Working Papers (5)
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. 12 - Juliane Klein, Uwe Schimank & Michael Walter: How to conduct interviews on media repertoires as routine practices – problems and empirical experiences
Against the backdrop of a changing media environment, the practices individuals apply on a daily basis and in different life spheres have altered dramatically. Small investors, for instance, increasingly rely on the internet to follow (…)
05.04.2016
No. 11 - Andreas Breiter and Juliane Jarke: Datafying education: How digital assessment practices reconfigure the organisation of learning
In the past decade, an ever increasing trend to capture (social) life in numbers became a prominent instantiation of the so-called ‘audit society’ (Power 1999). With this turn, almost all aspects of social life have (…)
01.04.2016
No. 10 - Leif Kramp: Conceptualizing metropolitan journalism: New approaches, new communicative practices, new perspectives?
Journalism is on the verge of many things: its institutional pillars struggle heftily with the economic challenges that arise from changing media habits and the unpredictability of what gains and loses popularity among audiences. Audiences (…)
01.03.2016
No. 9 - Michael Walter: Der digitale Kleinanleger. Praktiken der Unsicherheitsbearbeitung in Internetforen
“Trade like a pro!”. “The whole stock market on your screen!”“Take control of your securities transactions yourself and be independent of time and place.place. “ The three advertising messages from two online brokers pointedly refer (…)
01.12.2015
No. 8 - Uwe Hasebrink: Kommunikationsrepertoires und digitale Öffentlichkeiten
The starting point for the following conceptual considerations are the sometimes massive shifts in the media shifts in media environments that have been observed in recent years in the course of digitization and the associated (…)
01.02.2015
No. 7 - Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Andreas Hepp & Rebecca Venema: Communicative Figurations of Financial Blogging: Deliberative and Moralizing Modes of Crisis Communication during the Eurocrisis
Financial blogging can be understood as a practice of the eurocrisis’ “communicative construction” (Knoblauch, 2013). But it is not only financial blogging, also other media and their coverage – newspapers, television, online journals etc. – (…)
01.01.2015
No. 6 - Joan Kristin Bleicher & Sebastian Armbrust Zur Publikumskonstruktion durch Adressierungsformen des Fernsehens und Internetfernsehens
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen” – this is how the announcers on ARD greeted their audiences for many years. ARD announcers have greeted their audience for many years. The internet TV channel Joiz uses a (…)
01.10.2014
No. 5 - Andreas Hepp, Peter Lunt & Maren Hartmann: Communicative figurations of the good life: Ambivalences surrounding the mediatization of homelessness and the transnational family
The concept of “mediatization” has been the focus of considerable debate and reflection for scholars in media and communication seeking to understand an increasingly mediarelated world (Couldry & Hepp, 2013; Hjarvard, 2013; Lundby, 2014). In (…)
01.09.2014
No. 4 - Inge Marszolek und Yvonne Robel: Mediengeschichte als Geschichte kommunikativer Figurationen. Überlegungen zur Untersuchung von Identitätskonstruktionen im urbanen Raum
The significance of the media for the constitution of societies and — associated with this — for negotiation processes of orders and norms has increasingly become the focus of historical studies in recent years. However, (…)
01.09.2014
No. 3 - Nick Couldry: Mediatization and the Future of Field Theory
Debates about mediatization have until now been largely an internal concern of media and communications research, yet carry the promise of opening up something more fundamental: a complete rethinking of the dynamics, even the dimensionality, (…)
01.05.2013
No. 2 - Andreas Hepp & Uwe Hasebrink: Human interaction and communicative figurations. The transformation of mediatized cultures and societies
A main problem of any mediatization research is how to ground it in a practicable empirical approach. When we argue that within an ongoing mediatization process our cultures and societies transform, how can we investigate (…)
01.04.2013
No. 1 - Andreas Hepp: The communicative figurations of mediatized worlds: Mediatization research in times of the ‘mediation of everything’
Conducting mediatization research is no easy task. Linked with this term is not only the idea that media have a certain ‘specificity’, which as such exerts an ‘influence’ on culture and society: the term also (…)
01.03.2013