Working Papers (4)
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. 24 - Payal Arora: Benign dataveillance — the new kind of democracy? Examining the emerging datafied governance systems in India and China
Democracy is not just an ideal but also an aspiration for a just system of governance, and a model of what a ‘good’ society looks like. Democracy at its most basic is the rule of (…)
01.01.2019
No. 23 - Sarah C. Bishop: Kreatives Abschrecken: Ein Ländervergleich staatlicher Medienkampagnen zur Abschreckung Asylsuchender
Over time, governments have developed numerous tactics to deter asylum seekers. Strict border controls, harsh penalties for immigrants who enter without authorization, and exclusion from legal employment or social benefits all work together to deter (…)
01.01.2019
No. 22 - Andreas Hepp, Susan Alpen and Piet Simon: Zwischen Utopie und Dystopie: Der öffentliche Diskurs um die Pioniergemeinschaften der Maker- und Quantified-Self-Bewegung in Deutschland und Großbritannien
Media-related changes in societies do not simply result from “disruptive technologies” being invented and then implemented by companies. Such a perspective would be far too simplistic an assumption of impact to capture the complexity of (…)
01.11.2018
No. 21 - Sandra Jeppesen: Digital Movements: Challenging Contradictions in Intersectional Media and Social Movements
The past decade has seen an incredible increase in global social movements adopting a wide range of digital technologies to mobilize and represent the issues and images of their time. Social movement studies have only (…)
01.09.2018
No. 20 - Jörg Pukrop & Andreas Breiter: The influence of teachers' data competence on their acceptance of comparative tests and the potential of interactive feedback systems
This article deals with the feedback of results from comparative tests and examines the role that teachers’ data literacy and the graphic design of user interfaces of interactive feedback systems could play in terms of (…)
01.04.2018
No. 19 - Andreas Hepp & Wiebke Loosen ‘Makers’ of a future journalism? The role of ‘pioneer journalists’ and ‘pioneer communities’ in transforming journalism
The future of journalism has been one of the most intensely tackled questions for many years – within the field itself as well as among scholars. This sensitizes us to the fact that future developments (…)
01.03.2018
No. 18 - Wiebke Loosen: Four Forms of Datafied Journalism: Journalism’s response to the datafication of society
Grand narratives used to describe the state of society tend to sensitize us to transformation processes that have the potential to lead to a vastly different perception of the social world. Many of these narratives (…)
01.03.2018
No. 17 - Christine Lohmeier and Rieke Böhling: Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research
What is the best way to research a communicative figuration? How can we approach a communicative figuration as a cross-media phenomenon? And who belongs to a communicative figuration and who does not? To answer such (…)
01.09.2017
No. 16 - Andreas Hepp & “Communicative Figurations” research network: Transforming Communications. Media-related Changes in Times of Deep Mediatization
We are living in a time of profound media-related changes. Through our smartphones and other technical devices, we as individuals are connected with each other on a more or less continual basis. The way we (…)
01.03.2017
No. 15 - Uwe Hasebrink and Andreas Hepp: How to research cross-media practices Investigating media repertoires and media ensembles
In a time of ‘deep mediatization’ (Couldry and Hepp, 2016: 34-56) – the progressing entanglement of various social domains with media (Livingstone, 2009: 1) –, cross-media approaches to investigating media use are becoming increasingly relevant. (…)
01.11.2016
No. 14 - Wiebke Loosen and Jan-Hinrik Schmidt: Between proximity and distance: Including the audience in journalism (research)
Discussions about what journalism provides and what the audience selects have a long tradition in communications research, and are routinely part of public debate on journalism’s (in)ability to meet the demands and needs of its (…)
01.06.2016
No. 13 - Inge Marszolek and Yvonne Robel: The Communicative Construction of space-related identities. Hamburg and Leipzig between the local and the global
‘Leipzig – not the gate to the world as Hamburg is’, claimed the authors of a broadcast celebrating the millennium jubilee of Leipzig on Deutschlandradio in 2015. Their statement captured the common feeling in Leipzig, (…)
10.04.2016