Communication as the intersection of the old and the new

Introduction

Introduction: Communication as the intersection of the old and the new
Maria Francesca Murru, Laura Peja, Simone Tosoni, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Nico Carpentier

SECTION ONE: Theories and concepts

What kinds of normative theories do we need? Ideal and non-ideal theories in communication research
Kari Karppinen

Friends, not foes: Integrating structuralist and agentic perspectives on media consumption
Alyona Khaptsova, Ruben Vandenplas

The rise of the alternative: Critical usefulness of the "Alternative Media" notion in the Czech context
Ondrej Pekacek

"The closest thing to teleportation": The concept of liveness in the age of connectivity
Ludmila Lupinacci

Crisis of liberal democracy, crisis of journalism? Learning from the economic crisis
Timo Harjuniemi

SECTION TWO: Media and the construction of social reality

The construction of the homeless in the Greek street paper shedia
Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier

Mediation and place: The sharpening and weakening of boundaries
Magnus Andersson

"Yay! I am officially an #estonian #eResident!" Representations of Estonian e-residency as a novel kind of state-related status and affiliation on Twitter
Piia Tammpuu

SECTION THREE: Mediatizations

Situational analysis as a research method for the reconstruction of communicative figurations
Karsten D. Wolf, Konstanze Wegmann

Football and mediatization: A serious academic pursuit or just scholars playing silly games?
Michael Skey

SECTION FOUR: Media, health and sociability

Tradition and the digital: A study of dating attitudes among Australia-based Chinese dating app users
Xu Chen

Visual matters in health communication: A systematic review
Fatma Nazlı Köksal, Fatoş Adiloğlu

Power to the patient? Studying the balance of power between patient and GP in relation to Web health information
Edgard Eeckman