Communicative Figurations

• Author : Andreas Hepp,Andreas Breiter,Uwe Hasebrink
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 27 November 2017

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

• Author : Knut Lundby
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release : 25 August 2014

This handbook on Mediatization of Communication uncovers the interrelation between media changes and changes in culture and society. This is essential to understand contemporary trends and transformations. “Mediatization” characterizes changes in practices, cultures and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies themselves. This volume offers 31 contributions by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to

• Author : Andreas Hepp
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 23 April 2013

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about ‘everything and anything important’ via television? How are our political, religious and ethnic belongings impacted through being increasingly connected by digital media? And what is the significance of all this for our everyday lives? Drawing on Hepp’s fifteen-year research expertise on media change, this book deals with questions like

• Author : Hubert Knoblauch
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 16 December 2019

This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action, construct a material social reality that guides, delimits, and enables actions. A study of the importance of understanding the role of communication in an age in which digitization and mediatization have extended the reach

• Author : Andreas Hepp
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 13 April 2015

• Author : Gabriela B. Christmann,Hubert Knoblauch,Martina Löw
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 31 December 2021

Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that arise from the attempt to study such changes empirically, it offers new theoretical foundations for understanding the social construction and reconstruction of spaces through communicative action. Seeing communicative action as the basic element in the social construction of reality and conceptualizing communication not only in terms of the use

• Author : Vít Šisler,Kerstin Radde-Antweiler,Xenia Zeiler
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 28 November 2017

Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve as sources for the production of religious practices and ideas. This collection of essays presents a broad range of influential methodological approaches that illuminate how and why video games shape the construction of religious beliefs and practices, and also situates such research within the wider discourse on how digital media

• Author : Kerstin Radde-Antweiler,Xenia Zeiler
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 December 2018

This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the data collected in light of current mediatization theories. By directing the study to the geographical, cultural and religious contexts specific to Asia, it also provides new material for the theoretical discussion of the pros and cons of the

• Author : Mats Bergman,Kęstas Kirtiklis,Johan Siebers
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 01 August 2018

Complementing earlier efforts to scrutinize the uses of models in the field of media and communication studies, this volume reassesses old perspectives and delineates new theoretical options for communication inquiry. It is the first book to undertake a philosophical investigation of the significance of modelling in the study of the varying phenomena, processes, and practices of communication. By homing in on the manifestations and purposes of modelling in ordinary discourses on communication as well as in theoretical expositions, the essays

• Author : Andreas Hepp,Monika Elsler,Swantje Lingenberg,Anne Mollen,Johanna Möller,Anke Offerhaus,Keith Sword,Dimitry V Pospielovsky
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 26 January 2016

Based on a 12-year long project, this book demonstrates the contested character of the communicative construction of Europe. It does so by combining an investigation of journalistic practices with content analysis of print media, an examination of citizens' online interactions and audience studies with European citizens.

• Author : Jannis Androutsopoulos
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release : 04 September 2014

This is the first volume to focus on the role of media in processes of linguistic change, one of the most contested issues in contemporary sociolinguistics. Its 17 chapters and five section commentaries present cutting-edge research from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, media linguistics, language ideology research, and minority language studies. The volume advances our understanding of linguistic change in a mediatized world in three ways. First, it introduces the notions of sociolinguistic change and mediatization to create a broader theoretical framing

• Author : Kirsten Drotner,Vince Dziekan,Ross Parry,Kim Christian Schrøder
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 07 December 2018

Museums today find themselves within a mediatised society, where everyday life is conducted in a data-full and technology-rich context. In fact, museums are themselves mediatised: they present a uniquely media-centred environment, in which communicative media is a constitutive property of their organisation and of the visitor experience. The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication explores what it means to take mediated communication as a key concept for museum studies and as a sensitising lens for media-related museum practice on

• Author : Nadja-Christina Schneider,Fritzi-Marie Titzmann
• Publisher : Nomos Verlag
• Release : 20 February 2020

Beständigkeit und Wandel – beides symbolisiert die Familie in Zeiten beschleunigten globalen Wandels. In diesem Buch werden verschiedene Brüche und Kontinuitäten in medialen Darstellungen der zeitgenössischen indischen Familie beleuchtet. Medienvermittelte Vorstellungen über romantische Liebesbeziehungen und normative Familienbilder bilden dabei den verbindenden Ausgangspunkt für die einzelnen Kapitel. Die Beiträge des Bandes analysieren Dokumentar- und Spielfilme, Werbematerial, sowie die kommunikative Nutzung neuer Medientechnologien. Die Autorinnen diskutieren Visualisierungen familiären Wandels, die von geteilter Mutterschaft, über neue Vaterschaft

• Author : Maren Hartmann,Elizabeth Prommer,Karin Deckner,Stephan O. Görland
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 04 November 2019

Exploring mediated time, this book contemplates how far (and in what ways) media and time are intertwined from a diverse set of theoretical and empirical angles. It builds from theoretical discussions concerning the question of mediation and the normative framing of time (especially acceleration) and works its way through questions of time for/of one’s own, resisting temporalities, polychronicity, in-between-time, simultaneity and other time concepts. It further examines specific time frames, imaginations of a media future and the past,

• Author : Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 25 February 2019

This book demonstrates how media technologies shape amateur sports and how some of these sports are modified. The author uses an innovative measuring approach to analyze how people use media technologies in conjunction with sports and how their relationship with physical activity is affected by the ever-present influence of the media.