Abstract
This book can be understood as a distillate of a broad commitment to excellence in research on media and communication, generated in affiliation with the annual European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, and organised, promoted and invigorated by both junior and senior researchers from all over Europe and beyond. Likewise, the book is much more than a reflection of the intellectual outcome of the summer school and cannot be reduced to conference proceedings: most of the chapters reach significantly beyond the work presented at the Summer School.
The book picks up on the underlying idea of promoting pluralism of theoretical and methodological approaches for studying contemporary (mediated and mediatized) communication and establishing transnational dialogue(s) with these diverse and often still culturally enclosed approaches. As part of the Researching and Teaching Communication Series, this edited volume occupies a liminal position in the field of academic books as it presents both conceptual insights of ongoing research as well as results of completed research. "Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe" is a thoroughly peer reviewed book, a result of collective endeavour of its many editors, who paid particular attention to supporting the five chapters provided by emerging scholars, all of whom were Summer School participants.