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Medienrezeption
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2., aktual. und erw. Aufl. (2025), 770 pp.
"Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Gegenstände und Theorien der Rezeptionsforschung. In den 37 Beiträgen wird ein systematischer Zugang zum State of the Art der jeweiligen Thematik aus einer kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Perspektive gelegt. Die umfassend aktualisierte u
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Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2025), xiv, 278 pp.
"Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons delves into the complex issue of misinformation in our daily lives. The book synthesizes three scholarly traditions - everyday life, misinformation, and governing knowledge commons - to present 10 case studies of online and offline communities
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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China
New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.
"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou
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Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia
Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), x, 310 pp.
"Focusing on Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Malaysia, this study provides an in-depth analysis of the contribution of historical legacies of exclusion, along with contemporary practices of marginalisation and otherisation to the transcendence of the precarity landscape. In light of
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Discussing the Role of TikTok Sharing Practices in Everyday Social Life
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 909-926
"A crucial element of TikTok consumption is the act of sharing TikTok videos with others, such as friends. In this article, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with young adult TikTok users based in the United Kingdom to investigate this practice. I show how people use TikTok’s “For You” page as
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Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxxi, 533 pp.
"This Open Access book presents an in-depth portrait of the use and impact of digital technologies by learners ages 5-18 years in their everyday lives. The portrait is framed by the ecological-systems theory and situated across four domains: home, leisure time, education, and civic participation. Va
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(Mis-)Connected: Web Series, Digital Culture, and Everyday Life in Lockdown
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), 2902-2918
"Web series are, in some ways, tailored for capturing everyday life in a pandemic. As shortform episodic content distributed via online platforms, the creators of Web series commonly work with tight budgets, recruiting crew and cast from their own networks, and making use of the home as an inexpensi
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Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory and Evidence from Northern Ghana
African Affairs, volume 121, issue 483 (2022), pp. 161-195
"Social media misinformation is widely recognized as a significant and growing global problem. Yet, little is known about how misinformation spreads across broader media ecosystems, particularly in areas with varying internet access and connectivity. Drawing on research in northern Ghana, we seek to
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What's Your Story? Ask. Listen. Tell. How to Create Safe Spaces for Story-Sharing at Work
Heartlines Centre (2021), 13 pp.
"Sharing our story with others is not always easy. In fact, getting to grips with our own story can be a challenging and uncomfortable process. Getting to know someone’s story can feel intimidating and awkward – where do we start, what do we ask? We believe that there’s a simple way to help us
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Digital Anthropology
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2021), xii, 336 pp.
"Digital Anthropology 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the moral universal
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Mediatisierte Lebensführung und ihr Wandel durch Alltagsumbrüche: Zur Relevanz von Übergangsphasen in der Rezeptionsforschung
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 69, issue 4 (2021), pp. 505-527
"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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Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 157 pp.
"This volume explores how, over the past decade, social media platforms have deeply penetrated the fabric of everyday life. The author considers South Africans’ use of wearable tech and use of online health and sports tracking systems via mobile phones within the broader context of the digital dat
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Kaboom! Of Stereotypes and Superheroes - African Comics on Africa = Von Stereotypen und Superhelden - Afrikanische Comics und Comics zu Afrika
Deep Insights
Basel; Frankfurt am Main: Basler Afrika Bibliographien; Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library; Brandes & Apsel, 2nd. ed. (2020), 156 pp.
"Die Herausgeber des Buches stellen ein vielfältges Spektrum afrikanischer Comic-Kunst vor – von Superhelden- und Undergroundcomics bis hin zu solchen mit propagandistischem Inhalt oder Bildungsanspruch. Lehr- und Aufklärungscomics hatten in Afrika in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ihr
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Audiovisionen des Alltags: Quellenwert und mediale Weiternutzung
Münster; New York: Waxmann (2020), 185 pp.
"Bewegte Bilder und medial vermittelte Töne prägen unsere modernen Alltagskulturen in nahezu unvorstellbarer Weise. War es früher die Angelegenheit von wenigen Fachleuten, solche Angebote zu produzieren und zu distribuieren, kann sie seit der digitalen Revolution praktisch jede/r selbst erstellen
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Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication Are Changing Our Lives
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. (2019), xxx, 438 pp.
"How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key readings for students, scholars, and anyone with a serious interest in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society. Spaw
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Qualitative Medienfoschung: Ein Handbuch
Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed. (2017), 642 pp.
"Auf die theoretischen Grundlagen qualitativer Medienforschung folgen in einem zweiten Teil die wichtigsten Fragen zum Forschungsdesign. Kern des Buches sind dabei die verschiedenen Erhebungsmethoden, wie Inhaltsanalyse, Interview, Gruppendiskussion, Beobachtung, Experiment oder szenisches Spiel. We
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Typisch deutsch? Von A wie Ämter bis Z wie Zuverlässigkeit - wie ausländische Korrespondenten Deutschland und die Deutschen sehen
München: Travel House Media (2017), 160 pp.
"Sind wir Deutschen typisch deutsch oder doch ganz anders, als die Welt und als wir selber denken? 25 Deutschlandkorrespondenten aus aller Welt berichten von ihren Alltagserfahrungen – von A wie Ämter bis Z wie Zuverlässigkeit. Sie erzählen, was aus ihrer Sicht das Typische an uns Deutschen ist
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New Media and Chinese Society
Puchong, Selangor (SG): Springer (2017), xvii, 290 pp.
The Media and the Mundane: Communication Across Media in Everyday Life
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 159 pp.
"This book provides a variety of cases and theoretical insights that touch upon communication across media in everyday life. The cases favour user perspectives and are focused on coordinating mundane activities on smartphones, the role played by apps when exercising, the use of self-organised Facebo
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