Communicative Figurations : : Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization.

• Superior document: Transforming Communications - Studies in Cross-Media Research Series
• Author: Hepp, Andreas.
• TeilnehmendeR: Breiter, Andreas.; Hasebrink, Uwe.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Transforming Communications - Studies in Cross-Media Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (455 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction -- 1.1 Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization -- 1.2 Taking a Figurational Approach -- 1.3 An Overview of This Volume -- References -- Chapter 2 Researching Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization: A Figurational Approach -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Changing Media Environment in Times of Deep Mediatization -- 2.3 The Domain Specificity of Deep Mediatization -- 2.4 Researching Transforming Communications -- 2.4.1 Communicative Practices and Their Entanglement with Media -- 2.4.2 Social Domains as Communicative Figurations -- 2.5 Communicative Figuration as an Approach for Empirical Research -- References -- Part II Collectivities and Movements -- Chapter 3 Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People's Urban Communities -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Media, the City and Community -- 3.3 The Methodical Approach -- 3.4 Young People's Friendship Groups in the City -- 3.5 The Figurative Quality of Mediatized Locations -- 3.5.1 Shopping Mall -- 3.5.2 Communal Cinema -- 3.5.3 Hackerspace -- 3.6 The Mediatized City as an Imagined Community -- 3.7 Conclusion: Community-Building in the Mediatized City -- References -- Chapter 4 Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Researching Hacker Cultures -- 4.3 Forming a Coherent Hacker Organization -- 4.4 From the Inside to the Outside -- 4.5 Spiral of Legitimation -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Repair Cafés as Communicative Figurations: Consumer-Critical Media Practices for Cultural Transformation.

5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Research on Repairing and Public Sites of Repair -- 5.3 Methods Used and Figurational Perspective -- 5.4 Actor Constellation in Repair Cafés -- 5.4.1 Repairing Media Technologies as Media Practice -- 5.5 Consumer-Critical Media Practice and Small Media Repertoires -- 5.6 Communicative Practices in Repair Cafés and the Formation of Communicative Communities -- 5.7 Repair Movement Striving for Cultural Transformation -- 5.8 Repair Cafés as Communicative Figurations: Analyzing the Transformation of Communication and Media Practice, and the Struggle for Change -- References -- Chapter 6 Communicative Figurations of Expertization: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online Gaming (MOG) as Cultures of Amateur Learning -- 6.1 Introduction: New Cultures of Learning -- 6.2 Amateurs' Development of Expertise with Media -- 6.2.1 Development of Expertise -- 6.2.2 Autodidaxy-Everyday Practices of Self-directed Informal Learning -- 6.2.3 Appropriation of Media to Develop Expertise -- 6.3 Research Question and Methods of Data Collection -- 6.4 Selection of Learning Domains -- 6.5 Differences in Figurations Between Learning Domains -- 6.5.1 Media Ensembles and Communicative Practices of Learning -- 6.5.2 Constellation of Actors -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 The Communicative Construction of Space-Related Identities. Hamburg and Leipzig Between the Local and the Global -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 State of Research and Methodology -- 7.3 Changing Cities' Media Ensembles and Their Impact on Identity Constructions -- 7.4 Hamburg and Leipzig as 'Global Players'? -- 7.5 Visual Signs for the Cities' Cosmopolitism -- 7.6 A Plea for an Entangled and Cross-Media Historical Approach -- References.

Chapter 8 Networked Media Collectivities. The Use of Media for the Communicative Construction of Collectivities Among Adolescents -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Mediatized Construction of Collectivities -- 8.3 The Impact of Changing Media Environment on Social Capital -- 8.4 Research Questions -- 8.5 Sample and Methods -- 8.6 Media Use and Communication About Media Content -- 8.7 Networks of Media-Related Communication -- 8.8 Current Findings and Future Research on Networked Media Collectivities -- References -- Part III Institutions and Organisations -- Chapter 9 The Transformation of Journalism: From Changing Newsroom Cultures to a New Communicative Orientation? -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Communicative Figuration of the Journalism-Audience Relationship -- 9.3 Tentative Openness and Structural Drawbacks in German Newspaper Newsrooms -- 9.3.1 Changing Newsroom Cultures Through New Professional Roles -- 9.3.2 Differentiating the Media Ensemble -- 9.3.3 Adapting to the Communicative Habits of the Audience -- 9.4 Mutual Observation: Participatory Expectations and Attitudes of Journalists and Audience Members -- 9.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10 Moralizing and Deliberating in Financial Blogging. Moral Debates in Blog Communication During the Financial Crisis 2008 -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Crisis-Related (Re)Constructions of Norms and Values and Shifting Constellations of Actors in Public Debates -- 10.3 Methods and Empirical Approach -- 10.4 Findings -- 10.4.1 Characterizing the Actor Constellation -- 10.4.2 Moralizing, Deliberating and Constructions of Norms and Values in Blog Communication -- 10.4.3 Moralization: Social Evaluations -- 10.4.4 Deliberating: Meta-Communicative Elements -- 10.5 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 11 'Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn't It?' The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Current State of Research -- 11.3 The Catholic Church as an Organization -- 11.3.1 The Communicative Figuration of the Roman Catholic Church -- 11.4 Methods -- 11.5 Religious Organizations and Their Media Ensemble -- 11.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Relating Face to Face. Communicative Practices and Political Decision-Making in a Changing Media Environment -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Face-to-Face Interactions in the Field of Politics -- 12.3 Practices of Relatedness -- 12.4 Empirical Findings -- 12.4.1 Empirical Findings from Face-to-Face Experiments -- 12.4.2 Empirical Findings from Chat Experiments -- 12.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13 Paper Versus School Information Management Systems: Governing the Figurations of Mediatized Schools in England and Germany -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Schools as Communicative Figurations -- 13.3 Methodology -- 13.4 Empirical Findings -- 13.4.1 Media Ensemble -- 13.4.2 Media-Related Communicative Practices -- 13.4.3 School Stakeholders and the Media Ensemble -- 13.4.4 The Relation Between Communicative Practices and the School's Media Ensemble -- 13.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Methodologies and Perspectives -- Chapter 14 Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Cross-Media as a Necessity and Challenge -- 14.3 Defining Boundaries as a Necessity and Challenge -- 14.4 Researching Mediated Family Memory -- 14.4.1 Researching Mediated Family Memory: Cross-Media and the Boundaries of the Figuration -- 14.4.2 A Concrete Example: Reconstructing Communicative Figurations Through Interviews and a Multi-Situated Ethnographic Approach.

14.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15 Researching Individuals' Media Repertoires: Challenges of Qualitative Interviews on Cross-Media Practices -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Qualitative (Media) Research and the Challenging Tension Between Openness and Thematic Focus -- 15.3 Interviewing Strategies -- 15.4 Empirical Findings: How to Figure Out a Proper Interview Strategy for a Non-mediacentric Media Study -- 15.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 16 The Complexity of Datafication: Putting Digital Traces in Context -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Digital Traces as a Phenomenon of Complexity -- 16.3 School Learning Management Systems as an Example: Analyzing Digital Traces as Putting Them into Context -- 16.4 Conclusion: Challenges Putting Digital Traces in Context -- References -- Chapter 17 Communicative Figurations and Cross-Media Research -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Communicative Figurations as Constitutive of Mediatization -- 17.3 A Selection from the Buffet of Communicative Figurations -- 17.4 When is Something (Not) a Communicative Figuration? -- 17.5 Methodological Media-Centrism and Non-Media-Centrism in Figurational Research -- References -- Chapter 18 Communicative Figurations: Towards a New Paradigm for the Media Age? -- 18.1 Introduction: Figurations and Mediations -- 18.2 Does the Figurational Approach Allow Us to See New Things? -- 18.3 Does the New Figurational Approach Improve the Old Figurational Approach? -- 18.4 Towards a New Paradigm? -- References -- Erratum to: Communicative Figurations -- Erratum to: A. Hepp et al. (eds.), Communicative Figurations, Transforming Communications - Studies in Cross-Media Research, &lt -- ExternalRef&gt -- &lt -- RefSource&gt -- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0&lt -- /RefSource&gt -- &lt -- RefTarget Address="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-3 -- Index.