[Commlist] IJoC Publishes Special Section on Practicing Media—Mediating Practice

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section 
Practicing Media—Mediating Practice
Media technologies of all kinds are an integral part of our social 
worlds. People worldwide engage with a wide range of communication 
services to accomplish most of their daily activities. But how can we 
understand the performative dimension of such routines and their 
intimate ties with media technologies and with the media texts that we 
produce and circulate through them?  In their conspicuous ordinariness, 
the practices of handling media and, in turn, the mediation of 
contemporary practices require us to assess how and with what 
consequences these dual processes become embedded in our lives.

The Special Section “Practicing Media—Mediating Practice” strives for an 
explanation and critical appreciation of media-related practices 
because, as of now, we lack a clear conceptualization and analytical 
implementation of what media(-related) practices are (and what they 
leave out), what their relationship to other types of activity looks 
like, and what they add to our understanding of innovations in 
telecommunications and digital data.

Guest-edited by Christian Pentzold, Kenzie Burchell, Olivier Driessens 
and Alice Mattoni, this Special Section is one of the first efforts to 
substantiate media and communication studies’ interest in understanding 
the entanglement of media-related activities. The 11 original articles 
(plus an editorial introduction) come from an international set of 
scholars from media and communications, anthropology, and sociology. 
Their conceptual groundwork and empirical analyses scrutinize what media 
users actually do and say in relation to media technologies, texts, and 
genres, and the wider digitally networked ecologies within which those 
practices take place.
The contributions come from Christian Pentzold, University of Bremen & 
Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany and Manuel Menke, LMU Munich, 
Germany; Jesper Pagh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Alice Mattoni, 
University of Bologna, Italy; Stephen F. Ostertag, Tulane University, 
USA; Christoph Raetzsch, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Margreth 
Lünenborg, Free University Berlin; Asen O. Ivanov, University of Guelph, 
Canada; Kenzie Burchell, University of Toronto, Canada; Maria 
Bakardjieva, University of Calgary, Canada; and Peter Lunt, University 
of Leicester, UK.

We invite you to read this new Special Section of scholarly articles in 
the International Journal of Communication  that published May 20, 2020 
which can be found at ijoc.org.


Practicing Media—Mediating Practice: Introduction
Kenzie Burchell, Olivier Driessens, Alice Mattoni

Conceptualizing the Doings and Sayings of Media Practices:
Expressive Performance, Communicative Understanding, and Epistemic 
Discourses Christian Pentzold, Manuel Menke

Managing Context Collapses: The Internet as a Conditioning Technology in 
the Organization of Practices
Jesper Pagh

A Media-in-Practices Approach to Investigate the Nexus Between Digital 
Media and Activists’ Daily Political Engagement
Alice Mattoni

News as Relational Social Practice: A Theoretical Framework
Stephen F. Ostertag

Anchoring Practices for Public Connection: Media Practice and Its 
Challenges for Journalism Studies
Christoph Raetzsch, Margreth Lünenborg

Evaluative Practices in a Broadcasting Newsroom Archive: Culture, 
Context, and Understanding in Practice
Asen O. Ivanov

Reporting, Uncertainty, and the Orchestrated Fog of War: A 
Practice-Based Lens for Understanding Global Media Events
Kenzie Burchell

New Paradigm or Sensitizing Concept: Finding the Proper Place of 
Practice Theory in Media Studies
Maria Bakardjieva

Beyond Bourdieu: The Interactionist Foundations of Media Practice Theory
Peter Lunt

Jumping on the Practice Bandwagon: Perspectives for a Practice-Oriented 
Study of Communication and Media
Christian Pentzold

___________________________________________________________________________

Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

Christian Pentzold, Kenzie Burchell, Olivier Driessens, Alice Mattoni    
Guest Editors


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