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Media and Communications Studies in the Knowledge Society

April 17, 2012 by Christoph · Leave a Comment
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The market place of knowledge society: Who’s buying the results of media and communications studies? Source: http://bit.ly/HFHr9U The “knowledge society” belongs to a group of buzzwords which are often being criticized for their blurriness. It comes with equally vague synonyms such as “knowledge economy” or “information society” and, in the eye of most people, it [...]

Political Campaigning: The Common (Grass)Roots of Obama and Kennedy?

July 25, 2011 by Christoph · Leave a Comment
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“None of our politicians since Franklin has found such a direct contact to the masses”. Eleanor Roosevelt about John F. Kennedy (Photo: http://bit.ly/iWNn4) In these days, Barack Obama is negotiating with the Republicans over the national debt limit and, in the end, over America’s creditworthiness and the country’s future rating on the financial markets. The [...]

The Beauty of Complexity

May 22, 2011 by Christoph · 3 Comments
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Max Frisch turned 100 (Source: http://bit.ly/iOtP6c) Bob Dylan just turned 70. And Max Frisch turned 100. Well, at least he would have. Both artists are very important to me. The way both Dylan and Frisch express (or expressed) themselves somehow speaks to me. Why is that so? I think it’s the same reason why I [...]

Copenhagen 2009. Propaganda?

December 5, 2010 by Christoph · Leave a Comment
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Noam Chomsky (Source: http://bit.ly/gYOtrn) Of course I was disappointed. When I followed the German news on the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in 2009, I got the feeling that the world was unable to adress the size of the challenge ahead. I fully agreed with the coverage in German newspapers, which emphasised that this had [...]

USA. From Los Angeles to Arizona

October 1, 2010 by Christoph · Leave a Comment
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Yosemite National Park from Glacier Point. I loved every second. From the touchdown in LA to the helicopter flight through the Grand Canyon. I surely did one of the most travelled trips through the states at all (LA – Sequoia National Park – Yosemite – Death Valley – Vegas – Grand Canyon – LA). Yet, [...]

New Zealand. From Auckland to Christchurch

October 1, 2010 by Christoph · Leave a Comment
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Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand. The media had only one topic in the days right before my visit to New Zealand: The earthquake in Christchurch. Even though I had been a bit worried at first – it did not affect my journey at all. I was lucky to have a nice trip through [...]

Hong Kong. From Kowloon to Repulse Bay

September 5, 2010 by Christoph · Leave a Comment
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Hong Kong from Victoria Peak. No, it’s not rain. When there is clear blue sky and 33 degrees celcius in Hong Kong, the only water coming from above is the tiny cool drops running out of the thousands of air conditionings on the walls of every building. When I first crossed Nathan Road in Kowloon, [...]

Kaletsky, Capitalism and the Media

August 8, 2010 by Christoph · 2 Comments
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Photo: New York Stock Exchange 1963 (Source: http://bit.ly/amYJNo) This afternoon, I came across an interesting passage in Anatole Kaletsky’s “Capitalism 4.0″ (2010): “The media, influential academics, and the political establishment usually hold the same view. These powerful opinion-formers have risen to prominence under the old system. Their intellectual conservatism is often even more entrenched than [...]

Print journalism: Light at the end of the tunnel?

June 24, 2010 by Christoph · 1 Comment
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Photo Source: http://bit.ly/chDf6J No – it’s not a typo! Last week’s Economist published an article under the headline: “Newspapers: not dead yet”. For years it seemed as if the death of newspapers was only a matter of time. The Internet and its free content promised to be their grave digger. However: “German and Brazilian papers shrugged [...]

I’m on my way

March 24, 2010 by Christoph · 1 Comment
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Hi and welcome to my blog. Finding the right words for a good start is never easy and therefore I just started typing. The picture you see above was taken during a car ride through Lower Bavaria in 2005. And basically it shows the state this blog is in: I’m on my way. This is [...]