Publications
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Integrationsregime in der Arbeitswelt
(2022)
Marika Pierdicca's doctoral thesis provides an ethnography of migrant self-employment in northern Italy and highlights the link between an increasing neoliberalization of labor and notions of "integration." The study ...
MenschenAffen – AffenMenschen
(2022)
Monkeys are probably the animals with which we most readily identify when it comes to recognizing the human in the animal. Nevertheless, they symbolize, as it were, a fear of human degeneration. The particular human-animal ...
Zwischen Weltrettung und Marktfähigkeit
(2025)
Ecopreneurs – founders of young start-ups with an ecologically sustainable business model – are seen as the beacons of hope for the sustainable transformation of society. With the combination of idealistic motivation, ...
»Vrummmummmmm FVISH!«
(2024)
Soundscapes are a key aspect in video games. Addrich Mauch presents a new set of methods for ethnomusicological field research and game sound analysis in game spaces. He aims to explore how gameworlds are created, manipulated, ...
Monopole im medienindustriellen Komplex?
(2023)
Collecting societies such as GEMA, VG Wort and VG Bild-Kunst administer the copyrights of their members on a fiduciary basis. Thanks to a monopoly that has evolved over time, they are now key players in the creative ...
Literatur am Ende
(2024)
Exhausted resources, exhausted art, exhausted science? Signs of exhaustion have been manifesting themselves in a wide variety of discourses for several years, especially since the coronavirus pandemic. Many people feel ...
Meme Marketing in Social Media
(2024)
Meme marketing has become a common media practice in the advertising industry. Many companies advertise on social media using memes to generate attention for their brands, products and services and to signal that they are ...
Trauma als Wissensarchiv
(2022)
In the Brazilian religion Umbanda - which formed in the state of Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of African, indigenous and European religions - communication with spirit beings is central, ...
»Antifaschisten, das waren wir …«
(2022)
Without Rosi Wolfstein and Paul Frölich, our image of Rosa Luxemburg would be completely different today. In the 1920s, the couple worked together on the estate of the murdered politician, which made it possible to produce ...
Immer. Wi(e)der. Universität.
(2023)
This book is a successful attempt to reflect on science policy necessities against the background of an ideal epistemology of universities. The result is an analysis that compares the peculiarities of the university ...
Techniken der Täuschung
(2020)
Katharina Rein's award-winning dissertation in cultural studies is devoted to stage magic in the period from 1860 to 1910 characterized by scientific and technical innovation as well as by a flourishing media culture, the ...
Wie ist Dein Leben in und um Marburg?
(2020)
The research report »How is your life in and around Marburg?« provides extensive insights into experiences of participation and exclusion in the lives of women and girls with impairments. The underlying study is based on ...
Virtuelle Wirklichkeiten
(2023)
Atmospheres are everywhere: at the workplace, in the soccer stadium, in front of the crackling fireplace. They shape our everyday language and have become quite natural expressions of how we find ourselves in certain ...
Rosa Luxemburg: Periphery and Perception
(2024)
Rosa Luxemburg was a critical thinker and author of many political and social reflections which to readers of today seem quite up to date. Particularly in the Global South, there seems to exist a stronger interest in ...
Offene-Welt-Strukturen
(2023)
What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and weather in computer games? How does the design of rooms, levels and topographies influence the decisions and behavior of ...
Old World Blues
(2024)
Since the late 1990s, the US digital role-playing game series »Fallout« has not only been characterized by the popularity and economic success of its five-part main series and its five series spin-offs. It also features ...
Zwischen Welten und Worten
(2024)
How did communication take place in the mission between people of different cultural backgrounds? What interests did Jesuits, indigenous people and Spaniards pursue in the Gran Chaco border region in the Jesuit province ...
Neue Erzählformen in dynamischen Bildtechnologien
(2024)
After a brief phase of playful experimentation, every advance, every major innovation in various media provokes renewed consolidation and aesthetic reflection: we have been familiar with this duality as a separation between ...
Mixed Reality Images
(2023)
The interplay of physical reality and digital media technologies is getting enhanced by new interfaces. The age of hyper-reality turns into the age of hyper-aesthetics and immersive image technologies – like mixed reality ...
Cinematic Images
(2024)
The interplay of physical embodiment and digital images is getting enhanced by new media interfaces. The postmodern condition of media communication turns into a mode of hyper-aesthetics, and immersive image technologies ...