CfP for the yearly conference of the DGPuK specialist group Journalism/Journalism Research

Abstracts with a maximum length of 8,000 characters (including spaces) on the topic “Interdisciplinary Journalism Research” can be submitted until 31 MARCH 2020.

Contributions can now be submitted for the annual conference of the Section “Journalism/Journalism Research”, which will take place on 24th and 25th of September 2020. The thematic focus will be on interdisciplinary journalism research, interdisciplinary questions on journalism and the increasing interdisciplinarity of the field itself in all its facets. Submitted contributions may also formally break new ground and include, for example, world cafés, interdisciplinary dialogues or debates, and show-and-tell presentations.

Detailed information is available in this CfP document (in German).

New Working Paper: “Preliminary arguments for a critical data-driven ethnography in the time of ‘deep mediatization.'”

A NEW WORKING PAPER BY Matti Pohjonen (VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW AT ZEMKI, UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN) HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE “COMMUNICATIVE FIGURATIONS” WORKING PAPER SERIES.

The article is entitled “Preliminary arguments for a critical data-driven ethnography
in the time of ‘deep mediatization.'” and can be downloaded here. Matti Pohjonen is currently a Lecturer in Global Digital Media at the SOAS University of London and was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen in 2017.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

New Book: “Deep Mediatization” by Andreas Hepp

ZeMKI member Prof Dr Andreas Hepp has written a new book on “Deep Mediatization” in which he takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society.

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society.

Often, such questions are discussed in isolation, losing sight of the overarching context in which they are situated. Hepp has developed a theory of the re-figuration of society by digital media and their infrastructures, and provides an understanding of how profound today’s media-related changes are, not only for institutions, organizations and communities, but for the individual as well. Rooted in the latest research, this book does not stop at a description of media-related change; instead, it raises the normative challenge of what deep mediatization should look like so that it might just stimulate a ‘good life’ for all.

Providing original and critical research, the book introduces deep mediatization to students of media and cultural studies, as well as neighboring disciplines like sociology, political science and other cognate disciplines.

Hepp, Andreas (2020): Deep Mediatization. Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies. Routledge, 248 pages, 8 B/W illustrations, 24.99 GBP

Further information can be accessed here. 

CfP for M&K special issue “Research Software”

Abstracts with a maximum length of 6,000 characters (including spaces) on the topic “Research software in communication and media research: development, methodology, application, sustainability” can be submitted until the end of November.

The spring issue of the M&K Journal 2020 is dedicated to the topic of research software in communication and media research, with a special focus on its development, the methodological considerations behind it, its application in research practice and possible sustainability models. The exact CfP can be read here or downloaded here as a PDF file.

Submissions will be accepted by the end of November and evaluated in the usual review procedure.

Research network starts with a focus on the re-figuration of the public sphere

On July 1, ZeMKI and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute in Hamburg started their joined research on the transformation of public communication in times of deep mediatization. The three projects are funded by the German Research Association (DFG).

The ZeMKI is investigating the question of how the organization(s) of journalism are changing and what this means for journalism practice.

The aligned projects are part of the larger research network “Communicative Figurations”. It investigates the consequences of the changes in media and communication for culture and society. In the project “Pioneer Journalism The re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations”, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Dr. Leif Kramp and Hendrik Kühn from ZeMKI, together with Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen and Paul Solbach from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute, are jointly researching new forms of journalism, called pioneer journalism. These are aimed at redefining news work, its function, achievements, structures and practices. Media and digital technologies play a decisive role and often form the basis for new developments. The project asks what role pioneer journalism plays in the transformation of public communication.

The projects “Journalism and its audience: The re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations” and “Public connection: Individuals’ media repertoires and the re-figuration of publics“ are located at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research. They deal with how journalism’s relationship to its audience is changing and how people connect to different publics through their individual use of media.

Fot further information please follow this link.