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The Forgotten Subject

Subject Constitutions in Mediatized Everyday Worlds

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Editors:
  1. Peter Gentzel

    1. Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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  2. Friedrich Krotz

    1. Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  3. Jeffrey Wimmer

    1. Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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  4. Rainer Winter

    1. Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: The Forgotten Subject in Communication Studies

    • Peter Gentzel, Friedrich Krotz, Jeffrey Wimmer, Rainer Winter
    Pages 1-13

  3. Subject Conceptions in Communication Studies Research and in the Light of Current Developments in Social and Cultural Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. How Does Communicating Constitute the Human Being? On the Subject Concept of Communication Studies in the Age of Digitally Mediatized Lifestyles

      • Friedrich Krotz
      Pages 17-36

    3. The Subject of Communicative Action, Subjectivity and Subjectification

      • Hubert Knoblauch
      Pages 37-54

    4. From Social Interaction to Digital Networking: Processes of Mediatization and the Transformations of the Self

      • Rainer Winter
      Pages 55-78

    5. Materiality, Technology and the Subject: Elements of Critical Communication and Media Analysis

      • Peter Gentzel
      Pages 79-103

    6. Media Use and Psychoanalysis: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

      • Jacob Johanssen
      Pages 105-121

    7. Subjectification in Datafied Societies: Dividualization as a Perspective on Communicative Negotiation Processes in Data-Driven Times

      • Jakob Hörtnagl
      Pages 123-142

  4. Empirical Analyses of the Meaning of Subjectivity and Identity in and for Digital Communication in Mediatized Worlds

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. The Narrated Self: Narrative Subject Constructions in the Sign of Medial and Socio-cultural Change

      • Christina Schachtner
      Pages 145-169

    3. From Subject to User: And Back?

      • Manfred Faßler
      Pages 171-190

    4. The History of Media-Based Technologies of the Self from Rousseau to Runtastic

      • Gerrit Fröhlich
      Pages 191-208

    5. Subject Staging and Communication Power Digital

      • Holger Herma, Laura Maleyka
      Pages 209-232

    6. On the Mediality of Pedagogical Relations and the Medial Side of Education

      • Kerstin Jergus
      Pages 233-251

    7. Friendzone Level 5000: Memes as Image-Mediated Practices of Subjectivation

      • Sascha Oswald
      Pages 253-286
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About this book

The volume provides a critical inventory of existing concepts of the subject in communication studies research. In addition, concepts are developed in order to be able to analyze subjectivity in the context of current theoretical debates (including media sociology, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, practice theory, science and technology studies) as well as social, cultural and technical developments (including digitalization, mediatization, mobility and networking). Since subject conceptions are of central importance for any communication and media analyses, the volume fills a central gap in communication and media studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Peter Gentzel

  • Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Friedrich Krotz

  • Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

    Jeffrey Wimmer

  • Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Rainer Winter

About the editors

Dr. Peter Gentzel is juniorprofessor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Dr. Friedrich Krotz is professor (emer.) at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen.

Dr. Jeffrey Wimmer is a professor at the Institute for Media, Knowledge and Communication at the University of Augsburg.

Dr. Rainer Winter is a professor at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Klagenfurt.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Forgotten Subject

  • Book Subtitle: Subject Constitutions in Mediatized Everyday Worlds

  • Editors: Peter Gentzel, Friedrich Krotz, Jeffrey Wimmer, Rainer Winter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42872-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-42871-6Published: 03 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-42872-3Published: 02 January 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 286

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Communication Studies, Media Sociology, Cultural Studies

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