Members of the “Communikative Figurations” research network hpresent at the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Fukuoka, Japan

From June 8-15, the 2016 annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) takes place in Fukuoka, Japan. The following members of the “Communicative Figurations” research network will present:

Thursday, June 9, 8:00

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (Universität Bremen): “Pioneer Communities: Collective Actors of Deep Mediatization”

Thursday, June 9, 13:00

PD Dr. Wiebke Loosen and Julius Reimer (Hans-Bredow-Institut): “Between Proximity and Distance: The Balance in the Transforming Journalism-Audience Relationship as a Criterion for Media Quality?”

Friday, June 10, 9:30

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen) (with Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry, LSE): “The Mediated Construction of Reality”

PD Dr. Wiebke Loosen (Hans-Bredow-Institut): Chair des Panels “Journalists and Their Sources: Relationships, Practices, Perceptions”

Saturday, June 11, 9:30

Prof. Dr. Michael Brüggemann (University of Hamburg) (with Dr. Edda Humprecht, U Zürich; Laia Castro Herrero, U Fribourg; Dr. Sven Engesser, U Zürich; Florian Buechel, U Zürich): “Rethinking Hallin and Mancini (2004) Beyond the West: An Analysis of Media Systems in Central and Eastern Europe”

Saturday, June 11, 12:30

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Piet Simon and Monika Sowinska (University of Bremen): “Community building and public places in the mediatized city”

Sunday, June 12, 9:30

Prof. Dr. Thomas Friemel and Matthias Bixler (University of Bremen): “Network Dynamics of Adolescents’ Media Use: Social Selection and Influence Processes of TV and YouTube”

Sunday, June 12, 14:00

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen): “A Post-Nationalist Europe? The Contested Communicative Construction of Europe”

The full conference programme can be accessed here.