Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …

Mediatization is emerging as an influential new concept that places the media at the centre
of all kinds of important cultural, political and social developments. However, it has so far …

This chapter reviews some of the criticisms of the universal idea of a public sphere. Drawing
on recent scholarship in social movement studies, it shows how the dynamics of the" …

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 key textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of developments in
international communication worldwide. Taking a comparative approach to the major …

Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis
confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing …

In theories about journalism's democratic remit, trust is generally regarded as a prerequisite
for public connection: only when citizens believe the news, they will engage with it and act …

The implementation of physical distancing measures and lockdowns across the globe to
control the spread of COVID-19 has led to the home becoming a focal point of exercise and …

Self-tracking is an increasingly ubiquitous everyday activity and therefore is becoming
implicated in the ways that everyday environments are experienced and configured. In this …

Mediatization and Mobile Lives: A Critical Approach contributes to a complex, situated and
critical understanding of what mediatization means and how it works in contemporary life …