ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research New publication by ZeMKI members Andreas Hepp and Philip Sinner in the Nomos "Handbuch Medienrezeption" NewsZeMKI-News17. January 2025 Nomos has published the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Media Reception. It is edited by Professor Dr.Volker Gehrau, Professor Dr. Helena Bilandzic, Professor Dr. Holger Schramm and Professor Dr. Carsten Wünsch and offers a comprehensive overview of the subjects and theories of reception research. The 37 contributions provide a systematic approach to the State of the Art of the respective topic from a communication science perspective. The comprehensively updated and expanded 2nd edition is divided into four parts: (1) with basic concepts of media reception, (2) with questions of attention and selection, (3) with specific phenomena and modes of experience and (4) with the most important contexts of media reception. Modern media effects theories can no longer do without analysing reception processes. The handbook therefore examines the processes before and during media use in detail. The target audience of the handbook is the broad specialist audience of communication science and related subjects such as sociology, psychology, political science and educational science. ZeMKI is also represented in the new edition. In the section on contexts of media reception, ZeMKI members Professor Dr. Andreas Hepp and Dr. Philip Sinner deal with the subject area of ‘Medienrezeption, Gemeinschaft und Vergemeinschaftung’. The chapter discusses the concepts of community and communitisation with regard to people’s media and communication practices. A distinction is made between two basic forms of communitisation, namely local and translocal. However, both are becoming increasingly intertwined with mediatization. Based on this system, different communities are then analysed in more detail in relation to the media: as local communities, interpretative communities, families, cohabiting communities, circles of friends, peer groups and cliques; as translocal communities, the nation, Europe, migration communities, popular cultural communities, social movements and religious communities. The chapter concludes with topics currently dominating media and communication research: today’s polymediality of the communicative construction of communities, research on platform collectivities and technology-related communities. Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, former professor at the ZeMKI, and Simon Sax, advisory ZeMKI member, have also contributed to the handbook: ‘Medienrezeption im historischen Kontext’. The whole work can be found in the Nomos online shop. Persons Dr. Philip SinnerProf. Dr. Andreas Hepp Labs Lab Datafication and Mediatization
