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"This second edition of Klaus Bruhn Jensen's exploration of developing digital media furthers the conversation around the ongoing society-wide and worldwide digitalization of human communication. Reviewing the long lines in the history of media and communication - from writing via printing and broadcasting to computing - the book lays out three general types of media: the human body enabling face-to-face communication here and now, the technically reproduced means of mass communication across space and time, and the digital technologies integrating one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many interactions. All these communicative practices coexist in contemporary media environments. Across cultures, genders, and age groups, people go on communicating in the flesh, via wires, and over the air, as illustrated though case studies of mobile communication on mundane matters, and of climate change as a global challenge for human communication and coexistence. The second edition includes: Updated accounts of research and public debate on digital media and communication, analyses of current social media and an emerging internet of things, systematic presentations of digital as well as traditional empirical methods, discussion of the normative implications of digitalization, including the classic rights of information and communication, and a right not to be communicated about through surveillance. Interdisciplinary in scope to showcase the wide-reaching cultural effect of media convergence, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies"--

"Der Artikel vergleicht die wichtigsten Forschungstraditionen, die sich dem Nexus zwischen Medien und Publikum widmen: die Wirkungsforschung, der Nutzenansatz, Literaturkritik, kulturelle Untersuchungen und die Rezeptionsanalyse. Zunächst werden kurz die Wurzeln jedes Ansatzes in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften vorgestellt. Dann wird eine Typologie von Untersuchungen entwickelt, die die Ansätze hinsichtlich theoretischer und methodischer Aspekte unterscheidet. Während einige Kontroversen identifiziert werden, die aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen und politischen Orientierungen entstehen, so zeigt die Analyse auch, daß das gegenwärtige Zusammenfließen unterschiedlicher Ansätze nützlich für die weitere theoretische, methodologische und empirische Entwicklung sein kann. Insbesondere erscheinen interkulturell vergleichende Forschung und Methodenvielfalt als vielversprechender Weg zur weiteren Erforschung des Medienpublikums." (Autorenreferat)

Global Internet use is circumscribed by local political and economic institutions and inscribed in distinctive cultural practices. This article presents a comparative study of Internet use in China, the United States, and five European countries. The empirical findings suggest a convergence of cultures, specifically regarding interpersonal communication, alongside characteristic national and sociodemographic configurations of different prototypes of human communication. Drawing on the classic understanding of communication as a cultural process producing, maintaining, repairing, and transforming a shared reality, we interpret such configurations as cultures of communication, which can be seen to differ, overlap, and converge across regions in distinctive ways. Looking beyond traditional media systems, we call for further cross-cultural research on the Internet as a generic communication system joining global and local forms of interaction.