Media Studies

The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years earlier in 1607.

On December 15, 1985, powerful mafia don Carlos Marcello, referring to JFK's death, told a fellow Texas prison inmate, in part, that, "Yeah, I had the son of a bitch killed." This changes everything about not only the president's assassination but also reveals Marcello's complicity in the deaths...

Many of the most high-profile podcasts today, however, are produced by highly-skilled media professionals, some of whom are employees of media corporations. Legacy radio and new media platform giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Spotify are also making big (and expensive) moves in the medium by acquiring content producers and hosting platforms. This book focuses on three major aspects of this transformation: formalization, professionalization, and monetization.

Una dodicenne partecipa a una sfida lanciata sui social, va a scuola con una borraccia piena di vodka e finisce in coma etilico. Un bambino, scrollando TikTok, si imbatte in un gioco che consiste nel prendere più pastiglie di paracetamolo possibile e finisce in ospedale. La maestra di una scuola elementare muore in un incidente stradale causato dall'autista del pullman su cui viaggiava: l'uomo, invece di guardare la strada, digitava sul cellulare. Attraverso storie come queste a tratti scioccanti, Carlo Verdelli racconta una rivoluzione che sta modificando nel profondo tanto gli adolescenti quanto gli adulti.

Mary Abdelaziz-Ditzow, Chefredakteurin beim beliebten Portal finanzfluss, wirft einen erhellenden Blick hinter die Kulissen der deutschen Medienwelt. Sie räumt auf mit Irrtümern und haltlosen Klischees, schildert gängige Fails im System und erklärt, warum es „die Wahrheit" einfach nicht gibt. Anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen zeigt sie: Die Medienbranche kämpft mit gewaltigen Problemen – doch bleiben etablierte Nachrichtenmedien trotzdem unersetzlich.