Sociología de la comunicación

Soziale Medien wie Wikis, Weblogs und soziale Netzwerke kommen zunehmend auch unternehmensintern zum Einsatz. Unternehmen versprechen sich von »Enterprise 2.1« eine effektivere Kommunikation, eine Verbesserung des Wissensmanagements sowie die Steigerung ihrer Attraktivität für junge Bewerber_innen. Vernachlässigt wurde bisher jedoch die Frage, wie sich Arbeitsbedingungen und Anforderungen aus Sicht der Beschäftigten ändern und welche Herausforderungen sich für die betriebliche Mitbestimmung ergeben. Auf der Basis von Unternehmensfallstudien präsentiert das Buch Ergebnisse zu den Erfahrungen, Anforderungen und Umgangsweisen von Beschäftigten und Interessenvertretungen mit Social Media.

A telenovela é o género de ficção preferido dos espectadores portugueses e o principal suporte da indústria audiovisual portuguesa. Durante seis meses, o autor acompanhou todas as fases de criação de uma telenovela de sucesso, Mar Salgado, desde a escrita até à sua apreciação pelos espectadores, passando pela produção, realização, representação e edição. Esteve presente em reuniões e gravações, visitou os bastidores. Acompanhou todos os passos técnicos da finalização de um episódio de Mar Salgado. Ouviu e entrevistou autores, produtores, realizadores, actores, técnicos e espectadores. Este livro pretende dar a conhecer como se constrói a telenovela portuguesa e, em especial, como se vive, em todos os seus passos, a tensão entre a dimensão cultural e a dimensão industrial deste conteúdo televisivo. É o primeiro livro em que se visita, descreve e analisa a telenovela enquanto principal produto da “fábrica de sonhos” que a televisão também é.

El presente volumen se basa, y confía necesariamente, en el hecho de que toda vida social es contingente a formas de mecanismos cognitivos socialmente distribuidos y a un conocimiento socialmente distribuido que posibilita la emergencia de la interacción social. Aún si la vida social ha sido contemplada tradicionalmente por los científicos sociales como actividad "colaborativa", esta noción de colaboración es contingente a otros niveles de análisis que llamamos "demográfico", "cognitivo", o capacidad limitada para procesar información, dados los mecanismos y constricciones que llamamos "atención", "memoria", "percepción" y "adaptación evolutiv", y que surgen de estructuras y procesos neurobiológicos humanos.

In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. In this book, Oh takes the online female Korean-American "MissyUSA" community under consideration to investigate the ways in which one group of immigrants shares information about the rules of American social institutions and works together to navigate their new society.

The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. Nearly half of China's 1.3 billion citizens use the Internet, and tens of millions use Sina Weibo, a platform similar to Twitter or Facebook. Recently, Weixin/Wechat has become another major form of social media. While these services have allowed regular people to share information and opinions as never before, they also have changed the ways in which the Chinese authorities communicate with the people they rule. China's party-state now invests heavily in speaking to Chinese citizens through the Internet and social media, as well as controlling the speech that occurs in that space. At the same time, those authorities are wary of the Internet's ability to undermine the ruling party's power, organize dissent, or foment disorder. Nevertheless, policy debates and public discourse in China now regularly occur online, to an extent unimaginable a decade or two ago, profoundly altering the fabric of China's civil society, legal affairs, internal politics, and foreign relations. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing relationship between China's cyberspace and its society, politics, legal system, and foreign relations. The chapters focus on three major policy areas-civil society, the roles of law, and the nationalist turn in Chinese foreign policy-and cover topics such as the Internet and authoritarianism, "uncivil society" online, empowerment through new media, civic engagement and digital activism, regulating speech in the age of the Internet, how the Internet affects public opinion, legal cases, and foreign policy, and how new media affects the relationship between Beijing and Chinese people abroad. Contributors: Anne S. Y. Cheung, Rogier Creemers, Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Peter Gries, Min Jiang, Dalei Jie, Ya-Wen Lei, James Reilly, Zengzhi Shi, Derek Steiger, Marina Svensson, Wang Tao, Guobin Yang,

This book examines contemporary media stories about women who kill their children. By analyzing media texts, motherhood blogs, and journalistic interviews, the book seeks to understand better maternal violence and the factors that lead women to harm their children. The central thesis of this book is that media practices have changed dramatically during the past 51 years, as has society’s views on "appropriate" feminine behavior, yet definitions of characteristics of good mothers remain largely defined by 1950s sit coms, Victorian ideals, and Christian theology.

The book contends that in spite of media saturation in American society, and the media’s increased opportunities to tell complex and nuanced stories, news media narratives continue to situate maternal violence as rare, unfathomable, and unpredictable. The news media’s shift in focus―from public service to profit-making industry―has encouraged superficial coverage of maternal violence as reporters look for stories that sell, not stories that explain. Motherhood blogs, in contrast, offer an opportunity for women to tell their own stories about motherhood, based on experience. Interviews with journalists offer insights into how the structure of their jobs dictates media coverage of this intimate form of violence.

This book grasps the duality between opportunities and risks which arise from children’s and adolescents’ social media use. It investigates the following main themes, from a multidisciplinary perspective: identity, privacy, risks and empowerment. Social media have become an integral part of young people’s lives. While social media offer adolescents opportunities for identity and relational development, adolescents might also be confronted with some threats. The first part of this book deals with how young people use social media to express their developing identity. The second part revolves around the disclosure of personal information on social network sites, and concentrates on the tension between online self-disclosure and privacy. The final part deepens specific online risks young people are confronted with and suggests solutions by describing how children and adolescents can be empowered to cope with online risks. By emphasizing these different, but intertwined topics, this book provides a unique overview of research resulting from different academic disciplines such as Communication Studies, Education, Psychology and Law. The outstanding researchers that contribute to the different chapters apply relevant theories, report on topical research, discuss practical solutions and reveal important emerging issues that could lead future research agendas.

Media technologies have played a central role in shaping ideas about home life over the last two centuries. Changing Media, Homes and Households explores the complex relationship between home, householders, families and media technologies by charting the evolution of the media-rich home, from the early twentieth century to the present.

Moving beyond a narrow focus on media texts, production and audiences, Deborah Chambers investigates the physical presence of media objects in the home and their symbolic importance for home life. The book identifies the role of home-based media in altering relationships between home, leisure, work and the outside world in the context of entertainment, communication and work. It assesses whether domestic media are transforming or reinforcing traditional identities and relations of gender, generation, class and migrancy.

Mediatisation theory is employed to assess the domestication of media and media saturation of home life in the context of wider global changes. The author also develops the concept of media imaginaries to explain the role of public discourses in shaping changing meanings, values and uses of domestic media. Framed within these approaches, four chapters also provide in-depth case studies of the processes involved in media’s home adoption: early television design, family-centred video gaming, the domestication of tablet computers, and the shift from "smart homes" to today’s "connected" homes.

This is an ideal text for students and researchers interested in media and cultural studies, communication, and sociology.

Over the past 45 years, award-winning sociologist David L. Altheide has illuminated how media formats and media logic affect our understanding of social issues, of how political decisions are made, and of how we relate to each other. In this masterful, summative work, Altheide describes the media syndrome: how these factors shape our expectations of, and reactions to, both public and personal events. Ideal for courses on mass media and political communication, the book

provides a detailed description of the media syndrome and its impact on daily life;
uses historical and contemporary examples from Watergate to Edward Snowden;
includes the changes in the ecology of communication from mass media to social media

Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with choices about their lifestyles and identities. One aspect of this development has been the emergence of new wealthy middle classes with lifestyle aspirations shaped by national, regional and global media especially by a range of new popular lifestyle media, which includes magazines, television and mobile and social media. This book explores how far everyday conceptions and experiences of identity are being transformed by media cultures across the region. It considers a range of different media in different Asian contexts, contrasting how the shaping of lifestyles in Asia differs from similar processes in Western countries, and assessing how the new lifestyle media represents not just a new emergent media culture, but also illustrates wider cultural and social changes in the Asian region.