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Medien – Biografien – Generationen
No full textGoing beyond the quantitative questions of traditional media usage research, the volume discusses the connection between media change, personal biographies and generations. The focus is on people's individual everyday experiences and (mediatized) living environments as well as the question of generation- specific media usage patterns and media pedagogical consequences. The volume includes empirical and theoretical contributions as well as biographical approaches to media education practice. It is aimed at researchers, teachers and students of media and communication studies, (media) education, sociology and history as well as (media) education specialists and laypeople interested in the topic
ICT Enforced Boundary Work : Availability as a Sociomaterial Practice
No full textThe aim of this chapter is to show how ICT is used by employees to manage temporal and spatial availability for work and private matters. This sociomaterial practice is described in terms of ICT boundary work. The chapter is based on a case study into three multinational industrial companies in Sweden. Time diaries and semi-structured interviews with a sample of thirty-eight employees were used to see how they manage the challenges of digital working life. The results suggest that there is a wide variety between different practices of managing work and private life. These practices seem to be related in part to personal preferences (to integrate or separate the spheres of work and private life) and in part to contextual variables such as workload, technological infrastructure and the practices of colleagues and family members. It becomes evident that availability—or what it means to be accessible in time and space and responsive to the needs and wants of others—cannot be seen as a dichotomous outcome (i.e., being available or not). Our results also indicate that despite being constantly on call, employees may yet manage the technology in ways that allow separation to some degree when it is wanted
The Spatial Production of Wanghong:Political Economy, Labour Mobility and the “Unlikely” Creativity
Get PDFThis chapter introduces the specificities of the Chinese wanghong economy and its implications for the existing spatial relationships in Chinese contemporary society. Though not immune to the state’s cultural censorship and regulation, the wanghong industry fits into the Party State’s agenda of restructuring the economy and boosting employment. The well-established ICT infrastructure propels the booming platform economy, which together facilitate a maximum incorporation of individual creativities and labour from disparate social sites into the network of wanghong economy. While not necessarily promising a secure career and life for creators, this mixed reality of empowering and precarity contributes to a kaleidoscopic landscape of wanghong culture. The vernacular aesthetics underscore the “unlikeliness” of wanghong culture, which may often be deemed as “inadequate”, “unfulfilling” and even “unacceptable” in the context of the Chinese legacy screen culture and the offline social locations. The network effects of wanghong economy thus transform the local space of places into “the space of flows”, in which local lives, identities and values all become potential sources for creativity and monetization of the wanghong production. The unlikely aesthetics of wanghong culture become desirable to creators and their online communities, serving as an imagined alternative to the tedious/normative everyday work and identities in the offline places
Automating labour and the spatial politics of data centre technologies
Get PDFData politics traffics through data centres. A primary function of data centres over the next decades will consist of supporting the transition to automated economies with the integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics into processes of capital valorisation and accumulation. Stemming from a project that investigates data centres in Asia, this contribution positions the age of automation in terms of the spatial politics of data infrastructures. Singapore is renowned as a growth centre for data storage facilities in Asia. Yet the policy literature on smart nations lacks narratives that address the political and social problem of job loss precipitated by automated futures. Because data centres are themselves automated environments and provide infrastructure that enables automation in workplaces spread across geographical scales, they offer a strategic object for research on the varied implications of automation for labour. The extent to which data centres make worlds and reconfigure regions bears upon conceptualisations of sovereign power harnessed to the state. This contribution maintains that an emergent sovereign form registers in the operational logic of computational machines special to data centres
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Crossmedia-Identitäten: Ergebnisse einer Aneignungsstudie zur Castingshow Starmania
Get PDF'Der Beitrag fragt nach dem Zusammenhang von Medien und Identität. Als Untersuchungsgegenstand wird eine crossmediale Inszenierung, die ORF-Castingshow Starmania, herangezogen, deren Besonderheit in der Verknüpfung unterschiedlicher Medien innerhalb eines Formats liegt. Es wird untersucht, inwiefern Starmania eine Ressource für die individuellen Identitätsprojekte von jugendlichen RezipientInnen darstellt. Der Beitrag geht zudem auf die Rolle des crossmedialen Designs für die Identitätskonstruktionen der Jugendlichen ein. Crossmedia, so das Resultat, fungiert als 'Identitäts-Katalysator', der identitätsbildende Prozesse anstößt und intensiviert. Die Crossmedia-Aneignung wird dabei auch kritisch betrachtet, indem die Risiken einer unreflektierten Mediennutzung am Beispiel der Untersuchung aufgezeigt werden.' (Autorenreferat)'The article explores the relationship between media and identity, examining a cross-media production, the ORF casting show Starmania. This show is unique, because of linking together various media in one format. The study investigates how Starmania constitutes a source for adolescents who are striving to construct an individual identity, and assesses the role of the show's cross-media design for identity formation. We can demonstrate that cross-media operates as an 'identity catalyser' by initiating and intensifying processes of identity construction. Yet a critical evaluation of cross-media adoption is also offered, concerning the risks associated with non-reflective media consumption.' (author's abstract)
Medienpädagogik als Chance und Herausforderung für die Erwachsenenbildung
Get PDFDigitale Medien durchdringen immer stärker unseren Alltag, sodass bereits sämtliche Lebensbereiche davon betroffen sind. Die Erwachsenenbildung ist gefordert, diesem Umstand Rechnung zu tragen, indem sie digitalen Medien eine zentrale Rolle in ihren Bildungsangeboten einräumt. Zum einen kann dies durch den Einsatz digitaler Medien als pädagogische Hilfsmittel geschehen (Mediendidaktik), zum anderen aber auch in Form von Bildungsangeboten, welche den Gebrauch von und Umgang mit Medien zum Inhalt haben (Medienerziehung). Während damit einerseits das Potential neuer Lerngegenstände und Bildungsformate verbunden ist, entstehen andererseits Herausforderungen wie etwa technische Voraussetzungen, der Bedarf an Medienkompetenz auf Seiten der Lehrenden und Lernenden, urheberrechtliche bzw. Datenschutzprobleme und das Erfordernis didaktischer Konzepte. Diesen Herausforderungen muss mit gezielten Maßnahmen entgegengesteuert werden wie etwa der medienpädagogischen Ausbildung von Lehrenden, der Entwicklung offener Lernmaterialien und verstärkter Evaluation und Forschung
Fit für mediatisierte Arbeitswelten: Ein Kompetenzprofil für Heranwachsende
No full textUnter dem Schlagwort „Mediatisierung von Arbeit“ wird diskutiert, wie sich neue Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien zunehmend in der Arbeitswelt etablieren. Diese Entwicklung geht Hand in Hand mit dem gesellschaftlichen Wandel von Arbeit. Für die Arbeitenden sind damit sowohl Potenziale als auch neue Anforderungen verbunden. Über welche Kompetenzen die Arbeitskräfte von morgen verfügen müssen, um die Chancen einer mediatisierten Arbeitswelt zu nutzen und die Herausforderungen zu bewältigen, ist Thema dieses Beitrages
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