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August 2024Das All im eignen Fell
Eine kurze Geschichte der Twitterpoesie | Legendäre Twittergedichte des Georg-Büchner-Preisträgers
by Clemens J. Setz
»Hatte jemals irgendein einzelner Mensch eine größere zerstörerische Wirkung auf die deutschsprachige Lyrik als Elon Musk? Ich glaube nicht« Mehrfach kündigte Clemens Setz an, nie wieder Gedichte in Buchform zu veröffentlichen – um es in vorliegendem Band doch zu tun. Es handelt sich um Poesie der besonderen Art, denn sie ist ursprünglich in einem Medium entstanden, das es nicht mehr gibt: Der legendäre Mikroblogging-Dienst Twitter ist Geschichte, seit er von Elon Musk übernommen wurde. Er heißt jetzt bekanntlich X und funktioniert ganz anders. Das kreativitätsfördernde Zeichenlimit wurde entfernt, aber vor allem: Längere Zeit inaktive Accounts werden für immer und unwiederbringlich gelöscht – und mit ihnen die vielen poetischen Wunderkerzen, die dort funkeln. Das All im eignen Fell ist ein Erinnerungsbuch im doppelten Sinn. Es versammelt in einem ersten Teil eine Auswahl von Setz' eigenen, inzwischen gelöschten Twitter-Gedichten. Und erzählt im zweiten die kurze, aber umso blütenreichere Geschichte einer Gattung, die Schritt für Schritt aus unserer Wirklichkeit entfernt wird.
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Von Luther zu Twitter
Medien und politische Öffentlichkeit
by Herausgegeben von Gross, Raphael; Herausgegeben von Lyon, Melanie; Herausgegeben von Welzer, Harald
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September 2014Meme
Kunst, Kultur und Politik im digitalen Zeitalter
by Limor Shifman, Yasemin Dincer
Im November 2011 überzog der Polizist John Pike auf einem kalifornischen Campus Studenten mit Pfefferspray, die dort im Rahmen von Occupy Wall Street friedlich demonstrierten. Wenige Tage später kursierten unzählige Varianten der Aufnahmen des Vorfalls im Netz: Pike auf Munchs »Der Schrei«, im Situation Room mit Präsident Barack Obama oder im Ring mit Sonny Liston und Muhammad Ali. Aus Sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook oder Twitter sind variierende Kopien von Fotos oder Filmen wie der »Pfefferspray-Cop« kaum noch wegzudenken. Die israelische Kulturwissenschaftlerin Limor Shifman hat nun das erste Buch über solche »Meme« geschrieben. Sie spürt ihren Ursprüngen nach, grenzt sie von anderen Phänomenen ab und zeigt, wie solche Erzeugnisse kulturelle Grenzen überwinden und wie sie für eine Globalisierung von unten genutzt werden können.
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December 2017Reclaim Autonomy
Selbstermächtigung in der digitalen Weltordnung
by Jakob Augstein
Vor nicht einmal zwanzig Jahren nährte die Digitalisierung noch die Hoffnung auf eine universelle Befreiung der Menschen. Geblieben ist davon nicht viel: Die Furcht vor Überwachung ist zu einem ständigen Begleiter geworden. Mit Facebook, Twitter und anderen sozialen Medien hielt eine neue Form von Hetze Einzug in die Öffentlichkeit. Und auf die permanente Verfügbarkeit von Informationen folgte der Kampf der etablierten Medien gegen den digitalen Dauerbeschuss mit Fake News. Höchste Zeit also für eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme. In diesem Band gehen einige der wichtigsten Denkerinnen und Denker der Gegenwart drängenden Fragen nach: Wie lässt sich der digitale Kapitalismus zähmen? Stellt das Internet eine Gefahr für die Demokratie dar? Und wie können wir in einer digitalisierten Welt Autonomie (zurück)erobern? Mit Beiträgen von Martin Schulz, Jakob Augstein, Gerhart Baum, Yvonne Hofstetter, Evgeny Morozov u. v. a.
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October 2015Der Eiffelturm
by Roland Barthes, Helmut Scheffel
Unter den zahlreichen, zu Klassikern gewordenen Essays von Roland Barthes zählt der 1964 entstandene »Der Eiffelturm« zu den bekanntesten und folgenreichsten. In ihm wendet der Strukturalist sein Instrumentarium auf das weltweit bekannte Wahrzeichen von Paris, von ganz Frankreich, an − und gelangt zu überraschenden, immer noch beindruckenden Resultaten. Der Eiffelturm ist ein Mythos des Alltags, zugleich Symbol für technische Neuerungen wie unumgängliches Touristenziel, Wahrzeichen der aufkommenden Globalisierung, in jedem Buch, in jedem Film, im Fernsehen unausweichlich, auf Facebook und Twitter von jedermann identifizierbar − kurz, ein Zeichen für alles und jedes. Roland Barthes gilt der Eiffelturm als nahezu unersetzliches Objekt: »Durch den Eiffelturm hindurch üben die Menschen jene große Funktion des Imaginären aus, die ihre Freiheit ist, da keine Geschichte, so dunkel sie auch war, sie ihnen jemals hat nehmen können.«
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September 2023Trapped by Social Media
How we save our digital sovereignty
by Björn Staschen
— Who is behind the big platforms, what are their alternatives and why do algorithms contribute to polarisation? — A contribution to the discussion on current media policy in the EU It's a paradox: thanks to the countless platforms and channels that are around today, it has never been so easy to express your opinion. And yet never before have so few people decided on the rules of these platforms. Never before has the free formation of opinion, which is essential for our democracies, been in so much danger. And never before have the signs of recognising this been so obvious. So what needs to be done? In a controversial discourse on the effects of TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the rest, Björn Staschen reveals how we are slowly losing our freedom – and how we can get it back again.
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October 2018Von Männern und ihren Katzen
Die größten Katzenliebhaber der Geschichte
by Sam Kalda, Kirsten Riesselmann
Der beste Freund des Mannes ist der Hund. Von wegen! In seinem stilsicher wie liebevoll illustrierten Buch widmet sich Sam Kalda den großen »Katzenmännern« der Geschichte und beweist, dass den bedeutendsten Denkern, Erfindern, Künstlern und Schriftstellern unserer Zeit keineswegs imposante Vierbeiner beiseite standen, sondern filigrane Katzengeschöpfe. Hemingway, der für seinen Jagdinstinkt – in tierischen wie in libidinösen Gefilden – und seinen exzessiven Alkoholkonsum berüchtigt war, legte eine erstaunliche Zuneigung zu Katzen an den Tag, zärtlich nannte er sie seine »Schnurr-Fabriken«. Nikola Tesla wurde angeblich zum Nachdenken über Elektrizität inspiriert, als er seine Katze Macak streichelte und einen Schlag abbekam. Und als fanatischster Katzenliebhaber wird vermutlich Karl Lagerfeld in die Geschichte eingehen, dessen weißes Siamkätzchen Choupette nicht nur für Chanel modelt, sondern auch einen Twitter-Account, zwei Nannys und eigenes Designergeschirr besitzt. Von Männern und ihren Katzen ist eine längst überfällige und charmante Hommage an die größten Katzenliebhaber aller Zeiten.
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November 2022Cancel Culture Transfer
Wie eine moralische Panik die Welt erfasst | Das Phänomen »Cancel Culture« verstehen
by Adrian Daub
Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa, ja in der ganzen Welt – das Gespenst der Cancel Culture. Glaubt man diversen Zeitungen, dürfen insbesondere weiße Männer jenseits der vierzig praktisch nichts mehr sagen, wenn sie nicht ihren guten Ruf oder gar ihren Job riskieren wollen. Ist da etwas dran? Oder handelt es sich häufig um Panikmache, bei der Aktivist:innen zu einer Gefahr für die moralische Ordnung stilisiert werden, um ihre berechtigten Anliegen zu diskreditieren? Der Ursprung der Cancel Culture wird üblicherweise an US-Universitäten verortet. Adrian Daub lehrt im kalifornischen Stanford Literaturwissenschaft. Er zeigt, wie während der Reagan-Jahre entwickelte Deutungsmuster über Campus-Romane verbreitet und auf die Gesellschaft insgesamt übertragen wurden. Man pickt einige wenige Anekdoten heraus und reicht sie herum, was auch hierzulande zu einer verzerrten Wahrnehmung führt. Anhand quantitativer Analysen zeichnet Daub nach, wie diese Diagnosen immer weitere Kreise zogen, bis sie auch die Twitter-Kanäle deutscher Politiker erfassten.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2024The construction of public opinion in a digital age
by Catherine Happer
This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure. Drawing on a series of empirical studies conducted over nearly a decade, Happer deploys evidence of a 'disconnect' between neoliberal media and the public which is rooted in a disaffection with a mainstream political culture which has failed to deliver the societal outcomes promised. As people are pushed towards alternative digital sources, new communities of opinion are produced in ways which polarise publics and ultimately limit the potential for social change. Offering an innovative and urgently needed new sociological analysis, this book is required reading for an inter-disciplinary field of media, journalism, and politics/IR which has largely abandoned questions of media power and public opinion management, as well as policymakers, science communicators and journalists. Key points of the book: 1) public opinion formation and why people may come to different positions through the development of a new model 2) the societal outcomes produced when a widespread disconnect between journalism and public opinion emerges 3) the atomisation of opinion and its relations to newly constructed opinion communities (with consideration of the role of class) 4) the turn to digitally available alternatives which enable new, less visible power agents to exert control.
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Children's & YASparrow Kindergarten
by Mei Zihan
Sparrow Kindergarten is very interesting! Kids twitter all the time like a sparrow, fly to relax like a sparrow, crowd to pick up the rice grain like a sparrow, take a nap like a sparrow and they line their shoes like a sparrow…One day, those who practice flying like a sparrow will fly to the vast sky and “fly” into their own future. The book is written by famous children’s literature writer-Mai Zihan, and its language is very humorous with many characters and vivid pictures. It forms a complete kids’ paradise with the rest of Zihan’s picture books.
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Children's & YADecember 2020The Soul
by Richa Jha and Ruchi Shah
The lonely writer Lekhan huffs and puffs every time the noisy street he lives in brings a new disturbance to interrupt his tales. Desperate to find a solution, Lekhan devises a plan which slowly leads him away from all the giggles and pitter-patter and chitter-chatter. The only problem remains is that his stories are silent, they do not cry anymore. Nor do they smile anymore. Richa Jha’s narrative sprinkles magic in the tedious effort to find and express into words, the soul of a story. Ruchi Shah’s vivid and curious illustrations bring to life an artist’s journey towards inspiration and drawing the best of their art from the world around them.
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Children's & YAThe Tiny Spring
by Mao Lulu
This essay collection mainly describes the tiny beauty of the weeds, flowers, birds and butterflies that people are likely to ignore. Through the smooth and beautiful words, you can feel the twittering of sprout of the weeds, the whisper of the green leaves, the beauty of the flowers in bud, the whistle of the returning of the sparrows. You also can use your heart to hum a growing sing with the flora and fauna. You will learn observe and describe the tiny beauty of the four seasons and the beauty of the harmony.
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History of Art / Art & Design StylesFebruary 2017After 1851
The material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham
by Edited by Kate Nichols, Sarah Victoria Turner
Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in the South London suburb of Sydenham. It brings together research on objects, materials and subjects as diverse as those represented under the glass roof of the Sydenham Palace itself; from the Venus de Milo to Sheffield steel, souvenir 'peep eggs' to war memorials, portrait busts to imperial pageants, tropical plants to cartoons made by artists on the spot, copies of paintings from ancient caves in India to 1950s film. Essays do not simply catalogue and collect this eclectic congregation, but provide new ways for assessing the significance of the Sydenham Crystal Palace for both nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies. The volume will be of particular interest to researchers and students of British cultural history, museum studies, and art history.
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Photography & photographsJune 2011The Peeps
Ancoats: the presence of absence
by Dan Dubowitz
Ancoats, in Manchester, was once unimaginably different. One of the world's earliest industrial suburbs, it was dark and dense, noisy, frenetic, violent and unhealthy. It was also vibrant and creative. It had a striking vapour, sound and feel. The area today has undergone a striking regeneration. New streets, pavements and civic spaces have been laid down. A series of installations, known as The Peeps, have been created for the area. Built into the fabric of the buildings, the brass peep holes offer a fleeting glimpse of a walled-in space, a tunnel, a disused toilet, a bell tower, a gauge. Dan Dubowitz, given the title of 'cultural masterplanner', records through photographs, interviews, commentary and contemporaneous texts, the recent past and the current regeneration of the suburb. It is a fascinating, beautifully illustrated and designed volume that eloquently depicts the common narrative of industrialisation, slow decay and rebirth.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2020Casas
by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió
The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.
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FictionWHY I CAN'T WRITE
How to survive in a world where you can’t pay rent, can’t afford to focus, be healthy or to remain principled. Dijana Matković tells a powerful story of searching for a room of her own in the late stages of capitalism.
by DIJANA MATKOVIĆ
It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
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True stories (Children's/YA)August 2018Niños
by María Jose Ferrada, María Elena Valdez
Thirty-four poems, one for each of the young children (all under the age of 14) that were executed, arrested or disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship. A book dedicated to all those little Chilean victims, but also to all the children that each day suffer the consequences of violence.
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Biology, life sciencesMay 2021Ten Steps to Building a Successful Veterinary Practice
by Wendy Sneddon
This book is a down to earth, practical guide which provides ten simple steps for success for anyone responsible for recruiting a winning veterinary practice team: whether they are recruiting employees and building their team, or changing culture and creating a supportive environment where employees are engaged and motivated. It is ideal for small business owners who can't afford to employ any human resource support.Intensely practical, it delivers key facts for veterinary staff starting out in business. The book:· Details how you can attract, recruit and retain the right people for a winning team· Guides you on creating a well organised, supportive practice in which employees can flourish· Provides you with a basic introduction to building a strategy and improving your marketing campaigns· Covers the basics of sound financial planning and how to win clients and increase your revenues· Looks at how to manage common pitfallsWith a wealth of practical templates and forms to use, this book adopts a straight-talking approach which will be welcomed by anyone starting their own veterinary practice. Table of contents 1: Step 1: WHY? 2: Step 2: Your First Time? 3: Step 3: Vision, Mission, Values and Culture 4: Step 4: How to Define What and Who You Need 5: Step 5: Recruitment and Induction 6: Step 6: Performance Management and Employee Engagement 7: Step 7: Employee Health and Wellbeing 8: Step 8: How to Build a Loyal Client Database and Marketing Your Practice 9: Step 9: Financial Management 10: Step 10: Three Key Strategies to Increase Your Revenue by 25%
