Kommunikationsstudier

In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political, corporate, and intellectual zombies that rule America embrace death-dealing institutions such as a bloated military, the punishing state, a form of predatory capitalism, and an authoritarian, death-driven set of policies that sanction torture, targeted assassinations, and a permanent war psychology. The author argues that government and corporate paranoia runs deep in America. While maintaining a massive security state, the ruling forces promote the internalization of their ideology, modes of governance, and policies by either seducing citizens with the decadent pleasures of a celebrity-loving consumer culture or by beating them into submission. Giroux calls for a systemic alternative to zombie capitalism through a political and pedagogical imperative to address and inform a new cultural vision, mode of individual subjectivity, and understanding of critical agency. As part of a larger effort to build a broad-based social movement, he argues for a new political language capable of placing education at the center of politics. Connecting the language of critique to the discourse of educated hope he calls for the reclaiming of public spaces and institutions where formative cultures can flourish that nourish the radical imagination, and the ongoing search for justice, equality, and the promise of a democracy to come.

From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon¿s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only significant definition of space in French cinema and instead explores the industrial, aesthetic and thematic relations of French cinema to the beach.Examining a range of films from the 1950s to the present day ¿ including popular comedies by Jacques Tati and Patrice Leconte, the lively and ruminative documentaries of Agnès Varda, the classicism of Eric Rohmer, and the provocations of Catherine Breillat ¿ this book showcases the dynamism and importance of the beach as a site for the reconfiguration of French cinematic identity itself. The beach offers a unique crystallization of our attitudes towards nature, culture, the body, space and time. In its constant mobility, its close, yet distinctive, relationship with nature, and its paradoxical centrality in the French cultural imaginary as a site of relaxation and holidays, the beachscape, re-framed and re-imaged by the camera, offers new ways of conceiving of the spatial politics of French cinema.

This is the first collection of readings on computer-mediated communication focusing exclusively on interpersonal interactions. Examining messages exchanged via email, Twitter, Facebook, websites, and blogs, the authors analyze communication issues of ongoing importance in relationships including deception, disclosure, identity, influence, perception, privacy, sexual fidelity, and social support. The book examines subjects that attract intense student interest ¿ including online performance of gender, online dating, and using computer-mediated communication to achieve family/work life balance ¿ and will inspire further research and course development in the area of computer-mediated communication in personal relationships. Because it provides a synthesis of ideas at the nexus of interpersonal communication theory and computer-mediated communication theory, the book can serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate as well as graduate courses.

Im Fokus dieses Buches stehen neben der Modalverbsemantik, den pragmatischen Funktionen der Modalverben im politischen Diskurskontext und ihren topologischen Positionen über die konstruktionellen Verbindungen von Modalverben auch der Modalverbeinsatz für die persuasive Argumentation in politischen Interaktionen mit Journalistinnen und Journalisten und die kognitionslinguistische Visualisierung der Modalverben. Am Korpus von bislang zum Teil unveröffentlichten Bundespressekonferenzen mit historisch einzigartigen Reden der Kanzler und der Kanzlerin zwischen 1990 bis 2018 werden der Modalverbgebrauch und ihr Beitrag zur persuasiven Argumentation holistisch und deshalb unter Rückgriff auf einen methodologischen Pluralismus bestehend aus Forschungstheorien und Untersuchungsdesigns aus fünf linguistischen Disziplinen semantisch, grammatisch (inklusive Konstruktionsgrammatik), diskursanalytisch, konversationsanalytisch und kognitionslinguistisch untersucht. Diese korpuslinguistische Monographie, die den Modalverbeinsatz sowohl mit qualitativen Forschungsmethoden als auch statistisch gestützt unter Verwendung korpuslinguistischer Tools erforscht, beinhaltet neben Modalverbklassifikationen auch die Vorstellung von Diskussionen zu modernen Theorien und Arbeitsmethoden für korpuslinguistische Forschung auf dem Gebiet der fünf verwendeten linguistischen Disziplinen der Arbeit, der Diskursanalyse, der Grammatik, der Semantik, der Kognitionslinguistik und der Konversationsanalyse.

Die im Kontext der Angewandten Linguistik verortete Arbeit befasst sich mit den transtextuellen rhetorischen Strategien, mit denen Agrarindustrie und Umweltschutzorganisation in der öffentlichen Debatte um den landwirtschaftlichen Einsatz neonicotinoider Pestizide wissenschaftliches Wissen konstituieren. Dazu wird ein überarbeitetes und rhetorisch erweitertes Modell der auf die Arbeiten von Paul Werth zurückgehenden Textwelttheorie vorgestellt, das sich als anschlussfähig an etablierte Zugänge aus Text- und Diskursllinguistik, Kognitiver Semantik und klassischer Rhetorik erweist. Die Analyse online veröffentlichter Informationsbroschüren der Debattenakteure führt zur Beschreibung zweier distinkter rhetorischer Strategien der Wissenskonstitution, die sich nicht nur im Hinblick auf Emotionalität, Fremd- und Selbstdarstellungen und Argumentationstopoi voneinander unterscheiden, sondern auch im Hinblick auf die epistemischen Architekturen, in die diese Phänomene als Wirklichkeitsentwürfe eingebettet sind. Die in der Arbeit angestellten Beobachtungen führen schließlich zur Skizzierung rhetorisch-hermeneutischer Textkompetenzen, die eine reflektierte Teilhabe an solchen öffentlichen Debatten erleichtern kann.

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Form und Funktion der auf China bezogenen multimodalen Zeichenverwendungen im öffentlichen Raum in Deutschland; diese werden als China-Repräsentationen bezeichnet. Die China-Repräsentationen werden als konstitutive Zeichenressourcen bei der Ortsherstellung verstanden. Ein interdisziplinäres Merkmal des Projekts besteht in der Kombination der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie sowie der Ethnografie mit diskurslinguistischen Methoden. Ziel der Untersuchung ist es, empirisch gestützte Aussagen über den untersuchten Diskurs der China-Repräsentation zu treffen und hierbei eine Grounded Theory zu entwerfen.

Asking is one of the simplest and most familiar of human actions, and has a right to be thought of as single most powerful and most variously cohering form of social-symbolic gesture. Because so much is at stake in the act of asking, asking, or asking for, almost anything, whether information, help, love or respect, can be asking for trouble, so a great deal of care must be taken with the ways in which asking occurs and is responded. A History of Asking is the first attempt to grasp the unity and variety of the technics and technologies of asking, in all its modalities, as they extend across a spectrum from weak forms like begging, pleading, praying, imploring, beseeching, entreating, suing, supplicating and soliciting, through to the more assertively and even aggressively self-authorising modes of asking, like proposing, offering, inviting, requesting, appealing, applying, petitioning, claiming and demanding. The book considers the history of 6 broad modes of petitory practice. The act of begging, both among animals and humans is considered in terms of its theatrics. The institution of the political petition, protocols for which seem to arise in also every system of government of which we have knowledge, is tracked through from late medieval to nineteenth-century Britain. The act of prayer, central to religious practice, though often the last form of religious behaviour to fall away among those lapsing from adherence, and one of the religious practices that is most likely to be adhered to in the absence of any other religious commitment, is the subject of sustained scrutiny. The appeal of prayer is essentially to the fact of participation in language, and the specific forms of commitment to the condition of being bound, bindable, or biddable by it. Wooing and the associated economics of seduction and solicitation are tracked through from the formalisation of the conventions of courtly love in the 12th century through to modern techniques of flirtation. The book revives the antique term 'suitage' in order to discuss all the forms of sueing and suitorship for favours or advantage, as well as, more broadly the act, pursued almost life-long, of trying to get one another to do things for us, in particular in indirect or vicarious forms of what may be called 'interpetition', such as the dedications of books to patrons, the institution of the testimonial or letter of reference and the practices of flattery. A History of Asking concludes with a discussion of the many ways in which our necessarily parasitic relations on each other in a complex society are both conveyed and dissimulated, especially through the ways in which we summon and salute different kinds of service.

'Brilliantly empowering and truly life-changing ... a must-read for improving relationships.' Gwyneth Paltrow'Utterly fantastic. Read immediately' Claudia WinklemanWe all want to get on with people better. Consider this your personal toolkit to developing more productive and satisfying relationships in every aspect of your life.Do you long to have deeper, more meaningful connections with your loved ones? Do you want to resolve conflicts with friends and work effectively with colleagues? Having good relationships - from partners and family to your friends or colleagues - is the key to thriving. Research shows it impacts your health, well-being, financial security and happiness. But how do you get there?Leading psychologist Janet Reibstein shows you step by step how to 'learn' relationships, so you can make even the most difficult interaction a positive one. With case studies, practical advice and centred around four essential skills, Good Relations shows you how to harness healthy, successful relationships. You'll master how to communicate clearly, develop empathy and make crucial repairs when things go wrong.

Social Media and Oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles chronicles the use of social media (old and new) to greenwash the petroleum industry in Southern California. As this research documents, oil-not Hollywood-is the key industry that drives the California dream.

Many people spend years putting aside their own wants and needs in order to please the people in their life and avoid conflict. Although there will always be situations where diplomacy is important, you cannot define your life through other people.There's a fine line between being considerate of others, and compromising your individuality, and you can slip into living as a people-pleaser without even realizing it. Here's what you'll find inside the art of everyday assertiveness:Psychological explanations of assertiveness; most people have no idea! Why do you struggle with assertiveness?Conflict resolution styles; become confident in any situation.Discover what type of non-assertive you are!How to naturally become assertive at work, in social settings, in love, and in family situations.The book is a guide that aims at improving your general wellbeing by guiding you on effective steps and strategies to take as a way of dealing with people pleasing. The focus is on making you understand that you are important and that as much as you need to be good to others it never means ignoring your own needs. People pleasing is an act where one tends to agree to all that people say or ask for or going to extreme heights so that they can please others.

Bodies act as powerful signs, as cultural settings: How are bodies represented and how are they looked at? Which types of bodies are never shown or only shown in a particular way or context? Normative ideas of beauty and the body shape our perception of ourselves and the world - and the bodies shown manifest inequalities and reflect the prevailing relations of power and violence.Talking Bodies questions the body images propagated by our visual culture through the medium of the poster. Masterpieces of art history, contemporary self-dramatizations in social media, gender stereotypes, images of black bodies, and the representation of disabled and non-normative bodies are juxtaposed and critically analyzed. With its focus on the construction and impact of body images, but also on possible strategies of resistance, the publication sees itself as a critical contribution to current debates.

Ausgangspunkt dieses Konferenzbands im Open Access ist die Frage nach den Bedingungen, die dafür verantwortlich zeichnen, dass überhaupt und in welcher Form in der Frühen Neuzeit übersetzt wird. Anders formuliert geht es um die grundsätzliche Frage danach, warum bestimmte Texte, Bilder, Zeichenkomplexe etc. eine Übersetzung erfahren, während andere unübersetzt bleiben (müssen). Welche Faktoren nehmen schließlich ¿ im positiven Fall ¿ Einfluss auf die konkrete Ausgestaltung von Übersetzung im Sinne des Übertragungsprozesses von einem semiotischen und kulturellen System in ein anderes? In diesem Zusammenhang kommt ein doppeltes Politikverständnis zum Tragen: einerseits geraten Übersetzungspolitik(en) im Sinne des Kon­zepts der Translation Policy in den Fokus und mit ihnen soziokulturelle, ökonomische und interkulturelle Ein­fluss­faktoren. Andererseits geht es ¿ spezifischer ¿ um Über­setzungen im Kontext politischer Verhandlungs- und Aushandlungsprozesse und somit um den Zusammenhang zwischen Politics und Translation. The point of departure for this conference volume is the question of what conditions are responsible for whether a translation happens at all. Why are certain texts, images, and sign systems translated while others (must) remain untranslated? And what factors influence the form a translation takes in the process of conveying words, images, or signs from one semiotic, cultural system to another? These questions concern both translation policy ¿ that is, the socio-cultural, economic, and intercultural factors that influence translation processes ¿ and the politics of translation in the specific context of political negotiation processes

Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the rich theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and focuses on the social factors that underlie the variability of meaning and conceptualization. In the last decade, the field has expanded in various way. The current volume takes stock of current and emerging advances in the field in short academic contributions. The studies collected in this book have a usage-based approach to language variation and change, drawing on the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and are sensitive to social variation, be it cross-linguistic or language-internal. Three types of contributions are collected in this book. First, it contains theoretical overview papers on the domains that have witnessed expansion in recent years. Second, it presents novel research ideas in proof-of-concept contributions, aimed at blue-sky research and out-of-the-box linguistic analyses. Third, it showcases recent empirical studies within the field. By combining these three types of contributions, the book provides an encompassing overview of novel developments in the field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics.

Sport is a universal feature of global popular culture. It shapes our identities, affects our relationships, and defines our communities. It also influences our consumption habits, represents our cultures, and dramatizes our politics. In other words, sport is among the most prominent vehicles for communication available in daily life. Nevertheless, only recently has it begun to receive robust attention in the discipline of communication studies. The handbook of Communication and Sport attends to the recent and rapid growth of scholarship in communication and media studies that features sport as a central site of inquiry. The book attempts to capture a full range of methods, theories, and topics that have come to define the subfield of "communication and sport" or "sports communication." It does so by emphasizing four primary features. First, it foregrounds "communication" as central to the study of sport. This emphasis helps to distinguish the book from collections in related disciplines such as sociology, and also points readers beyond media as the primary or only context for understanding the relationship between communication and sport. Thus, in addition to studies of media effects, mediatization, media framing, and more, readers will also engage with studies in interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, and rhetorical communication. Second, the handbook presents an array of methods, theories, and topics in the effort to chart a comprehensive landscape of communication and sport scholarship. Thus, readers will benefit from empirical, interpretive, and critical work, and they will also see studies drawing on varied texts and sites of inquiry. Third, the handbook of Communication and Sport includes a broad range of scholars from around the world. It is therefore neither European nor North American in its primary focus. In addition, the book includes contributors from commonly under-represented regions in Asia, Africa, and South America. Fourth, the handbook aims to account for both historical trajectories and contemporary areas of interest. In this way, it covers the central topics, debates, and perspectives from the past and also suggests continued and emerging pathways for the future. Collectively, the handbook of Communication and Sport aspires to provide scholars and students in communication and media studies with the most comprehensive assessment of the field available.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Public Relations, Werbung, Marketing, Social Media, Note: 1,0, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Kommunikationspsychologie und Medienpädagogik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Wirkung von Nutzerkommentaren auf die Glaubwürdigkeit grüner Werbung auf Social Media. Dabei wird ferner auch die Rolle des wahrgenommenen Greenwashings, des Informationsgehaltes der Anzeige sowie der Umwelteinstellung der Rezipient:innen untersucht. Auf Basis theoretischer Annahmen wurde ein Online-Experiment mit einem 2 x 2 faktoriellen between-subjects-Design durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen einen direkten Effekt der Nutzerkommentare auf die Glaubwürdigkeit der Anzeige. Entgegen der Annahmen wird der Effekt nicht durch wahrgenommenes Greenwashing mediiert. Ebenso konnten keine isolierten Moderationseffekte des Informationsgehaltes der Anzeige und der Umwelteinstellung der Rezipient:innen gefunden werden. Jedoch zeigen die Ergebnisse, über die hypothetischen Annahmen hinaus, einen direkten positiven Effekt des Informationsgehaltes auf die Glaubwürdigkeit der Anzeige, der partiell durch das wahrgenommene Greenwashing mediiert wird. Der direkte Effekt ist jedoch bedingt durch die Umwelteinstellung der Rezipient:innen. So zeigt sich gemäß der Annahmen des Elaboration-Likelihood-Models, dass ein hoher Informationsgehalt lediglich bei Rezipient:innen mit starker Umwelteinstellung zu einer höheren Glaubwürdigkeit der Anzeige führen, nicht aber bei Rezipient:innen mit moderater Umwelteinstellung. Diese Forschungsergebnisse verdeutlichen die hohe Kontextabhängigkeit der Glaubwürdigkeit grüner Werbung und bieten wichtige Implikationen für Werbetreibende sowie künftige Forschungen.

¿Die politische Kommunikation der Gegenwart ist geprägt durch die Klimakrise als omnipräsenter Themenkomplex sowie durch Social Media als an Bedeutung gewinnender Raum für politische Diskurse. Das essential zeigt in beiden Bereichen auf, welche Herausforderungen, aber auch Potenziale damit einhergehen. Zudem werden die Ergebnisse einer Inhaltsanalyse, die die klimabezogene Kommunikation der Spitzenkandidat*innen rund um die Bundestagswahl 2021 untersucht hat, vorgestellt. Aus den theoretisch und empirisch gewonnenen Erkenntnissen werden Handlungsempfehlungen für den kommunikativen Umgang mit der Klimakrise in Social Media abgeleitet.

This book provides the first systematic, empirical analysis of the mediäs approach to US vice-presidential selection (or the ¿veepstakes¿). In their news coverage, Devine finds that media outlets typically treat vice-presidential selection as little more than a game¿by focusing on how potential running mates might help to win the election, rather than how they might help the next president to govern. Based on an original content analysis of hundreds of veepstakes profiles from 2000¿2020, this book quantifies the news mediäs relative emphasis on various selection criteria, in general and across different electoral circumstances. The analysis suggests that journalists generally fail to serve the public interest by emphasizing electoral over governing considerations. However, Devine also points to positive examples of media coverage that help the public to evaluate potential running mates¿ governing credentials, and suggests ways in which scholars, journalists, and citizens might encourage media outlets to provide more substantive, responsible coverage of the vice-presidential selection process in future elections.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden anhand einer kommunikationsanalytischen Studie unterschiedliche Konzepte der Ausbildenden und der Auszubildenden für die Unterrichtsnachbesprechung rekonstruiert. Die Unterrichtsnachbesprechung in der zweiten Phase der Lehrerausbildung gilt für viele Referendarinnen und Referendare als eine besondere Belastung innerhalb ihrer Ausbildung. Mit der Rekonstruktion der in NRW programmatischen Leitideen erwachsenenpädagogischer Prinzipien einerseits und den Positionierungen der Referendar:innen andererseits offenbaren sich diverse Spannungslagen in der Lehrer:innenbildung. Neben der strukturell angelegten Doppelfunktion der Ausbildung (Beratungund Beurteilung) sind es vor allem die unterschiedlichen Orientierungen der Beteiligten mit ihrer heterogenen Erwartungskultur, die die Kommunikation in Ausbildungskontexten stören.

The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication covers a broad spectrum of topics related to how we perceive and understand disability and the language, constructs, constraints and communication behavior that shape disability discourse within society. The essays and original research presented in this volume address important matters of disability identity and intersectionality, broader cultural narratives and representation, institutional constructs and constraints, and points related to disability justice, advocacy, and public policy. In doing so, this book brings together a diverse group of over 40 international scholars to address timely problems and to promote disability justice by interrogating the way people communicate not only to people with disabilities, but also how we communicate about disability, and how people express themselves through their disabled identity.

Ethics/morality/professional ethics is a subject that can be discussed in many aspects in the field of health sciences and social sciences. Every social event that takes place in social life is also the subject of ethics. Ethics can be dealt with in every field from education to economy, from old age to media. In this book, experts from different fields of social sciences and health sciences have revealed their relations with the main theme of ethics. In terms of social sciences, education, economy, academic studies for disadvantaged groups, old age and ethics are discussed. In terms of health sciences, health problems in nursing, psychiatry, cancer and obesity were discussed ethically. The increasing importance of the interdisciplinary approach in all fields of science is valid in the main topic of ethics. For this purpose, it is aimed to reach the richness provided by the intersection sets of different perspectives.

This book uses an integrated marketing communication perspective to examine the brand of the celebrity as it is brought into the American political system, primarily in the form of celebrity endorsements.

Dieses Buch geht im Lichte der ausgerufenen digitalen Transformation der Arbeitswelt empirisch der Frage nach, wie Klein- und Mittelbetriebe (KMU) ihre Büroarbeit kommunikativ und arbeitsorganisatorisch mittels digitaler Medien gestalten. Dazu werden soziotechnische Herausforderungen von KMU aus der kritischen Perspektive der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft erkundet. Im Rahmen eines Mixed-Methods-Ansatzes werden vom innovationsgesteuerten IT-Start-up bis zur konservativ agierenden Schlosserei betriebliche Rahmenbedingungen, mediale Arbeitsplatzgestaltungen, digitale Transformationsprozesse, digitale Kompetenzentwicklungskonzepte sowie Zukunftsaussichten der KMU erhoben und analysiert. Als Interpretationsschablone der Befragungsergebnisse dient das Konzept der kommunikativen Figurationen mediatisierter Welten. Es zeigt sich, dass durch die digitale Transformation die Arbeitsfolgen ambivalent ausfallen und neue Spannungsfelder zwischen technologiezentrierten Erwartungshaltungen, neuen Arbeitsanforderungen, Beschäftigten-Bedürfnissen und gesetzlichen Regelungen entstehen. Schlussfolgernd wird als Handlungsempfehlung für KMU auf die sich wechselseitig beeinflussenden Handlungsfelder Arbeitsproduktivität, Gesundheitsschutz, digitale Kompetenzentwicklung und Arbeitsplatz-Attraktivität hingewiesen, die es bei der Gestaltung von soziotechnischen Arrangements besonders zu beachten gilt.

Der Band bietet eine medientheoretisch ausgerichtete Perspektive auf das Space Race. Analysiert werden Spielfilme, Dokumentationen, Live-Berichterstattung im Fernsehen, Magazine, Briefmarken, Plakate, Konfettiparaden, die das Space Race in je spezifischer Weise ins Bild setzten und von ¿Ost¿ nach ¿West¿ und von ¿West¿ nach ¿Ost¿ transnational über den ¿Eisernen Vorhang¿ hinweg in Umlauf brachten. Gezeigt wird, wie sich die Berichterstattung über das Space Race dabei zwischen 1955 und 1975 als globalisierende Bilder-Verflechtungsgeschichte während des Kalten Krieges nacherzählen lässt.

Der Sammelband verfolgt das Ziel, eine erste umfassende Bilanz zur Rezeption und Wirkung der "Fridays for Future"-Bewegung vorzunehmen. Im ersten Teil stellen die Autor*innen in verschiedenen Kapiteln den Stand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zur Bewegung dar. Im zweiten Teil des Bandes widmen sich die Autor*innen den Wirkungen, die "Fridays for Future" auf unterschiedlichen Dimensionen der Gesellschaft hat. Die Beiträge in diesem Teil gehen der Frage nach, wie die Bewegung u.a. politische Parteien, lokale und regionale Akteure oder auch die Wissenschaft insgesamt beeinflusst hat, bzw. welche Impulse sie setzen konnte.

This volume examines the origins, ideology, organisation, leadership, political alliances, electoral performance and institutional role of the right-wing party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d¿Italia, Fdl). FdI¿s meteoric rise is only the latest in a series of shocks that have hit Italy¿s unstable political system in recent years. However, it would be a mistake to brand FdI as yet another Italian anomaly. Indeed, the party stands at the crossroads between an established political tradition, that of the post-fascist and conservative right, and the more recent populist waves that have affected many mature democracies. By placing Giorgia Meloni¿s party in a comparative analytical framework, the author shows that its success stems from a mix of past legacies and current developments seen in much of Europe (and beyond): the growing role of right-wing female leaders and their reliance on new media; the mainstreaming of the far right mixed with populist repertoires; the de-alignment and (partial) re-alignment of voters; the reconfiguration of electoral geographies; and ultimately the emergence of an illiberal model of democracy. In short, rather than being an exception, FdI can be seen as one of the most recent and advanced manifestations of a broader process of political change sweeping the West.