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Postfordistische Fragmente : Filmische Arbeitswelten und Repräsentationen des Sozialen
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ISBN: 9783846767511 9783770567515 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill | Fink

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In vielen Großerzählungen über die Veränderung moderner Arbeit spielt die Diagnose einer postfordistischen Transformation eine entscheidende Rolle. Konstatiert werden der Umbau der Arbeitswelt in Richtung flexibler, symbolischer und kreativer Arbeitsformen bei gleichzeitiger Erosion kollektiver Organisationsformen und des solidarischen Zusammenhalts unter Lohnarbeitenden. Dieses Buch nähert sich dem Diskurs postfordistischer Transformation anhand seiner Ausprägungen im deutschen Kino der Gegenwart. Es analysiert, wie die Filme mit der Herausforderung umgehen, für die prekären Sinnlichkeiten der ,neuen' Arbeitswelten und die ontologische Flüchtigkeit des Sozialen eine spezifische Form zu finden. Dabei lassen sich zentrale filmische Motive identifizieren - von der Beratung über die Besprechung bis zur filmischen Kritik postfordistischer Sprechweisen -, denen das Buch in Dokumentar- und Spielfilmen wie DIE AUSBILDUNG, TONI ERDMANN oder WORK HARD PLAY HARD nachgeht. Die Analyse ihrer verschiedenen Verweisbeziehungen und diskursiven Funktionen schärft in theoretisch-methodischer Hinsicht die Aufmerksamkeit für die (sozialen) Signifikationspotenziale des Films.


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Indonesia's COVID-19 Infodemic : A Battle for Truth or Trust?.
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ISBN: 9815104691 Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore : ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute,

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Besides being one of the countries most severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia also experienced a severe "infodemic": an overabundance of contradictory information--including misinformation and disinformation--on COVID-19. This infodemic hampered pandemic mitigation efforts, resulting in non-compliance with public health measures and delays to the national vaccination programme in the first six months of the pandemic due to widespread vaccine hesitancy or vaccine refusal. Furthermore, it fomented public distrust of the government and other institutions.On Indonesian social media, this infodemic engendered a peculiar type of hybrid narrative, combining global conspiracy theories with local moral economies and religious sentiments. Religious micro-influencers were particularly influential in spreading the narrative that the government's COVID-19 policies could not be trusted, and that COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous and haram. Such posts were often removed in line with the social media platforms' policies to combat false information on COVID-19, and the individuals who created such content risked prosecution in line with the government's punitive approach to "hoaxes". However, this did not lessen the prevalence of anti-vaccine narratives, nor did it mitigate public distrust of the government.The government also contributed to the spiral of distrust through its inconsistent policies, lack of transparency, and mixed messages. Especially in the pandemic's early phases, government officials themselves were found spreading misleading information, first to downplay the severity and risk of COVID-19 in order to avoid social unrest, and subsequently to push for a quick reopening of the economy. In prioritizing the economy over public health, considerable resources were spent on influence campaigns to persuade the public to continue business as normal.The influence campaigns appeared to succeed in persuading people to return to work and to get vaccinated eventually. However, public distrust remained and was easily reactivated on social media in response to inconsistencies and double standards in the government's enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions.


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Schau | Werte : Bild- und Mediendiskurse des Geldes
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ISBN: 9783846770566 9783770570560 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill | Fink

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Die Monographie untersucht die noch weitgehend unerforschte und unbewusste Bildersprache des Geldes in audiovisuellen Medien. Da Geld heutzutage häufig unsichtbar ist, weichen die bildgebenden Medien beim Thema Geld auf Symbole, Metaphern und Charakterisierungen aus. Dadurch wird das Geld mit Bedeutungen aufgeladen, die unsere gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Vorstellung von ihm prägen. Im Fokus der Analysen stehen die Repräsentationen des Geldes durch Zahlungsmittel, Waren und Zeichen, die Verortungen des Geldes in Wohn-, Geschäfts- und Naturräumen sowie die Charakterisierungen des Geldes mittels Typen, Bindungsmustern und Gender-Konstellationen. Übergreifend wird am Ende auch die Frage beantwortet, inwiefern die Medien Geld selbst als Medium konzeptualisieren.


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Mimesis expanded : Die Ausweitung der mimetischen Zone
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ISBN: 9783846764947 9783770564941 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill | Fink

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Wer nachahmt, läuft Gefahr, mit der Nachahmung das Sein davonzutragen, gab kein Geringerer als Platon zu bedenken. Platon folgend, wird die Wirksamkeit von entgrenzenden Nachahmungsprozessen auf unterschiedliche kulturelle und soziale Bereiche aus historischer, epistemischer und medialer Ebene untersucht. In den einzelnen Beiträgen geraten theoretische Reflexe und Konzepte, u.a. von Gabriel Tarde, Roger Caillois, Erich Auerbach, Pierre Klossowksi und Pier Paolo Pasolini in den Blick, die von der Furcht vor exzessiven Potenzialen mimetischer Praktiken, aber auch von ihrer Faszination zeugen: Denn die Nachahmung erlaubt es, die ontologischen Grenzziehungen zwischen Personen, Dingen und Zeichen zu verwischen.


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Die Filme Fatih Akins
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ISBN: 9783846766545 9783770566549 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill | Fink

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Fatih Akın zählt zu den wichtigsten Regisseuren des deutschen Gegenwartskinos. Seine Filme sind international preisgekrönt und genießen die Gunst nicht nur der Kritik, sondern auch des Publikums. Auch die Filmwissenschaft hat sich in den letzten zwanzig Jahren dem Werk Akıns zugewandt, von einer systematischen Erschließung des Gesamtwerks kann bisher allerdings keine Rede sein. Der vorliegende Sammelband schafft hier Abhilfe, indem er das OEuvre erstmals in seiner Gesamtheit aufarbeitet: Die Anthologie erschließt die Regiearbeiten Fatih Akıns genreübergreifend vom Frühwerk bis zum jüngsten Film. Ziel ist es, der filmwissenschaftlichen Diskussion neue Impulse zu geben, die Vermittlung von Akıns Werk in Universität und Schule zu erleichtern und eine Einführung in die Arbeit des Regisseurs zu bieten.


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Die Relevanz der Irrelevanz : Aufsätze zur Medienphilosophie 2010-2021
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ISBN: 9783846761960 9783770561964 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paderborn : Brill | Fink

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Philosophie fragt mittenhinein ins Wahre, Gute, Schöne. Medienphilosophie sucht an den Rändern und in den Ecken der Existenz das nur manchmal Wahre, das Materiale, das Vorübergehende und Alltägliche auf. Die Relevanz des (vermeintlich) Irrelevanten herauszustellen und philosophischer Analyse zuzuführen, dient der Aufsatzband zur Medienphilosophie. Er verortet sich in der Mitte zwischen allen möglichen Dualismen und favorisiert ein Denken des Dritten und Medialen. Philosophisches Denken ist bis heute in dualistische Lager gespalten (z.B. Materialismus und Idealismus), wobei die Selbstunterordnung unter die Normen von Kohärenz und Widerspruchsfreiheit die Tendenz zu dualistischem, ausschließendem Denken noch verstärkt. Diese gilt es in konkreten Medienanalysen (medien-)philosophisch zu beleuchten.


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The Labour Politics of App-Based Driving in Vietnam.
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ISBN: 9815104861 Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore : ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute,

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Over the past decade, app-based driving services like ride-hailing and delivery have become an integral part of business, employment and daily life in Vietnam. This growth, however, has been accompanied by tensions and conflicts between ride-hailing platforms and traditional taxi companies, xe ôm (motorbike taxi drivers), the authorities and the drivers working for these platforms.Most drivers on these services are male and work long hours for low wages. Their working conditions are precarious because platforms classify them as partners rather than employees, denying them basic rights and benefits. Although platforms offer bonuses, organize events to celebrate drivers' contributions, and provide training courses, these do not address the fundamental exploitation in the employment relationship.The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) has not taken sufficient action to protect drivers or taken a stance on whether they should be classified as contractors or employees. The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) is working towards securing social protection for drivers and increasing their representation in labour associations. While some members of the VGCL have argued that app-based drivers are actually workers and should be afforded the same rights and benefits as all workers, this is as yet not the formal position of the confederation.Drivers have taken to organizing strikes and protests to demand better treatment from the platforms. Their methods of activism are rooted in both traditional Vietnamese labour activism and global trends of platform protest.The emergence of the gig economy in Vietnam is a challenge to sustainable development. Policymakers and practitioners are called upon to ensure that platform work contributes to improved livelihoods and decent lifestyles for all.


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Depth Effects : Dimensionality from Camera to Computation.
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ISBN: 0520393872 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early photography, analyzing everyday smartphone apps by way of almost-forgotten media forms. Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Belisle explores depth both as a problem of visual representation (how can flat images depict a voluminous world?) and as a philosophical paradox (how do things cohere beyond the limits of our view?). She explains how today's depth effects continue colonialist ambitions toward totalizing ways of seeing. But she also shows how artists stage dimensionality to articulate what remains invisible and irreducible.


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Cable Guys : Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century
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ISBN: 1479800589 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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The emergence of "male-centered serials" such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons Of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in negotiating modern masculinities. Fromthe meth-dealing but devoted family man Walter White of AMC's Breaking Bad,to the part-time basketball coach, part-time gigolo Ray Drecker of HBO's Hung,depictions of male characters perplexed by societal expectations of men andanxious about changing American masculinity have become standard across thetelevision landscape. Engaging with a wide variety of shows, including TheLeague, Dexter, and Nip/Tuck, among many others, Amanda D. Lotzidentifies the gradual incorporation of second-wave feminism into prevailinggender norms as the catalyst for the contested masculinities on display incontemporary cable dramas.Examiningthe emergence of "male-centered serials" such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in negotiatingmodern masculinities, Lotz analyzes how these shows combine feminist approachesto fatherhood and marriage with more traditional constructions of masculineidentity that emphasize men's role as providers. She explores the dynamics ofclose male friendships both in groups, as in Entourage and Men of aCertain Age, wherein characters test the boundaries between the homosocialand homosexual in their relationships with each other, and in the dyadicintimacy depicted in Boston Legal and Scrubs. Cable Guys provides amuch needed look into the under-considered subject of how constructions of masculinitycontinue to evolve on television.


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Playing War : Military Video Games After 9/11
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Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on TerrorNo video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the "military shooter." Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy's name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future battles, converting the reality of contemporary conflicts into playable, experiences. In the aftermath of 9/11, these games transformed a national crisis into fantastic and profitable adventures, where seemingly powerless spectators became solutions to these virtual Wars on Terror. Playing War provides a cultural framework for understanding the popularity of military-themed video games and their significance in the ongoing War on Terror. Matthew Payne examines post-9/11 shooter-style game design as well as gaming strategies to expose how these practices perpetuate and challenge reigning political beliefs about America's military prowess and combat policies. Far from offering simplistic escapist pleasures, these post-9/11 shooters draw on a range of nationalist mythologies, positioning the player as the virtual hero at every level. Through close readings of key games, analyses of marketing materials, and participant observations of the war gaming community, Playing War examines an industry mobilizing anxieties about terrorism and invasion to craft immersive titles that transform international strife into interactive fun.

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