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Nourishment stands apart from other physiological events: whilst we normally exercise discretion in relation to bodily functions, food consumption takes place in public. We dine, snack and nibble in front of others, and the imagery associated with food takes on the manifold of meanings—religious, cultural, historic and so forth. Gastronomic practices unite or divide people, and as such are a powerful communication tool. As the twenty-first century confrontational stance between fast food and family meal traditions intensifies, we investigate fast food's visual imagery and its ability to attract consumers.

Being well-known nowadays as the Silver Age of Russian literature, Russian symbolism is an extraordinary phenomenon of spiritual life at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. This essay aims to study the appearance and development of Russian symbolism as a result of revaluation of cultural wealth in philosophy / art and stimulation of the appropriate rise of the certain aesthetic systems which were embodied in the literary works of that period. The current study introduces a new approach to the origin of this trend and represents the new tendencies in Russian symbolist novels which were beyond the artistic movements of that epoch. The sources of symbolist literature are traced in the principles of esoteric theory and its basic postulates. The results of the investigation and received conclusions are confirmed with the direct textual references from the novels of the writer who proves to be a forerunner of literature with bright mystical orientation.

The Snowden leaks indicate the extent, nature, and means of contemporary mass digital surveillance of citizens by their intelligence agencies and the role of public oversight mechanisms in holding intelligence agencies to account. As such, they form a rich case study on the interactions of "veillance" (mutual watching) involving citizens, journalists, intelligence agencies and corporations. While Surveillance Studies, Intelligence Studies and Journalism Studies have little to say on surveillance of citizens' data by intelligence agencies (and complicit surveillant corporations), they offer insights into the role of citizens and the press in holding power, and specifically the political-intelligence elite, to account. Attention to such public oversight mechanisms facilitates critical interrogation of issues of surveillant power, resistance and intelligence accountability. It directs attention to the veillant panoptic assemblage (an arrangement of profoundly unequal mutual watching, where citizens' watching of self and others is, through corporate channels of data flow, fed back into state surveillance of citizens). Finally, it enables evaluation of post-Snowden steps taken towards achieving an equiveillant panoptic assemblage (where, alongside state and corporate surveillance of citizens, the intelligence-power elite, to ensure its accountability, faces robust scrutiny and action from wider civil society).

What is solidarity economy? This question, central, allows keeping the question of the scope of the economy. So, this text tackles, in a more global approach of deconstruction of the orthodox economics and the construction of one new paradigm of solidarity economy, the deliberalism. To understand this approach, it is necessary to return to our starting point: the economics is one of the components of the democratic society (the two others being politics and symbolism). From then, the economics is not any more a mathematical science studying the allocation of the rare resources, but a social science analysing the monetary exchanges. In this theoretical frame, the diversity of the researches in solidarity economy is an asset. This diversity opens heuristic tracks allowing renewing profoundly the socio economic analysis.

A particular form of interference, with indirectly transferred effects and communicative values, the political metaphor essentially mirrors the issuer's effort towards evading and mystifying the political reality. Intensively used in the contemporary political discourse, the political metaphor loses the virtues of the poetical metaphor becoming rather laborious and vulgar, in the etymological sense of the term. The political discourse mainly exploits the quality of the metaphor to operate transfers from the complex to the simple, from the abstract to the concrete, conferring a strong subjective dimension to political communication. As well as this, we emphasize the polemic character of metaphorical constructions in the contemporary political discourse and their role in discrediting political adversaries. Defining the political metaphor in terms of interaction and transaction between contexts brings forward the semantic potential of metaphoric expressions and consequently, their impact upon the reception level. This study proposes a presentation of the main persuasive virtues that the metaphor acquires within political communication, by analysing the addresses held in the plenum of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies in May-June 2015.

"The aim of this paper is to introduce one of the classical sociological research conducted by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Elihu Katz in the city of Decatur (Illinois) in the Midwest of United States in 1955. The subject of the research was nonformal everyday interpersonal influence in areas of marketing, fashion, public affairs and movie going and the object was the population of women older 16 years (n = 718). By means of indicators of life cycle, social status and gregariousness the research report describes the profiles of opinion leaders in given areas and provides an answer to question if the two step flow of communication hypotheses is applicable in mentioned spheres of social life." (author's abstract)

The cultural dimension of the attack on Charlie Hebdo raises questions about the meaning of the event in terms of public policies on art and culture. At issue particulary is the re-situation of those policies in their relationship with democratic achievement in the context of the French republican model. Analysis through the prism of cultural mediation, considered as a communication process designed to produce a symbolic type of work, casts new light on the objectives and the ways and means of implementing such policies.

Die Kommunikation wissenschaftlichen Wissens aus der Wissenschaft heraus, und insbesondere medial vermittelte Kommunikation, ist nach wie vor von grosser Bedeutung. Die Vorlesung beleuchtet die Relevanz und den Wandel dieses Forschungsfeldes
und seines Gegenstandes, zeigt aktuelle Erscheinungsformen auf identifiziert zentrale Herausforderungen künftiger Forschung.

Theories of threat appeals have been rightly concerned with the form of the relationship between fear and persuasion: Linear or curvilinear. They have not, however, clearly distinguished the question as a between- or within-persons phenomenon. In fact, the literature often treats these two perspectives as if they were interchangeable. We show that between- versus within-person questions about functional form are distinct from one another. Previous research, which is the product of between-persons designs, shows a linear relationship between fear and persuasion. Between-persons studies cannot address the question of how changes in fear over time produce persuasion. Consequently, a major piece of the fear appeals-persuasion puzzle may have been overlooked. Reanalysis of an existing data set shows curvilinearity of fear in within-persons data and demonstrates that the curve predicts persuasion. Audience segmentation reveals different curves for different groups as well as differential associations between those curves and persuasion. Overall, the argument and the empirical results suggest that a great deal less is known about fear appeals than it is currently believed.

"Today, the type of illustrated magazine emerging during the 1920s has become an extraordinarily substantial and esthetically top-rate source of information on the history of culture, communication, design, photography and everyday life. However, complete issues in public libraries are extremely rare, and only very few have so far been backed up on secondary media. In an ongoing cooperation project by the Saxon State and University Library of Dresden (SLUB) and the Communication Studies Department at the University of Erfurt, ten of the most important German-language magazines of the 1920s, comprising around 650 issues, an estimated 75,000 printed pages and an expected number of at least 50,000 illustrations, are being made digitally accessible and prepared for a wide variety of interdisciplinary research purposes. The paper introduces main characteristics of these sources and informs about the basic technical conditions for digitizing this particular type of material. In its main part, special emphasis is devoted to the implementation, with regard to methods applied and proceeding. The authors dose with a brief outline of an exemplary research access, referring to the visual framing of the 'New Woman' during the Weimar period." (author's abstract)

Der Artikel behandelt die Tendenzen der deutschen Öffentlichkeit aus sozialpsychologischer Sicht: die vielfältigen Medien und deren Erscheinungsformen stellen zwar öffentliche Meinung dar, aber keine gesellschaftliche Berichterstattung und Kommunikation im Sinne von Öffentlichkeit. Diese Meinung wird am Vorfall 'Barschel' erklärt. Daher bilden sich zwei öffentliche Meinungen: Die in den politischen Diskursen repräsentierte und die unmittelbare der Politik-Objekte. Der heutige Begriff der Öffentlichkeit wird aus dem Übergang von der feudalen zur funktional gegliederten Gesellschaft abgeleitet. Bezug genommen wird auf die Kantsche Philosophie und auf die französische Kritiktradition. Obwohl nach Meinung des Autors die öffentliche Meinung nicht zur Politikvermittlung taugt, darf man das gegenwärtige Niveau der Informationsgesellschaft nicht mehr unterlaufen. Eine kritisierte Öffentlichkeit verlangt strukturelle Kontinuität und Innovation jenseits der Tagesthemen. Das setzt voraus, das subjektive Schweigen aufzugeben, da die Öffentlichkeit vorerst noch im Subjekt aufgehoben ist. (GA)

Als »Spatial Turn« wird ein Paradigmenwechsel in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften bezeichnet, der den Raum als Resultat gesellschaftlicher Praktiken betrachtet. Diese kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung in den Raumbegriff leistet eine umfassende Darstellung der historischen und theoretischen Grundlagen des »Spatial Turn« und stellt die Raumtheorien von Ratzel, Simmel, Lewin, Heidegger, McLuhan, Levinas, Foucault, Spencer Brown, Bourdieu, Deleuze, de Certeau und anderen vor. Mit zahlreichen Hinweisen zu Quellen und weiterführender Literatur ist der Band besonders für Studium und Lehre geeignet.

Tweets, SMS, Facebook-Statusmeldungen oder Microblog-Einträge: Die Verfahren, Neuigkeiten zu verkünden und Wissen zu teilen, werden scheinbar immer kürzer. Dieser Band setzt den aktuellen Trend der Verknappung in Bezug zu seiner Vorgeschichte und zeigt: Die Konjunktur des Kurzen und Knappen setzte lange vor dem digitalen Zeitalter ein. Die Karriere der kleinen Formen hängt eng mit kulturellen Errungenschaften des 17. Jahrhunderts zusammen, die bis zum 19. Jahrhundert in der Herausbildung professioneller Mediennetzwerke rasant an Bedeutung gewannen. Seitdem bilden Anekdoten, Fallbeispiele, Kurzmeldungen, "Vermischtes", Schlagzeilen und Miszellen "aus aller Welt" wesentliche Elemente der Organisation und Kommunikation moderner Wissensbestände.