Andreas Hepp
Andreas Hepp (*1970) is professor of media and communications studies specializing in media culture and communication theory. Furthermore, he performs as Head of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen.
Biography
Education and academic career
Andreas Hepp graduated from the Bildungszentrum Königsbach/Baden in 1990. He subsequently studied German language and literature, political science, and media communication at the University of Trier, which he successfully completed in 1995...[1].
From 1995 to 1997 Hepp was working as a Research Assistant in the project "Talking about television" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He gained his PhD in 1997.
In 1999 he continued as a Research Associate at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in the Interdisciplinary Institute for Applied Cultural Studies (IAK). From 1999 to 2003, Hepp worked as a Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies (IfMK) at the TU Ilmenau. There he finished his studies and received his postdoctoral degree in 2004. Afterwards he took on the role of a professorship of Communication Studies with a focus on Media Sociology and Media Psychology at the Institute for Communication at the University of Muenster. Thereafter, at the University of Bremen, Hepp worked as an Assistant Professor of Cultural Significance of Digital Media, followed by a five-year term as Professor of Communication Studies before he accepted his current position as Professor of media and communications studies[2].
Since 2005 Andreas Hepp has been a board member of the House of Science and member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. In addition, he is largely responsible for the development of three media and communication study programs (BA and MA) and the conception of a doctoral program. Furthermore, he was involved in the foundation of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and is Head of the Central Research Unit of the University of Bremen[1][3].
Studies abroad
Hepp was a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher and did research at Goldsmiths, University of London and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Hepp was also a Visiting Scholar and Researcher in the USA at Stanford University and in France at Université Paris II[1].
Research and projects
Main research
His main areas of research are media and communication theory, media sociology, inter- and transcultural communication, media change and communication change, datafication and the automatization of communication, media use and appropriation as well as methods of qualitative media studies[2].
His research and his teaching focuses on:
“how media change and transformations in the way we communicate are interrelated with re-figurations within culture and society. To adequately define this scenario, I harness the terminology of deep mediatization.” (Andreas Hepp)[1]
Research into deep mediatization:
“connects to a range of other areas such as the role algorithms play in contemporary society, data and the datafication of communication, the influence of pioneers and pioneer communities on media-related developments, the emergence of new kinds of publics at the local, national, and transnational levels, the increasing role automation and communicative robots play in everyday communications, and the everyday use and appropriation of media by different media generations.” (Andreas Hepp)[1]
Research and projects
Hepp leads the “Mediatization and Globalization” lab[4] at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI). In addition, he is Head of the Research Network “Communicative Figurations” (in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research – Hans-Bredow-Institute) and from 2013 to 2016 he was spokesperson and principal investigator for the Creative Research Unit “Communicative Figurations”, which was funded by the University of Bremen as part of the Excellence Initiative[1][5].
Andreas Hepp was and is involved in numerous projects, mostly funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He was co-project leader of the “Transformations of the State” project (2007-2014)[6] as well as acting as co-initiator and principal investigator in the priority research program “Mediatized Worlds” (2012-2016)[7]. He is initiator and principal investigator for projects including “Pioneer Communities” (2018-2023)[8], “Pioneer journalism” (2019-2022)[9] and the development of the digital research software MeTag and MeSort (2018-2021)[10].
Hepp also initiated and was the principal investigator in the project “Tinder the City” (2017-2021) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) which resulted in the co-founding of the info app molo.news[11].
Besides, he is a member of the of the Leopoldina working group “Digitization and Democracy” (2019-2021)[12]
Academic associations
Andreas Hepp is a member of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the International Communication Association (ICA), the German Sociological Association (DGS) and the Data Power Network.[1]
Awards
- 1990 Scheffelpreis[1]
- 2010 Best journal publication award (DGPuK)[13]
- 2016 Best journal publication award (DGPuK)[13]
- 2016 Theory award (DGPuK)[13]
Selected works
Monographs
- Hepp, Andreas (2004): Netzwerke der Medien. Medienkulturen und Globalisierung. Wiesbaden: VS.
- Hepp, Andreas / Bozdağ, Çiğdem / Suna, Laura (2011): Mediale Migranten. Mediatisierung und die kommunikative Vernetzung der Diaspora. Wiesbaden: VS.
- Hepp, Andreas (2013): Cultures of mediatization. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Translations in Turkish and Estonian available)
- German Edition: Hepp, Andreas (2013): Medienkultur. Die Kultur mediatisierter Welten. Wiesbaden: VS, (2. Edition).
- Hepp, Andreas (2015): Transcultural communication. Malden: Wiley Blackwell.
- German Edition: Hepp, Andreas (2014): Transkulturelle Kommunikation. Konstanz, UVK, (2. Edition).
- Couldry, Nick / Hepp, Andreas (2017): The mediated construction of reality. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Translations in Chinese and Portuguese available, German Edition is in progress)
- Hepp, Andreas (2020): Deep Mediatization. London: Routledge.
- German Edition: Hepp, Andreas (2021): Die digitale Gesellschaft, Köln: Von Halem.
Edited volumes and articles
- Hepp, Andreas (2009): Transculturality as a perspective: Researching media cultures comparatively. In: Qualitative Social Research (FQS), 10 (1) (http: / / www.qualitative-research.net /index.php / fqs / article / view / 1221).
- Couldry, Nick / Hepp, Andreas (2013): Conceptualising mediatization: Contexts, traditions, arguments. In: Communication Theory, 23 (3), 191-202.
- Hepp, Andreas / Krotz, Friedrich (eds.) (2014): Mediatized worlds: Culture and society in a media age. London: Palgrave.
- Hepp, Andreas (2016): Pioneer communities. In: Media, Culture & Society, 38 (6), 918-933.
- Hepp, Andreas / Berg, Matthias / Roitsch, Cindy (2016): Investigating communication networks contextually. Qualitative network analysis as cross-media research. In: MedieKultur, 32 (60), 87-106.
- Hasebrink, Uwe / Hepp, Andreas (2017): How to research cross-media practices? Investigating media repertoires and media ensembles. In: Convergence, 23(4), 362-377.
- Hepp, Andreas / Breiter, Andreas Hasebrink, Uwe (Hrsg.). (2018): Communicative figurations: Transforming communications in times of deep mediatization. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Hepp, Andreas (2020). Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: Communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies. Media, Culture & Society, 42(7-8), 1410-1426.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Personal website". Retrieved 17 June 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Member profile on the website of the ZeMKI". Retrieved 17 June 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "ZeMKI-Research Report 2011". Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 19 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Website of the ZeMKI-lab "Mediatization and Globalization"". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Website of the Creative Unit "Communicative Figurations"". Retrieved 17 June 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Website of the project "The Transnationalization of Public Spheres in the EU: Citizens' (re)actions" (project "Transformations of the State")". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Member profile on the website of the project "Mediatized Worlds"". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Website of the project "Pioneer Communities"". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Website of the project "Pioneer journalism"". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Website of the project "Research Software" (MeTag and MeSort)". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Website of the project "Tinder the City"". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Website of the project "Digitization and Democracy"". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "Awards of the DGPuK". Retrieved 25 May 2021. Unknown parameter
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External links
- Literature by and about Andreas Hepp in the catalogue of the German National Library
- Twitter @Andreas_Hepp
- Website of the Research Network “Communicative Figurations”
- Interview: Deep mediatization, infrastructures and new ways of organizing: interview with Andreas Hepp – DigiLabour, by Rafael Grohmann
- Interview: On the Concept of Figurations, Deep Mediatization, and the Adulthood of Media and Communication Studies – the Interview with Andreas Hepp by Jakub Nowak (2017)
- Online lecture: Andreas Hepp - Pioneer Communities & the Making of Deep Mediatization - 23.04.2020, Datafied Society, YouTube
- Interview: Deep Mediatization during COVID-19: An Interview with Professor Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen – by Santhosh Kumar Putta und Bissie Anderson (July 2021). In: Networking Knowledge 14 (1), 125-130.
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