TRANSFORMING COMMUNICATIONS – STUDIES IN CROSS-MEDIA RESEARCH Andreas Hepp Andreas Breiter Uwe Hasebrink COMMUNICATIVE FIGURATIONS Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research Series Editors Uwe Hasebrink Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research University of Hamburg Germany Andreas Hepp ZeMKI University of Bremen Germany We live in times that are characterized by a multiplicity of media: Traditional media like television, radio and newspapers remain important, but have all undergone fundamental change in the wake of digitalization. New media have been emerging with an increasing speed: Internet platforms, mobile media and the many different software-based com- munication media we are recently confronted with as ‘apps’. This pro- cess is experiencing yet another boost from the ongoing and increasingly fast sequence of technological media innovations. In our modern social world, communication processes take place across a variety of media. As a consequence, we can no longer explain the infuences of media by focusing on any one single medium, its content and possible effects. In order to explain how media changes are related to transformations in culture and society we have to take into account the cross-media charac- ter of communications. In view of this, the book series ‘Transforming Communications’ is dedicated to cross-media communication research. It aims to sup- port all kinds of research that are interested in processes of communica- tion taking place across different kinds of media and that subsequently make media’s transformative potential accessible. With this profle, the series addresses a wide range of different areas of study: media produc- tion, representation and appropriation as well as media technologies and their use, all from a current as well as a a historical perspective. The series ‘Transforming Communications’ lends itself to different kinds of publication within a wide range of theoretical and methodological backgrounds. The idea is to stimulate academic engagement in cross- media issues by supporting the publication of rigorous scholarly work, text books, and thematically-focused volumes, whether theoretically or empirically oriented. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15351 Andreas Hepp · Andreas Breiter Uwe Hasebrink Editors Communicative Figurations Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization Editors Andreas Hepp Andreas Breiter ZeMKI, Centre for Media, ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Communication and Information Research Research University of Bremen University of Bremen Bremen, Germany Bremen, Germany Uwe Hasebrink Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research ISBN 978-3-319-65583-3 ISBN 978-3-319-65584-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017950722 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018, corrected publication 2018. This book is an open access publication. 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The erratum to the book is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_19 v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This Open Access publication is supported by the institutional strategy ‘Ambitious and Agile’ of the University of Bremen, funded within the frame of the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State gov- ernments. vii CONTENTS Part I Introduction 1 Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction 3 Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter and Uwe Hasebrink 2 Researching Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization: A Figurational Approach 15 Andreas Hepp and Uwe Hasebrink Part II Collectivities and Movements 3 Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People’s Urban Communities 51 Andreas Hepp, Piet Simon and Monika Sowinska 4 Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category 81 Sebastian Kubitschko ix x CONTENTS 5 Repair Cafés as Communicative Figurations: Consumer- Critical Media Practices for Cultural Transformation 101 Sigrid Kannengießer 6 Communicative Figurations of Expertization: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online Gaming (MOG) as Cultures of Amateur Learning 123 Karsten D. Wolf and Urszula Wudarski 7 The Communicative Construction of Space-Related Identities. Hamburg and Leipzig Between the Local and the Global 151 Yvonne Robel and Inge Marszolek 8 Networked Media Collectivities. The Use of Media for the Communicative Construction of Collectivities Among Adolescents 173 Thomas N. Friemel and Matthias Bixler Part III Institutions and Organizations 9 The Transformation of Journalism: From Changing Newsroom Cultures to a New Communicative Orientation? 205 Leif Kramp and Wiebke Loosen 10 Moralizing and Deliberating in Financial Blogging. Moral Debates in Blog Communication During the Financial Crisis 2008 241 Rebecca Venema and Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz 11 ‘Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn’t It?’ The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization 267 Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Hannah Grünenthal and Sina Gogolok CONTENTS xi 12 Relating Face to Face. Communicative Practices and Political Decision-Making in a Changing Media Environment 287 Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele and Frank Nullmeier 13 Paper Versus School Information Management Systems: Governing the Figurations of Mediatized Schools in England and Germany 313 Andreas Breiter and Arne Hendrik Ruhe Part IV Methodologies and Perspectives 14 Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research 343 Christine Lohmeier and Rieke Böhling 15 Researching Individuals’ Media Repertoires: Challenges of Qualitative Interviews on Cross-Media Practices 363 Juliane Klein, Michael Walter and Uwe Schimank 16 The Complexity of Datafcation: Putting Digital Traces in Context 387 Andreas Breiter and Andreas Hepp 17 Communicative Figurations and Cross-Media Research 407 Kim Christian Schrøder 18 Communicative Figurations: Towards a New Paradigm for the Media Age? 425 Giselinde Kuipers Erratum to: Communicative Figurations E1 Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter and Uwe Hasebrink Index 437 EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS About the Editors Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, Germany. He is co-initiator of the research net- work Communicative Figurations and was spokesperson of its Creative Research Unit at the University of Bremen, responsible for the projects ‘Mediatized Localities of Urban Communities’ and ‘Transformations of Mediatized Cultures and Societies’. His main research interests are media sociology, mediatization, transnational and transcultural communication, datafcation, and qualitative methods of media research. Publications include the monographs Cultures of mediatization (2013), Transcultural communication (2015) and The mediated construction of reality (with Nick Couldry, 2017). Andreas Breiter is Professor of Information Management and Educational Technologies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, Germany. He is the Scientifc Director of the Institute for Information Management Bremen, a not- for-proft research centre at the University of Bremen and vice- speaker of ZeMKI. His main research interests are educational media and technology, mediatization, datafcation and educational governance. He has published several books and various research articles