Members of the “Communicative Figurations” research network present at the annual conference of the International Associaction of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Leicester, UK
The IAMCR annual conference takes place from July 27 to 31, 2016 at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom on the topic “Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward”.
The following members of the research network will be at Leicester to present their research:
Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink (University of Hamburg): Fantasy movies within audiences’ transmedia repertoires. The case of The Hobbit (Juli 29, 09:00-10:30)
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Krotz (University of Bremen): Mediatization studies: from the system of single independent media to a computer controlled digital infrastructure and some consequences (July 28, 09:00-10:30)
Prof. Dr. Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen) (zus. mit Dr. Christian Pentzold): Reflexive Remembrance and Reconstruction in Mediated Times (July 30, 09:00-10:30)
Christina Sanko (University of Bremen): Memory-related Communication Repertoires: Generational Memory Work in Urban Vietnam (July 28, 09:00-10:30)
The full conference programm can be accessed here.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen) publishes a debate article on the status of Communication and Media Studies in data-driven times in the German journal “Publizistik”. The article can be accessed for free (Open Access).
Andreas Hepp argues in support of an extension of the scope of communication and media studies. For quite some time, such an extension was connected with a fear of a dissolution of boundaries and increasing fuzziness of the discipline. Hepp does not share this fear, but rather speaks for a joint fundamental perspective of mediated communication or ‘mediation’. In his view, this opens up the opportunity to address the challenges of communication and media change in data-driven times with as many different perspectives as possible.
The full article can be accessed here for free (in German language).
The Danish academic journal “Mediekultur” just published a Special Issue on “Researching cross-media communication: Methodological approaches”
In six contributions, communication and media scholars discuss with which different and triangulated methods cross-media communication can be researched. Among the authors are Kim Christian Schrøder, Christian Kobbernagel, Kristian Møller Jørgensen, Cristina Miguel, Anne Mette Thorhauge, Stine Lomborg, Susana Tosca and Lisbeth Klastrup.
The Special Issue also includes a contribution by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Cindy Roitsch and Dr. Matthias Berg (ZeMKI, University of Bremen) on “Investigating communication networks contextually: Qualitative network analysis as cross-media research”. Their article introduces the approach of contextualised communication network analysis as a qualitative procedure for researching communicative relationships realised through the media. It combines qualitative interviews on media appropriation, egocentric network maps, and media diaries. Through the triangulation of these methods of data collection, it is possible to gain a differentiated insight into the specific meanings, structures and processes of communication networks across a variety of media. The approach is illustrated using a recent study dealing with the mediatisation of community building among young people. In this context, the qualitative communication network analysis has been applied to distinguish “localists” from “centrists”, “multilocalists”, and “pluralists”. These different “horizons of mediatised communitisation” are connected to distinct communication networks. Since this involves today a variety of different media, the contextual analysis of communication networks necessarily has to imply a cross-media perspective.
Further information on the Special Issue and its full texts can be accessed here.
ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz is co-editor of a new book on diversity in transcultural and international communication
She has co-edited the volume with Jun. Prof. Dr. Carola Richter and Dr. Indira Dupuis (both FU Berlin). The book comprises articles that base on contributions for the annual conference of the section “Internationale und Interkulturelle Kommunikation” of the German Communication Association that was hosted at the University of Bremen at the end of 2014.
Further information can be accessed here.
On Thursday, June 16, 2016, Prof. Dr. Martin Hand (Queen’s University, Canada) will give a talk at the ZeMKI on “Digital Traces and Personal Analytics: contexts and practices of engagement with temporal data about the self”
The ZeMKI Research Seminar takes place from 6-8pm in Linzer Str. 4 in Bremen, Room 60070 on the ground floor.
Further information on the talk can be accessed here.
The current programme of the ZeMKI Research Seminar can be accessed here.
