The following ZeMKI members will present their research, chair panels or co-organize a preconference:

May 24, 9:00–17:00

PRECONFERENCE: Mediated Recognition: Identity, Justice and Activism

Lena Fölsche: Symbolic Violence: Media Capital as “Trump Card” in the Struggle for Recognition

May 24, 8:00–16:30

PRECONFERENCE: Justice and Order in the Datafied Society: Connecting Communications and Legal Theory

Andreas Hepp (Co-Organizer)

May 25, 11:00–12:15

PANEL: High Density: All Aboard the Student Paper Express, from East to West, Theory to Test

Heiko Kirschner: Digital Games as Boundary Objects in Times of Deep Mediatization

May 25, 15:30–16:45

PANEL: Gender, Memory, and Media

Stephanie Seul (Discussant)

May 26, 8:00–9:15

PANEL: Risk and Crisis Communication

Dennis Reichow (with Thomas Friemel, U Zürich): Media Biases of Assaults in Public Transport and Their Effects on Passengers’ Risk Perception

May 26, 11:00–12:15

PANEL: Dynamics of Avoidance in a World of Deep Mediatization

Cindy Roitsch: Processes of Deep Mediatization

May 26, 17:00–18:15

PANEL: Philosophy, Theory and Critique Interactive Poster Session

Christian Pentzold (with Andreas Bischoff, U of Technology Chemnitz): Making Affordances Real: Socio-Material Prefiguration, Performed Agency, and Coordinated Activities in Human-Robot Communication

May 27, 8:00–9:15

PANEL: Populism in News Media and Party Communication

Stefanie Walter (with Zoltán Fazekas, U Oslo): Converging Exclusionary Media Populism in Tabloids and Broadsheets: The Case of Brexit

May 27, 11:00–12:15

PANEL: National Inflections and Religious Motifs in Visual Discourses across News Coverage, Social Media, and Public Space

Tanja Maier: Between the Visible and the Invisible: The Transformation of Christian Images in the Digital Age

May 27, 11:00–12:15

PANEL: Intercultural Communication in International/Global Contexts

Christian Pentzold (with Vivien Sommer, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space): Remembering John/Ivan Demjanjuk: Inclusive and Exclusive Frames in Transcultural Holocaust Discourse

May 27, 14:00–15:15

PANEL: Challenges in Data-Driven Campaigns and News Use

Christian Pentzold and Lena Fölsche: Data-Driven Campaigns in Public Sensemaking: Equivocality, Speculation, and a Delayed Scandal in American, British, and German Media Discourse around Computational Politics

May 28, 9:30–10:45

PANEL: Extreme Speech and Propaganda

Stefanie Walter (Chair)

May 28, 14:00–15:15

PANEL: Who and What Make News: Cultures and Controversies

Stephanie Seul: Women Reporting the First World War, 1914–1918

May 28, 15:30–16:45

PANEL: Post-Normal Science Communication: Analyzing the Blurring Boundaries between Science and Society

Stefanie Walter (with Michael Brüggemann, U Hamburg): Post-Normal Science Communication: A Framework to Explore the Changes and Blurring Boundaries of Science and Journalism

More information on the programme can be accessed here.