Communicative Figurations: Researching Cultures of Mediatization Cover Image

Communicative Figurations: Researching Cultures of Mediatization
Communicative Figurations: Researching Cultures of Mediatization

Author(s): Andreas Hepp
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: mediatization research; communicative figurations; culture and society

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author indicates the necessity of application of transmedia perspective in mediatization research. He understands mediatization research as a kind of analysis that investigates the interrelation between the change of media and communication on the one hand and culture and society on the other, refl ecting the transforming role of media within this interrelation. The author emphasises that the idea of communicative fi gurations makes a mediatization research in a transmedia perspective possible. Communicative figurations are patterns of processes of communicative interweaving that exist across various media and have a “frame” that orients communicative action and therefore the sense-making practices of this figuration.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2 (218)
  • Page Range: 145-161
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English