The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of Place. Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media have created new social situations that are no longer shaped by where we are or who is "with" us. While other media experts have limited the debate to message content, Meyrowitz focuses on the ways in which changes in media rearrange "who knows what about whom" and "who knows what compared to whom," making it impossible for us to behave with each other in traditional ways. No Sense of Place explains how the electronic landscape has encouraged the development of: -More adultlike children and more childlike adults; -More career-oriented women and more family-oriented men; and -Leaders who try to act more like the "person next door" and real neighbors who want to have a greater say in local, national, and international affairs. The dramatic changes fostered by electronic media, notes Meyrowitz, are neither entirely good nor entirely bad. In some ways, we are returning to older, pre-literate forms of social behavior, becoming "hunters and gatherers of an information age." In other ways, we are rushing forward into a new social world. New media have helped to liberate many people from restrictive, place-defined roles, but the resulting heightened expectations have also led to new social tensions and frustrations. Once taken-for-granted behaviors are now subject to constant debate and negotiation. The book richly explicates the quadruple pun in its title: Changes in media transform how we sense information and how we make sense of our physical and social places in the world.

No sense of place : the impact of electronic media on socialbehavior

but the threat they bring to artistic culture. From his opening mockery of the literary establishment’s tendency to theorize the world in terms of desire or gender to his disapproval of those who venerate art while denying its validity in the same breath, Jonathan Dollimore has created an easily understood, albeit at times too theoretical, synthesis of the literary and the experiential in Sex, Literature and Censorship. His arguments on critical theory do not necessarily reject the concept of theory; rather, he argues that critical theorists should strive to understand the contradictions within our lives and our literature and explore the daemonic power of the subjects that offend our sense of tradition.

Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication:

Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time

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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (review)

This article analyzes recent research on the newspaper crisis. It discusses how authors have examined the sources, manifestations, and implications of this crisis, and the proposals to resolve it. In addition, the essay critically examines this body of work by assessing the main spatial and temporal contexts that researchers have studied, the theories and methods that authors employ, and the analytical tropes they have deployed to make sense of the crisis. Building on this assessment of existing research, the article outlines an agenda for future work that fosters an analysis of the process, history, comparative development, and manifold implications of this crisis, and advances various empirical strategies to examine some of its most under-theorized dimensions.

Making sense of the newspaper crisis: A critical assessment of existing research and an agenda for future work

This paper examines folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify in order to make visible the cultural specificities of data assemblages in the global South. The study was conducted in C...

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Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify: Enacting data assemblages in the global South:

Drawing on Michel Foucault's theories of subjectivity, this paper conceptualizes early blogging and online diary writing as “technologies of the self,” that is, procedures through which practitioners enacted certain identities as Internet users. This study combines archival research, close analysis of websites, and interviews with their creators. It analyzes how the most defining practices associated with the emergence of these websites in the second half of the 1990s enabled the performance of specific modes of identification for their users, expressed by concepts such as the “online diarist” and the “blogger.” The study broadens our understanding of technologies of the self by considering the role of websites as artifacts in processes of self-formation on the Internet. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Web Technologies of the Self: The Arising of the “Blogger” Identity

This article examines the scholarship on agency in the appropriation of information and communication technologies in communication and media research and science and technology studies. Work in these fields has been limited by inability to depict the ways in which materiality and content intersect in technology use and why that matters for making sense of agency dynamics. This article articulates a “texto-material” perspective that combines analysis of users' content creation and interpretation practices with an assessment of how they appropriate and shape artifacts. Building on the small body of work that has explored the intersections of these dimensions, we propose a programmatic research agenda that begins operationalizing this perspective by fostering an examination of media technologies as texto-material assemblages.







Nier les noœuds et la fragmentation liquide : developper les conversations sur la diffusion, les reseaux sociaux et la fragmentation



Cet article propose des approches renouvelees a deux domaines cles de la recherche en communication : la diffusion des innovations et la modelisation de la fragmentation.L’exploration d’un possible vide dans la modelisation des nœuds pourrait donner des idees pour une mise a jour des approches dans ces domaines de la recherche en communication et dans d’autres.Un argument est expose en faveur de plus d’etudes sur les implications des technologies et des plateformes de communication numerisees, ainsi que de leurs utilisateurs, sur la nature explicative et predictive de la diffusion traditionnelle de meme que leur impact sur les reseaux sociaux unis par des liens forts et faibles.Avec en toile de fond la theorie des reseaux (en particulier les liens forts et faibles) et un modele de fragmentation connexe, cet article encourage l’exploration scientifique des comportements de reseaux actualises et de leur influence possible sur au moins un domaine connexe de la recherche en communication.



Mots cles : diffusion, reseaux, reseaux sociaux, fragmentation, liens faibles, petits mondes



An der Schnittstelle zwischen Inhalt und Materialitat: Ein texto-stofflicher Blick auf die Nutzung von Medientechnologien



In diesem Artikel befassen wir uns mit dem Thema Agentschaft bei der Aneignung von Medientechnologien in Forschungsarbeiten aus der Kommunikationsforschung und -wissenschaft sowie Technikwissenschaft. Insbesondere betrachten wir, wie Wissenschaftler dieser und angrenzenderForschungsgebiete, die Themen Materialitat und Inhalt untersucht haben. Wir kommen in unserer Analyse zu dem Schluss, dass trotz der Fulle an Arbeiten bislang ungeklart ist, wie sich Materialitat und Inhalt bei der Nutzung von Medientechnologien uberschneiden und warum dies helfen kann, die Dynamiken der Agentschaft zu verstehen. Um diese Grenzen zu uberwinden, verwenden wir in unserem Artikel eine ,,texto-stoffliche“ Perspektive, die die Analyse der Inhaltsgenerierung und Interpretationspraktiken durch die Nutzer mit einer Einschatzung, wie die Nutzer sich diese Artefakte aneignen und gestalten verknupft.



Schlusselbegriffe: Kommunikation und Technologie, Medienwissenschaft, Neue Medientheorie







En la Interseccion entre el Contenido y la Materialidad: Una Perspectiva Texto-Material sobre el Uso de las Tecnologias de los Medios



Resumen: Este articulo examina la erudicion acerca de la agencia en la apropiacion de las tecnologias de los medios en la investigacion de la comunicacion y los estudios de la ciencia y la tecnologia enfocandose en como los estudiosos en estos y algunos campos vecinos han estudiado los asuntos de la materialidad y el contenido. El analisis sugiere que, a pesar de sus muchas contribuciones, el trabajo en esos campos ha sido limitado por la inhabilidad para representar las formas en las que la materialidady el contenido se cruzan en el uso de la tecnologia de los medios y porque eso importa para dar sentido a las dinamicas de la agencia. Para superar estos defectos, este ensayo articula una perspectiva “texto-material” que combina un analisis de la creacion de contenido por los usuarios y las practicas de interpretacion con una evaluacion de como ellos apropian y dan forma a los artefactos.



Palabras claves:Comunicacion y Tecnologia, Estudios de los Medios, Teoria de los Nuevos Medios

At the Intersection of Content and Materiality: A Texto‐Material Perspective on the Use of Media Technologies

This paper investigates the transformation of blogs from online ‘filters’ into a ‘format’ for sharing a variety of content on the Web. To account for this process of partial stabilization, this stu...

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Ignacio Siles

Papers

Making sense of the newspaper crisis: A critical assessment of existing research and an agenda for future work

Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify: Enacting data assemblages in the global South:

Web Technologies of the Self: The Arising of the “Blogger” Identity

At the Intersection of Content and Materiality: A Texto‐Material Perspective on the Use of Media Technologies

From online filter to web format: Articulating materiality and meaning in the early history of blogs: