"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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nd erweiterte 2. Auflage befasst sich in vier Teilen: (1) mit grundlegenden Konzepten der Medienrezeption, (2) mit Fragen der Zuwendung und Selektion, (3) mit spezifischen Phänomenen und Erlebnisweisen und (4) mit den wichtigsten Kontexten der Medienrezeption. Moderne Medienwirkungstheorien kommen ohne die Betrachtung von Rezeptionsprozessen nicht mehr aus. Im Handbuch werden daher die Prozesse vor und während der Mediennutzung im Detail betrachtet." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In this paper, we present an account of how FARC-EP ex-combatants are using digital technology in the process of reincorporating into Colombian society. We report findings showing how this technology mediates the difficult task of transitioning from a culture of opposition to civilian members and a
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ctive political actors. Using the concept of social capital as a framework, we investigate the intersection between the use of digital toolsand developing cultural and economic practices among these groups during this transitional period. Reflecting on the bonding and bridging aspects of social capital, we describe how ex-combatants draw on substantial social capital from their former lives as a guerrilla army in order to strengthen their position in these new circumstances, and their cautious and difficult creation of new social ties with wider Colombian society. We contribute to the CSCW discourse by discussing the crucial role digital tools, previously not available to these groups, play in sustaining, re-growing and building social capital of communities in post-conflict periods." (Summary)
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"The last 25 years have seen a small revolution in our approach to the understanding of new technology and information systems. It has become a founding assumption of computer-supported cooperative work and human–computer interaction that in the future, if not already, most computer applications w
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ill be socially embedded in the sense that they will become infrastructures (in some sense) for the development of the social practices which they are designed to support. Assuming that IT artifacts have to be understood in this sociotechnical way, traditional criteria for good design in computer science, such as performance, reliability, stability or usability, arguably need to be supplemented by methods and perspectives which illuminate the way in which technology and social practice are mutually elaborating. This book concerns the philosophy, conceptual apparatus, and methodological concerns which will inform the development of a systematic and long-term human-centered approach to the IT-product life cycle, addressing issues concerned with appropriation and infrastructuring. This entails an orientation to “practice-based computing.” The book contains a number of chapters which examine both the conceptual foundations of such an approach, and a number of empirical case studies that exemplify it." (Publisher description)
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