Journalism, representation and the public sphere

Introduction

Introduction: Researching the transformation of societal self-understanding
Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier and Andreas Hepp

SECTION ONE: Journalism and the news media

The rumbling years: The communicative figurations approach as a heuristic concept to study – and shape – the transformation of journalism
Leif Kramp

New challenges for journalism education: A contribution to Unesco politics
Bertrand Cabedoche

Risk discourse in news media: Power to define danger?
Eimante Zolubiene

SECTION TWO: Representation and everyday life

The role of media content in everyday life: To confirm the nearby world and to shape the world beyond our reach
Ebba Sundin

Media representations of suffering and mobility: Mapping humanitarian imaginary through changing patterns of visibility
Saiona Stoian

“The smartphone is my constant companion“: Digital photographic practices and the elderly
Maria Schreiber

SECTION THREE: Public sphere, spaces and politics

Bringing qualities back in: Towards a new analytical approach for examining the transnationalization of public sphere
Alexandra Polownikow

Three levels of the crisis of the media – and a way out
Hannu Nieminen

Beyond space and place: The challenge of urban space to urban media studies
Simone Tosoni

Employing a rhetorical approach to the practice of audience research on political communication
Magnus Hoem Iversen

SECTION FOUR: Rethinking media studies

Socialist feminism and media studies: An outdated theory or contemporary debate?
Georgina Newton

Theoretical framework for the study of memory in old and new media age
Irena Reifová

“I Have Nothing to Hide”: a Coping Strategy in a Risk Society
Maria Murumaa-Mengel, Katrin Laas-Mikko, and Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

SECTION Five: Academic practice

Recognizing difference in academia: The sqridge as a metaphor for agonistic interchange
Nico Carpentier

A practical guide to using visuals to enhance oral presentations in an academic context
François Heinderyckx

The digitization of science: Remarks on the alteration of academic practice
Leif Kramp