TY - JOUR

T1 - Conceptualizing the Doings and Sayings of Media Practices

T2 - Expressive Performance, Communicative Understanding, and Epistemic Discourse

AU - Pentzold, Christian

AU - Menke, Manuel

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - It has become commonplace to speak of media practices as a nexus of doings and sayings. In our article, we scrutinize this fuzzy account and the forms of articulation it entails. We start by arguing that, to be recognized as social practices, activities—regardless of whether they are verbal utterances or wordless body movements—have to initiate a cultural signification process that turns them into socially intelligible performances. Forming part of social practices in general, communicative practices, then, are modes of sign use that enable us to address recurrent and newly emerging tasks of understanding, accommodating, and comprehending. We shed light on the insights that such a conceptual distinction reveals by interrogating the shades of sensemaking within mnemonic online communities and their nostalgic remediations of the past.

AB - It has become commonplace to speak of media practices as a nexus of doings and sayings. In our article, we scrutinize this fuzzy account and the forms of articulation it entails. We start by arguing that, to be recognized as social practices, activities—regardless of whether they are verbal utterances or wordless body movements—have to initiate a cultural signification process that turns them into socially intelligible performances. Forming part of social practices in general, communicative practices, then, are modes of sign use that enable us to address recurrent and newly emerging tasks of understanding, accommodating, and comprehending. We shed light on the insights that such a conceptual distinction reveals by interrogating the shades of sensemaking within mnemonic online communities and their nostalgic remediations of the past.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - social practice

KW - communicative practice

KW - discursive practice

KW - practice theory

KW - praxeology

KW - signification

KW - nostalgia

M3 - Journal article

VL - 2020

SP - 2789

EP - 2809

JO - International Journal of Communication

JF - International Journal of Communication

SN - 1932-8036

IS - 14

ER -