"Siguiendo con la conexión entre tradición e innovación, la estructura del libro parte de una aproximación teórica al concepto de audiencia y su evolución histórica para, a continuación, explicar las principales metodologías de investigación en audiencias, tanto cuantitativas como cualitat
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ivas, y analizar los sistemas de medición de la audiencia en los diferentes medios: televisión, radio, prensa e Internet. La obra ofrece una reflexión sobre los retos de futuro, con abundantes enlaces y recursos audiovisuales extra que permitan ampliar cada uno de los capítulos." (Editorial)
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"Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, So
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uth and Southeast Asia, Latin America as well as Northern Ireland. Each author maps an array of peacebuilding solutions to social media threats, including coordinated action by civil society, governments and tech companies to protect human minds, relationships and institutions. Solutions presented include inoculating society with a new digital literacy agenda, designing technology for positive social impacts, and regulating technology to prohibit the worst behaviours." (Publisher description)
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"This article engages with the history of Swedish prison papers, situating them as alternative media within the broader media landscape shaped by the emergence and dismantling of the welfare state. The article not only aims to give a descriptive account of the history of Swedish prison papers but al
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so builds and further develops theorizations of alternative media by constructing them not in opposition to established media but as in dialogue and exchange with them. As we show, prison papers have had repercussions for mainstream discourses beyond catering to niche audiences. Therefore, we suggest that alternative media should be understood as part of the broader media landscape rather than being situated outside of it. This also has implications for how we conceptualize newly emerging alternative media, also called alt-media, that are not progressive but populist and right-wing oriented, as well as supportive of conspiracy theories." (Abstract)
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"La comunicación alternativa –también denominada comunitaria, libre, ciudadana, del tercer sector o para el cambio social– es percibida como una hermana menor en las ciencias de la comunicación hasta padecer una triple invisibilización: en la historia social del campo, en relación con los m
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edios públicos y comerciales, y en las propias teorías de la comunicación. Desde esta premisa, el presente volumen se adentra en su conceptualización y en sus principales hitos, debates y prácticas en España desde la Transición democrática hasta la actualidad y poniendo el foco en distintos soportes mediáticos: desde la radio comunitaria al vídeo participativo y el activismo digital." (Cubierta del libro)
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"En 1981, la loi autorisait les radios associatives françaises à diffuser leurs émissions en modulation de fréquence après une « bataille » qui a fait l’objet d’un autre livre chez le même éditeur : Radios libres, 30 ans de FM. La parole libérée ? (2016). Quarante années plus tard, p
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rès de 640 d’entre elles continuent à émettre quotidiennement, à côté d’autres stations locales, les unes publiques, les autres commerciales. Fruit du travail de plusieurs spécialistes, cet ouvrage revient sur les origines de ces radios locales. Mais il examine surtout leur devenir, les relations aux territoires - en métropole, d’outre-mer, en Belgique et au Congo - ainsi que leur mise en réseau politique, économique et technique." (Dos de couverture)
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"Unter dem Eindruck der Corona-Pandemie haben sich Medien nicht allein auf die Problemanalyse und Kritik an politischen und gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen konzentriert, sondern den Blick auch nach vorn gerichtet, um zu fragen, wie politische, gesundheitliche, kulturelle und wirtschaftliche Risike
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n abgewogen werden können, damit es mit dem gesellschaftlichen (Zusammen-)Leben weitergehen kann. Was dieser erweiterte Blick für den Journalismus bedeutet, wird anhand der zehn ausgewählten Beispiele für konstruktive Ansätze in der Berichterstattung zu ‚Corona‘ nachvollziehbar: Für unsere Gesellschaft geht es vor allem um eine sinnvolle Balance zwischen Lösungen, Engagement und Innovation. Der Journalismus übernimmt eine systemisch wichtige Schnittstellenfunktion, indem er genau über diese weltweiten Lösungen, Engagements und Innovationen berichtet – mit kritischer Distanz und respektvoll. Es mag ein wenig hart klingen, aber: Eine digitale Blütezeit des Journalismus, die sich sowohl in Wertschätzung als auch in Umsätzen auszahlt, ist noch in weiter Ferne, solange sich journalistische Praxis nicht aus sich selbst heraus finanziell tragen lässt. Nachrichtenangebote, insbesondere in Zeiten von ‚Corona‘, scheinen der Öffentlichkeit nicht gut zu dienen, wenn sie Dinge vereinfachen, verkürzen oder extrapolieren. Stattdessen sollten Journalist:innen den Mut und die Sensibilität aufbringen, sorgsamer zu differenzieren, Kontexte zu liefern und die Welt zu vermitteln, wie sie ist: komplex. Dass dies nicht auf Kosten der Verständlichkeit gehen darf, ist zweifelsfrei eine journalistische Herausforderung, aber eine, die Ehrgeiz wecken sollte. Konstruktive und lösungsorientierte Ansätze, wie sie derzeit Anwendung finden, werden daher irgendwann als Blaupause für die Medien der Zukunft dienen können." (Fazit und Asublick, Seite 71)
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"Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus about how they have done so. This Element lays out a new framework for the digitally mediated public arena by identifying structural changes and continuities with the pre-digital era. It examines three count
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ry cases - the United States, Germany, and China. In these countries and elsewhere, the emergence of new infrastructures such as search engines and social media platforms increasingly mediate and govern the visibility and reach of information, and thus reconfigure the transmission belt between citizens and political elites. This shift requires a rethinking of the workings and dysfunctions of the contemporary public arena and ways to improve it." (Publisher description)
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"This companion brings together various concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism. The companion is theoretically and methodologically comprehensive and features various historical and critical approaches providing a full and incisive understanding of media, misinforma
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tion and populism. It is both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary consisting of contributions from scholars analysing aspects of misinformation, disinformation and populism across countries, political systems and media systems. A global, comparative approach to the study of misinformation and populism is important in identifying common elements and particular characteristics, and these individual essays cover a wide range of topics and themes, with contributions from both leading and young scholars. The distinctiveness of the companion is its encompassing of a variety of subject areas: Political Communication, Journalism, Law, Sociology, Cultural studies, International Politics, and International Relations." (Publisher description)
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"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are
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frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, often intertwined modes of language, the contributors provide a variety of disciplinary approaches to foster innovative debates and provoke new insights. Prevailing definitions of trauma can best be understood according to the cultural and historical conditions within which they exist. Languages of Trauma explores what this means in practice by scrutinizing varied historical moments from the First World War onwards and particular cultural contexts from across Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa – striving to help decolonize the traditional Western-centred history of trauma, dissolving it into multifaceted transnational histories of trauma cultures." (Publisher description)
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"Internet surveillance has become a crucial issue for journalism. The “Snowden moment” has shed light on the risks that journalists and their sources face while communicating online and has shown how journalists themselves can be targets of surveillance operations or other forms of malicious dig
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ital attacks from different actors. More recent revelations, such as those coming from the “Pegasus Project”, have underlined even more dangerous threats posed to the safety of journalists, increasingly targeted with spyware technology. Due to the sensitivity of their work and sources and given their strong “watchdog” role in democracies, investigative reporters are in a particularly dangerous position when it comes to the potential chilling effects of surveillance on their work of journalists. This paper analyzes investigative journalists’ views and self-reflections on the impacts of Internet surveillance on their work by means of in-depth qualitative interviews with reporters affiliated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and working in Italy, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. The paper touches on different angles of the Internet surveillance issue by analyzing journalists’ concerns about national and international surveillance players and the overall impact of surveillance on news work." (Abstract)
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"This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively
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changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy. The volume sheds light on some topical questions connected to fake news, thereby contributing to a fuller understanding of its impact on democracy. In the Introduction, the editors offer some orientating definitions of post-truth politics, building a theoretical framework where various different aspects of fake news can be understood. The book is then divided into three parts: Part I helps to contextualise the phenomena investigated, offering definitions and discussing key concepts as well as aspects linked to the manipulation of information systems, especially considering its reverberation on democracy. Part II considers the phenomena of disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics in the context of Russia, which emerges as a laboratory where the phases of creation and diffusion of fake news can be broken down and analysed; consequently, Part II also reflects on the ways to counteract disinformation and fake news. Part III moves from case studies in Western and Central Europe to reflect on the methodological difficulty of investigating disinformation, as well as tackling the very delicate question of detection, combat, and prevention of fake news." (Publisher description)
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"Katholische Filmarbeit dient der kirchlichen Gemeinschaft und dem Dialog zwischen Kirche und Gesellschaft. Sie ist in vielen Segmenten der Filmbranche und Kreativwirtschaft engagiert: in der Herstellung von Filmen bzw. Bewegtbildformaten und ihrer Verbreitung durch Vertrieb und Verleih, in der film
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kulturellen Bildung und der Film-Publizistik, in der Jury-Arbeit bei deutschen und internationalen Festivals. Eine wesentliche Rolle spielt der Einsatz für den Jugend-(Medien-)Schutz. Die vorliegende Arbeitshilfe versteht sich als Feldbeschreibung dessen, was katholische Filmarbeit leistet. Die Beiträge richten sich insbesondere an Fachpublikum und Multiplikatoren sowie an interessierte Laien. Das Heft stellt Reflexionen zum Zusammenhang zwischen Film und Theologie, zur pastoralen Bedeutung des Films, zur Entwicklung, Kriteriologie sowie zu digitaler Kontextualisierung katholischer Filmarbeit bereit. Die Differenzierung des Engagements katholischer Filmarbeit wird im Teil „Arbeitsbereiche“ ersichtlich, filmkulturelle Statements bilden den Abschluss." (https://www.dbk-shop.de)
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"This article examines the role of language in the constitution of a common identity through its liturgical use at the Eastern Orthodox church of St Andrew’s in Edinburgh, Scotland. Open to individuals who have relocated, the parish has a rather multinational character. It is a place of worship fo
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r populations that consider Christian Orthodox culture part of their long-established collective identity and for recent converts. Based on ethnographic research, archival work and theoretical contextualisation, the article examines the atmospheric materiality of the written text as performed by the readers, the choir and the clergy. This soundscape is an amalgam of different kinds of reading: prose, chanted prose, chanting and antiphonic, depending the part of the Liturgy being read. The language of the book is performative: the choreography and its symbolisms perform the words of the texts and vice versa. Additionally, the use of at least four languages in every service and two Eastern Orthodox chanting styles in combination with European influences expresses in the most tangible way the religious inclusivity that has been carefully cultivated in this parish. Through closer examination of literary transformation processes, I demonstrate the role of liturgical language in the creation of communal space-times that negotiate ideas of home and belonging in a new land." (Abstract)
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"Keine TV-Lizenz, kein Youtube-Kanal: Wie der russische Staatssender RT DE trotzdem versucht, in Deutschland weiter Fuß zu fassen. Ein Redaktionsbesuch in Berlin." (Seite 33)
"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the
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principles of the right to truth, justice and reparation. Through a historical overview and topical case studies from different regions of the world the book discusses how records can concretely support these principles. The current examples also demonstrate how the perception of the role of the archivist has undergone a metamorphosis in recent decades, towards the idea that archivists can and must play an active role in defending basic human rights, first and foremost by enabling access to documentation on human rights violations. Confronting painful memories of the past is a way to make the ghosts disappear and begin building a brighter, more serene future. The establishment of international justice mechanisms and the creation of truth commissions are important elements of this process. The healing begins with the acknowledgment that painful chapters are essential parts of history; archives then play a crucial role by providing evidence. This book is both a tool and an inspiration to use archives in defence of human rights." (Publisher description)
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