Comunicación y cultura

This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, the media and democracy in Africa. It explores the politics associated with the use or lack of use of indigenous languages in Africa. Language enables both political and cultural expression as well as identity formation. The book recognizes that indeed the media play a key amplifying or 'publicizing' role without which modern-day expression, public participation and ultimately democracy would be inconceivable. It recognises that the majority of African nations today have, at the formal level, opened up to a multiplicity of media channels and to a variety of political views. However, whether this plurality equals diversity in different African contexts remains a matter for more specific scrutiny. Mirroring the argument of the Goldsmith Media Group, the authors argue that one must make a distinction between access that enables consumption as opposed to access that enables plurality and diversity.

Estamos frente a un libro práctico y analítico sobre la creatividad y sus consecuencias. Frente a un viaje por el proceso creativo, desde la primera chispa hasta la elaboración y ejecución de un proyecto. Sus autores defienden la creatividad como un elemento transformador de la sociedad. Se trata de “Actuar para crear, crear para actuar”, pues para tener ideas, debemos empezar por actuar, es decir, por trabajar para generar nuevos paradigmas, tomar iniciativas, confeccionar y llevar a cabo un propósito que beneficie a todos los tipos de comunidad, sea cual sea, y sin importar la escala: la empresa, la plataforma, el barrio o el centro educativo; la familia, el edificio o el grupo de amigos. En este innovador manual encontraremos reflexiones, criterios y técnicas para potenciar la creatividad, la emprendeduría y la educación creativa, sustentadas en la búsqueda práctica y teórica de los autores, para concluir que todo el mundo es creativo, que la creatividad se puede ejercitar y que se inicia con la generación de ideas, pero debe culminar con la acción.

A palavra cosplay se origina da contração de costume play, traduzida como roupas de brincar, de encenar. Fazer cosplay é mais que vestir trajes de personagens de animês, mangás ou de tantas outras produções midiáticas, é atuar como eles, “performar”. Desde que chegou ao Brasil, na década de 1991, essa prática se espalha pelo país, podendo ser compreendida como uma cena cultural.
Com base em pesquisa de campo em eventos de animês nas capitais da região Sudeste do Brasil, os dez artigos que integram este livro abordam a cena cosplay em seu engendramento e suas articulações com outras cenas urbanas, como a poesia marginal; com o jogo e a cognição; com a moda e as paisagens sonoras geradas; com o universo dos games e das coleções de objetos pop.

Postdigital Aesthetics presents a constellation of contributors who seek to unpack, explore and critically reflect on the questions raised by the notion of the postdigital and its relation to our computational everyday lives. Through a number of interventions, each chapter subjects the concept and ideas that surround our ideas of an aesthetic of the postdigital to critical examination to understand the new asterism of material digital culture in the twenty-first century. From Minecraft to post-internet art, each contributor offers an original perspective on network culture and its distinctive aesthetics and politics, and the relations between art, computation and design.

A comprehensive survey of green media and popular culture, introducing the key debates surrounding green interpretations of film, TV, journalism, comedy, music and computer games. It is an original and thought-provoking exploration of the emerging field of environmental media studies.

With the Eurocrisis, the European public sphere did not collapse but remained multi-segmented in nature, its legitimacy still the subject of fierce debate. Based on a 12-year long project – comparing Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom – this book empirically demonstrates the contested character of the communicative construction of Europe. It does so by combining an investigation of journalistic practices with long-term content analysis of print media, an examination of citizens' online interactions and audience studies with European citizens.

In today's global world, it is imperative for individuals and groups with diverse backgrounds, values and beliefs, situated in a variety of cultural, political, economic and institutional structures, to grapple with ideas of diversity, difference and multi-culturalism. The ways in which these fundamental issues are debated in today's society helps pave the path towards a more inclusive, culturally conscious world that allows for dialogue and debate with regard to public policy, educational reform and sustainable peace. This volume provides theoretical and practical approaches that highlight the strength of dealing with conflict and peace issues from areas such as intercultural communication, conflict mediation/negotiation, war and peace journalism, peace education, human rights and peace-building. While communicating differences across cultures and contexts can be a daunting undertaking, Communicating Differences demonstrates how building bridges across silos of research and connecting theory with practice enhances the viability of peace processes and truly and positively affects the lives of students, researchers and practitioners.

This edited collection brings together scholars who draw on phenomenological approaches to understand the experiences of young people growing up under contemporary conditions of globalization. Phenomenology is both a philosophical and pragmatic approach to social sciences research, that takes as central the meaning-making experiences of research participants. One of the central contentions of this book is that phenomenology has long informed critical empirical approaches to youth cultures, yet until recently its role has not been thusly named. This volume aims to resuscitate and recuperate phenomenology as a robust empirical, theoretical, and methodological approach to youth cultures. Chapters explore the lifeworlds of young people from countries around the world, revealing the tensions, risks and opportunities that organize youth experiences.

Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.

While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place in what amounts of a reinvention of the media over the last two decades.

Graeme Turner takes on the task of re-thinking how media studies approaches the whole of the contemporary media-scape by focusing on three large, cross-platform, and transnational themes: the decline of the mass media paradigm, the ongoing restructuring of the relations between the media and the state, and the structural and social consequences of celebrity culture.

By addressing the fact that the reinvention of the media is not simply a matter of globalising markets or the take-up of technological change, Turner is able to explore the more fundamental movements and widespread trends that have significantly influenced the character of what the contemporary media have become, how it is structured, and how it is used.

Re-Inventing the Media is a must-read for both students and scholars of media, culture and communication studies.

Dieser Herausgeberband bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Besonderheiten der Markenführung von Medienmarken sowie über zentrale Aspekte der Markenführung mit neuen und klassischen Medien. Neben grundlegenden Managementtechniken betrachten renommierte Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis Herausforderungen, Chancen, Trends und Geschäftsmodelle im Markenmanagement von und mit Medien sowie relevante rechtliche Aspekte. Der Praxisbezug der angestellten Überlegungen wird anhand vieler Beispiele und unterschiedlicher Fallstudien verdeutlicht.