This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. 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.
This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones 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.
Part I: Introduction.- 1. Rethinking transforming communications: An
Introduction; Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter, Uwe Hasebrink.- 2. Researching
transforming communications in times of deep mediatization: A figurational
approach; Andreas Hepp, Uwe Hasebrink.- Part II: Collectivities and
movements.-
3. Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of
Young Peoples Urban Communities, Andreas Hepp, Piet Simon & Monika
Sowinska.- 4. Chaos Computer Club. The communicative construction of media
technologies and infrastructures as a political category, Sebastian
Kubitschko.- 5. Repair Cafés as communicative figurations: Consumer-critical
media practices for cultural transformation; Sigrid Kannengießer.-
6.
Communicative Figurations of expertisation: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online
Gaming (MOG) as cultures of amateur learning; Karsten Wolf & Urszula
Wudarski.- 7.The communicative construction of space-related identities.
Hamburg and Leipzig between the local and the global; Yvonne Robel & Inge
Marszolek.- 8. Networked media collectivities. The use of media for the
communicative construction of collectivities among adolescents; Thomas
Friemel & Matthias Bixler.- Part III: Institutions and organisations.- 9. The
transformation of journalism: From changing newsroom cultures to a new
communicative orientation?; Leif Kramp & Wiebke Loosen.- 10. Moralising and
deliberating in financial blogging. Moral debates in blog communication
during the financial crisis 2008; Rebecca Venema & Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz.-
11. Blogging sometimes leads to dementia, doesn't it? The Roman Catholic
Church in times of deep mediatization; Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Sina Gogolok
& Hannah Grünenthal.- 12. Relating face-to-face. Communicative practices and
political decision-making in a changing media environment; Tanja
Pritzlaff-Scheele & Frank Nullmeier.- 13. Paper versus SIMS: Governing the
figurations of mediatized schools in England and Germany; Andreas Breiter &
Arne Hendrik Ruhe.- 14. Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities
and challenges for empirical research; Christine Lohmeier & Rieke Böhling.-
15. Researching Individuals Media Repertoires: Challenges of qualitative
interviews on cross-media practices; Juliane Klein, Michael Walter & Uwe
Schimank.- 16. The complexity of datafication: putting digital traces in
context; Andreas Breiter, Andreas Hepp.- 17. Communicative Figurations and
Cross-Media Research; Kim Schrųder.- 18. Communicative figurations: Towards a
new paradigm for the media age?; Giselinde Kuipers.
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.
