This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media domestication - the process of appropriating new media and technology - and delves into the theoretical, conceptual and social implications of the field's advancement. Combining the work of the long-established experts in the field with that of emerging scholars, the chapters explore both the domestication concept itself and domestication processes in a wide range of fields, from smartphones used to monitor drug use to the question of time in the domestication of energy buildings. The international team of authors provide an accessible and thorough assessment of key issues, themes, and problems with and within domestication research, and showcase the most important developments over the years. This truly interdisciplinary collection will be an important resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and academic scholars in media, communication and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural geography, design studies and social studies of technology.

This is a state-of-the-art survey of an emerging area of study in media, communication and cultural studies, mobility studies and mobile communications. 'Mobile socialities' demarcates a new area of research that captures people's various and contrary experiences of media in relation to their mobilities and socialities. The chapters in this volume are written by a range of international scholars offering a comprehensive overview and source of inspiration for a diverse range of topics on the contingent practices and finite resources of people and media on the move. The book demonstrates through empirical and theoretical research how mobile socialities is a generative concept for thinking through power, identity and the contexts of media in public and mediated spaces, work and everyday life, addressing a spectrum of mobile socialities and lived politics. The research and various cases make visible previously hidden, or obscured, social practices and allow us to rethink the meanings of mobility, digital media or the home in these examples of people living within the centre and peripheries of society. The Handbook establishes mobile socialities as a new area of academic enquiry, ideal for advanced undergraduate students and scholars across the disciplines of media, communication and cultural studies, anthropology, cultural geography and sociology.

Exploring mediated time, this book contemplates how far (and in what ways) media and time are intertwined from a diverse set of theoretical and empirical angles. It builds from theoretical discussions concerning the question of mediation and the normative framing of time (especially acceleration) and works its way through questions of time for/of one's own, resisting temporalities, polychronicity, in-between-time, simultaneity and other time concepts. It further examines specific time frames, imaginations of a media future and the past, questions of online journalism and multitasking or liveness. Bringing together authors from diverse backgrounds, this collection presents a rich combination of milestone articles, new empirical research, enriching theoretical work and interviews with leading researchers to bridge sociology, media studies, and science and technology studies in one of the first book-length publications on the emerging field of media and time.

Exploring mediated time, this book contemplates how far (and in what ways) media and time are intertwined from a diverse set of theoretical and empirical angles. It builds from theoretical discussions concerning the question of mediation and the normative framing of time (especially acceleration) and works its way through questions of time for/of one's own, resisting temporalities, polychronicity, in-between-time, simultaneity and other time concepts. It further examines specific time frames, imaginations of a media future and the past, questions of online journalism and multitasking or liveness. Bringing together authors from diverse backgrounds, this collection presents a rich combination of milestone articles, new empirical research, enriching theoretical work and interviews with leading researchers to bridge sociology, media studies, and science and technology studies in one of the first book-length publications on the emerging field of media and time.

This book provides an overview of a key concept in media and technology studies: domestication. Theories around domestication shed light upon the process in which a technology changes its status from outrageous novelty to an aspect of everyday life which is taken for granted. The contributors collect past, current and future applications of the concept of domestication, critically reflect on its theoretical legacy, and offer comments about further development. The first part of Domestication of Media and Technology provides an overview of the conceptual development and theory of domestication. In the second part of the book, contributors look at a diverse range of empirical studies that use the domestication approach to examine the dynamics between users and technologies. These studies include: Mobile information and communications techologies (ICTs) and the transformation of the relationship between private and the public spheres Home-based internet use: the two-way dynamic between the household and its social environment Disadvantaged women in Europe undertaking introductory internet courses Urban middle-class families in China who embrace ICTs and view them as instruments of upward mobility and symbols of success The book offers valuable insights for both experienced researchers and students looking for an introduction to the concept of domestication. Contributors: Maria Bakardjieva, University of Calgary; Thomas Berker, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Leslie Haddon, Essex University; Maren Hartmann, University of Erfurt; Deirdre Hynes, Dublin City University; Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore; Anna Maria Russo Lemor, University of Colorado at Boulder; David Morley, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Jo Pierson, TNO-STB, Delft, Netherlands; Yves Punie, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in Seville; Els Rommes, Nijmegen University; Roger Silverstone, London School of Economics and Political Science; Knut H. Sorensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Katie J. Ward, University of Sheffield.

In heutigen Gesellschaften stehen soziale, informationelle und raumliche Mobilitat und digitale Kommunikationsmedien in einem engen Zusammenhang. Medien werden dabei nicht nur immer mobiler, sondern die Menschen verwenden sie auch zunehmend zum Zwecke kommunikativer Mobilitat. Die vielfaltigen Dimensionen individueller wie gesellschaftlicher Mobilitats- und Mobilisierungsprozesse werden aus einer kommunikations- und mediensoziologischen Perspektive sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch verortet. Dabei werden die Ertrage bisheriger Forschungsansatze kritisch reflektiert und ein Blick auf zukunftige Forschungsherausforderungen geworfen und damit neue Impulse fur die Diskussion geliefert."

Digitale Medientechnologien wie z.B. Mobiltelefonie oder das Internet spielen immer starker eine zentrale Rolle sowohl fur unsere Gesellschaft als auch fur unsere Alltagswelt. Dabei sind sie keineswegs allein Voraussetzung kommunikativer und medialer Prozesse, sondern sind auf das Engste mit kulturellen und sozialen Kontexten verbunden. Alle diese Bezuge verandern sich in wechselseitiger Einflussnahme und mit hoher Dynamik. Der Band reflektiert den Ertrag bisheriger kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Forschungsansatze zu digitalen Medientechnologien und wirft einen Blick auf zukunftige Forschungsherausforderungen.

Der Kern des historischen wie gegenwartigen Medien- und Kommunikationswandels ist weniger darin zu sehen, dass einzelne Medieninhalte eine ,Wirkung' auf Kultur und Gesellschaft haben. Vielmehr ist er darin zu sehen, dass unsere heutige Alltagswelt selbst zunehmend von Medien durchdrungen wird: Wir leben in einer mediatisierten Alltagswelt. Doch was heisst dies konkret? Und wie verandert sich unser Alltag mit seiner fortschreitenden Mediatisierung? Auf diese Fragen geben Beitrage von renommierten Autorinnen und Autoren ausgehend von Friedrich Krotz' Konzept der Mediatisierung eine Antwort.

Der Band gibt einen einfuhrenden UEberblick uber die verschiedenen Aspekte und Dimensionen der Kopplung von Medien, Arbeit und Gesellschaft. Zu diesem Zweck vereint der Sammelband verschiedene theoretische Perspektiven (u.a. aus der Kommunikations- und Mediensoziologie, Medienoekonomie und Journalismusforschung) wie methodische Zugange (u.a. Medienethnographie, Befragung oder Inhaltsanalyse).