Category: Stories, Language & Media
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Improving the Information Society Through Awareness of Languages, by Alan N. Shapiro
On January 24, 2012, I was a keynote speaker at the BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management of the organization of European university libraries in Amsterdam. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, BOBCATSSS 2012 was organised by students from three universities of applied sciences.
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International Flusser Lecture, by Alan N. Shapiro
On July 10, 2012, I gave the International Flusser Lecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Related to this lecture, a small book by me in German will be published in the International Flusser Lecture series by the Walther Koenig Verlag.
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“Mad Men” and the Sociology of Advertising Consumer Culture, by Venecia Suriel de Häusler
Mad Men is a complex TV show in which topics like gender, race relations, alcoholism and chain smoking, as well as homosexuality in 1960s American society are depicted. However, the main topic of the series revolves around the strategies of advertising. Through the years, the advertising industry has promoted mass consumption.
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Macht- und Hierarchieverhältnisse am Beispiel von „The Wire“, von Jaška Klocke
Im folgenden Essay möchte ich den Versuch unternehmen, auf unterschiedliche Machtstrukturen in der ersten Staffel der US amerikanischen Fernsehserie The Wire, die von 2002 bis 2008 im Privatsender HBO („Home Box Office“) ausgestrahlt wurde, einzugehen und diese miteinander zu vergleichen.
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“The Wire” and Luhmann’s Systems Theory, by Yara Scholtis
This essay will examine the television series The Wire from a sociological point of view. There have not only been entire university seminars taught on sociological themes in The Wire, but there have also been plenty of books, essays, etc., published which focus on various topics of the TV show that are of sociological nature.