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  • Scandalogy 5

    Scandals in Times of Crises, Conflicts and Conspiracies

    Edited by Hendrik Michael, André Haller ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In recent years, political scandals involving nepotism, sexual harassment, coercion, and abuses of power have captured global attention. This book sheds light on this phenomenon, highlighting the transformations in media and journalism in the digital age and broader socio-political trends.Amidst global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, scandals increase rapidly as institutions struggle under ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Scandalogy 4

    Political Scandals in the Age of Populism, Partisanship, and Polarization

    Edited by André Haller, Hendrik Michael ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume examines the growing presence of populism, partisanship, and polarization and analyzes what this means for scandalization processes. While politics appears to have entered a mode of perpetual crisis and growing dysfunctionality, the rapid succession of scandals may be a symptom of this crisis and its catalyst at the same time. The book provides a better definition of political scandals ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Scandology 3

    Scandals in New Media

    Edited by André Haller, Hendrik Michael, Lucas Seeber ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents research on mediated scandals and substantiates the understanding of such forms of scandals and their impact on societies. Additionally, it connects the study of scandals with the broader fields of political communication research, organizational communication, journalism studies, and digital communication research.The authors focus on the 21st century as an age of perpetual ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • Infocracy

    Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy.In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form ... Read more

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  • Faith as an Option

    Possible Futures for Christianity

    by Hans Joas ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Questionnaire

    by Dr Evan Kindley ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love and to kill time. But where did they come from, and why have they proliferated? Evan Kindley's Questionnaire investigates the history of “the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Aesthetic Journalism

    How to Inform Without Informing

    by Alfredo Cramerotti ...
    As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ethics

    The Fundamental Questions of Our Lives

    by Wolfgang Huber ...
    Translated by Brian McNeil ...
    In the twenty-first century the basic questions of ethics are no longer the abstract terms of ethical theory, but the concrete and burning issues related to the influence of life sciences, the impact of a globalized economy, and the consequences of present decisions for the future of humankind. Ethics: The Fundamental Questions of Our Lives analyzes twenty ethical issues that address education and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life Informatic

    Newsmaking in the Digital Era

    by Dominic Boyer ...
    Series series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
    News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it look like, however, from the inside of a news organization? In The Life Informatic, Dominic Boyer offers the first anthropological ethnography of contemporary office-based news journalism. The result is a fascinating ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Culture and Value

    Tourism, Heritage, and Property

    by Regina F. Bendix ...
    An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce ( Asian Ethnology).When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the ... Read more

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  • History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

    Edited by Simone Lässig, Karina Korostelina ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East.Ever since the emergence of the modern school system and the implementation of compulsory education, textbooks have been seen as privileged media. The knowledge they convey is relatively ... Read more

    $72.99 USD