"I Sing the body electric". Body, Voice, Technology and Religion; Journal for…

Dalam puisi kontroversialnya "Saya Menyanyi Tubuh Elektrik", Walt Whitman memuliakan tubuh manusia dalam segala bentuknya. Dunia menurut Whitman bersifat fisik dan sensitif. Tubuh adalah cara dasar kita untuk ada - ada di sini dan sekarang, ada dalam waktu dan ruang. Tubuh yang kita miliki dan tubuh yang kita adalah sama banyaknya dirasakan, dialami, dilihat, atau didengar seperti objek materia…

Activists in the Data Stream

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-ND licence This book pulls back the curtain on the link between technology and activism. It explores the intricate ways activists from Italy, Spain and Greece interact with data on a day-to-day basis and shows how they navigate the impact of digital media on today’s grassroots politics. It is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of how mo…

Activist Citizenship, Film and Peace-building

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Action at a Distance

The mediality of transmission and the materiality of communication result today more than ever in “acting at a distance” – an action whose agency lies in a medium. This book provides an overview into this crucial phenomenon, thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial. Three …

Achieving Viability for Public Service Media in Challenging Settings

In the face of challenges posed by a shifting digital media landscape, an array of international bodies continue to endorse public service media (PSM) as an essential component of democratisation. Yet how can PSM achieve viability in settings where models of media independence and credibility are unfamiliar or rejected by political leaders? The answer lies in a holistic approach that is neither…

A Fleet Street In Every Town :The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900

"At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the…

Academic Flying and the Means of Communication

This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past?…

African Literature in the Digital Age

The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their da…

21st Century Media and Female Mental Health: Profitable Vulnerability and Sad…

This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have become increasingly common in that same media landscape. This book traces this turn to sadness in wo…

(Re)Making a Difference: Journal for Religion, Film and Media

This article presents and discusses how mediatisation as a theory can be used to analyse two commercial videos, one promoting the organisation Catholics Come Home and the other Coca Cola. A core question in the current debate on mediatisation and religion concerns if and how mediatisation changes not only the social forms of communication about religion but also the meaning of religion in socie…