The Transcultural Critic: Sabahattin Ali and Beyond
The Transcultural Critic: Sabahattin Ali and Beyond

Author: Seyda Ozil

Publisher: Göttingen University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 3863952979

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The central theme of this volume is the work of Sabahattin Ali, the Turkish author and translator from German into Turkish who achieved posthumous success with his novel Kürk Mantolu Madonna (The Madonna in the Fur Coat). Our contributors analyze this novel, which takes place largely in Germany, and several other texts by Ali in the context of world literature, (cultural) translation, and intertextuality. Their articles go far beyond the intercultural love affair that has typically dominated the discussion of Madonna. Other articles consider Zafer Şenocak’s essay collection Deutschsein and transcultural learning through picture books. An interview with Selim Özdoğan rounds out the issue.

Updating the Rules for Online Content Dissemination
Updating the Rules for Online Content Dissemination

Author: Mark D. Cole

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9783848781843

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The current legal framework for online content dissemination has proven insufficient to effectively combat illegal content. The Commissions' proposal for an EU 'Digital Services Act' aims to update the horizontal framework for intermediaries and create a safe online environment. However, as far as content mediation is concerned, European fundamental rights and values require that the specificities of media law must be taken into account. This study, conducted by the Institute of European Media Law (EMR) on behalf of the Media Authority of NRW, describes the current legal framework and the DSA proposal, and provides a comprehensive assessment from the perspective of media law, complemented by alternative proposals for further improvement.

Social Commerce im interkulturellen Vergleich: Potentiale der Einbindung von Social Media in den E-Commerce
Social Commerce im interkulturellen Vergleich: Potentiale der Einbindung von Social Media in den E-Commerce

Author: Mira Heimsoth

Publisher: Diplomica Verlag

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 3842883412

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Durch die immer st„rkere Einbindung von Social Media in den E-Commerce bildet sich zunehmend ein Social Commerce heraus. W„hrend dem E-Commerce auf diese Weise eine soziale Komponente verliehen wird, kommt es auáerdem zu einer fortschreitenden Kommerzialisierung sozialer Medien. Unter Bercksichtigung der Chancen und Risiken des Social Commerce sowohl fr die Kunden als auch fr die Onlineshop-Betreiber wird in dieser Studie, im Rahmen eines interkulturellen Vergleichs der L„nder Deutschland und Frankreich, der Status quo sowie das Zukunftspotential des Social Commerce im Business-to-Consumer-Kontext aufgezeigt. Zu diesem Zweck erfolgt einerseits eine komparative Analyse der umsatzst„rksten Onlineshops beider L„nder, um die Umsetzung des Social Commerce der Anbieter darzulegen. Andererseits wird zur Ermittlung der Wahrnehmung und Anwendung des Social Commerce auf Nutzerseite eine Onlinebefragung durchgefhrt.

Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Doing Fieldwork in Japan

Author: Theodore C. Bestor

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780824827342

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In lively first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale seafood markets; with bureaucrats in charge of defense, foreign aid, and social welfare policy; inside radical political movements; among adherents of "New Religions"; inside a prosecutor's office and the JET Program for foreign English teachers; with journalists in the NHK newsroom; while researching race, ethnicity, and migration; and amidst fans and consumers of contemporary popular culture. Contributors: David M. Arase, Theodore C. Bestor, Victoria Lyon Bestor, Mary C. Brinton, John Creighton Campbell, Samuel Coleman, Suzanne Culter, Andrew Gordon, Helen Hardacre, Joy Hendry, David T. Johnson, Ellis S. Krauss, David L. McConnell, Ian Reader, Glenda S. Roberts, Joshua Hotaka Roth, Robert J. Smith, Sheila A. Smith, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Merry Isaacs White, Christine R. Yano.

Religious Individualisation
Religious Individualisation

Author: Martin Fuchs

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 1086

ISBN-13: 3110580934

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past. Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon, the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non-Western and pre-modern scenarios. Furthermore, the volume challenges prevalent views that regard religions primarily as collective phenomena and provides nuanced perspectives on the appropriation of religious agency, the pluralisation of religious options, dynamics of de-traditionalisation and privatisation, the development of elaborated notions of the self, the facilitation of religious deviance, and on the notion of dividuality.

An Insider's Guide to Place Branding
An Insider's Guide to Place Branding

Author: Florian Kaefer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-29

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 3030671445

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This professional guidebook highlights brand development and management for cities, regions, countries, and destinations. It presents a unique collection of expert interviews, combined with latest research insights and thoughts on the most relevant topics and trends linked to the reputation, brand development and management of cities, regions, countries and destinations. This is a book which offers inspiring personal stories and reflections, and at the same time serves as essential know how guide for busy place managers, marketers and developers who care about the reputation and well-being of their community.

The Making of Europe
The Making of Europe

Author: Christopher Dawson

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780813210834

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Christopher Dawson concludes that the period of the fourth to the eleventh centuries, commonly known as the Dark Ages, is not a barren prelude to the creative energy of the medieval world. Instead, he argues that it is better described as "ages of dawn" for it is in this rich and confused period that the complex and creative interaction of the Roman empire, the Christian Church, the classical tradition, and barbarous societies provided the foundation for a vital, unified European culture. In an age of fragmentation and the emergence of new nationalist forces, Dawson argued that if "our civilization is to survive, it is essential that it should develop a common European consciousness and sense of historic and organic unity." But he was clear that this unity required sources deeper and more complex than the political and economic movements on which so many had come to depend, and he insisted, prophetically, that Europe would need to recover its Christian roots if it was to survive. In a time of cultural and political ambiguity, The making of Europe is an indispensable work for understanding not only the rich sources but also the contemporary implications of the very idea of Europe.