Yazar: Joost Van Loon

Ulrich Beck′s best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallyi …

In the light of a rapidly changing media industry with new technologies, actors and advertising models, and the critical role of media in society, this volume highlights the meaning of different valu …

The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New Materialism in Sociology and Philosophy. They raise the questions of what New Materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be …

Die vertiefte Auseinandersetzung mit raumbezogenen Forschungsthemen, die seit etwa 20 Jahren unter dem Stichwort »Spatial Turn« in den Kulturwissenschaften stattfindet, bleibt bezüglich ihrer begriff …

The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories …

• What are media?
• Why are more and more objects being turned into media?
• How do people interconnect with the media in structuring their everyday lives?

In Media …

The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories …

The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories …

Ulrich Beck’s best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallyi …

Die Idee der Solidarität erfährt insbesondere im Kontext multipler Krisen verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit. Die heute allgegenwärtigen Forderungen nach »mehr Solidarität« werden auch – bisweilen leichtferti …