Talk “MeSort and MeTag: The use of network cards, network drawings and media diaries for the research of media repertoires and ensembles”

KoFi member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp presents approach for research on media repertoires and media ensembles at “Vire methods workshop” in lugano.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, member of the KoFi research network, presented an approach for research on media repertoires and media ensembles at the “ViRe Methods Workshop” in Lugano last friday. The associated software tools MeSort and MeTag are part of the DFG funded project “The sustainable provision of software for cross-media practices and digital traces research”.

The conference program can be downloaded from here.

New Working Paper “Kreatives Abschrecken”

A new working paper by Sarah C. Bishop (Visiting Research Fellow at ZeMKI, University of Bremen) has been published in the “Communicative Figurations” working paper series in German language.

The article is entitled “Kreatives Abschrecken: Ein Ländervergleich staatlicher Medienkampagnen zur Abschreckung Asylsuchender” and can be downloaded here. Sarah C. Bishop is an Assistant Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York. In fall 2017, she was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

New Working Paper: “Benign dataveillance — the new kind of democracy?”

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

The article is entitled “Benign dataveillance – the new kind of democracy? Examining the emerging datafied governance systems in India and China” and can be downloaded here. Payal Arora is an Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Founder and Executive Director of Catalyst Lab, a center that ignites relations between academia, business and the public on matters of social concern. In 2018, she was a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bremen.

Further Communicative Figurations Working Papers can be accessed here.

Interview with Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen on the topic of pioneer journalism

Under the (translated) headline “Eager to try out new things: How pioneers are shaping the future of journalism”, an interview (only available in German) with KoFi member Wiebke Loosen was published in JOURNAL 6/18 of the DJV NRW.

In the German language Interview, that you can read here, Loosen talks about the contribution of pioneer journalists to future developments in journalism, where to find them and how the occupational profile of journalists is changing over time.

Currently Wiebke Loosen is one of the principle investigators of the DFG-funded project “Pioneer Journalism: The re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations” that investigates ‘pioneer journalism’ as a principal force in the re-figuration of journalism and its organizational foundations.

New translation of Andreas Hepp’s “Cultures of Mediatization” in Estonian language.

A new translation of Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp’s book “Cultures of Mediatization” (released in 2011) has been released in Estonian language.

The new translation has been published by the university of Tallinn as part of a series of scientific textbooks on the topic of “Media and Communication” (“Bibliotheca Mediorum et Communication”). The goal of these efforts is to close the gap of specialist literature released in Estonian language. The book’s German version “Medienkultur” has already been released in a 2nd edition (by Springer VS), there is an English translation “Cultures of Mediatization” (Palgrave) and one in Turkish language titled “Medyatikleşen Kültürler” (dipnot).