"Was bedeutet die zunehmende Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz für die Demokratie, für Offenheit und Vielfalt in der Gesellschaft? Wie gerecht entscheiden Algorithmen? Vielfach zeigt sich, dass KI-Anwendungen strukturelle Ungleichheit und bestehende Diskriminierungsmuster reproduzieren können. Den
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noch berge Künstliche Intelligenz sowohl demokratiegefährdendes Potenzial als auch Chancen etwa für die Bekämpfung von Hassrede im Internet oder für die politische Bildung. Der Band versammelt Perspektiven aus so unterschiedlichen Feldern wie der Antisemitismusforschung, der Psychologie, der Informatik, dem Journalismus, der Techniksoziologie und der bildenden Kunst. Aufgrund von Verzerrungen im Datenmaterial kann Künstliche Intelligenz etwa bei der Bewertung von Bewerbungen, Kreditwürdigkeit oder Prognosen zur erneuten Straffälligkeit zu diskriminierenden Entscheidungen kommen. Daher fordern die Autorinnen und Autoren gezielte Investitionen in politische Bildung und gerechtere soziale Strukturen. Diese seien nötig, um zu verhindern, dass Rassismus, Antisemitismus und andere Formen gruppenbezogener Menschenfeindlichkeit in digitalen Räumen reproduziert werden, denn: Technische Systeme, so ihr Fazit, werden kein Problem lösen können, das im Kern sozial oder politisch begründet sei." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Established in 1957, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) has facilitated international exchanges and research collaborations among academics, journalists, and other practitioners, addressing media and communication problems and influencing theory and practice
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through research and participation in global, regional, national, and local debate. The chapters focus on prominent areas of research that have attracted the interest of scholars; political struggles of a membership engaged in research across East and West, global North and global South divides; selected country and regional contributions to the association; and reflections on significant scholarly and institution-building contributions to the association by George Gerbner, James Halloran Stuart Hall, Herbert I. Schiller, and Dallas W. Smythe. Readers will find a history of an academic professional organisation and insights into the controversies, conflicts, failings, and achievements of IAMCR members who developed the field of media and communication research and journalism practice." (Publisher description)
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"This book is the result of a conference that could not take place. It is a collection of 26 texts that address and discuss the latest developments in international hate speech research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. This includes case studies from Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria,
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and India, theoretical introductions to the concepts of hate speech, dangerous speech, incivility, toxicity, extreme speech, and dark participation, as well as reflections on methodological challenges such as scraping, annotation, datafication, implicity, explainability, and machine learning. As such, it provides a much-needed forum for cross-national and cross-disciplinary conversations in what is currently a very vibrant field of research." (Back cover)
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"Covering stories of tragedy and trauma is commonplace for journalists. To date, no organized or consistent approaches for teaching journalists about the impacts of trauma on their own lives, and the lives of those that are impacted by tragedy, have been developed. Journalists are left on their own
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to recognize, understand, and report on both individual and community trauma. Despite the fact that the field of trauma studies is driven by scientific research on psychology and neurscience, journalism programs do not integrate current scientific knowledge about the impacts of trauma. The field of journalism can benefit from helping those in the field become more trauma-informed in their reporting and better understand the impact of vicarious trauma in their own lives." (Introduction)
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"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C
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orp, Microsoft) in terms of revenues, but also media corporations that hold considerable power within national, regional, or geolinguistic contexts (Televisa, Bertelsmann, Sony). Each chapter approaches a different corporation through the lens of economy, politics, and culture, giving students and scholars a thoughtful and data-driven guide with which to interrogate contemporary media industry power." (Publisher description)
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"Der Sammelband dokumentiert die Beiträge und die Diskussion eines Symposions des Forschungs- und Studienprojekts der Rottendorf-Stiftung. Jörg Becker analysiert in seinem Beitrag die globalen Kommunikationsstrukturen aus kommunikationswissenscha
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ftlicher Sicht und charakterisiert die globale Medienlandschaft als neue Form des Imperialismus. Dieter Kramer untersucht die kulturellen Implikationen der weltweiten Kommunikation am Beispiel der Weltliteratur, der interkulturellen Philosophie, der Kunst, der Musik und der Konsumgüter. Kulturelle Vielfalt, so Kramer, erlaubt eine Vernetzung, aus der heraus ein Dialog der Kulturen entstehen kann. Dies setzt aber eine neue Form des Dialogs im Kommunikations- und Informationsbereich voraus. Rüdiger Frank analysiert in seinem Beitrag, ob und gegebenenfalls wie globale Solidarität in der Kommunikation und den Medien von Bedeutung ist. Er fordert eine berufsethische Reflexion für Medienschaffende und eine Publikumsethik für Konsumenten. Konkret erläutert er seine Vorstellungen am Beispiel des "Public Journalist" und des Mitleidsmotivs in der Werbung. Hans J. Kleinsteuber liefert den politikwissenschaftlichen Beitrag zum Thema. Er unterscheidet interkulturelle und transkulturelle Kommunikation. Erstere will den transnationalen Markt erschließen. Die interkulturelle Kommunikation thematisiert Anknüpfungspunkte und Missverständnisse im Dialog der Kulturen, während die transkulturelle Kommunikation außerhalb staatlicher Grenzen vor allem im Internet verläuft. Kleinsteuber zeigt am Beispiel der Deutschen Welle die Konsequenzen aus dieser Entwicklung. In einem abschließenden Beitrag stellen Stefanie Landgraf und Johannes Gulde einen Film über die Partnerschaft zwischen einer deutschen und einer ruandischen Schulklasse vor, die miteinander Videobriefe austauschen." (Website Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen,10.3.2003)
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"Scholars from various countries of the socialist and capitalist - the developing and developed - world, and representing many of the disparate areas that make up the interdisciplinary field of communication, have contributed articles centering around Schiller's dominant theme - the use and misuse o
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f power. In six parts: "The Formative Functions of Information Technology," "Information, International Relations, and Warfare," "Modes of Cultural Domination and Resistance," "The New Information Order: Struggles and Reconsiderations," "Reconstructing Information Patterns and Practices," and "Meeting the Future: Research and Action." Among the 27 contributors are Cees Hamelink, Tapio Varis, Dallas Smythe, Vincent Mosco, Stuart Ewen, Enrique González Manet, Yassen Zassoursky, William Melody, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Breda Pavlic, George Gerbner and James Halloran. Countries represented by the contributors are Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, India, the United States, the U.S.S.R., Cuba, England, Holland, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Peru, Sri Lanka and Kenya." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 30)
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"Papers from an international conference held by the Protestant Academy of Arnoldshain (Schmitten, Federal Republic of Germany), the Protestant Association for Media Communication (Frankfurt, FRG) and the World Association for Christian Communication (London), with the common theme that all people a
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re entitled to equal rights of access to information technology. Articles discuss concentration of the media in both state and private hands, with its inevitable result on public opinion as it becomes more and more powerful; the danger that the increasing internationalization of media may prevent democratic control; and a final article, "Advertising and the Creation of Global Markets," contending that the new information technologies are creating an infrastructure that is making the 20th century "information age" a "commercial age" at a global level." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 29)
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"Analysis of the television network of the European Broadcasting Union — History — Aims — Technical, linguistic, legal and financial problems — Programmes — Potentialities for the future — International scope of the European Broadcasting Union, which links together members in various cou
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ntries." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1086, topic code 49)
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