Comunicación y cultura

This book examines the relationships between ethnic and Indigenous minorities and the media in Australia. The book places the voices of minorities at its centre, moving beyond a study of only representation and engaging with minority media producers, industries and audiences. Drawing on a diverse range of studies – from the Indigenous media environment to grassroots production by young refugees – the chapters within engage with the full range of media experiences and practices of marginalized Australians. Importantly, the book expands beyond the victimization of Indigenous and ethnic minorities at the hands of mainstream media, and also analyses the empowerment of communities who use media to respond to, challenge and negotiate social inequalities.

Based on detailed multi-disciplinary analyses of more than 810 recorded handover interactions, audits of written handover documentation, interviews and survey responses, the contributing authors identify features of effective and ineffective clinical handovers in diverse hospital contexts. The authors then translate their descriptive findings into practical protocols, communication strategies and checklists that clinicians, managers and policy makers can apply to improve the safety and quality of clinical handovers. All the contributors are affiliated with the International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare (IRCCH), an international multidisciplinary organisation of over 90 healthcare professionals from more than 17 countries committed to improving improving communication in healthcare systems around the world.

'The authors have created a new and tightly woven systems safety net that will, if implemented, significantly reduce the occurrence of errors resulting from cumulative communication failures.' -H. Esterbrook Longmaid III, MD, FACR, President of Medical Staff, Beth Israel Deaconess-Milton Hospital, Milton, MA USA

'Uncommonly valuable for the rigorous, original communication research it reports and for the careful translation of the research findings into practical strategies that actually improve clinical handovers in the real world of practice.' -Professor Suzanne Kurtz, Washington State University

'This clear, plain English book is an outstanding resource for the training of all involved in healthcare.' -Elizabeth Trickett, (Former) Director of Safety and Quality, ACT Health, Australia

Innovation is essential for libraries to keep up with current technological developments and ensure their future existence. The authors draw on their extensive experience in directing academic libraries throughout the German-speaking world. Building upon a rigorous theoretical foundation, they develop practical guidelines for introducing innovation management practices to libraries.

Reality Bytes is a collection of essays by Bart Lootsma from the last ten years. The title Reality Bytes refers to a specific form of dealing with built reality which has become possible through new digital technologies.

Welche Geschichten erzählen Menschen, die die digitalen Medien als Instrumente, Bühnen und Gegenstand des Erzählens nutzen? Diese Studie, in die Netzakteur_innen und Blogger_innen einbezogen waren, zeigt: Es sind Geschichten, die u.a. von Vernetzung, Verwandlung, Grenzmanagement und Aufbruch erzählen. Als narrative Zeitsignaturen verweisen sie auf Fragen, Bedürfnisse, Ängste und Sehnsüchte, mit denen sich Kinder, Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene in verschiedenen Regionen der Welt angesichts des weltweiten gesellschaftlich-kulturellen Wandels konfrontiert sehen. Christina Schachtners kulturwissenschaftliche Reflexion berücksichtigt die Einflüsse von Kultur und digitaler Technik auf heutiges Geschichtenerzählen.

Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left but that it is still a force to be reckoned with. With contributions that look at global developments and developments in specific parts of the world, it demonstrates how nation-states have adapted to globalization and how they still retain key policy instruments to achieve many of their policy objectives. This book argues that the phenomenon of media globalization has been overstated, and that national governments remain key players in shaping the media environment, with media corporations responding to the legal and policy frameworks they deal with at a national level.

Performance Anxiety in Media Culture explores the culture of performance anxiety in the media-saturated contemporary world. It uses comparative case studies including film, social media, and popular music to examine the ways that personal concern regarding self-presentation becomes transformed into shared cultural expressions through the use of media technologies. Three initial chapters are dedicated to exploring the work of Erving Goffman, Jacques Lacan, and Jean Baudrillard as critical for a thorough understanding of how implications of a range of recent transformations in the methods for staging social performances are staged and in the ways that they are experienced and interpreted by others. Three subsequent chapters explore diverse case studies in the culture of performance anxiety: the representation of such anxieties in recent French cinema, the appearance of them in the world of fashion-based 'outfit of the day' blogs, and the attempt to refine a more fixed social persona in the nostalgic culture of rockabilly music.

Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's companies have dominated Italian politics. Televisa has been accused of taking cash for positive coverage of politicians in Mexico. Even in tiny Iceland, the regulation of media concentration led to that country's first and only public referendum.

Who Owns the World's Media? moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers thirteen media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a ten to twenty-five year period in thirty countries. In many countries―like Egypt, China, or Russia―little to no data exists and the publication of these chapters will become authoritative resources on the subject in those regions.

After examining each country, Noam and his collaborators offer comparisons and analysis across industries, regions, and development levels. They also calculate overall national concentration trends beyond specific media industries, the market share of individual companies in the overall national media sector, and the size and trends of transnational companies in overall global media.

This definitive global study of the extent and impact of media concentration will be an invaluable resource for communications, public policy, law, and business scholars in doing research and also for media, telecom, and IT companies and financial institutions in the private sector.

Mit diesem Buch wird die Frage beantwortet, was eigentlich Souveränität ist und was dies im digitalen Zeitalter bedeutet. Dabei wird die Aufgabe der digitalen Souveränität in Zeiten der Globalisierung für Deutschland erörtert und die Frage aufgegriffen werden, wie und wozu Staaten digitale Souveränität konstruieren. Im weiteren Verlauf werden die Aufgaben diskutiert, die sich für die politisch Verantwortlichen stellen und vor welchen Herausforderungen die Unternehmen stehen, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Bewahrung ihrer eigenen Kompetenzfelder. Abschließend erfolgt eine Analyse der Aktionsfelder für potentielle Schwerpunkte der deutschen Wirtschaft, insbesondere, ob die digitale Politik Deutschlands (und auch der EU) von Rückzug und Protektionismus geprägt sein wird oder die Europäer bald nur noch Konsumenten sein können, eingezwängt zwischen der Hardware aus Asien und der Software und den Internetdiensten aus USA​.

Relatos en Blanco y Negro, es nuestro duodécimo título, y con él hemos lanzado un nuevo reto a nuestros autores y autoras. Les facilitamos fotografías antiguas del blog Valencia en Blanco y Negro (http://valenciablancoynegro.blogspot.com.es/), del escritor Julio Cob y les pedimos que nos contasen historias inspiradas en las imágenes elegidas. Éste es el resultado: 24 relatos en blanco y negro.

Autores: Susi Bonilla Hernández, Herminia Luque, Elena Casero, Franz Kelle, María Tordera, Fuensanta Niñirola, Pilar Descalza, Rafa Sastre, Mauro Guillén, José Luis Rodríguez-Núñez, Luisa Berbel Torrente, Inmaculada López Arce, Ángel Marqués Valverde, Javier Lacomba Tamarit, Inmaculada Martínez, Susana Gisbert, Alicia Muñoz Alabau, Felicidad Batista, María Isabel Peral del Valle, Isabel Muñoz, Rosa Pastor Carballo, José Luis Sandín, Antonio Briones Torres y Giovanna Vivian.