History of Media Studies publishes special section on French-German communication research

History of Media Studies has published a Special Section on the connections between the histories of French and German communication. The collection includes an introduction by the Special Section’s editors, Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Fabien Bonnet, Sarah Cordonnier, and Carsten Wilhelm, and four articles:

• Benjamin Krämer, “How German Communication Research Discovered Bourdieu but Missed His Potential for the Study of (Populist) Political Communication”

• Nicolas Hubé, “Understanding the German Media System with the Help of Bourdieu and Elias: Historical Sociology of Press-Political Relations in Germany”

• Lisa Bolz, “Journalism Studies and Journalism Education in France and in Germany”

• Hedwig Wagner, “Media Studies in Germany in the Context of Cultural Studies and Franco-German Cooperation”

The Special Section’s articles were reviewed by the journal’s editors, the Special Section editors, and by Peter Maurer (Krämer), Irene Preisinger (Hubé), Sabine Bosler (Bolz), and Thomas Weber (Wagner)—all participants in the intellectual community that gave rise to the Special Section. The use of signed review was the journal’s first, conducted according to our care-oriented guidelines for peer review.

History of Media Studies is a diamond open access journal dedicated to scholarship on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication, published by mediastudies.press.