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Our contribution aims to describe the value system carried by a particular practice what consumption breastfeeding and through communication campaigns, including posters. Our results lead us first to introduce the link between beliefs and imaginary figurability of breastfeeding by providing an analysis in terms of sensory experience, semiological breaks and handling of the normative framework. Then we update the axiology of breastfeeding with original opposition of nature versus culture and the importance of moral values. Finally, we analyze how these campaigns are involved in creating a communicative ecosystem (éducosystème) promoting participation and individual commitment. Through this semiotic analysis and éducommunicationnelle of breastfeeding, we show that a new social imagination is in progress. (author's abstract)

Much research documented the influence of music on various behaviors, including substance use and delinquency. Yet, less is known about its influences on dimensions that are crucial for behavioral outcomes, namely beliefs and attitudes. In this study, we reviewed and meta-analyzed the literature about music effects on beliefs ( n = 82, published 1972–2021) by mapping the theoretical and methodological features of this literature, focusing on the effect size of various characteristics (e.g., age, design) and on open scientific practices. Results indicate a relationship between exposure to music and music-consistent beliefs, with heterogeneity related to the type of beliefs, modality of exposure, designs, and sample characteristics. We conclude by evaluating this literature and reflecting upon future opportunities in this area of research.

"This book aims to provide theoretically ambitious but accessible information devoted to a major field within communication and media studies: Financial Communication and Investor Relations . The book sets out to ground and orientate the student through a broad range of specially commissioned chapters, while also providing the more experienced scholar and teacher with a convenient and comprehensive overview of the latest trends and critical directions"--

El propósito de este artículo es vincular los campos de la educación y de la comunicación con los estudios del discurso, con una perspectiva integradora. El vínculo se establece por dos vías: la de la propia trayectoria en este campo de confluencia, como educadora e investigadora, y la de los desarrollos conceptuales para el análisis de políticas y prácticas educativas. Dicha integración permite tanto profundizar el conocimiento de fenómenos del campo educativo, como enriquecerlo con categorías que ayuden a comprender los nuevos procesos. ; The purpose of this article is to link the fields of education and communication to discourse studies, using an integrative approach. The link is established in two ways: that of the own trajectory in this field of confluence, as an educator and researcher, and the conceptual developments for the analysis of educational policies and practices. This integration allows both, a deepen understanding of phenomena of Education, and enrich it with categories to help to understand the new processes. ; Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social

Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent years. Specifically, our thoughts relate to five expansive and interlinked themes: 1. Digital Blackness, Twitter, and Community-Building, 2. Aesthetics, Archives, and Knowledge Production, 3. Pressures, Projections, and Power Dynamics, 4. Research on/as Black Feminist Joy and Pleasure, 5. The Politics of Research. By reflecting on our research and encounters in academia we provide an overview of key aspects of Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain, including how such scholarship is impacted by the specifics of where we are (and have been) located. In doing so, we share insights at the nexus of Black studies, digital studies, cultural studies, and feminist media studies that foreground possibilities, problems, playfulness, and pleasure that can be part of doing Black feminist and digital media studies work in Britain.

How does gender affect discourse processes, particularly regarding the coverage of family issues? In order to explore this question, we focus on media representations of women in their roles as mothers on the one hand and journalists on the other and we compare the reporting of male and female journalists covering families. We refer to gender theory to examine processes of gender construction by different actors in the media and we draw on journalism theory to explain different reporting styles and strategies by male and female authors regarding discourse strategies, framing, and gender-stereotyping. Our methodological approaches include quantitative and qualitative content analyses and 14 semi-structured interviews with journalists, family researchers, and lobbyists. The sample includes coverage of families in general and that of large families in particular in German print media in the years 2011 and 2012, for a total of 1,100 texts. One of the key findings, not surprisingly, is that most of the journalists reporting on families are female. Similar to male journalists, however, they focus on the traditional family type despite the fact that various alternative forms of family life are now a social reality.

The terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on January 7, 2015, lead to a swift response from media conglomerates in the form of powerful images and narratives that sought to preserve the official mythology and to reverse the effects of the violent terrorist communication. In the dialectics of media representations, the texts are transformed into images and images into icons. We are referring here to the highlighting of the Je suis Charlie theme as a particular image that was used as a rallying cry. Analysing the production of symbolic forms, especially in the international media representation with a special accent on headlines and visual and textual images we come to the conclusion that Je suis Charlie slogan suffered an ideological transformation, the image becoming a fetish. Hence, we have spoted an iconoclastic reaction from some international media outlets that were suggesting the need for an ambivalent narrative, avoiding an absolute, frozen meaning.

Our research project deals with uses of the new kinds of mobile terminals - phones, tablets, e-books and various digital processes - and intends to analyze them according to a specific approach, that has to do with information and communication sciences. It allows us to measure, thanks to an anthropological point of view, what these uses and practices generate in terms of changes of uses. Our approach tries to emphasize the context in which the user is immersed. In this way, we propose a method of observation which, according to us, is a precious contribution: glasses-cameras. They allow us to study the enrolment of these new uses in what turns out to be a complex technique, made of media metastable practices, that are at the same time static and dynamic.

1. Introduction: Between the Creation and Disintegration of Images; Krešimir Purgar -- 2. The Concept of the Image in the Old and New Testaments; Michael Shaw -- 3. Mimesis and Simulacrum in Aristotle and Plato; Nickolas Pappas -- 4. Iconoclastic Disputes in Byzantium; Konstantinos Giakoumis -- 5. Perspective, Space and Camera Obscura in the Renaissance; Ian Verstegen -- 6. Immanuel Kant and the Emancipation of the Image; Mojca Kuplen -- 7. Formalism and Kunstwissenschaft: The "How" of the Image; Andrea Pinotti -- 8. Aby Warburg and the Foundations of Image Studies; Steffen Haug & Johannes von Müller -- 9. Early Interactions of Static and Moving Images; Mirela Ramljak Purgar -- 10. Iconoclasm and Creation of the Avant-Garde; Nadja Gnamuš -- 11. Planarity, Pictorial Space, and Abstraction; Jeffrey Strayer -- 12. The Postmodern Image; Luca Malavasi -- 13. Digital images and virtual worlds; Rebecca Haar -- 14. The Martian Image (On Earth); Ingrid Hoelzl and Remi Marie -- 15. Intentionality, Phantasy and Image Consciousness in Edmund Husserl; Claudio Rozzoni -- 16. Aura and Photography in Walter Benjamin; Diarmuid Costello -- 17. Image and the Illusion of Immanence in Jean-Paul Sartre; John Lechte -- 18. Trait, Identity, and the Gaze in Jacques Lacan; Andrei Gornykh -- 19. Symbolic Exchange and Simulation in Jean Baudrillard; Gary Genosko -- 20. Historicity of Observing and Vision in Jonathan Crary; Łukasz Zaremba -- 21. Visual Pleasure and the Male Gaze in Laura Mulvey; Patricia Stefanovic & Ana Gruić -- 22. Reality, Fiction and Make-Believe in Kendall Walton; Emanuele Arielli -- 23. The Technical Image in Vilém Flusser; Dario Vuger -- 24. Im/pulse to See in Rosalind Krauss; Filip Lipiński -- 25. The Power of and Response to Images in David Freedberg; Maxime Boidy -- 26. Ontological Dispute: What Is an Image?; Andrea Rabbito -- 27. Representation and the Scopic Regime of (Post)Cartesianism; Donal Moloney -- 28. The Iconic (In)Difference; Pietro Conte -- 29. Seeing-as, Seeing-in, Seeing-with: Looking Through Pictures; Emmanuel Alloa -- 30. Varieties of Transparency; John Kulvicki -- 31. Photographic Images in the Digital Era; Koray Değirmenci -- 32. Images and Invisibility; Øyvind Vågnes -- 33. How to make images real; Wolfram Pichler -- 34. Images and Ethics; Asbjørn Grønstad -- 35. The Beholder's Freedom. Critical Remarks on the "Will to See"; Mark Halawa-Sarholz -- 36. Surveillance and Manipulation vs. Networking and Sharing; Elio Ugenti -- 37. Mobile images; Gaby David -- 38. Phenomenology of the Image; Harri Mäcklin -- 39. Visual Semiotics; Angela Mengoni -- 40. Literary Iconology: Tropes and Typologies; Liliane Louvel -- 41. French Theory: Poststructuralism and Deconstruction; Iris Laner -- 42. Anglo-American Theory: Representation and Visual Activism; Andrea Průchová Hrůzová -- 43. German Theory: Bildwissenschaft and the Iconic Turn; Žarko Paić -- 44. The Image and Neuroaesthetics; Matthew Rampley -- 45. Visual Sociology; Carolina Cambre -- 46. Images and Architecture; Vlad Ionescu, Maarten Van Den Driessche, Louis De Mey -- 47. What is Design Theory?; Oliver Ruf -- 48. W. J. T. Mitchell; Krešimir Purgar -- 49. Michele Cometa; Valeria Cammarata -- 50. Paul Crowther; Elena Fell -- 51. Hans Belting; Luca Vargiu -- 52. Dieter Mersch; Marcel Finke -- 53. Klaus Sachs-Hombach; Lukas R. A. Wilde -- 54. Horst Bredekamp; Yannis Hadjinicolaou -- 55. Lambert Wiesing; Yvonne Förster -- 56. Gottfried Boehm; Rahel Vilinger -- 57. Georges Didi-Huberman; Andrzej Leśniak.

Critical thinking and effective communication are indispensable skills in any professional setting in contemporary globalized and computerized society. The era of globalization and the Internet pose new challenges to education. On the one hand, people have immediate, global, and facilitated access to information. On the other hand, the increasing amount of information inevitably requires one to operate in a selective and analytical way, and to be able to critically evaluate the knowledge and information acquired. These abilities are instrumental in effective decision-making processes and complex problem-solving in the contemporary world. Moreover, critical thinking skills have a direct impact on fostering initiative, autonomy, and leadership. This paper argues for the relevance of scenario theory and practice for critical thinking. Scenario analysis has been used in complex planning domains, cybernetics, business organizations and in vocational education, but we suggest that this approach can also be used more widely in developing critical thinking. In this article, a scenario refers to a set or collection of projections of future events (Wall, 1983). By allowing the investigation of the 'what if' questions, scenarios make interpretations about the future and engage with the domains of the possible, probable and hypothetical. Indeed, scenarios allow us to envision possible futures and alternatives in a hypothetical course of events.Viewed through this perspective, scenarios could be included in the toolkit of critical thinking as self-reflective tools to assess the present. How, then, could imaginary scenarios enhance critical thinking? After an introduction about the concept of scenario, we will test the scenario-based approach to critical thinking in a two-level analysis. We will first analyze the scenarios employed in a corpus about climate change awareness (NASA Global Climate Change and Yale Climate Connections) and climate change denial websites (Watts Up With That and Climate Depot). Thus, we will build on the research by Oreskes & Conway (2010), Dunlap (2013) and others on the communication of contested science. The Internet plays a central role in shaping public perceptions today and hence needs to be discussed seriously as a source of misinformation. We will analyze how scenarios are used by the two competing interest groups. In the second phase of analysis, the results will be used to develop pedagogical advice for using scenarios in teaching critical thinking.

Organisationale Umweltbeobachtung ist bislang kaum im Fokus der Organisationskommunikation. In dieser Arbeit werden auf Basis der systemtheoretischen Organisationstheorie sechs Programme entwickelt, welche die Prozesse organisationaler Umweltbeobachtung beschreiben. Grundlage dafür bildet die Analyse von 485 im Rahmen einer qualitativen empirischen Studie mit High-Tech KMU erhobenen Unternehmensprogrammen. Die Ergebnisse tragen zur Theorieentwicklung in der Organisationskommunikation bei und können als Exportvorschlag andere Disziplinen bereichern. Die Autorin Britta M. Gossel ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Medien der Technischen Universität Ilmenau. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Media Entrepreneurship, Zukunftstechnologien, Innovation, Kommunikations- und Organisationstheorie.

This paper uses a donor-provider-agent framework to study the role of provider incentives for the delivery of developmental goods like aid, credit, or technology transfer to the poor. The paper considers a situation where credible communication by the provider is the key to successful delivery. The study shows that the use of high-powered incentives can lead to breakdown of communication between providers and agents, leading to undesirable outcomes. The paper studies the interplay between incentives and communication in the presence of typical and motivated providers and finds that in certain situations incentivization leads to worse outcomes.