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This second edition furthers conversations about 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 consequences of media convergence, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies.

Erstmals wird hier eine allgemeine Medientheorie ausgearbeitet, die mediale Ereignisse auf ihre kommunikativen, materiellen und semiotischen Aspekte hin untersucht. Diese Theorie entwickelt Grundbegriffe für eine kohärente Beschreibung von einfachen und komplexen, neuen und alten Medien sowie von diversen Medienkonstellationen. Neben der begrifflichen Einordnung unterschiedlicher medientheoretischer Ansätze geht es in dieser Studie gleichermaßen um natürliche, artifizielle, individuelle und digitale Medien sowie um Massenmedien. Julia Genz und Paul Gévaudan liefern ein interdisziplinäres Grundlagenwerk, das sowohl für Fachwissenschaftler_innen und Studierende als auch für eine breitere Leserschaft von Interesse ist.

This book covers an approach to conversational informatics which encompasses science and technology for understanding and augmenting conversation in the network age. A major challenge in engineering is to develop a technology for conveying not just messages but also underlying wisdom. Relevant theories and practices in cognitive linguistics and communication science, as well as techniques developed in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, are discussed.

Presents the main existing models of the mass communications process which have been developed during the last thirty years, providing brief descriptions of the most significant concepts and ideas in the study of mass communication, using graphic and verbal models.

Durch die Medienkonvergenz ergeben sich neue Möglichkeiten, mediale Inhalte zu gestalten und auf sie Einfluss zu nehmen. Dies führt zu einer Vielzahl neuer Formen transmedialen Erzählens. Sie sind Gegenstand dieses Sammelbands, zu dem Fachvertreter der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, der Theater- Film und Medienwissenschaft, der Ethnologie und der Journalistik beigetragen haben.

The development of digital media presents a unique opportunity to reconsider what communication is, and what individuals, groups, and societies might hope to accomplish through new as well as old media. At a time when digital media still provoke both utopian and dystopian views of their likely consequences, Klaus Bruhn Jensen places these ‘new'media in a comparative perspective together with ‘old'mass media and face-to-face communication, restating the two classic questions of media studies: what do media do to people, and what do people do with media? Media Convergence makes a distinction between three general types of media: the human body enabling communication in the flesh; the technically reproduced means of mass communication; and the digital technologies facilitating interaction one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many. Features include: case studies, including mobile phones in everyday life, the Muhammad cartoons controversy and climate change as a global challenge for human communication and political action diagrams, figures, and tables summarizing key concepts beyond standard ‘models of communication'systematic cross-referencing. Major terms are highlighted and cross-referenced throughout, with key concepts defined in margin notes.