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Digitale Medien sind Bestandteile des aktuellen Zeitalters und erreichen auch Kinder im jungen Alter. Die Folgen zeigen sich darin, dass digitale Geräte vermehrt in die Familienhaushalte integriert werden und somit Eltern damit konfrontiert werden, sich mit der digitalen Mediennutzung auseinanderzusetzen. (Kammerl et al., 2022, S. 13) Basierend auf dieser Entwicklung stehen in dieser Masterarbeit folgende drei Fragenstellungen im Vordergrund: Wie gestaltet sich die digitale Mediennutzung im Familienalltag der befragten Eltern? Regulieren die Eltern die kindliche digitale Mediennutzung, wenn ja, wie? Welchen Stellenwert haben digitale Medien im Vorschulalter für die Eltern? Das Ziel der Masterarbeit ist es, die individuellen Zugänge der Eltern durch eine qualitative Me-thode zu beleuchten. Mithilfe von acht leitfadengestützten Interviews mit Müttern im ländlichen Raum von Tirol und Oberösterreich konnten diese Forschungsfragen beantwortet werden. Wesentliche Erkenntnisse, die sich aus der Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring (2016) herausstellten, sind, dass die befragten Mütter einen bewussten und reflektierten Umgang mit digitalen Medien im Familienalltag zeigen und die kindliche Nutzung durch diverse Medienerziehungsstrategien begrenzen. Digitale Medien sind Teil des Familienlebens aber werden von den Müttern im Vor-schulalter nicht wichtig eingeschätzt und spielen somit im Alltag nur eine Nebenrolle. Die Ergebnisse aus den Interviews werden anhand der Ausführungen von Bourdieus Kapitaltheorie (1983) und Bronfenbrenners und Morris' bioökologischem Modell (2006) sowie der digitalen häuslichen Lernumgebung von Bonanati et al. (2022) diskutiert., Mirjam Matheis-Weiß, Masterarbeit Universität Innsbruck 2024

von Carina Jenewein, Diplomarbeit Universität Innsbruck 2024

Thomas Gremsl, Hans-Walter Ruckenbauer, Christian Wessely (Hg.), Enthält Literaturangaben, Beiträge vorwiegend deutsch, ein Beitrag englisch

Es zeigt sich ein aufkommendes Spannungsfeld zwischen den sehr vielseitigen, sinnvollen und praktischen Neuen Medien und den immer mehr abhandenkommenden Primärerfahrungen von Kindern. Durch den Medienkonsum kommen Primärerfahrungen in der Natur und am realen Objekt eher zu kurz, auch in der Schule. In der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit wird den Chancen und Risiken von Neuen Medien und deren Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Kinder nachgegangen. Weiter wird der Schulgarten als Ort für Primärerfahrungen vor der Schultüre vorgestellt. In der theoretischen Auseinandersetzung werden die Themen Neue Medien, Medienkompetenz, Chancen und Risiken Neuer Medien, Primärerfahrungen und der Schulgarten behandelt, welche die Grundlage für das Produkt dieser Arbeit legt. Das Produkt ist für Lehrpersonen eine Anleitung, welche praktische Umsetzungen im Schulgarten enthält, um damit Primärerfahrungen zu ermöglichen. Die Anleitung beinhaltet Projektideen, welche zur Umsetzung nicht zwingend einen Garten benötigen. Die Anleitung soll dazu beitragen, dass Lehrpersonen bestimmte Inhalte draussen unterrichten. Neben der theoretischen Grundlage wurde eine praktische Umsetzung mit einer Schulklasse im Schulgarten realisiert. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse wurden in der Anleitung festgehalten.

Around the turn of the twenty-first century, American journalism is undergoing an existential crisis provoked by the emergence of digital and networked communication. As the economic model of producing journalism is undergoing significant changes, this study argues that the crisis of journalism is primarily a cultural crisis of valuation. Because the practices that traditionally defined the exclusivity of journalism as a form of public communication have been transposed to the online and digital environment through social media and blogs, such practices no longer value journalism in the same terms like in the age of mass media. The key to understanding the cultural crisis of journalism in the present, this study argues, is to revise the traditional narrative and its associated terminologies of the institutionalization of journalism. Journalism is thus defined as a structure of public communication, which needs to be enacted by producers and audiences alike to become socially meaningful. The consequence of seeing journalism as a structure sustained through social practices is that it allows to see the relation between audiences and their journalistic media as constitutive for the social function of new media in journalism. Through the analytically central dimension of practice, the study presents key moments in the history of modern journalism, where the meaning of new media was negotiated. These moments include the emergence of topical news media oriented toward a mass market (the penny press in the 1830s) and the definition of a schema of objectivity which valued journalistic practice in professional and scientific terms around the turn of the twentieth century in analogy to photographic media. In each phase, material, cognitive and social practices helped to define the value of a given new medium for journalism. Through the schemas of topicality and objectivity, journalistic practice institutionalized a privileged structure of public communication. The legacy of d

The Moroccan elections of September 2021 were unusual for various reasons. As electoral campaigning took place under pandemic circumstances, social media played a role previously unseen and contributed significantly to the unexpected victory of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), a liberal party, against the Justice and Development Party (PJD), an Islamist party. The use of social media for campaigning purposes is not a completely new phenomenon in Morocco, given its prominent use by numerous social movements in the past. However, social media became a game-changer during the last elections. Considering the COVID-19 measures imposed, political parties shifted much of their campaigning online. Today, online spaces are no longer exclusively used by grassroots activists but have become increasingly popular among Moroccan political parties. While political parties converged in resorting to online spaces to compensate for the restrictions on offline campaigns, they diverged in their approaches; additionally, not all parties have the same financial capacity to exploit the full potential of social media. The huge disproportion in resources invested in online platforms was a main contributor to the victory of the RNI and the unexpected electoral wipeout of the PJD. To ensure equal opportunities for all involved political actors, a more effective legal framework is needed to guarantee the transparency and fair funding of digital electoral campaigns. This can be achieved by strengthening those institutions already in place and developing new ways to monitor the use of online media during elections.

Was tun die Bewohner_innen und Besucher_innen in der digitalen Stadt? Die Befunde sprechen für die orientierende Ordnung anhand der Erfahrungen mit der realen Stadt: sie re-konstruieren das Prinzip der Stadt in einem weiteren Medium, dem Cyberspace.

Twitter has pushed public opinion on foreign policy into partisan bubbles that often value alternative media sources over traditional media or political elites. Public opinion on China is no exception. On the left, some alternative media outlets support China as a socialist ideal, while others criticize it as a key player in global capitalism and neoliberal order. This leads to an important puzzle: How and why do some transnational left media disseminate pro-China messaging while others do not? We focus on two leftist alternative media outlets: the Qiao Collective and Lausan. Both organizations claim to offer a variety of counter-hegemonic-oriented discourses. We first qualitatively analyze the differences in how these two organizations frame key topics in contemporary Chinese politics including Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the Hong Kong protests. We then use quantitative social network analysis to show how their communication efforts lead to different follower audiences. In the last step, we analyze what issues the Qiao Collective is using to achieve its inward- and outward-oriented goals. Our study shows how both outlets focus on the transnational left, but each reaches distinct audiences that do not overlap. We find that the Qiao Collective jumps on traditional left-wing issues in the US to extend its reach while regularly posting positive, often revisionist perspectives about Chinese politics. This specific element conflicts with its claim of supporting anti-imperialist and pro-democracy politics and distinguishes the Qiao Collective from other transnational left outlets.

To explore social media use in New Zealand, a sample of 1001 adults aged 18 and over were surveyed in November 2021. Participants were asked about the frequency of their use of different social media platforms (text message included). This report describes how often each of the nine social media sites and apps covered in the survey are used individually on a daily basis. Differences based on key demographics, i.e., age and gender, are tested for statistical significance, and findings summarised.

In this editorial linked to the thematic issue on "Gaming, Simulations, and Planning: Physical and Digital Technologies for Public Participation in Urban Planning", we explore how urban planning has been, arguably, slow on the uptake of modern technologies and the move towards the next media revolution: The Metaverse is now on the horizon. By artfully pushing technological, cultural, and social boundaries in creating virtual environments, games and gaming technologies have presented interesting opportunities and challenges for the planning profession, theory, and education over the years. This thematic issue documents a wide range of innovative practices in planning enabled by games and gaming technologies. It attempts to open discussions about the way we conceptualize and treat new media and technologies in planning. By providing a wide range of examples, from non-digital games to gamified systems, interactive simulations and digital games, the issue shows that the lack of adoption of these practices has less to do with their technical possibilities and more to do with the way we understand tools and their added value in the dominant narratives of planning. As we note at the end, planning should be at the forefront of these technologies, not embracing technologies for technologies sake but because it should, as a profession, be leading the way into these new environments.

Der gegenwärtige Medienwandel vollzieht sich nicht nur innerhalb einzelner Gattungen wie Fernsehen, Presse oder Rundfunk, sondern crossmedial. Dabei begünstigt die Digitalisierung eine Integration von Text, Bild, Video usw., wodurch neue multimodale Medien- und Kommunikationsformen innerhalb und außerhalb der klassischen Massenmedien entstehen. Der Band analysiert solche Formate (wie Google- Earth, Live-Ticker oder Fernsehformate im Handy-TV), entwickelt Theorien zur Multimodalität und zeigt, anhand welcher Methoden diese untersucht werden kann.

Media is considered as one of the ideological apparatuses. This research is based on the question in parallel of enhancing technology and the formation of new media, as well as change passive audience into the active user, can these media still be called ideological? If so, the question is that how does the new media, despite the adaptation of interaction from the internet, find the ideological function? This paper discusses the role of the concept of the ideology for understanding social media critically. This study based on Althusser's definition of ideology and Habermas's theory about the public sphere creates consultative democracy led it to evaluate new media, their behavior and practices. The paper was developed based on a qualitative approach and descriptive-analytical method. As a result, new media owners are looking to create a two-tier Internet in which commercial content is more important than public content. Commercial content is managed by the ruling power and is governed by an ideology, which is the ideology of the ruling class. On the contrary, public content is controlled by media owners and contains a variety of ideologies that carry different ideas and meanings. The contemporary media system, through its ownership has divided media audiences into smaller groups (specific audiences), and has severely restricted fair access and participation in the public sphere, so that the ideological aspect of new media remains unchanged, but it emerges in the new shapes.

Es zeigt sich ein aufkommendes Spannungsfeld zwischen den sehr vielseitigen, sinnvollen und praktischen Neuen Medien und den immer mehr abhandenkommenden Primärerfahrungen von Kindern. Durch den Medienkonsum kommen Primärerfahrungen in der Natur und am realen Objekt eher zu kurz, auch in der Schule. In der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit wird den Chancen und Risiken von Neuen Medien und deren Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Kinder nachgegangen. Weiter wird der Schulgarten als Ort für Primärerfahrungen vor der Schultüre vorgestellt. In der theoretischen Auseinandersetzung werden die Themen Neue Medien, Medienkompetenz, Chancen und Risiken Neuer Medien, Primärerfahrungen und der Schulgarten behandelt, welche die Grundlage für das Produkt dieser Arbeit legt. Das Produkt ist für Lehrpersonen eine Anleitung, welche praktische Umsetzungen im Schulgarten enthält, um damit Primärerfahrungen zu ermöglichen. Die Anleitung beinhaltet Projektideen, welche zur Umsetzung nicht zwingend einen Garten benötigen. Die Anleitung soll dazu beitragen, dass Lehrpersonen bestimmte Inhalte draussen unterrichten. Neben der theoretischen Grundlage wurde eine praktische Umsetzung mit einer Schulklasse im Schulgarten realisiert. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse wurden in der Anleitung festgehalten.

Der Syrienkonflikt begegnet uns seit seinen Anfängen vor allem in Videos, die zunächst mit Smartphones, später auch mit hochauflösenden Actionkameras aufgenommen wurden. Verbreitet über das Internet werden diese Videos von einer internationalen Berichterstattung, aber auch von Kunst- und Filmschaffenden aufgegriffen. Die Autorin entwickelt in diesem Kontext eine Forschungsperspektive, die auf innovative Weise Videos der Gewalt und des Todes für einen wissenschaftlichen Zugriff erschließbar und damit verbundene aktivistische, jihadistische und rechtspopulistische Praktiken im Spannungsfeld von Ästhetisierung und Politisierung kritisierbar macht.

This article refers to the brief history of the development of online media in Bangladesh starting from the beginnings of the Internet to the contemporary stage. Since 2006 Bangladeshi news organizations have been reshaping their strategy towards being a digital-only news outlet. News organizations are now using different features of mobile devices and social media to tell stories and engage with their target audiences. Today both the digital-only news outlets and mainstream media use QR codes, messengers, social media platforms, which enable them to reach a wider area of audiences. By using yet inexpensive digital tools journalists can easily create and distribute content for digital-only platforms. We consider digital-only platforms as new media, social media, and convergence media platforms. Social media platforms have provided the opportunity for traditional journalists to share news quickly, get feedback from the audience, and have two-way communication with the reader. Previous studies have looked at the genres of online journalism from a western perspective. Little has been done on the topic from the context of Bangladesh. In this article, we analyze the basic features of online news media that exist in contemporary Bangladesh and provide an account of the development trends. We outline the new genres, techniques, and use as a sample two most famous online news platforms: The Daily Star and bdnews24. A series of semi-structured interviews were conducted with 5 different professionals from Journalism and mass media. This study is based on both primary and secondary sources of qualitative data to understand the new genres of online news media, challenges, and opportunities to work in the ever-changing media landscape.

Dieses E-Book versammelt sechs empirische Projektberichte rund um das Oberthema "Medien im Alltag": (1) Medienerziehung von Kindern im Grundschulalter, (2) Domestizierung neuer Medien im Alltag von "Konsum-Materialisten" und "Hedonisten", (3) Domestizierung von Online- und Mobilmedien: Individuelle Perspektiven, (4) Revolution des Bewerbungsprozesses oder überschätztes Netzwerk? Auswirkungen der Business-Plattform Xing auf den Alltag von Bewerbern und Personalverantwortlichen, (5) Tendenzen strategischen Darstellungsverhaltens im sozialen Online-Netzwerk studiVZ: Eine Untersuchung von virtueller und realer Identität im Wandel, sowie (6) Öffentlichkeit vs. Privatheit im Web 2.0: ein Intergenerationenvergleich.

The victory over the territorial rule of the so-called Islamic State provides an opportunity for the government of Iraq to restore its state institutions and reassert its authority. Can the Iraqi leadership step beyond cycles of failure in this transition to tackle the systemic issues that sustain state weakness and promote the emergence of groups like ISIS? This paper aims to enlighten the challenges faced by Iraq after ISIS for the restoration of peace between minorities and religious groups, and coexistence after the myth, so that conflicts are going on between minorities and religious groups, particularly in Mosul and other cities under the control of ISIS, the state could not reconcile the displaced people. Correspondingly, this paper intends the focus and role of local, regional, and international media in the process of peacebuilding and coexistence in Iraq after ISIS.

With its unprecedented scale and consequences the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a variety of new configurations of media. Responding to demands for information, synchronization, regulation, and containment, these "pandemic media" reorder social interactions, spaces, and temporalities, thus contributing to a reconfiguration of media technologies and the cultures and polities with which they are entangled. Highlighting media’s adaptability, malleability, and scalability under the conditions of a pandemic, the contributions to this volume track and analyze how media emerge, operate, and change in response to the global crisis and provide elements toward an understanding of the post-pandemic world to come.

The Internet has opened borderless opportunities in the field of journalism and mass communication, especially significant on how journalistic stories will be created and distributed across the multiple platforms. Since 2006 Bangladeshi mainstream news organizations have been transforming and reshaping their strategy towards being a digital-only news outlet. News organizations are now using different features of mobile devices and social media to tell stories and engage with their target audiences. We consider digital-only platforms as a new media, social media and convergence media platforms. Almost each traditional media outlet observed has the analogue or another version on the web. Social media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, weblogs, Tik Tok have provided the opportunity for the traditional journalists to share news quickly, get feedback from the audience and have two-way communication with the reader. Over the years they have created thousands of new jobs for aspiring journalists. In this article, we analyze the basic features of online news media that exists in contemporary Bangladesh and provide an account of the development trends. We outline the new genres, techniques and use as a sample two most famous online news platforms: The Daily Star and bdnews24. This study is based on both primary and secondary sources of qualitative data to understand the new genres of online news media, challenges and opportunities to work in the ever-changing media landscape.

Die Transformation hin zu einer zunehmend digitalen Welt macht auch vor dem Bereich interkultureller Trainings keinen Halt und birgt eine enorme Menge an Herausforderungen. Vor diesem Hintergrund haben Trainerinnen täglich mit Schnelllebigkeit, Komplexität, Missverständnissen und Unsicherheiten zu kämpfen. Seien es die sich ständig ändernden Auswahlmöglichkeiten an Kommunikationstools, technische Probleme, fehlende Kontrollmöglichkeiten, verkürzte Aufmerksamkeitsspannen, Isolationsgefühle durch räumliche Distanz oder Fehlinterpretationen aufgrund nicht sichtbarer Körpersprache, die eine Anpassung des Trainings durch die Trainerinnen erfordern. Um diesen zahlreichen Veränderungen des Wandels gewachsen zu sein, präsentiert dieser Artikel Herausforderungen digitaler Trainings und arbeitet mögliche Lösungsstrategien heraus, denn oft wird bei dieser - eher bedrohlichen -Beschreibung des Wandels außer Acht gelassen, dass Veränderungen auch Fortschritt, Innovation und neue Chancen bedeuten. Dieser Artikel möchte dementsprechend Herausforderungen, die digitale Trainings mit sich bringen, bewusst als Quelle von Kompetenzerweiterungen und als gezielten Aufbau einer Handlungsfähigkeit in ambigen Situationen verstehen, um ihnen positiv gegenüber stehen zu können., The transformation towards an increasingly digital world does not stop at the field of intercultural trainings and contain an enormous number of challenges. Against this background, trainers have to deal with speed, complexity, misunderstandings and uncertainties on a daily basis. Whether it is the constantly changing choices of communication tools, technical problems, lack of control, shortened attention spans, feelings of isolation due to spatial distance or misinterpretations because of invisible body language, the training needs to be adapted by the trainers. In order to cope with these numerous changes of change, this article presents challenges of digital training and elaborates possible solution strategies, because often this - rather threatening - description of change ignores the fact that change also means progress, innovation and new opportunities. Accordingly, this article wants to understand the challenges that digital training brings with it as a source of competence expansion and as a targeted development of the ability to act in ambiguous situations in order to be able to face them positively.

This article analyzes the appeal of populist radical right (PRR) politics in the US after the election of Donald Trump. Specifically, I seek to explain how new media helps politicians representing the PRR secure support in Republican primaries. Using an online survey of 1052 Arizona Republicans in the lead-up to the August 2018 Senate primary, I evaluate support for three candidates: Rep. Martha McSally, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Kelli Ward, a physician. The findings highlight a bifurcation in the drivers for support of PRR candidacies: Skepticism of immigration drives the Arpaio vote, while use of social media news and belief in party convergence mobilize Ward’s support. The results demonstrate that support for PRR politicians in the Arizona primary is concentrated in two groups, anti-immigrant and anti-establishment, and that the anti-establishment voters are more likely to access news on social media. These findings indicate that social media news consumption does shape voter perceptions about mainstream parties favorably for the PRR.

Trägt die Nutzung politischer Information im Internet zur Mobilisierung der Wählerinnen und Wähler bei? Dieser Frage geht diese Studie nach und vergleicht dabei Online-Quellen und Offline-Quellen der Wahlberechtigten wie auch ihre Involvierung in Wahl und Wahlkampf und ihre Wahlabsicht. Die bisherige Forschung dazu liefert uneinheitliche Ergebnisse. Das liegt auch daran, dass sie zumeist auf Daten und Analyse- verfahren beruht, die keine eindeutigen Aussagen zulassen. Im Unterschied dazu verwendet diese Studie ein neuartiges Analysemodell, das die Überprüfung von kausalen Beziehungen mit sehr viel mehr Evidenz ermöglicht als herkömmliche statistische Instrumente. Datenbasis ist eine dreiwellige Panelbefragung aus der Endphase des Bundestagswahlkampfs 2013. Theoretischer Ausgangspunkt ist Slaters Spiralmodell der Wechselwirkungen, das ein Konzept der Erie-County-Studie aus den 1940er Jahren weiterentwickelt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass offensichtlich ein Kernbefund der frühen Wahlforschung auch in der neuen Medienwelt gilt: Zwischen Informationsnutzung und Mobilisierung gibt es Wechselwirkungen und positive Rückkopplungen mit kumulativen Effekten. Diese Spiralprozesse sind für das Internet allerdings weniger deutlich ausgeprägt als für Offline-Quellen wie politische Gespräche in der Familie und Nachrichten im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen. Der Beitrag diskutiert mögliche Erklärungen dafür wie auch für Unterschiede zwischen einzelnen Indikatoren der Mobilisierung.

published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Simon Holdermann, Christoph Lange, Michaela Schäuble, Martin Zillinger: “Rethinking New Media and Mediterranean Publics”. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie / Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 146.1–2 (2021), Special Issue “Rethinking the Mediterranean”, pages 1–10. Die Zweitveröffentlichung dieses Artikels unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) erfolgte mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Reimer Verlags.

"BRIDGIT" ist der Titel des iPhone-Videos, mit dem Charlotte Prodger 2018 den Turner Prize gewann. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass Prodger einerseits an bereits etablierte Ästhetiken des experimentellen queeren Kinos anknüpft, andererseits aber auch über diese hinausgeht. Die ästhetische Verschränkung von Körpern, Begehren, Wahrnehmung und Selbstwahrnehmung, Landschaft, Zeit und Queerness ist - auch im Medium des digitalen Filmes - skulptural und setzt darin eine virtuelle Kraft frei, die sich den neoliberalen Normalisierungsprozessen und der Nicht-Intelligibilität von queeren Begehrensformen in subtiler Weise widersetzt.

Im vorliegenden Forschungsprojekt wird ein Unterrichtsexperiment vorgestellt, in dem zwei aktuelle Forschungsbereiche in der Didaktik verknüpft werden: neurodidaktische Erkenntnisse und digitale Medien. Mithilfe der virtuellen und interaktiven Internet-Plattform "Flipgrid" sollten Studierendengruppen der Westböhmischen Universität in Pilsen Hausaufgaben in Form von verschiedenen Aufgabentypen bearbeiten und aufsprechen. Aufgrund einer Fragebogenauswertung wird dann festgestellt, ob das angewandte Blended Learning bei den Studierenden Anklang gefunden und die Motivation, Hausaufgaben zu erledigen, erhöht hat., This research project focuses on ateaching experiment in which two current research areas in didactics are linked: findings of neurodidactic and digital media. With the help of the virtual and interactive internet platform "Flipgrid", various student groups of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen were supposed to work on homework assignments with different types of tasks which were then recorded by the students. Based on aquestionnaire evaluation, it is then determined whether the students found the applied blended learning beneficial and whether it increased their motivation to do their homework.

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob Wortschatz mit einer Sprachlernapplikation effektiv erlernt werden kann. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet die Charakteristik der Wortschatzarbeit im traditionellen Fremdsprachenunterricht. Danach wird die Sprachapplikation "duolingo" vorgestellt. Es wird dabei analysiert, wie ihre Autor/innen bei der Vermittlung des Wortschatzes didaktischen Grundsätzen und lernpsychologischen Erkenntnissen folgen. Es werden sowohl Stärken als auch Unzulänglichkeiten gezeigt, die die Qualität des Vokabellernens beeinflussen., Is it possible to learn vocabulary efficiently by using Language-Learning Apps? The aim of this article is not to give astraight answer to this question, but to show that this way of learning has both many advantages and disadvantages which may affect the quality of learning. The characteristic of vocabulary exercises used during traditional language classes creates the basis for further considerations. This article presents and focuses on one very popular Language-Learning app – "duolingo". The analysis of this app concerns for example the problematics of didactic principles.

Em 2019, durante o III Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Germanísticos (ABEG), as organizadoras deste volume temático, motivadas pelo rico ambiente acadêmico da ocasião, decidiram propor a organização de um caderno especial para a discussão de trabalhos científicos na "Pandaemonium Germanicum", com foco no uso de tecnologias digitais no ensino de alemão. A proposta foi prontamente acolhida pela equipe editorial da revista e somos muito gratas a ela pela oportunidade! Até aquele momento, o uso de Tecnologias Digitais de Informação e Comunicação (TDICs) era opcional em diferentes contextos de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas e as pesquisadoras reconheciam ali o grande potencial para o ensino e para o fomento da aprendizagem. O que elas não previam na ocasião, porém, é que o uso dessas tecnologias em contextos de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas passaria de opcional para "compulsório" no ano seguinte, devido à pandemia causada pelo vírus COVID-19, em diversos países do mundo.

Der Gießener Professor und Autor der Bücher "E-Learning Fremdsprachen - eine kritische Einführung" und "Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Eine Einführung", Dietmar Rösler, spricht im Interview über seine Ideen zum Einsatz digitaler Medien im DaF-Unterricht und seine Erfahrungen als Hochschulprofessor mit der Digitalisierung der Lehre vor und während der Corona-Pandemie in Deutschland. Dabei skizziert er mögliche Konsequenzen aus der Krise für unterschiedliche fremdsprachliche Lehr- und Lernszenarien sowie für Veränderungen in der Aus- und Fortbildung von DaF-Lehrenden. Dietmar Rösler beschreibt in diesem Interview auch seine Zukunftsvision zu den Lehrwerken in einer zunehmenden digitalisierten Welt., Dietmar Rösler, professor and author of the books "E-Learning Fremdsprachen - eine kritische Einführung" and "Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Eine Einführung", talks in an interview about his ideas on the use of digital media in teaching German as a foreign language and his experiences as a university professor with the digitization of teaching before and during the Corona pandemic in Germany. He outlines possible consequences of the crisis for different foreign language teaching and learning scenarios as well as for changes in the training and further education of teachers of German as a foreign language. Dietmar Rösler also describes in this interview his vision of the future of textbooks in an increasingly digitalized world., Dietmar Rösler, professor e autor dos livros "E-Learning Fremdsprachen - eine kritische Einführung" e "Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Eine Einführung", fala em uma entrevista sobre suas idéias sobre o uso de mídias digitais no ensino do alemão como língua estrangeira e suas experiências como professor universitário com a digitalização do ensino antes e durante a pandemia de Corona na Alemanha. Ele delineia possíveis consequências da crise para diferentes cenários de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras, bem como para mudanças na formação e na educação continuada de professores de alemão como língua estrangeira. Dietmar Rösler também descreve nesta entrevista sua visão sobre o futuro dos livros didáticos em um mundo cada vez mais digitalizado.

O presente artigo tem o objetivo de discutir e descrever estratégias didáticas durante a realização de um projeto de música em uma disciplina de língua alemã como língua adicional (LA) em contexto universitário. Tendo em vista a importância da inclusão de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs) no ensino de LAs, bem como da promoção do pensamento crítico-reflexivo, focado nos interesses e necessidades da(o)s aluna(o)s de Letras, o projeto de música foi realizado na plataforma Kahoot. Concluímos que as atividades contribuíram para o processo de ensino e aprendizagem em língua alemã, assim como para uma participação mais ativa e crítica por parte da(o)s estudantes., This paper aims to discuss and describe didactic strategies applied during a music project in a class of German as an additional language (AL) at university level. Given the utterly importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as tools in the teaching of ALs, the music project was conducted on the Kahoot platform, encouraging critical reflection thinking by the students with focus on their interests and needs. We conclude that the activities proposed allowed the students to play an active role on their own development, by contributing in an effective way to the teaching and learning process in the German language.

Nach dem III. Kongress des Brasilianischen Verbandes für germanistische Studien (ABEG) beschlossen die Organisatorinnen dieses thematischen Hefts im Jahr 2019, eine spezielle Ausgabe der Zeitschrift "Pandaemonium Germanicum" vorzuschlagen, die sich auf den Einsatz digitaler Medien im Deutschunterricht konzentriert. Die Organisatorinnen waren durch das vielfältige reiche akademische Umfeld des Anlasses motiviert und sind der Redaktion der Zeitschrift sehr dankbar für die umgehende Annahme ihres Vorschlags. Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt war der Einsatz von digitalen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (TDICs) in unterschiedlichen Lehr- und Lernkontexten optional, und die Herausgerberinnen erkannten darin ein großes Potenzial für die Lehre sowie für die Förderung des Lernens. Was sie damals jedoch nicht voraussahen, war, dass der Einsatz dieser Technologien in Sprachlehr- und -lernkontexten im folgenden Jahr aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie in mehreren Ländern der Welt von optional auf "obligatorisch" umgestellt werden würde.

Der Begriff Neue Medien nimmt in der Regel Bezug auf neue Technologien. In der Medienwissenschaft wird zwischen digitalen und analogen Medien unterschieden. Digitale Medien resultieren aus der Digitalisierung, die in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelt wurde. Digitalisierung bezeichnet den Prozess der Umwandlung von analogen (stetigen) Informationen in eine digitale (schrittweise, numerische) Form. Als digitale Medien werden meist interaktive Medien auf multimedialer und/oder elektronischer Basis bezeichnet, wie zum Beispiel Internet, CD-Roms, DVDs, MP3-Player, Digitalkameras etc. Mit der rasanten Verbreitung digitaler Technologien entwickelte sich erstmals eine komplexe Vernetzung der Geräte untereinander, die weltweit Daten- und Kommunikationsflüsse ermöglicht. Im Spannungsfeld von Technik, Kultur und Gesellschaft stellen digitale Medien weit mehr als technische Systeme dar und bilden einen untrennbaren Bestandteil einer modernen Gesellschaft. Im Laufe der Zeit wurden neue Medien und v. a. ihre tägliche Nutzung einer starken Kritik unterworfen. Wir möchten feststellen, dass wir es im wirklichen Leben sowie auch im täglichen Unterrichtsprozess für viel wichtiger halten, welche Medien, auf welche Art und Weise, zu welchem Zweck und mit welchem Ziel verwendet werden., The theme of media in teaching and learning occupies an important place in both university and lower-level school education. A teacher for a long time has not been the only medium in the class. His duty is to choose from a wide range of media and use them meaningfully and effectively. It is a task for teachers to assess realistically the potential of media use to improve and facilitate teaching and learning. In the following article, in addition to theoretical considerations (statements), we present specific examples that can serve as suggestions for the practical use of media in particular lessons.

Anna Weithaler, Universität Innsbruck, Masterarbeit, 2020, (VLID)5337415

eingereicht von Sebastian Kraus, Universität Innsbruck, Masterarbeit, 2020, (VLID)5113911

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Many attempts to conceptualize and to assess the performance of media systems or single news media outlets focus on the “supply side” of public communication, operationalized as characteristics of the news content and the form of presentation. These characteristics indicate the potential performance of news media; they are a necessary but not a sufficient condition for media performance. In order to assess the actual performance of news media we need to know what kind of audiences they reach, how they fulfil their users’ news-related interests and needs, and how they contribute to their users’ perceptions of the news environment. In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for the definition of audience-based indicators for news media performance. We apply this framework to data gathered as part of the 2019 Reuters Institute Digital News Survey for Germany. We compare 42 news media, both online and offline, in regard to their reach in different parts of the population, and to their audiences’ interest in news and politics, their trust in media, and their perceptions of the overall performance of German news media. The findings underline that news media performance is a multidimensional concept and that there are different ways in which news media can perform. Furthermore, the particular type of media, technically or organizationally, still matters when it comes to audiences’ expectations and perceived functions.

In recent years, two phenomena have put Europe's liberal democracies under strain: populism and polarization. The rise of populist parties, the increasing radicalization of publics and political discourse, as well as the expansion of hyperpartisan media have caused concern among observers and citizens alike. While lively academic discussions have revolved around the causes of these phenomena, research regarding their real-world consequences has been sparse. This thematic issue wants to address this gap in the literature and contribute to developing strategies for mitigating potential threats populism and polarization may pose to liberal democracies. To this end, it examines how populism and polarization affect citizens across Europe. It links research on audiences of hyperpartisan media with work on elite-induced polarization, populist conceptions of democracy, election results and support for the democratic system, and policy-making by populist governments.

Media fragmentation and polarization have contributed to blurring the lines between professional and non-professional journalism. Internationally, more fragmented-polarized media environments are often associated with the emergence of non-professional news providers, the weakening of journalistic standards, and the segmentation of audiences along ideological leanings. Furthermore, these environments are home to partisan and alternative news media outlets, some of which try to actively undermine the credibility of traditional mainstream media in their reporting. By following an audience-centric approach, this study investigates the consequences of more fragmented-polarized media environments and consumption habits on users’ perceptions of news media performance. We use online-survey data from five countries that differ in the extent of fragmentation and polarization in the media environment (CH = 1,859, DK = 2,667, IT = 2,121, PL = 2,536, US = 3,493). We find that perceptions of high news media performance are more likely to be expressed by citizens from less fragmented-polarized media environments. Positive perceptions of news media performance are also stronger among users of traditional media, and those who inform themselves in a more attitude-congruent manner. By contrast, citizens from more fragmented-polarized media environments and users of alternative news media tend to express less satisfaction with news media performance. Based on these results, we argue that perceptions of news media performance among news users are shaped by their individual media choices as well as by the composition of the news media environments that surrounds them.

This article presents a multi-method research design for measuring the (trans-)national quality of issue publics on Twitter. Online communication is widely perceived as having the potential to overcome nationally bound public spheres. Social media, in particular, are seen as platforms and drivers of transnational communication through which users can easily connect across borders. Transnational interactivity can be expected in particular for policy fields of global concern and elite or activist communication as practiced on Twitter. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of evidence for the enduring national structuration of political communication and publics as it results from a shared language (mostly), culturally defined media markets, established routines of social and political communication, and sociocultural stocks of knowledge. The study goes beyond measuring user interaction and also includes indicators of cross-referential cohesion. It applies a set of computational methods in network and discourse analysis and presents empirical evidence for Twitter communication on climate change being a prime issue of global concern and a globalized policy agenda. For empirical analysis, the study relies on a large Twitter dataset (N ≈ 6m tweets) with tweet messages and metadata collected between 2015 and 2018. Based on basic measurements such as geolocation and language use, the metrics allowed measurement of cross-national user interactions, user centrality in communicative networks, linking behaviour, and hashtag co-occurrences. The findings of the exploratory study suggest that a combined perspective on indicators of user interaction and cross-referential cohesion helps to develop a better and more nuanced understanding of online issue publics.

The rise of new technologies and platforms, such as mobile devices and streaming services, has substantially changed the media entertainment landscape and continues to do so. Since its subject of study is changing constantly and rapidly, research on media entertainment has to be quick to adapt. This need to quickly react and adapt not only relates to the questions researchers need to ask but also to the methods they need to employ to answer those questions. Over the last few years, the field of computational social science has been developing and using methods for the collection and analysis of data that can be used to study the use, content, and effects of entertainment media. These methods provide ample opportunities for this area of research and can help in overcoming some of the limitations of self-report data and manual content analyses that most of the research on media entertainment is based on. However, they also have their own set of challenges that researchers need to be aware of and address to make (full) use of them. This thematic issue brings together studies employing computational methods to investigate different types and facets of media entertainment. These studies cover a wide range of entertainment media, data types, and analysis methods, and clearly highlight the potential of computational approaches to media entertainment research. At the same time, the articles also include a critical perspective, openly discuss the challenges and limitations of computational methods, and provide useful suggestions for moving this nascent field forward.

In the last decade, the development of small, remotely operated multicopters with cameras, so-called drones, has made aerial photography easily available. Consumers and institutions now use drones in a variety of ways, both for personal entertainment and professionally. The application of drones in media production and journalism is of particular interest, as it provides insight into the complex interplay between technology, the economic and legal constraints of the media market, professional cultures and audience preferences. The thematic issue Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice presents new research concerning the role of drones in journalism and media production. The issue brings together scholars representing a variety of approaches and perspectives. A broad selection of empirical cases from Finland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US form the basis of an exploration of the changing relations between the media, technology and society. The articles address topics such as: Adaption of drone technology in the news-rooms; audience preferences and reactions in a changing media landscape; the relation between journalists and public authorities who use drones; and attitudes from journalistic practitioners as well as historical and future perspectives.

In contemporary media discourses, researchers may be perceived to communicate something they do not intend to, such as coldness or irrelevance. However, researchers are facing new responsibilities concerning how popular formats used to present science will impact science’s cultural authority (Bucchi, 2017). Currently, there is limited research on the microlevel practices of digital science communication involving researchers as actors. Therefore, this qualitative study explores how digital academic discourse practices develop, using the tweeting and blogging of researchers involved in a multidisciplinary renewable energy research project as a case. The results of a thematic analysis of interviews with researchers (n = 17) suggests that the researchers’ perceptions form a scale ranging from traditional to progressively adjusted practices, which are labelled ‘informing,’ ‘anchoring,’ ‘luring,’ and ‘maneuvering.’ These imply an attempt to diminish the gap between science and the public. The interviewees acknowledge that scientific facts may not be interesting and that they need captivating means that are common in the use of new media, such as buzzwords and clickbait. It appears that trials and experimentation with hybrid genres helped the researchers to distinguish the contours of digital academic discourses. The implications support suggestions to broaden the trajectories of expertise and communication, including issues of culture and identity, trust, and the relevance of science. It is argued that scientists’ embrace of new media channels will refine some articulations of the mediatization processes, and these findings support recent suggestions that mediatization could also be conceptualized as a strategic resource.

Current debates on online privacy are rooted in liberal theory. Accordingly, privacy is often regarded as a form of freedom from social, economic, and institutional influences. Such a negative perspective on privacy, however, focuses too much on how individuals can be protected or can protect themselves, instead of challenging the necessity of protection itself. In this article, I argue that increasing online privacy literacy not only empowers individuals to achieve (a necessarily limited) form of negative privacy, but has the potential to facilitate a privacy deliberation process in which individuals become agents of social change that could lead to conditions of positive privacy and informational self-determination. To this end, I propose a four-dimensional model of online privacy literacy that encompasses factual privacy knowledge, privacy-related reflection abilities, privacy and data protection skills, and critical privacy literacy. I then outline how this combination of knowledge, abilities, and skills 1) enables to individuals to protect themselves against some horizontal and vertical privacy intrusions and 2) motivates individuals to critically challenge the social structures and power relations that necessitate the need for protection in the first place. Understanding these processes, as well as critically engaging with the normative premises and implications of the predominant negative concepts of privacy, offers a more nuanced direction for future research on online privacy literacy and privacy in general.

Customer relationships are an important pillar of a business model (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010). For years, though, news media has not invested much effort into nurturing rich connections with their consumers and, consequently, neglected the promotion of a participatory culture that could bring benefits for all involved (Neuberger & Nuernbergk, 2010; Rosen, 2006). Vanishing advertising revenue and changing habits of news consumption on the Internet create a situation for changing that situation - especially when considering journalism as a service (Jarvis, 2014). Therefore, this article employs multiple case-study research to analyze and compare how four digital news natives from different countries (The Correspondent from the Netherlands, eldiario.es from Spain, Mediapart from France, and the Brazilian branch of The Intercept) are creating more meaningful connections with their audiences in order to sustain their businesses. We found out that all cases resort in varying degrees to the ideology of journalism, personification, transparency, impactful content, and community as motivations to attract members, while at the same time refraining from advertising becomes a guarantee of independence. Social media is losing ground, as companies use their own platforms and channels, such as emails, to develop routines that take member participation into account in different levels - from intermediate to maximal - though customization is still limited. The challenge for online-born news companies is to manage so many variables while taking into consideration feedback from their sustainable base of members.

A life full of peace has always been a dream for human societies. Peace is still considered as one of the main modern world concerns, because each nation deals with its own kind of violence and war. Therefore, peacemaking has turned into one of the governments' objectives. Peace has been affected by various factors in all over history. Media and communication technologies are two of the factors that influenced the peacemaking process in the past five decades. They play an important role in the efforts made towards peacemaking because they act as mediators amongst nations, governments, civilizations, organizations, and people. New media have turned into an important factor in the peacemaking process in terms of its widespread effects and extensive capacities. The new media’s importance is on a rise considering its presence in and effects on various aspects of our lives, like political, economic, and social dimensions at sub-national, national and international levels. It has also turned into an important instrument for performing the countries' foreign policies due to its features, along with earning a critical role in peacemaking diplomacy. The media could both be the harbinger of peace and the underlying cause of war with respect to its diverse functions. It could preach peace by sending peace messages inside and outside of the borders, and also by creating a peaceful notion in the people's minds.

While feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, to challenge the status quo, and to spin novel social processes, this topic has been an under-researched area. Hence, this book explores the processes of women's and feminist media production in the context of participatory spaces, technology, and cultural citizenship. The collection is composed of theoretical analyses and critical case studies. It highlights contemporary alternative feminist media in general as well as blogs, zines, culture jamming, and street art.

Current findings from anthropology, genetics, prehistory, cognitive and neuroscience indicate that human nature is grounded in a co-evolution of tool use, symbolic communication, social interaction and cultural transmission. Digital information technology has recently entered as a new tool in this co-evolution, and will probably have the strongest impact on shaping the human mind in the near future. A common effort from the humanities, the sciences, art and technology is necessary to understand this ongoing co- evolutionary process. Interactivity is a key for understanding the new relationships formed by humans with social robots as well as interactive environments and wearables underlying this process. Of special importance for understanding interactivity are human-computer and human-robot interaction, as well as media theory and New Media Art. "Paradoxes of Interactivity" brings together reflections on "interactivity" from different theoretical perspectives, the interplay of science and art, and recent technological developments for artistic applications, especially in the realm of sound.

Die computerbasierten »Neuen Medien« scheinen eine radikale Umwälzung der Gesellschaft zu bewirken. Aber: Die »Neuen Medien« hätten sich auch anders entwickeln können. Technologien verändern zwar die Gesellschaft, werden aber zugleich auch von ihr erfunden und umgeformt. Insbesondere gilt das für die Computer, die universell und programmierbar sind. Sie werden gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen, was sie sein und tun sollen, unterworfen. Die Frage ist also: Wie und warum hat sich die Gesellschaft durch das Medium Computer - insbesondere durch die Konstellationen des »Netzes« und der »Virtuellen Realität« - selbst programmiert? Jens Schröters Antworten aktualisieren die etablierte Sichtweise auf das Verhältnis von Gesellschaft und Computer. Zahlreiche Abbildungen dokumentieren die Entwicklung der »Universalmaschine«.