Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften To the Next Station: Papers on Culture and Digital Communication

Product Description Internet has radically transformed our ways to communicate in an increasingly globalised world. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this book aims to explore the consequences of technological revolution in Communication. This collection of articles discusses social and economic dynamics of digital and technological upheaval. Each contributor approaches the issue from a different frame of reference: translation, advertising, big data and memory, new uses and practices in mass media, effects on journalism, education and free time. About the Author María José Corvo Sánchez is a Senior Lecturer on German Language at the University of Vigo. Her research interests focus on history of foreign language teaching in Europe and German literature, with particular dedication to the German and Spanish languages, and Children’s and Young People’s Literature. Benigno Fernández Salgado studied Philology at the University of Santiago. In 1996, he completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford. He taught at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford and was a visiting scholar at the Argentinian Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the City University of New York. He is now a Senior Lecturer on Galician Language at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Vigo, in Spain. For the past twenty years, his research has focussed on the interactions between languages and cultures.