Publications (7)

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 (…)

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 (…)

Editorial For the ZeMKI, 2015 was a special year because it was characterized by the centre’s 10-year anniversary: Founded in 2005 under the name IMKI (Institute for Media, Communication and Information Research) and renamed in (…)

“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 (…)

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 (…)

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. – (…)

Editorial For media and communications researchers, 2014 was a special year. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) dedicated the Year of Science under the motto „The digital society“ (http://www.digital-ist.de); this has always been (…)

“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 (…)

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 (…)

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, (…)

Editorial 2013 was a year of many activities and achievements for the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI). One of the main drivers for this development was the “Communicative figurations“ research group that (…)

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, (…)