Bøger af Denis Newiak

Corona as a staged instrument of oppression, secretly kept vaccination deaths or politicians drinking children's blood: at the latest since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, conspiracy ideologies are booming and harm social peace and democratic will formation through their dogmatism. So-called conspiracy theories generate systematic distrust of legitimate political institutions and can contribute to social polarization, dangerous populism and extremist escalation. Conspiracy ideologies have always been a topic in movies and television series, as they have always dealt with the relationship between reality and illusion, truth and fiction, reality and dream, sense and madness through their cinematic means. Series and films not only serve as a discursive space for social self-understanding, but also, through their complex narratives, constellations of characters and aesthetics, offer catchy explanations for the emergence and spread of conspiracy narratives. At the same time, theymake suggestions, some of them astonishingly concrete, for dealing with such collective delusions. What can we learn from the fictional worlds of series and films for dealing with this very real contemporary phenomenon?

Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness.

Wie lassen sich neue digitale Medien für eine moderne Wissensvermittlung an Schulen undHochschulen nutzen? Die Schließung von Bildungseinrichtungen während der Corona-Pandemie hat die Probleme bei der technischen Modernisierung der Schulen offensichtlich werden lassen. Mit der Not entsteht auch die Chance, Schulen neu zu denken ¿ etwa durch innovative Konzepte für virtuelle Unterrichtsformate, den zielorientierten Einsatz von smarten Geräte im Präsenzunterricht und für eine Lehrkräfte-Ausbildung, die umfassend digital qualifiziert. Forscher und Praktiker stellen in diesem Band ihre Studien und Erfahrungen aus dem Bereich der Pädagogik, Medienwissenschaft und angrenzender Disziplinen zusammen, entwickeln Vorschläge für den Einsatz digitaler Medien und Techniken für zeitgemäße Bildungs- und Lehrkonzepte und präsentieren ihre Best Practices.

Dead phones, chaos in hospitals, looming nuclear meltdowns: For years, experts all over the world have been warning of a widespread power blackout-and the devastating consequences for society as a whole. However, just as before the Covid-19 pandemic, politicians and the public are hardly aware of the far-reaching risks: A blackout would catch us almost completely unprepared.As for other (supposedly improbable) disruptive events, disaster movies and sci-fi series have long shown what would happen if modern society were to lose its lifeblood. Denis Newiak looks into those filmic fictions for answers to pressing questions:How can we prepare ourselves for the dramatic consequences of such a crisis? And can the collapse of modernity still be stopped?