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"Whatever level of experience you have, this classic text will provide you with the key skills you need to complete a visual methods research project, understand the rationale behind each step, and engage with the contexts and power relations that shape our interpretation of visual images. With a cl ... more
"The mediation of migration as a crisis has worked to shore up various forms of militarized surveillance, humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging academic inquiry and artistic and activist practice, the essays, documents, and artworks gathered in Moving Images i ... more
"WhatsApp is a key medium for the spread of news and rumors, often shared as images. We study a large collection of politically-oriented WhatsApp groups in India, focusing on the period leading up to the 2019 Indian national elections. By labeling samples of random and popular images, we find that a ... more
"Ce guide d'analyse générale des images se veut résolument simple, ouvert et pluridisciplinaire. D'une part, il traite des types les plus variés d'images (tableaux, photo graphies, affiches, vidéos, cinéma, presse, cartes, plans, nouvelles images...). De ce fait, il prend en compte l'iconogra ... more
"Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution. The collection argues that accounting for how imag ... more
"The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading ... more
"This study (a) investigates the complex set of emergent meanings from Al-Jazeera's visual narratives about itself, and (b) analyzes how Al-Jazeera's visual texts articulate a broader set of nationalist meanings concerning Qatar, its home country. Rather than a content analysis of language, visual e ... more
"Vom Tafelbild über den Film bis zum 3D-Bild. Bilder überfluten uns in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft, der Umgang mit digitalen Bildern wird immer wichtiger. Seit dem Pictorial oder Iconic Turn haben sich auch die Kulturwissenschaften des Themas angenommen und eine Wissenschaft vom Bild und der ... more
"The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East ... more
"This book is an introduction to reading visual culture. It explains which methods are available to the undergraduate student and shows exactly how to use them. The book begins with a discussion of general themes and recent debates, on the meaning of culture and the function of the visual, that offe ... more

Buchkunde: Die historische Entwicklung des Buches von der Keilschrift bis zur Gegenwart

Wiesbaden: VMA-Verlag, Sonderausg. der 6., überarb. und erg. Aufl. (2006), 396 pp.
"Die erstmals im Jahre 1985 erschiene "Buchkunde" wurde zu einem bis heute unübertroffenen Standardwerk für Bibliothekare und Buchgestalter, sowie für den grossen Leserkreis der kulturgeschichtlich Interessierten. Die hier vorliegende 6. überarbeitete und ergänzte Auflage berücksichtigt die Ve ... more
"Wie kein Krieg zuvor war der Irak-Krieg von 2003/04 ein »Bilderkrieg«, in dem die Kriegsparteien Bilder als Waffen einsetzten und via Bild kommunizierten. Im Anschluß an seine große Studie »Bilder des Krieges - Krieg der Bilder« (2004) untersucht der Flensburger Historiker und Sozialwissensch ... more
"Un catalogue et une bibliographie attrayants des livres pour enfants d'auteurs africains et des travaux d'illustrateurs africains de livres pour enfants, conservés dans les collections des bibliothèques de la ville de Paris. Inclut des titres en français et en anglais, avec un index des auteurs ... more