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"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to consider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age"--

Digital nomads (DNs) are highly mobile professionals who work while travelling and travel while working. Their lifestyle has gained increasing academic attention, also from a communication perspective. Despite initial work on the topic, little is known about the self-presentation practices of DNs on social media. To address this lack of evidence and focusing on Instagram as a key platform for this group, we adopt a Goffmanian perspective. By using semi-structured interviews, we provide an in-depth analysis of their self-presentational practices, specifically their content strategies, imagined audience and use of platform affordances. The interviews included photo elicitation as a central element. The findings show how DNs highlight independence and freedom, de-emphasize work in favour of leisure and travel, develop audience management strategies that are mindful of the imagined audiences' situation, while trying to foster reliability and authenticity and greatly value the flexibility and ephemerality of the Stories feature.

1. Television in the digital public sphere / Jostein Gripsrud -- 2. TV as time machine : television's changing heterochronic regimes and the production of history / William Uricchio -- 3. 'Critical social optics' and the transformations of audio-visual culture / John Corner -- 4. MSN, interface / Nick Browne -- 5. Bingeing on box-sets : the national and the digital in television crime drama / Charlotte Brunsdon -- 6. Forward to the past : the strange case of The wire / Erlend Lavik -- 7. The 'Bollywoodization' of Indian TV news / Daya Kishan Thussu -- 8. Amateur images in the professional news stream / John Bridge and Helle SjØvaag -- 9. A new space for democracy? : online media, factual genres and the transformation of traditional mass media / Ib Bondebjerg -- 10. Lifestyle as factual entertainment / Christa Lykke Christensen -- 11. Television use in new media environments / Barbara Gentikow -- 12. The grey area : a rough guide : television fans, Internet forums, and the cultural public sphere / Peter Larsen -- 13. X factor viewers : debate on an Internet forum / Anne Jerslev -- 14. The digitally enhanced audience : new attitudes to factual footage / John Ellis -- 15. Digital media, television and the discourse of smears / Todd Gitlin -- 16. The cost of citizenship in the digital age : on being informed and the commodification of the public sphere / Peter Golding -- 17. Networking the commons : convergence culture and the public interest / Graham Murdock -- 18. Smart homes : digital lifestyles practiced and imagined / Lynn Spigel -- 19. Television as a means of transport : digital teletechnologies and transmodal systems / David Morley.

Screen time, defined as estimates of child time spent with digital media, is considered harmful to very young children. At the same time, the use of digital media by children under five years of age has increased dramatically, and with the advent of mobile and streaming media can occur anywhere and at any time. Digital media has become an integral part of family life. Imprecise global screen time estimates do not capture multiple factors that shape family media ecology. In this Element, the authors discuss the need to shift the lens from screen time measures to measures of family media ecology, describe the new Dynamic, Relational, Ecological Approach to Media Effects Research (DREAMER) framework, and more comprehensive digital media assessments. The authors conclude this Element with a roadmap for future research using the DREAMER framework to better understand how digital media use is associated with child outcomes

Screen time, defined as estimates of child time spent with digital media, is considered harmful to very young children. At the same time, the use of digital media by children under five years of age has increased dramatically, and with the advent of mobile and streaming media can occur anywhere and at any time. Digital media has become an integral part of family life. Imprecise global screen time estimates do not capture multiple factors that shape family media ecology. In this Element, the authors discuss the need to shift the lens from screen time measures to measures of family media ecology, describe the new Dynamic, Relational, Ecological Approach to Media Effects Research (DREAMER) framework, and more comprehensive digital media assessments. The authors conclude this Element with a roadmap for future research using the DREAMER framework to better understand how digital media use is associated with child outcomes

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 What is a Lifestyle Guru? -- The Generalised Other and the Looking-Glass Self -- De-Traditionalisation and its Discontents -- The History of Lifestyle Gurus -- The Globalisation of Self-help -- Attention, Capital and Celebrity -- Digitally 'Sitting Next to Nellie' -- 2 The Rise of Lifestyle Gurus in the Digital Age -- Migrating Online -- Establishing Native Knowledge and Expertise Online -- The Tools of Lifestyle Gurus in the Digital Age -- Web 2.0, the Active User and Participatory Culture -- Celebrity and the Power of Visibility on Social Media -- The Making of Micro-Celebrities -- Intimate Strangers -- 3 'Be Authentic': Lifestyle Gurus as Trusted Companions -- Creating a Compelling Narrative and Persona -- Confession and Self-disclosure -- Manufacturing Authenticity -- Emotional Labour -- The Trouble with Authenticity -- 4 'Your Person as a Product': Commodifying Influence -- Social Media Influencers -- Commodifying Influence: Social Media as Advertising -- Influencer Marketing -- The Democratisation of Advice: Blogging as a Community of Equals? -- The Wellness Industry -- Cleansing and Detoxing: The GOOP Phenomenon -- The Commodification of Advice -- 5 'Don't Eat That!': Lifestyle Gurus as Unregulated Advisers -- Facemethods -- Diet and Nutrition -- Regulation and Lifestyle Combing -- Modernity Again -- The Scuttling of Democracy? -- 6 The Two Cults of Lifestyle Perfectionism -- Assured Perfectionism -- Affirmative Perfectionism -- 7 Living in a Low-Trust Society -- Going Viral -- Detox Junction -- Low-Trust Society -- References -- Index -- EULA.

Missionare treten als Reality Show Stars auf, polygame Familien geben Einblick in ihren Alltag, religiöse Ehepaare präsentieren in einem Fernsehspot ihr erfolgreiches Leben und ihren Glauben. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele zeigt «Mormon Lifestyles. Communicating Religion and Ethics in Documentary Media» wie dokumentarische Medien die öffentliche Wahrnehmung von Religion grundlegend beeinflussen. Denn religiöse Zugehörigkeit wird im medialen Feld zum Ausdruck eines bestimmten Lifestyles. Das Buch erklärt mit Blick auf das global verbreitete Mormonentum, wie dokumentarische Medien - auch innerhalb des digitalen und ethischen Raums - Religion mit spezifischen Mitteln und zu unterschiedlichen Zwecken thematisieren und verändern.

This book challenges the conventional perspective of what counts as participatory online culture. Presenting lurking on social media newsfeeds as a communication and literacy practice that resists dominant power structures, it offers an innovative approach to digital qualitative methods

An investigation into the origins of the digital revolution, how it evolved, which other past revolutions consciously or unconsciously inspired it, which great stories it has conveyed over time, which of its key elements have changed and which ones have persisted and have been repeated in different historical periods

This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp 'accidentally' enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this digital inheritance has on the bereaved. Debra J. Bassett offers a holistic exploration of this phenomenon and presents qualitative data from three groups of participants: service providers, digital creators, and digital inheritors.For the bereaved, loss of data, lack of control, or digital obsolescence can lead to a second loss, and this book introduces the theory of 'the fear of second loss'. Bassett argues that digital afterlives challenge and disrupt existing grief theories, suggesting how these theories might be expanded to accommodate digital inheritance.This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to sociologists, cyber psychologists, philosophers, death scholars, and grief counsellors. But Bassett's book can also be seen as a canary in the coal mine for the 'intentional' Digital Afterlife Industry (DAI) and their race to monetise the dead. This book provides an understanding of the profound effects uncontrollable timed posthumous messages and the creation of thanabots could have on the bereaved, and Bassett's conception of a Digital Do Not Reanimate (DDNR) order and a voluntary code of conduct could provide a useful addition to the DAI.Even in the digital societies of the West, we are far from immortal, but perhaps the question we really need to ask is: who wants to live forever?

In recent years, new forms of public self-documentation have become popular on social media platforms and especially through so-called influencers, forming their own media cultural microcosm. Even though YouTube has become emblematic of this cultural technique, media self-documentations are also formative for other services such as Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat. Robert Dörre understands the emergence of these self-designs as an aesthetic practice and traces the media-historical shifts that public self-documentation has experienced on the Internet. In order to make these specific aesthetics, rituals, motifs, and economies accessible to media cultural studies, the work approaches the phenomenon from five perspectives: The reception as authentic self, the self as part of social media, the self as brand, the serial self, and the self as amateur and artist.

Some occupations are subject to more complex identity work processes than others. This rings true for those professional endeavours that are relatively poorly known and that cannot rely on institutions as a reference for identification, such as digital nomadism. Digital nomads can broadly be defined as professionals who embrace extreme forms of mobile work to combine their interest in travel with the possibility to work remotely. Building on a two-stage data collection process, this paper proposes a typology that characterises four archetypes of digital nomad lifestyle promoters' narratives found online and show how these online narratives play a role in the process of identity work of other digital nomads. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we show that while the archetypes act as an important online identity regulatory force, they do so through dis-identification. Second, we explain how identity work for digital nomads involves evaluating discursively available subjectivities and propose a three-step reflexive process that entails (i) interpreting, (ii) dis-identifying and (iii) contextualising. We contend that our findings extend beyond the specific case of digital nomads and shed light onto the intricacies of work identity for 'new' occupations that are romanticised and monetised through social media and beyond.

Addressing the issue of Cyberbullying to find effective solutions is a challenge for the web mining community, particularly within the realm of social media. In this context AI is as a valuable tool in combating the diverse manifestations of Cyberbullying on the internet and social networks

A cultural gap is widening in English secondary schools: between a twentieth-century ethos of institutional provision and the twenty-first century expectations and digital lifestyles of school students. Perhaps disaffected by traditional teaching methods and the competitive target culture of schools, many students have turned to social networking through the cluster of computer-based applications known as Web 2.0. Here, they can communicate, share and learn informally using knowledge systems their elders can barely understand. Some of their contemporaries have turned away altogether, rejecting school and contributing to record levels of truancy and exclusion. This paper identifies a set of challenges for school leaders in relation to the growing digital/cultural gap. The government agenda for personalised learning is discussed, alongside strategies which schools might adopt to support this through the use of ICT, and both figure in scenario projections which envision how secondary education could change in the future. The paper concludes by recommending three priorities for school leaders.