Berlin, 1933. The International Press and Hitler , Daniel Schneidermann

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Maybe you're lucky enough to be slowing down a bit at the end of the year, with a book in one hand and a steaming hot chocolate in the other... Unless you're already on the go preparing for the new school year. In either case, here is the second part of our reading recommendations to get 2019 off to a good start. The entire Méta-Media team wishes you a very happy new year!

The ambivalent internet. Mischief, Oddity, and taiwan mobile database Antagonism Online , Whitney Phillips & Ryan M. Milner

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner explore the weirdness, nastiness, and in-betweenness that characterize everyday online expression, from absurd Photoshops to creative Twitter hashtags; an ambivalence that relies on the digital tools available.






Based on a considerable amount of source material, this book presents a fascinating chronicle of the daily lives of Western journalists stationed in Berlin from 1933 to 1941. Why did they not alert the world to the madness and barbarity of Hitlerism, which was nevertheless perceptible from the beginning? This story is haunted from start to finish by a second question, which serves as a logical continuation of the first. are we certain that we are better equipped today to report on extraordinary catastrophes, to name Evil?