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The topic “Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe” is dedicated to the fundamental question: How is media change related to the everyday agency and sense making practices of the people in Europe? This volume consists of the intellectual work of the 2013 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) at the ZeMKI, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen, Germany. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured into four sections: “Dynamics of Mediatization”, “Transformations”, “Methods”, and “The Social”.
This article provides an overview of the mediatisation approach, which for the last two decades has gradually become a systematic concept for understanding and theorising the transformation of everyday life, culture and society in the context of the ongoing transformation of media. The article is divided into four sections. The first section addresses the ongoing transformation of media and the emergence of a computer-controlled digital infrastructure for all symbolic operations in a society; some of the new types of media are also presented. In the second section, the development of the mediatisation approach as a reaction to media changes is explained, and the central assumptions and conditions of this approach are discussed. This section also shows why, in addition to actual mediatisation research, historical mediatisation research is also necessary to understand the developments occurring today. The third section clarifies this and discusses how the transformation of media produces a transformation of everyday life, culture and society; this section also presents some results of empirical studies. The fourth and final section provides some preliminary ideas about how to establish a necessary third branch of mediatisation research, which offers a critical view with reference to civil society, besides actual and historical mediatisation research. KEYWORDS transformation of media; media change; digital infrastructure; symbolic operations; transformation of everyday life; mediatisation; historical research; critical research; civil society
Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe
The European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School brings together a group of highly qualified doctoral students as well as lecturing senior researchers and professors from a diversity of European countries. The main objective of the fourteen-day summer school is to organise an innovative learning process at doctoral level, focusing primarily on enhancing the quality of individual dissertation projects through an intercultural and interdisciplinary exchange and networking programme. This said, the summer school is not merely based on traditional postgraduate teaching approaches like lectures and workshops. The summer school also integrates many group-centred and individual approaches, especially an individualised discussion of doctoral projects, peer-to-peer feedback -and a joint book production. The topic "Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe" is dedicated to the fundamental question: How is media change related to the everyday agency and sense making pra...
Everyday Media Agency in Europe
This book can be understood as a distillate of a broad commitment to excellence in research on media and communication, generated in affiliation with the annual European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, and organised, promoted and invigorated by both junior and senior researchers from all over Europe and beyond. Likewise, the book is much more than a reflection of the intellectual outcome of the summer school and cannot be reduced to conference proceedings: most of the chapters reach significantly beyond the work presented at the Summer School. The book picks up on the underlying idea of promoting pluralism of theoretical and methodological approaches for studying contemporary (mediated and mediatized) communication and establishing transnational dialogue(s) with these diverse and often still culturally enclosed approaches. As part of the Researching and Teaching Communication Series, this edited volume occupies a liminal position in the field of academic books as it presents both conceptual insights of ongoing research as well as results of completed research. “Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe” is a thoroughly peer reviewed book, a result of collective endeavour of its many editors, who paid particular attention to supporting the five chapters provided by emerging scholars, all of whom were Summer School participants.
The Media - An Introduction. Third edition
Today, arguably more than at any time in the past, media are the key players in contributing to what defines reality for the citizens of Europe and beyond. This book provides an introduction to the way that the media occupy such a position of prominence in contemporary human existence. This expanded and fully updated third edition of the bestselling The Media: An Introduction collects in one volume thirty-six specially commissioned essays to offer unrivalled breadth and depth for an introduction to the study of contemporary media. It addresses the fundamental questions about today's media – for example, digitisation and its effects, new distribution technologies, and the implications of convergence, all set against the backdrop of a period of profound social and economic change in Europe and globally. Key features: •Expert contributions on each topic •Approachable, authoritative contributions provide a solid theoretical overview of the media industry and comprehensive empirical guide to the institutions that make up the media. •Further Reading and related web-resource listings encourage further study. New to this edition: •New five part structure provides a broad and coherent approach to media: Part 1 Understanding the Media; Part 2 What Are the Media?; Part 3 The Media Environment; Part 4 Audiences, Influences and Effects; Part 5 Media Representations. •Brand new chapters on: Approaches to Media; Media Form; Models of Media Institutions; The Media in Europe; Photography; Book Publishing; Newspapers; Magazines; Radio; Television; The Internet and the Web; News Media; Economics; Policy; Public Service Broadcasting in Europe; Censorship and Freedom of Speech; Audience Research; Sexualities; Gender; Social Class; Media and Religion; The Body, Health and Illness; Nationality and Sex Acts. •Other chapter topics from the last edition fully updated •A wider, more comparative focus on Europe. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The\_Media.html?id=PnnKUEIhrxQC&hl=en
The main part of the book has four sections, which provide a general overview into the diversity of the topics addressed at the summer school and indicate one of the main strengths of the summer school and academic research published in this volume – the pluralism of both theoretical and methodological approaches in studying the nature of contemporary (mediated) communication. Most of the chapters, published in this volume, cut across various disciplines and consequently reveal not only the richness of contemporary perspectives on media and communication, but at the same time also highlight the growing need for thorough theoretical understanding of the analysed phenomena and clear definitions of theoretical frameworks and concepts. The chapters of the first section address precisely this pressing concern. Friedrich Krotz’s chapter explores the theory of mediatization in the light of communicative action while Bart Cammaerts’ chapter looks at mediation and resistance, connecting the field of political science with that of media and communication studies. Nico Carpentier’s and Leen van Brussel’s chapter presents how discourse theoretical analysis can be used for development of a secondary theoretical framework. Similarly, Ilija Tomaniæ Trivundža’s chapter on the flâneur draws on discourse theory in order to develop a structured understanding of a much contested theoretical concept. Viorela Dan’s chapter addresses the popular analytical concept of framing and relates the frame to similar analytical concepts, such as narratives and discourses, while the closing chapter of this section by Michael Rübsamen is devoted to outlining an analytical framework for analysis of celebrities as reflections or embodiments of cultural ideals and values. The five chapters of the second section address pressing issues of contemporary journalism by addressing topics of the quality of journalistic reporting through the concept of noise (François Heinderyckx), global news flows and news values through odd and bizarre news stories (Ebba Sundin), legal protection of professional journalists and non-professional news reporters (Francis Shennan), strategies of political actors seeking to avoid publicity in the media (Juho Vesa), and through questioning the role of journalistic work in enabling the functioning of democratic political systems (Manuel Parés i Maicas). The third section reveals the complexity of the contemporary approaches to the analysis of European mediasphere through five cases that scrutinise the societal and cultural dimension of the analysed phenomena. They range from Jens E. Kjeldsen’s and Anders Johansen’s analysis of televised political speeches in contemporary Norwegian politics and Janis Juzefovics’ analysis of public broadcasting in post-Communist societies with a focus on Latvia, to Heiner Stahl’s application of the concept of acoustic space to the work of folley artists and Pika Založnik’s and Jeoffrey Gaspard’s reflection on the consequences of “marketisation” of the European University that is changing academic practices and conceptions of the public role and missions of the university as well as academics. Section four consists of four chapters on methodological and pedagogical approaches. Burcu Sümer’s chapter offers much welcomed clear guidelines for doing a thorough literature review for PhD projects and Bertrand Cabedoche’s chapter provides an insight into the backyard of a research process and its stages of gradual development and maturing. Pille Pruulman- Vengerfeldt offers an insight into a different backyard - that of lecturing - focusing on a pressing issue for many lecturerfs in todayfs academia, that of ensuring interactiveness while lecturing to a large audience while Jan Jirakfs chapter focuses on the challenges that media studies face vis-a-vis their readiness to provide a specific programme of media literacy education. The second part of the book contains the abstracts of the projects of all 46 PhD students that participated in the 2011 Summer School. In the third part of the book, the text of the most creative joint workshop presentation summarising the paradigms, theories and methods used in the yellow flow is published because it very clearly represents the true spirit of the Summer School . a mixture of academic seriousness, playfulness and creativity. Throughout the book, a series of pictures selected from the immense Summer School archive are also included. Ilija Tomani. Trivund.a produced the cover. Our special thanks to our photographers: Francois Heinderyckx, Jeoffrey Gaspard, Andrea Davide Cuman, and Ilija Tomani. Trivund.a.
Past, future and change: Contemporary analysis of evolving media scapes
This book includes a series of papers that were presented by lecturers and PhD-students at the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School in August 2012 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The 2012 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School (Ljubljana, 12-25 August) was supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme Erasmus Intensive Programme project (grant agreement reference number: 2011-7878), the University of Ljubljana – the Department of Media and Communication Studies and the Faculty of Social Sciences, a consortium of 22 universities, and the Slovene Communication Association. Affiliated partners of the programme were the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the Finnish National Research School, and COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies. Contributors are (in alphabetical order): Giulia Airaghi, Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Aukse Balcytiene, Nikola Belakova, Bertrand Cabedoche, Nico Carpentier, Fausto Colombo, Sander De Ridder, François Heinderyckx, Radim Hladík, Iris Jennes, Richard Kilborn, Krista Lepik, Jenni Mäenpää, Hannu Nieminen, Tobias Olsson, Manuel Parés i Maicas, Sara Pargana Mota, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Irena Reifová, Helle Sjøvaag, Heiner Stahl, Ebba Sundin, Ilija Tomanić Trivundža and Dino Viscovi. The book consists of four sections: 1/Crisis, 2/Journalism, 3/Time and Memory, 4/The Political. The book also includes all abstracts of PhD projects presented at the Summer School.