Media Logic(s) Revisited

This volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics, developed by Altheide and Snow, by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, powerful media structures and technologies influence our daily lives in many respects. It is not only mass media but "poly medial channels" that become more and more contextualized in everyday lives. It thus seems necessary to reflect on the theory of media logics, which in fact focuses on the strong intercorrelation of media technologies, media institutions and media power. The current developments and strong cultural embedding of media in various social contexts, however, call for critical reflections on the idea of media logic.

Auteur
Caja Thimm is Professor for Media Studies and Intermediality at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is head of the project 'Deliberation on the Net' which is part of the DFG priority programme 'Mediatized Worlds', funded by the German Science Foundation. Mario Anastasiadis is a scientific coordinator of the Graduate School 'Digital Society' at the University of Bonn, Germany, and a research associate in the project 'Deliberation on the Net' which is part of the DFG priority programme 'Mediatized Worlds'. Jessica Einspänner-Pflock is a researcher and lecturer in the field of digital communication at the University of Bonn, Germany. She has published on the subject of Twitter in election campaigns, online PR, and adolescents' sense of privacy in the digital world.

Résumé

This volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics developed by Altheide and Snow by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, powerful media structures and technologies influence our daily lives in many respects. It is not only mass media but 'poly media channels' that become more and more contextualized in everyday lives. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit the theory of media logics, which focuses on the strong intercorrelation of media technologies, media institutions and media power. Media Logic(s) Revisited attends to this by critically reflecting on the idea of media logic, a much needed input in light of current developments and strong cultural embedding of media in various social contexts.

Contenu

1. General Introduction: Media logic or media logics? An introduction to the field; Caja Thimm, Mario Anastasiadis, Jessica Einspänner-Pflock.- 2. The Media Syndrome and Reflexive Mediation; David L. Altheide.- 3. Media Logic and the Mediatization Approach: A good Partnership, a Mésalliance or a Misunderstanding?; Friedrich Krotz.- 4. The logics of the media and the mediatized conditions of social interaction; Stig Hjarvard.- 5. Mediatization as structural couplings: Adapting to media logic(s); Mikkel Fugl Eskjær.- 6. Media technology and media logic(s): The media grammar approach; Caja Thimm.- 7. Media Logic as (Inter)Action Logic. - Interaction Interdependency as an Integrative Meta-Perspective; Katrin Döveling & Charlotte Knorr.- 8. On the Media Logic of the State; Jens Schröter.- 9. Media logic revisited. The concept of social media logic as alternative framework to study politicians' usage of social media during election times; Evelien Dheer.- 10. Perceived Media Logic:A Point of Reference for Mediatization; Daniel Nölleke & Andreas M. Scheu.- 11. News Media Logic 2.0 Assessing commercial news media logic in cross-temporal and cross-channel analysis; Maria Karidi.- 12. New(s) Challenges! - Old Patterns? Structural Transformation and TV News in a Mediatized World; Mirko Liefke.- 13. Algorithms and digital media: measurement and control in the mathematical projection of the real; Tales Tomaz.