"Young people use digital media for various purposes, such as communication, entertainment, and information. As they grow up, their media repertoires become more complex and diverse. This article examines these media repertoires in more detail, considering the dynamic changes in individual developme
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nt, social circumstances, and deep mediatization. Using semi-structured interviews with young people and one parent each, as well as a media-actor mapping, the study reveals significant changes in the composition and function of media repertoires from late childhood to early and middle adolescence. Drawing on the theoretical background of communicative figurations, it highlights changes in media ensembles, actor constellations, frames of relevance, and communicative practices. Besides changes in media repertoires for coping with developmental tasks and individual transitions in life, social factors such as the role of family and peers are considered. The empirical findings also point to the added value of qualitative longitudinal data which allows for a comprehensive examination of the complexity of changing media repertoires within a deeply mediatized society and a rapidly evolving media environment." (Abstract)
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"In dem Artikel wird das Konzept der mediatisierten Lebensführung entfaltet, das sich speziell dazu eignet, um den Wandel des Medienhandelns im Zuge von Alltagsumbrüchen wie Trennungen, Elternschaft oder Wohnungswechsel zu analysieren. Eine zentrale Besonderheit des Konzepts ist, dass es den Allta
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g in die Strukturdimensionen zeitlich, räumlich, inhaltlich, sozial, sinnbezogen, materiell, emotional und körperlich aufspannt. So können Veränderungen in der Alltagsstruktur zielgenau und systematisch mit einem Wandel des Medienhandels in Beziehung gesetzt werden. Die empirische Reichweite des Konzepts wird anhand der Befunde einer qualitativen Panelstudie veranschaulicht. Es wird gezeigt, inwiefern alltagsspezifische Antriebfaktoren, wie veränderte Zeitressourcen (zeitlich), neue Tätigkeitsfelder (inhaltlich), Veränderungen in der Arbeitsteilung (sozial) oder emotionale Krisen (emotional), Dynamik im Medienrepertoire anstoßen und welche Faktoren für die Rezipierenden relevant sind, wenn sie ihre mediatisierte Lebensführung innerhalb der neuen Lebenssituation neu aushandeln." (Zusammenfassung)
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"The chapter examines the complex relations of communication processes, generations and cultural memory in the socio-cultural setting of North Vietnam. It critically reviews present scholarly work in the flourishing, but scattered, field of memory research in communication and media studies, and dis
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cusses links to Mannheim’s sociological concept of generations. The theoretical concepts of generation and cultural memory demonstrate several commonalities along the lines of time and space, experiences, perceptions and mediation processes as determining dimensions. The chapter presents an exemplary case study of a family in Hanoi and probes a respondent-centred empirical approach to describe these relations in terms of memory-related communication repertoires. The repertoire-oriented analytical framework proved to be an efficient tool to elicit and merge perspectives on memory and communication practices from the research material." (Abstract)
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