Politics, Civil Society and Participation:
Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment

Introduction

Introduction: Researching the transforming environment of media and communications
Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier and Andreas Hepp

SECTION ONE: Policies and politics of communication

Life with the media manifold: Between freedom and subjection
Nick Couldry

Communication and information rights in European media policy
Hannu Nieminen

Free speech at an intersection. Notes on the contemporary hybrid public sphere
Risto Kunelius

The normative shift: Three paradoxes of information privacy
Jockum Hildén

‘It’s like they’re looking inside your body or inside your brain.’ Internet surveillance practices in a special school
Herminder Kaur

What is a decision? A post-structuralist exploration of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability
Nico Carpentier

SECTION TWO: Civil participation in and through the media

A competent participant in the new media landscape: Promoting an interdisciplinary perspective
Joanna Kedra, Anne Laajalahti, Mélodine Sommier and Panu Uotila

Rejuvenating the public sphere: The rhetorical arenas of social media
Eirik Vatnøy

Collectivities in change: The mediatization and individualization of community building from a subjective and figurational perspective
Andreas Hepp and Ronald Hitzler

Conceptualizing metropolitan journalism: New approaches, new communicative practices, new perspectives?
Leif Kramp

Negotiating creative autonomy: Experiences of technology in computer-based visual media production
Julia Velkova

Conceptualizing consumption-critical media practices as political participation
Sigrid Kannengießer

Communication, generation and cultural memory: Insights from fieldwork in Vietnam
Christina Sanko

SECTION THREE: Media representations and usages

Communication in the public space: Attention and media use
Julia Roll

On barricades
Ilija Tomanic Trivundža

Photography and the construction of family and memory
Sahika Erkonan

Remaining divides: Access to and use of ICTs among elderly citizens
Tobias Olsson and Dino Viscovi

Researching the young radio audience
Maria Gutièrrez

Watching socialist television serials in the 70s and 80s in the former Czechoslovakia: a study in the history of meaning-making
Irena Reifová

Sonic icons and histospheres: On the political aesthetics of an audio history of film
Winfried Pauleit and Rasmus Greiner

SECTION FOUR: On methods

From dogmatism to open-mindedness? Historical reflections on methods in audience reception research
Kim Christian Schrøder

Media ethnography for busy People: Introducing students to the ethnographic approach in media-related syllabi
Simone Tosoni and Fredrik Stiernstedt

Communicating at international scientific conferences? Keys to be selected, understood, and published
Bertrand Cabedoche