Communicative Figurations

Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communication Studies with a special interest in Media Culture and Communication Theory at the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research), University of Bremen, Germany. Andreas Breiter is Professor of Information Management and Educational Technologies at the University of Bremen, Germany, within the ZeMKI and Scientific Director of ifib, a not-for-profit research institute for information management. Uwe Hasebrink is Professor of Empirical Communications Studies at the University of Hamburg and head of the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, Hamburg, Germany.

Part I: Introduction.- 1. Rethinking transforming communications: An Introduction; Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter, Uwe Hasebrink.- 2. Researching transforming communications in times of deep mediatization: A figurational approach; Andreas Hepp, Uwe Hasebrink.- Part II: Collectivities and movements.- 3. Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People's Urban Communities, Andreas Hepp, Piet Simon & Monika Sowinska.- 4. Chaos Computer Club. The communicative construction of media technologies and infrastructures as a political category, Sebastian Kubitschko.- 5. Repair Cafes as communicative figurations: Consumer-critical media practices for cultural transformation; Sigrid Kannengiesser.- 6. Communicative Figurations of expertisation: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online Gaming (MOG) as cultures of amateur learning; Karsten Wolf & Urszula Wudarski.- 7.The communicative construction of space-related identities. Hamburg and Leipzig between the local and the global; Yvonne Robel & Inge Marszolek.- 8. Networked media collectivities. The use of media for the communicative construction of collectivities among adolescents; Thomas Friemel & Matthias Bixler.- Part III: Institutions and organisations.- 9. The transformation of journalism: From changing newsroom cultures to a new communicative orientation?; Leif Kramp & Wiebke Loosen.- 10. Moralising and deliberating in financial blogging. Moral debates in blog communication during the financial crisis 2008; Rebecca Venema & Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz.- 11. 'Blogging sometimes leads to dementia, doesn't it?' The Roman Catholic Church in times of deep mediatization; Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Sina Gogolok & Hannah Grunenthal.- 12. Relating face-to-face. Communicative practices and political decision-making in a changing media environment; Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele & Frank Nullmeier.- 13. Paper versus SIMS: Governing the figurations of mediatized schools in England and Germany; Andreas Breiter & Arne Hendrik Ruhe.- 14. Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and challenges for empirical research; Christine Lohmeier & Rieke Boehling.- 15. Researching Individuals' Media Repertoires: Challenges of qualitative interviews on cross-media practices; Juliane Klein, Michael Walter & Uwe Schimank.- 16. The complexity of datafication: putting digital traces in context; Andreas Breiter, Andreas Hepp.- 17. Communicative Figurations and Cross-Media Research; Kim Schroder.- 18. Communicative figurations: Towards a new paradigm for the media age?; Giselinde Kuipers.