Responsibility and Resistance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Responsibility and Resistance: Conceptual Preliminaries

   • Friedrich Krotz, Matthias Karmasin, Matthias Rath, Tobias Eberwein

   Pages 1-9

3. Theoretical and Historical Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Ethics of Mediatized Worlds: A Framing Introduction

      • Friedrich Krotz

      Pages 13-29

   3. 100 Years of Claims for Responsible Public Communication: The Mediation of Responsibility (as a Form of Resistance) in Mediatized Societies—a Historical Perspective

      • Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Erik Koenen

      Pages 31-52

   4. Ethics of the Mediatized World

      • Matthias Rath

      Pages 53-68

4. Analyses and Cases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Ethics and Mediatization: Subjectivity, Judgment (phronēsis) and Meta-theoretical Coherence?

      • Charles M. Ess

      Pages 71-89

   3. Permanent Connectivity: From Modes of Restrictions to Strategies of Resistance

      • Thomas Steinmaurer, Helena Atteneder

      Pages 91-110

   4. Managing Mediatization: How Media Users Negotiate a Successful Integration of (New) Media in Everyday Life

      • Kathrin Friederike Müller

      Pages 111-130

   5. Agony at a Distance: Investigating Digital Witnessing on YouTube

      • Johanna Sumiala

      Pages 131-145

   6. Doing Good ‘With Just One Click’: Normative Aspects of Solidarity 2.0 as an Act of Resistance in Today’s Mediatized Worlds

      • Nina Köberer

      Pages 147-160

   7. Corporate Responsibility in a Mediatized World: Institutional Ethics and the Question of Consumer Sovereignty

      • Michael Litschka

      Pages 161-173

   8. Ethics as Practice: The Challenge of Ethics Management in Mediatized Working Environments—Journalism in Change

      • Anke Trommershausen

      Pages 175-197

   9. Meta-discourses Between Responsibility and Resistance: Reaching the Aim of Multimodal Learning by Ways of Mediatization Processes

      • Gudrun Marci-Boehncke

      Pages 199-219

   10. Sex Machines as Mediatized Sexualities: Ethical and Social Implications

       • Nicole Duller, Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat

       Pages 221-239

The volume deals with the normative challenges and the ethical questions imposed by, and through, the developments and changes in everyday life, culture and society in the context of media change. It is thus concerned with the questions of whether and how the central concept of (enlightened) ethics must evolve under these premises – or in other words: what form do ethics take in mediatized societies? In order to address this question and to stimulate and initiate a debate, the authors focus on two concepts: responsibility and resistance. Their contributions try to shed light not only on the empirical shreds of evidence of change in mediatized societies, but also on the normative challenges and ethical possibilities of these developments.

• Media Ethics
• Mediatization Theory
• Communication Theory
• Social Philosophy
• Normative Principles

• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

  Tobias Eberwein

• Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

  Matthias Karmasin

• Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Friedrich Krotz

• Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany

  Matthias Rath

Dr. Tobias Eberwein, Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC), Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Klagenfurt.

Dr. Dr. Matthias Karmasin, Professor at the Department of Media and Communications Science, University of Klagenfurt, Director of the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC), Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Klagenfurt.

Dr. habil. Friedrich Krotz, em. Professor of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on social communication and mediatization research at the University of Bremen.

Dr. Dr. Matthias Rath, Professor for Philosophy at the University of Education in Ludwigsburg and head of the Research Center Youth – Media – Education and the Research Group Media Ethics.

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