The appropriation of media in everyday life
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The appropriation of media in everyday life
（Pragmatics & beyond : new series, v. 224）
John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgments
- 2. Introduction: Media appropriation and everyday life (by Ayass, Ruth)
- 3. Overview of the volume (by Gerhardt, Cornelia)
- 4. Part I. Patterns of television reception
- 5. Communicative activities during the television reception: General and genre specific structures of recipients' talk (by Ayass, Ruth)
- 6. Notability: The construction of current events in talk-in-interaction (by Gerhardt, Cornelia)
- 7. Intertextual quotation: References to media in family interaction (by Beers Fagersten, Kristy)
- 8. Part II. The reception of media genres
- 9. Watching out loud: A television quiz show as a resource in family interaction (by Tovares, Alla V.)
- 10. The construction of audience community via answering machine: The case of the French radio broadcast La-bas, si j'y suis (by Baldauf-Quilliatre, Heike)
- 11. 'I wanna become a real rock star': Para-social interactions of German adolescent girls with television talent shows (by Spreckels, Janet)
- 12. Part III. Mediated worlds
- 13. Organising participation in video gaming activities (by Piirainen-Marsh, Arja)
- 14. Coordinating action and talk-in-interaction in and out of video games (by Mondada, Lorenza)
- 15. Appropriating new media: The implementation of technical landmarks in emergency settings (by Habscheid, Stephan)
- 16. Index
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