03108nam 22005775 450 991092100920332120250103115228.09783658401443365840144310.1007/978-3-658-40144-3(CKB)37156181000041(MiAaPQ)EBC31875771(Au-PeEL)EBL31875771(DE-He213)978-3-658-40144-3(OCoLC)1485002462(EXLCZ)993715618100004120250103d2024 u| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Lonelinesses of Modernity A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation /by Denis Newiak1st ed. 2024.Wiesbaden :Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2024.1 online resource (0 pages)9783658401436 3658401435 1. On the concept of modernity -- 2. communities of the pre-modern era -- 3. the onset of modernization -- 4. disorientation and abandonment: the lonelinesses of the early modern era -- 5. lonely time diagnoses of the industrial high modern era -- 6. the lonelinesses of the late modern era -- 7. life in the network society and the escalation of the late modern lonelinesses -- 8. has the post-modern era already begun?.Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness. The author Denis Newiak is a media, film and television scholar, teaches media and communication theory at various universities and conducts research on expressions of loneliness in modern societies This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book would look stylistically different from a conventional translation.Mass media and cultureSociologyCultureMedia CultureSociological TheorySociology of CultureMass media and culture.Sociology.Culture.Media Culture.Sociological Theory.Sociology of Culture.302.23Newiak Denis1645622MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910921009203321The Lonelinesses of Modernity4308350UNINA