Bøker utgitt av Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

"This book explores the margins of journalism, the peripheral journalists and media organisations who have been overlooked in our efforts to understand a changing journalistic field. Seeing local journalists as unmapped agents of the journalistic field, the book provides a comprehensive study of local journalism in the post-socialist, post-transitional Czech media system, and conceptualizes these actors as unique agents within the journalistic field. Informed by Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, it adopts an inductive approach, presenting the stories of specific journalists derived from interviews and participant observation in the places where they work, alongside surveys of local newspapers. From these studies, it systematically maps these peripheral, journalistic actors, their positions in the journalistic field, accounting for their relationships and the trends shaping Czech journalism to give voice to those who are not usually heard - journalists on the margins"--

Cet ouvrage analyse les relations entre écriture et tradition à partir d'une réflexion sur la notion de figure tutélaire conçue comme modèle d'écriture et incarnation d'un héritage littéraire. Dans le prolongement de la tradition de l'imitatio, la figure tutélaire est envisagée au sens de "maître" ou de guide qui acquiert une fonction exemplaire dans le processus de création. Les contributions étudient les diverses modélisations des "Phares" (Baudelaire) dans la poésie et la prose de langue allemande aux 20e et 21e siècles. Le point de départ de la réflexion est l'ouvrage de Harold Bloom The anxiety of influence, qui considère les rapports entre l'écrivain et ses modèles comme une impitoyable 'psychomachie'. Si le concept d'Einfluss-Angst s'applique à la quête d'originalité de la modernité classique, on constate après 1945 l'élaboration de nouvelles formes d'interauctorialité et d'intertextualité. La notion d'Einfluss-Angst fait place à celle d'Einfluss-Lust propre aux écritures postmodernes.

Since the turn of the millennium, stories about young people with mystical abilities have enjoyed tremendous popularity. This volume is the first collection of essays to posit that such stories form a distinct teen- and young-adult-oriented genre, characterized by tales in which young people use ancient magic-not modern science-to solve problems and save the world.Scholars explore the cultural implications of this phenomenon, considering how media's discourses about youthful gods, witches, fairies, and other magical beings address social change, youth, and modern identities. By examining stories whose protagonists stand at a crossroads between identities and states of being-human and not-quite-human, child and adult, mundane world and mythic world, old millennium and new-the volume invites readers to contemplate the cultural significance of the persistent mediated fantasy of magical youth.

Android, Assembled unpacks the phenomenon of social robots-not as monolithic machines but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from bodily features (like heads and sensors) and the elements we read into them (like gender and authority). Each chapter explores the philosophical, theoretical, empirical, or technical understanding of discrete robot components to offer a deeper look into how those parts contribute to what social robots are and how humans experience them. Part I (Explicit Anatomy) considers the manifest components of robots-those that make up the physical robot and its capabilities: Shapes, heads, faces, eyes, legs, feet, wings, color, clothing, gestures, postures, speech, text, screens, memory, information, sensors, actuators, organic elements, and distributed elements. Part II (Implicit Anatomy) explores the parts of social robots that humans infer or interpret: Image, interactivity, cuteness, gender, power, authority, membership, cognition, decision-making, aliveness, mindedness, obligations, and ultimately the kind of thing a robot is. Along with the state of the art and science, each author gives a provocation to highlight open questions and possible futures.