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Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no long…
Bilderkennungsprogrammen gelingt es nicht, grauenhaftes Bild- und Filmmaterial aus den sozialen Medien herauszuhalten. Deshalb sortieren Billiglöhner auf den Philippinen die Dateien aus. Der Autor war vor Ort und recherchierte.
Sabotierte Wirklichkeit
"In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in genera…
"In 'Lost in Translation, Found in Transliteration', Alex Kerner examines London's Spanish & Portuguese Jews' congregation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as a community that delineated its identity not only along ethnic and religious lines, but also along the vario…
"In 'Lost in Translation, Found in Transliteration', Alex Kerner examines London's Spanish & Portuguese Jews' congregation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as a community that delineated its identity not only along ethnic and religious lines, but also along the vario…
During the period 1900-1940 novels and poems in the UK and US were subject to strict forms of censorship and control because of their representation of sex and sexuality. At the same time, however, writers were more interested than ever before in writing about sex and excrement,…
During the period 1900-1940 novels and poems in the UK and US were subject to strict forms of censorship and control because of their representation of sex and sexuality. At the same time, however, writers were more interested than ever before in writing about sex and excrement,…
During the period 1900-1940 novels and poems in the UK and US were subject to strict forms of censorship and control because of their representation of sex and sexuality. At the same time, however, writers were more interested than ever before in writing about sex and excrement,…
Censorship: a world encyclopedia