Professor Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech

About Me

I

am associate professor in media and communication studies. I specialize in transformations in media technology usage. My current projects include (de)mediatization and digital disconnection, especially concerning pandemic and post-pandemic changes in everyday technology use by families and young users.

I got my PhD at Wroclaw University, Poland and worked as Research Assistant at the University of Oxford. I did postdoctoral internships at the University of Oslo and Södertörns University and then I started working in the Department of Social Communication and Media, Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences and afterwards in the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, University of Wroclaw. Currently I am employed in the Department of Mediatization at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (UMCS), Poland.

Towards development of mediatization research

ON-GOING PROJECT

Since 2017

Type: series of academic workshops

The aim: organization of the annual meetings with prominent experts in the field for the international mediatization researchers’ community

Supported by: Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin,  the Wroclaw Academic Centre, Academia Europaea Wroclaw Knowledge Hub

Publications

Research Areas

Mediatization

In my research I address the development of mediatization theory, complementing it with the concepts of media saturation and desaturation. I consider how mediatization and disconnection studies complement each other, opening up the field of exploring demediatization. I am interested in the mediatisation of different aspects of the everyday life of ordinary people.

Media in Family Life

My research projects are concerned with the role of new technologies in family life, and particularly with the challenges of self-regulation of technology use by members of Polish families – how families cope or fail to cope with media regulation. I am particularly interested in the relationship between successful digital detox and regular physical activity.

Young Media Users

I am interested in how emerging adults and early adults cope with technology self-regulation in the pandemic and post-pandemic period. I explore how they perceive technology, how it constrains them and, especially, how they envision self-regulation as well as strategies and tools for it.

Mediated Physical Activity

My research examines how the mediatisation of young people’s amateur physical activity takes place at the micro and meso levels. I am interested in how technologies are changing physical activity and why we observe an abandonment of mediation (media desaturation) as well as its’ effects.

Previous Projects & Events

2022-2023

Type:Research projects

Research question: What is the relationship between digital disconnection and physical activity of the polish family members

Funded by the National Science Centre

2019-2020

Type: research and application project

Research question: How families limit media technologies, how they can practically be helped in self-regulation?

Founded by the Wroclaw Academic Centre

In cooperation with the Centre for System Solutions

2016-2017

Type: research and educational project

Research question:  How physical activity of young people is technologically saturated and desaturated?

Founded by the Wroclaw Academic Centre

In cooperation with the University of Wroclaw

2007-2010, 2010-2011

Type: doctoral and postdoctoral projects

Research questions: What convergence strategies are used by Polish media broadcasters?

How are convergent media spaces constructed?

Founded by the University of Wroclaw (doctoral) / the Research Council of Norway; the Swedish Institute; the Polish Science Foundation (postdoctoral)

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