Transcultural Media Repertoires and Community Perceptions in Europe
This PhD project focuses on the question of how media use and community perceptions are interrelated in changing cultural and media environments. It aims to address and cross-reference current developments in two fields of communication research (transnational and transcultural communication, audience and reception studies).
In the first field, the increasing transnational and transcultural character of media production, content, and use, as well as phenomena such as deterritorialisation make it necessary to reconsider traditional ideas of national audiences and imagined communities. In the second field, our constructions of media audiences are challenged by interpersonal and network media that link communities by “real” – or at least closer – connectivity, whilst the boundaries between producers and audiences are becoming increasingly blurred by new forms of media.
The core questions are: what role do group-allegiances play in the process of media choice? And vice versa: what effect does media use have on the perception of audiences or communities? Applying the concept of media repertoires (stable transmedial patterns of media use) the research question concerns the way mass, network, and interpersonal media, forms of consumption and “produsage”, feelings of belonging to imagined audiences and mediated networks, references to place and space are combined by media users. Hence, the approach begins with the micro level of the individual media user and from there searches for linkages to the macro level of audiences and communities.
An empirical study will compare different groups of media users varying in age, in existing backgrounds in migration and in their country of residence.
Publications
Domeyer, H. (2009): Transcultural Media Repertoires and Community Perceptions in Europe. In: N. Carpentier et al. (eds.), Communicative approaches to politics and ethics in Europe. The intellectual work of the 2009 ECREA European media and communication doctoral summer school. Tartu (pdf-document).
Lectures
"Investigating how Media Users Relate to Others via Different Forms of Media Communication – Findings from a Cross-Media Study on Transcultural Communication", lecture by H. Domeyer at the conference "Transforming Audiences 3" in London on 2 September 2011. »»
"Between imagined communities and mediated networks. Landscapes of belonging within media repertoires", lecture by H. Domeyer at the conference "Landscapes of the Self" in Évora (Portugal) on 26 November 2010.
"Between imagined communities and mediated networks. The array of belonging within media repertoires", lecture by H. Domeyer at the 3rd European Communication Conference ECREA 2010 in Hamburg on 13 October 2010.
"The Whole World Within Reach. Investigating how Media Users Relate to Others across Borders and Cultures", lecture by H. Domeyer at the ECREA-Pre-Conference "Doing global media studies" in Bremen on 11 October 2010.
"Zur Rolle von Interaktivität in transkulturellen Medienrepertoires. Entwurf einer medienübergreifenden Perspektive auf das Sich-in-Beziehung-Setzen über Medien" [The Role of Interactivity in Transcultural Media Repertoires. Draft of a Transmedial Perspective on the Process of Relating via the Media], lecture by H. Domeyer at the workshop "Mensch - Medien - Interaktion" in Erfurt on 9 July 2010.
"Transcultural Media Repertoires and Community Perceptions in Europe", lecture by H. Domeyer postgraduate workshop at the conference "Theories of International und Intercultural Communication" in Mannheim on 29 October 2009.
"Transcultural Media Repertoires and Community Perceptions in Europe", lecture by H. Domeyer at the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School in Tartu (Estonia) on 12 August 2009.
"Transcultural Media Repertoires and Community Perceptions in Europe", lecture by H. Domeyer at the "Doc’s Day" at the University of Hamburg on 11 July 2009.
Contact person
Graduate School Media and Communication
Universität Hamburg
Mittelweg 177
20148 Hamburg
Germany