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Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement
by Robert Ferguson Peter T. ColemanA provocative guide to navigating conflict in the workplace by assessing power dynamics and adapting your tactics accordingly.
Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication
by Kathleen GalvinMaking Connections: Readings in Relational Communication, Fifth Edition, is a unique collection of readings that provides a balanced, timely, and challenging set of perspectives on relational communication. Edited by Kathleen M. Galvin, the volume includes diverse selections from the recent work of top communication scholars and teachers, offering a balance between humanistic and social-science perspectives. Each reading exposes students to the latest developments in the ever-changing field of interpersonal communication.
Making Conversation: Seven Essential Elements of Meaningful Communication
by Fred DustA former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful. Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are unconstrained, authentic and open—two or more people sharing thoughts and ideas in a way that bridges our individual experiences, achieves a common goal. At their worst, they foster misunderstanding, frustration and obscure our real intentions.How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful. Making Conversation codifies what he learned and outlines the seven elements essential to successful exchanges: Commitment, Creative Listening, Clarity, Context, Constraints, Change, and Create. Taken together, these seven elements form a set of resources anyone can use to be more deliberate and purposeful in making conversations work.
Making Effective Presentations at Professional Conferences
by Mary Renck Jalongo Crystal MachadoThis work prepares teachers, college students, and higher education faculty to conduct various types of presentations, including workshops and teacher inservice trainings; poster sessions; panel discussions; roundtables; research forums; and technology-supported presentations. Making effective presentations to fellow professionals at conferences is an important contribution for educators at all levels, from basic through higher education. The book takes the approach of a "paper mentor" that guides the reader through the use of templates, specific examples, and a wide range of on-line resources.
Making Friends as an Adult For Dummies
by Rebecca GreeneMake lasting friendships at any age Making Friends as an Adult For Dummies helps you overcome the challenges of building friendships, forming new bonds, and meeting new people. First, you'll learn what your friendship needs are and decide what kind of friends you'd like to meet. Then you'll get concrete advice for building a new social circle, turning acquaintances into good friends, and letting go of friendships that just aren't working out. Single or married, parent or childfree, many people face these same challenges. This Dummies guide will show you that you aren't alone and will help you discover sustainable ways to overcome loneliness, keep friendships going despite occasional tension, and build your “family of choice.” Assess your friendship needs and learn how to find people who would make good friends Gain the communication skills to resolve conflict in new and existing platonic relationships Overcome your fear of rejection and learn to politely end friendships that aren't working Learn to be a good friend and deepen the friendships you build Make friends after retirement, relocation, extended isolation—or just because friends are nice to have. Making Friends as an Adult For Dummies is the judgment-free book that makes it easy.
Making Great Relationships: Simple Practices for Solving Conflicts, Building Connection, and Fostering Love
by Rick Hanson&“50 simple, powerful ways to improve your relationships at home and at work&” (Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone), based on the latest findings in neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology—by the New York Times bestselling author of Neurodharma and ResilientRelationships are usually the most important part of a person&’s life. But they&’re often stressful and frustrating, or simply awkward, distant, and lonely. We feel the weight of things unsaid, needs unmet, conflicts unresolved. It&’s easy to feel stuck. But actually, new research shows that you create your relationships every day with the things you do and say, which gives you the ability to start improving them now. You have the power to make all your relationships better just by making simple changes that start inside yourself. New York Times bestselling author of Buddha&’s Brain and Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson, PhD, brings his trademark warmth and clarity to Making Great Relationships, a comprehensive guide to fostering healthy, effective, and fulfilling relationships of all kinds: at home and at work, with family and friends, and with people who are challenging. As a psychologist, couples and family counselor, husband, and father, Dr. Hanson has learned what makes relationships go badly and what you can do to make them go better. Grounded in brain science and clinical psychology, and informed by contemplative wisdom, Making Great Relationships offers fifty fundamental skills, including: • How to convince yourself that you truly deserve to be treated well• How to communicate effectively in all kinds of settings• How to stay centered so that conflict doesn&’t rattle you so deeply• How to see the good in others (even when they make it difficult)• How to set and maintain healthy boundaries or resize relationships as needed• How to express your needs so that they are more likely to be fulfilled With these fifty simple yet powerful practices, you can handle conflicts, repair misunderstandings, get treated better, deepen a romantic partnership, be at peace with others, and give the love that you have in your heart. Making Great Relationships will teach you how to relate better than ever with all the people in your life.
Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics: Cases and Practice
by David E. Boeyink Sandra L. BordenThis book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face. By taking a case-based approach, the authors argue that the best way to make an ethical decision is to look closely at a particular situation, rather than looking first to an abstract set of ethical theories or principles. This book goes beyond the traditional approaches of many other journalism textbooks by using cases as the starting point for building ethical practices. Casuistry, the technical name of such a method, develops provisional guidelines from the bottom up by reasoning analogically from an "easy" ethical case (the "paradigm") to "harder" ethical cases. Thoroughly grounded in actual experience, this method admits more nuanced judgments than most theoretical approaches.
Making Headlines
by Chris MitchellAs editor-in-chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists with the largest editorial budget in the country for more than twelve years. This entertaining and deeply revealing book offers readers riveting insights into the quirks and foibles of some of the most powerful politicians and media executives this country has produced. A controversial figure throughout his quarter of a century as a daily editor, Chris Mitchell still maintains close regular contact with past prime ministers, editors and media CEOs. Making Headlines highlights the judgements and thinking that govern daily newspaper journalism at the highest level and the battles fought to publish tough stories about the rich and the powerful, the disenfranchised and the powerless. Making Headlines is compulsory reading for citizens who care, the political class inside the beltway and beyond, and wannabe journalists in search of a job.
Making It in Public Relations: An Insider's Guide To Career Opportunities
by Leonard MogelMaking It in Public Relations is a comprehensive, realistic guide to everything one needs to know when pursuing a successful career in public relations. It is an introduction to public relations, written for students who want or need a definition of the profession to understand what they are moving into as a career. A thorough overview of the various roles and responsibilities involved in PR work, the different types of PR functions and activities, and its application in a variety of settings and scenarios are provided. In fulfilling the book's editorial role, author Leonard Mogel profiles the 10 largest public relations firms, life on the fast track at a small PR firm, how corporate communications is carried on at a large financial institution, and public relations for diverse organizations. It will be of interest to those studying public relations at the university level; recent mass communication, journalism, and public relations graduates; interns in public relations firms; and employees in other fields contemplating a move to this profession.
Making It Work When You Work A Lot: 10 Power Strategies For Connecting As A Couple
by Joel D. BlockA sampling of real-life stories behind the curtain in the executive suite: Marion has a ten-percent marriage. Her husband is on the road eighty percent of the time and catches up on sleep half of the time he is at home. She uses innovative techniques to save her relationship. The neglect and resentment Joyce felt as a result of her husband Paul's extraordinary work schedule was temporarily eased by her fling with a former colleague. She confessed her infidelity to Paul--and they're still together! Learn about repair strategies that are tried and proven. Rob, a stay-at-home dad, also considered having an affair. He's come up with a better solution, one that saved his marriage as well as his ego. Kevin had developed an intriguing method for keeping Janice at a distance. We'll see how Janice reacted and what they did to bring value back to their relationship. Alex badgered Florence about her housekeeping, then acknowledged that his beef was Florence's meteoric career progression, especially since his career had stalled. Unlike many other couples where the wife is the bigger earner, Florence and Alex worked things out brilliantly. These successful couples have confronted--and overcome--the considerable challenges of balancing work and home life by focusing on the bottom line: strategies for maintaining the vitality, energy, and love that first brought them together. In this groundbreaking guide, relationship specialist Dr. Joel Block will show you what they did, how they did it, and how you can, too. Let this book be your portable relationship coach--the ultimate resource for Making It Work When You Work a Lot. Dr. Joel Block is a clinical psychologist specializing in couples therapy. His success in treating hundreds of devastated executive marriages over the years has led him to formulate a blueprint for success that addresses the challenges that are unique to these relationships. Making It Work When You Work a Lot is a real-life action plan with the mission of protecting executive marriages. It was formulated after interviews with nearly one hundred executives and their spouses, men and women from across the country. Each chapter is derived from the specific concerns of executives struggling to make their marriages work. As you will discover, the issues they raised involve competencies that are also crucial in the world of business. Dr. Block shows you how solutions to problems encountered in the workplace translate directly to successful resolutions of similar challenges at home: 1.
Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production (Making Media: Foundations Of Sound And Image Production Ser.)
by Jan Roberts-BreslinMaking Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production takes the media production process and deconstructs it into its most basic components. Students will learn the basic concepts of media production – frame, sound, light, time, motion, and sequencing – and be able to apply them to any medium they choose, from film and television to fine art and online applications. They will also become well-grounded in the digital work environment and the tools required to produce media in today’s digital environment. This new fourth edition is completely updated and includes a new chapter on the production process and production safety; information on current trends in production, exhibition, and distribution; and much more. New topics include virtual and augmented reality, the use of drones and new practices interactive media. The text is also fully illustrated and includes sidebar discussions of pertinent issues throughout. The companion website has been completely revamped with interactive exercises for each chapter, allowing students to explore the process of media production.
Making Media Content: The Influence of Constituency Groups on Mass Media (Routledge Communication Series)
by John A. FortunatoMaking Media Content addresses the development of media content and the various factors and constituencies that influence content, such as advertisers, corporate interests, owners, and advocacy groups. It examines the strategic decision-making of mass media organizations as they determine what content they present to their audiences through broadcast, publication, or electronic access. The work focuses on the internal and external influences on media content, laying out the various processes and opening up the topic for further consideration.This book will appeal to academics in mass media, especially those studying the relationship between mass media organizations and public relations, and advertisers. Practitioners of the media, public relations, and advertising fields would be interested because there are practical applications to their industries and explanations of the communication interactions between these groups.
Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries (Critical Cultural Communication #17)
by Derek JohnsonThe management and labor culture of the entertainment industry. In popular culture, management in the media industry isfrequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, andmarket researchers—“the suits”—who oppose the more productive forces ofcreative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversionof bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals belie the realityof how media management operates as a culture of shifting discourses,dispositions, and tactics that create meaning, generate value, and shape mediawork throughout each moment of production and consumption.Making Media Work aims to provide a deeper and more nuanced understanding ofmanagement within the entertainment industries. Drawing from work in criticalsociology and cultural studies, the collection theorizes management as apervasive, yet flexible set of principlesdrawn upon by a wide range ofpractitioners—artists, talent scouts, performers, directors, show runners, andmore—in their ongoing efforts to articulate relationships and bridgepotentially discordant forces within the media industries. The contributorsinterrogate managerial labor and identity, shine a light on how managementunderstands its roles within cultural and creative contexts, and reconfigurethe complex relationship between labor and managerial authority as productiverather than solely prohibitive. Engaging with primary evidence gathered throughinterviews, archives, and trade materials, the essays offer tremendous insightinto how management is understood and performed within media industry contexts.The volume as a whole traces the changing roles of management both historicallyand in the contemporary moment within US and international contexts, and acrossa range of media forms, from film and television to video games and socialmedia.
Making Meetings Work: The Art of Chairing
by Richard HooperMaking Meetings Work is a short book which aims to help people chair meetings better – meetings of all kinds from community playgroups to conferences and dinners to large corporate Boards. The book is based on the personal experience of a professional working chair over many years. The book is aimed at younger men and women who are beginning to chair their first meetings, and also at more experienced chairs who want to develop their skills.
Making National News
by Gene AllenFor almost a century, Canadian newspapers, radio and television stations, and now internet news sites have depended on the Canadian Press news agency for most of their Canadian (and, through its international alliances) foreign news. This book provides the first-ever scholarly history of CP, as well as the most wide-ranging historical treatment of twentieth-century Canadian journalism published to date.Using extensive archival research, including complete and unfettered access to CP's archives, Gene Allen traces how CP was established and evolved in the face of frequent conflicts among the powerful newspaper publishers - John Ross Robertson, Joseph Atkinson, and Roy Thomson, among others - who collectively owned it, and how the journalists who ran it understood and carried out their work. Other major themes include CP's shifting relationships with the Associated Press and Reuters; its responses to new media; its aggressive shaping of its own national role during the Second World War; and its efforts to meet the demands of French-language publishers.Making National News makes a substantial and original contribution to our understanding of journalism as a phenomenon that shaped Canada both culturally and politically in the twentieth century.
Making Negotiations Predictable
by David De Cremer Madan M. PillutlaNegotiation is an everyday activity that everyone, knowingly or unknowingly, engages in. The impact of negotiating can be very significant for revenues and profitability of organizations and individuals. It is also an important determinant of the sustainability of any kind of relationship. Therefore it is important to be an effective negotiator and everybody has the potential to be one. This book will provide crucial insights into how you can become a great negotiator, by discussing the science and psychology of negotiation techniques. It is a given that many of our negotiations do not always turn out the way we expect. Although for many of us, negotiations are best approached by employing rational procedures, real life shows us the need to understand seemingly irrational behaviours that result in suboptimal outcomes. Most negotiators remain blind to what really motivates them and the other parties in the negotiation. Why? We discuss the biases that prevent us from achieving this understanding. By understanding the psychology of negotiators and the negotiation process, we can make negotiations more predictable and profitable.
Making News At The New York Times
by Nikki UsherMaking News at The New York Times is the first in-depth portrait of the nation's, if not the world's, premier newspaper in the digital age. It presents a lively chronicle of months spent in the newsroom observing daily conversations, meetings, and journalists at work. We see Page One meetings, articles developed for online and print from start to finish, the creation of ambitious multimedia projects, and the ethical dilemmas posed by social media in the newsroom. Here, the reality of creating news in a 24/7 instant information environment clashes with the storied history of print journalism, and the tensions present a dramatic portrait of news in the online world. This news ethnography brings to bear the overarching value clashes at play in a digital news world. The book argues that emergent news values are reordering the fundamental processes of news production. Immediacy, interactivity, and participation now play a role unlike any time before, creating clashes between old and new. These values emerge from the social practices, pressures, and norms at play inside the newsroom as journalists attempt to negotiate the new demands of their work. Immediacy forces journalists to work in a constant deadline environment, an ASAP world, but one where the vaunted traditions of yesterday's news still appear in the next day's print paper. Interactivity, inspired by the new user-computer directed capacities online and the immersive Web environment, brings new kinds of specialists into the newsroom, but exacts new demands upon the already taxed workflow of traditional journalists. And at time where social media presents the opportunity for new kinds of engagement between the audience and media, business executives hope for branding opportunities while journalists fail to truly interact with their readers.
Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers
by Chip Heath Karla StarrA clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath.How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren&’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as &“lots.&” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain&’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say &“Wow, now I get it!&” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than &“1/100,000th of the size of an atom.&” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into &“2 months of commutes, without repeating a song&”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (&“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer&”). Whether you&’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you&’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
The Making of a European Public Sphere
by Ruud Koopmans Paul StathamThis book investigates an important source of the European Union's recent legitimacy problems. It shows how European integration is debated in mass media, and how this affects democratic inclusiveness. Advancing integration implies a shift in power between governments, parliaments, and civil society. Behind debates over Europe's "democratic deficit" is a deeper concern: whether democratic politics can perform effectively under conditions of Europeanization and globalization. This study is based on a wealth of unique data from seven European countries, combining newspaper content analyses, an innovative study of Internet communication structures, and hundreds of interviews with leading political and media representatives across Europe. It is by far the most far-reaching and empirically grounded study on the Europeanization of media discourse and political contention to date, and a must-read for anyone interested in how European integration changes democratic politics and why European integration has become increasingly contested.
The Making of a Writer
by Gail GodwinGail Godwin was twenty-four years old when she wrote: “I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created. ” It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of her journal. Now, inThe Making of a Writer, Godwin has distilled her early journals, which run from 1961 to 1963, to their brilliant and charming essence. She conveys the feverish period following the breakup of her first marriage; the fateful decision to move to Europe and the shock of her first encounters with Danish customs (and Danish men); the pleasures of soaking in the human drama on long rambles through the London streets and the torment of lonely Sundays spent wrestling these impressions into prose; and the determination to create despite rejection and a growing stack of debts. “I do not feel like a failure,” Godwin insists. “I will keep writing, harder than ever. ” Brimming with urgency and wit, Godwin’s inspiring tome opens a shining window into the life and craft of a great writer just coming into her own. “A generous gift from a much-loved author to her readers. ” –Chicago Sun-Times “Full of lively, entertaining observations on the literary life . . . [captures] the spirit of a young writer’s adventure into foreign lands and foreign realms of thought and creative endeavor. ” –The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “As cities and continents and men change, the entries are borne along by . . . the young Godwin’s fierce conviction that she is meant to write fiction and her desire to distract herself from this mission with any man who catches her eye. ” –The New York Times Book Review “[Godwin] describes a high-wire act of love and work. . . . She espouses fierce, uncompromising ideas about fiction. ” –Los Angeles Times “[Gail Godwin’s journals] are a gold mine. ” –The Boston Globe
The Making of a Writer, Volume 2
by Gail Godwin Rob Neufeld"True, time is the villain and we are trapped in him. True, love is sometimes not returned. True, friends are sometimes false. But to be aware of this--all of it--and still want to go on living, that is the triumph. It is the reward." As a young woman and aspiring author, Gail Godwin kept a detailed journal of her hopes and dreams, her love affairs, daily struggles, and small triumphs as she yearned for the day when she would finally become a published writer. At the urging of her friend Joyce Carol Oates, Godwin has distilled these early journals into two parts: This second and final volume opens in London in 1963 and concludes with the triumphant sale of Godwin's first novel in 1969. Newly divorced and filled with literary ambition, Godwin arrives in London in 1962. At the start of this second volume, the call to write has become ingrained in the trajectory of her life. Though she is hobbled by a tedious but well-paying job with the U.S. Travel Service ("I thought I should no more be doing this job than raising skunks"), Godwin's journals brim with the emotional complexity and intellectual curiosity that will soon distinguish her novels, and a sharp wit that belies her twenty-six years.Through these pages, Godwin's development as a writer takes center stage, bolstered by her keen observations of human relationships--especially those between men and women: "I want to exploit, define, name, place this ever-shifting contest between men and women." Her own love affairs are varied, doomed, and fascinating: There's a short-lived engagement to a rugby player, a dalliance with a policeman, a tortured marriage to a psychiatrist obsessed with Scientology. "Men have let me down," she writes, "and I construct my meaning in the emptiness they've left behind." Leaving London and all its passionate wonders and disappointments, Godwin arrives in Iowa City to study at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. There, taught by Kurt Vonnegut and José Donoso, building friendships with Jane Barnes, John Casey, David Plimpton, and John Irving, Gail Godwin finally achieves her dream--and a published novelist is born. The Making of a Writer, Volume 2 is a remarkable window into the life of one of the most notable American writers of a generation, and an extraordinarily candid look at the very heart of a woman who has written herself to acclaim.From the Hardcover edition.
The Making of an Ink-stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat
by Jules WitcoverThe jovial Witcover, one of the original "boys on the bus," traces his path across 56 years or political reporting and analysis. His insider memoir looks at the changing role and style of reporters, commentators, and other shapers of public opinion and gives a personal gloss to public events spanning administrations from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia (Translation/Transnation #58)
by Haun SaussyA groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which China, as center, produces its own margins. Here Sinologist and comparatist Haun Saussy investigates the meanings of literary translation, adaptation, and appropriation on the boundaries of China long before it came into sustained contact with the West.When scholars talk about comparative literature in Asia, they tend to focus on translation between European languages and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, as practiced since about 1900. In contrast, Saussy focuses on the period before 1850, when the translation of foreign works into Chinese was rare because Chinese literary tradition overshadowed those around it.The Making of Barbarians looks closely at literary works that were translated into Chinese from foreign languages or resulted from contact with alien peoples. The book explores why translation was such an undervalued practice in premodern China, and how this vast and prestigious culture dealt with those outside it before a new group of foreigners—Europeans—appeared on the horizon.
Making of Peter Kurzeck: Literaturproduktion und ihre Inszenierung um 2000 (Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur #22)
by Nicola MenzelDie Studie untersucht die öffentliche Darstellung des Schreibprozesses Peter Kurzecks. Seine mehrbändige autofiktionale Romanreihe Das alte Jahrhundert sowie seine frei eingesprochenen Hörbücher wurden im Feuilleton einhellig als außergewöhnlich besprochen. Sie gelten als authentische Rarität in einem sich ansonsten zunehmend popularisierendem Literaturbetrieb. Die Arbeit zeigt hingegen, dass das Phänomen Kurzeck keinesfalls abseits eines ökonomisierten und medialisierten gegenwartskulturellen Feldes steht. Vielmehr lassen sich typische populäre und ökonomische Mechanismen ablesen wie u.a. Mehrfachadressierung, Zweitverwertung, Serialität und Fankultur. Auch das Phänomen Kurzeck selbst wirkt auf das Feld ein, von dem es sich abzusondern scheint, und zwar nicht trotz des autonomieästhetischen Gestus, sondern gerade deswegen. Kurzeck wird mithin als gegenwartsästhetisches Phänomen untersucht, bei dem Marktdistinktion zum Verkaufsargument wird.Exemplarisch an Kurzeck wird gezeigt, dass sich Formationen des gegenwartskulturellen Feldes um 2000 auch dort ablesen lassen, wo sie nicht erwartet werden. Die Arbeit regt dazu an, einen emphatischen Literaturbegriff als grundsätzlich produzierbar und konsumierbar zu verstehen, mit Blick auf Kurzeck als werkpolitischer Effekt der Selbst- und Schreibdarstellung einer Autorfigur. Als Beitrag zur Gegenwartsliteraturforschung regt sie darüber hinaus zur Reflexion der literaturwissenschaftlichen Haltung gegenüber ihrem Gegenstand und den eigenen Forschungspraktiken an.Methodisch verbindet sie feldtheoretische Fragen mit close readings nicht nur literarischer Texte und ihrer Vorarbeiten aus dem Nachlass Kurzecks, sondern auch von Interviews, Preisreden, Videoaufnahmen von Lesungen, einem öffentlichen Manuskriptdiktat im Frankfurter Literaturhaus sowie der Peter-Kurzeck-App. Das dafür entwickelte umfassende methodische Modell stellt einen generellen Vorschlag dar zur Analyse gegenwartsliterarischer Gegenstände, bei der literaturwissenschaftliche Methoden mit ökonomischen, paratextuellen, soziologischen, praxeologischen und kulturästhetischen Aspekten im Dialog stehen.
The Making of Visual News: A History of Photography in the Press
by Thierry Gervais Gaëlle MorelThe Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since. Drawing on a wide selection of images, author Thierry Gervais (in collaboration with Gaëlle Morel) analyses news photographs in the context of their original presentation in print. Highly illustrated, the book contains 85 full colour magazine layouts and spreads, offering the reader a view of how photographs were and are used in print publications, including Life, Picture Post, the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung and VU. It examines how photographs were employed to attract new readers throughout the twentieth century, arguing that photography was the main tool by which news editors sought to communicate the news and attract a broader readership. Looking beyond the roles of photographer and journalist, this study also highlights the contributions of picture editors and artistic directors; by commissioning photographs and incorporating images into magazine layouts, these figures played critical but often overlooked roles in the construction of visual news, even as they crafted unique styles for their publications. Charting changes in technology and reportage, as well as broader social and political histories, The Making of Visual News offers new insight into the history of photojournalism, making this an essential resource for students and scholars of photojournalism and the history of photography, media and culture