Media Logic(s) Revisited: Modelling the Interplay between Media Institutions, Media Technology and Societal Change (Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research)

This volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics -- developed by Altheide and Snow -- by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, powerful media structures and technologies influence our daily lives in many respects. It is not only mass media but "poly media channels" that become more and more contextualized in everyday lives. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit the theory of media logics, which focuses on the strong intercorrelation of media technologies, media institutions and media power. Media Logic(s) Revisited attends to this by critically reflecting on the idea of media logic, a much needed input in light of current developments and strong cultural embedding of media in various social contexts Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Media Logic or Media Logics? An Introduction to the Field (Caja Thimm, Mario Anastasiadis, Jessica Einspänner-Pflock)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 The Media Syndrome and Reflexive Mediation (David L. Altheide)....Pages 11-39 Media Logic and the Mediatization Approach: A Good Partnership, a Mésalliance, or a Misunderstanding? (Friedrich Krotz)....Pages 41-61 The Logics of the Media and the Mediatized Conditions of Social Interaction (Stig Hjarvard)....Pages 63-84 Mediatization as Structural Couplings: Adapting to Media Logic(s) (Mikkel Fugl Eskjær)....Pages 85-109 Media Technology and Media Logic(s): The Media Grammar Approach (Caja Thimm)....Pages 111-132 Media Logic as (Inter)Action Logic—Interaction Interdependency as an Integrative Meta-Perspective (Katrin Döveling, Charlotte Knorr)....Pages 133-156 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 On the Media Logic of the State (Jens Schröter)....Pages 159-172 Media Logic Revisited. The Concept of Social Media Logic as Alternative Framework to Study Politicians’ Usage of Social Media During Election Times (Evelien D’heer)....Pages 173-194 Perceived Media Logic: A Point of Reference for Mediatization (Daniel Nölleke, Andreas M. Scheu)....Pages 195-216 News Media Logic 2.0—Assessing Commercial News Media Logic in Cross-Temporal and Cross-Channel Analysis (Maria Karidi)....Pages 217-238 New(s) Challenges!—Old Patterns? Structural Transformation and TV News in a Mediatized World (Mirco Liefke)....Pages 239-264 Algorithms and Digital Media: Measurement and Control in the Mathematical Projection of the Real (Tales Tomaz)....Pages 265-286 Back Matter ....Pages 287-294 This volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics, developed by Altheide and Snow, by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, powerful media structures and technologies influence our daily lives in many respects. It is not only mass media but "poly medial channels" that become more and more contextualized in everyday lives. It thus seems necessary to reflect on the theory of media logics, which in fact focuses on the strong intercorrelation of media technologies, media institutions and media power. The current developments and strong cultural embedding of media in various social contexts, however, call for critical reflections on the idea of media logic