New Working Paper: “Fort McMurray, Climate Change and ‘The Beast’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian News Editorials and Opinions”

A NEW WORKING PAPER BY PATRICK MCCURDY (VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW AT ZEMKI, UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN) AND MARTINE STEVENS HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE “COMMUNICATIVE FIGURATIONS” WORKING PAPER SERIES.

The article is entitled “Fort McMurray, Climate Change and ‘The Beast’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian News Editorials and Opinions ” and can be downloaded here. PatrickMcCurdy is Associate Professor in the Department Communication at the University of Ottawa. In 2017, he was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

Chapter „Kommunikative Figurationen – ein theoretisches Konzept zur Beschreibung von Sozialisationsprozessen und deren Wandel in mediatisierten Gesellschaften?“ published

The KoFi members Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl and Dr. Claudia Lampert, together with Jane Müller, Marcel Rechlitz and Katrin Potzelein, have published A Book Chapter on Communicative Figurations in the anthology “Bewegungen – Beiträge zum 26. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft” (in German).

The members of the research network Communicative Figurations have published a joint book chapter entitled “Kommunikative Figurationen – ein theoretisches Konzept zur Beschreibung von Sozialisationsprozessen und deren Wandel in mediatisierten Gesellschaften?” in the anthology “Bewegungen – Beiträge zum 26. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erzeihungswissenschaft”. The article is written in German and deals with the potentials of the figuration approach for socialisation research.

The chapter is published in JSTOR and accessible here.

Keynote “Digital media, data infrastructures amd pioneer journalism: The re-figuration of public communication in times of deep mediatization”

KoFi member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp holds Evening Keynote at 7th international “Comparative Media Studies in Todays World” conference in St. Petersburg.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, member of the KoFi research network, gives a keynote talk at the “Comparative Media Studies in todays World” conference in St. Petersburg today, April 16th 2019. The presentation is titled “Digital media, data infrastructures and pioneer journalism: The re-figuration of public communication in times of deep mediatization”. Therein Dr. Hepp discusses ‘pioneer journalism’ as a principal force in the re-figuration of journalism and its organizational foundations. The aim of the keynote is to give some insights into how this re-figuration of journalism and thus public communication takes place.

The complete program overview of the conference can be found here.

New working paper “The financialization of peer-to-peer lending in the United Kingdom”

A new working paper by Adam Fish (Visiting Research Fellow at ZeMKI, University of Bremen) Together with John Carter McKnight has been published in the “Communicative Figurations” working paper series.

The article is entitled “The financialization of peer-to-peer lending in the United Kingdom” and can be downloaded here. Dr. Adam Fish currently works at Lancaster University. In 2018, he was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen. John Carter McKnight is Assistant Professor at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

New working paper “Public communication for the common good? On the is-ought distinction in the media and communications field”

A new working paper by Max Hänska (Visiting Research Fellow at ZeMKI, University of Bremen) has been published in the “Communicative Figurations” working paper series.

The article is entitled “Public communication for the common good?
On the is-ought distinction in the media and communications field” and can be downloaded here. Dr. Max Hänska currently works as Assistant Professor at De Montfort University in Leicester. In 2017, he was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

New working paper “Conceptualising Media Events within the Context of Cultural Diplomacy”

A new working paper by Beata Ociepka (Visiting Research Fellow at ZeMKI, University of Bremen) has been published in the “Communicative Figurations” working paper series.

The article is entitled “Conceptualising Media Events within the Context of Cultural Diplomacy” and can be downloaded here. Prof. Dr. Beata Ociepka currently works at the Instytut Studiów Międzynarodowych / Institute of International Studies at the University of Wroclaw. In 2018, she was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.