@incollection{Newiak, author = {Newiak, Denis}, title = {Death in a Lonely Place: The Loneliness of Modern Dying in the Bathrooms of Bates Motel and 13 Reasons Why}, series = {Lingering Shadows. A Literary Journey into Memory and Death}, booktitle = {Lingering Shadows. A Literary Journey into Memory and Death}, editor = {Kumari, Swati and Kumar, Manoj}, publisher = {Yking Books}, address = {Jaipur}, pages = {1 -- 22}, language = {en} } @misc{Newiak, author = {Newiak, Denis}, title = {Moderne Einsamkeiten, televisuelle Gemeinschaften: wie Fernsehserien die Gesellschaft zusammenhalten}, series = {mediendiskurs}, volume = {28}, journal = {mediendiskurs}, number = {3}, issn = {2751-0387}, pages = {46 -- 51}, abstract = {Seit Beginn der TV-{\"A}ra und noch bis Anfang der 1990er-Jahre galt das Fernsehen als eine Art „Vereinsamungsmaschine": Fernsehende w{\"u}rden vor ihren Fernsehger{\"a}ten nicht mehr miteinander reden, den Anschluss an die außermediale Realit{\"a}t verlieren und sich psychologisch isolieren. An die Stelle dieser fernsehkritischen Vorbehalte sind in der j{\"u}ngeren Vergangenheit (nicht zuletzt durch das Aufkommen von Quality-TV-Serien und eine intensivere Fernsehforschung) {\"u}berwiegend positivere Grundhaltungen getreten, die die vergemeinschaftenden Funktionen von Fernsehserien in den Mittelpunkt r{\"u}cken: Im Forschungsdiskurs setzen sich zunehmend Konzepte durch, die die vielf{\"a}ltigen Funktionen von Vergemeinschaftung durch Formen televisueller Serialit{\"a}t betonen und die vereinsamenden Effekte als vernachl{\"a}ssigbar betrachten. Der Beitrag gibt einen {\"U}berblick der wichtigsten Diskurslinien zu den vergemeinschaftenden Modi von Fernsehserien in Zeiten zunehmender Vereinsamung in den modernen Gesellschaften.}, language = {de} } @incollection{Newiak, author = {Newiak, Denis}, title = {The loneliness of conspiracy believers in pandemic series using the examples of Sl{\o}born and Y: The Last Man}, series = {Conspiracy Ideologies in Films and Series}, booktitle = {Conspiracy Ideologies in Films and Series}, editor = {Newiak, Denis and Schnitzer, Anastasia}, publisher = {Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {9783658436933}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-43694-0_4}, pages = {61 -- 93}, abstract = {Not only since the Covid-19 crisis have pandemics and the conspiracy ideologies circulating around them played a central role in current television series. In doing so, the series depict the characters afflicted by such conspiracy beliefs as thoroughly lonely figures, for whom clinging to conspiratorial thinking represents an apparent chance for orientation, meaning, and thereby community. Using a detailed examination of the social constellations and motives of the fictional characters in current pandemic series such as Sl{\o}born and Y: The Last Man, it will be shown that conspiracy ideologies can be interpreted as a consequence of the isolating tendencies of complex late modern living conditions and possible real-world intervention strategies should be considered against this background.}, language = {en} } @incollection{MaederSchwaabNewiak, author = {Maeder, Dominik and Schwaab, Herbert and Newiak, Denis}, title = {Television studies and research on Series: an introduction}, series = {Television Studies and Research on Series: theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality}, booktitle = {Television Studies and Research on Series: theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality}, editor = {Newiak, Denis and Maeder, Dominik and Schwaab, Herbert}, publisher = {Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {9783658429140}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-42915-7_1}, pages = {1 -- 15}, abstract = {Television series enjoy an unbroken—popular as well as scholarly—attention. It is surprising, however, that in works on seriality in media and cultural studies—referring here primarily on the German context of media studies—, approaches to television studies and television history still play a rather minor role. Yet seriality should always be thought of in terms of television, since the two have always been inextricably interwoven—economically, technically and aesthetically. But what else constitutes the serial in television and how does it change its face in times of digitalization, streaming and interactivity? Is it possible to think of a genuine serial theory of the televisual—and what, in turn, can be learned from this for seriality beyond television? The essays in this volume contribute to shedding new light on the serial as a core principle of television and to providing new impulses for a television theory of the serial on the basis of diverse examples from the current range of television series.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Newiak, author = {Newiak, Denis}, title = {Television series against late-modern loneliness: forms of telemedial communitization using the example of "13 Reasons Why"}, series = {Television Studies and Research on Series : theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality}, booktitle = {Television Studies and Research on Series : theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality}, editor = {Newiak, Denis and Maeder, Dominik and Schwaab, Herbert}, publisher = {Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {9783658429140}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-42915-7_6}, pages = {101 -- 148}, abstract = {Based on sociological and socio-philosophical theories of modern loneliness, this paper examines the socializing, uniting, and 'Gemeinschaft'-creating functions of television series as they are negotiated in discourse on television theory and the sociology of media. Using the series 13 Reasons Why as an example, it is shown that contemporary television series contribute to social cohesion and social meaning-making in a variety of ways: behavioral modeling, the visualization of social causation, and the production of temporal structures help late-modern societies coordinate their complex interactions; cult and fantum, formation of notions of truth, and the production of parasocial relationships produce new experiences of closeness, community, and transcendence in an age of increasing social distance. Can television series contribute to better enduring or even overcoming the diverse lonelinesses of late modernity—or do they, by thereby pushing modernization ever further, not only produce even stronger feelings of social isolation?}, language = {en} } @book{Newiak, author = {Newiak, Denis}, title = {The Lonelinesses of Modernity}, publisher = {Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {9783658401436}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-40144-3}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} }