Anne Kaun

Sebastian Kubitschko

This collection reflects the need for suitable methods to answer emerging questions that result from the ever-changing media environment. As media technologies and infrastructures become inseparably interwoven with social constellations, scholars from varying disciplines increasingly investigate their characteristics, functioning, relevance and impact – facing new methodological challenges as well as opportunities. Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research engages with the substantial need to rethink established methods to research acute changes in the media environment. The book gathers chapters dedicated to the multifacetedness and liveliness of emerging methods – from lifelogging and ethnography to digital methods and visualization – while embedding them in the rich history of interdisciplinary empirical research. Innovation here is a call for widening and rethinking research methods to stimulate a sophisticated debate on and exploration of contemporary methodological approaches for scholars at various levels of academic life. Accompanied by introductory sections of prominent scholars, the majority of empirical studies gathered in this volume are accomplished through early-career scholars who strive to advance cutting-edge and in parts even provocative approaches for the study of media and communication. The book's four sections on Materiality, Technology, Experience and Visualization are introduced by Saskia Sassen, Noortje Marres, Sarah Pink and Lev Manovich.

Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research

Andreas Hepp

Inge Marszolek

Die Beiträge in diesem Buch untersuchen das Wechselverhältnis von Medien, urbanen Räumen und Kollektivität durch eine Analyse der vielfältigen kommunikativen Figurationen des städtischen Lebens. Der interdisziplinäre Sammelband bringt Forscherinnen und Forscher aus der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft mit den Sozial- und Geschichtswissenschaften zusammen. Im Zentrum der Betrachtung stehen dabei folgende Fragestellungen: Wie hängt der Wandel von „Stadt“ mit dem Wandel von Medien und Kommunikation zusammen? Welchen Stellenwert haben Medien für die kommunikative Konstruktion von „Kollektivität“, „Identitäten“ und „Vergemeinschaftung“ in der Stadt? In welchem Bezug stehen „urbane Bewegungen“ zu Medien, deren Wandel und medienbezogenen Entwürfen von Kollektivität?

Sebastian Kubitschko

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