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Andreas Hepp is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research at theUniversityofBremen. Mediatization research is among his various research interests that generally include media and communication theory, media sociology, and transcultural communication. Theoretical and empirical studies on mediatization processes are also among the leading subjects in the academic work of ZeMKI.Andreas Hepp is the author of several publications on the subject of mediatization, including his latest book The Mediated Construction of Reality written with Nick Couldry of the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. In The Mediated Construction of Reality, Couldry and Hepp revisit the question of how the social world is constructed, originally asked by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann (1966), and provide the reader with their own original answer, acknowledging the complex and irreducible contribution of digital media to the process. The editorial staff of Mediatization Studies reckons Andreas Hepp as one of the leading academics in the field of mediatization research and his and Couldry's book as one of the most interesting and up-to-date accounts on the issue. This is why we decided to present it via this interview.The interview was conducted during the Communicative Figurations international conference in Bremen (December 7-9, 2016), which focused on transforming communications in times of deep mediatization. Couldry and Hepp's book had its official presentation during the conference.

Departing from the cultural studies semiotic approach, this chapter seeks to analytically review shifts in roles of media users given increasingly participation-oriented media tools. Drawing upon the re-interpretation of Stuart Hall's seminal encoding/decoding model of communication, the author proposes a theoretical concept of internet meme perceived as multiparticipant popular online content combining modalities of traditional vertical and culture industryoriginated and new horizontal and peer-reproduced modalities of media production and consumption. The author problematizes this concept by recontextualizing several aspects of Hall's theory: 1 theoretical appropriation of four stages of Hall's "chain of discourse" messages' production, circulation, use, reproduction to a new — highly converged — media environment; 2 ambiguous status of internet meme's authorship; 3 new contexts for analyzing internet memes, including: online pop-culture modalities, different strategies of "old" and "new" culture industries, Intellectual Property Rights policies.

This paper focuses on the question of how new (social) media work as tools of political messages' distribution within converged media systems. Using a case study of the adisucks Facebook protest organized in Polish social media in March 2011, the author demonstrates how the internet may work as a space of symbolic and participatory engagement in the collaborative creation and dissemination of grassroots political messages. The analysis is framed by a theoretical consideration of recent transformations in political communication patterns caused by changes within the sphere of civic engagement and the transformations of 21-century digital media. The author discusses: narrative or mythical and performative levels of users' contribution to the protest profile and considers possible changes in the status of modern online activism by recalling the concept of "communicative capitalism" ; Jakub Nowak

While communication and media studies tend to define privacy with reference to data security, current processes of datafication and commodification substantially transform ways of how people act in increasingly dense communicative networks. This begs for advancing research on the flow of individual and organizational information considering its relational, contextual and, in consequence, political dimensions. Privacy, understood as the control over the flow of individual or group information in relation to communicative actions of others, frames the articles assembled in this thematic issue. These contributions focus on theoretical challenges of contemporary communication and media privacy research as well as on structural privacy conditions and people's mundane communicative practices underlining inherent political aspect. They highlight how particular acts of doing privacy are grounded in citizen agency realized in datafied environments. Overall, this collection of articles unfolds the concept of 'Politics of Privacy' in diverse ways, contributing to an emerging body of communication and media research.

While communication and media studies tend to define privacy with reference to data security, current processes of datafication and commodification substantially transform ways of how people act in increasingly dense communicative networks. This begs for advancing research on the flow of individual and organizational information considering its relational, con-textual and, in consequence, political dimensions. Privacy, understood as the control over the flow of individual or group information in relation to communicative actions of others, frames the articles assembled in this thematic issue. These contributions focus on theoretical challenges of contemporary communication and media privacy research as well as on structural privacy conditions and people's mundane communicative practices underlining inherent political aspect. They highlight how particular acts of doing privacy are grounded in citizen agency realized in datafied environments. Overall, this collection of articles unfolds the concept of 'Politics of Privacy' in diverse ways, contributing to an emerging body of communication and media research.

Abstract1.Aneta Dawidowicz, rec. [Bogumił Grott, Dylematy polskiego nacjonalizmu. Powrót do tradycji czy przebudowa narodowego ducha, Warszawa 2014, Wydawnictwo Von Borowiecky, ss. 415]2.Jakub Nowak, rec. [Tomasz Gackowski, Władza na dywaniku. Jak polskie media rozliczają polityków?, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2013, ss. 418]3.Monika Cieciora, rec. [Katarzyna Kuć-Czajkowska, Monika Sidor (red.), Miasta - społeczne aspekty funkcjonowania, Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2014, ss. 384]4.Bartosz Bojarczyk, Jakub Olchowski, Sprawozdanie z konferencji "Bosnia and Herzegovina in International System"