Comunicación y cultura

O livro traz o registro de parte das contribuições do evento Seminário Internacional Cultura e Conflito, realizado em 2112, em um panorama que envolve sobretudo cinema, jornalismo, história e cultura formativa. O objetivo da obra é provocar uma repercussão do debate do evento, por meio de reflexões e ações que favoreçam a construção de uma cultura da tolerância e do entendimento recíproco.

New media laws and technologies are currently changing radio in West Africa. Tilo Grätz analyzes this change using the example of the appropriation of radio technologies in Benin. He shows that the processes take place in the interplay of producers, listeners, and technical capabilities under the influence of institutions of media politics. Local radio cultures develop which manifest themselves in typical subjects, program formats, and everyday radio use practices. The most successful programs are interactive and facilitate discussion on social and political as well as personal problems. Technological dramas (Pfaffenberger) accompany the varied development of Beninese radio cultures.

Against the background of an enormous expansion and diversification of both political communication itself and scientific research into its structures, processes, and effects, this volume gives an overview of some of the key theories and findings accumulated by political communication research over the last decades. In order to do so, the volume provides readers with review articles by renowned international authors on various aspects of (I) the normative, regulatory and conceptual foundations of political communication, (II) different situations of political communication (e.g., elections, referendums, social movements, media hypes, crisis and war), (III) the activities of and part played by political actors, (IV) mass media and journalism, (V) characteristics and typical features of media messages, (VI) the role played by citizens as well as (VII) various kinds of effects on citizens. Each section includes several chapters that address specific issues and research problems in the form of comprehensive overviews articles.

Mit der Figur des »Mediums« wird in der Regel eine Vermittlungsfunktion angenommen und ein mittelbares Weltverhältnis unterstellt. Dem hält Jan-H. Möller entgegen, dass sich erst mittels reflexiver medialer Strukturen ein differentes oder abständiges Seinsverhältnis herausbildet. Neben Kittler widmet sich seine Untersuchung dabei in erster Linie Adorno, Derrida, Heidegger und Luhmann. Sie zeigt: Die Frage ist nicht, wie das Subjekt zum Objekt kommt, sondern wie es aus einer Indifferenz mit ihm zu sich gelangt. Entsprechend lässt sich Mittelbarkeit als medialer Effekt rekonstruieren: Erst anhand von Strukturen medialer Reflexivität wird das Dasein aus seiner wahrnehmungsmäßigen Welteinbettung abgeschieden.

The catchphrase »Big Data« is on everyone's lips – and describes not only scientific data practices, but also stands for a societal change and a media culture in upheaval. What influences does Big Data exert on contemporary culture and its power shifts? What media and knowledge technologies facilitate the modeling of Big Data and which narratives, images, and fictions come into play in so doing? And how were large data sets managed and processed in the analog era? To answer these questions, the reader assembles texts by the leading theorists of the Digital Humanities. His focus is directed towards the contemporary diagnostic and critical data perspectives of Big Data with respect to cultural and historical aspects. With contributions from Mark Andrejevic, Axel Bruns, dannah boyd, Jean Burgess, David Bollier, Kate Crawford, Alexander R. Galloway, Bruno Latour, Lev Manovich, Jussi Parikka, Richard Rogers, Theo Röhle, Eugene Thacker, and many others.

Este livro, Meios e Audiências II, apresenta a segunda etapa de um mapeamento dos estudos de recepção no Brasil realizada por uma equipe de pesquisadores. Ao aprofundar e ampliar os estudos sobre a recepção no Brasil, este segundo volume é o resultado de um minucioso e exaustivo trabalho de pesquisa empírica sustentado em produções acadêmicas da última década no âmbito da pós-graduação e voltadas ao estudo da relação entre as pessoas e os meios de comunicação social. Tem-se, pois, que a presente consolidação do estudo coordenado por Nilda Jacks, ora sendo reconhecida e debatida no presente livro, só se acentuou em décadas recentes, ainda que impulsionada por uma conjuntura de sedimentação dos padrões da urbanização na contemporaneidade do processo mais amplo da globalização e que envolve a um só tempo mais do que apenas o mundo econômico, mas as tecnologias e as práticas de consumo e os modos de conceber e de visualizar a vida.

Es gibt keinen irgendwie gearteten Lebenszusammenhang, in dem nicht Kommunikation das entscheidende Kriterium für die Erklärung von Erfolg oder Misserfolg wäre. Es gibt keine Beschreibung der Gesellschaft, in der nicht Kommunikation das Konzept wäre, mit dem Zustand und Entwicklung schlüssig interpretiert werden können. Allerdings muss sich die Kultursprache der Wissenschaft von der des Alltags um jenen Breitengrad unterscheiden, durch den sich die Wissenschaft glaubwürdig als theoretisch begründete Interpretation der Alltagsbeobachtung argumentieren kann. Im Kontext von Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft heißt dies: die philosophisch-theoretischen Ressourcen von Dekonstruktion, Hermeneutik und Kontextualisierung bewusster und engagierter auszuschöpfen und dem entsprechend neue Beschreibungsmetaphern auszuprobieren. Solche, die nicht Strukturen objektivieren, sondern Kulturen konzipieren.

En política las palabras se utilizan de una manera ambigua y equívoca para que cada receptor pueda acomodarlas a su interpretación preferida; la discusión sobre el bien común se diluye porque enmascara siempre ese protagonismo discursivo de los propios políticos. Esta obra realiza un interesante análisis del discurso político basado en cómo los dos principales partidos españoles construyen, a partir de sus respectivos argumentarios, su «postura oficial» sobre cada tema.

Fun and Software offers the untold story of fun as constitutive of the culture and aesthetics of computing. Fun in computing is a mode of thinking, making and experiencing. It invokes and convolutes the question of rationalism and logical reason, addresses the sensibilities and experience of computation and attests to its creative drives. By exploring topics as diverse as the pleasure and pain of the programmer, geek wit, affects of play and coding as a bodily pursuit of the unique in recursive structures, Fun and Software helps construct a different point of entry to the understanding of software as culture. Fun is a form of production that touches on the foundations of formal logic and precise notation as well as rhetoric, exhibiting connections between computing and paradox, politics and aesthetics. From the formation of the discipline of programming as an outgrowth of pure mathematics to its manifestation in contemporary and contradictory forms such as gaming, data analysis and art, fun is a powerful force that continues to shape our life with software as it becomes the key mechanism of contemporary society.

Including chapters from leading scholars, programmers and artists, Fun and Software makes a major contribution to the field of software studies and opens the topic of software to some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary theory.

Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media or in one of the approximately 135 religious satellite channels that broadcast guidance and entertainment with an Islamic frame of reference. How do Arab audiences make use of mediated religion in negotiations of identity and belonging? The empirical based case studies in this interdisciplinary volume explore audience-media relations with a focus on religious identity in different countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, and the United States.