Alternative Öffentlichkeiten

Communication is changing. The differentiation of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr has triggered a structural change. New spaces are emerging that allow for alternative public spheres and new forms of participation. These changes are affecting both political communication as well as various forms of private and commercial initiatives of 'information-sharing' (e.g. academic information, or communication of mourning, shaming, defamation and advice). This volume takes up such topical issues and develops the ongoing discussion taking place among media linguistics, social studies and cultural studies on a theoretical and empirical level.