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After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artificial Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algorithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance networks, for producing sentencing guidelines and recidivism risk profiles in criminal justice systems, for demographic and psychographic targeting of bodies for advertising or propaganda, and more generally for automating the analysis of language, text, and images. Against this background, the aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and Internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms? »Eine ungewöhnlich perspektivenreiche Publikation. Interessant [...] für Lehrende und Forschende, die nach neuen Denkanstößen suchen.« Alexander Godulla, Communicatio Socialis, 4 (2020)

Artificial Intelligence. --- Democracy. --- Digital Media. --- Digital Technologies. --- Internet. --- Machine Learning. --- Media Philosophy. --- Media Politics. --- Media Studies. --- Sociology of Media. --- Technology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- Politics; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Digital Technologies; Media Studies; Media Politics; Internet; Technology; Digital Media; Democracy; Sociology of Media; Media Philosophy

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The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony«, »Piracy« and »Media History and Colonialism«. Drawing on examples from film, literature, music, TV and the internet, the contributors investigate the transnational dimensions in today's media, engage with local and global media politics and discuss media outlets as economic agents, thus illustrating mechanisms of power in postcolonial and neo-colonial mediascapes. »[Der Sammelband macht] durch diese kritische Beschäftigung mit multiplen Perspektiven und Gegenständen auf die zahlreichen Interaktionspotentiale von Postkolonialen Studien und Medienwissenschaften aufmerksam und inspiriert dazu, diese Bereiche auch weiterhin in Dialog miteinander zu bringen.« Syntia Hasenöhrl, [rezens.tfm], 15.11.2018 "This volume is a methodologically diverse and knowledgeable cornucopia of insights into one of the most vibrant and essential fields of contemporary media studies." Eckart Voigts, Anglistik, 28/1 (2017) »Der Band verfolgt ein zeitgemäßes und mutiges Vorhaben, das forscherisches Interesse weckt. Er lädt zu einer breiten (selbst-)kritischen Diskussion darüber ein, was Postcolonial Studies heute sind und worin der Gewinn vermeintlich postkolonialer medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektiven liegt.« Kaya de Wolff, r:k:m, 24.10.2016 Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 3 (2017)

Mass media and culture. --- Postcolonialism. --- Mass media and globalization. --- Mass media --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Culture and mass media --- Culture --- Communication in politics --- Globalization and mass media --- Globalization --- Political aspects. --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Mass communications --- Postcolonialism --- Media studies --- Postcolonial Studies; Media Studies; Global Media; Transnationalism; Media Politics; Cultural Industries; Postcolonialism; Media; Media Theory; British Studies; Cultural Studies --- British Studies. --- Cultural Industries. --- Cultural Studies. --- Global Media. --- Media Politics. --- Media Studies. --- Media Theory. --- Media. --- Transnationalism.

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This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia undertook a range of media reforms to conform with accession requirements of the European Union and the standards of the Council of Europe, among others. The essays explore the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance. The cross-national analysis concludes that the effects of international assistance are highly constrained by the local context. From today's vantage point it becomes obvious, that scaling media assistance does not necessarily improve outcomes. The experiences in the region suggest that imported solutions have not been very cognitive in all aspects of local conditions but international strategies tent to be rather schematic and lacked strategic approaches to promote media policy stability, credible media reform and implementation. The book offers valuable insights into the nature and effects of media assistance and the strategies deployed by international aid agencies, local political forces, media professionals, civil society organizations and other actors.

Technical assistance, European --- Technical assistance, American --- Democratization --- Mass media --- Mass media policy --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Mass media and state --- State and mass media --- Communication policy --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- American technical assistance --- Political aspects --- History. --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- 21st century, Balkan, Media, Media politics, Media regulation, Transition, Western Balkans.

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Leading researchers from different regions of Europe and the United States address five major interrelated themes: 1) how ideological and normative constructs gave way to empirical systematic comparative work in media research; 2) the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions and the effects of ownership in terms of impacts on media freedom; 3) the various dimensions of the relationship between mass media and political systems in a comparative perspective; 4) professionalization of journalism in different political cultures—autonomy of journalists, professional norms and practices, political instrumentalization and the commercialization of the media; 5) the role of state intervention in media systems

Mass media policy --- Mass media --- Mass media and state --- State and mass media --- Communication policy --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- East and West, European Union, Journalism, Media politics, Media regulation, Social conditions. --- Mass media - Europe, Eastern - Congresses --- Mass media - Social aspects - Europe, Eastern - Congresses --- Mass media - Political aspects - Europe, Eastern - Congresses --- Mass media policy - Europe, Eastern - Congresses --- Journalisme

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Based on an in-depth examination of Mexico's print and broadcast media over the last twenty-five years, this book is the most richly detailed account available of the role of the media in democratization, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between changes in the press and changes in the political system. In addition to illuminating the nature of political change in Mexico, this accessibly written study also has broad implications for understanding the role of the mass media in democratization around the world.

Freedom of the press. --- Freedom of the press - Mexico. --- Government and the press. --- Government and the press-- Mexico-- History-- 20th century. --- Journalism --- Political sociology --- Mass communications --- Mexico --- Government and the press -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.. --- Freedom of the press -- Mexico. --- broadcast media. --- democracy. --- democratization. --- free press. --- freedom of press. --- global politics. --- globalization. --- historians. --- journalism. --- journalists. --- latin america. --- mass media. --- media control. --- media coverage. --- media politics. --- media relations. --- mexican media. --- mexican politics. --- mexican press. --- mexico. --- modern history. --- modern mexico. --- nonfiction. --- political changes. --- press power. --- print media. --- role of the media. --- role of the press. --- social sciences. --- students and teachers. --- textbooks. --- Government and the press --- Freedom of the press --- History