Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
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Dr Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communications and Head of ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany. He previously worked at the University of Trier, the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), the Technical University of Ilmenau and the University of Münster. He was Visiting Researcher and Professor at leading institutions such as the London School of Economics and Political Science, Goldsmiths University of London, Université Paris II Panthéon ASSAS, Stanford University and others. Andreas Hepp’s research focuses on mediatization, datafication, automation of communication / communicative AI, media use and appropriation. He is the author of 12 monographs including “The Mediated Construction of Reality” (with Nick Couldry, 2017), “Transcultural Communication” (2015) and “Cultures of Mediatization” (2013). His latest book is “Deep Mediatization” (2020). He is currently working on a book on digital pioneers to be published by Polity Press.
Main research interests
- Media and communication theory
- Media sociology
- Mediatization
- Datafication
- Automation of communication/ communicative AI
- Media use and appropriation
Memberships
- German Association for Media Education, Media Literacy and Communication Culture (GMK)
- German Communication Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, DGPuK)
- German Sociological Association (DGS)
- European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
- International Communication Association (ICA)
Current reasearch projects
- OpenQDA: open qualitative data analysis software (2023 – 2025)
- Prototypes of social cohesion (2025 – 2026)
- Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its possible futures (ComAI P1) (2025 – 2028)
- molo.news: Research Network Tests Bremen News App (2023 – 2026)
Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)
- Approaching Digital Futures – or: Why Media and Communication Research Needs to Move from a Perspective of Consequence to One of Emergence
https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtaf028 - Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities. New Media & Society
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241253766 - Solving the crisis with “do-it-yourself heroes”? The media coverage on pioneer communities, Covid-19, and technological solutionism. Communications
https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2023-0077 - Mediatization and Human-Machine Communication: Trajectories, Discussions, Perspectives. Human-Machine Communication
https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.7.1 - Agency in a datafied society: an introduction. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241254692 - Lasst uns unsere Tools gemeinsam bauen!. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Co-Creation von Forschungssoftware für die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft. Publizistik
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-023-00803-w - ChatGPT, LaMDA, and the Hype Around Communicative AI: The Automation of Communication as a Field of Research in Media and Communication Studies. Human-Machine Communication
https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.6.4 - Von der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion zur kommunikativen KI. Automatisierung von Kommunikation als Gegenstand der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung. Publizistik
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-022-00758-4 - Andreas Hepp (2022). Digital media, data infrastructures, and space. 57--75. Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9780367817183-6 - Agency, social relations, and order: Media sociology’s shift into the digital. Communications
https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2020-0079
