Christian Pentzold
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 277108 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christian Pentzold |
| PRENOMES | Christian |
| SOBRENOME | Pentzold |
| ASSINATURA | PENTZOLD C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6355-3150 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Participating in the smart countryside? Perspectives and applications of digital participation procedures in rural regional development
What potentials and pitfalls emerge through digital formats in participation processes in rural regional development? The paper discusses, focusing on six regional case studies, how digital formats are used in civic participation in regional development processes in German rural areas. Results show (1) that digital participation formats vary in terms of level of complexity, serve different objectives, are in their success highly dependent on othe…
Big Data Discourses| Cultural Motifs of Big Data in User-Generated Content
This article examines the sensemaking around big data in user-generated content on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter/X. Big data is not only a technology but also an issue of public concern. However, given that the term “big data” has been around for more than a decade, little is known about how the cultural motifs used to make sense of it have changed over time or how public discussions reverberate with—or dispute—elite framings in news and high-pro…
Big Data Discourses| Big Data Discourses
Big data discourses are integral to how we come to understand and engage with datafication. This IJoC Special Section explores the semantics of big data in contemporary society. By weaving together three central themes—big data’s materiality, the role of emerging technologies, and the sensemaking around datafication—it interrogates how communication, imagination, and social practices shape and are shaped by the expanding landscape of data-driven …
Predictive Data Stories
Making sense of the future is a precarious endeavor because there is no such thing as a definitive forecast. For that reason, data-driven news has been welcomed as a source of more reliable outlooks that strengthen journalism’s contribution to anticipating future events and setting the public agenda. However, despite large-scale investment into computational and data-rich previsions, little is known about the way these prognoses are told. Based o…
Between Graphical 'Excellence‘, Literacy, and Polysemy
Digital political visualizations often highlight an inherent conflict between visualization practitioner heuristics and standards, which are geared towards leading audiences to a ‘correct’ reading, and the use of “strategic ambiguity” (Eisenberg, 1984) to increase political appeal. While excellence in creation and interpretation of visualization is studied and theorized primarily with the visualization’s attributes in mind, the ubiquity of digita…
Queer lives in the social media prism
In countries where state institutions and the public largely reject LGBTQIA+ identities and issues, queer people struggle with visibility. Next to governments and technology providers, what queer people do, who they connect to, and how they express themselves is being watched and scrutinized by their families and proximate relations. This lateral surveillance is afforded by social media that establish, as we argue in this article, a prism. Here, …
Medien, öffentliche Kommunikation und Kulturen
Artificially alive
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is widely regarded as a transformative force, reshaping our understanding of both life and death. One experimental frontier is its ability to recreate deceased human beings. Our article explores this nascent GenAI application situated at the threshold of existence. We analyze 50 cases from the United States, Europe, the Near East, and East Asia and distill three principal modes of AI resurrections: (1) S…
Digital political participation for rural development
Unsettling Memories
Communicative remembering refers to the ongoing process by which people actively construct, negotiate, and share memories through everyday interactions, whether in faceto-face conversation or via digital media.Rather than viewing memory as fixed or stored in archives and monuments, this approach foregrounds remembering as something enacted through conversation, storytelling, image-sharing, and participatory media practices.In today's media-rich e…
"Making sense of "big data
This article reconstructs the sociotechnical imaginaries of "Big Data" in Germany, South Africa, and the United States over 10 years. Our inquiry into the meaning-making undertaken on expansive datafication processes began from the observation that since its inception circa 2010, the buzz phrase "Big Data" has not only denoted a technology but has also gestured toward a vast array of ambitions and concerns that are reflective of values, economic …
Public value in the making of automated and datafied welfare futures
Across Europe, the public sector is expanding its efforts to introduce data-driven decision-support and intelligent systems in the administration of welfare. The growing body of research that highlights the impact and harms these systems have on citizens’ lives, raises questions about the guiding ideas, values, and norms that are at the heart of current transformations in welfare. Research in critical data studies contends a silent marketisation …
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations
In digital culture, visualizations are a prevalent and ubiquitous form of communication. A veteran journalistic tool, and an increasingly popular one in digital politics, visualizations offer informative value, attract readership, and increase engagement. Visualizations’ multimodality enables them to convey rhetoric through informative, narrative and visual strategies, making them particularly well-suited for future-oriented discourse. Despite th…
Achieving agency within imperfect automation
In this article, we propose to treat agency as something which is accomplished in the entanglement of humans with technologies. This redirects our attention away from the question of what distinguishes humans from smart machines and towards querying how people and automated apparatuses join in processes of mutual sociomaterial engagement. To further our argument, we look at self-service kiosks, which are ubiquitous yet largely overlooked componen…
When data became big
This article unpacks the short-lived but momentous buzz around big data. Although talk about big data was once widespread, little is known about the efforts animating its semantics. Tracing this sociotechnical imaginary, we revisit how business insiders and IT commentators fueled the ephemeral yet potent excitement around the term. Our genealogical examination rests on a selection of publications from 2013 to 2017. We employ methods from critical…
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have…
Whistleblower Memoirs
Whistleblowers have been instrumental in revealing the massive investments in state-sponsored and corporate digital surveillance and disinformation. Their personal accounts of what went on behind the scenes are usually presented in popular books marketed as offering insider stories. By interrogating the recapitulations of veteran data consultants, our article is interested in the way in which whistleblowers configure their role and place themselv…
Redrawing the lines of veracity in the Sharpiegate affair
Looking back at the 2019 Sharpiegate affair, the article investigates the articulation of “pre-truth,” which became evident when a willful ambivalence toward factual evidence dovetailed with a juxtaposition of provisional, future-oriented truth claims. In general, the maneuver works by taking predictive statements from the past and characterizing them as accurate from the standpoint of the present even when superseded by subsequent evidence. The …
Crosscurrents
In this crosscurrent contribution, we approach the notion of welfare through the lens of the data welfare state. We, further, suggest that datafied welfare can be fruitfully studied with the capabilities approach to better understand how ideas and values of data welfare intersect with and may allow for the ‘good’ life and human flourishing. The main aim is to highlight the deep-seated changes of the welfare state that emerge with the delegation o…
Communicating memory matters
Memory is a communicative affair.It is inherently intertwined with communication, representing a complex interplay that has evolved throughout history.An expanding array of symbols and communication genres has played a pivotal role in influencing the ways in which we remember and forget the past.The significance of memory truly comes to the forefront when it is communicated: individuals establish connections with a collective past, revisit person…
Communicative remembering
The article attempts to clarify what today constitutes communicative remembering. To revisit this basic mnemonic concept, our theoretical contribution starts from available approaches in social memory studies that assume a binary distinction between cultural and communicative modes of memory making. In contrast, we use concepts that treat them not as structural, historically and culturally distinct registers but as a repertoire of retrospection t…
Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning
Entre momentos y milenios
Los intentos de darle a la mediatización su sustento en el tiempo han exhibido generalmente dos orientaciones temporales distintas. En un sentido, hay estudios indispensables sobre la historicidad de los procesos de mediatización que indagan las transformaciones de larga duración. En el sentido opuesto, los medios se consideran como agentes de aceleración social que apresuran el colapso de la distanciación tiempo-espacio. Lo que en gran medida de…
Die Ordnung des Diskurses
Talking the talk but not leading the walk
Each year, the president of the International Communication Association speaks to the plenary session of its annual conference. Conceptualizing the speeches as disciplinary talk, we examined them using a combination of qualitative content analysis and bibliometric study. The results show how presidential addresses either aimed to present a metaview of the field or to offer targeted reflections revolving around individual interests. Both types rei…
Making mediated memory work
How are mediated memories brought into being? In other words, how can we understand the ways personal and public memories are enacted in environments that have become increasingly digitally networked? Following this fundamental question for current interrogations of the entanglement of media and memory, we first develop a concept of mediated memory work. Instituting experiences and senses of the past, these time- and space-bound efforts interweav…
Making time in digital societies
The text reflects on conceptualizations of media and time, and it introduces the articles of the special issue on the “Mediatization of time.”
Fixing the floating gap
The article proposes to interpret the web-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia as a global memory place. After presenting the core elements and basic characteristics of wikis and Wikipedia respectively, the article discusses four related issues of social memory studies: collective memory, communicative and cultural memory, `memory places' and the `floating gap'. In a third step, these theoretical premises are connected to the understanding of discourse …
In search of internet governance
Internet governance is a difficult horse to catch. Far from being a coherent field of study, it presents itself as scattered across a range of disciplinary approaches that come with distinct theoretical, methodological and analytical preoccupations. In this paper, we critically review existing literatures on governance of, on and through the internet and draw attention to the ways in which they help perform the worlds in which they have their pla…
Communicative remembering
The article attempts to clarify what today constitutes communicative remembering. To revisit this basic mnemonic concept, our theoretical contribution starts from available approaches in social memory studies that assume a binary distinction between cultural and communicative modes of memory making. In contrast, we use concepts that treat them not as structural, historically and culturally distinct registers but as a repertoire of retrospection t…
Between moments and millennia
Imagining the Wikipedia community
This article examines the way Wikipedia authors write their ‘community’ into being. Mobilizing concepts regarding the communicative constitution of communities, the computer-mediated conversation between editors were investigated using Grounded Theory procedures. The analysis yielded an empirically grounded theory of the users’ self-understanding of the Wikipedia community as ethos-action community. Hence, this study contributes to research on on…
Probabilistic Storytelling and Temporal Exigencies in Predictive Data Journalism
The future of data-driven journalism has attracted widespread attention, but what about the future in data journalism? In other words: How do future predictions shape the formulation of knowledge claims in newsmaking that relies on the analysis of large troves of digital data? Based on interviews with professionals working on such projects, we study how they exploited predictive analytics to make evidentiary propositions and we interrogate the ep…
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have…
Imagining and instituting future media
In our fast-forward times, the special issue ‘Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies’ examines the future-making capacity of networked services and digital data. Its contributions ask about the role media play in forecasting the future and their part in bringing it about. And they are interested in the expectations and anticipatory visions that accompany the formation and spread of new media. Along thes…
Die Zukunft der Kommunikationswissenschaft ist schon da, sie ist nur ungleich verteilt
Crosscurrents
In this crosscurrent contribution, we approach the notion of welfare through the lens of the data welfare state. We, further, suggest that datafied welfare can be fruitfully studied with the capabilities approach to better understand how ideas and values of data welfare intersect with and may allow for the ‘good’ life and human flourishing. The main aim is to highlight the deep-seated changes of the welfare state that emerge with the delegation o…
Qualitytime
This article examines the representation and use of quality time. It brings together an analysis of images tagged and shared under the hashtag #qualitytime on Instagram with an investigation into the trope’s resonance in everyday life. In the interviews and profiles studied in this article, people used the term to indicate and display instances of self-determined solitude or of fulfilling conviviality in which mobile phones and social media were …
Imagining big data
Imagining “big data” brings up a palette of concerns about their technological intricacies, political significance, commercial value, and cultural impact. We look at this emerging arena of public sense-making and consider the spectrum of press illustrations that are employed to show what big data are and what their consequences could be. We collected all images from big data-related articles published in the online editions of The New York Times …
Framing Big Data
The article examines the construction of “Big Data” in media discourse. Rather than asking what Big Data really is or is not, it deals with the discursive work that goes into making Big Data a socially relevant phenomenon and problem in the first place. It starts from the idea that in modern societies the public understanding of technology is largely driven by a media-based discourse, which is a key arena for circulating collectively shared meani…
Reconstructing media frames in multimodal discourse
"Making sense of "big data
This article reconstructs the sociotechnical imaginaries of "Big Data" in Germany, South Africa, and the United States over 10 years. Our inquiry into the meaning-making undertaken on expansive datafication processes began from the observation that since its inception circa 2010, the buzz phrase "Big Data" has not only denoted a technology but has also gestured toward a vast array of ambitions and concerns that are reflective of values, economic …
Communicating memory matters
Memory is a communicative affair.It is inherently intertwined with communication, representing a complex interplay that has evolved throughout history.An expanding array of symbols and communication genres has played a pivotal role in influencing the ways in which we remember and forget the past.The significance of memory truly comes to the forefront when it is communicated: individuals establish connections with a collective past, revisit person…
Drawn into the future
This article looks at artistic impressions of future robotics and considers how they inspire research into human–machine interaction. Our analysis of visual scientific practices and the epistemic ramifications of these speculative drawings emerges from a long-term participant observation study in a multi-disciplinary project on smart and autonomous technologies in public spaces. We discuss the design, appropriation and modulation of visual scenar…
A field comes of age
Since its inception, the internet has been as much technological as social, practical as ideological in character. This article examines academic discourse and asks how research on the multifaceted internet has evolved over the past 25 years. In order to investigate the formation of this academic field, we collected articles published in major academic journals dedicated to new media and digital communication as well as mainstream periodicals in …
Remembering John/Ivan Demjanjuk
This article analyzes the media representations circulating around the trials of the accused Nazi collaborator John/Ivan Demjanjuk. It examines the American, Dutch, German, Russian, Jewish-Dutch, and Jewish-American discourses that framed the consecutive legal proceedings in Israel, the U.S., and Germany. Our study interrogates the convergences and divergences in the transcultural translations as well as the local appropriations of the events tha…
Making Affordances Real
Usually, the alluring notion of 'affordances' comes with the idea that technology makes some activities possible while constraining others. Our article departs from this dichotomic view and seeks to appreciate the multiplicity of socio-material prefiguration. Discussing three empirical examples from human-robot communication, we show that the affordances of 'smart' technologies are not acted out in a smooth, planned process or through rational ac…
Fixing the floating gap
The article proposes to interpret the web-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia as a global memory place. After presenting the core elements and basic characteristics of wikis and Wikipedia respectively, the article discusses four related issues of social memory studies: collective memory, communicative and cultural memory, `memory places' and the `floating gap'. In a third step, these theoretical premises are connected to the understanding of discourse …
Imagining the Wikipedia community
This article examines the way Wikipedia authors write their ‘community’ into being. Mobilizing concepts regarding the communicative constitution of communities, the computer-mediated conversation between editors were investigated using Grounded Theory procedures. The analysis yielded an empirically grounded theory of the users’ self-understanding of the Wikipedia community as ethos-action community. Hence, this study contributes to research on on…
Online-Kommunikation
Online-mediale Texte
The internet affords many different types of multimodal and networked communication. That said, the paper asks about the conceptual standing of online texts that are (re-)made, viewed and read in acts of communication. It thus seeks to develop a conceptual approach towards defining online texts as accomplished and enacted sign ensembles that are afforded by communicative settings. To this end, we mobilise insights from linguistics and communicati…
In search of internet governance
Internet governance is a difficult horse to catch. Far from being a coherent field of study, it presents itself as scattered across a range of disciplinary approaches that come with distinct theoretical, methodological and analytical preoccupations. In this paper, we critically review existing literatures on governance of, on and through the internet and draw attention to the ways in which they help perform the worlds in which they have their pla…
Diskursforschung in den Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften
Making mediated memory work
How are mediated memories brought into being? In other words, how can we understand the ways personal and public memories are enacted in environments that have become increasingly digitally networked? Following this fundamental question for current interrogations of the entanglement of media and memory, we first develop a concept of mediated memory work. Instituting experiences and senses of the past, these time- and space-bound efforts interweav…
Praxistheoretische Prinzipien, Traditionen und Perspektiven kulturalistischer Kommunikations- und Medienforschung
Der Artikel diskutiert den Beitrag der Praxistheorien für die kulturalistische Kommunikations- und Medienforschung. Ausgehend von sozialphilosophischen und kultursoziologischen Vorhaben, ein praxistheoretisches Paradigma zu etablieren, werden erstens dessen Basisannahmen entlang der Prinzipien Rekursivität und Relationalität erläutert. Zweitens werden praxistheoretisch reflektierte oder kongruente kommunikationswissenschaftliche Traditionen erfas…
Memory in a Mediated World
Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributio
Zusammenarbeiten im Netz
Die Studie untersucht die Praktiken und Institutionen erfolgreicher Kooperation, die durch das Internet als digitales, vernetztes Medium unterstützt wird. Am Beispiel der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia
Zusammenarbeiten im Netz
Memory in a Mediated World
Reconstructing media frames in multimodal discourse
Praxis Grounded Theory
Framing Big Data
The article examines the construction of “Big Data” in media discourse. Rather than asking what Big Data really is or is not, it deals with the discursive work that goes into making Big Data a socially relevant phenomenon and problem in the first place. It starts from the idea that in modern societies the public understanding of technology is largely driven by a media-based discourse, which is a key arena for circulating collectively shared meani…
Praxis Grounded Theory
Einleitung
Imagining big data
Imagining “big data” brings up a palette of concerns about their technological intricacies, political significance, commercial value, and cultural impact. We look at this emerging arena of public sense-making and consider the spectrum of press illustrations that are employed to show what big data are and what their consequences could be. We collected all images from big data-related articles published in the online editions of The New York Times …
Between moments and millennia
Die Zukunft der Kommunikationswissenschaft ist schon da, sie ist nur ungleich verteilt
Making Affordances Real
Usually, the alluring notion of 'affordances' comes with the idea that technology makes some activities possible while constraining others. Our article departs from this dichotomic view and seeks to appreciate the multiplicity of socio-material prefiguration. Discussing three empirical examples from human-robot communication, we show that the affordances of 'smart' technologies are not acted out in a smooth, planned process or through rational ac…
A field comes of age
Since its inception, the internet has been as much technological as social, practical as ideological in character. This article examines academic discourse and asks how research on the multifaceted internet has evolved over the past 25 years. In order to investigate the formation of this academic field, we collected articles published in major academic journals dedicated to new media and digital communication as well as mainstream periodicals in …
Remembering John/Ivan Demjanjuk
This article analyzes the media representations circulating around the trials of the accused Nazi collaborator John/Ivan Demjanjuk. It examines the American, Dutch, German, Russian, Jewish-Dutch, and Jewish-American discourses that framed the consecutive legal proceedings in Israel, the U.S., and Germany. Our study interrogates the convergences and divergences in the transcultural translations as well as the local appropriations of the events tha…
Making time in digital societies
The text reflects on conceptualizations of media and time, and it introduces the articles of the special issue on the “Mediatization of time.”
Qualitytime
This article examines the representation and use of quality time. It brings together an analysis of images tagged and shared under the hashtag #qualitytime on Instagram with an investigation into the trope’s resonance in everyday life. In the interviews and profiles studied in this article, people used the term to indicate and display instances of self-determined solitude or of fulfilling conviviality in which mobile phones and social media were …
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