This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This volume is about how to research the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spreading of various technical communication media such as mobile phone and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are involved in. The first part of the book outlines a fundamental understanding of the changing media environment of deep mediatization and its transformative capacity. The second part focuses on collectivities and movements: communities in the city, critical social movements, maker, online gaming groups and networked groups of young people. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives.
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1 Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction |
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2 Researching Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization: A Figurational Approach |
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Part II Collectivities and Movements |
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3 Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People's Urban Communities |
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4 Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category |
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5 Repair Cafes as Communicative Figurations: Consumer-Critical Media Practices for Cultural Transformation |
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6 Communicative Figurations of Expertization: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online Gaming (MOG) as Cultures of Amateur Learning |
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7 The Communicative Construction of Space-Related Identities. Hamburg and Leipzig Between the Local and the Global |
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8 Networked Media Collectivities. The Use of Media for the Communicative Construction of Collectivities Among Adolescents |
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Part III Institutions and Organizations |
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9 The Transformation of Journalism: From Changing Newsroom Cultures to a New Communicative Orientation? |
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10 Moralizing and Deliberating in Financial Blogging. Moral Debates in Blog Communication During the Financial Crisis 2008 |
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11 `Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn't It?' The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization |
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12 Relating Face to Face. Communicative Practices and Political Decision-Making in a Changing Media Environment |
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13 Paper Versus School Information Management Systems: Governing the Figurations of Mediatized Schools in England and Germany |
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Part IV Methodologies and Perspectives |
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14 Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research |
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15 Researching Individuals' Media Repertoires: Challenges of Qualitative Interviews on Cross-Media Practices |
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16 The Complexity of Datafication: Putting Digital Traces in Context |
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17 Communicative Figurations and Cross-Media Research |
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18 Communicative Figurations: Towards a New Paradigm for the Media Age? |
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Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communication Studies with a special interest in Media Culture and Communication Theory at the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research), University of Bremen, Germany.
Andreas Breiter is Professor of Information Management and Educational Technologies at the University of Bremen, Germany, within the ZeMKI and Scientific Director of ifib, a not-for-profit research institute for information management.
Uwe Hasebrink is Professor of Empirical Communications Studies at the University of Hamburg and head of the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, Hamburg, Germany.
