In this new episode of our virtual classroom series, students of UIC’s 2021 “Entertainment Journalism” class talk to Bernhard Zand – long time DER SPIEGEL correspondent, linguistic miracle (who effortlessly switches between several languages in a single sentence), passionate jogger, and last but not least:
Hi everybody! My name is Ben. I am the author of Entertainment Journalism – Making Your Career and the same journalist. So I want to say hello to everybody. Thank you so much for asking me such interesting questions. I’ll do my very best to
The new German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recently prescribed a course of “dialogue and toughness” for China. Bad cop and good cop in one person, a bit of Habermas here, a bit of Carl Schmitt there, so to speak. German tabloid BILD did not
Futures of Media – Media Power 21-22 January 2022 Journalism Program – Xiamen University Malaysia The conference will be held on Zoom The relationship between politics and the media has always been one of the central themes of media theory. From the beginnings, media scholars exerted
The Moral Roots of Quarantine: The East and the West 16–17 December 2021, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Macau “The Moral Roots of Quarantine: The East and the West” mainly aims at enriching the scholarly debate about comparative East–West perspectives on the responses to
Hi, Min. How are you? Hi, Chelsea. I’m okay, thanks. I was looking forward to play some soccer later today, but when I woke up this morning, my heel was swollen, out of nothing. No idea why. It really hurts when I step on it.
AK: Hi, Markus. Hello, Arqam, hello, Aymen. AK: Here we are again, more than 90 days later. Yes, here we are. I am happy to see that you are both still alive and well. AK: Alive, yes. Well, not so much. AA: Yeah, these lockdowns
The Work of Art in the Age of Second-Order Observation On June 3, 2021, the online magazine artnet reported that the hitherto little known Italian artist Salvatore Garau, “auctioned off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300.” The sculpture, it was added, is “made literally of nothing.”
AK: Markus, how do you explain the resurgence of what is called ‘the lab-leak thesis’ in the Western media, which was already believed to be dead? Politically. And mass media-wise. These are the two factors one needs to look at. And of course one must
Professor Fuchs, we assume that you are currently also following the lab leak debate. What do you notice? I notice that – as is actually always the case – the question of causality is at the centre. The search is on for the reason, the