"Cet ouvrage porte sur les processus identitaires mis en ouvre depuis le développement d'Internet. Massen Allioui part du postulat que les caractéristiques des collectifs en ligne sont indissociables des contextes sociomédiatiques qui les ont produits. Ipso facto, pour les aborder, il analyse les
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interactions d'une minorité déterritorialisée, anthropologiquement constituée et revendiquant son identité «culturelle», les Kabyles. Dans une approche empirique interdisciplinaire, l'auteur les questionne et y apporte des réponses dans une démarche compréhensive qui tient compte de la relation qu'entretiennent les Kabyles avec le pouvoir, la mémoire et le territoire. Il réinterroge ensuite les théories de la mondialisation de la communication à la lumière de cette nouvelle donne introduite par les flux globaux." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"La idea de este libro surgió durante el evento conmemorativo de los 30 años de la publicación de: De los Medios a las Mediaciones (1987), realizado a finales de noviembre de 2017, en el ámbito del Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/ Brasil
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. El encuentro reunió a investigadores vinculados a los cursos de postgrado de Rio Grande do Sul, los investigadores Omar Rincón, Amparo Marroquín y Rosario Sanchez, que vinieron de Colombia, El Salvador y Uruguay, respectivamente, además de Immacolata Lopes de la Escola de Comunicação e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo.
La jornada de presentaciones y debates estimuló al colega Omar Rincón a la invitación para organizar esa publicación, según él porque Brasil desarrolló una perspectiva empírica y metodológica muy pertinente y creativa con relación a los mapas de las mediaciones propuestos por Jesús Martín-Barbero (JMB). El mapa más reciente, objeto de esa publicación, fue presentado por JMB en una entrevista con Omar Rincón en el 2017 (Martín-Barbero, 2017a), y hasta el momento de la invitación de Omar había sido poco discutido en el escenario académico latinoamericano, este libro responde a este desafío. El “mapa para investigar el sensorium contemporáneo”, entre confluencias y divergencias con los modelos anteriores (1987, 1998, 2009), propone nuevos ejes y mediaciones para la comprensión de las mutaciones comunicacionales y culturales de nuestro tiempo. Ellos son temporalidad, espacialidad, sensorialidad, tecnicidad, ciudadanía, identidad, narrativa y redes, algunos ya presentes y otros inéditos en el trazado intelectual del autor.
El libro dedica un capítulo para cada una de esas mediaciones y polos, y todos los capítulos empiezan con un mapa sobre el desarrollo conceptual del término que nombra la mediación en la disciplina donde JMB fue a buscarla para plantear su discusión. Esta introducción fue realizada por especialistas invitados por las autoras de cada capítulo, las cuales, a su vez, fueron invitadas por nosotras. La tarea de cada especialista invitado fue rescatar el origen teórico de la mediación en cuestión. Así, la mediación de la ciudadanía fue introducida por un sociólogo, temporalidad por un historiador, espacialidad por un geógrafo y así sucesivamente." (Presentación, páginas 11-12)
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"The media play a key role in post-apartheid South Africa and is often positioned at the centre of debates around politics, identity and culture. Media, such as radio, are often said to also play a role in deepening democracy, while simultaneously holding the power to frame political events, shape p
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ublic discourse and impact citizens' perceptions of reality. Broadcasting Democracy: Radio and Identity in South Africa provides an exciting look into the diverse world of South African radio, exploring how various radio formats and stations play a role in constructing post-apartheid identities. At the centre of the book is the argument that various types of radio stations represent autonomous systems of cultural activity, and are 'consumed' as such by listeners. In this sense, it argues that South African radio is 'broadcasting democracy." (Back cover)
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"Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to cont
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rol the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants’ lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry." (Publisher description)
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"Drawing on fieldwork among Kurdish broadcasters in Turkey and Europe, this article shows how ethnic media mediate nationhood in a conflict context. Despite rising interest in the media-nationhood nexus, and the expansion of studies on ethnic media, little is known about ethnic media in conflicts in
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volving state and non-state actors. This study investigates three Kurdish broadcasters, Roj-TV, Gün-TV, and TRT-6. The collected data include expert interviews and informal conversations with employees. Through a grounded theory approach, a model is developed that proposes four modes of mediated nationhood, in which the relation to the state and the role of ethnicity are key elements. Next, it is demonstrated how mediated nationhood in conflicts is characterized by multiple constraints, and how this affects the perceived roles and ethnic belongings among media professionals." (Abstract)
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"The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture. This book exa
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mines the implications of new media on the rise of political Islam and on Islamic religious identity in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, as well as among Muslim Arab Diasporas. Undoubtedly, the process of globalization, especially in the field of media and ICTs, challenges the cultural and religious systems, particularly in terms of identity formation. Across the world, Arab Muslims have embraced new media not only as a source of information but also as a source of guidance and fatwas, thereby transforming Muslim practices and rituals. This volume brings together chapters from a range of specialists working in the field, presenting a variety of case studies on new media, identity formation and political Islam in Muslim communities both within and beyond the MENA region." (Publisher description)
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"Anhand von drei Beispielen, den Kopten in Ägypten, den Imazighen in Marokko und den Kurden im Irak dokumentieren die Autoren dieses Kapitels exemplarisch, wie unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsgruppen versuchen, durch eigene Medien ihre kulturelle, gesellschaftliche und politische Identität zu wahren
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, diese zu festigen oder, im Falle der irakischen Kurden, durch die Medien politische Autonomie und territoriale Ansprüche zu verteidigen." (Seite 100)
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"What are the particular characteristics of the media in small nations? What challenges do broadcasters and other media institutions in these countries face, how can these be overcome, and are there advantages to operating in a small national context? How are small nations represented on screen, and
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how do audiences in small nations engage with the media? Bringing together perspectives from across Europe, including case-studies on Catalonia, the Basque Country, Wales, Scotland, Iceland, Portugal, Slovenia and Macedonia, this collection answers these questions. At the same time, it provides readers with insights into broader issues of media policy, representation, national identity, transnationalism, audience reception and media research methods." (Publisher description)
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"This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected (or undermined) by current processes of transnationalization. The contributions address fundamental questions concerning the viability of a socially and politically
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effective public sphere in a post-Westphalian world. To what degree are the theoretical presuppositions regarding the critical function and democratic quality of public deliberation still valid in contemporary societies that adhere decreasingly to the Westphalian logic of closed national political communities and modes of communication? Under what conditions is the critical impetus of the public sphere still applicable in a world that, in Europe and beyond, is increasingly responding to processes of trans-border interaction and communication?" (Publisher description)
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"While the empirical emphasis of this book is on diasporic groups and their experiences with mainly new communication technologies, the topic is embedded in a broader set of questions that inform social sciences today. The book speaks to and analyses convergence cultures, community building, transna
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tional connections and processes of identity formation in the midst of these processes and relations. One of the overriding premises for the book seems to be the development within media and communication technologies and the exploration of their influence upon the increasingly mediatized social and cultural practices. New media geographies, growing virtual spaces, mediated social networks and processes of mass self-communication are all part and parcel of the contexts in which identity formation - diasporic or not - is taking place." (Foreword, page 9)
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"Am 7. März 2010 waren die Irakerinnen und Iraker aufgerufen, ein neues Parlament zu wählen. Einen klaren Sieg gab es für keine der angetretenen Listen. Aus Enttäuschung behauptete dann auch fast jede der ins Parlament gewählten Parteien, betrogen worden zu sein und erhob gegen die anderen Vorw
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ürfe der Behinderung während des Wahlgangs und der Unregelmäßigkeiten bei der Stimmenauszählung. Verschiedene Spitzenpolitiker beschworen das Wiederaufleben der Gewalt zwischen Schiiten und Sunniten sowie Arabern und Kurden, falls nicht - zu ihren Gunsten - Nachauszählungen vorgenommen und die Regeln der Regierungsbildung verhandelt werden würden. Was symbolisch für eine Neuordnung im Irak stehen sollte, bestätigte die ethno-konfessionelle Spaltung der Politik. Dabei setzt die Politik die Medien ein - nicht nur, um dem Volk tagespolitische Entscheidungen zu erklären, sondern auch, um die Bildung kollektiver Identitäten zu unterstützen." (Einleitung)
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"South Africa offers a rich context for the study of the interrelationship between the media and identity. The essays collected here explore the many diverse elements of this interconnection, and give fresh focus to topics that scholarship has tended to overlook, such as the pervasive impact of tabl
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oid newspapers. Interrogating contemporary theory, the authors shed new light on how identities are constructed through the media, and provide case studies that illustrate the complex process of identity renegotiation taking place currently in post-apartheid South Africa. The contributors include established scholars as well as many new voices. Collectively, they represent some of South Africas finest media analysts pooling skills to grapple with one of the countrys most vexing issues: who are we?" (Publisher description)
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