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"Today’s discourses on Africa are manifold – as manifold as the images we have of everyday life there. Both are fed by a Western narrative that saddles the “Black Continent” with all kinds of clichés – whether the stuff of dreams or of nightmares. In images that are at times documentary, ... more

"This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. Th ... more

"Today, DIY- do-it-yourself - describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's "Twitter revolution" of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new user-generated content) in order to offer political counternar ... more

"Der Schwerpunkt der Missionschronik 2006 ist Papua-Neuguinea. Neben dem Bildteil stellen auch viele Artikel Aspekte der missionarischen Situation vor sowie die Antworten, die die Steyler Ordensfamilie heute dort gibt." (Vorwort)

Afrika im Blick der Fotografen = Africa in the view of the photographers

Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas

Reconnecting with Citizens: From Values to Big Data. Communication of Governments, the EU and Political Parties in Times of Populism and Filter Bubbles

DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media

Steyler Missionschronik 2006 [Schwerpunkt Papua-Neuginea]

Die (koloniale) Begegnung: AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland 1880 - 1945, Deutsche in Afrika 1880 - 1918

A Thesaurus of African Languages: A Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa