Updated the blog a bit.

Small update of the blog.
Trying to keep up with my schedule!

Okay my dissertation is progressing and the first 10 days lead to 573 datasets!

YES - already passed the minimum number of completed datasets I needed for my thesis, and already past the halfway point of a good large data set ;)

Thanks to the Johannes Kepler University Linz and Paris Lodron University Salzburg!

Yeah IGN does not really do journalistic work. But those memes are getting really interesting for me.
Can special interest media even do "journalism" and survive?

Okay... The mighty GAF has even a gooooood long thread on the whole issue of gaming journalism!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497024

Women and media industries in Europe

And just a short follow up to my last post:
Susanne Kirchhoff and me are the Austrian research team for the new project funded by the "European Institute for Gender Equality"(EIGE) and we have now reached stage 3 of the project - conducting interviews with female journalists in Austrian media.

Homepage: http://womenandmedia.eu/

Young female journalists - a favourite topic of mine...

Yesterday the newest edition of Momentum Quarterly was published.
And it contains a peer-reviewed article in German by Martina and me.

We are proud to have it published in a starting open access journal.

Look it up: "Jung, weiblich und Journalistin: Endstation Prekrariat?"

Oxford and journalism ethics

Just a short heads up...
We - that is Roman Hummel, Susanne Kirchhoff and me, Dimitri Prandner - were at the" Journalism Ethics: Individual, institutional or cultural?" and presented our paper that gave insight to some of the more pressing issues in Austrian journalism regarding ethics and regulation.

Weblink: Confernce HP
Paper is currently under review and thus we are not able to hand it out at this time, but the sildes are available upon request.

Book Review (German) - Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

This is short book review regarding the following collection:

Baert, Patrick, Sokratis M. Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci u. Carlo Ruzza (Ed.):
Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society;
Routledge, New York 2010

Sorry that the review is in German, but in short: It's a great collection on the current discussion on citizenship issues in Europe, even if a bit more cohesion would have been great.


Link to review: CCC - Book Review

Full papers and the blog

In the future I will offer some full papers on the blog, as long as they are not firmly rooted in the social sciences and may be primarly interesting people outside the academia.

They will all be under creative commons and I invite everybody to read and cite them. Enjoy them and feel free to provide feedback!

Finally my copy of the collected edition "Soziale Ungleicheit und soziales Kapital" arrived in Salzburg :)

The paper of Martina and I is to befound on pages 91 to 96 and I'm proud of the short chapter detailing why young and female journalists have to fight against structural challanges in the Austrian journalistic field.

The longer, follow up article "Jung, weiblich, Journalistin: Endstation Prekariat?" which was written by the same team over the last few month will be published in the "Momentum Quarterly" journal soon.

Bibliographic Information:
Lettner, M. / Prandner, D. (2012): Übermacht der grauen Schreiber: Das soziale Kapital ist fest in den Händen alter Männer in Fh Johanneum: Soziale Ungleichheit und Soziales Kapital. Graz: FH Joanneum Eigenverlag, p. 91 - 96.

Batman and Identity...

Claiming the cowl – Dick Grayson’s Batman as seen by the online community ‘Scans_daily’ 

Abstract

To fight his war on crime Bruce Wayne created the identity of Batman, but decades of publication history led to several other characters donning the legendary cape and cowl. The latest of those was Dick Grayson, once the first Robin and later Nightwing, who claimed the Batman’s mask in 2009, after his predecessor disappeared and writer Grant Morrison explored the idea if Batman can truly be more than the man behind the cowl.

But how did the fans react to this change? A comprehensive analysis, based on a sample of thematically relevant comments and postings written during Grayson’s time as Batman at the webpage of the comic book fan community ‘Scans_daily’ tries to both answer this question, as well as identify distinctive groups of fans reacting especially strong to the changes in the Batmen’s world. 

Download the Article here:

Dick Grayson as Batman, as viewed by Online Communities

Cite as: Prandner, D. (2012): 'Claiming the Cowl’ at Popculturesociologist.

Originally planed for a peer-reviewed, non-scientific publication I decided to post it here and offer it under creative commons guidelines for everyone. Be aware that while it was reviewed and adjusted to peer-feedback it is only scientifically informed, but in no way a scientific article!
All copyrights for the variant cover of 'Battle for the cowl' lie with DC comics and the responsible artists and the picture is only used as an illustration.