Creative Unit of the University of Bremen – "Communicative Figurations"
2013-2016
Funding: The Creative Unit was supported by the institutional strategy "Ambitious and Agile" of the University of Bremen funded within the frame of the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments.
Duration: 2013- 2016
At the University of Bremen, the "Communicative figurations" research network was funded – from 2013 to 2016 – by the Excellence Initiative of the Federal Government and the Federal States as "Creative Unit". The Creative Unit was based at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and consisted of eleven projects in which the concept of "communicative figurations" is developed further in different areas of investigation - both theoretically and empirically.
Mediatization research demonstrates that the growing establishment of technical communication media as a whole and the resulting change of the ‘manufacture’ of our reality is are core moments of this transformation. The aim of the Creative Unit is therefore preparing a systematic analysis of communicative figurations with respect to the transformation of social realities, shaped by media.
Through the innovative linking of humanities with social sciences the aim is also to get closer to an answer to the following question: How significant is the transformation of media and communication for culture and society? The objective of the Creative Unit is to further develop the already existing excellent basis for such research at the University of Bremen.
Flyer of the Creative Unit (PDF)
Research areas and projects
The projects of the Creative Unit aim to develop the concept of "Communicative Figurations" further. Thereby the projects focus on the development of theoretical approaches as well as on empirical testing to investigate the transformation of communicative figurations in the course of an increasing mediatization. Nevertheless, the starting point of the analysis differs for each project.
Three research areas can be distinguished for our Creative Unit: projects which analyse communicative figurations 1) based on the individual as a starting point; 2) emanating from different social relationships; and 3) from the point of view of certain sociocultural fields.
FRAME PROJECT:
AREA INDIVIUAL:
- Habits in Communicative Figurations
- Informal and non-formal learning
- Irritation and coping in the middle classes
AREA RELATIONSHIPS:
- Mediatized localities of urban transcultural communitization
- Collective identity constructions in media cities
- Communication networks and roles
AREA FIELD:
- Ethical debates in the field of the economy
- Religious authority in Catholicism
- The school as a mediatized educational organization
- Face-to-face communication in politics
Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Andreas Breiter
Institution: Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: ECO5
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Andreas Hepp
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ4 40200
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 676 20
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Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: SpT C6220
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 679 11
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Leif Kramp
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ4 40270
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 676 52
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Hannah Grünenthal
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: SpT C6250
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 679 24
Cindy Roitsch
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI)
Building/room: LINZ4 40240
Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 676 27
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Juliane Jarke
Institution Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen (ZeMKI),
Institution Institut für Informationsmanagement Bremen GmbH (IFIB)
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Cooperation partners
The Section "Mediatization" of the European Communikation Research and Education Association (ECREA), coordinated at the University of Copenhagen, the Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden and the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen.
The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School brings together members of the European research community to this summer school in order to debate contemporary issues in media, communication and cultural studies.
Research program "The Mediatization of Culture: The Challenge of New Media" at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, headed by Stig Hjarvard.
Research network on "Mediatized Stories", coordinated by the University of Oslo, Norway and headed by Knut Lundby.
The storycircle project headed by Prof. Nick Couldry (London School of Economics and Political Science) is interested in tracking the consequences for narrative exchange and wider demcoratic culture of developing digital infrastructures.
The network for Intercultural and International Communication deals with communication in a globalized world, in which contact between people of different national origins and cultures is becoming the norm.