Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia

This open access book examines Malaysian politics using a linguistic perspective. It explores how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia. Grounded in discourse studies, this edited volume presents research on the discourses produced by and on Barisan Nasional, Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional from 2008 to 2020, studying how pol…

Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a …

Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Finland

This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, small states’ autonomy during the Cold War, and the porosity of the East-West divide. The book offers a historical survey of the development of Finland’s cultural dip…

Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics: Populism, Disinformation and the Pu…

This open access book is the product of three years of academic research that has been carried out in the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network on “Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the Delegitimation of European Integration” since 2019. Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of the network’s members, the book explores the impact of the phenomenon of post-truth politics on European integra…

Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion

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978-3-031-05171-5

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XIV, 331

Schulsysteme beschreiben und gestalten

In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die folgenden Fragen untersucht: Was bedeutet Bildungsmonitoring in der Schweiz? Welche Erwartungen und Zielsetzungen werden damit verbunden, welche Instrumente etabliert, welche Produkte vorgelegt? Das Buch zeigt, wie und durch welche Akteure mit welchen Interessen die Dauerbeobachtung der Bildungssysteme in den letzten 30 Jahren maßgeblich umgebaut wurde. Bi…

Standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft – Standard…

Im vorliegenden Open-Access Handbuch wird der Status Quo standardisierter, inhaltsanalytischer Forschung in der Kommunikationswissenschaft identifiziert, systematisiert und für Forschende und Studierende zugänglich gemacht. Es behandelt Themen- und Forschungsbereiche des Nachrichtenjournalismus, der fiktionalen Inhalte sowie der Kommunikation von professionellen und LaienkommunikatorInnen. De…

Schulsysteme beschreiben und gestalten

In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die folgenden Fragen untersucht: Was bedeutet Bildungsmonitoring in der Schweiz? Welche Erwartungen und Zielsetzungen werden damit verbunden, welche Instrumente etabliert, welche Produkte vorgelegt? Das Buch zeigt, wie und durch welche Akteure mit welchen Interessen die Dauerbeobachtung der Bildungssysteme in den letzten 30 Jahren maßgeblich umgebaut wurde. Bi…

The Media Systems in Europe

Stylianos Papathanassopoulos is a Professor of Media Organization and Policy at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. Between 2007 and 2011 he was the head of the faculty and member of the Board of the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute. Further, he is a Visiting Professor at City University, London, United Kingdom. Previou…

The Securitization of Foreign Aid

Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why. With contributions from experts in the field, this book examines the impact of security issues on six of the world's largest aid donors, as well as on key crosscutting issues such as gender equality and climate change.