Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

Extending the useful life of consumer products is a critical element in the circular economy.
Although commercial repair is an established part of the global economy, the repair is often …

In the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and
social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond …

Artificial intelligence-enabled digital platforms collect and process data from and about
users. These companies are largely self-regulating in Western countries. How do economic …

The aim of this article is to outline 'communicative robots' as an increasingly relevant field of
media and communication research. Communicative robots are defined as autonomously …

Investigating the influence of changing media and communications on society is a long-term
aim of research. With the perspective of media effects, this was grasped to be the influence …

This article provides an overview of the mediatisation approach, which for the last two
decades has gradually become a systematic concept for understanding and theorising the …

This introductory chapter maps the key concepts, issues and debates for a Digital Memory
Studies. It places media and memory in a recent historical context of the two twentieth …

Recent journalism research often argues that it is high time that we moved beyond the
newsroom and begin asking who it is that is stimulating transformation and not what it is, as …

Am 20. November 2015 hielt Anthony Giddens einen Vortrag an der London School of
Economics and Political Science, mit dem er versuchte, die Sozialwissenschaften im …