Das Buch setzt sich mit drei Schlusselkonzepten der gegenwartigen Kommunikations-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft auseinander, namlich 'Konnektivitat', 'Netzwerk' und 'Fluss'. In verschiedenen Beitragen einschlagig ausgewiesener Autorinnen und Autoren wird aufgezeigt, dass es diese drei Konzepte sind, die es uns ermoglichen, Prozesse von Medienkommunikation auf eine der heutigen Zeit angemessen Weise zu fassen.

In Transcultural Communication, Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world.

• Includes examples of mediatization and transcultural communication from a variety of cultural contexts
• Covers an array of different types of media, including mass media and digital media
• Incorporates discussion of transcultural communication in media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and...

In Transcultural Communication, Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world.

• Includes examples of mediatization and transcultural communication from a variety of cultural contexts
• Covers an array of different types of media, including mass media and digital media
• Incorporates discussion of transcultural communication in media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and...

Based on a 12-year long project, this book demonstrates the contested character of the communicative construction of Europe. It does so by combining an investigation of journalistic practices with content analysis of print media, an examination of citizens' online interactions and audience studies with European citizens.

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media.

Drawing on Sch?tz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital media's profound involvement...

This volume sheds light on the underlying dynamics of mediatization, disentangling the actual unfolding of mediatization processes.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This volume is about how to research the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spreading of various technical communication media such as mobile phone and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are...