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Zu keinem Feld existieren mehr Daten und Informationen als zu den digitalen Medien. Doch was tatsächlich im Netz geschieht, wissen wir nicht: Wer macht was wo und wie lange? Medienwissenschaftler Martin Andree und Data-Analytics-Experte Timo Thomsen bieten erstmals einen ganzheitlichen Überblick über das echte Nutzungsverhalten. Auf Basis der qualitativ hochwertigsten Daten kartografieren sie das Internet - Anbieter und Nutzer, Inhalte und Traffic, Marktrelevanz, Nutzeraktivitäten, Endgeräte. Wie viel mediale Aufmerksamkeit decken Google, Facebook und Co. ab? Welche Bedeutung besitzen News, Search, Gaming, Einkaufen, Politik, Pornografie etc.? Bislang gab es nur eine unbeherrschbare Datenflut. Ab jetzt gibt es Antworten. Neue Medien - Benutzerverahlten - Medienkonsum. Infografiken

Many studies have illustrated how digital media can facilitate political criticisms and protests, but recent scholarship has noted the ability of authoritarian states to control the Internet and undermine its oppositional character. This study focuses on the "hybrid regime" of Hong Kong, where the progovernment forces have tried to counteract the formation of an online counterpublic sphere by setting up numerous online outposts since the mid-2010s. It examines how exposure to progovernment online media content is related to political attitudes. In addition to a direct relationship, drawing on inoculation theory, this article contends that progovernment online media may also consolidate support for the government by neutralizing the influence of online alternative media. Survey data analysis shows that exposure to progovernment online media content indeed related to more conservative views, and the connection between online alternative media use and prodemocracy attitudes was weaker among older citizens regularly exposed to progovernment online media.

Edu-communication is a field of study founded by the Latin American theoretical currents of liberating pedagogy, popular communication and cultural studies. This essay reviews their foundation and recent theoretical development in Peru. The three fundamental contributions of edu-communication are as follows: recognizing inter-subjectivity as being a critical element for understanding the interactions between individuals and media, the attention assigned to cultural communicative practices and political dimensions, and its focus on the individual rather than on the technological device, deviating from the more instrumental theoretical perspectives. ; La educomunicación es un campo de estudio fundado por las corrientes teóricas latinoamericanas de la pedagogía liberadora, la comunicación popular y los estudios culturales. Este trabajo revisa sus fundamentos y desarrollo reciente en el Perú. Las tres contribuciones fundamentales de la educomunicación son: el reconocimiento de la intersubjetividad como elemento crítico para la comprensión de las interacciones entre individuos y medios, la atención a las prácticas culturales comunicativas y su dimensión política, así como su enfoque centrado en las personas antes que en los dispositivos tecnológicos, diferenciándose de otras perspectivas más instrumentales. ; A educomunicação é um campo de estudo fundado por correntes teóricas latino-americanas da pedagogia libertadora, da comunicação popular e dos estudos culturais. Este trabalho revê os seus fundamentos e o desenvolvimento recente no Peru. As três contribuições fundamentais de educomunicação são: o reconhecimento da intersubjetividade como um elemento crítico para a compreensão das interações entre indivíduos e os media, a atenção às práticas culturais de comunicação e a sua dimensão política, bem como o seu foco primeiramente centrado nas pessoas do que nos dispositivos tecnológicos, opondo-se às teorias mais instrumentais.

Anna Wagner geht in diesem Buch der Frage nach, wie Menschen unter Bedingungen der Digitalisierung über, in und durch mediale Satire kommunizieren. Satire ist mit der Emergenz und Verbreitung digitaler Medien populärer geworden und liegt heute in vielfach ausdifferenzierter medialer Form vor. Gleichzeitig sind auch die Lebenswelten von Menschen mit (digitalen) Medien durchdrungen und die Kommunikation mit anderen durch diese geprägt. Anna Wagner widmet sich im Buch diesen Entwicklungen und plädiert dafür, bei der Analyse der zwischenmenschlichen Kommunikation zu Satire unter Digitalisierungsbedingungen die überdauernden kommunikativen Strukturen und sozialen Beziehungen stärker zu berücksichtigen. Hierzu schlägt sie zur Bearbeitung der Fragestellung eine lebensweltlich-kontextualisierende Perspektive auf das Phänomen vor und erarbeitet das Konzept der Alltagskommunikation mit vier spezifischen Analyselinsen. In zwei empirischen Studien analysiert die Autorin unter Anwendung des Konzepts schließlich die thematisch vielfältige zwischenmenschliche Kommunikation rund um mediale Satire und nimmt dabei die lebensweltlichen Kontexte, kommunikativen Konstellationen und Funktionen der Kommunikation in den Blick. Die Autorin Anna Wagner ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften der Universität Bielefeld.

This paper examines how young people are constructed as media pirates in three Canadian newspapers during two publication periods, 1998–2000 and 2010–2012. These periods bookend copyright law modernization in the United States and Canada, represented by the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act, passed in 1998, and the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act, passed in 2012. Drawing on a corpus of articles from The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and the Calgary Herald as primary texts, I use critical discourse analysis and media frame analysis to argue that the discursive construction in print media of the young person as pirate reveals public attitudes toward copyright law.

Seminal sociologist Max Weber rarely wrote about media dynamics; however, the Weberian perspective offers rich potential for the analysis of various media issues, including the study of digital divides. In particular, the contribution of a Weberian school of thought to the field seems to be the addition of noneconomic and nontechnical concerns to the study of digital inequalities, most notably the importance of status and legitimacy and group affiliations and political relations as areas of focus. This piece introduces the Special Section on Max Weber and digital divide studies and clarifies the inspiration behind it. It briefly presents the article contributions, while summarizing their arguments, and offers a broad discussion of Weber's relevance to digital divide studies as a way of understanding the individual articles as a shared intellectual effort.

L'oggetto del mio lavoro di ricerca è il fenomeno del crowdmapping in relazione ai processi partecipativi e di engagement, sia verso la mappa che in riferimento alla dimensione civica e politica, con l'obiettivo di comprendere, da un punto di vista sociologico, gli aspetti motivazionali che ne sono a monte, i fattori che possono agevolarne, oppure ostacolarne, lo sviluppo e le ricadute sociali. L'accesso alla produzione e fruizione di informazione geografica e, quindi, di mappe, attraverso le applicazioni cartografiche del web 2.0, sta rimettendo in discussione le narrazioni broadcasting dei territori, a testimonianza di una rinnovata esigenza di costruzione sociale della conoscenza espressa e articolata nelle maglie dell'architettura partecipativa del web sociale. Paradigmatico da questo punto di vista è il proliferare di piattaforme di crowdmapping che abilitano una costruzione collaborativa della conoscenza del territorio: una mappatura soggettiva che si fonda sulla partecipazione, intesa come invito alla condivisione di parole, immagini e suoni legati a un luogo; uno storytelling costruito dal basso e condiviso in rete, attraverso i media digitali e i Social Network Sites (SNS), all'interno del quale si mescolano soggettività e intersoggettività, e capace di esprimere e inter-definire prospettive e punti di vista alternativi sui fenomeni urbani. L'analisi sociologica delle trasformazioni in atto nei processi di produzione e fruizione di informazione geografica, da un lato, e nei processi di partecipazione civica e politica, dall'altro, entrambi connessi allo sviluppo delle tecnologie digitali, costituiscono il contesto di riferimento teorico del lavoro. La ricerca empirica, di natura esplorativa e condotta con un approccio empirico eminentemente qualitativo, si è articolata in un'indagine di sfondo e nella realizzazione di 4 studi di caso. ; The object of my research work is the phenomenon of crowdmapping in relation to participatory and engagement processes, concerning the mapping process itself and the civic and political dimension. It aims to understand, from a sociological point of view, crowdmapping upstream motivational aspects and both enabling and preventing factors affecting its social development and repercussions. Access to the production and use of geographic information, thus maps, through the web 2.0 mapping applications, is calling into question the broadcasting storytelling of the territories, witnessing a renewed need for social knowledge-making processes expressed and articulated in the social web participatory architecture. Paradigmatic from this point of view is the proliferation of crowdmapping platforms that enable a collaborative processing knowledge of the territory: a subjective mapping that is based on participation, meant as an invitation to sharing words, images and sounds related to a place; a bottom-up and networked storytelling, through digital media and Social Network Sites (SNS), within which subjectivity and intersubjectivity are blended, and it's capable of expressing and interpreting alternative perspectives and views on urban phenomena. The sociological analysis of the current transformations involving the production and use of geographic information processes, on the one hand, and the civic and political participation processes, on the other, both connected with the development of digital technologies, represents the theoretical background of this research work. Empirical research, of an exploratory nature and carried out with eminently qualitative empirical approach, it's been articulated in a background analysis and an analysis of 4 case studies.

What are the political, economic, and cultural implications of an increasingly robust and globally penetrating Asia-based media industry? How have Asian states tried to manage the diffuse representations of Asia emerging from informal yet globalized media channels? This collection of articles by Asian media scholars and professional journalists explores the changing relationships between Asian states and Asia-based media institutions and industries as the nature and role of media in Asian society undergoes profound change. With the increasing visibility and power of Indian film, Korean television, and Japanese animation industries, and of Asian broadcasting networks such as Star TV and Al Jazeera, there has been no shortage of scholarly attention devoted to the rise of Asian media. This collection, however, focuses less on the meteoric rise and power of Asian media itself and more on how that rise has been negotiated by Asian states, with a particular focus on China and Indonesia. As digital media technologies become ubiquitous, both formal and informal media platforms push beyond state boundaries, challenging state efforts to control the content of and access to information and entertainment. This challenge is addressed in commentaries by three journalists with extensive Asian experience, and three academics exploring the spatial and historical contexts of an increasingly mediated Asia.

Introduction -- Public Spheres, Media, and Democracy -- The Phenomenon of (Political) Fact-Checking -- Understanding the Global Rise of Fact-Checking -- The Emergence of Fact-checking in the USA -- The Emergence of Fact-Checking in Argentina -- The Emergence of Fact-Checking in Italy -- The Emergence of Fact-Checking in Georgia -- Comparing Fact-Checking Initiatives around the World -- Fact-Checking Initiatives in Different Political-Media Contexts -- Discussion -- Conclusion.

Outside of visible moments of mass mobilization, ongoing latent work, such as direct service and mutual aid, is a long-standing tradition in social movements. Yet, like all labor, personal digital devices have changed the norms and practices of direct service social movement work. In this article, as situated in the technology–media–movement complex (TMMC), I analyze qualitative interview data ( N = 26) with volunteers from a yearlong ethnographic project at an abortion fund hotline in the reproductive justice movement in the US South. To name hotline volunteers' digital care labor, I offer the term immaterial intimacy to describe its ubiquitous, ephemeral, and intimate nature. I argue immaterial intimate labor enabled the organization to provide a responsive service, but relied on individualized digital volunteer work, existing within gendered and neoliberal norms. I discuss and question the use of personal digital technologies for direct service volunteer work in contemporary social movements.

Gender, sexuality and embodiment in digital spheres have been increasingly studied from various critical perspectives: From research highlighting the articulation of intimacies, desires, and sexualities in and through digital spaces to theoretical explorations of materiality in the digital realm. With such a high level of (inter)disciplinarity, theories, methods, and analyses of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in relation to digital spheres have become highly diversified. Aiming to reflect this diversity, this special issue brings together innovative and newly developed theoretical, empirical, analytical, and critical approaches in the study of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in digital spheres. By connecting intersectionality and digitality to one another, it adopts an integrated approach that reflects the intricacy and interconnectedness of social categories and markers of difference, privilege, performance, and discrimination. The contributions explore a range of differently situated digital cultural practices, including intimate and sexual experiences with(in) digital media, online self-presentation, expressions of digital resistance, and forms of backlash and online attacks. What connects all these articles, is their critical approach to intersectional inequalities and privileges in relation to digitality, plus their nuanced perspective on gender, sexuality, and embodiment interferentially. The final article is based on a roundtable discussion and aims to encourage interdisciplinary connections and suggests ways of doing research that builds bridges between academia and activism.