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For the special section “Digital Memory and Populism,” we invited contributions by academics addressing the uses of digital memory by populists, their supporters, and their opponents online. With the possibility to bypass traditional media and reach networked audiences, populist actors are increasingly active in digital publics to negotiate the rol...
Contemporary thinking of journalism as a high emotional labour profession calls into question the systems that are, or should be, in place to support journalists with this labour and in this way mitigate any of its potentially negative consequences, such as those on well-being, mental and physical health, and job performance. By drawing on organisa...
In recent years, research found that populists employed a new strategy by using nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, as a communication tool to persuade citizens to support their political agendas. In populist campaigns, nostalgia is used to affectively link (alleged) crises with longing for a cherished past. In this article, we applied a...
Ethikdebatten in den Medien dienen Gesellschaften dazu, sich fortwährend mit ethischen Grenzverschiebungen auseinanderzusetzen, die von sozialen, rechtlichen sowie technologischen Veränderungen angestoßen werden. In einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse wird am Beispiel von TV-Sendungen über den Umgang mit dem Lebensende gezeigt, wie Ethikdebatten im G...
In this chapter, we first discuss always connected and always online sentiments normalising the assumed ubiquitous omnipresence of digital media and how this shapes our understanding of offline time and time away from the media. In recent years, the topic of disconnection, media abstention and media resistance found new prominence, highlighting the...
It has become commonplace to speak of media practices as a nexus of doings and sayings. In our article, we scrutinize this fuzzy account and the forms of articulation it entails. We start by arguing that, to be recognized as social practices, activities-regardless of whether they are verbal utterances or wordless body movements-have to initiate a c...
Health care in aging societies increasingly demands that relatives, partners, or friends provide informal care for loved ones at their end of life. Yet, being an informal caregiver involves significant health threats caused by so-called caregiver burden. To cope with the broad spectrum of challenges, informal caregivers seek social support in the c...
In recent decades, the cultural, social, medical and political handling of the end of life has been subject to fundamental change. Against the background of the rise of chronic diseases and longer dying processes, new problems have occurred, leading, amongst other things, to new conceptions of terminal care. In this volume, experts from various dis...
Publication: Medien & Altern (Heft 15) --------- Musik ist omnipräsent im Alltag vieler Menschen, begleitet sie durch ihr gesamtes Leben und wird dadurch wichtiger Bestandteil des Narrativs ihrer Identität. Dieser Umstand macht Musik besonders erinnernswert für diejenigen, die mit ihr nicht nur die Musik selbst, sondern auch bestimmte Lebensphasen,...
Erinnerungskulturen sind maßgeblich durch visuelle Medien geprägt und die meisten Gesellschaften erinnern im Zuge der Digitalisierung zunehmend anhand von Bildern. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert vier Vergangenheitszugänge von Bildern: die Vergangenheit von visuellen Medien an sich (Archivfunktion/Akkumulation), die (Re-)Konstruktion des Vergangenen durc...
Multimedia journalism is an umbrella term for a variety of phenomena that are related to the three dimensions of production, presentation, and consumption of news and longform stories that include multiple media platforms and/or media formats. The entry provides a general outline of what multimedia journalism comprises and offers a brief history of...
It is an old, yet, accurate observation that the ‘newness’ of media is and most probably will continue to be a catalyst for research in media and communication studies. At the same time, there are numerous academic voices who stress that studying media change demands an awareness of the complexities at play interweaving the new with the old and the...
„Woran festhalten, in einer Welt im Wandel?“ Mit dieser Frage sehen sich viele Menschen in Zeiten konfrontiert, in denen sie kontinuierlichen Wandel in der Gesellschaft und in ihren Lebenswelten wahrnehmen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Digitalisierung und der zunehmenden Durchdringung des Alltags mit Medien ist auch der Medienwandel maßgeblich an Veränd...
„Woran festhalten, in einer Welt im Wandel?“ Mit dieser Frage sehen sich viele Menschen in Zeiten konfrontiert, in denen sie kontinuierlichen Wandel in der Gesellschaft und in ihren Lebenswelten wahrnehmen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Digitalisierung und der zunehmenden Durchdringung des Alltags mit Medien ist auch der Medienwandel maßgeblich an Veränd...
Wie gehen Menschen in spätmodernen Gesellschaften mit Wandel um? Dieser Frage widmet sich der vorliegende Beitrag anhand des Phänomens der Nostalgie. Dafür wird vorab geklärt, welche Dynamiken der Moderne das Leben in heutigen spätmodernen Gesellschaften prägen und Einfluss darauf haben, ob es als gut oder schlecht empfunden wird und welchen Stelle...
Erinnerungskulturen sind maßgeblich durch visuelle Medien geprägt und die meisten Gesellschaften erinnern im Zuge der Digitalisierung zunehmend anhand von Bildern. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert vier Vergangenheitszugänge von Bildern: die Vergangenheit von visuellen Medien an sich (Archivfunktion/Akkumulation), die (Re-)Konstruktion des Vergangenen durc...
Coping with media change is the modus operandi in societies shaped by an ongoing media saturation of everyday lifeworlds. However, demands to participate in media change are sometimes perceived as challenging. In this regard, media nostalgia, understood as the longing for past media culture and technology, is introduced as a resource to cope with m...
Co-edited special issue of media&time "Media, Communication and Nostalgia" by Manuel Menke and Christian Schwarzenegger with 10 articles:
(1) Manuel Menke & Christian Schwarzenegger: Media, Communication and Nostalgia - Finding a better tomorrow in the yesterday?-----
(2) Ekaterina Kalinina: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Media and Nost...
For two decades, convergence culture has been an important motivator for change in journalism
worldwide. Journalism research has followed these developments, investigating the dimensions of
change that define convergence as a cultural shift in the newsroom. Research in the European
context has mostly been comprised of national case studies of flags...
This article presents an empirical analysis and theoretical reflections on the negotiation of memories in hyperconnected memory cultures. In order to describe the conditions of memory negotiation, we suggest using the notion of ‘hyperconnected memories’, which refers to the mediatization of memory in a nexus of contingent forms of communication. By...
Der Beitrag diskutiert den Wert von journalistischem Content im Zeitalter der Medienkonvergenz. Dabei geht er auf veränderte, vom Journalismus zu berücksichtigende Rahmenbedingungen ein. Einerseits haben sich im Internet neue Konkurrenten entwickelt, die Nachrichten vielfältigen und zumeist kostenlos anbieten. Andererseits zeigen sich bei den Rezip...
Facts, Moods, and Memories: Respecting Nostalgia in Communication History
Nostalgia is often described as a longing for the past by looking at it through “rose-tinted glass” that highlights the past´s positive in contrast to the personal and/or societal presence (Wildschut et al., 2006). Research discovered in many studies that engaging in nostalgi...
From May 2015 on the project, as a part of the interdisciplinary Bavarian research group ForGenderCare, will study the role of gender-specific beliefs and perceptions of autonomy, responsibility and vulnerability in anticipative decision-making in the final phase of life. Taking the German debate on advance directives as an example, the project aim...
Background A living will allows patients to express their own wishes for treatment in advance and make them legally mandatory for physicians’ as well as relatives’ care. Conceptions of autonomy, vulnerability, responsibility, and care as well as corresponding personal experiences build the background of such anticipative decision-making.
Aim From M...
Nostalgic feelings and states of mind are well studied in psychology and are associated with a big variety of psychological “bittersweet” functions. Still, researchers propose that nostalgia is a helpful mental resource to handle demanding social changes we are constantly confronted with (Davis, 1979; Sedikides, Wildschut, & Baden, 2004; Batcho, 20...
For many the nation means a cultural, social and emotional place of home, even if the state may resemble an authoritarian anti-thesis in this relation. Today, for many individuals this home or the sense of home is lost. This is the case when states collapse, people are forced into exile or leave for migratory labour. Among those who left, many are...
Block 1: The “Do-It-All” Paradox
It is not easy to be a young scholar these days: You are supposed to be international but connect with your national community, be innovative but mainstream enough to be published, learn from your supervisors but not copy them, collaborate but also show you can work independently, find your one true topic but have a...
Research on narrative effects often focuses on the individual. Changes concerning a person’s emotions, knowledge or attitudes are regarded as effects of an exposure to a narrative. Cumulative effects, however, are rarely considered – neither on an individual nor a collective level. However, it might be these cumulative effects that affect communiti...
With the last century´s rise of (mass) media the media´s role for nostalgia has grown continuously with media technology, formats and contents as objects and triggers of nostalgia (Davis 1981). Our contribution is intended to investigate the various relations between media and nostalgia. Before unfolding this further we clarify our concept of nosta...
Journalists are frequently confronted with uncertain information, especially in political/military conflicts. In those situations politicians’ advantage often consists of an information monopoly which enables them to behave like gatekeepers. They determine whether, when, and which information gets leaked to journalists in order to prevent harm from...
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The aim of the scientific network is to explore, systematize, and develop the nascent field of communication memory studies. It elaborates its fundaments in different areas of social sciences and cultural studies, maps its pivotal areas of inquiry as well as its analytical perspectives.
The network fosters the translocal, issue-driven cooperation in order to survey and compare the disparate theoretical and empirical strands of research on cultural memory and social remembering in communication studies. They are critically reviewed, conjointly documented, and further examined as the constitutive elements of the emerging area of communication memory studies. Due to the variety of paradigms and approaches it is necessary to work across disciplines and interact especially with the social sciences and cultural studies as well as to take an international perspective.
The network is funded by a networking grant from the German Research Foundation (PE 2436/1-1). The network is coordinated by Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier who work at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen
Collection of publications concerned with the topics of media, communication, memory, and nostalgia.
