I’m sure someone is writing it and I very much look forward to reading the big book that explains the science of autism, the politicization of autism, the social mediatization of autism, and the many interesting and sometimes internally inconsistent beliefs and practices of “doing” autism.
September 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I’m sure someone is writing it and I very much look forward to reading the big book that explains the science of autism, the politicization of autism, the social mediatization of autism, and the many interesting and sometimes internally inconsistent beliefs and practices of “doing” autism.
This is like the opposite of the concern about AI deepfaked media of non-real disasters confusing citizens—instead we have the mediatization of a real event into fictional media
HOLY SHIT. THEY USED FOOTAGE FROM THE DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER IN WAR OF THE WORLDS
Like real actual footage. From a disaster where 11 people died.
First picture from the movie second picture on the right is from the footage from the event.
share.google/hnTxooDGKe0L...
Like real actual footage. From a disaster where 11 people died.
First picture from the movie second picture on the right is from the footage from the event.
share.google/hnTxooDGKe0L...
August 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is like the opposite of the concern about AI deepfaked media of non-real disasters confusing citizens—instead we have the mediatization of a real event into fictional media
Alicia Arden, an Epstein survivor, appeared today on NBC asking for the release of the Epstein Files. The whole situation is a torment for the many victims, who relive their trauma through the mediatization around Maxwell.
www.nbclosangeles.com/video/news/n...
www.nbclosangeles.com/video/news/n...
‘Just do it': Epstein accuser calls for release of files
Alicia Arden, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of assaulting her in a California hotel room, and attorney Gloria Allred called for the release of all files related to the Epstein investigation.
www.nbclosangeles.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Alicia Arden, an Epstein survivor, appeared today on NBC asking for the release of the Epstein Files. The whole situation is a torment for the many victims, who relive their trauma through the mediatization around Maxwell.
www.nbclosangeles.com/video/news/n...
www.nbclosangeles.com/video/news/n...
Platforms don't just distribute politics — they shape our politicians, selected by the price signal and then trained by it.
Social media doesn't just polarize users. It defines what wins — and Trump is what X's attention economy rewards.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220
Social media doesn't just polarize users. It defines what wins — and Trump is what X's attention economy rewards.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220
The Politics Attention Makes: Platform Media Logic and the Mediatization of Politics
Empirical research on social media and politics has primarily treated platforms as distributive systems that expose users to particular messages. The mediatization literature, however, suggests shifti...
arxiv.org
August 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Platforms don't just distribute politics — they shape our politicians, selected by the price signal and then trained by it.
Social media doesn't just polarize users. It defines what wins — and Trump is what X's attention economy rewards.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220
Social media doesn't just polarize users. It defines what wins — and Trump is what X's attention economy rewards.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220
bluesky bat signal! anyone interested in joining me & @eleanoir.bsky.social for an ASA panel on mediatization, subjectivity, empire, & capital??
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
bluesky bat signal! anyone interested in joining me & @eleanoir.bsky.social for an ASA panel on mediatization, subjectivity, empire, & capital??
It's just example 22458 of the mediatization of politics.
But it just so happens this example is a particularly grim and depressing one.
To my UK followers, this would be like if the Tories made Jeremy Kyle their 'Anti-Chav Tsar'
But it just so happens this example is a particularly grim and depressing one.
To my UK followers, this would be like if the Tories made Jeremy Kyle their 'Anti-Chav Tsar'
It’s completely surreal (and corrupt) how much reality TV pseudo-experts are increasingly intertwined with the Trump admin. Dr. Phil embedding himself with ICE to make deportation content. Dr. Oz selling supplements on TikTok Shop as pending head of Medicare/Medicaid
January 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's just example 22458 of the mediatization of politics.
But it just so happens this example is a particularly grim and depressing one.
To my UK followers, this would be like if the Tories made Jeremy Kyle their 'Anti-Chav Tsar'
But it just so happens this example is a particularly grim and depressing one.
To my UK followers, this would be like if the Tories made Jeremy Kyle their 'Anti-Chav Tsar'
The mediatization of politics has been a strong theory in communication research for many decades, theorizing an adjustment by politics and politicians to the operations of the news media. What we are seeing now is a countermovement, a refusal to submit to the so-called media logic. 1/3
Good Lord. Pinning him down is journalism's job. This is journalistic surrender. #BrokenTimes
‘You Can’t Pin Him Down’: Trump’s Contradictions Are His Ultimate Cover www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
‘You Can’t Pin Him Down’: Trump’s Contradictions Are His Ultimate Cover www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
‘You Can’t Pin Him Down’: Trump’s Contradictions Are His Ultimate Cover
President Trump’s shifting positions and outright lies have presented the American public with dueling narratives at every turn.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The mediatization of politics has been a strong theory in communication research for many decades, theorizing an adjustment by politics and politicians to the operations of the news media. What we are seeing now is a countermovement, a refusal to submit to the so-called media logic. 1/3
Simultaneously the business practices of “disruption”, of social mediatization and regulatory arbitrage, are predicated on attacking existing social systems with VC money in order to break them up and replace them with financialized platform logics
July 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Simultaneously the business practices of “disruption”, of social mediatization and regulatory arbitrage, are predicated on attacking existing social systems with VC money in order to break them up and replace them with financialized platform logics
The special issue on #Mediatization of Human-Machine Communication is out, with contributions by @ahepp.bsky.social @goranbolin.bsky.social @chadedwards.bsky.social & more and my article on #SmartSpeakers and children stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/
April 15, 2024 at 7:37 AM
The special issue on #Mediatization of Human-Machine Communication is out, with contributions by @ahepp.bsky.social @goranbolin.bsky.social @chadedwards.bsky.social & more and my article on #SmartSpeakers and children stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/
My many new followers may have missed the news that I defended my PhD a few months ago. Under the title “Mediatization of scientists: process, indicators, impact”, I explored the changing interaction patterns of scientists and journalists in #scicomm.
It all started with an Estonian satellite. 1/
It all started with an Estonian satellite. 1/
January 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My many new followers may have missed the news that I defended my PhD a few months ago. Under the title “Mediatization of scientists: process, indicators, impact”, I explored the changing interaction patterns of scientists and journalists in #scicomm.
It all started with an Estonian satellite. 1/
It all started with an Estonian satellite. 1/
The conference "Mediatization vs. datafication—Dialogues or competition?" in Lublin continues, including an interesting presentation by O. Driessens on "Reconstructing #mediatization and #datafication into a productive research program".
May 10, 2024 at 10:48 AM
The conference "Mediatization vs. datafication—Dialogues or competition?" in Lublin continues, including an interesting presentation by O. Driessens on "Reconstructing #mediatization and #datafication into a productive research program".
I Stood Up for Science today by delivering a keynote on "The Human-Machine Relationship in an Age of AI" to Mediatization Conference 6 taking place in Lublin, Poland. The talk centered on how to study the social, political, and cultural implications of Communicative AI. #academicsky
March 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I Stood Up for Science today by delivering a keynote on "The Human-Machine Relationship in an Age of AI" to Mediatization Conference 6 taking place in Lublin, Poland. The talk centered on how to study the social, political, and cultural implications of Communicative AI. #academicsky
This is correct (I am a local principality crushed by mediatization in 1803)
July 20, 2026 at 11:37 PM
This is correct (I am a local principality crushed by mediatization in 1803)
Week 2 of the summer term. Today's lecture for Cultural and Creative Industries is about 'old' culture and mediatization.
So I'll be showing AI pics from the White House and a Lego video from Iran. Perfect examples of pop culture and politics.
#AcademicSky
So I'll be showing AI pics from the White House and a Lego video from Iran. Perfect examples of pop culture and politics.
#AcademicSky
April 20, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Week 2 of the summer term. Today's lecture for Cultural and Creative Industries is about 'old' culture and mediatization.
So I'll be showing AI pics from the White House and a Lego video from Iran. Perfect examples of pop culture and politics.
#AcademicSky
So I'll be showing AI pics from the White House and a Lego video from Iran. Perfect examples of pop culture and politics.
#AcademicSky
It's already time for the third session of our PolCom Classics!
This round, we’re diving into mediatization & media logic with none other than @jesperstromback.bsky.social
🗓 November 27
⏰ 12:00–13:00 CET
📲 Register via the QR code or the link below — hope to see you there!
This round, we’re diving into mediatization & media logic with none other than @jesperstromback.bsky.social
🗓 November 27
⏰ 12:00–13:00 CET
📲 Register via the QR code or the link below — hope to see you there!
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's already time for the third session of our PolCom Classics!
This round, we’re diving into mediatization & media logic with none other than @jesperstromback.bsky.social
🗓 November 27
⏰ 12:00–13:00 CET
📲 Register via the QR code or the link below — hope to see you there!
This round, we’re diving into mediatization & media logic with none other than @jesperstromback.bsky.social
🗓 November 27
⏰ 12:00–13:00 CET
📲 Register via the QR code or the link below — hope to see you there!
increasingly convinced that mediatization is the key concept for this…moment
April 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
increasingly convinced that mediatization is the key concept for this…moment
A reminder: today at 15:00 MET I will give a talk on #datafication, #automation and communicative #AI, discussing the need to broaden #mediatization research (at the online symposium "Living and Research in Times of Deep Mediatisation"). For more information see: zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/talk-by-a...
Talk by Andreas Hepp at the Online Colloquium "Living and Research in Times of Deep Mediatization"
ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp will give a talk entitled: "Datafication, Automation and Communicative AI: Broadening the Scope of Mediatization Research" at an online colloquium on December 6 at ...
zemki.uni-bremen.de
December 6, 2024 at 12:51 PM
A reminder: today at 15:00 MET I will give a talk on #datafication, #automation and communicative #AI, discussing the need to broaden #mediatization research (at the online symposium "Living and Research in Times of Deep Mediatisation"). For more information see: zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/talk-by-a...
These were two exciting days among bright smart colleagues: annual retreat of the #Datafication and #Mediatization Lab @zemki.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social on the ambivalences of #comai at Gut Bredbeck
February 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
These were two exciting days among bright smart colleagues: annual retreat of the #Datafication and #Mediatization Lab @zemki.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social on the ambivalences of #comai at Gut Bredbeck
Fresh back from our great retreat with the @zemki.bsky.social Lab Mediatization and Datafication - 2 days of intense discussion, great ideas and lots of fun. Thanks for that!
February 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Fresh back from our great retreat with the @zemki.bsky.social Lab Mediatization and Datafication - 2 days of intense discussion, great ideas and lots of fun. Thanks for that!
To quote Mick Billig in ‘Learn To Write Badly’: Put A Sparkle Into Your Research With Polarization!
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
To quote Mick Billig in ‘Learn To Write Badly’: Put A Sparkle Into Your Research With Polarization!
Adding our populist foreign policy take with @berkesen.bsky.social and Tudor Onea to the bevy of pieces on how Trump’s attack on Iran becomes possible
Personalization, hyper-mediatization, anti-elitism, grandiose history, faux revisionism, extortion, self interest
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/t...
Personalization, hyper-mediatization, anti-elitism, grandiose history, faux revisionism, extortion, self interest
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/t...
February 28, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Adding our populist foreign policy take with @berkesen.bsky.social and Tudor Onea to the bevy of pieces on how Trump’s attack on Iran becomes possible
Personalization, hyper-mediatization, anti-elitism, grandiose history, faux revisionism, extortion, self interest
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/t...
Personalization, hyper-mediatization, anti-elitism, grandiose history, faux revisionism, extortion, self interest
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/t...
In meinem Kopf sitzend ich bin von unaussprechlichen barthes erinnert an diesen Beitrag und immer sehr dazu geneigt sogenannten Mainstream Journalisten wahlweise schlechte Träume zu Wünschen oder meine Schulter zum weinen anzubieten journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Shameless normalization as a result of media control: The case of Austria - Ruth Wodak, 2022
Far-right populist parties instrumentalize the media and intervene into processes of mediatization in significantly different ways, depending on socio-political...
journals.sagepub.com
September 19, 2026 at 6:18 PM
In meinem Kopf sitzend ich bin von unaussprechlichen barthes erinnert an diesen Beitrag und immer sehr dazu geneigt sogenannten Mainstream Journalisten wahlweise schlechte Träume zu Wünschen oder meine Schulter zum weinen anzubieten journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The mediatization of the congressional/senatorial office is something someone should write. This feels new.
March 20, 2024 at 8:20 PM
The mediatization of the congressional/senatorial office is something someone should write. This feels new.
There are so many layers of tragedy but also of race, religion, gender and class (McKenna West is a working class Black single mother, the couple are successful desis), right-wing mediatization, medical ethics, that I want to read a whole book on this case.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Surrogate mother who fled to Texas gives birth to baby with severe heart defect
McKenna West initially agreed to an abortion after diagnosis, but then fled to state where abortion is illegal and broke contact with biological parents, attorney alleges
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
There are so many layers of tragedy but also of race, religion, gender and class (McKenna West is a working class Black single mother, the couple are successful desis), right-wing mediatization, medical ethics, that I want to read a whole book on this case.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Study by Geiß, @christinaviehmann.bsky.social & Kelly shows inflation of crisis coverage in newspapers 1785-2020, with crisis labeling increasing faster than crisis waves. Why? Government expansion, mediatization of politics & crisis frame sponsor activity drive increases, not critical conditions 🧪
March 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Study by Geiß, @christinaviehmann.bsky.social & Kelly shows inflation of crisis coverage in newspapers 1785-2020, with crisis labeling increasing faster than crisis waves. Why? Government expansion, mediatization of politics & crisis frame sponsor activity drive increases, not critical conditions 🧪