**apologies for cross-posting** The peer-reviewed edited volume is entitled "Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environmen“ (Bremen: edition lumière). It is edited by Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Richard Kilborn, Risto Kunelius, Hannu Nieminen, Tobias Olsson, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Ilija Tomanić Trivundža and Simone Tosoni. The book has 420 pages and costs 19,80 euro plus shipping. A free version is available on www.researchcommunication.eu. The main focus of “Politics, Civil Society and Participation” is dedicated to the fundamental question: How do media and communications practices within European cultures change with their environment? This volume consists of the intellectual work of the 2015 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and a consortium of 21 European partner universities at the ZeMKI, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research of the University of Bremen, Germany. The chapters cover relevant research topics, structured into four sections: “Policies and politics of communication”, “Civil participation in and through the media”, “Media representations and usages” and “On methods”. Contributors are (in alphabetical order): Bertrand Cabedoche, Nick Couldry, Nico Carpentier, Şahika Erkonan, Rasmus Greiner, Maria Gutierrez, Andreas Hepp, Jockum Hildén, Ronald Hitzler, Sigrid Kannengießer, Herminder Kaur, Joanna Kędra, Leif Kramp, Risto Kunelius, Anne Laajalahti, Hannu Nieminen, Tobias Olsson, Winfried Pauleit, Irena Reifova, Julia Roll, Christina Sanko, Kim Christian Schrøder, Melodine Sommier, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Simone Tosoni, Panu Uotila, Erik Vatnøy, Julia Velkova and Dino Viscovi. The book additionally contains abstracts of 40 doctoral projects that were discussed at the 2015 European Media Communication Doctoral Summer School. For more information, see http://www.editionlumiere.de/kramp-et-al-2016.html <http://www.editionlumiere.de/kramp-et-al-2016.html> Orders of printed copies are welcomed by the publisher via e-mail: edition.lumiere@arcormail.de <mailto:edition.lumiere@arcormail.de>. Below, you'll find the Table of Contents. INTRODUCTION Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier and Andreas Hepp Introduction: Researching the transforming environment of media and communications PART 1 Research SECTION 1: Policies and politics of communication Nick Couldry Life with the media manifold: Between freedom and subjection Hannu Nieminen Communication and information rights in European media policy Risto Kunelius Free speech at an intersection. Notes on the contemporary hybrid public sphere Jockum Hildén The normative shift: Three paradoxes of information privacy Herminder Kaur ‘It’s like they’re looking inside your body or inside your brain.’ Internet surveillance practices in a special school Nico Carpentier What is a decision? A post-structuralist exploration of the trinity of decidedness, undecidedness and undecidability SECTION 2: Civil participation in and through the media Joanna Kędra, Anne Laajalahti, Mélodine Sommier and Panu Uotila A competent participant in the new media landscape: Promoting an interdisciplinary perspective Eirik Vatnøy Rejuvenating the public sphere: The rhetorical arenas of social media Andreas Hepp and Ronald Hitzler Collectivities in change: The mediatization and individualization of community building from a subjective and figurational perspective Leif Kramp Conceptualizing metropolitan journalism: New approaches, new communicative practices, new perspectives? Julia Velkova Negotiating creative autonomy: Experiences of technology in computer-based visual media production Sigrid Kannengießer Conceptualizing consumption-critical media practices as political participation Christina Sanko Communication, generation and cultural memory: Insights from fieldwork in Vietnam SECTION 3: Media representations and usages Julia Roll Communication in the public space: Attention and media use Ilija Tomanić Trivundža On barricades Şahika Erkonan Photography and the construction of family and memory Tobias Olsson and Dino Viscovi Remaining divides: Access to and use of ICTs among elderly citizens Maria Gutièrrez Researching the young radio audience Irena Reifová Watching socialist television serials in the 70s and 80s in the former Czechoslovakia: a study in the history of meaning-making Winfried Pauleit and Rasmus Greiner Sonic icons and histospheres: On the political aesthetics of an audio history of film SECTION 4: On methods Kim Christian Schrøder From dogmatism to open-mindedness? Historical reflections on methods in audience reception research Simone Tosoni and Fredrik Stiernstedt Media ethnography for busy People: Introducing students to the ethnographic approach in media-related syllabi Bertrand Cabedoche Communicating at international scientific conferences? Keys to be selected, understood, and published PART 2 The European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2015 and its Participants *********