine de Colombia, reconociendo sus raíces en las normas que ha establecido el patriarcado, y sus eventuales transgresiones. De este modo, este libro explora e invita a celebrar representaciones diversas y emergentes de la mujer entendiendo el silencio y la sumisión como factores subversivos, los tipos de emancipación de la mujer dentro de grupos al margen de la ley, y la sexualidad y el deseo de las mujeres como agentes de cambio al hablar de la feminidad. Esta obra argumenta que la Ley de Cine creó un espacio para que los y las cineastas representaran los límites de las normas de género hegemónicas en la sociedad colombiana y los esfuerzos que se vienen haciendo para desafiarlas a través de su cine." (Resumen)
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"Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("CommSocMed"). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the exp
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ansive spheres of CommSocMed. Authored by professionals with extensive academic and in-depth research and industry experience, the book highlights research-based themes that mirror qualitative and quantitative methodologies vis-à-vis socio-cultural, political, educational, and organisational issues and challenges. The first two sections present the mutually interwoven disciplines of CommSocMed where research works cover a comprehensive range of designs such as narrative analysis, case study, recombinant memetics, discourse analysis, visual semiotics, ethnography, content analysis, feminist theory, descriptive-survey, descriptive-correlational, model-building/testing, experimental, and mixed methods. The third section is a concluding segment which synthesises all the scholarly contributions in this volume." (Publisher description)
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"Journalisme et science peuvent-ils s'entendre ? Leurs rythmes sont différents, comme leur rapport à la vérité. Quel est le rôle des journalistes, comment parlent-ils de la science, quelle image se font-ils de la science et de ceux qui la produisent ? La science pour le journaliste, c'est aussi
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le discours que les scientifiques adressent aux médias quand ils espèrent que leurs recherches seront partagées. Ce livre explore le journalisme scientifique dans sa diversité, la manière de produire l'information et de rendre compte de l'actualité scientifique. Il dresse un panorama des enjeux récents soulevés par l'intérêt grandissant des médias pour la science, à l'heure des crises sanitaires et du réchauffement climatique." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"Es gibt kaum noch Zeitzeugen des Holocaust. Die letzten erzählen von ihrer Erinnerung als Kinder in den Konzentrationslagern der Nationalsozialisten und über die Verfolgung und Ermordung ihrer Familien. Um diese Erinnerungen vor dem Vergessen zu bewahren, haben die Zeichnerinnen Barara Yelin, Mir
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iam Libicki und der Zeichner Gilad Seliktar mit vier Holocaust-Überlebenden gesprochen und ihre schmerzvollen Kindheitserfahrungen von Flucht, Untergrund oder dem knappen Überleben in drei Graphic Novels fließen lassen. Gemeinsam ist allen Geschichten, dass das Erlebte das gesamte weitere Leben der Protagonisten geprägt hat und dass sie sich in der Folge dafür einsetzten, diese Erfahrungen an jüngere Generationen weiterzugeben. Gerade das Wissen um Genozide aus der Sicht der Überlebenden könne als Mahnmal für zukünftige Generationen fungieren und stellen ein Gegengewicht zu historischen Überlieferungen aus Tätersicht dar." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In at least some cases, visual images can challenge normative and normalized ways of grasping the world and prompt their viewers to see differently-and even bring people together. Seeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for soci
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al justice. Ellen T. Armour examines what distinguishes digital photography from its analogue predecessor and places the circulation of digital images in the broader context of virtual visual cultures. She explores the challenges and opportunities that visually saturated social media landscapes present for users and organizers. Despite the power of digital platforms and algorithms, possibilities for disruption and resistance emerge from how people engage with these systems. Armour offers ways of seeing drawn from Christianity and found in other religious traditions to help us break with entrenched habits and rethink how we engage with the images that grab our attention. Developing theological perspectives on the power and peril of photography and technology, Seeing and Believing provides suggestions for navigating the new media landscape that can spark what Armour calls "photographic insurrection." (Publisher description)
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"Wie werden Gesellschaften in Zeitschriften betrachtet und welche Übersetzungsleistungen bieten jene in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Kontexten? Um diesen Fragen nachzugehen, analysieren die Beiträger*innen des Bandes das Zusammenspiel von Textgestaltung, Design, Inhalten, Infrastrukturen u
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nd Zielgruppen von Zeitschriften. Sie erweitern den Blick im Rahmen einer differenzierungstheoretischen Forschungsagenda und betrachten Zeitschriften als materialisierte Zeichensysteme und kommunikative Artefakte innerhalb der materiellen Kultur der Gesellschaft." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Die vollständig aktualisierte und erweiterte Neuauflage des etablierten Werks bietet Informationsspezialistinnen und -spezialisten aus allen Sparten einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklungen und die Typologie wissenschaftlicher Informationsressourcen. Darauf aufbauend werden rund 430 In
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formationsressourcen, die für die allgemeine und fachspezifische Informationsrecherche von besonderer Bedeutung sind, in ihren Inhalten und Funktionalitäten sowie ihrer Bedeutung vorgestellt. Klassische bibliothekarische Ressourcentypen wie Bibliothekskataloge, Bibliographien, Nachschlagewerke und Portale für Fachinformationen werden dabei ebenso berücksichtigt wie Forschungsdatenverzeichnisse, Patent- und Normdatenbanken, Angebote zu Statistiken, Open-Access- und Open-Educational-Resources-Publikationen sowie Datenbanken zu Zeitungen, Bildern, Filmen und Audiomaterialien. Die Verbindung von einführender Typologie und konkreter Vorstellung zentraler Ressourcen sorgt dafür, dass das hier vermittelte Grundwissen unmittelbar in der beruflichen Praxis einsetzbar ist." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better und
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erstood by comparing processes of development and use across nations, media, and platforms"-
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"The existing literature presents several studies which show that the levels of press freedom can affect the state of the economy. What has not thus far been investigated is whether the economy can affect the levels of press freedom, the specific economic conditions that mainly affect it and the dif
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ferences among various countries. This study attempts to analyze the impact of economic conditions on the degree of press freedom, in 18 countries of the western world based on a quantitative analysis for the period 2002–2019, and advance our understanding of this relationship. We find that the state of the economy within a country can affect the level of press freedom while the effects of economic conditions on the degree of press freedom seem to vary among different media systems of the western world." (Abstract)
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"Science journalism faces an issue that is part of a bigger picture of media change. The economic pressures which have seen shrinking resources available for reporting news are contrasted by the relentless rise of corporate communication and public relations. Institutional science communication has
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become a booming industry, operating, at least partially, by bypassing the traditional roles of journalists. To interrogate how science journalists perceive the impact of these changes on their professional roles, as well as how they navigate relationships with scientists and institutional science communicators, we conducted in-depth interviews with experienced South African science journalists. Our paper summarises the results of this study, including how journalists perceive changes in their professional identities and responsibilities. We analyse the interview data and explore the extent to which science journalists perceive themselves as “cheerleaders” for science, in contrast to critical investigators tasked with holding science and scientists to account, as well as how they operate in a world of well-endowed corporate science communication. We situate these interview findings against the theoretical background of boundary work and recent discussions about the blurring boundaries between science journalism and science communication." (Abstract)
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"As a regional international organization focused on education and research, the Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina (CIESPAL) played a key role in institutionalizing the field of communication studies in the so-called “Third World” countries. Founde
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d in 1959, in Ecuador, it is an initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the objective of implementing a set of strategies to improve the training of journalists and academics in the area. Referring to the Cold War context, its development was linked to other international organizations and political-cultural entities, which ended up stimulating the formation ofan environment marked by relations of cooperation and cooptation, but also by resistance. By reconstructing the 60-year trajectory of this Latin American center, the aim is to show how its role has been dynamic and is related to the political and social changes that have taken place in the region, notably the rise and fall of military dictatorships in South America." (Abstract)
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