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Working Paper Series “ZeMKI Working Papers”
ZeMKI publishes the working paper series “ZeMKI Working Papers” (ISSN: 2510-9855) as a continuation of the series “Communicative Figurations Working Paper Series” (ISSN: 2367-2277), whose publications are available here and via the E-LIB document server (Digital Repository) of the State and University Library of Bremen.
No. 48 - Christoph Günther: “German Version better”: Mimetic Normativity in TikTok Daʿwa
This article explores how TikTok’s short video format facilitates a distinctive mode of religious instruction that simplifies Islamic norms into binary categories of “right” (ḥalāl) and “wrong” (ḥarām). Focusing on two case studies, I highlight (…)
24.03.2025
No. 47 - Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen, Uwe Hasebrink: The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective
In the field of communication and media research, the “public sphere” and its “structural change” have long been central themes, particularly in the development of communication within society and politics. However, this concept often suffers (…)
29.08.2024
No. 46 — Hendrik et al. : Auditing the Text Understandability of German Public Administration Websites
Research on text simplification is commonly motivated by the assumption that available text is too complex. So far, an empirical basis for this claim is missing. This paper provides a starting point for substantiating the (…)
20.06.2024
No. 45 – Michelle Stack: Deep Mediatization and the U.S. News and World Report Education Rankings
This study examines the impact of U.S. News and World Report (USN) education rankings as a rich example of deep mediatization. The study also investigates the role of academ- ics, non-profit entities, and their parent (…)
01.09.2023
Nr. 44 Gaia Amadori: Studying the Datafied Home: The Potentials of Combining Mixed Methods, Constructivist Grounded Theory and Social Network Analysis
Over the last decade, the social, cultural, and political consequences of datafication have been addressed by a growing body of research. As highlighted by Flensburg and Lomborg (2021) in their review of datafication research, starting (…)
01.06.2023
No. 43 - Gregory Grieve, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Xenia Zeiler: Value Formations through Digital Gaming
Many video games have explicit reference to religion both as narrative and symbolic content. Take, for instance, the Prince of Persia (Ubisoft 2008), where the player must defeat an evil Zoroastrian deity, and Tomb Raider (…)
19.05.2023
No. 42 - Mike Farjam, Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Sara Schmitt & Boris Mance: Hybrid Media? A Comparison of Traditional and Social Media Migration-Related Content along Scope, Function and Curation
Many video games have explicit reference to religion both as narrative and symbolic content. Take, for instance, the Prince of Persia (Ubisoft 2008), where the player must defeat an evil Zoroastrian deity, and Tomb Raider (…)
01.01.2023
No. 41 - Phoebe V Moore: Problems in Protections for Working Data Subjects: Becoming Strangers to Ourselves
As Thales of Miletus challenged, ‘the most difficult thing in life is to know thyself’. What this ancient philosopher would never have imagined perhaps is now a question we can re- formulate: ‘the most difficult (…)
07.06.2022
No. 40 - Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Marta Kołodziejska, Łukasz Fajfer, Dorota Hall: Religious Organizations as Media Settlers. Strategies towards the Trends of Deep Mediatization
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown-type control measures, both collective and individual actors, including religious ones (Campbell, 2020; Hall and Kołodziejska, 2021), have been forced to move their practice to online spaces. (…)
01.06.2022
No. 39 - Juliane Jarke, Gabriela Molina León, Irina Zakharova, Hendrik Heuer, Ulrike Gerhard – Beyond Participation: A Review of Co-Creation in Computing
Over the past ten years, co-creation has become a buzzword for the development, design, and provision of products and services across a range of domains: in the private and public sector, but also in the (…)
01.10.2021
No. 38 - Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen, Hendrik Kühn, Paul Solbach, Leif Kramp - The Figuration of Pioneer Journalism in Germany: Actors, Experimental Areas, Dynamics
There is hardly anything that keeps journalism as busy as its own transformation. For well over twenty years, the industry has been talking about the risks and opportunities of its media and structural change: in (…)
01.03.2021
No. 37 - Ghislain Thibault – Celestial Posters: Skywriting and the Folk Theory of Media Influence
On January 1st 2016, a few months before the United States presidential elections, spectators at an annual parade in Pasenada, CA suddenly had their attention pulled to the sky. They watched as hundred-foot-tall letters were (…)
01.12.2020