Dennis Schmidt – författare

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, grade: 2,0, Malmo University, language: English, abstract: "e;It's the value of fairness which is extremely important. It's the ethic of restraining your own biases which is also important... It's the idea that journalism can't be the voice of any particular party or sect."e; This is only one of numerous definitions of the term 'objectivity' which will be the main theme of this thesis paper. The following text will deal with the concept of 'objectivity' and its relation and effects towards journalism and media. It will especially concentrate on 'objectivity' in regards to war and conflict by analyzing the link of 'objectivity' and 'subjectivity' to two photographs taken during the Russo-Georgian conflict of 2008. First the thesis will present 'objectivity' as a concept in general and why it plays an important role and is often discussed in the field of journalism. Subsequently the two photographs will be introduced shortly and examined focusing on how far 'objectivity' can be transferred or not to those two contrasting photographs. The conclusion will sum up the results of this analysis.

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 3,0, Malmo University, language: English, abstract: The following text will mainly concentrate on the concept of enemy image. In the Oxford Dictionary the word enemy is defined like this: An enemy is a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something"e;. Indeed, hostility and opposition play an extremely important role not only in our everyday individual life, but of course also in political relations - national and international - and social relationships. We a confronted with news about hostility and enemies every day by our newspaper, television, radio and the Internet because the phenomenon of enmity is present all over the world and can be seen as an ineradicable characteristic trait of humanity. The paper will firstly analyse the concept enemy image by consulting different authors and academic text concentrating on the question: How can we define an enemy image? Afterwards it will discuss, if one can recognize a certain similarity in the way political actors create an enemy image by the question: Which patterns tend to reoccur when enemy images are produced? Finally, the consequences of enemy images when they are accepted in society play a role. When we go back in history, we can find uncountable examples of enmities which had war, violence and suffering as consequence: Religious groups like Christians fought against Muslims in several crusades, whole nations have become hereditary enemies such as Germany and France after 1800 or several nations formed alliances to combat one big enemy like Hitler and his Nazi Germany during World War II. The next part of the essay will focus on an empirical example, namely the extreme right-wing party in Germany, the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (the National Democratic Party). It will elaborate on how they deliver their views upon immigration, non-Germans and Germany itself by analysing their homepage (npd.de) in order to discover how they treat the concept of enemy image in their political program and try to find out in how far their adoption of enemy images fit into the results worked out the chapter before. I chose that party as my empirical example, because for me as a German, it is very interesting to see how the Nationalists try to justify their anti-democratic, non-multicultural and nationalist ideas by creating enemy images in order to gain voters and popularity amongst the population. [...]

Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit der Finanzierung der Digitalisierung im Sinne der digitalen Transformation für kleine und mittelständige Unternehmen (KMU). Dieses Buch stellt das „Digital Transformation Financing Framework“ (DTFF) vor, dass einerseits die Finanzierung der digitalen Transformation mit den klassischen Finanzierungsinstrumenten der Unternehmensfinanzierung darstellt. Andererseits zeigen Selbstfinanzierungsinstrumente auf Geschäftsmodellebene zusätzliche und innovative Handlungsmöglichkeiten für die Umsetzung in Eigenregie und ohne Banken auf.

Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit der Finanzierung der Digitalisierung im Sinne der digitalen Transformation für kleine und mittelständige Unternehmen (KMU). Dieses Buch stellt das „Digital Transformation Financing Framework“ (DTFF) vor, dass einerseits die Finanzierung der digitalen Transformation mit den klassischen Finanzierungsinstrumenten der Unternehmensfinanzierung darstellt. Andererseits zeigen Selbstfinanzierungsinstrumente auf Geschäftsmodellebene zusätzliche und innovative Handlungsmöglichkeiten für die Umsetzung in Eigenregie und ohne Banken auf.

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 3,0, Ruhr-University of Bochum, course: British Humour, language: English, abstract: "e;Little Britain"e; is one of the most popular comedy productions. But what makes it that popular and funny? Without any doubt one considerable reason are the minorities in British society, who become the butt of jokes: Immigrants, homosexuals, transvestites, people with special needs or those of different ethnicity. Making fun of minorities, however, also evokes criticism: Johann Hari (2005), commentator of The Independent, for instance, claims that [Little Britain] is cluttered with ugly prejudices . Thus, the question occurs if Little Britain really entertains on behalf of minorities, implying racism and hate towards minorities. In this paper I will try to answer this question by introducing Homi K. Bhabha's theory of defining ethnic and racial minorities and by asking if consolidated views on Asians and Africans become the humoristic substance for two main characters in Little Britain, the Asian lady-boy Ting Tong Macadangdang and Marjorie Dawes, the leader of a weight loss support group. In the next chapter I will focus on gender minorities, who will be introduced by Judith Butler's work on sex and gender. Her performance and performative theory shall help to analyze the two transvestites Emily and Florence and the young homosexual man named Daffyd Thomas from a small Welsh village. Chapter four summarizes the findings and tries to answer the question how exactly Little Britain works with making fun of minorities.

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: The Study of Poetry, language: English, abstract: Mit seinem Gedicht "e;The Garden of Love"e; hat der Romantiker William Blake ein recht kurzes, aber sehr aussagekraftiges Gedicht publiziert: Die zwolf Verse reprasentieren eindrucksvoll seine Haltung zur Church of England sowie typische Merkmale der Epoche der Romantik. Die vorliegende Interpretation beginnt mit einer formalen Analyse des Gedichts und einer Inhaltsangabe. Es folgt eine detaillierte inhaltliche Analyse und Interpretation der einzelnen Strophen mit Hinblick auf die zuvor aufgestellte Deutungshypothese (Blake's kritische Haltung zur Church of England) sowie der Verknupfung zwischen Form/Sprache (inkl. Stilmittel) und Inhalt. Schlie lich werden die Beobachtungen zusammengefasst.

Für die digitale Hochschullehre stellt die Corona-Pandemie nicht weniger als eine Zeitenwende dar. Noch Anfang 2020 war sie außerhalb der Mediendidaktik ein Nischenthema, heute bestimmt sie den universitären Alltag. Welche didaktischen Chancen und Probleme für die Geschichtswissenschaft damit verbunden sind und wie sich zukünftig Präsenz-, Online- und Hybridlehre wechselseitig ergänzen können, steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes. Ausgehend von der gemeinsamen Reflexion ihrer Lehrtätigkeit an der FernUniversität in Hagen und an anderen Universitäten formulieren die Autor*innen Anregungen für den sinnvollen Einsatz von Videokonferenzsystemen, Lernplattformen und weiteren digitalen Tools.