Konrad Becker: Die Politik der Infosphäre: World-Information.Org (2003) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · arpanet, democracy, information society, internet, politics, privacy, security
Wir leben in einer Zeit des Übergangs zwischen einem Zeitalter, das auf industrieller Produktion basiert, und einer Gesellschaft, in der die Schaffung und der Austausch von Informationen den Mittelpunkt bilden. Mit der Entwicklung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien ist eine neue, globalisierte Wirtschaft auf dem Vormarsch, die nicht nur aktuelle politische Vorgänge beeinflusst. Gleichfalls hinterfragt sie den inneren Zusammenhalt der Gesellschaft, die traditionellen Werte und das bisherige Verständnis von Arbeit und Kultur.
“Die Politik der Infosphäre World-Information.Org” untersucht diese dramatischen Veränderungen und zeigt aktuelle Tendenzen dieses gesellschaftlichen Wandels auf.
Editors Konrad Becker, Institut für Neue Kulturtechnol
Publisher VS Verlag, 2003
ISBN 3810038660, 9783810038661
Length 272 pages
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Comment (0)Myung-Jin Park, James Curran (eds.): De-Westernizing Media Studies (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · apartheid, audience, corporatism, democracy, mass media, media studies, public broadcasting, television
De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media? How is globalization changing both society and the media?
Publisher Routledge, 2000
Communication and Society series
ISBN 0415193958, 9780415193955
342 pages
Henry A. Giroux: Impure Acts. The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · critical pedagogy, cultural politics, cultural studies, democracy, education, ideology, multiculturalism
This book begins with the premise that the culture of politics–culture’s capacity to create those discursive resources and material relations of power that shape democratic public life–appears to be in crisis, subject to derision by a wide range of ideological perspectives. In opposition to such attacks, this book argues that struggles over culture are not a weak substitute for “real” politics, but are central to any struggle willing to forge relations of power, theory, and practice, as well as pedagogy and social change. Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire.Impure Actspoints to a new kind of cultural politics and a new kind of political culture that put knowledge and practice in the service of a more realized democracy.
Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 0415926564, 9780415926560
Length 166 pages