Overview
- Analyses how developments in media technology and infrastructure have spurred important changes in media use
- Combines recent theoretical work and empirical findings within a common conceptual framework
- Highlights new challenges such as productive media use and the use of digital, interactive and non-linear media
Part of the book series: Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research (TCSCMR)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume considers strategies, modalities, and styles of media use and reception. Dynamic changes in media technology and infrastructure have spurred important changes in media use. Looking at these developments within the common conceptual framework of reception strategies, modes and styles of media use and reception, this volume is highly relevant against the background of the changing media environment. When it comes to media use and reception, communication research has mainly dealt with two much-cited questions: What do the media do with the people? What do the people do with the media? In comparison, the discipline has devoted less attention to how the media are used, the modalities, patterns or configurations of the actual practices of media use. The volume features original contributions, both empirical and theoretical, on the key concepts and approaches in the field, covering old and new media and different types of media content. Offering a comprehensive overview of existing research as well as promoting original findings and insights, the volume will be of interest to communication researchers, students, and scholars.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Benjamin Krämer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication at LMU Munich, Germany.
Felix Frey is Research Associate at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How We Use the Media
Book Subtitle: Strategies, Modes and Styles
Editors: Benjamin Krämer, Felix Frey
Series Title: Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41313-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41312-5Published: 07 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41315-6Published: 07 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41313-2Published: 06 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-9320
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9339
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 229
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Digital/New Media, Media Studies