Communicative Figurations

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 Cafés as Communicative Figurations: Consumer-Critical Media Practices for Cultural Transformation
Sigrid Kannengießer

6. Communicative Figurations of Expertization: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online Gaming (MOG) as Cultures of Amateur Learning
Karsten D. 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 N. Friemel, Matthias Bixler

Part III. Institutions and Organizations

9. The Transformation of Journalism: From Changing Newsroom Cultures to a New Communicative Orientation?
Leif Kramp, Wiebke Loosen

10. Moralizing 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, Hannah Grünenthal, Sina Gogolok

12. Relating Face to Face. Communicative Practices and Political Decision-Making in a Changing Media Environment
Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele, Frank Nullmeier

13. Paper Versus School Information Management Systems: Governing the Figurations of Mediatized Schools in England and Germany

Andreas Breiter, Arne Hendrik Ruhe

Part IV. Methodologies and Perspectives

14. Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research
Christine Lohmeier, Rieke Böhling

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 Christian Schrøder

18. Communicative Figurations: Towards a New Paradigm for the Media Age?
Giselinde Kuipers

19. Erratum to: Communicative Figurations
Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter, Uwe Hasebrink

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Political Communication, Public Policy