scholarly journals On the concept of figurations, deep mediatization, and the adulthood of media and communication studies – the interview with Andreas Hepp

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
London School ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Media Sociology ◽  
Information Research ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Media And Communication

<p>Andreas Hepp is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research at theUniversityofBremen. Mediatization research is among his various research interests that generally include media and communication theory, media sociology, and transcultural communication. Theoretical and empirical studies on mediatization processes are also among the leading subjects in the academic work of ZeMKI.</p><p>Andreas Hepp is the author of several publications on the subject of mediatization, including his latest book <em>The Mediated Construction of Reality</em> written with Nick Couldry of the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. In <em>The Mediated Construction of Reality, </em>Couldry and Hepp revisit the question of how the social world is constructed, originally asked by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann (1966), and provide the reader with their own original answer, acknowledging the complex and irreducible contribution of digital media to the process. The editorial staff of <em>Mediatization Studies </em>reckons Andreas Hepp as one of the leading academics in the field of mediatization research and his and Couldry’s book as one of the most interesting and up-to-date accounts on the issue. This is why we decided to present it via this interview.</p>The interview was conducted during the <em>Communicative Figurations</em> international conference in Bremen (December 7-9, 2016), which focused on transforming communications in times of deep mediatization. Couldry and Hepp’s book had its official presentation during the conference.

Afterword

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-238
Author(s):  
Carole M. Cusack ◽  
Massimo Leone ◽  
Jeffrey Sconce
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

In this afterword, three leading scholars, whose work explores the intersections of media, communication, and religion from different viewpoints, enter in dialog on the subject. Carole Cusack is a historian of religion and the author of groundbreaking works about the relationship between religion, imagination, and popular culture. Massimo Leone is a semiologist whose work has stretched the boundaries between the study of religion and the study of signs, both linguistic and nonlinguistic. Jeffrey Sconce is a scholar in film and media studies whose pioneering monograph, Haunted Media (2000), placed the theme of the supernatural at the forefront of studies in media and communication. Their responses provide a map of potential trajectories to further explore the connections between digital media and the supernatural.

Az üzenet maga a médium

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Terhi Rantane
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
London School ◽  
Global Media ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Manuel Castells ◽  
Media And Communication

Terhi Rantanen, a Londoni Gazdaságtudományi és Politológiai Intézet (London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE) munkatársa és a Global Media and Communication című új szakfolyóirat alapító szerkesztője 2005 februárjában készített interjút Manuel Castells-szal a Katalóniai Nyílt Egyetemen, Barcelonában. Castells-t olyan tudósként mutatta be lapja olvasóinak, aki „az információ korának széles körben a legkiválóbbként elismert elemzője”, s akinek fő művét, „Az információ kora” című trilógiát Karl Marx és Max Weber műveivel szokták összemérni. Mélyen szántó megjegyzésekkel tűzdelt, érdekfeszítő beszélgetésük az alábbi főbb témákra terjedt ki: a hatalmi viszonyok és a kommunikációs technológia; Eco, Innis és McLuhan hatása; a hálózati modellek hatásai a kommunikációs modellekre; a hálózati társadalmak nem-nyugati modelljei. Castells a következőkkel zárta le az interjút: „A hatalomért folyó harc valójában az értelmünkért folyó küzdelem, az értelmünk pedig kommunikációs környezetben funkcionál. A kommunikáció – társadalmunk jellegéből fakadóan – a társadalomtudományok összességének a központi kutatási területévé vált.”

Geographies of media and communication I

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Metaphysical Question ◽  
Media And Communication

Media and communication are attracting increasing amounts of attention from geographers but the work remains disorganized and lacks a unifying paradigm. This progress report suggests a new paradigm for geographical studies of media and communication and indicates how recent research fits under this umbrella. The report presents recent studies of literature, film and television, digital media, photography, comics, stamps and banknotes. The range of theoretical concerns in this body of work includes performance, agency, materiality, immateriality, networks, politics, emotions and affect. Collectively, these concerns point to communications not merely as transmissions through infrastructure, space and time, but rather as encounters between various human and nonhuman agents. The metaphysical question is exactly what such encounters do to participants – how agents are transformed by other agents’ communications. This leads to synthesis in a new paradigm for media/communication geography: the metaphysics of encounter.

scholarly journals Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites

2021 ◽  
pp. 205015792098482
Author(s):  
Linus Andersson ◽  
Ebba Sundin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Media Practices

This article addresses the phenomenon of mobile bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years since it has been described as a growing problem for first responders, such as paramedics, police, and firefighters. This article aims to identify theoretical perspectives that are relevant for analyzing mobile media practices and discuss the ethical implications of these perspectives. Our purpose is twofold: we want to develop a theoretical framework for critically approaching mobile media practices, and we want to contribute to discussions concerning well-being in a time marked by mediatization and digitalization. In this pursuit, we combine theory from social psychology about how people behave at traumatic scenes with discussions about witnessing in and through media, as developed in media and communication studies. Both perspectives offer various implications for normative inquiry, and in our discussion, we argue that mobile bystanders must be considered simultaneously as transgressors of social norms and as emphatic witnesses behaving in accordance with the digital media age. The article ends with a discussion regarding the implications for further research.

The Judiciary, International and National, and the Development of International Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Y. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Justice ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
London School ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Law Reports

TheAnnual Digest of Public International Law Cases—the ancestor of theInternational Law Reports—was first published “under the direction” of the Department of International Studies of the London School of Economics. The “chief inspirers”, to use Fitzmaurice's phrase, were Arnold McNair and Hersch Lauterpacht, the latter then on the teaching staff of the School. There was also an Advisory Committee of Sir Cecil J. B. Hurst, a former President of the Permanent Court of International Justice and later Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office; W. E. Beckett, also of the Foreign Office; A. Hammarksjöld, the Registrar of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and Sir John Fischer Williams of Oxford and the Reparation Commission.

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