"The handbook offers a broad approach to the study of risk and crisis as joint concerns. Chapters explore the reach of crisis and risk communication, define and examine key constructs, and parse the contexts of these vital areas. As a whole, the volume presents a comprehensive array of studies that
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highlight the standard principles and theories on both topics, serving as the largest effort to date focused on engaging risk communication discussions in a comprehensive manner." (Publisher description)
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"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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"This is a book about radio and the relatively new subject of radio studies. In fact, it is the first book to have the words ‘radio studies’ in its title. Radio itself has been the subject of research and writing since it was invented at the beginning of the last century. Much of that published
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work concerns the technical dimension of radio, but there is also a significant body of work on, for example, radio history, on the nature of speech on radio, on radio drama and so on. This body of writing is fairly puny in comparison with the literature on film and television but it is important nonetheless. Turning to the slightly more introspective aspect of this book, the consideration of radio studies itself, the published literature is almost non-existent. Very few writers have turned their attention to the nature of this subdivision of media or communication studies and I hope that what follows will take a step in that direction [...] The concepts chosen here are derived from two sources. The first source is the business of producing radio itself; this includes the genres and styles of programming (the phone-in, news, comedy and so on) and other central ideas and practices of the radio industry (for example the radio format, the audience, radio journalism). These are terms which are used in the radio industry itself and so have a professional currency. The second source for my list comes from writing about radio from within the academic field of media studies, including radio studies. So, for example, the idea that radio is an ‘intimate’ medium is a recurrent theme in the radio studies literature, as is the ‘liveness’ of radio and the idea of the radio DJ’s ‘persona’. These are not terms, however, often used in the radio industry but belong to the critical discourse about the medium which tries to make sense of it from the outside. In addition there are a few concepts here which are not radio specific; the concept of the ‘imagined community’ was not developed with radio in mind but appears in a number of books on the subject. Other examples in this category are public service broadcasting, propaganda and development [...] (Introduction, page 1-2)
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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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"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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"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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"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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