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Some (web) television texts achieve immense commercial success. Certain commercially successful texts boast dedicated, creative, and exponentially growing fandoms. These fan communities engage in specific fan practices that are significantly influenced by the textualities of the texts and their contexts of production, distribution, and consumption. Increased fan engagement resulting in the acceleration of the text's popularity leads to the following inquiries: - How is the series influenced by the interactions among and the relationships between the producers, consumers, distributors, and content? - What are the sites of these interactions? - What are the social, cultural, economic, and political factors that impact the series? - How do the text's contexts of production, distribution, and consumption lead to the text's popularity in mainstream media? In pursuit of an answer to these questions, the analytical lens of the 'mediaverse' is developed. An inductive study, this book explores four television series' that fall within the scope of speculative fiction to characterise the mediaverse and highlight the interconnectedness among the networked nodes of new media. These wield a significant influence on the production and consumption of media and its presence in our everyday lives, thus outlining the mediaverse as a tool for the analysis of a media texts and practices that shape contemporary media culture.

Die CONTOC-Studie hat in ökumenischer und internationaler Ausrichtung die digitale kirchliche Praxis unter den Bedingungen der Corona-Pandemie im Frühsommer 2020 erforscht. Dieser Band dokumentiert die Rahmenbedingungen und Umfrageergebnisse in den beteiligten Ländern. Daran schließen sich Perspektiven zu den zukünftigen Herausforderungen für die digitale Angebotspraxis und das Selbstverständnis der kirchlichen Akteur*innen an. Churches Online in Times of Corona. The CONTOC study: Empirical insights, interpretations and perspectives The CONTOC study has explored digital church practice under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the early summer of 2020 in an ecumenical and international way. This volume documents the framework conditions and survey results in the participating countries. This is followed by perspectives on the future challenges for the digital practice and the selfunderstanding of church actors.

Als einer der frühen Abenteurer und Afrika-Pioniere des vergangenen Jahrhunderts schildert Hermann Goetz sein ereignisreiches Leben in sieben wechselvollen Jahrzehnten abessinisch-äthiopischer Geschichte. Bald nach seiner Ankunft im Jahr 1902 gewinnt er das Vertrauen des weltoffenen Modernisierers Kaiser Menelik II. und erhält von ihm Land sowie die Erlaubnis, eine Straußenfarm zu gründen. So gelingt es ihm, sich eine Existenz als "Burgherr", Straußenzüchter und Jäger, als Impfdoktor und später als Rinderzüchter und Butterproduzent aufzubauen. Die von ihm aus dem Nichts geschaffene Farm Adami Tullu entwickelt sich zu einem Anziehungspunkt für Einheimische ebenso wie für Auswanderer und Weltenbummler aus allen erdenklichen Ländern. Lebendig und anschaulich schildert Hermann Goetz seine zahlreichen Unternehmungen, abenteuerliche Reisen durch noch nicht erschlossene Regionen und den erbitterten Kampf um seine Farm. Das Buch besticht durch aufmerksame ethnographische Beobachtungen über seine Oromo-Nachbarn in Südäthiopien und das amharische Kaiserhaus von Menelik II. bis zu Haile Selassie I. Die sorgsame Edition ist angereichert mit authentischen Fotographien und umfassenden Erläuterungen, die heutigen Lesenden das historische Abessinien nahebringen.

The volume investigates the socio-material dimension and media practices of cooperation - before, during and beyond situations. Cooperation is understood as reciprocal interplay operating with or without consensus, in co-presence or absence of the involved actors in distributed situations. Artefacts, bodies, texts and infrastructures are the media that make cooperation possible. They enable and configure reciprocal accomplishments - and are themselves created through media practices in cooperative situations.

The book presents the results of the first comprehensive empirical study on the control of minimum wages in Germany. It offers an overview of the challenges and problems of enforcement and compliance with minimum wages, taking three sectors as examples (construction, meat industry, hospitality). On the basis of numerous interviews with experts from the field (e.g. trade unions, employers' associations, customs) and a comprehensive evaluation of the broad international research literature, it identifies starting points and strategies for sustainably improving compliance with and enforcement of minimum wages.

Ethiopia, though remaining one of the least urbanised countries in the world, has taken impressive actions to transform the state into a more industrialized nation.Several industrial parks have been built in recent years throughout the whole country. The textile sector is one of these sectors. The textile industry is expected to provide employment for hundreds of thousands and thus improve people's living conditions and contribute to the development of the country. Major reason for asian investors to shift their focus to Ethiopia are extremely low wages and the lower production costs involved. The Ethiopian textile industry has to deal with high rates of labor turnover and absenteeism. From the perspective of the mostly international managers the reason for turnover and absenteeism is often attributed to the 'mindset' of the predominantly female workforce. A research project financed by the German Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung is looking at reasons and possible measures to solve this problem. Results of this project (conducted at the University of Giessen by Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer together with Ethiopian colleagues are presented in this book. Experts from Ethiopia and Germany are presenting the history of the textile industry in Ethiopia and the coming development. All this is framed by the discussion of present crisis - Covid-19; the war - in Ethiopia).

This volume offers a cross-section of a good fifteen years of research in the sociology of technology and innovation at the Department of Sociology of Technology headed by Werner Rammert at the TU Berlin. All contributions in this volume were initiated or discussed there and thus bear in a certain sense a "Berlin signature" - not in the sense of a clearly delimited scientific school, but rather in the form of an open discussion group with different, but mutually relatedfocal points. The Berlin Key, which gives it its title, imposes on all its users the program of action objectified in its mechanism: "User, if you want to take the key back to yourself after unlocking the door and go your way, you must lock the door again first. Unlike that Berlin key, the "Berlin Keys to the Sociology of Technology" presented here offer a set of keys to different but interconnected conceptual and methodological approaches in social science research on technology and innovation.

Can machines simulate, express or even have emotions? Is it a good to build such machines? How do humans react emotionally to them and how should such devices be treated from a moral point of view? This volume addresses these and related questions by bringing together perspectives from affective computing and emotional human-machine interaction, combining technological approaches with those from the humanities and social sciences. It thus relates disciplines such as philosophy, computer science, technology, psychology, sociology, design, and art. The volume offers readers interested in the phenomenon of emotional machines new perspectives from a variety of disciplines and addresses fundamental questions that will become pressing in the foreseeable future as emotional machines increasingly populate our everyday lives.

The human heart is, in many ways, an indecipherable enigma. The opposition of reason and passion has long prevented us from recognizing emotions and feelings as legitimate sources of knowledge. This book takes a deep dive into the rich phenomenology of affect, with a view to uncovering its essence and variety of forms: the experience of being "invaded" by an emotion is different to that of being "immersed" in a mood, just as being "guided" by a feeling does not mean being "swept away" by a passionate impulse. Hence the need for a systematic phenomenology of emotionality that can help us to appreciate such distinctions. The philosophical and pedagogical trajectory outlined in these pages provides education and healthcare practitioners - and indeed all those willing to improve their self-knowledge - with the key to a deeper understanding of the emotional life and its meaning for our existence.

Judgment and critical faculties are central concerns of many Western educational programs. However, the promotion of critical thinking requires specifically developed and didactically coherent concepts. This book therefore attempts to provide a philosophically and empirically sound as well as application-oriented introduction to the concept and didactics of critical thinking. Especially the higher education space is defined by critically questioning knowledge and practice and thereby producing new insights. Against the background of this task horizon, the theoretical foundations of critical thinking as well as didactic practice strategies for its promotion are conveyed in a low-threshold manner within the framework of the introductory volume, which can be adapted across subjects.

Assessment is a fundamental factor in monitoring the learning process of students and therefore an essential component of effective teaching and learning in the online environment. In the course of the (corona-induced) wave of digitization, the new and different forms of assessment present us with new challenges. The book focuses on these new forms of digital assessments and highlights challenges, effective practices and opportunities associated with conducting assessments in digital and hybrid learning environments.

This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers worldwide to decide between staying or leaving their homes. This mixed methods study analyzes cases of climate-related migration, displacement, relocation, and immobility in Peru's coastal, highland, and rainforest regions. The results reveal that numerous farmers experienced profound and often negative well-being impacts, regardless of whether they stayed or migrated. The higher the structural constraints, such as weak governance, and the more damaging the climate impacts were, the higher the risk of well-being declines. Additionally, the affected individuals often had limited agency and ability to mitigate losses. These findings challenge the notion of "migration as adaptation" and emphasize the importance of safeguarding the human rights and security of those affected while addressing loss and damage. Without significant investments in such efforts, climate impacts could sharply diminish the well-being of numerous subsistence farmers worldwide--irrespective of whether they stay or migrate.

This educational handbook displays grassroots experiences of peace, reconciliation, and healing in the Great Lakes region of Africa, in which Burundian, Congolese, and Rwandan authors share their understandings and practices of Memory Work. They committed to do so in a joint Participatory Action Research Team together with German facilitators. The team members 'opened their archives' on the traumatizing effects of the severe conflicts that each of these countries experienced. Their learnings and findings from this research process are collected in this book, which aims to resolve remaining tensions resulting from past experiences. Displaying a variety of strategies that lead to a Healing of Memories, it is high time to integrate such discourses into a mainly Western-European-centered scientific community. In this way, the book aims to fill the academic void regarding the German-colonial legacy of violence in the three neighboring countries, which was fueled under colonial rule. As such, this book is central to current discourses on the decolonization of science in terms of authorship, research ethics, and methods.

Die mit diesem Sonderband versammelten Beiträge schlüsseln die Kultur der Soziologie soziologiegeschichtlich auf: Im Sinne der Kultivierungspraktiken der Soziologie nehmen sie in den Blick, in welchen institutionellen Arbeits- und Gesprächszusammenhängen sich soziologische Erkenntnisprozesse vollzogen haben. Sie geben damit Einblick in das historische Gewordensein der Kultur der Soziologie, so wie sie von Soziolog*innen je im Einzelfall verstanden und praktiziert wurde und - durch Anschlüsse wie Ausschlüsse gleichermaßen - wiederum als Nach- und Weitererzählungen in das disziplinäre Gedächtnis eingeht.

Dieses Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen des Musikjournalismus. Erfahrene Praktiker informieren über die verschiedenen journalistischen Tätigkeiten ¿ von der Programmgestaltung über die Musikkritik bis zur Moderation von Musiksendungen und Interviews mit Musikern in den Musiksparten von Klassik bis Pop. Die Besonderheiten in Radio, Fernsehen, Print und Online werden anhand zahlreicher Beispiele analysiert, die Funktion und der Einsatz von Musik sowie sprachliche, dramaturgische und gestalterische Mittel erörtert. Es gibt Tipps zum Berufsbild und zur Ausbildung und zu den vielfältigen Tätigkeiten.

René König verfasste sein Buch über Machiavelli in einer Lebensphase, die ihm selbst als persönliche und epochale Zeitenwende erschien. Erstmals 1941 in der schweizerischen Emigration veröffentlicht, bietet das Werk in historischem Gewand eine Auseinandersetzung mit Problemen der Politik und Konstellationen der Macht, die Schlaglichter auch auf die aktuelle Situation Europas in jenen Jahren wirft.Die Durchleuchtung der nicht nur für die Zeit Machiavellis charakteristischen Brüche zwischen politischer Theorie und nachfolgender Praxis nutzt König überdies, um seine eigene Überzeugung von der Notwendigkeit eines aufklärerischen Humanismus der Mitte durchscheinen zu lassen.

Dieses Buch thematisiert Pluralität und Pluralismus in der evangelischen Friedensethik. Denn die Kirche kann nur und muss letztendlich im Rahmen des politischen und weltanschaulich-religiösen Pluralismus agieren. Ob sie dabei selbst als eine einheitliche Stimme auftreten soll, ist Gegenstand der Diskussion. ¿Sie selbst ist schließlich intern immer schon plural verfasst, gesellschaftlich aber eben auch die Kirche. Das verschärft die Frage nach der Stimme der Kirche: Geht ihren Äußerungen ein interner Klärungsprozess voraus, der den inneren Pluralismus zu eben jener einen Stimme zusammenführt oder nimmt die Kirche in Form mehrerer einzelner Stimmen am pluralistischen Konzert teil? Diese Fragen beantwortet der Sammelband aus verschiedenen, nicht nur kirchlichen, Perspektiven.

Sie ist schon sehr lange kein Neuland mehr, die Digitalisierung. Aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Sicht sind allerdings längst noch nicht alle Veränderungen, die in Organisationen unter dem Begriff ¿Digitalisierung¿ als Innovation subsumiert und seit langer Zeit vollzogen werden oder sich auch erst in Planung befinden, ausgeleuchtet. Mit diesem Band möchten wir dazu beitragen, diese vielfältigen Prozesse, die einen sozialen Wandel in und durch Organisationen initiieren, sedimentieren und beschleunigen, durch sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen abzubilden.Wie stellen sich Auswirkungen von Digitalisierungsprozessen in den jeweiligen Strukturen, Zielen und Mitgliedschaften für die Organisationsmitglieder oder externe Beobachtende dar? Wie verändert die Digitalisierung Berufsbilder, wie wird sich das allgemeine Verständnis von Beruflichkeit entwickeln? Welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf bestehende soziale Ungleichheiten? Die neunzehn Beitragende kommen aus den unterschiedlichsten sozialwissenschaftlichen Arbeitsfeldern im In-und Ausland.