"Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGO) haben in den letzten 20 Jahren stark an Bedeutung zugenommen. Die fortschreitende Globalisierung hat sie zu eigenständigen politischen Akteuren gemacht, deren Rolle von der Kontrolle bis zur aktiven politischen Mitgestaltung reicht. Und etablierte Institutionen
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wie Unternehmen, Staat und Kirche stecken in der Vertrauenskrise. Zudem stellen NGO einen besonderen Typ von Organisationen dar. Viele von ihnen sind Kommunikationsexperten. Doch Kommunikation ist bei ihnen mehr als nur eine Kompetenz unter vielen – sie ist die Kernkompetenz der Nichtregierungsorganisationen. An ihrer Kommunikationsfähigkeit bemisst sich ihr Erfolg. Dieses Buch sammelt und systematisiert das aktuelle Wissen zur Kommunikation von NGO auf interdisziplinärer und internationaler Basis." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital
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and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area. The Features include: "a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology, exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations, consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale and in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital archives." (Publisher description)
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"Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to
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Global Popular Culture provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, internationally-aware, and conceptually agile guide to the most important aspects of popular culture scholarship. Specifically, this Companion includes: "interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing popular culture; wide-ranging case studies; discussions of economic and policy underpinnings; analysis of textual manifestations of popular culture; examinations of political, social, and cultural dynamics and discussions of emerging issues such as ecological sustainability and labor. Featuring scholarly voices from across six continents, The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture presents a nuanced and wide-ranging survey of popular culture research." (Publisher description)
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"The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media is a convenient and authoritative reference tool, introducing specific terms and concepts helpful to the study of the Bible and related literature in ancient communications culture. Since the early 1980s, biblical scholars have begun to explore the pote
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ntials of interdisciplinary theories of oral tradition, oral performance, personal and collective memory, ancient literacy and scribality, visual culture and ritual. Over time these theories have been combined with considerations of critical and exegetical problems in the study of the Bible, the history of Israel, Christian origins, and rabbinics. The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media responds to the rapid growth of the field by providing a source of reference that offers clear definitions, and in-depth discussions of relevant terms and concepts, and the relationships between them. The volume begins with an overview of 'ancient media studies' and a brief history of research to orient the reader to the field and the broader research context of the book, with individual entries on terms and topics commonly encountered in studies of the Bible in ancient media culture. Each entry defines the term/ concept under consideration, then offers more sustained discussion of the topic, paying particular attention to its relevance for the study of the Bible and related literature." (Publisher description)
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"At the forefront in its field, this Handbook examines the theoretical, conceptual, pedagogical and methodological development of media literacy education and research around the world. Building on traditional media literacy frameworks in critical analysis, evaluation, and assessment, it incorporate
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s new literacies emerging around connective technologies, mobile platforms, and social networks. A global perspective rather than a Western-centric point of view is explicitly highlighted, with contributors from all continents, to show the empirical research being done at the intersection of media, education, and engagement in daily life. Structured around five themes—Educational Interventions; Safeguarding/Data and Online Privacy; Engagement in Civic Life; Media, Creativity and Production; Digital Media Literacy—the volume as a whole emphasizes the competencies needed to engage in meaningful participation in digital culture." (Publisher description)
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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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"The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming the challenges inherent in research projects that deal with 'big and broad data', from the formulation of research questions through to the interpretation of findings. The handbook includes chapters on spec
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ific social media platforms such as Twitter, Sina Weibo and Instagram, as well as a series of critical chapters. The holistic approach is organised into the following sections: Conceptualising & Designing Social Media Research; Collection & Storage; Qualitative Approaches to Social Media Data; Quantitative Approaches to Social Media Data; Diverse Approaches to Social Media Data; Analytical Tools Social Media Platforms." (Publisher description)
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"Die Existenz des Menschen hängt von zureichenden klimatischen Bedingungen ab. Zumal haben Kulturen des globalen Südens sich in dieser Hinsicht im Lauf der Zeit an schwierige Umstände angepasst. Doch seit infolge des Klimawandels viele Regionen der Erde immer öfter katastrophalen Dürren oder Ü
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berflutungen ausgesetzt sind, Böden degradieren oder versalzen, sehen sich angesichts schwindender Lebenschancen Millionen Menschen gezwungen, ihre Heimat zu verlassen. Welche Regionen sind besonders betroffen? Wo finden die Migrierenden Zuflucht? Welche naturräumlichen, aber auch human bedingten Faktoren – Raubbau, Konflikte, Havarien - lösen Umweltmigration aus? Welchen Einfluss haben demografische Parameter? Welche politischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Gegenmaßnahmen gibt es? Wie steht es um die Wahrung der Menschenrechte für die von Umweltmigration Betroffenen? Auf diese und viele weitere Fragen gibt der Atlas in Texten und Schaubildern Antwort." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, s
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ets out to contextualize the increasingly convergent areas surrounding social, geosocial, and mobile media discourses. Features include:comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing mobile media; wide-ranging case studies that draw from this truly global field, including China, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, as well as Europe, the UK, and the US; a consideration of mobile media as part of broader media ecologies and histories; chapters setting out the economic and policy underpinnings of mobile media; explorations of the artistic and creative dimensions of mobile media; studies of emerging issues such as ecological sustainability; up-to-date overviews on social and locative media by pioneers in the field." (Back cover)
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"This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviews of the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to unde
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rstanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga, comix, and the comics code; issues such as authorship, ethics, adaptation, and translating comics connections between comics and other artistic media (drawing, caricature, film) as well as the linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics and philosophy; new perspectives on comics genres, from funny animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond." (Publisher description)
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"Die Kultusministerkonferenz fordert die systematische Integration digitaler Lernszenarien in die Gestaltung der Unterrichts- und Lernprozesse sowie Medienbildung als integralen Bestandteil aller Unterrichtsfächer. Das von Daniel Bernsen und Ulf Kerber herausgegebene Praxishandbuch „Historisches
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Lernen und historische Medienbildung im digitalen Zeitalter“ zeigt auf, wie dies für den Geschichtsunterricht gelingen kann. Auf der theoretischen Grundlage einer „historischen Medienbildung“ zeigen die Autoren digitale Lernszenarien an zahlreichen Beispielen für die Praxis des Geschichtsunterrichts auf. Mit einem transdisziplinären Zugriff werden Geschichtsdidaktik und Medienbildung verbunden. Der Brückenschlag von theoretischer Diskussion zu vorhandenen Praxisansätzen bietet eine fundierte Einführung und einen aktuellen Überblick über historisches Lernen mit digitalen Medien in und außerhalb der Schule. Die Grundlage dafür bildet die Definition einer historischen Medienbildung mit eigenen kompetenzorientierten Aufgaben- und Handlungsbereichen, die Medienbildung im Sinne der Kultusministerkonferenz als integrativen Teil schulischen Geschichtsunterrichts begreift." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Das Handbuch begründet Popkultur als inter- und transdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld sowie als eigenständige Wissenschaftsdisziplin. Es informiert in über 60 Beiträgen über die wichtigsten Erscheinungsformen und Diskurszusammenhänge der Popkultur und unterscheidet diese grundsätzlich von denen
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der Hoch- sowie Populärkultur. Die Beiträge widmen sich den Begriffen und Konzepten der Popkultur, der Bedeutung der Popkulturforschung in unterschiedlichen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen sowie den Medien und Gattungen der Popkultur - vom Rock 'n' Roll über Soul, Punk, Techno bis hin zu Pop-Art, TV-Serien, B-Movies, Social Media u.v.a. Das Handbuch bietet international erstmalig einen systematischen Überblick über das gesamte Wissensfeld der Popkultur und stellt die Popkulturforschung auf ein historisches und theoretisches Fundament." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global
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perspectives are often overlooked. This collection explores the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the social inclusion of people with disabilities from a variety of different global perspectives that include Africa, Arabia and Asia along with European, American and Australasian perspectives and experiences." (Publisher description)
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"The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written piece
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s thus provides a unique overview of current research in the field, while also providing historical context to help students and scholars appreciate how such developments depart from past practices. The volume examines the universal principals of freedom of expression, legal instruments, the right to know, media as a human right, and the role of media organisations and journalistic work. It is organised thematically in five parts: Communication, Expression and Human Rights; Media Performance and Human Rights: Political Processes, Media Performance and Human Rights: News and Journalism; Digital Activism, Witnessing and Human Rights; Media Representation of Human Rights: Cultural, Social and Political." (Publisher description)
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"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music is the first comprehensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Drawing on contemporary research from religious studies, theology, sociology, ethnography, and cultural studies, the volume comprises thirty-one specifi
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cally commissioned essays from a team of international experts. The chapters explore the principal areas of inquiry and point to new directions for scholarship. Featuring chapters on methodology, key genres, religious traditions and popular music subcultures, this volume provides the essential reference point for anyone with an interest in religion and popular music as well as popular culture more broadly. Religious traditions covered include Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism and occultism. Coverage of genres and religion ranges from heavy metal, rap and hip hop to country music and film and television music." (Publisher description)
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"Das Handbuch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden interdisziplinären Überblick über die postkoloniale Theorie und Forschung in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Es verbindet die Einführung in das Thema mit einer kritischen Zwischenbilanz zu diesem internationalen Forschungsfeld. Auf einen T
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heorieteil und die lexikalische Darstellung von postkolonialen Grundbegriffen folgen Artikel zur Literatur-, Kultur- und Mediengeschichte des Kolonialismus und Postkolonialismus in den betroffenen Kulturräumen sowie ein Anhang mit historischen Überblicken zu einzelnen Ländern und weiterführenden Informationen. Das Handbuch richtet sich an wissenschaftliche Leserinnen und Leser und bietet Ansatzpunkte für künftige Forschung, soll aber auch für Studierende und interessierte Laien eine verlässliche Basis zur Auseinandersetzung mit der europäischen Kolonialgeschichte, ihren kulturellen Resonanzen und ihrer postkolonialen Aufarbeitung in Literatur und Kultur bereitstellen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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