Katrin Voltmer and Christiane Eilders
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197262955
- eISBN:
- 9780191734465
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262955.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter investigates whether the assumption that the media contribute to the communication deficit of the EU is reflected in the empirical pattern of political coverage. In particular, it ...
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This chapter investigates whether the assumption that the media contribute to the communication deficit of the EU is reflected in the empirical pattern of political coverage. In particular, it explores the extent to which German media take a Europeanized perspective on political affairs and whether or not they promote the politics of European integration. The study is based on a content analysis of the editorials of German national quality newspapers covering the period between 1994 and 1998. The findings show that the media under study devote only a very small portion of their attention to European issues, thus marginalizing Europe to an extent that is not warranted by the significance of the European level of governance. If the media do focus on European issues, they predominantly address them in terms of national politics, which is interpreted as a ‘domestication’ of Europe in public discourse. At the same time, the media unanimously support the idea of European integration. This pattern of communicating Europe reflects the élite consensus on European matters in Germany and may have contributed to the alienation of the general public from European politics.Less
This chapter investigates whether the assumption that the media contribute to the communication deficit of the EU is reflected in the empirical pattern of political coverage. In particular, it explores the extent to which German media take a Europeanized perspective on political affairs and whether or not they promote the politics of European integration. The study is based on a content analysis of the editorials of German national quality newspapers covering the period between 1994 and 1998. The findings show that the media under study devote only a very small portion of their attention to European issues, thus marginalizing Europe to an extent that is not warranted by the significance of the European level of governance. If the media do focus on European issues, they predominantly address them in terms of national politics, which is interpreted as a ‘domestication’ of Europe in public discourse. At the same time, the media unanimously support the idea of European integration. This pattern of communicating Europe reflects the élite consensus on European matters in Germany and may have contributed to the alienation of the general public from European politics.
Volker R. Berghahn
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691179636
- eISBN:
- 9780691185071
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691179636.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This book takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades. Illuminating the roles played by journalists in the media metropolis of Hamburg, the ...
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This book takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades. Illuminating the roles played by journalists in the media metropolis of Hamburg, the book focuses on the lives and work of three remarkable individuals: Marion Countess Dönhoff, distinguished editor of Die Zeit; Paul Sethe, “the grand old man of West German journalism”; and Hans Zehrer, editor in chief of Die Welt. All born before 1914, Dönhoff, Sethe, and Zehrer witnessed the Weimar Republic's end and opposed Hitler. When the latter seized power in 1933, they were, like their fellow Germans, confronted with the difficult choice of entering exile, becoming part of the active resistance, or joining the Nazi Party. Instead, they followed a fourth path—“inner emigration”—psychologically distancing themselves from the regime, their writing falling into a gray zone between grudging collaboration and active resistance. During the war, Dönhoff and Sethe had links to the 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler, while Zehrer remained out of sight on a North Sea island. In the decades after 1945, all three became major figures in the West German media. The book considers how these journalists and those who chose inner emigration interpreted Germany's horrific past and how they helped to morally and politically shape the reconstruction of the country. With fresh archival materials, the book sheds essential light on the influential position of the German media in the mid-twentieth century and raises questions about modern journalism that remain topical today.Less
This book takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades. Illuminating the roles played by journalists in the media metropolis of Hamburg, the book focuses on the lives and work of three remarkable individuals: Marion Countess Dönhoff, distinguished editor of Die Zeit; Paul Sethe, “the grand old man of West German journalism”; and Hans Zehrer, editor in chief of Die Welt. All born before 1914, Dönhoff, Sethe, and Zehrer witnessed the Weimar Republic's end and opposed Hitler. When the latter seized power in 1933, they were, like their fellow Germans, confronted with the difficult choice of entering exile, becoming part of the active resistance, or joining the Nazi Party. Instead, they followed a fourth path—“inner emigration”—psychologically distancing themselves from the regime, their writing falling into a gray zone between grudging collaboration and active resistance. During the war, Dönhoff and Sethe had links to the 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler, while Zehrer remained out of sight on a North Sea island. In the decades after 1945, all three became major figures in the West German media. The book considers how these journalists and those who chose inner emigration interpreted Germany's horrific past and how they helped to morally and politically shape the reconstruction of the country. With fresh archival materials, the book sheds essential light on the influential position of the German media in the mid-twentieth century and raises questions about modern journalism that remain topical today.
Rebecca Braun
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199542703
- eISBN:
- 9780191715372
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542703.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
This book traces a long-standing concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Günter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed ...
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This book traces a long-standing concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Günter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grass's tendency to insert clearly recognizable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterized Grass's relationship to this sphere and his identity as part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative paradigm for Grass's work. It explains for the first time how his playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and political realms.Less
This book traces a long-standing concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Günter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grass's tendency to insert clearly recognizable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterized Grass's relationship to this sphere and his identity as part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative paradigm for Grass's work. It explains for the first time how his playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and political realms.
Bernhard Siegert
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263752
- eISBN:
- 9780823268962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263752.003.0001
- Subject:
- Information Science, Communications
The chapter relates the re-emergence of cultural techniques (a concept first employed in the 19th century in an agricultural context) to the changing intellectual constellation of postwar Germany. ...
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The chapter relates the re-emergence of cultural techniques (a concept first employed in the 19th century in an agricultural context) to the changing intellectual constellation of postwar Germany. More specifically, it traces how the concept evolved from – and reacted against – so-called German media theory, a decidedly anti-hermeneutic and anti-humanist current of thought frequently associated with the work of Friedrich Kittler. Post-hermeneutic rather than anti-hermeneutic in its outlook, the reconceptualization of cultural techniques aims at presenting them as chains of operations that link humans, things, media and even animals. To investigate cultural techniques is to shift the analytic gaze from ontological distinctions to the ontic operations that gave rise to the former in the first place. The chapter also includes a discussion of the similarities and differences between German and North American posthumanism.Less
The chapter relates the re-emergence of cultural techniques (a concept first employed in the 19th century in an agricultural context) to the changing intellectual constellation of postwar Germany. More specifically, it traces how the concept evolved from – and reacted against – so-called German media theory, a decidedly anti-hermeneutic and anti-humanist current of thought frequently associated with the work of Friedrich Kittler. Post-hermeneutic rather than anti-hermeneutic in its outlook, the reconceptualization of cultural techniques aims at presenting them as chains of operations that link humans, things, media and even animals. To investigate cultural techniques is to shift the analytic gaze from ontological distinctions to the ontic operations that gave rise to the former in the first place. The chapter also includes a discussion of the similarities and differences between German and North American posthumanism.
Julia Bösch, Max-Josef Meier, Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, and Achim Ekkehard Henning Wolf
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199987238
- eISBN:
- 9780190210182
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199987238.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Research and Statistics, Economic Sociology
This chapter looks at media ownership and concentration in Germany. Once it has given an overview of the German media landscape, the chapter focuses on print media (newspapers, book publishing, ...
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This chapter looks at media ownership and concentration in Germany. Once it has given an overview of the German media landscape, the chapter focuses on print media (newspapers, book publishing, magazine publishing), audiovisual media (radio, broadcast television, multichannel TV platforms, video portals, film), telecommunications media (wireline and wireless telecom), and Internet media (Internet Service Providers, search engines, online news market, Internet portals). The central players in German audiovisual media are the dozen public service broadcast institutions, organized in ARD and ZDF. Policy is set by the Länder audiovisual regulatory organizations dominated by the large political parties. Several large print publishers have established a major role in television, such as Bertelsmann (RTL) and Axel Springer (ProSiebenSat1). Agreements between all Länder has created the basics of a dual public-private system of broadcasting. The system includes regulation for media concentration, stating that no single company can control more than 30% of all TV audiences. In telecom, the major players are Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, and Telefonica. Other major print publishers are Burda, Bauer, and Holtzbrinck.Less
This chapter looks at media ownership and concentration in Germany. Once it has given an overview of the German media landscape, the chapter focuses on print media (newspapers, book publishing, magazine publishing), audiovisual media (radio, broadcast television, multichannel TV platforms, video portals, film), telecommunications media (wireline and wireless telecom), and Internet media (Internet Service Providers, search engines, online news market, Internet portals). The central players in German audiovisual media are the dozen public service broadcast institutions, organized in ARD and ZDF. Policy is set by the Länder audiovisual regulatory organizations dominated by the large political parties. Several large print publishers have established a major role in television, such as Bertelsmann (RTL) and Axel Springer (ProSiebenSat1). Agreements between all Länder has created the basics of a dual public-private system of broadcasting. The system includes regulation for media concentration, stating that no single company can control more than 30% of all TV audiences. In telecom, the major players are Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, and Telefonica. Other major print publishers are Burda, Bauer, and Holtzbrinck.
Wolfgang Ernst
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677665.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
An introduction to WE’s media theory in relation to German media theory, Kittler and the wider Digital Humanities debates
An introduction to WE’s media theory in relation to German media theory, Kittler and the wider Digital Humanities debates
Wolfgang Ernst
Jussi Parikka (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948065
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677665.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
In Ernst’s media theory, archaeology becomes archivological analysis that refuses to stay on the interface level. Instead, it reveals the technological conditions of our contemporary techniques of ...
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In Ernst’s media theory, archaeology becomes archivological analysis that refuses to stay on the interface level. Instead, it reveals the technological conditions of our contemporary techniques of memory and time. The archivological approach focuses on the infrastructure of media historical knowledge. With an extended concept of the archive, a media archaeological and archivological approach to the past means that media can not be made into “historical” objects of research only. Different media systems, from library catalogues to micro-filming, have influenced the content as well as the understanding of the historical remains of the archive itself. Alphabetic writing which has dominated the archive for centuries has dramatically been challenged by signal recording (photography, the phonograph, cinematography) and puzzled the archivists at the beginning of the age of media reproduction. Now, in the digital age, we are faced with further challenges concerning cultural memory, remembering and forgetting. Time is not registered only through historical writing but also through the microtemporality of the machines themselves. Instead of narrative and historical accounts of media history, Archives, Media and Cultural Memory that we need a more medium-specific account of the interaction of past and current media cultures. Media studies is extended into an analysis of their scientific and technological roots, while combining such specificity with exciting insights into contemporary philosophy and media theory.Less
In Ernst’s media theory, archaeology becomes archivological analysis that refuses to stay on the interface level. Instead, it reveals the technological conditions of our contemporary techniques of memory and time. The archivological approach focuses on the infrastructure of media historical knowledge. With an extended concept of the archive, a media archaeological and archivological approach to the past means that media can not be made into “historical” objects of research only. Different media systems, from library catalogues to micro-filming, have influenced the content as well as the understanding of the historical remains of the archive itself. Alphabetic writing which has dominated the archive for centuries has dramatically been challenged by signal recording (photography, the phonograph, cinematography) and puzzled the archivists at the beginning of the age of media reproduction. Now, in the digital age, we are faced with further challenges concerning cultural memory, remembering and forgetting. Time is not registered only through historical writing but also through the microtemporality of the machines themselves. Instead of narrative and historical accounts of media history, Archives, Media and Cultural Memory that we need a more medium-specific account of the interaction of past and current media cultures. Media studies is extended into an analysis of their scientific and technological roots, while combining such specificity with exciting insights into contemporary philosophy and media theory.
Robert Kelz
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501739859
- eISBN:
- 9781501739873
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501739859.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter contextualizes Argentina's thriving German theater scene in German emigration patterns to Argentina; the interplay between German emigrants and their Argentine hosts; and the tensions ...
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This chapter contextualizes Argentina's thriving German theater scene in German emigration patterns to Argentina; the interplay between German emigrants and their Argentine hosts; and the tensions among local nationalist, antifascist, and Zionist German-language religious, educational, and media institutions. Primarily constituted by emigrants who arrived in the late nineteenth century and in the 1920s, the nationalist colony was characterized by nostalgia for the Wilhelmine monarchy, aversion to the Weimar Republic and, eventually, support for Hitler. The antifascists consisted of a minority of earlier emigrants who supported the Weimar Republic and mostly Jewish German-speaking refugees who fled to Argentina during Nazism. Nominally neutral until late 1944, Argentina permitted pro- and anti-Hitler German media, schools, and cultural centers to flourish, thus whetting extant hostilities among emigrants. Conflict also pervaded the refugee population, which was divided on issues of cultural identity, Jewish integration into the Argentine host society, and collective German guilt for the Shoah.Less
This chapter contextualizes Argentina's thriving German theater scene in German emigration patterns to Argentina; the interplay between German emigrants and their Argentine hosts; and the tensions among local nationalist, antifascist, and Zionist German-language religious, educational, and media institutions. Primarily constituted by emigrants who arrived in the late nineteenth century and in the 1920s, the nationalist colony was characterized by nostalgia for the Wilhelmine monarchy, aversion to the Weimar Republic and, eventually, support for Hitler. The antifascists consisted of a minority of earlier emigrants who supported the Weimar Republic and mostly Jewish German-speaking refugees who fled to Argentina during Nazism. Nominally neutral until late 1944, Argentina permitted pro- and anti-Hitler German media, schools, and cultural centers to flourish, thus whetting extant hostilities among emigrants. Conflict also pervaded the refugee population, which was divided on issues of cultural identity, Jewish integration into the Argentine host society, and collective German guilt for the Shoah.
Klaus Peter Müller
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780748696581
- eISBN:
- 9781474418829
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696581.003.0016
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter uses the concept of ‘the story’, applying a model of key story elements to the shape which the media imposed on the sequence of Scottish referendum events. The analysis offers ...
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This chapter uses the concept of ‘the story’, applying a model of key story elements to the shape which the media imposed on the sequence of Scottish referendum events. The analysis offers substantial, rich and dense data on press and broadcast coverage across three German-speaking nations. However, any important differences based on national perspectives among the three are not discernible. Across the board there tends to be a majority judgement against Scottish independence, not least associated with the views of sources such as business representatives, and there are some actively hostile views expressed in places toward Scottish aspirations for independence. However, and though in a minority, there is also supportive comment across the three countries, and after the vote and despite its result, there is a widespread media view that the referendum event has altered Scotland and Europe. Britain is seen as having been changed by the event, political democracy and regional diversity have been potentially enhanced, and the benefits of federalism are seen as reinforced.Less
This chapter uses the concept of ‘the story’, applying a model of key story elements to the shape which the media imposed on the sequence of Scottish referendum events. The analysis offers substantial, rich and dense data on press and broadcast coverage across three German-speaking nations. However, any important differences based on national perspectives among the three are not discernible. Across the board there tends to be a majority judgement against Scottish independence, not least associated with the views of sources such as business representatives, and there are some actively hostile views expressed in places toward Scottish aspirations for independence. However, and though in a minority, there is also supportive comment across the three countries, and after the vote and despite its result, there is a widespread media view that the referendum event has altered Scotland and Europe. Britain is seen as having been changed by the event, political democracy and regional diversity have been potentially enhanced, and the benefits of federalism are seen as reinforced.
Wolfgang Ernst
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677665.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
specifically written for this Anglo-American edition, Ernst gives his own introduction to media archaeology and archivology
specifically written for this Anglo-American edition, Ernst gives his own introduction to media archaeology and archivology
Sarah Hartmann and Bernd Holznagel
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- October 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197616093
- eISBN:
- 9780197616130
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197616093.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter examines two recent legal proposals from Germany, seeking to adjust competition and media law in relation to digital intermediaries and platforms as gatekeepers. These proposals update ...
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This chapter examines two recent legal proposals from Germany, seeking to adjust competition and media law in relation to digital intermediaries and platforms as gatekeepers. These proposals update the toolkit of competition law to preserve market structures and introduce new behavioural duties of non-discrimination and transparency to safeguard media plurality. As one of the first specific regulatory forays into digital dominance, they can serve as case studies and useful points of reference inside and outside of the EU. The chapter also demonstrates the proposals’ weaknesses, especially concerning positive “must-be-found” obligations for public interest content. It proposes an alternate approach, integrating and merging elements of competition law and media law to redefine the scope and beneficiaries of plurality safeguards.Less
This chapter examines two recent legal proposals from Germany, seeking to adjust competition and media law in relation to digital intermediaries and platforms as gatekeepers. These proposals update the toolkit of competition law to preserve market structures and introduce new behavioural duties of non-discrimination and transparency to safeguard media plurality. As one of the first specific regulatory forays into digital dominance, they can serve as case studies and useful points of reference inside and outside of the EU. The chapter also demonstrates the proposals’ weaknesses, especially concerning positive “must-be-found” obligations for public interest content. It proposes an alternate approach, integrating and merging elements of competition law and media law to redefine the scope and beneficiaries of plurality safeguards.
Wolfgang Ernst
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677665.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Chapter 6: elaborates the media philosophy of archives by arguing that the spatial and metaphorical set of interface concepts we have are insufficient to understand what the archive is in digital ...
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Chapter 6: elaborates the media philosophy of archives by arguing that the spatial and metaphorical set of interface concepts we have are insufficient to understand what the archive is in digital cultureLess
Chapter 6: elaborates the media philosophy of archives by arguing that the spatial and metaphorical set of interface concepts we have are insufficient to understand what the archive is in digital culture
Wolfgang Ernst
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677665.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Ernst introduces the idea of how the machine itself register time even before the intervention of the human observer
Ernst introduces the idea of how the machine itself register time even before the intervention of the human observer
Wolfgang Ernst
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677665.003.0010
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Chapter 8: the chapter offers a case study of the media archaeology of the radio, or actually of the electron tube as a way to understand the grey, often neglected role of components in media history
Chapter 8: the chapter offers a case study of the media archaeology of the radio, or actually of the electron tube as a way to understand the grey, often neglected role of components in media history
Florian Hoof
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190886363
- eISBN:
- 9780190886400
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190886363.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Corporate consulting, a one-time seemingly marvelous mixture of bare-knuckle rationalization, esoterica, and visionary futurism, is invariably deployed when business structures threaten to lose their ...
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Corporate consulting, a one-time seemingly marvelous mixture of bare-knuckle rationalization, esoterica, and visionary futurism, is invariably deployed when business structures threaten to lose their equilibrium. What it actually means to be consulted, the part played by media in consulting, and how the branch of corporate consulting became a system of knowledge with such a socially important role is the object of this book. For the first time, it explores the ways in which the latest media technology, avant-garde aesthetics, economic pressures, and holistic philosophy together constituted the form of consulting dominant today, and which consequences arise from this. Thus it follows the work of early corporate consultants like Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and H. L. Gantt, while analyzing and describing their visual consulting models. The book develops a new, innovative, interdisciplinary approach, situated between media and business history, media archeology, and social theory, and thereby charts the genesis of modern consulting knowledge. It reveals that corporate consulting must be conceptualized in close relation to the visual culture that prevailed during this time, one which drew from nineteenth-century visualization methods and, more particularly, the new medium of film. Consulting is a cultural technique that is markedly characterized by media processes, in which the boundaries of economic logic and legitimacy emerge, and which, at the same time, considerably shapes and stabilizes this modus operandi up to the present day.Less
Corporate consulting, a one-time seemingly marvelous mixture of bare-knuckle rationalization, esoterica, and visionary futurism, is invariably deployed when business structures threaten to lose their equilibrium. What it actually means to be consulted, the part played by media in consulting, and how the branch of corporate consulting became a system of knowledge with such a socially important role is the object of this book. For the first time, it explores the ways in which the latest media technology, avant-garde aesthetics, economic pressures, and holistic philosophy together constituted the form of consulting dominant today, and which consequences arise from this. Thus it follows the work of early corporate consultants like Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and H. L. Gantt, while analyzing and describing their visual consulting models. The book develops a new, innovative, interdisciplinary approach, situated between media and business history, media archeology, and social theory, and thereby charts the genesis of modern consulting knowledge. It reveals that corporate consulting must be conceptualized in close relation to the visual culture that prevailed during this time, one which drew from nineteenth-century visualization methods and, more particularly, the new medium of film. Consulting is a cultural technique that is markedly characterized by media processes, in which the boundaries of economic logic and legitimacy emerge, and which, at the same time, considerably shapes and stabilizes this modus operandi up to the present day.
Florian Hoof
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190886363
- eISBN:
- 9780190886400
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190886363.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Chapter 1 gives a detailed introduction to the book’s historical-epistemological perspective, a combination of approaches from business and media history, media archeology, German media theory, and ...
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Chapter 1 gives a detailed introduction to the book’s historical-epistemological perspective, a combination of approaches from business and media history, media archeology, German media theory, and social theory. First, it establishes a systematic approach to understand visual consulting knowledge as media boundary objects and as part of a historically emergent graphic media network. It looks at the genealogy of the static, kinetic, and calculative media devices that form the graphic media network. Second, it traces the popularization of visualization methods that were originally developed in disciplines such as statistics, engineering, physiology, and macroeconomics. It shows the utopian potential that was attributed to visualization devices, which were conceived as new modes of intuitive thinking. It describes how management in industrial and commercial firms increasingly made use of these graphic, photographic, and filmic techniques. The chapter shows how this connection leads to fundamental changes in business practices, which are characterized as a form of “visual management.”Less
Chapter 1 gives a detailed introduction to the book’s historical-epistemological perspective, a combination of approaches from business and media history, media archeology, German media theory, and social theory. First, it establishes a systematic approach to understand visual consulting knowledge as media boundary objects and as part of a historically emergent graphic media network. It looks at the genealogy of the static, kinetic, and calculative media devices that form the graphic media network. Second, it traces the popularization of visualization methods that were originally developed in disciplines such as statistics, engineering, physiology, and macroeconomics. It shows the utopian potential that was attributed to visualization devices, which were conceived as new modes of intuitive thinking. It describes how management in industrial and commercial firms increasingly made use of these graphic, photographic, and filmic techniques. The chapter shows how this connection leads to fundamental changes in business practices, which are characterized as a form of “visual management.”
Melle Jan Kromhout
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190070137
- eISBN:
- 9780190070175
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190070137.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
The introduction discusses the tightly interwoven relation between noise, sound, and media and explains why studying the noise of sound media from a media theoretical perspective offers novel ways to ...
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The introduction discusses the tightly interwoven relation between noise, sound, and media and explains why studying the noise of sound media from a media theoretical perspective offers novel ways to rethink the “sound” specific to sound media. After briefly assessing some relevant recent literature, it describes three distinct but historically interrelated concepts of noise: the sonic, physical, and communicational concepts that developed in the context of, respectively, sound and music, physics and engineering, and information and communication theory. By subsequently introducing the book’s main concepts—the myth of perfect fidelity, the logic of noise reduction, the noise resonance of sound media, and the logic of filtering—the introduction explains how a media archaeology analysis of noise can enrich the understanding of the ways in which sound technologies over the past one hundred forty years have shaped the sound of music.Less
The introduction discusses the tightly interwoven relation between noise, sound, and media and explains why studying the noise of sound media from a media theoretical perspective offers novel ways to rethink the “sound” specific to sound media. After briefly assessing some relevant recent literature, it describes three distinct but historically interrelated concepts of noise: the sonic, physical, and communicational concepts that developed in the context of, respectively, sound and music, physics and engineering, and information and communication theory. By subsequently introducing the book’s main concepts—the myth of perfect fidelity, the logic of noise reduction, the noise resonance of sound media, and the logic of filtering—the introduction explains how a media archaeology analysis of noise can enrich the understanding of the ways in which sound technologies over the past one hundred forty years have shaped the sound of music.
Melle Jan Kromhout
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190070137
- eISBN:
- 9780190070175
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190070137.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
This book traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: How do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in ...
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This book traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: How do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Based on the information theoretical proposition that all transmission channels introduce noise and distortion, the argument accounts for the fact that technologically reproduced music is inherently shaped by the technologies that enable its reproduction. The media archaeological assessment of this noise of sound media developed in the book draws from a wide range of sources, both theoretical and historical, conceptual and technical. Together, they show that noise should not be understood as unwanted by-effect but instead plays a foundational role in shaping the sonic contours of technologically reproduced music. Over the course of five chapters, the book sketches a broad history of the problem of noise in sound recording, looks at specific analog and digital noise-related technologies, traces the ideal of sonic purity back to key developments in nineteenth-century acoustics, and develops an analysis of the close interrelation between noise and the temporality of sound. This relation, it argues, is central to the way in which recorded sound and music resonate with listeners. Ultimately, this media-specific analysis of the noise of sound media thereby greatly enriches our understanding of the way in which they changed and continue to change the sonorous qualities of music, thus offering a new perspective on the interaction between music, media, and listeners.Less
This book traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: How do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Based on the information theoretical proposition that all transmission channels introduce noise and distortion, the argument accounts for the fact that technologically reproduced music is inherently shaped by the technologies that enable its reproduction. The media archaeological assessment of this noise of sound media developed in the book draws from a wide range of sources, both theoretical and historical, conceptual and technical. Together, they show that noise should not be understood as unwanted by-effect but instead plays a foundational role in shaping the sonic contours of technologically reproduced music. Over the course of five chapters, the book sketches a broad history of the problem of noise in sound recording, looks at specific analog and digital noise-related technologies, traces the ideal of sonic purity back to key developments in nineteenth-century acoustics, and develops an analysis of the close interrelation between noise and the temporality of sound. This relation, it argues, is central to the way in which recorded sound and music resonate with listeners. Ultimately, this media-specific analysis of the noise of sound media thereby greatly enriches our understanding of the way in which they changed and continue to change the sonorous qualities of music, thus offering a new perspective on the interaction between music, media, and listeners.
Wolfgang Ernst
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677665.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Ernst contextualises his media archaeological method in relation to the art/cultural historical theories of Stephen Bann
Ernst contextualises his media archaeological method in relation to the art/cultural historical theories of Stephen Bann
Wolfgang Ernst
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677665.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
A chapter in which the microtemporality of digital archives is introduced, and set as different from the classical archive definition/practices
A chapter in which the microtemporality of digital archives is introduced, and set as different from the classical archive definition/practices
