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View article: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATIVE AI
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATIVE AI Open
Current media coverage surrounding ChatGPT, LaMDA, and Luminous has brought questions about the automation of communication into the mainstream. Artificially intelligent media are no longer merely mediating instances of communication but a…
View article: Agency in a datafied society: an introduction
Agency in a datafied society: an introduction Open
In media and communication research the datafied society has become a core concept for describing a society in which data-based sense making has become a fundamental principle of the construction of reality. In datafied societies it is oft…
View article: Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities
Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities Open
Research typically considers corporate actors such as large tech companies or government agencies as drivers of deep mediatization, the increasing saturation of society by digital media and their infrastructures. This article aims to focus…
View article: Human-Machine Communication: Complete Volume. Volume 7 Special Issue: Mediatization
Human-Machine Communication: Complete Volume. Volume 7 Special Issue: Mediatization Open
This is the complete volume of HMC Volume 7. Special Issue on Mediatization
View article: Mediatization and Human-Machine Communication: Trajectories, Discussions, Perspectives
Mediatization and Human-Machine Communication: Trajectories, Discussions, Perspectives Open
As research fields, mediatization and Human-Machine Communication (HMC) have distinct historical trajectories. While mediatization research is concerned with the fundamental interrelation between the transformation of media and communicati…
View article: ChatGPT, LaMDA, and the Hype Around Communicative AI: The Automation of Communication as a Field of Research in Media and Communication Studies
ChatGPT, LaMDA, and the Hype Around Communicative AI: The Automation of Communication as a Field of Research in Media and Communication Studies Open
The aim of this article is to more precisely define the field of research on the automation of communication, which is still only vaguely discernible. The central thesis argues that to be able to fully grasp the transformation of the media…
View article: The lab, the space and the meetup: locating technological experimentation in everyday life
The lab, the space and the meetup: locating technological experimentation in everyday life Open
This article analyzes the role digital pioneer communities play in the localization of everyday technological experimentation based on three sites of practice: the lab, the space, and the meetup. Taking a historical view, it begins with a …
View article: Prelims
Prelims Open
Now that digital media connect or disconnect our everyday lives within and across contexts, then the task of their users is to navigate these new opportunities, smartphone in hand, so as to enjoy new choices, face the at-time intense tensi…
View article: Von der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion zur kommunikativen KI
Von der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion zur kommunikativen KI Open
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 …
View article: Agency, social relations, and order: Media sociology’s shift into the digital
Agency, social relations, and order: Media sociology’s shift into the digital Open
Until the end of the last century, media sociology was synonymous with the investigation of mass media as a social domain. Today, media sociology needs to address a much higher level of complexity, that is, a deeply mediatized world in whi…
View article: New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power—An Introduction
New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power—An Introduction Open
Data power is a highly ambivalent phenomenon and it is precisely these ambivalences that open up important perspectives for the burgeoning field of critical data studies: First, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local inv…
View article: Transnational Networks of Influence: The Twitter Presence of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements’ Organizational Elites
Transnational Networks of Influence: The Twitter Presence of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements’ Organizational Elites Open
This chapter examines the transnational Twitter followee-network of the Quantified Self (QS) and Maker movements. Based on a media ethnography as a pre-study, the following questions are addressed: How is the organisational elite of both p…
View article: Pioneering Mediatization Studies: Аn Interview with Professor Andreas Hepp
Pioneering Mediatization Studies: Аn Interview with Professor Andreas Hepp Open
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View article: Digital media, data infrastructures, and space
Digital media, data infrastructures, and space Open
One of the most challenging questions regarding the transformation of space refers to media and communications: How do digital media change space and our experience of space? This question is often discussed in isolation, losing sight of i…
View article: Media and Communication
Media and Communication Open
German media sociologyisinthe processofdeveloping from asociologyof mass communication to as ociologyofadeeplym ediatized world.This corresponds with three more general themes of international media sociology: ar ethinkingo f agency,aredef…
View article: Beyond empowerment, experimentation and reasoning: The public discourse around the Quantified Self movement
Beyond empowerment, experimentation and reasoning: The public discourse around the Quantified Self movement Open
This article presents the results of a discourse analysis of press coverage on the Quantified Self (QS) movement in the German and British (online) press between 2007 and 2018. The analysis is driven by two questions: What discursive patte…
View article: The fragility of curating a pioneer community: Deep mediatization and the spread of the Quantified Self and Maker movements
The fragility of curating a pioneer community: Deep mediatization and the spread of the Quantified Self and Maker movements Open
The aim of this article is to reconstruct the ways in which the organizational elites of the Quantified Self and Maker movements curate their respective pioneer communities. Based on a media ethnography carried out in Germany, the UK, and …
View article: Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies
Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies Open
The aim of this article is to outline ‘communicative robots’ as an increasingly relevant field of media and communication research. Communicative robots are defined as autonomously operating systems designed for the purpose of quasi-commun…
View article: Molo.news: Experimentally Developing a Relational Platform for Local Journalism
Molo.news: Experimentally Developing a Relational Platform for Local Journalism Open
In this article we present a research project that experimentally develops a local news platform based on empirical research (interviews, group discussions, a survey) and a co-creation approach. What is presented here is not a typical empi…
View article: Pioneer journalism: Conceptualizing the role of pioneer journalists and pioneer communities in the organizational re-figuration of journalism
Pioneer journalism: Conceptualizing the role of pioneer journalists and pioneer communities in the organizational re-figuration of journalism Open
Recent journalism research often argues that it is high time that we moved beyond the newsroom and begin asking who it is that is stimulating transformation and not what it is, as individual journalists, entrepreneurs, technology firms, an…
View article: What Makes a Maker?
What Makes a Maker? Open
Academic research typically portrays the Maker Movement as a bottom-up emancipatory movement that emerged out of localised, grassroots initiatives. On the basis of a broad media ethnography that gathered data in Germany, Great Britain, and…
View article: Digital Traces in Context| Digital Traces in Context — An Introduction
Digital Traces in Context| Digital Traces in Context — An Introduction Open
A consequence of living in a media-saturated world is that we inevitably leave behind digital traces of our media use. In this introduction to the International Journal of Communication’s thematic section, we argue for a need to put those …
View article: Digital Traces in Context| Appropriating Digital Traces of Self-Quantification: Contextualizing Pragmatic and Enthusiast Self-Trackers
Digital Traces in Context| Appropriating Digital Traces of Self-Quantification: Contextualizing Pragmatic and Enthusiast Self-Trackers Open
On the basis of a media ethnography of self-trackers and their self-quantification, we argue in this article that the ways related media technologies and digital traces are appropriated depends on the overall contexts of these self-tracker…
View article: Digital Traces in Context
Digital Traces in Context Open
A consequence of living in a media-saturated world is that we inevitably leave behind digital traces of our media use. In this introduction to the International Journal of Communication’s thematic section, we argue for a need to put those …
View article: Communicative Figurations
Communicative Figurations Open
media communication; culture and society; media transformations; technical communication; media social relations and roles; social fields and institutional dynamics; identities and collectives; public debate; political decision-making; med…
View article: Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction
Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction Open
This chapter introduces the contributions to this volume in three stages. First, it is argued that when considering the present stage of deep mediatization, it is insufficient to concentrate solely on the media as such: one also has to con…
View article: Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People’s Urban Communities
Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People’s Urban Communities Open
What does deep mediatization mean to young people in their daily urban sense of community? Posing this question, the chapter analyzes the mediatization of young people’s urban community building in two German cities: Bremen and Leipzig. In…
View article: The Complexity of Datafication: Putting Digital Traces in Context
The Complexity of Datafication: Putting Digital Traces in Context Open
This chapter deepens the discussion on the problem of contextualizing digital traces. First, digital traces are reflected as a phenomenon of media-related complexity more generally. Secondly, the example of data from learning management sy…