Lab Datafication and Mediatization

May 24, 2019, Washington D.C., USA Location: American University, The Washington College of Law Organisers: Nick Couldry (London School of Economics), Lina Dencik (Cardiff University), Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen), Karin van Es (Data School Utrecht) with support of Pat Aufderheide (American University) Division/Interest Group Affiliation(s): Communication and Technology Division and Philosophy Theory and Critique (…)

5.-8. Dezember 2018, Brüssel The Research Centre in Political Science (CReSPo) and the Institute for European Studies (IEE) of Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B) are organizing the next Elias conference in Brussels, Belgium, on 5–8 December 2018. The ZeMKI, University of Bremen, together with the Hans-Bredow-Insitute for Media Research, organizes the session: “The re-figuration of (…)

In one way or the other the current transformation of society is related to media, which are understood to mean organizations, content and technologies. As a consequence, media themselves are gaining increasing relevance in political debates and for political activity per se. Actors like hacker collectives, alternative media or open source movements do not only (…)

International Conference International conference of the section “Mediatization” of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), organized by the DFG priority programme “Mediatized Worlds” in cooperation with the research network “Communicative Figurations” at the University of Bremen. Submissions can refer to both theoretical and empirical work as well as to different methodologies. However, the (…)

Workshop as part of the Creative Unit “Communicative Figurations” Date: February 9-10, 2015 Location: University of Bremen, ZeMKI, meeting room Organization: Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Ute Volkmann Objective There are several sub-projects in the research network “Communicative Figurations” that focus on audience participation as a relevant factor with regard to the social change under investigation. What these (…)

Workshop of the ECREA Temporary Working Group “Mediatization” Venue: Thai Theatre (unless otherwise noted), New Academic Building, Sardinia Street, LSE Campus, WC2A 2AE The mediatization of politics was the beginning of mediatization research: In the 1990s and the following years, mediatization was mainly discussed as the adaptation of “media rules” or “journalistic logics” to the (…)

Internal event Media and communication change is currently the subject of various major research networks. The research group “Political Communication in the Online World” is investigating how politics and political communication are changing with the progressive establishment of the internet. The NCCR Democracy focuses, among other things, on the medialization of politics and society. The (…)