Ringier (Unternehmen)

Gruppo mediatico di proprietà della fam. omonima, le cui origini risalgono alla tipografia fondata nel 1833 a Zofingen da Johann Rudolf (1803-1874). Nel 1898 Paul August Ringier, esponente della terza generazione, rilevò l'azienda, che ampliò fino a farne un'impresa tipografica industriale e una delle principali case editrici della Svizzera. Nel 1932 la Ringier fu trasformata in un gruppo, divenne una soc. anonima e fu fondata la holding. Fino al 1938 pubblicò nove riviste illustrate per fam., di intrattenimento e dedicate ai programmi radiofonici, con una tiratura complessiva di 680'000 copie; nel 1959 diede vita al Blick. Dal 1960 con Hans (1906-2003), figlio di Paul August, e dal 1985 con i suoi figli Christoph (nascita 1941; in azienda fino al 1991) e Michael (nascita 1949), l'impresa divenne il più grande gruppo mediatico della Svizzera. Dal 1980 si è espansa in Germania, Asia e negli Stati Uniti e dal 1992 nell'Europa orientale. Nel 2008 impiegava in tutto il mondo 8129 persone e la cifra d'affari ammontava a oltre 1,535 miliardi di frs. Bibliografia – P. Meier, T. Häussler, Zwischen Masse, Markt und Macht, 2009

Active Testing for Face Detection and Localization

We provide a novel search technique which uses a hierarchical model and a mutual information gain heuristic to efficiently prune the search space when localizing faces in images. We show exponential gains in computation over traditional sliding window approaches, while keeping similar performance levels.

Connecting and Educating Hindus: Hinduism Today and the Mediatization of a Global Hinduism

Hinduism Today is a quarterly magazine that appears in roughly 15.000 copies, shipped to nearly 60 countries worldwide. The majority of readers are Hindus in diverse diaspora countries, mainly Singapur, Malaysia, Mauritius, Trinidad und the USA. Its editors are monks of Kauai Adheenam, belonging to the Śaiva Siddhānta Church, situated in Kauai, Hawai’i, USA. One of the magazine’s declared goals is to foster global Hindu solidarity and educate Hindus worldwide about their religion. In this paper, I want to take a look at the history of this magazine in connection with the Śaiva Siddhānta Church, and at the development of the expressed aims behind its publication. For this, I draw on fieldwork done in Kauai in January, 2014. After a brief introduction to some theoretical and methodological preliminaries of my work, I shall, give an overview of the history of the Śaiva Siddhānta Church, founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. Following this, I will deal in more detail with the origins and development of the magazine and the websites connected with it. I will focus especially on the role the magazine was intended to play for global Hindu diasporas. A fourth chapter will analyze the modes of definition employed in order to depict Hinduism as a unified global religion. In conclusion, I shall briefly reflect upon the specific agenda of “Global Hinduism” and the strategies of positioning as followed by the publishers of Hinduism Today.

From Connecting Hindus to Uniting Global Hinduism: History and Guiding Principles of Hinduism Today

Hinduism Today is a quarterly magazine that appears in roughly 15.000 copies, shipped to nearly 60 countries worldwide. The majority of readers are Hindus in diverse diaspora countries, mainly Singapur, Malaysia, Mauritius, Trinidad und the USA. Its editors are monks of Kauai Adheenam, belonging to the Śaiva Siddhānta Church, situated in Kauai, Hawai’i, USA. One of the magazine’s declared goals is to foster global Hindu solidarity and educate Hindus worldwide about their religion. In this paper, I want to take a look at the history of this magazine in connection with the Śaiva Siddhānta Church, and at the development of the expressed aims behind its publication. For this, I draw on fieldwork done in Kauai in January, 2014. After a brief introduction to some theoretical and methodological preliminaries of my work, I shall, give an overview of the history of the Śaiva Siddhānta Church, founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. Following this, I will deal in more detail with the origins and development of the magazine and the websites connected with it. I will focus especially on the role the magazine was intended to play for global Hindu diasporas. A fourth chapter will analyze the modes of definition employed in order to depict Hinduism as a unified global religion. In conclusion, I shall briefly reflect upon the specific agenda of “Global Hinduism” and the strategies of positioning as followed by the publishers of Hinduism Today.