Kommunikationsstudier

This book employs discursive psychology to examine how far-right discourse on issues related to multiculturalism is received, interpreted, adapted and contested in political rhetoric and informal talk.It brings together the latest research from sociology and media studies concerning the circulation of far-right messages in the era of digitalization and the ¿hybrid media system¿, and critical discursive psychology research into political and lay discourse pertaining to multiculturalism. Drawing on empirical material from the Nordic context allows for an analysis of political discourse within societies in which a strong tradition of social democratic welfare states now exists alongside the rise of populist and far-right parties. Operating in countries with comparatively high national internet and social media penetration, this book explores the extent to which the success of these parties is linked to their skilful use of social media, in order to mobilise popular support for their political agendas. The collection¿s multilevel perspective aims to further the understanding of how the anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalist ideologies propagated by these parties contributes to the mainstreaming of their rhetoric among the political ¿elite¿, as well as to the societal normalization of nationalist and xenophobic discourse. In doing so it will provide fresh insights for students and scholars of sociology, social psychology, discourse analysis, media and communication, and political science.

This volume conceives cooperation in broad terms as any form of mutual making, in which goals, means, and procedures are seen as ongoing accomplishments. From the exchanges of goods or information, to the interactions between bodies or organizations, and the coordination between colleagues, competitors, friends or foes. Mutually making the conditions of mutual making entails translating heterogeneous interests, negotiating conflicting values and articulating distributed activities. On the one hand, the contributions cover different notions and concepts of cooperation in diverse fields of study: from the mundane cooperation of everyday life to collective endeavors within specific domains. On the other hand, the contributions share a focus on the practices of making cooperation possible through cooperatively creating the conditions for cooperation itself. Seeing cooperative media both as a condition and consequence of cooperation, the volume sheds light on a general feature of media, technologies and instruments that both enable and constrain the collaboration between heterogeneous social worlds, with and without consensus.Chapter 7 ¿The Passport as a Medium of Movement¿ is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via SpringerLink.

Die Studie untersucht, wie Kultur- und Medienarbeiter*innen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ihre arbeitsbezogenen Interessen organisieren und vertreten. Hierzu entwickelt der Autor einen theoretischen Bezugsrahmen, der ein politikwissenschaftliches Grundverständnis von "organisierten Interessen" mittels arbeits- und industriesoziologischen Perspektiven schärft und um Überlegungen aus jüngeren Forschungsprogrammen zu bewegungsorientierten Erneuerungsoptionen für arbeitsbezogene und speziell gewerkschaftliche Organisierung ergänzt. Auf dieser Basis erfolgt eine systematische und kritische Rekonstruktion und Diskussion von vorhandenen wissenschaftlichen Publikationen zu der Thematik. Das Ergebnis der Literaturstudie bilden einerseits theoretisch und empirisch fundierte Informationen zu zentralen Organisationsherausforderungen, zur historischen Genese sowie zum Status quo und zu jüngeren Entwicklungstrends der Interessenorganisierung und -vertretung im Feld kultureller-medialer Arbeit. Andererseits identifiziert die Studie im Forschungsstand zahlreiche offene Fragestellungen und Informationslücken, die abschließend als Forschungsdesiderat diskutiert und zur weiteren Exploration empfohlen werden.

Sie werden gesucht. Von ihnen wird viel verlangt: Referentinnen und Referenten. Unternehmen, NGOs, Ministerien, Verbände, Forschungseinrichtungen und Vereine suchen nach geeigneten Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten.Norbert Franck zeigt in diesem Praxishandbuch, wie man sich in dem Berufsfeld bewährt und erfolgreich vorankommt.Alle wichtigen Handlungsfelder werden vorgestellt:¿ Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit¿ Gekonnt texten¿ Professionell referieren, moderieren und präsentieren¿ Vorgesetzte für Auftritte coachen. Das Buch vermittelt die kommunikative Kompetenz, die notwendig ist, um die Herausforderungen des Berufs erfolgreich zu bestreiten ¿ vom Mitarbeitergespräch über den Small Talk bis hin zur Krisenkommunikation.Der Karriereführer ist der erste Leitfaden für dieses Berufsfeld. Er ist eine unverzichtbare Handreichung für Einsteiger*innen und Referent*innen mit Berufserfahrungen.

A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment.If digital technology were a country, it would be the third-highest consumer of electricity behind China and the United States.Every year, streaming technology generates as much greenhouse gas as Spain - close to 1 per cent of global emissions.One Google search uses as much electricity as a lightbulb left on for up to two minutes.It turns out that the 'dematerialised' digital world, essential for communicating, working, and consuming, is much more tangible than we would like to believe. Today, it absorbs 10 per cent of the world's electricity and represents nearly 4 per cent of the planet's carbon dioxide emissions. We are struggling to understand these impacts, as they are obscured to us in the mirage of 'the cloud'.The result of an investigation carried out over two years on four continents, The Dark Cloud reveals the anatomy of a technology that is virtual only in name. Under the guise of limiting the impact of humans on the planet, it is already asserting itself as one of the major environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and sameness. On the one hand, we find familiarity pleasurable and soothing; on the other, we crave novelty and long for a sense of discovery. We blame algorithms, intent on selling us more of the same, and on a media industry too greedy to risk investing in intellectually challenging, radically new, products. Sameness and Repetition in Contemporary Media Culture takes a comprehensive approach that both theorises and historically grounds the idea of repetition in relation to media as something that is deeply embedded in our cultural tradition. This project received funding from the Carlsberg Foundation.

Rap and Politics maps out fifty years of political and musical development by exploring three specific moments of local discourse, each a response to failures by local, state, and national governments to address police brutality, violence, poverty, and poor social conditions in Oakland, California and the surrounding Bay Area. First, in the mid-1960s, Black youth responded to repressive political and socioeconomic factors in West Oakland by founding the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, whose representation of violence and community aid, as well as its radical and militant approach to Black Nationalism, became a foundational discourse that shaped the development of rap music in the region. Second, from the collapse of the Party in the early 1980s through the 1990s, gangster rap emerged as a form of political expression among local youth, who drew heavily on radical and militant elements of Panther discourse in their lyrics and artwork. Third, hyphy music in the mid-1990s to early 2000s continued these radical discourses and also incorporated coordinated, subversive public behavior to the mix. The result was a critique of endemic problems facing the local Black community, but also an infectious subgenre of party music that gained mainstream popularity. Overall, this study shows that the specific types of representation created to resist problems of racism and poverty in Oakland is actually key to understanding other rap undergrounds, grassroots subcultures, and social movements elsewhere. In the process, Rap and Politics offers readers a new model focused on the development of settings, representation, movements, discourse banks, and impact within underground rap scenes.

Good news: listening is much more fun and energizing than we've been led to believe.No endless conversations- you can interrupt!No solving required-you can relax!No agreement needed-you can be open-minded!Your curiosity, your creativity, and your attention are essential qualities in the fascinating pursuit of understanding other people and having them feel understood. Most books on listening tell you that yes, you should listen better, but they neglect to explain how. Master Certified Coach Lauren Powers shares what she had to unlearn as a below-average listener and her surprising discoveries on the way to Listening Out Loud. In this entertaining how-to guide, Lauren serves up funny stories, wise advice, and "play date" exercises to help you:Identify your internal blocks to superstar listeningMove from the Me Channel to Level Two ListeningCrank up your natural curiosity through asking super easy questions Create conversations you enjoy and impress others with your attentivenessBy the end of this mind-expanding book, you'll understand why you listen the way you do, what to pay attention to, and how to think about listening as a power tool. Simply put, listening well makes other people more interesting and less irritating. Wouldn't that be helpful right about now?

This book examines the Europeanisation of party politics in Malta. It evaluates the influence of Europeanisation on the political system, which is based on two party-system, polarisation, and clientelism. Malta is the smallest European Union (EU) member state, which joined the EU in 2004. The road toward membership was fraught with contentious and emotionally charged debates. This book explores the relationship between Maltese political parties and the EU, the politicisation and framing of the European Union by political parties, and the impact of the European Union on Maltäs political system. The book further discusses more contentious recent events which made headlines at the EU level, including the Panama Papers scandals, the Individual Investment Programme, and the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of political science and international relations interested in a better understanding ofelectoral studies, Europeanisation, European integration, as well as the Maltese political system, and party politics.

Kann Verständlichkeit zum Erfolg der Presse- und Medienarbeit beitragen? Oder anders gefragt: Welche Rolle spielt Verständlichkeit bei der journalistischen Nachrichtenauswahl? Ausgehend vom Konzept der Mediatisierung argumentiert die Studie, dass die Beachtung grundlegender Verständlichkeitsregeln als ein strategisches Mittel zur Beeinflussung der medialen Aufmerksamkeit angesehen werden kann. Denn Verständlichkeit als journalistisches Qualitätskriterium ist Teil der Medienlogik. Wer diese Medienlogik bei der Gestaltung der eigenen Kommunikation berücksichtigt, schreibt im Sinne der Medien und entspricht journalistischen Vorstellungen darüber, was überhaupt berichterstattenswert ist und wie über entsprechende Ereignisse zu berichten ist. Grundlage zur empirischen Überprüfung dieser Annahme ist eine input-output-analytische Untersuchung von Pressemitteilungen DAX-notierter Unternehmen sowie der daraus resultierenden Berichterstattung in ausgewählten Medien. Mit einer Kombination manueller und automatisierter Formen der Inhaltsanalyse wird dabei die sprachliche Komplexität der Pressemitteilungen bestimmt und die Wirkung dieser Komplexität auf den journalistischen Umgang mit den Pressemitteilungen untersucht.

This book focuses on the propaganda war between the Syrian government and the opposition movement, which excludes the Islamic State and the Kurdish-led SDF. Drawing on international relations, psychology, and media studies, the book encourages readers to question the dominant discourse on the war. The core of the book outlines the propaganda battles over the main paradigms and narratives that framed the war, exploring the shortcomings of those paradigms and narratives, identifying who won the propaganda war and why, and assessing what impact it had on the military side of the war. In particular, it focuses on the role of cognitive bias amongst primary and secondary sources in determining the outcome of the propaganda war, and whether the influence of this propaganda is best explained by effects or limited effects theory. Through explaining the dynamics of the propaganda war, the book encourages readers to critically question the dominant discourse on the war, assists them in understanding primary and secondary reporting on the war, and shows that the impact of the propaganda war is best understood in terms of limited effects theory. The book's main findings are that: i) the opposition won the international propaganda war but failed to win the propaganda war inside Syria; ii) propaganda had relatively little effect on shaping attitudes either inside Syria or internationally (instead, its main effect was to reinforce attitudes that had already been shaped by other factors); and iii) the reality of the war lies between the conflicting paradigms and narratives being promoted by each side.

How can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19? This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines the right to resist or reject these technologies and the politics of refusal in different contexts and scenarios. The book offers a timely and original analysis of the new realities and challenges of digital technologies, paving the way for a post-COVID-19 future. -- Provided by publisher.

Communication, which is a multidisciplinary discipline, covers many branches such as politics, economy, psychology, media, health and education, as well as dealing with multi-faceted human relations. Communication, which is shaped on social and individual legal and ethical foundations, takes its ethical foundations from the society. In the communication process, in which information, feelings and thoughts are transferred between individual and social groups by means of communication tools such as words, images, body movements, writing, it is very important that both the content and the forms of access comply with ethical principles. Unethical practices experienced in this process damage social trust and create a negative environment for the parties with whom they communicate. For this reason, the issue of ethics in the field of communication is discussed in this book. Ethical themes, written by academics from all fields of communication, are subjects that should be read and known in terms of creating social trust.

This book analyzes the social legitimacy deficit of the European Parliament (EP) in the United Kingdom and Greece. It does so by considering it, partially, a communication deficit, and by addressing the relevant inadequacies of its communication and media relations performance. Following this approach, the book identifies and critically analyzes the problems that the European Parliament is facing in communicating and portraying itself to news websites in the United Kingdom and Greece, and offers potential solutions to the issues presented.The book provides an initial comparison of the scale of the problems that the EP is facing in its communication and media relations performance in Greece and in the United Kingdom, focusing on a number of prominent, carefully selected, impartial or pro-European websites. The failures of the EP to secure adequate levels of visibility on these websites automatically signify serious basic weaknesses in its communication strategy. This bookidentifies those weaknesses, their causes, and presents solutions on how to solve them.Therefore, this book is a must-read for students and scholars of political science and media communication, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of the European Parliament's social legitimacy and communication deficit.

The study entitled ¿The Problems of Implementing Kiswahili for Interpersonal Communication at the Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB)¿. The problem of this study emanates from the less use of Kiswahili for interpersonal communication at the REB. It set out to meet the objectives of determining the role and place of Kiswahili in the Rwandan language policy landscape; assessing the challenges of implementing the use of Kiswahili for interpersonal communication at the REB, and proposing solutions to the challenges faced in the implementation of Kiswahili for interpersonal communication at the REB. The results revealed that the Rwandan language policy considers Kiswahili as an official language in Rwandan landscape as well as other three languages, but it is less used in social interaction as compared to the others, Further, it mentioned some challenges which limit interpersonal communication in Kiswahili between employees of the REB. Lastly, the findings showed some measures that can be taken to handle the challenges of implementing Kiswahili for interpersonal communication at the REB. The study recommends that REB trains its workers on Kiswahili and conduct its meeting in Kiswahili.

From fake news to infringement of privacy in digital spheres, the changing landscapes of media and public communication have completely transformed contemporary democracies in recent decades. Disruptions of media functioning can be seen as evidence for a transition from democracy to post-democracy, but how plausible is this scenario? Using empirical evidence, the author asks how imminent the threat of the end of democracy is, and how it can be restored. Exploring the creative and destructive ways individuals and groups make use of new digital and social media in democratic societies across the world, the book presents a much-needed critical theory of the public sphere as we enter the new digital age.

"In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive virality of one hot social media app after another. It characterizes Donald Trump's willful disregard for political correctness (and proofreading) and inspires multinational corporations to stake activist claims in ways that few "woke" brands ever dared before. It buttresses a multibillion-dollar influencer industry of everyday folks shilling their friends with #spon-con and burnishes the street cred of rock stars and rappers alike. But, ironically, authenticity's not actually real: It's as fabricated as it is ubiquitous. In The Authenticity Industries, journalist and scholar Michael Serazio combines eye-opening reporting and lively prose to take readers behind the scenes with those who make "reality"--and the ways it tries to influence us. Drawing upon dozens of rare interviews with campaign consultants, advertising executives, tech company leadership, and entertainment industry gatekeepers, the book slyly investigates the professionals and practices that make people, products, and platforms seem "authentic" in today's media, culture, and politics. The result is a spotlight on the power of authenticity in today's media-saturated world and the strategies to satisfy this widespread yearning. In theory, authenticity might represent the central moral framework of our time: allaying anxieties about self and society, culture and commerce, and technology and humanity. It infects and informs our ideals of celebrity, aesthetics, privacy, nostalgia, and populism. And Serazio reveals how these pretenses are crafted, backstage, for audiences, consumers, and voters"--

"Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving advantages or do we stop to weigh what we gain and lose when heeding their siren call? To understand how AI is redefining what it means to write and think, linguist and educator Naomi Baron leads us on a journey connecting the dots between human literacy and today's technology. From nineteenth century lessons in composition, to mathematician Alan Turing's work creating a machine for deciphering war-time messages, to contemporary engines like ChatGPT, Baron gives readers a spirited overview of the emergence of both literacy and AI, and a glimpse of their possible future. As the technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting to take the easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions that such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our technical skills but the power of writing as a springboard for personal reflection and unique expression. Funny, informed, and conversational, Who Wrote This? urges us as individuals and as communities to make conscious choices about the extent to which we collaborate with AI. The technology is here to stay. Baron shows us how to work with AI and how to spot where it risks diminishing the valuable cognitive and social benefits of being literate"--

¿Las personas con autismo nos permiten vislumbrar nuestra futura condición humana? ¿Podríamos estar impulsando nuestra propia evolución con nuestra tecnología y, de hecho, estar asistiendo al inicio de la siguiente etapa de la evolución humana?La tesis central de este libro es que, desde que hemos delegado la capacidad de leer los contextos en tecnologías como las redes sociales, la localización y los sensores, nos hemos vuelto ciegos al contexto. Dado que la ceguera al contexto -o caetextia en latín- es uno de los síntomas más dominantes del comportamiento autista en los niveles más altos del espectro, es posible que las personas con esa condición nos den un vistazo a nuestra propia evolución en el corto plazo. Podríamos estar asistiendo al inicio de la siguiente etapa de la evolución humana: el Homo caetextus.Con inundaciones e incendios cada vez más frecuentes y veranos insoportablemente calurosos, la huella humana en nuestro planeta debería ser evidente para todos, pero no lo es porque estamos ciegos al contexto. Ahora podemos ver y sentir el calentamiento global. Estamos siendo testigos de la evolución en tiempo real y dando a luz a nuestras especies sucesoras. Nuestros bisnietos pueden resultar una especie muy distinta a la nuestra.Este libro es imprescindible para todos los cursos de comunicación y estudios de los medios de comunicación que se ocupan de tecnologías digitales, los medios de comunicación, la cultura y la sociedad. También resultará esclarecedor para un público lector general preocupado por la polarización de la esfera pública, las dificultades para sostener la gobernanza democrática, las conspiraciones desenfrenadas y fenómenos como la cultura de la cancelación y la necesidad de avisos de contenidos sensibles y espacios seguros.

In this book, the concept of satellite communication will be demonstrated by giving a brief overview of the satellite system, the development of satellite commutations, and listing the application that satellite communication can handle. After that, The satellite orbit with its related aspect and types will be demonstrated. Then, the requirements of designing a simple Is-OWC system will be mentioned to give an overview of how to design and model a simple system by using the most suitable simulation software. Finally, the results that can be obtained from simulating the Is-OWC system will be demonstrated for further performance evaluation of the system.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Umweltwissenschaften - Klima- und Umweltschutz, Note: 1,0, Universität Augsburg (Institut für Medien, Wissen und Kommunikation), Veranstaltung: Spezialisierungsfelder gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie können Umweltkampagnen effektiv das umweltbezogene Verhalten von Individuen im Bezug auf Fortbewegung beeinflussen?Die empirische Studie knüpft an zahlreiche Theorien und Modelle aus der Verhaltensforschung an und fokussiert sich insbesondere auf spezifische Faktoren in der Darstellungsweise der Botschaften, die die Persuasionswirkung beeinflussen können. Untersucht werden verschiedene narrative Erzählformen und der Einfluss der Drastik, mit der Klimawandelfolgen dargestellt werden. Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein Online-Experiment durchgeführt. Dieser Forschungsbericht vermittelt zunächst einen Überblick über den theoretischen Forschungsstand, bevor die Methodik der Studie geschildert wird. Abschließend folgen eine Beschreibung und Diskussion der gewonnenen Erkenntnisse. Der Verkehrssektor ist für 26 % aller CO2-Emmissionen in der EU verantwortlich (Destatis, 2021). Ein Großteil davon geht auf den Individualverkehr zurück (EP, 2019). Die Entscheidungen von Individuen, welches Verkehrsmittel sie nutzen, hat somit einen erheblichen Einfluss auf den Ausstoß von CO2 und damit auf den Beitrag der EU zur Verstärkung der globalen Erwärmung. Gleichzeitig bietet sich damit die Möglichkeit, durch eine Umgestaltung des Individualverkehrs CO2-Emmissionen zu reduzieren. Umweltkampagnen können Menschen direkt ansprechen und über die Klimawandelproblematik sowie Handlungsmöglichkeiten aufklären. Ziel ist es, eine Verhaltensänderung zu bewirken. Schon eine Person, die eine Autofahrt über 100 Kilometer durch eine Zugreise ersetzt, kann 11,5 Kilo Treibhausgas einsparen (Wüpper, 2020). Verhalten sich viele Individuen umweltfreundlicher, kann das in der Summe einen signifikanten Einfluss auf den Schutz der Umwelt haben (Stern, 2000b, S. 410). Diese Forschungsarbeit möchte einen Beitrag zu diesem bedeutsamen Ziel leisten.

This book addresses health professions educational challenges specific to non-Western cultures, implementing a shifting paradigm for educating future health professionals towards patient-centered care. While health professions education has received increasing attention in the last three decades, promoting student-centered learning principles pioneered by leaders in the medical community has, for the most part, remain rooted in the Western context. Building from Hofstede's analysis of the phenomena of cultural dimensions, which underpin the way people build and maintain their relationships with others and influence social, economic, and political well-being across nations, this book demarcates the different cultural dimensions between East and West, applied to medical education. The respective 'hierarchical' and 'collectivist' cultural dimensions are unpacked in several studies stemming from non-western countries, with the capacity to positively influence healthcare education and services. The book provides new insights for researchers and health professional educators to understand how cultural context influences the input, processes, and output of health professionals' education. Examples include how cultural context influences the ways in which students respond to teachers, how teachers giving feedback to students, and the challenges of peer feedback and group work. The authors also examine causes for student hesitation in proposing ideas, the pervasive cultural norm of maintaining harmony, the challenges of teamwork in clinical settings, the need to be sensitive to community health needs, the complexity of clinical decision making, and the challenge of how collectivist cultural values play into group dynamics. This book aims to advocate a more culturally-sensitive approach to educating health professionals, and will be relevant to both students and practitioners in numerous areas of public health and medical education.