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Narrative der digitalen Überwachung
No full textSurveillance protects us – surveillance controls us: Whether we regard surveillance technologies and practices as either a safeguard of or a threat to individual freedoms and liberal societies is heavily shaped by long-standing and powerful narratives. This is particularly the case for digital technologies, as the value-laden expectations that are projected onto them combine modernist and Enlightenment ideas with traditional Judeo-Christian motifs. As will be argued, they form the foundation for political, journalistic and scientific discourses interpreting digital surveillance as objective and omniscient, capable of laying bare the truth about the individual self, offering God-like providence, an omnipotent, even manipulative force.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6988
The Dynamics of Expectations: A Sequential Perspective on Macroeconomic Forecasting
No full textThe chapter claims forecasting is a process during which forecasts are regularly updates and revised. Paying attention to the dynamics of expectations provides the opportunity to study changes in expectations formed by professionals, and thus give insights into how their labor unfolds. Drawing upon data from a purposely-built database of forecasts running from September 2006 to September 2017, linear and logistic regression models investigate the informational and organizational grounds of forecasts revisions. It suggests that similar forecasts form a consistent sequence, so that revisions mostly consist in the adjustments of ‘old’ forecasts with respect to newly available information. By and large, forecasting means updating former forecasts. Besides, data shows the core activity of forecasting organizations, and in turn their audience, matter to understand the extent to which they revise their forecasts: despite what forecasters claim in interviews, public institutions, among which the IMF or the OECD, tend to revise their forecasts on a wider scale than private banks or insurance companies. Eventually, scrutinizing how forecasts revisions distribute according to the years during which they are produced, stress that during major economic crises, such as the Great Recession, forecasters not only revise their former expectations downward but also upward. This hints at a Durkheim-inspired interpretation of economic crises as re-opening the future.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/7142
Digital Pedagogy in American Studies
No full textThis article describes the ideas behind and the experiences with the experimental e-learning platform SHRIMP. Developed and deployed at American Studies Leipzig, the platform is used for the introductory Literature and Culture I seminar in the American Studies Bachelor of Arts program, and it serves as the main medium of instruction for around 80 students per year. It breaks up the linear form of the original seminar reader and instead offers students a hypertext of interconnected, short segments, enriched with social media and gamification elements, as well as a learning analytics component that invites students to take control of their own study and learning experience. It is driven by a dual assumption about digitization: that the digital age changes how students interact with text, and that digital textuality offers rich affordances beyond linear reading. Both can be harnessed to improve learning outcomes.http://www.asjournal.org/70-2020/leipzigs-social-hypertext-reader-shrimp-and-the-introduction-to-american-studies
Reconciling the Hidden Pearling History of Broome
No full textIn 2015 Yawuru people began the slow and emotional journey to repatriate their ‘Old People’ whose skeletal remains had been taken from their Country by collectors working mostly for museums. One group of ancestors were young pearlshell divers who had been sold to the Dresden Museum in Saxony, Germany, in 1895 by pearlers. Their bodily traumas revealed the brutal treatment they endured before their untimely deaths.
The journey brought the Yawuru and Karajarri elders and the curators of the Ethnographic Museums of Saxony together in their quest to find out what had happened to these people and to rehumanise our ancestors who had, for so long, been treated as objects in the museum collections. This article presents our reflections on the journey back to Germany to retrieve the ancestors, the development of our ‘Wanggajarli Burugun’ (‘We are coming home’) project and the findings from our research into the slavery of the early pearling days in and around Broome, Western Australia. It also reveals the emotional journey of our community as they delved into the trauma of this formerly unknown colonial practice of ‘bone-collecting’, and how, through the spirit of mabu liyan and a process of culturally informed engagement process we were able to address the dark deeds of the past to lead the journey to healing and reconciliation
Narrative der Überwachung: Typen, mediale Formen und Entwicklungen
No full textIn Film und Literatur gibt es durch kanonisierte Überwachungserzählungen eine Vielzahl von Narrativen der Überwachung, die in das Alltagswissen übergegangen sind und die kulturellen Verhandlungen und Vorstellungen von Privatheit und Autonomie prägen. Doch auch in einer Vielzahl von anderen Medien und Diskursen lassen sich Narrative der Überwachung finden, wie etwa im Computerspiel, in der Werbung, in Dokumentationen oder der Aktionskunst, und nicht zuletzt in der Wissenschaft selbst. Der Band widmet sich Modellierungen von Überwachung und geht Entwicklungen von Erzählungen und Diskursen anhand von verschiedenen Beispielen nach. Die interdisziplinären Perspektiven nehmen dabei auch das Verhältnis der Überwachungsnarrative zu Sicherheits-, Privatheits- und Digitalisierungsthemen in den Blick.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6988
Literarische Narrative der Überwachung – Alte und neue Spielformen der dystopischen Warnung
No full textThe technical possibilities of extra-literary reality have developed rapidly in recent years – today we find ourselves in the age of surveillance capitalism. The literary narratives of the last ten years reflect the changing figures of thought; away from George Orwell’s 'Big Brother' towards 'Big Other.' The article provides an overview of contemporary German-language surveillance narratives and highlights analogies and differences to the classic dystopia of the 20th century.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/6988
On Democracy of Digression: Chapter 30 of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
No full textThis essay focuses on chapter 30 of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, one of the novel’s shortest chapters. It contrasts bigness, destiny and Captain Ahab’s authoritarian abuse of power with smallness, free will, and digression, the democratic virtues portrayed in Moby-Dick mostly through their absence but also, in chapter 30, by their presence in the form of a pipe that Captain Ahab smokes on deck and is then compelled to toss overboard so that The Pequod might complete is star-crossed and disastrously foreshadowed voyage.http://www.asjournal.org/69-2020/on-democracy-of-digression
