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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)

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.

The overall conclusion that can be drawn from the contributions in this anthol-ogy is that it is hardly relevant to talk about a clear-cut Nordic model of political communication that highly contrasts other democratic states and their political communication systems. Global trends such as digitalisation and commercialisa-tion of media systems and blurring lines between national and global political issues influence political communication. Still, there are many observations that confirm the existence of prevailing Nordic system peculiarities, such as compara-bly higher levels of voter turnout and political trust and relatively strong private and public news media. While these merging characteristics exist, it is relevant to look more carefully upon factors in the Nordic countries that seem to contribute to continuity and stability in political communication systems. In our view, it is particularly interesting to pay attention to relevant factors in the Nordic countries that may contribute to resilience in these societies. So far, the Nordic countries have shown considerable ability to embrace international political communication trends without jeopardising essential nation-specific distinctive features. Whether this resilience will prevail in the future remains an open question.

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.

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.

The book thus addresses the extant gap in scholarship in the field and includes a chapter on impact evaluation, which current scholarship has either ignored or footnoted. In addition, the book uses case studies from both the global south and the global north to attend to complex and multidisciplinary concerns with participation, power and empowerment. The author brings in postcolonial perspectives to demonstrate that the use of MCD approaches emerged in response to the growing problems of underdevelopment, and not necessarily to western development theories. Using simple language that is at the same time theoretically engaged, he opens up the field to scholars across a large number of disciplines.

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.

Within an interdisciplinary perspective, this paper aims at examining a communication space (restricted to a wine label), by the simultaneous use of an experimental method and of a socio-semiotic approach. The purpose is to isolate and to measure, in an objective way, subjective variables from the symbolic and figurative area of the wine label. The innovative interdisciplinary design will help understanding the contribution of each measured parameter (for instance codes, attitudes, beliefs and their associated valorization) to the global individual interpretation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: visual security studies -- Three transversal approaches to visuality in security -- Notes -- References -- Part I -- Visions of security technology/technological security vision -- 2 Scalia.warhead1: Securitization discourses in hacktivist video -- Introduction -- Introducing Anonymous -- Securitization and macrosecuritization -- Methods -- Operation last resort -- Desecuritization -- References -- 3 The gaze, the drone dispositif, and necro-biographies: A brief conceptual intervention -- The gaze: Lacanian and Foucauldian versions -- From the drone queen to the drone dispositif -- The ethics of the gaze -- Biographies and counter-biographies -- Conclusion: a documentary challenge to the US drone dispositif -- Note -- References -- 4 CCTV oddity: On the archaeology and aesthetics of video surveillance -- Setting the field: surveillance and artistic interventions -- #OCTV: making video surveillance -- 'CCTV Sniffing': unmaking video surveillance -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part II -- Security spectacles and spectatorship -- 5 The humanity of war: Iconic photojournalism of the battlefield, 1914-2012 -- Introduction -- Paradigms of war communication studies -- The war imaginary -- World Wars of the twentieth century -- i Aesthetic quality -- ii Moral agency -- Wars of the twenty-first century -- i Aesthetic quality -- ii Moral agency -- Conclusion: the ethics of war -- Notes -- References -- 6 World Drug Day and visual rituals of security in West Africa -- Introduction -- Securitization: the visual, and the ritual -- Ritual, power, and politics in West Africa -- World Drug Day: ritual performances of security spectacle -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References