Anne Frank unbound [[electronic resource] ] : media, imagination, memory / / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462510603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-59712-8; 9786613909572; 0-253-00755-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (455 p.)
• Collana: The Modern Jewish Experience
• Altri autori (Persone): Kirshenblatt-GimblettBarbara; ShandlerJeffrey
• Disciplina: 940.53/18092
• Soggetti: Jews - Netherlands - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This volume of essays was developed from ... a colloquium convened in 2005 by the Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University"--Introd.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anne Frank, the Phenomenon; I. Mediating; 1 From Diary to Book: Text, Object, Structure; 2 Anne Frank from Page to Stage; 3 Anne Frank's Moving Images; II. Remembering; 4 Hauntings of Anne Frank: Sitings in Germany; 5 Teaching Anne Frank in the United States; 6 Anne Frank as Icon, from Human Rights to Holocaust Denial; 7 Anne Frank, a Guest at the Seder; Color Plates; III. Imagining; 8 Literary Afterlives of Anne Frank; 9 Suturing In: Anne Frank as Conceptual Model for Visual Art; 10 Sounds from the Secret Annex: Composing a Young Girl's Thoughts IV. Contesting; 11 Critical Thinking: Scholars Reread the Diary; 12 Anne Frank on Crank: Comic Anxieties; Epilogue: A Life of Its Own-The Anne Frank Tree; Notes; Musicography; Videography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life ; and writing. Apart from officially sanctioned works and organizations, there exists a prodigious amount of cultural production, which encompasses literature, art, music, film, television, blogs, pedagogy, scholarship, religious ritual, and comedy. Created by both artists and amateurs, these responses to Anne Frank ra

The e-Government Development Discourse

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765846903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durbanville, : AOSIS, 2018
• ISBN: 9781928396574
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326)
• Soggetti: Politics & government; Information technology: general issues
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: research agenda for e-Government. When e-Government was first conceived, it was designed upon basic technologies where the emphasis was only on the simple display of government information for citizens to read. Nowadays, e-Government design comprises many complicated modules such as upload and download consoles, two-way interaction consoles between citizens and government agents, integrated government business processes presenting the whole of government, and it does not depend solely on technology. The complexity of e-Government has now evolved to include political, cultural, economic, social and technical dimensions. Bringing all these difficult aspects together is so complicated that it needs carefully planned strategies informed by local contextual characteristics. Rather than giving formulaic definitions and conceptual standpoints on many aspects of e-Government, as is the case in many e-Government ; publications, this book will explore the frontiers of global knowledge value chains by discussing current and future dimensions of e-Government. For example, the book discusses the concept of data governance by exploring how actual opening up of government data can be achieved, especially in a developing world context. Further, the book posits that opening government data should be followed by the opening up of government business processes in order to peddle the concept of accountability and responsiveness. Much text on data governance has concentrated on articulating the basic definitions surrounding this concept. Another very important topic explored in this book is regarding how the concept of decolonisation can be extended to e-Government by providing practical examples as to how researchers in the developing world can contribute to the advancement of e-Government as a scientific field of enquiry and guide its implementation, thereof. Decolonisation is advocated for in e-Government research so that there is a balance in the inclusion of the Afrocentric knowledge into e-Government advancement other than over-reliance on the Euro-, Asia- and America-centric knowledge value chains (Mbembe 2015). As e-Government is a very expensive undertaking, the issue of funding has excluded African countries and a majority of the developing world from implementing e-Government. Despite funding being a critical cornerstone of e-Government development, there is a dearth of information on this topic. Therefore, this book provides a chapter which discusses traditional and innovative ways of funding e-Government design and implementation which can go a long way in improving e-Government penetration into the developing world. Further, the book explores how intelligent e-Government applications can be designed, especially in resource-constrained countries. A couple of emerging technology innovations such as fog computing and intelligent information technology are explored within the realm of e-Government design.