Communicative Figurations: Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization (Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction (Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter, Uwe Hasebrink)....Pages 3-13 Researching Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization: A Figurational Approach (Andreas Hepp, Uwe Hasebrink)....Pages 15-48 Front Matter ....Pages 49-49 Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People’s Urban Communities (Andreas Hepp, Piet Simon, Monika Sowinska)....Pages 51-80 Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category (Sebastian Kubitschko)....Pages 81-100 Repair Cafés as Communicative Figurations: Consumer-Critical Media Practices for Cultural Transformation (Sigrid Kannengießer)....Pages 101-122 Communicative Figurations of Expertization: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online Gaming (MOG) as Cultures of Amateur Learning (Karsten D. Wolf, Urszula Wudarski)....Pages 123-149 The Communicative Construction of Space-Related Identities. Hamburg and Leipzig Between the Local and the Global (Yvonne Robel, Inge Marszolek)....Pages 151-172 Networked Media Collectivities. The Use of Media for the Communicative Construction of Collectivities Among Adolescents (Thomas N. Friemel, Matthias Bixler)....Pages 173-202 Front Matter ....Pages 203-203 The Transformation of Journalism: From Changing Newsroom Cultures to a New Communicative Orientation? (Leif Kramp, Wiebke Loosen)....Pages 205-239 Moralizing and Deliberating in Financial Blogging. Moral Debates in Blog Communication During the Financial Crisis 2008 (Rebecca Venema, Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz)....Pages 241-265 ‘Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn’t It?’ The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization (Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Hannah Grünenthal, Sina Gogolok)....Pages 267-286 Relating Face to Face. Communicative Practices and Political Decision-Making in a Changing Media Environment (Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele, Frank Nullmeier)....Pages 287-311 Paper Versus School Information Management Systems: Governing the Figurations of Mediatized Schools in England and Germany (Andreas Breiter, Arne Hendrik Ruhe)....Pages 313-339 Front Matter ....Pages 341-341 Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research (Christine Lohmeier, Rieke Böhling)....Pages 343-362 Researching Individuals’ Media Repertoires: Challenges of Qualitative Interviews on Cross-Media Practices (Juliane Klein, Michael Walter, Uwe Schimank)....Pages 363-386 The Complexity of Datafication: Putting Digital Traces in Context (Andreas Breiter, Andreas Hepp)....Pages 387-405 Communicative Figurations and Cross-Media Research (Kim Christian Schrøder)....Pages 407-424 Communicative Figurations: Towards a New Paradigm for the Media Age? (Giselinde Kuipers)....Pages 425-436 Erratum to: Communicative Figurations (Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter, Uwe Hasebrink)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 437-444 This open access 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

media communication; culture and society; media transformations; technical communication; media social relations and roles; social fields and institutional dynamics; identities and collectives; public debate; political decision-making; media logic; mediatization