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Digitale Bildkulturen: GIFs, Memes, Modebilder, Body-Bilder und Gesichtserkennung
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 397 pp.
"Annekathrin Kohout und Wolfgang Ullrich versammeln Beiträge, die sich verschiedenen Aspekten der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kultur widmen: Was zeichnet die Kommunikation über Memes aus, und warum sind sie so beliebt? Wie funktionieren GIFs, und wie haben sich das Dateiformat und seine Nutzung ü
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Fashion Media and Sustainability: Encouraging Ethical Consumption via Journalism and Influencers
London: University of Westminster Press (2021), 35 pp.
"A garment spends 2.2 years on average in a UK wardrobe. Fashion is among the biggest polluters, yet the media still promote throwaway fast fashion. The growing fashion public relations industry encourages and enables this media coverage. This policy brief identifies patterns in the way journalists
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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
Deep Insights
Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press (2019), 269 pp.
"The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions about internet use in developing countries are wrong. After immersing herself in factory towns, slums, townships, and favelas, Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. She fi
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Creative and Lucrative Da'wa: The Visual Culture of Instagram Amongst Female Muslim Youth in Indonesia
Asiascape: Digital Asia, volume 5, issue 1-2 (2018), pp. 68-99
"Social media have become part of the private and public lifestyles of youth globally. Drawing on both online and offline research in Indonesia, this article focuses on the use of Instagram by Indonesian Muslim youth. It analyzes how religious messages uploaded on Instagram through posts and caption
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The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 583 pp.
"Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: "key issues of definition and of methodology, religious encounters with popular
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Media and Identity in Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), xvii, 333 pp.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: Latin America
Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press (2007), xvi, 396 pp.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: Sub-Saharan Africa
Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press (2007), xviii, 387 pp.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: North Africa and the Middle East
Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press (2007), xv, 389 pp.
Making her Up: Women's Magazines in Slovenia
Ljubljana: Peace Institute (2002), 135 pp.
"In Making Her Up, the authors try to elucidate the precise ambivalence of the image of the modern woman, which is (un)wittingly created by the producers of women’s magazines in co-operation with capitalistic advertising mechanisms and, not least, their own readers. Through the discourse and conte
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