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Der Beitrag rekonstruiert die Geschichte der Mobilkommunikation anhand von Werbeanzeigen für Mobiltelefone zwischen 1990 und 2012. Basierend auf praxistheoretischen Überlegungen werden die werblichen Abbilder (Denotationen) der Zusammenspiele kommunikativer Praktiken und materieller Arrangements analysiert und deren musterhafte Veränderungen beschrieben. Mit diesen gehen spezifische Sinnbilder (Konnotationen) einher, welche die immer komplexeren Kommunikationspraktiken und sich in Funktionalität und Design ausdifferenzierenden Mobiltelefone mit dem Topos der Vereinfachung verknüpfen. Auf Grundlage einer ausführlichen Quellenkritik, die Werbetexte als Momente des Kulturkreislaufs operationalisiert, können unterschiedliche Entwicklungsetappen der Geschichte der Mobilkommunikation identifiziert werden. Abschließend werden dialektische Aspekte von Komplexitätssteigerung und Vereinfachung im Hinblick auf Raum- und Zeitbezüge herausgestellt.

A critical examination of the relationship between Soka Gakkai & the news media argues that the media in Japan largely ignore their obligation to serve as an educational institution by disseminating accurate information. Examples of media coverage of religion in Japan are used to bolster the argument & to suggest that the Japanese media offer no insights into the basic values of humankind. Rather, religion is treated superficially as just another element of Japanese life. Ten factors responsible for the distortions that appear in the scant coverage given to the Soka Gakkai are discussed in detail: (1) the existing power structure; (2) Soka Gakkai's political influence; 3) the Soka Gakkai movement's history of defiance & autonomy; (4) media links with corporate advertisers; (5) collusive ties with the state on the part of some media companies; (6) Soka Gakkai's uncompromising religious convictions; (7) coverage of the group's immense financial resources; (8) social intolerance in Japanese society; (9) the abundance of media stereotypes; & (10) lack of media relations skills on the part of Soka Gakkai. J. Lindroth

A critical examination of the relationship between Soka Gakkai & the news media argues that the media in Japan largely ignore their obligation to serve as an educational institution by disseminating accurate information. Examples of media coverage of religion in Japan are used to bolster the argument & to suggest that the Japanese media offer no insights into the basic values of humankind. Rather, religion is treated superficially as just another element of Japanese life. Ten factors responsible for the distortions that appear in the scant coverage given to the Soka Gakkai are discussed in detail: (1) the existing power structure; (2) Soka Gakkai's political influence; 3) the Soka Gakkai movement's history of defiance & autonomy; (4) media links with corporate advertisers; (5) collusive ties with the state on the part of some media companies; (6) Soka Gakkai's uncompromising religious convictions; (7) coverage of the group's immense financial resources; (8) social intolerance in Japanese society; (9) the abundance of media stereotypes; & (10) lack of media relations skills on the part of Soka Gakkai. J. Lindroth

English: The research is dedicated to two questions: whether the media bearers without text, the books without letters and the entirely emtpty book could be called books and whether they could be readable. The medialogical analysis is oriented to the creative decisions for transformation of the emptiness or the silence into media, when the emptiness of the media body represents a metamessage about reading without eyes. It is made a systematical survey of a maximum wide spectrum of empty media – empty fine art, empty musical compositions, empty literary works, empty books, empty newspapers, and empty pages. There were discovered 13 reasons about the existence of a total or partial emptiness in media.

"This chapter provides a history of the media as political actors and identifies key principles that have shaped their role in both democratic and authoritarian polities (i.e., information, interpretation, participation, critical scrutiny). In addition, the chapter explores recent trends impacting on the performance of that role, such as the emergence of the Internet and, as a consequence of that process, a globalized public sphere of transnational news media outlets. It is argued that to make the Internet truly valuable as a political resource, democratic societies continue to require the work of skilled, professional journalists and their sense making, interpretative functions. Because of that journalists and their organizations remain crucial to the translation of content into meaningful messages." (publisher's description)