Describing the Islamic State's ideologues as 'entrepreneurs of identity', this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used them as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring. Based on a wide dossier of original texts, speeches, images, and videos, the book examines how these ideologues have built a symbolic repertoire around the black flag as well as ideas and social practices such as the dictum to command good and forbid wrong, the supervision of public behaviour, and the oath of allegiance to the Caliph.

The Global System for Mobile Communication met with wide acceptance in 1993. Its technical conception has significant advantages over the first generation of cellular systems. Digital European Cordless Telecommunications will provide similar advantages. In Europe, the second generation of wireless communication is established and a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System is currently being conceived. All this leads to a natural subdivision of current research into four categories: new and improved usage of existing standards, signal processing algorithms that are simpler or closer to the optimum, forther development of existing systems, and work that will ultimately lead to new system proposals. This volume presents the proceedings of a seminar at which all these categories were covered.

ISIS is often described as a terrorist organisation that uses social media to empower its supporters and reinforce its message. Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation, sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts. Divided into four thematic sections, the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressions and show how, in turn, political activists appropriate extremist media to oppose and resist the propaganda. By conceptualising militant Islamist audiovisual productions as part of global media aesthetics and practices, the authors shed light on how religious actors, artists, civil society activists, global youth, political forces, security agencies and researchers engage with mediated manifestations of Jihadi ideology to deconstruct, reinforce, defy or oppose the messages.

ISIS is often described as a terrorist organisation that uses social media to empower its supporters and reinforce its message. Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation, sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts. Divided into 4 thematic sections, the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressions and show how, in turn, political activists appropriate extremist media to oppose and resist the propaganda. By conceptualising militant Islamist audiovisual productions as part of global media aesthetics and practices, the authors shed light on how religious actors, artists, civil society activists, global youth, political forces, security agencies and researchers engage with mediated manifestations of Jihadi ideology to deconstruct, reinforce, defy or oppose the messages.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich BWL - Controlling, Note: 1.4, Duale Hochschule Baden-Wurttemberg Heidenheim, fruher: Berufsakademie Heidenheim, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gegenstand dieser Diplomarbeit ist das Internetgeschaft, also die digitale Geschaftsanbahnung und Abwicklung der Leistungserbringung uber das Internet (WWW = World Wide Web). Im Vordergrund steht die Verbesserung, die Beschleunigung und die Effizienzsteigerung von Ablaufen und Prozessen. Die Rede ist von Electronic Business" (eBusiness). Um eBusiness-Aktivitaten mit allen seinen Vorteilen und Zielen zu betreiben, tatigen Unternehmen immense Investitionen, mit bisher unterschiedlichen und teilweise nur massigem Erfolg. Die Ertrage mussen gemessen werden und mit den Aufwendungen, sei es Investitionen in Technik oder Neugestaltung der Geschaftsprozesse und deren Implementierung, ins Verhaltnis gesetzt werden. Es gilt, eine Rentabilitat zu bestimmen, die die Bestrebungen in diesem Marktsegment unter wirtschaftlichen Aspekten rechtfertigt. Der wirtschaftliche Erfolg einer Homepage bzw. der eBusiness-Aktivitaten lasst sich monetar daran ablesen, welcher Mehrumsatz generiert werden kann oder welche unternehmensinternen Geschaftsprozesse besser, schneller und damit kostengunstiger gehandelt werden konnen. In dieser Diplomarbeit wird keine empirische Studie erhoben. Ebenso wird kein expliziter Bezug auf ein Unternehmen aus der Praxis genommen, weil eine allgemeingultige Verwendbarkeit der Inhalte dieser Diplomarbeit angestrebt wird