"This Historical Dictionary of Journalism shows both sides of the picture. The dictionary presents entries on some of the finest newspapers as well as those of lesser repute, many exceptional journalists as well as others the profession would rather forget, major advances such as investigative repor
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ting and more questionable practices such as yellow journalism, and important topics like censorship and the continuing struggle for freedom of the press. It covers a long period of time, from the very first practitioners whose news was often sung to the most recent whose news appears in a computerized format. Last but not least, it traces the history of journalism in a large number of countries in a lengthy chronology and then an introduction, which analyzes individual developments thematically, showing how the discursive practices of journalism have evolved within a larger political, economic, and cultural context." (Editor's foreword)
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"En la selección de términos para incluir en este proyecto, privilegiamos aquellos que tienen una presencia importante en el campo de estudios culturales latinoamericanos y que funcionan como referentes en más de una disciplina. Quedaron afuera una docena de términos que aun si eran importantes
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no parecían cruzar fronteras disciplinarias con tanta plasticidad, o no entraban con frecuencia en los debates del campo. Algunos son conceptos básicos de los estudios culturales contemporáneos (“cultura”, “industria cultural”, “género”, “modernidad”, “poscolonialismo”); otros son términos de resonancia especial para los estudios culturales latinoamericanos (“hibridez”, “latinoamericanismo”, “heterogeneidad”). En general, las definiciones incluyen un resumen de los significados y usos del término en los estudios culturales, una discusión de sus acepciones particulares en los estudios culturales latinoamericanos y, finalmente, una lista básica de lectura sobre el tema. También incluimos una bibliografía general, la cual puede servir como referencia general para el campo." (Presentación, página 10)
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"Key Concepts in Public Relations provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use overview to the field; covers over 150 central concepts in PR; paves the way for students to tackle primary texts; grounds students in both practice and theory." (Publisher description)
"The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world. Editors Nancy
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Snow and Philip Taylor present materials on public diplomacy trends in public opinion and cultural diplomacy as well as topical policy issues. The latest research in public relations, credibility, soft power, advertising, and marketing is included and institutional processes and players are identified and analyzed. While the field is dominated by American and British research and developments, the book also includes international research and comparative perspectives from other countries." (Publisher description)
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"The list of critical terms selected and explicated in this book will signal many things to readers. It will certainly indicate that the study of media and religion is broadly interdisciplinary. Before the 1980s, the field, if it even was one, was largely the domain of historians of Christianity, Ch
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ristian communicators, and seminary professors, geared toward the improvement of church communication policy and practice, education, evangelism, and preaching. Matters have changed since then. Though religious organizations scholarship has explored the subject. Anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, visual and material culture, film studies, and religious studies are among the next generation of disciplines drawn to the study of media and religion. The new paradigm that this book articulates has described itself under a triad of terms: religion, media, and culture. What the third term means will be considered in detail in the Introduction here and in several of the Key Word essays. For the time being, it is important to say that the religion, media, and culture approach is not limited to the tendency to focus on journalism and communication policy, which is the legacy of the older practice. The aim here is not to dismiss or ignore them but to expand the remit and to change some key assumptions about what “religion” and “media” are in academic study. The difference turns on the third term, culture. The dominant approach taken here is constructivist in nature." (Preface, page xii-xiii)
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"This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of “cultural memory studies” for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents curre
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nt research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, and neurosciences. “Cultural memory studies” – as defined in this handbook – came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on mémoire collective. In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a veritable boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study of the relation of “culture” and “memory” has diversified into a wide range of approaches. This handbook is based on a broad understanding of “cultural memory” as the interplay of present and past in sociocultural contexts. It presents concepts for the study of individual remembering in a social context, group and family memory, national memory, the various media of memory, and finally the host of emerging transnational lieux de mémoire such as 9/11." (Publisher description)
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"This book offers a view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtone
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s as a form of social exchange, from the “aspirational consumption” of middle-class families in India to the belief in parts of Africa and Asia that mobile phones can communicate with the dead. The contributors explore the ways mobile communication profoundly affects the tempo, structure, and process of daily life around the world. The book discusses the impact of mobile communication on social networks, other communication strategies, traditional forms of social organization, and political activities. It considers how quickly miraculous technologies come to seem ordinary and even necessary; and how ordinary technology comes to seem mysterious and even miraculous. The chapters cut across social issues and geographical regions; they highlight use by the elite and the masses, utilitarian and expressive functions, and political and operational consequences. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate how mobile communication has affected the quality of life in both exotic and humdrum settings, and how it increasingly occupies center stage in people’s lives around the world." (Publisher description)
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"Dieses umfassende Nachschlagewerk erschließt einen Zentralbereich des christlichen Glaubens, die Spiritualität. Sie kennzeichnet Frömmigkeitsformen des gelebten, des existentiellen Glaubens in der Liturgie, in klösterlichen Gemeinschaften, bei Gebets- und Andachtsformen, aber auch in der direkt
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en alltäglichen Erfahrung. Wie sehr dieser Bereich die Religion zunehmend prägt, lässt sich am Interesse für fernöstliche Weisheitslehren, aber auch für mystische und spirituelle Traditionen des Christentums gut ablesen. Die Spiritualität umfasst nicht-rationale, emotionale Zugänge zum Glauben und Ritus, sie ist insbesondere bei der individuellen Glaubenserfahrung von großer Bedeutung. Diese existentielle Dimension erschließt das Lexikon durch rund 1000 Artikel, in denen geistliche Werke, zentrale Persönlichkeiten und geistliche Gemeinschaften erläutert werden. Auch die aktuellen Entwicklungen und neue Formen der Spiritualität werden berücksichtigt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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