In the online magazine “Up2Date” of the University of Bremen, the current article is about the research of ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach. He reports on the topic “Who determines the discussion about AI science, media, society?”. In an interview format, the article sheds light on the research idea, the process and the results of the project.
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Claudia Lampert, Rudolf Kammerl, Katrin Potzel, Paulina Domdey gave a lecture on “Media-related negotiation processes in families in the context of social challenges” at the spring conference of the DGfE on “Media education and (media) socialization in the mirror of central social challenges of the 21st century” on 30-31 March 2023 in Lüneburg.
Children and young people use media to establish their position within their respective social groups and contexts. The role their media repertoires and communicative practices play in this and how these change over time is being examined in a qualitative longitudinal study with colleagues from the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.
The conditions under which adolescents form relationships with other people and position themselves within different social contexts are changing in the course of mediatisation. Media developments and the increasing use of media in families, peer groups, school etc. have an impact on the actor constellations and communicative practices within these social contexts and contribute to their dissolution of boundaries.
Against this backdrop, the project addresses the consequences of changing media environments for the socialisation process of children and adolescents. Classical socialisation agents such as family, peer group or school are considered as communicative figurations on which young people actively exert influence and within which the media play an important role as communication channels, but also as subject areas or thematic fields.
The project focuses on the role of the media in the negotiation processes regarding belonging and dissociation as well as the changes over time. The starting point is the family as the first and most important instance of socialisation.
The project is a cooperation between the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl) and the HBI and was approved by the German Research Foundation in 2018. In 2021, the project team received funding for three more years, which will enable them to continue the longitudinal study and conduct further research into how family life changes over time and what significance the use of digital media in particular has for shaping the relationships between family members.
Duration: 2018-2023
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Dr. Claudia Lampert
Senior Researcher Media Socialisation & Health Communication
Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)
Rothenbaumchaussee 36
20148 Hamburg
After more than four years, the research network “Communicative Figurations” presents itself on a new website. In a total of five sections, the participating institutions and researchers introduce themselves and provide insights into the network’s current activities:
The new website can be reached via the addresses www.communicative-figurations.org (in English) and www.kommunikative-figurationen.de (in German).
The objective of this article is to define more precisely the field of research into the automation of communication, which is currently only vaguely discernible. The central thesis is that, in order to be able to grasp the transformation of the media environment associated with the automation of communication, the view must be broadened from the “direct interaction of humans and machines” to “societal communication”. Broadening our perspective as such allows us to ask how the dynamics of societal communication as a whole change when “communicative AI” becomes part of societal communication. To support this thesis, the article first takes a closer look at the automation of communication as a phenomenon. Against this background, the concept of communicative AI is then developed in more detail as a “sensitizing concept” that sensitizes to both the breadth and depth of the phenomenon. On this basis, the bridging concept of the “hybrid figuration” is developed in order to grasp the agency of communicative AI and to be able to connect to “definitive concepts” of social science and media and communication research. It becomes apparent that with communicative AI as a field of research, the basic concepts of communication and media research—“communication” and “media”—are themselves challenged. The article is concluded by a conclusion that shows the research perspectives resulting from such an approach.
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The talk, fully titled “Agile social experiments and pioneer journalism: experiences from a project on social cohesion and local public sphere”, is part of the workshop “Fairdienste: Science-Practice Dialogue.” The workshop takes a look at digital journalism as an exemplary field in which the plurality of social values is negotiated and which is simultaneously shaped by data-economic business models. Andreas Hepp will present molo.news from the project “Tinder the city“. Workshop and talk we be in German language.