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I am not an expert on colonial history. My perspective is that of the sociology of memory. The theme came to me when I was working on a book about Edgar Reitz's film Heimat and its role in the history of the construction of European memory. I wondered what an Italian Heimat might be like. Such a film would work on many repressed elements of the past. Arthouse cinema in Italy has often struggled against the oblivion to which certain themes have been consigned; however, it has almost never dealt with colonialism. This is not only true of cinema: until the last few years, none of the media dealt with this subject. It is a theme on which public memory as a whole long remained silent. Adapted from the source document.

The increasing acceptance of "sabermetric" perspectives by sports media outlets provides a useful framework to think about the relationship between political science and political journalism. In many ways, the experience in the sports world, in which the conventional journalistic narrative proved flexible enough to accommodate quantitative methods and new analytical frameworks, represents an optimistic model for those who hope to see political reporting become more informed by scholarly research. On the other hand, there are important differences between the two cases. For example, political science poses a much larger challenge to the prevailing approach among journalists to everyday reporting than sabermetrics did. For this reason, it have the field may have less influence on practicing journalists than its supporters hope.

By reading newspapers or watching news channels, citizens are bombarded on a daily basis by a torrent of information about catastrophic events, past, present & yet to come. This media barrage adds to the increased feeling of insecurity & leads to an ever growing demand for public intervention in order to anticipate or overcome unforeseen imperils of "a society at risk". Risk has become a major preoccupation of societies at the beginning of the 21st century. Public authorities are facing new exigencies in the area of security (nuclear, industrial, alimentary, & sanitary). However, lacking the means, the state is unable to respond to all the demands & above all, this would be akin to a totalitarian system. The contributors to this issue discuss the various aspects of public policies of risk. E. Sanchez

A new form of sociality is developing among Chinese youth: an Elastic Self. Changes in social media's capacity to mediate information and interaction is creating new spaces for youth to shift the norms and behaviors of social relations in China in three ways: from self-restraint to self-expression, from comradeship to friendship, and from a "moral me" to a "moral we." These changes have potentially transformative power for Chinese society as a whole because they are altering the way that people perceive and engage with each other on personal and social levels. Under semianonymous conditions, Chinese youth are able to bypass the low levels of trust hat characterize authoritarian societies and adopt broader forms of social trust that characterize more participatory societies. These new forms of trust enable them to engage in citizenship practices that expand the public sphere through online debates that, on occasion, connect to offline civic participation. Before they can do this, however, youth must pass through two critical phases-- Exploratory and Trusting-- during which they learn how to share information with and socialize with strangers in a low-risk context. Interactions with strangers provide Chinese youth with social distance from people they know, thereby minimizing the anxiety of being shamed for acting inappropriately. While the West often characterizes China as a repressive surveillance state, my research reveals that Chinese youth are finding ways to connect to each other and to establish a web of casual trust that extends beyond particularistic guanxi ties and authoritarian institutions. For the most part, youth are discovering their social world, not a social cause. In doing so, youth are building the infrastructure of a civil society by establishing friendships with one another through relationships that start out between strangers. To be clear, this new form of sociality gives youth a way to navigate Chinese society, not to disconnect from or rebel against it. This new sociality is laying the groundwork for a public sphere to emerge from social ties primarily based on friendship

During the last few decade., it has become increasingly common to characterize modern politics as mediated & mediatized. Problematic, though, is that both concepts are referred to more often than they are properly defined, & that there is a deficit in systematic empirical studies on the degree to which politics has become mediatized. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to analyze the concepts of "mediated" & "mediatized" politics, & to empirically investigate how Swedish members of parliament & political journalists perceive the media's political influence. The theoretical analysis suggests that the mediatization of politics should be understood as a multidimensional concept, whereas the empirical results show that both members of parliament & political journalists believe that the media do have extensive influence over politics as well as the general public. Adapted from the source document.

Considerable political and media attention has focused on the phenomenon of the celebrity politician. As this article illustrates, there are two main variants of the phenomenon. The first is the elected politician or candidate who uses elements of celebrityhood to establish their claim to represent a group or cause. The second is the celebritythe star of popular culturewho uses their popularity to speak for popular opinion. Both examples have been seen by critics to debase liberal democratic political representation. This article challenges this critique and argues that the celebrity politician is consistent with a coherent account of political representation. This does not mean that all examples of the celebrity politician are to be seen as legitimate, but that the representative claim has to be analysed more carefully and discriminatingly than the critics typically suppose. Adapted from the source document.

A discussion of the cultural setting of revelations of torture by American soldiers of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. It is noted that democratic nations have historically felt the need to rationalize their use of torture despite its rejection by liberal, democratic ideology. The public response to the revealed torture was affected by saturation of media discussions and representations of torture that tended to neutralize the reality of torture. Ethical populism was elicited by the idea that a "third way" existed in the use of torture, in which torture could be managed in a rational and humane way. It is suggested that the total denial of accountability by US authorities and its corresponding indifference to human rights concerns suggest an even more disturbing position than the historic rationalization of torture. Links to an expanding culture of violent and pornographic voyeurism are considered.

Examining the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria, this title discusses America's 'kissing bug' scare of 1899; Seattle's atomic fallout fiasco of 1954; the phantom slasher of Tapei in 1956; Belgium's recent Coca-Cola poisoning scare and the 'mad gasser' of Mattoon, and more

In Anschluss an aktuelle Erkenntnisse soziologischer und sozialpsychologischer Musikrezeptionsforschung erläutert der Band, welche gesellschaftlichen Funktionen das Musikhören heute erfüllt, und welche Rolle hier die neuen Rahmenbedingungen im Web 2.0 spielen. Auf Basis repräsentativer empirischer Erhebungen werden musikalische Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen illustriert sowie klar abgrenzbare Musikhörtypen charakterisiert, die in je besonderer Weise mit den aktuellen Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der digitalen Mediamorphose umgehen. Besondere Berücksichtigung findet dabei die Frage nach der Bedeutung primärer Sozialisation als Gegengewicht zur musikalischen Selbstsozialisation im Internet. Vor allem Alter, Schulbildung und Wohnortsgröße der Menschen zeigen sich als entscheidende Einflussgrößen der individuellen musikalischen Praxis in Österreich. Der Inhalt Zur sozialen Ungleichheit des Musikhörens Neue Rahmenbedingungen im Web 2.0 Aktuelle empirische Befunde zum Musikhören in Österreich Wozu Musik? Zentrale Tendenzen und mögliche Konsequenzen Die Zielgruppen Studierende und Dozierende der Soziologie, Sozial- und Musikwissenschaften. Der Autor Prof. Dr. Michael Huber lehrt am Institut für Musiksoziologie der Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien

Im zweiten Band seiner Trilogie zeigt Castells die beiden großen einander entgegengesetzten Trends in unserer Welt: Globalisierung und kollektive Identitätsbildung. Die Revolution der Informationstechnologie und die Erneuerung des Kapitalismus haben die Netzwerkgesellschaft begründet, gekennzeichnet durch die global agierende Wirtschaft, durch Flexibilisierung und Unsicherheit von Arbeit und durch eine Kultur der "realen Virtualität". Aber daneben schaffen sich Prozesse kollektiver Identitätsbildung machtvoll Ausdruck. Sie stemmen sich gegen die Globalisierung und beharren auf kultureller Eigenständigkeit. Castells beschreibt und analysiert Ursprünge, Ziele und Wirkungen übergreifender Bewegungen wie Feminismus und Ökologie ebenso wie begrenzter Bewegungen, die sich auf Religion, Nation, Ethnie oder Familie beziehen. Der Inhalt Die himmlischen Gefilde der Gemeinschaft: Identität und Sinn in der Netzwerkgesellschaft.- Das andere Gesicht der Erde: Soziale Bewegungen gegen die neue globale Ordnung.- Das Ergrünen des Ich: die Umweltbewegung.- Das Ende des Patriarchalismus. Soziale Bewegungen, Familie und Sexualität im Informationszeitalter.- Informationelle Politik und die Krise der Demokratie.- Schluss: Sozialer Wandel in der Netzwerkgesellschaft Die Zielgruppen Studierende und Lehrende der Soziologie und der Kommunikationswissenschaften Der Autor Manuel Castells ist Professor für Soziologie und Stadt- und Regionalplanung an der University of California, Berkeley

Das Lehrbuch stellt die Entwicklung soziologischer und kommunikationstheoretischer Ansätze von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart vor. Die wichtigsten Theorien und Theoretiker werden im fachspezifischen und historischen Kontext vorgestellt und interdisziplinär behandelt: Platon und Aristoteles, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith und Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx und Max Weber sowie die Pragmatisten und die Systemtheorien von Talcott Parsons und Niklas Luhmann, aber auch George C. Homans und Ralf Dahrendorf sowie die neueren Ansätze von John Searle, Jürgen Habermas und Robert Brandom werden erläutert. Den Studierenden werden dadurch die Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen der wichtigsten klassischen und aktuellen soziologischen und kommunikationstheoretischen Ansätze vermittelt.Für die zweite Auflage wurden einige Kapitel überarbeitet, präzisiert und aktualisiert, ein neues Kapitel über Ulrich Beck wurde eingefügt, die Grafiken angepasst. Der Inhalt Grundlagen der Soziologie - Gesellschaftskonzepte der Antike und des Mittelalters - Gesellschaftskonzepte der Neuzeit - Gesellschaftskonzepte der Moderne - Grundlagen der Kommunikation - Erkenntnis und Sprechen - Pragmatismus - Systemtheorien - Sozialkonstruktivismus - Soziologie der ökonomischen Kommunikation - Soziologische Kommunikationstheorien Die Zielgruppen Studierende und Dozierende der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft sowie der Soziologie, der Philosophie und der Politikwissenschaft Der Autor Dr. Jan Rommerskirchen ist Professor an der Hochschule Fresenius im Fachbereich Wirtschaft & Medien mit dem Themenschwerpunkt Strategische Kommunikation; er ist Studiendekan des dortigen Masterstudiengangs Corporate Communication

" Using historical and current examples from film, television, literature, advertisements, and music, this book reveals the ways that rape and abuse are typically presented--and misrepresented--and evaluates the impact of these depictions on consumers -- Addresses both positive and negative depictions of domestic abuse and sexual assault from recent popular culture, utilizing examples from film, television, literature, music, advertisements, and more -- Presents information that is ideal for undergraduate courses in gender studies, sociology, and psychology as well as communications and popular culture classes -- Utilizes the most current research on dating and domestic and sexual violence to clearly demonstrate the importance of how these issues and crimes are depicted in popular culture -- Provides a comprehensive appendix of additional resources that directs students in investigating the topic further"--

Frontmatter --Inhalt --Vorwort --1. Zu den Herausforderungen einer Typisierung der Unschärfe politischer Gewalt --2. Strategien politischer Gewalt --3. Typologien und ihre fuzzy-logische Reformulierung --4. Substruktion des Merkmalraums einer Typologie politischer Gewaltstrategien durch ihre fuzzy-logische Reformulierung: Versuch einer ersten Anwendung mit Beispielen --5. Schlussbemerkung --Literatur --Backmatter.