Publications (4)

Time flies, now that a year is behind us in which we have moved from researching more less in an “online world” back into “co-presence”. Not only were there, again, many appearances at conferences, on-site (…)

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 (…)

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. (…)

Many say that 2020/21 was a year of many changes – driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. We do not want to claim that Corona had no consequences at ZeMKI, but . However, the truly game-changing (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

“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 (…)