Present Scenarios of Media Production and Engagement

Introduction

Researching Present Scenarios of Media Production and Engagement
Simone Tosoni, Maria Francesca Murru, Laura Peja and Nico Carpentier

SECTION ONE: Scenarios of Convergence and Transmedia Communication

Branding Game of Thrones Across Media: HBO’s Visual Creation of a Brand Identity
Julie Escurignan

Vidding and its Media Territories: A Practice-centred Approach to User-generated Content Production
Simone Tosoni and Mariana Ciancia

The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age
Sonia Livingstone

Videogames as a Political Medium: The Case of Mass Effect and the Gendered Gaming Scene of Dissensus
Leandro Augusto Borges Lima

SECTION TWO: Strategies and Transformations of Media and Cultural Industries

The Spanish Contribution to the Study of Cultural Industries. The First Steps
Montse Bonet

New Scenarios in News Distribution: The Impact of News Aggregators Like Google News in The Media Outlets on the Web
Tania Lucía Cobos

“We Need to Keep Moving”: Strategies of News Media to Attract Young Audiences in Germany
Leif Kramp

Bourdieu in Greenland: Elaborating the Field Dependencies of Post-colonial Journalism
Naimah Hussain

SECTION THREE: Politics of representation in contemporary media discourses

Humanizing Violent Extremism: Journalistic Reflections on In-depth Personalized Narratives of Western jihadists
Anna Grøndahl Larsen

“Exotic Brotherhoods” in Serbian Media Discourses: The Caucasus
Justyna Pierzynska

Truce and Consequence. Indexing Theory and COP15 in the Danish Press
Michael Bruun Andersen

Farewell to a Utopia. Technology Discourse in the German NSA Debate
Johanna Möller

Perceptions of Acceptance and Inclusion: the Influence of Legislation and Media on LGBT Student Identity and Embeddedness
Scott Ellis

SECTION FOUR: Researching Media and Communication

Notes about Common Sense and Academic Knowledge
Bertrand Cabedoche

Translating an Academic Text into Sound Art. An Experiment with a Communication Studies’ Text on Participation
Yiannis Christidis and Nico Carpentier

Statistical Tales: Bringing in Reflexivity to Make Sense of Quantitative Data
Yuliya Lakew

Time in Neoliberal Academia – How to Make the Most of It
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt