The tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia during Christmas 2004 caused many deaths among vacationers from Finland and Sweden. It could be described as one of the worst catastrophes experienced during the post-war period in these countries. This book examines how this dramatic and unexpected event affected public communication patterns and practices in countries like Finland and Sweden. The communicative relations between government actors, the media and citizens always significantly affect the development of crucial democratic values such as trust, accountability and legitimacy.The book covers different topics related to this issue, such as strategic political communication, media coverage, newsroom practices, public opinion and the use of new media in Finland and Sweden after the tsunami disaster.
Contents: Lynne M. Webb: Research on Technology and the Family: From Misconceptions to More Accurate Understandings – Jeffrey T. Child/Sandra Petronio: Privacy Management Matters in Digital Family Communication – Meg Wilkes Karraker: Global Families in a Digital Age – Katherine M. Hertlein/Markie L. C. Blumer: The Couple and Family Technology Framework – Emily M. Cramer/Edward A. Mabry: Exploring the Interaction of Media Richness and Family Characteristics in Computer-Mediated Communication – Carol J. Bruess/Xiaohui (Sophie) Li/Tamara J. Polingo: Facebook Family Rituals: An Investigation – Anne C. Fletcher/Bethany L. Blair: Adolescent Use of Visual Media in Social Technologies: The Appeal, Risks, and Role of Parental Communication in Shaping Adolescent Behavior – Elizabeth Dorrance Hall/Megan K. Feister: Navigating Emerging Adulthood with Communication Technology – Madeline E. Smith: Staying Connected: Supportive Communication During the College Transition – Fred P. Piercy/Dana Riger/Christina Voskanova/Wei-Ning Chang/Emily Haugen/Leonard Sturdivant: What Marriage and Family Therapists Tell Us about Improving Couple Relationships through Technology – Brandon T. McDaniel: «Technoference»: Everyday Intrusions and Interruptions of Technology in Couple and Family Relationships – Michelle Y. Janning/Neal J. Christopherson: 12 Love Letters Lost?: Gender and the Preservation of Digital and Paper Communication from Romantic Relationships – Andrea Guziec Iaccheri/Adam W. Tyma: «Unplugging the Power Cord»: Uncovering Hidden Power Structures via Mobile Communication Technology Use within the Traditional Marital Dyad – Jaclyn D. Cravens/Jason B. Whiting: Couples' Communication of Rules and Boundaries for Social Networking Site Use – Laura Beth Daws: Creating Couples' Identities: Telling and Distorting via «Wedsite» Relationship Narratives – Susan K. Walker: Social Context Influences on Parenting: A Theoretical Model of the Role of Social Media – Stephanie Tikkanen/Walid Afifi/Anne Merrill: Gr8 Textpectations: Parents' Experiences of Anxiety in Response to Adolescent Mobile Phone Delays – Liesel L. Sharabi/David J. Roaché/Kimberly B. Pusateri: Parental Uncertainty and Information Seeking on Facebook – Jodi Dworkin/Susan Walker/Jessica Rudi/Jennifer Doty: Parents' Use of New Media for Communication about Parenting: A Consideration of Demographic Differences – J. Mitchell Vaterlaus/Sarah Tulane: Digital Generation Differences in Parent-Adolescent Relationships – Falon Kartch/Lindsay M. Timmerman: Nonresidential Parenting and New Media Technologies: A Double-Edged Sword – Markie L. C. Blumer/Katherine M. Hertlein: The Technology-Focused Genogram: A Tool for Exploring Intergenerational Family Communication Patterns around Technology Use.
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Although access to water and sanitation have been recognized by the United Nations as human rights since 2010, that access continues to be a site of struggle in everyday life, especially among homeless populations. In this paper, we draw from two summers of a fieldwork-based course on homelessness and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Denver, Colorado to consider whether a Google Map of public restrooms in the city might be useful for unhoused people. The paper's conceptual framework stems from Hartmann's idea of "homing"—which refers to how digital media can help unhoused people create everyday routines, exercise some control over their lives and spaces, and gradually create a safe environment—to consider whether the Google Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Map might help unhoused people integrate bathroom access into routines, rounding out the so-called "mobile home" to provide relief and personal agency. The effort runs up against digital literacy issues that mitigate "access" and point to the limits of techno-solutions. This paper points to the need to consider both media literacies and inclusive design in creating digital solutions to address issues faced by unhoused people. We also argue that planners should think holistically about how digital and telecom-focused "solutions" relate to other necessary infrastructures—in this case, public toilets and water access.
"The tone and texture of the language of media have changed considerably due to the rapid expansion of media in recent times and advancements in communication technologies. This book examines new ways to conduct linguistic explorations into the myriad of forms news is being presented and consumed. It contributes to the emerging field of media linguistics by measuring and analysing the associations between linguistics and the news discourse. It extends the conceptualization of language-media relations in sociolinguistics beyond the notions of 'influence' and 'effect' and broadens the theoretical and empirical scope of the discipline. The book discusses different perspectives of media linguistics; issues of variation in language of media; question of plurilingual resources; parallel language use in media and textuality of news genres. It discusses the dynamics of news reportage by studying the coverage of conflicts, violence and dissent in South Asian media in recent decades along with the reportage of cricket headlines and news. Comprehensive and topical this volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of linguistics, media linguistics, applied linguistics, media studies, media sociology, sociology, cultural studies and South Asian studies"--
"This book focuses on both the positive and negative outcomes of communication and media usage, as well as the overall perceptions of these elements, within conflicting populations, featuring theoretical perspectives on various inter-group interaction experiences within contemporary ethnic controversies"--Provided by publisher.
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During 2011, the now defunct ABC Pool (abc.net.au/pool) project developed an experiment that sought to combine emerging augmented reality (AR) technology with the archival collection of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The MyBurb project attempted to alter experiences of Australian suburbs by augmenting ABC archives in contemporary suburban environments to explore the blur between physical and digital spaces with its citizens. Mobile media, specifically geo-locative AR applications such as Layar are "one of the most widely used mobile AR applications" (Liao & Humphreys, 2014, p. 2) and challenge the sociological implications of hybrid spaces as "[m]obile interfaces … allow users to be constantly connected to the Internet while walking through urban spaces" (de Souza e Silva, 2006, p. 261). The project was successfully implemented, but was rarely utilized by the audience it sought to engage, revealing a division between aspects of the ABC's remit and engaging its audience through mobile technology and environmental hybridity. This observation supports the cultural production gap Hesmondhalgh (2007) identified between the production and consumption of cultural goods, which I argue could be facilitated through technological intermediation as part of the broader concept of cultural intermediation (Hutchinson, 2013; Maguire & Matthews, 2010; Negus, 2002). How then could cultural intermediation facilitate the collaborative production of cultural goods to include the affordances of geo-locative media while avoiding the disconnection between the MyBurb project and its stakeholders? The data presented within this paper represents 3 years of research at ABC Pool where I was embedded as the community manager/researcher in residence.
Abstract Intersectionality is a critical approach to theorizing and exploring the interlocking of social inequality categories such as gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality in various levels of policies, social discourses, institutions and subject positionings. While social discourses do not arise in isolation from an all-encompassing media world, media, as co-producers of social power relations, are particularly interesting for the concept of intersectionality. However, the intersectional approach is rather a research field at the margins of German communication studies. This article discusses the theoretical prerequisites and methodological implications of intersectionality and provides examples of how an empirical implementation is possible in media research.
