"Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relations…
"Examines the work of satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form"--
Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel--these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists th…
Offentlichkeit ist wichtig fur die Demokratie, und sie wandelt sich. Ihre aktuelle Entwicklung vollzieht sich im Spannungsfeld dreier Sequenzen institutionellen Wandels - der Globalisierung, der Kommodifizierung und der Digitalisierung des Sozialen. Diese beleuchten die Beitrage…
This volume sets out the state-of-the-art in the discipline of journalism at a time in which the practice and profession of journalism is in serious flux.While journalism is still anchored to its history, change is infecting the field. The profession, and the scholars who study …
This dissertation closely reads the public rhetoric and performance of three monumental figures in black religious discourse - Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton – in order to trace how a personality-centered model of black public leadership has emerged and …
This dissertation examines the practice of public religious disputation in early seventeenth-century Europe. It takes a transnational approach, examining disputations in France, England, and the Low Countries between 1598 and 1625. This approach highlights the ways in which comm…
This dissertation examines the genre of the author-published familiar letter to consider the ways in which people come to understand themselves as part of a public, and as actors who might affect the shape of that public. Chapter 1, on Alexander Pope’s Mr. Pope’s Literary Corres…
The purpose of this humanities-based study is to evaluate how the American public broadcasting system has traditionally served children, how it currently fulfills that role, and finally to propose a new approach to children's public broadcasting that is more democratic and atten…
This thesis examines the history and legacy of Chicana/o muralism in the neighborhood of La Alma-Lincoln Park in Denver, Colorado. During the 1970s, Emanuel Martinez and community members initiated the production of public murals in the neighborhood. These distinctly Chicana/o m…
The dissertation explores and defends the theory and practice of a Western-Islamic public sphere (which is secular but not secularist and which is Islamic but not Islamist), within which a critical Islamic intellectual universe can unfold, dealing hermeneutically with texts and …
This dissertation explores the public presence and political impact of sacred music in Senegal, a secular nation whose population is over ninety percent Muslim. Synthesizing textual analysis, ethnographic methods, and historical perspectives, it examines the public musical perfo…
My dissertation is an exegetical, reconstructive and critical project on Jürgen Habermas' recent account of the role of religion in the public sphere. It is an exegetical dissertation insofar as it interprets Habermas' account as presented in his article Religion in the Public S…
More than sixteen years have passed since the launch of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel. Looking back, the state of Arab media and its relationship with the political sphere was different from what we see nowadays. The launch of Al Jazeera in 1996 was a significant event…
This thesis examines online journalism in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and its role in political debate in this emerging democracy. It also focuses on the role of the internet in the public sphere, explores the historical context in which Kurdish online journalism has developed …
This thesis analyses the content of three Arab satellite television talk shows and their reception by women in Jordan. It aims to assess the role of talk shows in the Arab public sphere by engaging with different conceptualisations and criticisms of the public sphere theory, sta…
