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Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination. It also sheds light on born-digital, community-based archives, which have established themselves as new actors in the field. Based on anthropological fieldwork, the chapters in the book trace digital archives from technical advancements and postcolonial initiatives to programming alternatives, editing content, and active use of digital archives.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.

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Since antiquity it has been known that without the freedom to speak, and later to publish, the road to fanaticism and totalitarianism lies wide open. This book focuses on how the 'press' reacted, when press freedom was under strain in number of cases in the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. Contemporary literature on the freedom of the press has its focus on the role of the press in relation to democracy; how media influences democracy, how the political and the ethical aspects are managed etc. This book is on the one hand part of this central discourse. On the other hand, it attempts to broaden views by focusing on the historical and contemporary experiences, when press freedom was under strain in significant periods since the 1930s. Also, its geographical scope is broader than most books, and it brings together experienced journalists and known academics adding to the dynamism of the discussion and challenging the reader to find his own position concerning censorship, self-censorship and press ethics.

Social Science / Media Studies --- Social sciences

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In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema. Catherine Zimmer examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. Drawing on the growing field of surveillance studies and the politics of contemporary monitoring practices, she demonstrates that screen narrative has served to organize political, racial, affective, and even material formations around and through surveillance. She considers how popular culture forms are intertwined with the current political landscape in which the imagery of anxiety, suspicion, war, and torture has become part of daily life. From Enemy of the State and The Bourne Series to Saw, Caché and Zero Dark Thirty, Surveillance Cinema explores in detail the narrative tropes and stylistic practices that characterize contemporary films and television series about surveillance.

Electronic surveillance in motion pictures. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.

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Surprising experiences with performers with intellectual disabilities can raise awareness of subliminal negative perceptions and open them to critique, e.g., in professional theater productions and films. This book examines productions and films against the backdrop of ideas of the everyday world using three analytical perspectives: narratives and expectations as meaningful contexts and experiences with disability. Überraschende Erfahrungen mit Menschen mit „geistiger" Behinderung können negative Vorstellungsbilder bewusst und damit der Kritik zugänglich machen, z.B. in professionellen Theateraufführungen und Filmen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht zahlreiche Werke anhand von drei Analyseperspektiven: 1. Erzählungen: Sie bilden den Kontext, der die Wahrnehmung von Menschen mit „geistiger" Behinderung strukturiert und mit Bedeutung versieht. 2. Erwartungen: Sie entstehen aus dem Vorwissen der Zuschauer*innen und aus der Struktur der Texte. 3. Erfahrungen: Sie sind das Ergebnis der kognitiven und emotionalen Aneignung der Werke durch die Zuschauer*innen. Wirkungsvoll werden neue Vorstellungsbilder von „geistiger" Behinderung angebahnt durch eine Verstörung und Bewusstmachung versteckter Vorurteile und das Angebot alternativer Bilder, also neuer Erfahrungsmöglichkeiten von Behinderung. Die Werke müssen ästhetisch überzeugen, die Partizipationsmöglichkeiten der Darsteller*innen erweitern und von einem allgemeinen Vorstellungsbild von „Behinderung" zu einem individuellen Vorstellungsbild von einem „Menschen mit Behinderung" führen. Die Aufgabe der Theater- und Filmanalyse wiederum liegt im Herausarbeiten von Lesarten, die neue Erfahrungen mit „geistiger" Behinderung erleichtern. Die Ergebnisse der Studie erscheinen abschließend in Leichter Sprache.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- "mental" disability. --- film. --- inclusion. --- theatre.

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"No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms "a communism of textual matter," Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting the politics of text from an exclusive concern with content and meaning to the media forms and social relations by which text is produced and consumed. Taking a "post-digital" approach in considering a wide array of textual media forms, Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books--to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce. His critique is, instead, one immersed in the many materialities of text. Anti-Book engages with an array of writing and publishing projects, including Antonin Artaud's paper gris-gris and Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto, Guy Debord's sandpaper-bound Memoires, the collective novelist Wu Ming, and the digital/print hybrid of Mute magazine. Empirically grounded, it is also a major achievement in expressing a political philosophy of writing and publishing, where the materiality of text is interlaced with conceptual production. Each chapter investigates a different form of textual media in concert with a particular concept: the small-press pamphlet as "communist object," the magazine as "diagrammatic publishing," political books in the modes of "root" and "rhizome," the "multiple single" of anonymous authorship, and myth as "unidentified narrative object." An absorbingly written contribution to contemporary media theory in all its manifestations, Anti-Book will enrich current debates about radical publishing, artists' books and other new genre and media forms in alternative media, art publishing, media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, and social and political theory"--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.