Čovjek je osnovna vrijednost: razgovor o komunikaciji, tehnologiji i društvenoj promjeni s Matkom Meštrovićem

Matko Meštrović je emeritus na Ekonomskom institutu u Zagrebu. Temeljno je obrazovanje stekao u području povijesti umjetnosti a karijeru mu je obilježio široki interes za teme iz područja kritičke teorije, umjetnosti, kulture i dizajna te komunikacije i medijskih tehnologija. Početkom 1960-ih bio je jedan od osnivača i vodećih figura likovnog pokreta Nove Tendencije. U istom je razdoblju djelovao u Centru za industrijsko oblikovanje u Zagrebu. Tijekom 1969. i 1970. boravio je kao gostujući istraživač na Sveučilištima Columbia, UCLA (Odjel za umjetnosti i dizajn te Odjel za novinarstvo), MIT (Centar za napredne vizualne studije) i Pennsylvania (Annenberg School of Communication). Radio je kao savjetnik na Radio-televiziji Zagreb od 1970. do 1987. Bio je direktor Zavoda za kulturu Hrvatske od 1987. do 1992. Od 1993. je znastveni savjetnik na Ekonomskom institutu u Zagrebu.

Choosing Paradigms through Emotions: An Interview with Nico Carpentier

Nico Carpentier is Professor at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University in Sweden. He also holds two part-time positions: Associate Professor at the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium and Docent at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Moreover, he is a Research Fellow at Loughborough University, United Kingdom and Cyprus University of Technology. He is an executive board member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Between 2008 and 2012 he was vice-president of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). His theoretical focus is discourse theory, and his research interests are the relationship between media, journalism, politics and culture, especially in social domains such as war and conflict, ideology, participation and democracy. He published numerous monographs, edited books, journal special issues and articles. Some of his recent publications include a special issue of the journal Javnost (co-edited with Julie Uldam) titled ˝Publics, Discursive Struggles and Political Agency˝ (2015), an edited monograph ˝Culture, Trauma & Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on Contemporary War˝ (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2015) and a monograph ˝Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle˝ (Intellect, 2011).

Media and social change: an interview with Friedrich Krotz

Friedrich Krotz is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen in Germany. He holds a Diploma in mathematics from the University of Karlsruhe and a Diploma in sociology from the University of Hamburg. He wrote his dissertation in sociology and his habilitation thesis in communication science and journalism. He worked as a mathematician at the University of Saarland, as a sociologist at the University of Hamburg and as a researcher in political science at the Free University of Berlin. Between 1989 and 2001 he was a researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research at the University of Hamburg. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as a professor at the University of Munster. From 2003 to 2010 he was a Chair of Communication Science and Social Communication at the University of Erfurt. Finally, since 2010 until today he became a Chair of Communication and Media Studies, Social Communication and Mediatization Research at the University of Bremen. He is the responsible editor of the journal “Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research” and since 2009 coordinator of the priority research program “Mediatized Worlds” funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The program includes multiple research projects based at different universities in German speaking countries. Among his publications is a book co-edited with Andreas Hepp titled “Mediatized Worlds: Culture and Society in a Media Age” (Palgrave, 2014), a book co-edited with Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp titled “Media Events in a Global Age” (Routledge, 2010) a monograph in German language titled “Mediatisierung: Fallstudien zum Wandel von Kommunikation” (VS Verlag, 2007) and numerous other monographs, edited books and articles in German and English. His present work mainly focuses on mediatization theory, communication and socio-cultural change.

Staying ahead of the curve: an interview with Vincent Mosco

Dr. Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1970 and received the Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1975. Professor Mosco is the author of numerous publications on communication, technology, and society. His most recent books include ˝To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World˝ (Pluto Press 2014),˝The Political Economy of Communication˝ (Sage 2009, 2^nd edition), ˝The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?˝with Catherine McKercher (Lexington Books 2008), and ˝The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace˝ (MIT Press 2004). He is also the editor, with Christian Fuchs, of the special issue of the journal Triple C titled ˝Marx is Back: The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today˝ (2012) and editor, with Catherine McKercher and Ursula Huws, of the special issue of the journal Work Organisation, Labor and Globalisation titled ˝Getting the Message: Communications Workers and Global Value Chains˝ (2010). In 2014 he was joint recipient, with Catherine McKercher, of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Professional Freedom and Responsibility award. His 2004 book ˝The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace˝ won the Olson Award for outstanding book of the year in cultural studies. In that same year he received the Dallas W. Smythe Award for outstanding achievement in communication research.

A coffee break with Maria Bakardjieva and Peter Dahlgren: discussing media studies

Dr. Maria Bakardjieva is Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary in Western Canada. She teaches courses that deal with the interplay between new media and society and studies the internet and digital media in their social contexts and applications. She published a book „Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life“ (2005, Sage) and numerous journal articles including „Subactivism: Lifeworld and Politics in the Age of the Internet“ (The Information Society, 2009),  „Reconfiguring the Mediapolis: New Media and Civic Agency“ (New Media and Society, 2012), „Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self“ (Philosophy & Technology, 2012) and „New Media and Civil Society in Bulgaria“ ( Europe-Asia Studies, 2012).

Dr. Peter Dahlgren is a media and communication scholar educated in the USA who worked in Sweden for most of his academic career. He is now Professor Emeritus at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. His work focuses on media and democracy from the horizons of late modern social and cultural theory. More specifically, he address the theme of democratic participation, in particular in relation to the digital media. His recent publications are Media and Political Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2009), the co-edited volume Young People, ICTs and Democracy (Nordicom, 2010), Online Journalism and Civic Cosmopolitanism: Professional vs. participatory ideals (Journalism Studies, 2013), Tracking the Civic Subject in the Media Landscape: Versions of the Democratic Ideal (Television & New Media, 2013).

“Castells and Jenkins: … these approaches are terribly flawed”: An interview with Christian Fuchs

Dr. Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media at the Communication and Media Research Institute and the Centre for Social Media Research, University of Westminster, London, UK. He is the author of “Internet and society: Social theory in the information age” (Routledge 2008), “Foundations of critical media and information studies” (Routledge 2011) and the forthcoming monographs “Digital labor and Karl Marx” (Routledge 2014), “Social media: A critical introduction” (Sage 2014) and “OccupyMedia! The Occupy movement and social media in crisis capitalism” (Zero Books 2014). He has co-edited the collected volume “Internet and surveillance: The challenges of web 2.0 and social media” (Routledge 2012) and the forthcoming volumes “Critique, social media and the information society” (Routledge 2014) and “Social media, politics and the state. Protests, revolutions, riots, crime and policing in the age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube” (Routledge 2014). He is editor of “tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique”, Chair of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research, co-founder of the ICTs and Society network and Vice-Chair of the European Union COST Action “Dynamics of Virtual Work”. We met up with Christian in October in Athens, Greece during the COST action meeting and conference.

Intervjui

U ovom se prostoru povremeno obavljuju intervjui sa stručnjacima u području istraživanja medija. Osobito smo zainteresirani za njihovo viđenje polja medijskih studija, interdisciplinarnosti, suvremene znanosti, primjenjivosti istraživanja i uloge sociologije u tom kontekstu. Cilj je stvaranje baze intervjua koji bi bilježili stajališta vodećih stručnjaka i približavali ih široj sociološkoj i općoj javnosti.