Neue Kommunikationswissenschaft

Our media reality is undergoing lasting change, which is also transforming communication research. This introductory book shows how media communication can currently be understood and studied by looking at the objects, theories, actors and methods of new communication research. Through six chapters, its perspectives provide approaches to grasping current media-related communicative patterns of action, public spheres and media structures. This book will be of interest to all those who deal with media and mediated communication in research, teaching and professional work.