Focusing on cross-media communication as it unfolds in everyday contexts, the idea of this book is not to provide a universal definition of ‘everyday life’ but to provide different insights into everyday life from a user-centric perspective on cross-media communication. A key contribution of the book will be a more general discussion and qualification of everyday life as a ‘space of agency’ constituted by the range of (media) technologies being used within the frameworks of everyday life practices. The media technologies analysed throughout this book condition user-manoeuvrability in different ways, and therefore both constrain and enable the kinds of user patterns that can be expected. In other words, media technologies in various combinations shape spaces of agency, but users operating different media technologies in mundane contexts also shape this space of agency, for instance by applying different platforms, social media and apps, in different, and sometimes unintended, ways.
ArbetstitelThe Media and the Mundane
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erpOwnsPrice Kort BeskrivningThis book provides a variety of cases and theoretical insights that touch upon communication across media in everyday life. The cases favour user perspectives and are focused on coordinating mundane activities on smartphones, the role played by apps when exercising, the use of self-organised Facebook groups for civic participation, the role various cross-media communication patterns play in the everyday practices of bereaved parents, the framing and use of digitized cultural heritage, and the political everyday life appropriations of users on social media. While the cases are empirically grounded, the theoretical insights provide different frameworks for understanding cross-mediated communication patterns and space of agency in everyday contexts.
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