New working paper “The financialization of peer-to-peer lending in the United Kingdom”

A new working paper by Adam Fish (Visiting Research Fellow at ZeMKI, University of Bremen) Together with John Carter McKnight has been published in the “Communicative Figurations” working paper series.

The article is entitled “The financialization of peer-to-peer lending in the United Kingdom” and can be downloaded here. Dr. Adam Fish currently works at Lancaster University. In 2018, he was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen. John Carter McKnight is Assistant Professor at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

New working paper “Public communication for the common good? On the is-ought distinction in the media and communications field”

A new working paper by Max Hänska (Visiting Research Fellow at ZeMKI, University of Bremen) has been published in the “Communicative Figurations” working paper series.

The article is entitled “Public communication for the common good?
On the is-ought distinction in the media and communications field” and can be downloaded here. Dr. Max Hänska currently works as Assistant Professor at De Montfort University in Leicester. In 2017, he was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

New working paper “Conceptualising Media Events within the Context of Cultural Diplomacy”

A new working paper by Beata Ociepka (Visiting Research Fellow at ZeMKI, University of Bremen) has been published in the “Communicative Figurations” working paper series.

The article is entitled “Conceptualising Media Events within the Context of Cultural Diplomacy” and can be downloaded here. Prof. Dr. Beata Ociepka currently works at the Instytut Studiów Międzynarodowych / Institute of International Studies at the University of Wroclaw. In 2018, she was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

Paper „Pioneer journalism: Conceptualizing the role of pioneer journalists and pioneer communities in the organizational re-figuration of journalism“ published

KoFi members Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen publish paper on pioneer journalism in the journal Journalism.

Andreas Hepp and Wiebke Loosen of the research network Communicative Figurations published a paper titled „Pioneer journalism: Conceptualizing the role of pioneer journalists and pioneer communities in the organizational re-figuration of journalism“ in the current edition of the journal Journalism. Goal of the paper is to present the concept of ‘pioneer journalism’ as a new form of organization and experimental practice to redefine the field of journalism in times of deep mediatization. In doing so they look at five extreme cases of pioneer journalists through explorative interview analysis.

Further insights in the presented concept is also the goal of the new DFG funded project “Pioneer Journalism: The re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations” by Wiebke Loosen, Andreas Hepp and Leif Kramp.

The full paper is published in open access and can be read here.

New release “Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media” in der Reihe ‘Transforming Communications’ erschienen

New released: “Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media – A Longitudinal Study of the Mediatization of Socialization” by Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink, Jasmin Kulterer and Philip Sinner, as part of the KoFi book series ‘Transforming Communications’.

This open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and their parents make sense of media within the context of their everyday life over twelve years (from 2005 to 2017) and provides a unique perspective on the role of different socialisation contexts, drawing on rich data from a broad range of qualitative methods.

Using a theoretical framework and methodological approach that can be applied transnationally, it sheds light on the complex interplay of factors which shape children’s socialisation and media usage in multiple ways.

This book is released open access as part of the book series ‘Transforming Communications‘ of the Communicative Figurations network and can be ordered at publisher Palgrave MacMillan.