Kamera-Ethnographie ist ein filmischer Ansatz zur Gestaltung der Wahrnehmungs- und Wissensprozesse beim ethnographischen Forschen. Dabei wird im Unterschied zur Logik der Aufzeichnung angenommen, ...dass Forschungsgegenstände zunächst noch gar nicht sichtbar sind. Kameraführung, Schnitt und Montage tragen als experimentelle Praktiken zur Beobachtbarkeit und Sichtbarkeit epistemischer Dinge bei. Bina Elisabeth Mohns repräsentationskritische Programmschrift zeigt, wie die Methode der Kamera-Ethnographie auch nonverbale Praktiken in ihren Choreographien und bildhaften Figuren in den Blick rückt. Eine situierte Methodologie und reflexive Pragmatik leiten zum positionierten Hinschauen und Sehenlernen an und binden selbst das Publikum in eine forschende Rezeption ein.
Als Medien- und insbesondere Fernsehphänomen hat Harald Schmidt die TV-Kultur im deutschsprachigen Raum maßgeblich beeinflusst. So ist es der Harald Schmidt Show gelungen, halbironische Sprechweisen ...diskursfähig zu machen, die bis heute Teil populärkultureller Unterhaltung sind. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger des Bandes untersuchen vor diesem Hintergrund die ›Methode Harald Schmidt‹, d.h. die Unterminierung gängiger Norm- und Wertvorstellungen bei gleichzeitiger Affirmation derselben. Die zentrale These lautet: Harald Schmidt hat grundlegende Voraussetzungen dafür geschaffen, im deutschsprachigen Raum eine weitestgehend neuartige Populärkultur ästhetisch und kulturpraktisch zu etablieren.
Zeitgenössische IT-Sicherheit operiert in einer Überbietungslogik zwischen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen und Angriffsszenarien. Diese paranoid strukturierte Form negativer Sicherheit lässt sich vom ...Ursprung der IT-Sicherheit in der modernen Kryptografie über Computerviren und -würmer, Ransomware und Backdoors bis hin zum AIDS-Diskurs der 1980er Jahre nachzeichnen. Doch Sicherheit in und mit digital vernetzten Medien lässt sich auch anders denken: Marie-Luise Shnayien schlägt die Verwendung eines reparativen, queeren Sicherheitsbegriffs vor, dessen Praktiken zwar nicht auf der Ebene des Technischen angesiedelt sind, aber dennoch nicht ohne ein genaues Wissen desselben auskommen.
During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These ...accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.
The article begins a cycle of publications dedicated to the topic of development of stand-up comedy genre in post-soviet space. General characteristic of stand-up as an entertaining genre and ...description of its main features are given and its place in contemporary popular culture is also considered. Stand-up is a comedian's performance in front of a live audience, which can participate in the performance through questions. Being an emotional reaction to everydayness, stand-up combines lateral manifestations of aesthetics with confession. The stand-up artist remains himself during the performance, and the key to his success is precisely his openness and honesty. Becoming a linguistic event in stand-up, jokes retain precious factual material and its interpretive field, created due to the stand-up artist being immersed in the topics he presents.
The article presents the idea of a new "Lexicon of Media Terms" in Poland, showing important reasons for undertaking such a project. The preparation of the "Lexicon" is prompted, on the one hand, by ...the dynamic development of Polish and global media studies in the 21st century (its institutionalization in many research centers and universities, the development of professional and scientific periodicals, etc.), and on the other hand by the certain gap in Polish publishing market (the last publications of this type were created in the middle of the first decade of this century), and thus at a different stage of development of the mediosphere. Being aware of the availability of multi-volume international publications and online encyclopedias on the publishing market, the authors recognize that the aim of the project is not only to provide a processual and interdisciplinary account of contemporary changes in the mediosphere, but above all - from the Polish perspective, to popularize and highlight the achievements of Polish scholars - media researchers and representatives of related disciplines. "Lexicon" will differ from the previous publications in terms of form - it will include a much larger number of entries (about 3000) and content, entering areas that are new in terms of technology (resulting in an exponential growth of entries related to Internet media and in general - digital media), also covering new phenomena, new research areas and results of achievements of numerous circles of media scholars.
The ambition of the contribution is the interpretation of the so-called mimetic and narrative forms in the moderation of radio and television shows, taking in to account their pragmatic motivation ...(moderation as a fun game), thematic inventory (moderation of political discussions), segmented targeting (moderation of shows for women) and the intervention of the author in the structure of moderation („soft“ and „hard“ moderation). Special attention in the paper is devoted to the analysis of trends in the construction of moderated programs, taking in to account their content and formal structure in the moderated text (telling – showing, continuity – discontinuity, distance – involvement, objectivity – subjectivity, standardization – improvisation).
This paper analyses online user comments on two mainstream Croatian portals, Index.hr and 24sata.hr regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, global conspiracies, and fake news in the context of decreasing ...media trust. Three-tier coding was conducted on 12.910 comments (2.194 from the portal 24 sata and 10.716 from the portal index.hr) and a thematic analysis was carried out. The findings showed that the main themes capture global conspiracy theories, including fascism as one of the main themes, as well as a lack of belief in the reality of the pandemic and negative views of the mainstream media seen as intertwined with the Government and as promoting one-sided views. Since the findings were unexpected, particularly regarding the extensive criticism of the media, and due to a large amount of conspiracy-related content on two portals neither of which is normally associated with the far right, an abductive analysis was conducted. The results revealed that the majority of content in the user comments regarding fascism and slavery as features of the COVID-19 policy in Croatia was posted either by a far-right political party (on Index.hr) or two unidentified users (on 24sata.hr) (likely far-right activists), and in both cases, comments were copy-pasted, including grammar mistakes. This signals an attempt of the far right in Croatia to not just contribute to but also manipulate public opinion and debates as well as give a false impression to an inattentive reader of the views of the Croatian public regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
