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Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication / transl. from Eng. A. Paukova, V. Chumakova
Mirca Madianou,Danny Miller +1 more
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In this article, a new theory of polymedia in order to understand the consequences of digital media in the context of interpersonal communication is presented. But the authors focus on the social, emotional and moral consequences of choosing between different media.Abstract:
This article develops a new theory of polymedia in order to understand the consequences of digital media in the context of interpersonal communication. Drawing on illustrative examples from a comparative ethnography of Filipino and Caribbean transnational families, the article develops the contours of a theory of polymedia. We demonstrate how users avail themselves of new media as a communicative environment of affordances rather than as a catalogue of ever proliferating but discrete technologies. As a consequence, with polymedia the primary concern shifts from the constraints imposed by each individual medium to an emphasis upon the social, emotional and moral consequences of choosing between those different media. As the choice of medium acquires communicative intent, navigating the environment of polymedia becomes inextricably linked to the ways in which interpersonal relationships are experienced and managed. Polymedia is ultimately about a new relationship between the social and the technological, rather than merely a shift in the technology itself.read more
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Ambient co‐presence: transnational family practices in polymedia environments
TL;DR: In this paper, a new type of mediated co-presence termed "ambient copresence" is proposed, which is the peripheral, yet intense awareness of distant others made possible through the affordances of ubiquitous media environments.
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Smartphones as Polymedia
TL;DR: Investigation of whether smartphones function as environments of polymedia Madianou & Miller, 2012 and their consequences for transnational families finds that users treat smartphones as integrated environments of communicative opportunities and exploit the differences within media to express emotions and manage their relationships with their family members who remain in the Philippines.
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