Mediating Modernity

Mediating Modernity

Author: Stefanie Harris

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0271047151

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"An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.


Mediating Modernity

Mediating Modernity

Author: Lauren B. Strauss

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780814333952

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A landmark collection of essays by prominent academics in modern Jewish and German-Jewish history, honoring Michael A. Meyer, a pioneer in those fields. In Mediating Modernity, contemporary Jewish scholars pay tribute to Michael A. Meyer, scholar of German-Jewish history and the history of Reform Judaism, with a collection of essays that highlight growing diversity within the discipline of Jewish studies. The occasion of Meyer's seventieth birthday has served as motivation for his colleagues Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner to compile this volume, with essays by twenty-four leading academics, representing institutions in five countries. Mediating Modernity is introduced by an overview of modern Jewish historiography, largely drawing on Meyer's work in that field, delineating important connections between the writing of history and the environment in which it is written. Meyer's own areas of specialization are reflected in essays on Moses Mendelssohn, German-Jewish historiography, the religious and social practices of German Jews, Reform Judaism, and various Jewish communities in America. The volume's field of inquiry is broadened by essays that deal with gender issues, literary analysis, and the historical relationship of Israel and the Palestinians. Though other volumes have been compiled to honor Jewish historians, Mediating Modernity is unique in the personal and intellectual relationships shared by its contributors and Michael A. Meyer. Scholars of Jewish studies, German history, and religious history will appreciate this timely volume.


Reformist Voices of Islam

Reformist Voices of Islam

Author: Shireen Hunter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 131746124X

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In recent years, Islamic fundamentalist, revolutionary, and jihadist movements have overshadowed more moderate and reformist voices and trends within Islam. This compelling volume introduces the current generation of reformist thinkers and activists, the intellectual traditions they carry on, and the reasons for the failure of reformist movements to sustain broad support in the Islamic world today. Richly detailed regionally focused chapters cover Iran, the Arab East, the Maghreb, South Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Europe, and North America. The editor's introductory chapter traces the roots of reformist thinking both in Islamic tradition and as a response to the challenge of modernity for Muslims struggling to reconcile the requirements of modernization with their cultural and religious values. The concluding chapter identifies commonalities, comparisons, and trends in the modernizing movements.


Mediating Modernism

Mediating Modernism

Author: Andrew Higgott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-24

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134144032

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Well illustrated, Mediating Modernism demonstrates how architectural books and journals have created the architectural culture of the twentieth century and that nowhere is this truer than in Britain.


Mediating Modernity

Mediating Modernity

Author: Stefanie Harris

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780271035116

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"An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.


Modern Maternities

Modern Maternities

Author: Ranjana Saha

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 100090539X

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1) This is one of the first systematic historical account of Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta. 2) It has rich archival sources like rare medical handbooks and periodicals, governmental proceedings, child welfare exhibition and conference reports, personal papers, memoirs, illustrations and advertisements. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of social history and colonial history across UK.


Mass Mediations

Mass Mediations

Author: Walter Armbrust

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-09-19

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780520219267

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This book takes a new approach to studying the contemporary Middle East, focusing on popular culture, including film, music, and television. Innovative essays by a group of smart young scholars in anthropology, history, and ethnomusicology.


Human and Mediated Communication around the World

Human and Mediated Communication around the World

Author: Marieke de Mooij

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-07

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 3319012495

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This book is unique in the sense that it offers a comprehensive review and analysis of human communication and mediated communication around the world. This is one of the first attempts to do so in a systematic, comprehensive way. It challenges the assumption that Western theories of human communication and mass communication have universal applicability. It surveys the applicability of mass communication theories to other than Western cultures. The book explains the influence of culture on all forms of communication behavior, be it personal, mediated or mass communication. It presents communication theories from around the world, incorporating a vast body of literature from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. This updated information on important international perspectives that includes both interpersonal and mediated communication is presently not readily available in other sources. The book offers an integrated approach to understanding the working of electronic means of communication that are hybrid media combining human and mediated communication. These new media that are often presented as universal are even more culture-bound than the traditional media.


Mediatization of Communication

Mediatization of Communication

Author: Knut Lundby

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 998

ISBN-13: 311039345X

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This handbook on Mediatization of Communication uncovers the interrelation between media changes and changes in culture and society. This is essential to understand contemporary trends and transformations. “Mediatization” characterizes changes in practices, cultures and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies themselves. This volume offers 31 contributions by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to globalization to questions on life and death in mediatized settings. The book deals with mass media as well as communication with networked, digital media. The topic of this volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural and political changes. The handbook provides the reader with the most current state of mediatization research.


Crash Cultures

Crash Cultures

Author: Jane Arthurs

Publisher: Intellect (UK)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Since Princess Diana's car crash in 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. The purpose of this collection is to subject texts or films, within which crashes figure, to well-defined cultural study.