Andreas Hepp - Böcker

"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world—the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and richer context than ever before. Students of global media today are well served by this superb collection of essays."David Morgan, Duke University, USA"A welcome and worthy successor to Dayan and Katz’s path-breaking study that expands and enriches the discourse on global media events." Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, UK"This is an excellent collection, that will enable new kinds of argument about, and hopefully research into, the spectacular functions of the contemporary media." Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, AustraliaWe live in an age where the media is intensely global and profoundly changed by digitalization. Not only do many media events have audiences who access them online, but additionally digital media flows are generating new ways in which media events can emerge. In times of increasingly differentiated media technologies and fragmented media landscapes, the ‘eventization’ of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and everyday appreciation of popular media texts. The events covered include Celebrity Big Brother, 9/11, the Iraq war and World Youth Day 2005 to give readers an understanding of the major debates in this increasingly high-profile area of media and cultural research.

"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world—the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and richer context than ever before. Students of global media today are well served by this superb collection of essays."David Morgan, Duke University, USA"A welcome and worthy successor to Dayan and Katz’s path-breaking study that expands and enriches the discourse on global media events." Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, UK"This is an excellent collection, that will enable new kinds of argument about, and hopefully research into, the spectacular functions of the contemporary media." Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, AustraliaWe live in an age where the media is intensely global and profoundly changed by digitalization. Not only do many media events have audiences who access them online, but additionally digital media flows are generating new ways in which media events can emerge. In times of increasingly differentiated media technologies and fragmented media landscapes, the ‘eventization’ of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and everyday appreciation of popular media texts. The events covered include Celebrity Big Brother, 9/11, the Iraq war and World Youth Day 2005 to give readers an understanding of the major debates in this increasingly high-profile area of media and cultural research.

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 contextsCovers an array of different types of media, including mass media and digital mediaIncorporates discussion of transcultural communication in media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and media appropriation

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 contextsCovers an array of different types of media, including mass media and digital mediaIncorporates discussion of transcultural communication in media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and media appropriation

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about ‘everything and anything important’ via television? How are our political, religious and ethnic belongings impacted through being increasingly connected by digital media? And what is the significance of all this for our everyday lives?Drawing on Hepp’s fifteen-year research expertise on media change, this book deals with questions like these in a refreshingly straightforward and readable way. ‘Cultures of mediatization’ are described as cultures whose main resources are mediated by technical media. Therefore, everyday life in cultures of mediatization is ‘moulded’ by the media.To understand this challenging media change it is inappropriate to focus on any one single medium like television, the press, mobile phones, the Internet or other forms of digital media. One has to capture the ‘mediatization’ of culture in its entirety. Cultures of Mediatization outlines how this can be done critically. In so doing, it offers a new way of thinking about our present-day media-saturated world.

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about ‘everything and anything important’ via television? How are our political, religious and ethnic belongings impacted through being increasingly connected by digital media? And what is the significance of all this for our everyday lives?Drawing on Hepp’s fifteen-year research expertise on media change, this book deals with questions like these in a refreshingly straightforward and readable way. ‘Cultures of mediatization’ are described as cultures whose main resources are mediated by technical media. Therefore, everyday life in cultures of mediatization is ‘moulded’ by the media.To understand this challenging media change it is inappropriate to focus on any one single medium like television, the press, mobile phones, the Internet or other forms of digital media. One has to capture the ‘mediatization’ of culture in its entirety. Cultures of Mediatization outlines how this can be done critically. In so doing, it offers a new way of thinking about our present-day media-saturated world.

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 Schütz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital media�s profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that is stable and liveable, or one that is increasingly unstable and unliveable?

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 Schütz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital media�s profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that is stable and liveable, or one that is increasingly unstable and unliveable?

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.

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society.Often, such questions are discussed in isolation, losing sight of the overarching context in which they are situated. Hepp has developed a theory of the re-figuration of society by digital media and their infrastructures, and provides an understanding of how profound today’s media-related changes are, not only for institutions, organizations and communities, but for the individual as well. Rooted in the latest research, this book does not stop at a description of media-related change; instead, it raises the normative challenge of what deep mediatization should look like so that it might just stimulate a 'good life' for all.Providing original and critical research, the book introduces deep mediatization to students of media and cultural studies, as well as neighboring disciplines like sociology, political science and other cognate disciplines.

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society.Often, such questions are discussed in isolation, losing sight of the overarching context in which they are situated. Hepp has developed a theory of the re-figuration of society by digital media and their infrastructures, and provides an understanding of how profound today’s media-related changes are, not only for institutions, organizations and communities, but for the individual as well. Rooted in the latest research, this book does not stop at a description of media-related change; instead, it raises the normative challenge of what deep mediatization should look like so that it might just stimulate a 'good life' for all.Providing original and critical research, the book introduces deep mediatization to students of media and cultural studies, as well as neighboring disciplines like sociology, political science and other cognate disciplines.

This book offers its readers a critical engagement with three key concepts for social and communication theory today - connectivity, networks and flows. The contributors are committed to conceptualizing contemporary communications in a changing world. They point to globalizing and deterritorializing processes, and to the increasing significance of mobilities in late modern existence - yet this is also a book about the continuing importance of locality, senses of place and physically copresent interaction in daily living. The book combines theoretical reflection with analysis of specific media and cultural practices. Featured examples of such practices include uses of mobile phones and the Internet, activities of online (and offline) working and socializing, and constructions of liveness and immediacy in electronically mediated communication. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and students in communications, media and cultural studies, sociology and social theory.

This book offers its readers a critical engagement with three key concepts for social and communication theory today - connectivity, networks and flows. The contributors are committed to conceptualizing contemporary communications in a changing world. They point to globalizing and deterritorializing processes, and to the increasing significance of mobilities in late modern existence - yet this is also a book about the continuing importance of locality, senses of place and physically copresent interaction in daily living. The book combines theoretical reflection with analysis of specific media and cultural practices. Featured examples of such practices include uses of mobile phones and the Internet, activities of online (and offline) working and socializing, and constructions of liveness and immediacy in electronically mediated communication. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and students in communications, media and cultural studies, sociology and social theory.

This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. It considers data justice in relation to state surveillance and data capitalism, and reflects on the ambivalences between an “entrepreneurial state” and a “welfare state”.

This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. It considers data justice in relation to state surveillance and data capitalism, and reflects on the ambivalences between an “entrepreneurial state” and a “welfare state”.

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

This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives.

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

This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives.

Die Einzigartigkeit des Fernsehens besteht in seiner Vielgestaltigkeit: Für eine große Zahl von Menschen hat es eine Fülle von Bedeutungen und bietet Anlaß für die verschiedensten Formen des Vergnügens. Die Kernthese dieses Buches ist, daß sich Rezipienten Fernsehen auf unterschiedliche Weise aneignen. Das Fernsehen stellt einen festen Bestandteil der Alltagskultur dar und wird durch vielfältige kommunikative Prozesse von den Zuschauern und Zuschauerinnen in ihre Alltagswelt integriert. Ba­ sierend auf den Methoden der Cultural Studies und Konversationsanalyse, möchte ich in dieser Studie zeigen, daß es das alltägliche Sprechen über Fernsehen ist, das die Grundlage für einen produktiven Umgang mit dem Medium bildet. Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand in den Jahren 1995 und 1996 während mei!). er Tätigkeit in dem von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft finanzierten Projekt "Uber Fernse­ hen sprechen" an der Universität Trier. Das Projekt wurde von Prof. Dr. Jörg Bergmann, Prof. Dr. Werner Holly und Dr. habil. Ulrich Püschel geleitet, denen ich für ihre Förderung danken möchte. Die Untersuchung stellt eine geringfügig überarbeitete Fassung meiner Dissertation dar, die Ende 1996 am Fachbereich 11 der Universität Trier im Fachteil Germanistische Linguistik eingereicht wurde. Wie jede andere Publi­ kation, so wäre auch diese nicht ohne eine Vielzahl von Unterstützungen, Diskussionen und Anregungen denkbar gewesen. Nichtsdestotrotz bleibt es der Autor, der jegliche Fehler und Verkürzungen zu verantworten hat. Besonders möchte ich meiner Frau Beate Köhler danken, die mich seit Jahren bei meiner Arbeit ermuntert, sie kritisiert und die auch das Titelbild dieses Buches gestaltet hat.

Der Band zielt darauf ab, differenziert in eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Globalisierung der Medienkommunikation einzufuhren. Gerade die Verzahnung von theoretischen Darstellungen, Problemfeldern, Methoden und Beispielen soll es dabei ermoglichen, strukturiert und nachvollziehbar den komplexen Gegenstand zu erfassen.

Der vorliegende Band führt in einem doppelten Sinn in die ‚Schlüsselwerke’ der Cultural Studies mit einem Schwerpunkt auf ihren medienanalytischen Ansatz ein: Sein erster Teil stellt grundlegende theoretische Bezugsfelder anhand von Autoren vor, die für die Entwicklung der Cultural Studies zentral sind. Im zweiten Teil werden wesentliche Bereiche der Cultural Studies anhand der Werke zentraler Vertreterinnen und Vertreter dargestellt. Auf diese Weise eröffnet das Buch 'Schlüsselwerke der Cultural Studies' einen umfassenden Einstieg in diesen aktuellen und kritischen Zugang der Medien-, Kommunikations- und Kulturforschung.

IIn „Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse“ wird der medienanalytische Ansatz der Cultural Studies umfassend vorgestellt. Bezogen auf den Gegenstand„Medien“ werden einerseits die Theorieansätze der Cultural Studies diskutiert und ihre forschungsgeschichtliche Entwicklung bis heute dargelegt.Andererseits werden die empirischen Studien der Cultural Studies aus den Bereichen der Produkt- und Diskursanalyse sowie der Rezeptions- und Aneignungsforschung ausführlich behandelt. In der dritten Auflage wurde das Buch im Hinblick auf die jüngste Forschung aktualisiert und erweitert.

Es ist mittlerweile ein Allgemeinplatz zu sagen, dass Religion und Spiritualität in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in den Blickwinkel der Medien geraten sind: Egal welche Zeitung man in Deutschland liest, welchen Fernseh- bzw. Radiosender man nutzt oder über welche Internet-Angebote man surft, man stellt fest, dass religiöse Themen einen zunehmend breiten Raum einnehmen. Dies trifft selbst für Kontexte zu, in denen man es nicht vermutet: Eher allgemeine Magazins- dungen, populäre Reportagen oder die Daily Soap-Webseite sind da keine A- nahmen, ebenso wie Religion ein breites Thema der Berichterstattung über den amerikanischen „Krieg gegen den Terrorismus“ ist. Religion ist Thema in den Medien. Dieser Alltagseindruck wird weiter durch die wissenschaftliche Disk- sion um ein „Wiedererstarken von Religion“ im öffentlichen Diskurs gestützt, eine Thematik, zu der ganze Forschungsprogramme ausgeschrieben werden. Religion und Spiritualität, wie sie uns aktuell in den Medien begegnen, - ben den klar umgrenzten Bereich des „Worts zum Sonntag“ und ähnlicher kir- licher Angebote verlassen. Bemerkenswerterweise geht dies aber nicht – wie man auf den ersten Blick vermuten würde – zwangsläufig mit einer größeren Offenheit der Kirchen einher. Symptomatisch hierfür steht die katholische K- che und allen voran ihr „deutscher Papst“, der nicht nur in Deutschland eine - haltende Berichterstattung ausgelöst hat. Die Themen, die in den Vordergrund rücken, irritieren zunehmend.

Ob Fernsehen, Computerspiele, jugendkulturelle Aktivitäten oder einfach Feiern: ,Events‘ sind umfassender Bestandteil der heutigen Populär- und Alltagskulturen geworden. Anhand der Untersuchung konkreter und in der zweiten Auflage erweiterter Beispiele arbeiten die Artikel des Buchs heraus, wie unsere Gegenwart mehr und mehr mit ,populären Events‘ durchzogen ist. ,Medienevents‘, ,Spielevents‘ und ,Spaßevents‘ machen greifbar, dass wir mit einer breiten Eventisierung von Kultur konfrontiert sind. Einzelne Events dürfen dabei aber nicht einfach nur als Spaß-Haben verstanden werden, sondern sie sind auch – oder gerade – ein konstitutiver Bestandteil der in aktuellen Populär- und Alltagskulturen fest verankerten Politik des Vergnügens.MERZ zur ersten Auflage des Bandes: „Die Beiträge haben […] einen informativen Charakter und bieten einen Einblick in unterschiedliche Populärkulturen.“