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POLITICAL PARTIES MATTER A GREAT DEAL LESS THAN THEY ONCE DID TO CANDIDATES, GOVERNMENT, THE MASS MEDIA, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Abstract
Over the last decade there have been well-documented, far-reaching changes to the media environment as digitalization – among other forces and processes – has substantially altered media production, consumption and use. A notable consequence of this shift has been the intensified co-dependency of the media and (especially 'live') sport, and the continuing expansion of the 'media sports cultural complex'. The developing phenomenon of social media now figures prominently across the cultural sphere (including the 'zone' of media and sport), but it is necessary to question some ostensibly over-optimistic or premature claims about its lasting significance as a vehicle for human liberation. Thus, in considering a broad research agenda in this domain for the next decade, the centrality of political economy, media history, and anti-technological determinism are emphasized as necessary components of any workable analytical engagement with questions of power, media and cultural politics.

Conceptualising de-radicalisation programmes -- Theorising the media's framing of de-radicalisation -- The effectiveness and desirability of de-radicalisation -- Nigeria and de-radicalising its repentant citizens -- UK and de-radicalisation's ideational tensions -- German media debates and framing processes in a hybridised P/CVE landscape -- Public relations campaigns, de-radicalisation and the P/CVE field : negotiating a discourse.

Introduction -- Unit Outline. Week 1 Sensory Media: Eighteenth-Century Print Media Cultures ; Week 2 Sensory Media: "New" Media and Nineteenth-Century Urban Cultures ; Week 3 Sensory Media: Media and Experience in the Twentieth Century ; Week 4 Mass Communications and "Mass" Audiences in Interwar Britain ; Week 5 Domestic Consumption of Broadcasting in Interwar Britain ; Week 6 Media Representations of Everyday Life in Interwar Britain ; Week 7 Advertising, Consumer Culture, and National Identity in the Postwar Period ; Week 8 Media, Consumer Culture, and Generation: Childhood and Youth in the Postwar Period ; Week 9 Memory, "The Past," and Everyday Life on Screen -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading.

The state of Karnataka has been a pioneer in engendering local governance. As early as in 1987, Karnataka was the first state in the country to implement the PanchayatRaj Act, which set apart 25 percent reservation for women. The 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments set the stage for large scale entry of women into both rural and urban local bodies. In the very first round of elections held in 1993-94 nearly 80,000 women entered India's grassroot political decision making process. With effect from August 27, 2009 the representation for women in PRIs has been raised to 50 %, thus giving credence to the view that women must get their due share in politics. Giving representation is tangential. That means, mere increase in numbers per se does not empower either elected women representatives or influence their style of functioning. Support structures that constantly inform, sensitize and train them must be in place for ensuring an effective delivery mechanism. It is here that the role of media emerges as a critical input. This paper makes an attempt to review the role of print and electronic media in empowering elected women representatives in PRIs, with a special focus on Taluk Panchayat members in Bellary district of Karnataka.

"Our technologies rely on an ever-expanding infrastructure of wires, routers, servers, and hard drives-a proliferation of devices that reshape human interaction and experience prior to conscious knowledge. Understanding these technologies requires an approach that foregrounds media as an agent that collaborates in the production of the world beyond content or representation. Materialist Media Theory provides an accessible, synthetic account of the cutting edge of the theoretical humanities, examining a range of approaches to media's physical, infrastructural role in shaping culture, space, time, cognition, and life itself. More than a mere introduction, Materialist Media Theory provides a critical intervention into matter and media, of interest to students and researchers in media studies, communication, cultural studies, visual culture, and beyond. Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding the media's materiality."--

How'd we get here? -- Not just politics -- Enough's enough -- Lies, damned lies, and fact checking -- The end of our collective amnesia

"Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Analyse der Darstellung eines latenten sozialen Problems in den Medien: erstmals wird die 'Kriminalität der Mächtigen' als Gegenstand der massenmedialen Berichterstattung erforscht. Unter 'Kriminalität der Mächtigen' sind alle strafrechtlich definierten Straftaten zu verstehen, welche durch Personen, die Kontrolle über politische Institutionen oder ökonomische Organisationen ausüben, zur Erhaltung, Stärkung oder Verteidigung ihrer privilegierten Positionen begangen werden: Menschenrechtsverletzungen, Bestechung, Steuerdelikte, und auf internationaler Ebene Spionage, Übertretungen internationaler Abkommen, Terrorakte etc. Der Autor erforscht am Beispiel einiger besonders wichtig gewordener Fälle von 'Kriminalität der Mächtigen' in Korea, wie drei Tageszeitungen, die sich in ihrer Einordnung in das politische Spektrum und in ihrem Selbstverständnis deutlich voneinander unterscheiden, ihre Berichterstattung darüber gestalten und welches Bild von Tätern und Taten der 'Kriminalität der Mächtigen' sie zeichnen, deuten und bewerten." (Autorenreferat)