Publications (6)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

We look back at a year in which various new research projects were started at ZeMKI. You can read about them in this report: Christine Lohmeier and Christian Pentzold founded the DFG-funded network for memory (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

Editorial In the course of 2016, two major collaborative research projects involving the ZeMKI were successfully concluded: the priority programme “Mediatized Worlds” and the Creative Unit “Communicative Figurations”. The DFG-funded priority programme was established under (…)

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. (…)

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 (…)

‘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, (…)

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 (…)