Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World: Communication Case Studies is an edited collection of cutting edge research on the practical applications of diverse types of emerging media technologies in a variety of industries and in many different regions of the world. In recent years, emergent social media have initiated a revolution comparable in impact to the industrial revolution or the invention of the Internet. Today, social media's usage statistics are mind-boggling: almost two billion people are Facebook users, over one billion people communicate via What'sApp, over forty billion pictures are posted on Instagram, and over one million snaps are sent on Snapchat daily. This edited collection analyzes the influence of emerging media technologies on governments, global organizations, non-profits, corporations, museums, restaurants, first responders, sports, medicine, television, and free speech. It studies such new media phenomena as brandjacking, crowd-funding, crowd-mapping, augmented reality, mHealth, and transmedia, focusing specifically on new media platforms like Facebook and Facebook Live, Twitter, Sina Weibo, Yelp, and other mobile apps.

'Was machen die Medien mit dem Menschen?' fragen die Wirkungsforscher; 'was machen die Menschen mit den Medien' fragen umgekehrt die Nutzenforscher. Zusammen verursachen sie eine Pattsituation, aus der sich die Medienwirkungsforschung bislang nicht hat befreien koennen. Neue, integrative Ansatze tun daher not und werden in diesem Buch gepruft: der dynamisch-transaktionale Ansatz, das Involvement-Konzept und das 'elaboration likelihood model'. Die Medienwirkungsforschung kann diese neuen Ansatze aber erst eingliedern, wenn sie ihren eigenen paradigmatischen Nahrboden, den Kritischen Rationalismus, verlasst.