The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-5629-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 224, 308 Seiten, Gewicht: 715 g

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. Thus here it is not the talk in the medium itself, but naturally occurring interactions in different media reception situations that are analysed. The idea that media function like a hypodermic needle injecting messages into the masses has long been questioned. Still, the actual moment when people use media in their daily lives has largely been ignored in media studies. This book analyses the minutiae of the moment when people actively appropriate media for their own purposes in different fashions. The reception communities analysed include families watching television, girls gossiping about a talent show, teenagers playing video games, a team of fire-men implementing a new medium in their workplace, radio listeners´ phone ins and others. The languages studied comprise English, German, French, Swedish and Finnish.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ayaß, Ruth

Gerhardt, Cornelia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Media appropriation and everyday life
Ruth Ayaß

Overview of the volume
Cornelia Gerhardt

Part I. Patterns of television reception

Communicative activities during the television reception: General and genre specific structures of recipients’ talk
Ruth Ayaß

Notability: The construction of current events in talk-in-interaction
Cornelia Gerhardt

Intertextual quotation: References to media in family interaction
Kristy Beers-Fägersten

Part II. The reception of media genres

Watching out loud: A television quiz show as a resource in family interaction
Alla V. Tovares

The construction of audience community via answering machine: The case of the French radio broadcast Là-bas, si j’y suis
Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre

‘I wanna become a real rock star’: Para-social interactions of German adolescent girls with television talent shows
Janet Spreckels

Part III. Mediated worlds

Organising participation in video gaming activities
Arja Piirainen-Marsh

Coordinating action and talk-in-interaction in and out of video games
Lorenza Mondada

Appropriating new media: The implementation of technical landmarks in emergency settings
Stephan Habscheid and Jan Gerwinski