The Forgotten Subject

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.
The Content 
Subject conceptions in communication studies research and in the light of current developments in social and cultural studies.- Empirical analyses of the meaning of subjectivity and identity in and for digital(r) communication in mediatized worlds.

The target groups

- Communication andmedia scientists, sociologists, cultural scientists, pedagogues, technology scientists

- Specialists and executives in associations, politics and business

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.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.