New book series „Transforming Communications“ (Palgrave Macmillan) starts with edited volume (OPEN ACCESS): "Communicative Figurations: Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization“ edited by Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter and Uwe Hasebrink This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are involved in. The first part of the book outlines a fundamental understanding of the changing media environment of deep mediatization and its transformative capacity. The second part focuses on collectivities and movements: communities in the city, critical social movements, maker, online gaming groups and networked groups of young people. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license: Download for free at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0 <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0> TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Rethinking Transforming Communications: An Introduction Andreas Hepp, Andreas Breiter and Uwe Hasebrink https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_1 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_1> 2 Researching Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization: A Figurational Approach Andreas Hepp and Uwe Hasebrink https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_2 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_2> PART II COLLECTIVITIES AND MOVEMENTS 3 Living Together in the Mediatized City: The Figurations of Young People’s Urban Communities Andreas Hepp, Piet Simon and Monika Sowinska https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_3 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_3> 4 Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category Sebastian Kubitschko https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_4 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_4> 5 Repair Cafés as Communicative Figurations: Consumer-Critical Media Practices for Cultural Transformation Sigrid Kannengießer https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_5 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_5> 6 Communicative Figurations of Expertization: DIY_MAKER and Multi-Player Online Gaming (MOG) as Cultures of Amateur Learning Karsten D. Wolf and Urszula Wudarski https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_6 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_6> 7 The Communicative Construction of Space-Related Identities. Hamburg and Leipzig Between the Local and the Global Yvonne Robel and Inge Marszolek https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_7 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_7> 8 Networked Media Collectivities. The Use of Media for the Communicative Construction of Collectivities Among Adolescents Thomas N. Friemel and Matthias Bixler https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_8 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_8> PART III INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS 9 The Transformation of Journalism: From Changing Newsroom Cultures to a New Communicative Orientation? Leif Kramp and Wiebke Loosen https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_9 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_9> 10 Moralizing and Deliberating in Financial Blogging. Moral Debates in Blog Communication During the Financial Crisis 2008 Rebecca Venema and Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_10 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_10> 11 ‘Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn’t It?’ The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Hannah Grünenthal and Sina Gogolok https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_11 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_11> 12 Relating Face to Face. Communicative Practices and Political Decision-Making in a Changing Media Environment Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele and Frank Nullmeier https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_12 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_12> 13 Paper Versus School Information Management Systems: Governing the Figurations of Mediatized Schools in England and Germany Andreas Breiter and Arne Hendrik Ruhe https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_13 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_13> PART IV METHODOLOGIES AND PERSPECTIVES 14 Researching Communicative Figurations: Necessities and Challenges for Empirical Research Christine Lohmeier and Rieke Böhling https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_14 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_14> 15 Researching Individuals’ Media Repertoires: Challenges of Qualitative Interviews on Cross-Media Practices Juliane Klein, Michael Walter and Uwe Schimank https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_15 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_15> 16 The Complexity of Datafication: Putting Digital Traces in Context Andreas Breiter and Andreas Hepp https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_16 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_16> 17 Communicative Figurations and Cross-Media Research Kim Christian Schrøder https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_17 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_17> 18 Communicative Figurations: Towards a New Paradigm for the Media Age? Giselinde Kuipers https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_18 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_18> #### Hepp, Andreas/Breiter, Andreas/Hasebrink, Uwe (eds.) (2017): Communicative Figurations. Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization. London: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-3-319-65583-3, EUR 29,95 (Hardcover) Free to download at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0 <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-65584-0> BOOK SERIES WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.TRANSFORMING-COMMUNICATIONS.ORG <http://www.transforming-communications.org/> ####