Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies Editor Prof. Dr. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek University of Halle-Wittenberg

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The Shaker Publishing Series of Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies (ISSN 1864-5224) publishes single-authored and edited volumes on topics in the widest definition of the study culture, its processes, and its products where media studies and communication studies (theory and application) represent an integral part of the field(s) of inquiry. The intellectual orientation of the series is based upon the field of comparative cultural studies where selected tenets of the discipline of cultural studies are merged with selected tenets of the fields of comparative literature, communication studies, and media studies. This intellectual orientation means that the study of culture, its processes, and its products -- including aspects and perspectives of media, communication, the visual arts, theater, film, photography, literature, as well as cultural perspectives of themes and topics in the fields of sociology, political science, cultural anthropology, history, intellectual history, philosophy, etc. -- is performed in a contextual and relational manner and with a plurality of methods and approaches and in inter- and multi-disciplinarity. In comparative cultural studies it is the processes of communicative action(s) in culture and the how of these processes that constitute the main objectives of research and study. However, comparative cultural studies does not exclude textual analysis proper or other established fields of study whereby "text" is defined in its widest possible representations. In comparative cultural studies, ideally, the framework of and methodologies available in the contextual approach of the systemic and empirical study of culture are favored (for a detailed discussion, see, e.g., Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, "From Comparative Literature Today toward Comparative Cultural Studies." Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2003. 235-67; see also Siegfried J. Schmidt, "Literary Studies from Hermeneutics to Media Culture Studies". CLCWeb: ComparativeLiterature and Culture 12.1 (2010): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol12/iss1/1.

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http://www.shaker.de/de/content/download/totosyshakerguidelines.doc

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	1.	Carmen Andras (ed.) New Directions in Travel Writing and Travel Studies Volume: 2 Series: Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies 978-3-8322-8197-7, January 2010 Online publication (PDF) more ...	49,80 €
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	2.	Edited by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Carmen Andras, and Magdalena Marsovszky The New Central and East European Culture Volume: 1 Series: Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies 978-3-8322-5143-7, June 2006 Online publication (PDF) more ...	49,80 €

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