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Terrorismus im Spielfilm: Eine filmwissenschaftliche Untersuchung über Konflikte, Genres und Figuren
by Bernd ZywietzBernd Zywietz zeigt in seiner Arbeit auf, wie Terrorismus und Terroristen in Spielfilmen dargestellt werden. Ausgehend vom Begriff des – sozialen wie filmfiktionalen – Erzählens werden verschiedene Terrorismuskonflikte und ihre Filmgeschichte untersucht und verglichen, um Muster der (re-)integrativen Bewältigung aufzuzeigen: der Nordirlandkonflikt, der Linksterrorismus in der BRD, „Evil Arab“-Terrorismus in Hollywood, die politische Gewalt im indischen Bollywood-Kino. Der Autor entwickelt und beschreibt unterschiedliche Genres und Terroristen-Typen des internationalen Terrorismus-Films und arbeitet Leistungen und Grenzen des Kinos als Ort des politischen und moralischen Ausgleichs heraus.
Consumer Credit and the American Economy (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis)
by Todd J. Zywicki Michael E. Staten Thomas A. Durkin Gregory ElliehausenConsumer Credit and the American Economy examines the economics, behavioral science, sociology, history, institutions, law, and regulation of consumer credit in the United States. After discussing the origins and various kinds of consumer credit available in today's marketplace, this book reviews at some length the long run growth of consumer credit to explore the widely held belief that somehow consumer credit has risen "too fast for too long." It then turns to demand and supply with chapters discussing neoclassical theories of demand, new behavioral economics, and evidence on production costs and why consumer credit might seem expensive compared to some other kinds of credit like government finance. This discussion includes review of the economics of risk management and funding sources, as well discussion of the economic theory of why some people might be limited in their credit search, the phenomenon of credit rationing. This examination includes review of issues of risk management through mathematical methods of borrower screening known as credit scoring and financial market sources of funding for offerings of consumer credit. The book then discusses technological change in credit granting. It examines how modern automated information systems called credit reporting agencies, or more popularly "credit bureaus," reduce the costs of information acquisition and permit greater credit availability at less cost. This discussion is followed by examination of the logical offspring of technology, the ubiquitous credit card that permits consumers access to both payments and credit services worldwide virtually instantly. After a chapter on institutions that have arisen to supply credit to individuals for whom mainstream credit is often unavailable, including "payday loans" and other small dollar sources of loans, discussion turns to legal structure and the regulation of consumer credit. There are separate chapters on the theories behind the two main thrusts of federal regulation to this point, fairness for all and financial disclosure. Following these chapters, there is another on state regulation that has long focused on marketplace access and pricing. Before a final concluding chapter, another chapter focuses on two noncredit marketplace products that are closely related to credit. The first of them, debt protection including credit insurance and other forms of credit protection, is economically a complement. The second product, consumer leasing, is a substitute for credit use in many situations, especially involving acquisition of automobiles. This chapter is followed by a full review of consumer bankruptcy, what happens in the worst of cases when consumers find themselves unable to repay their loans. Because of the importance of consumer credit in consumers' financial affairs, the intended audience includes anyone interested in these issues, not only specialists who spend much of their time focused on them. For this reason, the authors have carefully avoided academic jargon and the mathematics that is the modern language of economics. It also examines the psychological, sociological, historical, and especially legal traditions that go into fully understanding what has led to the demand for consumer credit and to what the markets and institutions that provide these products have become today.
Designing Networks for Innovation and Improvisation: Proceedings of the 6th International COINs Conference (Springer Proceedings in Complexity)
by Matthäus P. Zylka Hauke Fuehres Andrea Fronzetti Colladon Peter A. GloorThis volume is focused on the emerging concept of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). COINs are at the core of collaborative knowledge networks, distributed communities taking advantage of the wide connectivity and the support of communication technologies, spanning beyond the organizational perimeter of companies on a global scale. It includes the refereed conference papers from the 6th International Conference on COINs, June 8-11, 2016, in Rome, Italy. It includes papers for both application areas of COINs, (1) optimizing organizational creativity and performance, and (2) discovering and predicting new trends by identifying COINs on the Web through online social media analysis. Papers at COINs16 combine a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems and the psychology and sociality of collaboration, and intercultural analysis through the lens of online social media. They will cover most recent advances in areas from leadership and collaboration, trend prediction and data mining, to social competence and Internet communication.
IT Crisisology Casebook: Smart Digitalization for Sustainable Development (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #300)
by Sergey V. ZykovThe book focuses on the real-world case-based crisis management in digital product development. This includes forecasting, responding, and agile engineering/management methods, patterns, and practices for sustainable development. This book introduces a set of case studies for sustainability in management as a blend, the components of which have been carefully selected from a few domains adjacent to digital production such as IT-intensive operation, human resource management, and knowledge engineering, to name a few. The key ingredients of this crisis management framework include information management, tradeoff optimization, agile product development, and knowledge transfer. The case studies this book features will help the stakeholders in understanding and identifying the key technology, business, and human factors that may likely result in a digital production crisis, i.e., critically affect the organization outcomes in terms of successful digitalization and sustainable development. These factors are particularly important for the large-scale applications, typically considered very complex in managerial and technological aspects, and, therefore, specifically addressed by the discipline of IT crisisology.
Childhood and Youth Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies Series) (1st edition) (PDF)
by Paula Zwozdiak-MyersThis book introduces the inter-disciplinary study of childhood and youth and the multi-agency practice of professionals who serve the needs of children, young people and their families. Exploring key theories and central ideas, research methodology, policy and practice, it takes a holistic, contextual approach that values difference and diversity. It examines concepts such as identity, representation, creativity and discourse and issues such as ethnicity, gender and the 'childhood in crisis' thesis. Furthermore, it challenges opinion by exploring complex and controversial modern-day issues, and by engaging with a range of perspectives to highlight debates within the field.
Finanzierung und Förderung von Kinospielfilmen in Deutschland: Herausforderungen und Chancen für junge Produzenten (Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur)
by Anke ZwirnerViele junge Menschen streben einen Beruf im Filmgeschäft an, viele auch gleich mit Fokus auf die Filmproduktion. Es besteht ein reichhaltiges Ausbildungsangebot, doch was passiert danach? Was heißt es eigentlich heute Filmproduzent zu sein, welche Qualifikationen benötigt man dafür? Wie etabliere ich ein junges Unternehmen auf dem bestehenden Filmmarkt – ja und wie funktioniert dieser überhaupt? Wie werden Filme – hier mit der Konzentration auf Nachwuchsfilme – finanziert und welche spezielle Rolle spielt die Filmförderung dabei? Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht aus der Entwicklung und aktuellen Situation des bestehenden Filmmarktes heraus die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen junger Produktionsunternehmen zu analysieren, nicht nur um kommende Filmproduzenten mit der aktuellen Marktsituation zu konfron-tieren.
Nonreligion in Late Modern Societies: Institutional and Legal Perspectives (Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies)
by Anne-Laure Zwilling Helge ÅrsheimThis volume presents results from new and ongoing research efforts into the role of nonreligion in education, politics, law and society from a variety of different countries. Featuring data from a wide range of quantitative and qualitative studies, the book exposes the relational dynamics of religion and nonreligion. Firstly, it highlights the extent to which nonreligion is defined and understood by legal and institutional actors on the basis of religions, and often replicates the organisation of society and majority religions. At the same time, it displays how essential it is to approach nonreligion on its own, by freeing oneself from the frameworks from which religion is thought.The book addresses pressing questions such as: How can nonreligion be defined, and how can the “nones” be grasped and taken into account in studies on religion? How does the sociocultural and religious backdrop of different countries affect the regulation and representation of nonreligion in law and policymaking? Where and how do nonreligious individuals and collectives fit into institutions in contemporary societies? How does nonreligion affect notions of citizenship and national belonging? Despite growing scholarly interest in the increasing number of people without religion, the role of nonreligion in legal and institutional settings is still largely unexplored.This volume helps fill the gap, and will be of interest to students, researchers, policymakers and others seeking deeper understanding of the changing role of nonreligion in modern societies.
Übergewicht und Adipositas bei Kindern und Jugendlichen
by Michael Zwick Jürgen Deuschle Ortwin RennÜbergewicht und Adipositas sind bei jungen Menschen zu einem gesellschaftlichen Problem geworden, das neue Ansätze in Forschung und Praxis erfordert. Das Buch fasst die wesentlichen Ergebnisse eines breit angelegten, interdisziplinären Projektes aus der Perspektive der systemischen Risikoforschung zusammen und kommt dabei zu neuen Einsichten und Empfehlungen, die zum besseren Verständnis und zur erfolgversprechenden Problembearbeitung beitragen können.
Je fremdländischer desto einheimischer?: Fallstudien zu Integrationsdynamiken bei nordafrikanischen Einwanderern in Frankreich (Sozialwissenschaft)
by Almut ZwengelAlmut Zwengel untersucht exemplarisch die Lage junger Erwachsener nordafrikanischer Herkunft im Pariser Raum. Sie zeigt Alltagssituationen, die zum Teil stark mit Medienberichten über die französischen banlieues kontrastieren, und es wird deutlich, dass Integration gelingen kann, obwohl bzw. weil Migranten fremdländisch sind.
Contemporary Qatar: Examining State and Society (Gulf Studies #4)
by Mahjoob Zweiri Farah Al QawasmiThis book addresses critical topics and unanswered questions on the contemporary state of Qatar. Drawing together a unique combination of authors that have researched the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in general, and the state of Qatar specifically, each author provides an in-depth empirical analysis of Qatar’s current social, political, and economic landscape against a historically informed backdrop. Cognizant of its rapid state of flux, the contributors collectively provide a comprehensive overview of the intersection of these respective areas, delving into the historical creation of Qatar as a state, its politics and systems of governance, its economic strata and reliance on natural resources, its society and national identity, its new and thriving sports culture, and, most topically, matters of diplomacy, the 2017 blockade, and its armed forces. Owing to the contributors’ invaluable firsthand experience and knowledge of Qatar, this book provides valuable insights into this nation, at once old and new, and its intertwined trajectories in its socio-political and economic positionality within the region. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars researching the Middle East generally, and the Gulf, specifically, with interests in topics such as politics and international relations, political economy and foreign policy, development, sources of social change, societal activism, popular culture, and the various elements of identity.
The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret
by Michael ZweigIn the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then appear as comparisons of income or lifestyle rather than as what they truly are—contests of power, at work and in the larger society.
Socioinformatics - The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT: The Social Impact Of Interactions Between Humans And It (Springer Proceedings in Complexity)
by Katharina Zweig Wolfgang Neuser Volkmar Pipek Markus Rohde Ingo ScholtesSocioinformatics is a new scientific approach to study the interactions between humans and IT. These proceedings are a collection of the contributions during a workshop of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Researchers in this emerging field discuss the main aspects of interactions between IT and humans with respect to; social connections, social changes, acceptance of IT and the social conditions affecting this acceptance, effects of IT on humans and in response changes of IT, structures of the society and the influence of IT on these structures, changes of metaphysics influenced by IT and the social context of a knowledge society.
Health Economics
by Peter Zweifel Friedrich Breyer Mathias KifmannThis is the most complete text available on the economics of health behavior and health care delivery. Appropriate both for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of economics, this text provides the key analytical tools required to understand current research. Issues discussed include the "cost explosion" in health care, the power of medical associations, the search for remuneration systems with favorable incentives, and technological change in medicine. Rather than simplifying the issues facing today’s healthcare systems, the book models existing complexities as they are, adapting economics to reflect the views of the average person.
Standards of Futures Research: Guidelines for Practice and Evaluation (Zukunft und Forschung)
by Axel Zweck Karlheinz Steinmüller Lars Gerhold Dirk Holtmannspötter Christian Neuhaus Elmar Schüll Beate Schulz-MontagForesight, futures studies, but also technology assessment and trend research are characterized by a research perspective directed towards the future. These results in fundamental peculiarities have to be taken into account in the conception of studies and in practical research work. The contributions to this anthology offer guidance for scientists and practitioners and describe the criteria and standards by which the quality of results and processes in futures studies can be assessed.
Continental Philosophy of Technoscience (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology #38)
by Hub ZwartThe key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis) in developing a coherent message around the technicity of science or rather, “technoscience”. Within technoscience, the focus will be on recent developments in life sciences research, such as genomics, post-genomics, synthetic biology and global ecology. This book uniquely presents continental perspectives that tend to be underrepresented in mainstream philosophy of science, yet entail crucial insights for coming to terms with technoscience as it is evolving on a global scale today.This is an open access book.
Built for People: Transform Your Employee Experience Using Product Management Principles
by Jessica ZwaanTaking the best elements of a product-management approach and applying them to HR activity can transform the people function. This book shows you how. Written for all HR professionals and business leaders, Built for People explains how to improve workforce and business performance by developing people-centred ways of working, evidence-based decision making and a culture of continuous feedback and iteration. It explains everything from what this approach means for business professionals, what the benefits of it are and how to do it effectively. It covers how to proactively develop an employee experience which attracts, engages and retains the talent the business needs and supports them to operate at their full potential. There is also practical guidance on the importance of user research, sprint planning, vision development and how to encourage a continuous feedback loop in your team.This book includes the importance of testing and iteration and how to define metrics for success, as well as showing you how to handle organizational change, company culture clashes and how to build and improve overall business performance and employee experience at scale. Full of tools, case studies, exercises and advice from those who are already seeing the benefits of a product-management approach, this is essential reading for all business leaders needing to develop an agile, innovative and evidence-based approach to their people operations.
Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings: Navigating Uncertainties
by Olga Zvonareva Evgeniya Popova Klasien HorstmanThis book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are. Contemporary societies are imbued with uncertainties, but the authors focus on settings where uncertainties multiply, making decisions, practises, and relations in everyday life precarious. Two worlds are brought into dialogue throughout the chapters of this book with the aim of facilitating mutual learning from one another - the world of science and technology studies (STS) and the high-income liberal democracies of the West, on one hand, and studies of post-socialism on the other. In so doing, this book encourages critical learning on ensuring the resilience of individual and societal health in situations of profound uncertainties. This timely collection will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners and policy makes in the fields of sociology, biomedicine, political science and public and global health.
Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings: Navigating Uncertainties
by Olga Zvonareva Evgeniya Popova Klasien HorstmanThis book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are. Contemporary societies are imbued with uncertainties, but the authors focus on settings where uncertainties multiply, making decisions, practises, and relations in everyday life precarious. Two worlds are brought into dialogue throughout the chapters of this book with the aim of facilitating mutual learning from one another - the world of science and technology studies (STS) and the high-income liberal democracies of the West, on one hand, and studies of post-socialism on the other. In so doing, this book encourages critical learning on ensuring the resilience of individual and societal health in situations of profound uncertainties. This timely collection will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners and policy makes in the fields of sociology, biomedicine, political science and public and global health.
International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education: Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning
by Zvi Bekerman and Thomas GeisenMigrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways — as active agents in the pedagogical, political, social, and scientific processes that position them in this or that cultural sphere. On the one hand, they reject ascribed cultural attributes while striving towards integration in a variety of social spheres, e.g. school and workplace, in order to achieve social mobility. On the other hand, they articulate demands for cultural self-determination. This discursive duality is met with suspicion by the majority culture. For societies with high levels of migration or with substantial minority cultures, questions related to the meaning of cultural heterogeneity and the social and cultural limits of learning and communication (e.g. migration education or critical multiculturalism) are very important. It is precisely here where the chances for new beginnings and new trials become of great importance for educational theorizing, which urgently needs to find answers to current questions about individual freedom, community/cultural affiliations, and social and democratic cohesion. Answers to these questions must account for both ‘political’ and ‘learning’ perspectives at the macro, mezzo, and micro contextual levels. The contributions of this edited volume enhance the knowledge in the field of migrant/minority education, with a special emphasis on the meaning of culture and social learning for educational processes.
Disaster Risk Reduction: Community Resilience and Responses
by Bupinder Zutshi Akbaruddin Ahmad Ananda Babu SrungarapatiThis book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in today’s societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction strategies especially through community resilience and responses. It consists of selected papers presented at the World Congress on Disaster Management, which focused on community resilience and responses towards disaster risk reduction based on South Asian experiences, and closely examines the coordinated research activities involving all stakeholders, especially the communities at risk. Further, it narrates the experiences of disaster risk-reduction in different communities that have policy implications for mitigation of future disaster risks in the societies affected by these types of disasters. Written from the social science perspective to disasters rather than an engineering approach, the book helps development and governance institutions to prioritize disasters as a problem of development rather than being parallel to it.
The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity (Explorations of Educational Purpose #20)
by Mark ZussThe desire for knowledge is an abiding facet of human experience and cultural development. This work documents curiosity as a sociohistorical force initiating research across the disciplines. Projects generated by theoretical curiosity are presented as historical and material practices emerging as expressions of embodied knowledge and experience. The shifting cultural, philosophical and practical relations between theory and curiosity are situated within classical, medieval, early modern and contemporary communities of practice. The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity advocates for a critical, aesthetic engagement in everyday life. Its purpose is to examine the pedagogical grounds and questions that motivate research programs in the sciences, education, technoculture and post-war social movements. Theoretical curiosity continually resists disciplinary limits. It is a core, embodied process uniting human pursuits of knowledge and power. This inquiry into inquiry itself offers an appreciation of the vital continuity between the senses, perception, and affect and concept development. It is informed by a critical reading of phenomenology as the embodied practice of researchers. This study sponsors a deepening of theory in practice and the practice of theoretical exploration. As a contribution to pedagogical practice, it offers a historical critique of the usually unquestioned philosophical, political and ethical grounds for educational, scientific and social research. The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity profiles significant alliances and persona as agents for the pursuit of novel and often controversial research, adventures and discovery. It claims that the place of technology and the technical is the primary channel for contemporary inquiry. The technosciences of genomics, artificial life and astrobiology are considered as contemporary extensions of a perennial desire to pursue and resist the limits of existing knowledge and representation.
Werbung, Mode und Design
by Guido Zurstiege Siegfried J. SchmidtDer Sammelband soll sich thematisch mit der Frage beschäftigen, welche Trends sich an-gesichts eines ständig zunehmenden Aufmerksamkeitswettbewerbs in der Werbung ab-zeichnen, und wie sich diese Trends in der Vermarktung von Moden und Jugendkulturen sowie im Design von Konsumgütern niederschlagen
Festschrift für die Wirklichkeit
by Guido ZurstiegeDer Band eröffnet ein möglichst breites Spektrum an aktuellen Zugängen aus Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft zu der Frage, was über die Wirklichkeit an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert (noch) gesagt werden kann. Wie stellt sich heute der Philosophie die grundsätzliche Frage nach der Erreichbarkeit des Seins, der Realität, der Wirklichkeit? Mit welchen Problemen sieht sich die Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft angesichts der zunehmenden Fiktionalisierung von Medienwirklichkeiten konfrontiert? Worauf verweisen die Bilder der Medien noch, wenn nicht auf sich selbst? Wie reagieren die Kunst und die Literatur auf die gesellschaftliche Beschlagnahme ihrer Domäne, der Fiktionalität? Leben wir bereits in einer künstlichen Gesellschaft ohne Bedarf an künstlerischer Kontingenzerzeugung? Was ist heute noch wirklich wirklich?
Medien und Werbung (Medienwissen kompakt)
by Guido ZurstiegeIn den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat die Werbung ihr Gesicht verändert. Sie macht "Unterhaltungs- und Informationsgeschenke", die von vielen Rezipienten nicht als geheime Verführung wahrgenommen werden. Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Welche Kräfte treiben die Entwicklung des Werbesystems an? Welche Formen der Werbung bringen sie hervor? Und natürlich: Wie wirkt Werbung unter diesen Bedingungen heute? Das sind die zentralen Fragen dieses Buches.
Religionsgemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie: Handlungsräume religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz (Politik und Religion)
by Melanie ZurlindenMelanie Zurlinden untersucht die Rolle religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz. Anhand von Gruppendiskussionen und publizierten Texten analysiert sie, wie sich freikirchliche, jüdische und muslimische Gemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie an Kampagnen zu Volksabstimmungen beteiligen. Die Studie fokussiert auf die Diskussionen über Bioethik, Ausländer- und Asylfragen sowie das Religion-Staat-Verhältnis. Die Autorin fragt: Wie positionieren sich religiöse Minderheiten in der Öffentlichkeit? Welche Bedingungen bestimmen ihre Partizipation? Welche Rolle spielen dabei religiöse und nichtreligiöse Argumentationen? Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass die religiösen Minderheiten als öffentliche Akteure Stellung nehmen. Damit bringen sie sich nicht nur in politische Diskurse sondern auch in die Zivilgesellschaft ein und zeigen ihr Interesse an einer öffentlichen Partizipation.