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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.
Nr. 36 - Heiko Kirschner, Anne Schmitz und Andreas Hepp: Networks of opinion leaders and heterogeneous organizations: The organizational elites of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements on Twitter
The progression of deep mediatization, that is, the molding of society by digital media and their infrastructures, is not only driven by outstanding ‘corporate actors’ such as media companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook and (…)
04.04.2020
No. 35 - Usha Raman: Keeping the person in the data – Communicating care in the networked clinic
I have a friend with a medical file as thick as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, heavy with lab reports and images of her body captured through various technologies and scrawled diagnostic notes from the (…)
01.04.2020
No. 34 - Florian Hohmann, Alessandro Belli and Andreas Hepp: Manual for media diary software: MeTag Analyze & MeTag App
Media diaries are an established method in media and communication research and as a methodical approach can be applied to a wide variety of different research purposes. They can be used to research time budgets (…)
01.04.2020
No. 33 - Florian Hohmann, Alessandro Belli and Andreas Hepp: Manual for the sorting software MeSort
The purpose of MeSort is to provide researchers with a versatile digital tool to conduct various kinds of sorting methods. At the current state of development, it supports a highly editable sorting scheme we call (…)
01.03.2020
No. 32 - Simone Natale: To believe in Siri: A critical analysis of AI voice assistants
“Talk to Siri as you would to a person,” suggested Apple to the users of its AI voice assistant Siri in 2011, after it was bundled into the iPhone operating system (MacArthur, 2014). The message (…)
01.03.2020
No. 31 - Matti Pohjonen: Preliminary arguments for a critical data-driven ethnography in the time of „deep mediatization.
There is an old Far Side comic strip, which depicts members of an exotic tribe wearing stereotypical grass skirts, nose bones and all. As two men approach their hut, the members of the tribe are (…)
01.01.2020
No. 30 - Roser Beneito-Montagut, Arantza Begueria and Nizaiá Cassián Yde: The practices of learning digital technologies in later life: What are they made up?
Since the popularization of the internet and information and communication technologies (ICTs), the access of older people to the digital society was limited and their engagement grew slowly. However, recently there has been an increase (…)
08.09.2019
Nr. 29 - Ricardo Borrmann: Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes’ transnational network – an interrelational approach to film history
Where is the “center” and where is the “periphery” in film history? This question will guide the following paper on film critic Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916-1977) and his intellectual network, from a postcolonial perspective, (…)
05.05.2019
No. 28 - Martine Stevens and Patrick McCurdy: Fort McMurray, Climate Change and ‘The Beast’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian News Editorials and Opinions
In April 2019 a report from Environment and Climate Change Canada revealed that Canada was warming twice as fast the rest of the world (Environment and Climate Change Canada 2019). Amongst the many anticipated consequences (…)
01.05.2019
No. 27 - Adam Fish and John Carter McKnight: The financialization of peer-to-peer lending in the United Kingdom
Recently, peer-to-peer (“p2p”) lending systems have emerged as popular vehicles for unsecured consumer and small-business lending (Nesta, 2014). P2p lending is an innovation distinct from the better-known crowdfunding: where crowdfunding systems operate as a mixture (…)
14.04.2019
No. 26 - Max Hänska: Public communication for the common good? On the is-ought distinction in the media and communications field
The quality of our news diet, the polarizing effects of political communication, or the way digital, social and mobile media are transforming public communications have long been matters of concern. Studies in media and communications (…)
14.04.2019
No. 25 - Beata Ociepka: Conceptualising Media Events within the Context of Cultural Diplomacy
Although cultural diplomacy has a long history worldwide, it was the mass media era which provided it with new tools, thus enabling the live broadcasting of cultural events. Cultural diplomats quickly learned the logic of (…)
01.03.2019