Stine Lomborg

Klassisk og moderne medieteori er den første samlede danske fremstilling af medieteoriens centrale retninger, skoler og paradigmer. Behovet for en dansksproget grundbog om medieteori er blevet udtalt i takt med medie- og kommunikationsvidenskabens vækst i Danmark siden 1980’erne og interessen for mediernes rolle i tilstødende videnskaber. Medier udgør en central del af den moderne tilværelse og det moderne samfundsliv. Det gælder alt fra politik, kultur og religion til arbejde, fritid og forbrug. Bogen søger at udbrede kendskabet til førende teorier om medier og kommunikation. Desuden viser den, hvordan vores medieteoretiske forståelse har ændret sig i takt med forandringer i det medie- og informationsteknologiske landskab. Bogen tilbyder en historisk oversigt over medieteoriens fremkomst og udvikling. Tidsmæssigt griber bogen tilbage til det 20. århundredes begyndelse, hvor de første medieteoretiske betragtninger blev formuleret. Derpå følger en gennemgang af efterkrigstidens mere systematiske udvikling af medieteorien. Bogen slutter med en række teorier, der sætter forståelsesrammer for de ændringer, som de sidste års medieteknologiske udvikling – og i særdeleshed de digitale medier – afstedkommer for relationerne mellem medier, mennesker og samfund. Bogen er opbygget kronologisk og består af tre dele: ”Klassisk medie- og kommunikationsteori”, ”Nyere medieteori” og ”Forandringer af medier og kommunikation”. De enkelte kapitler præsenterer periodens centrale teorier og afsluttes med en oversigt over nøglebegreber.

“The digital backlash” covers a range of social and cultural practices of digital disconnection, as well as critiques of the impact of digital technologies and platforms in the world today. Through calls for more restrictive, or more “mindful”, uses of digital technologies, “mobile-free” schools, work regulations along the lines of a “right to disconnect” framework, the rise of new entrepreneurs in the growing “digital detox” industry, as well as critiques of the role of Big Tech – society is deliberating on the stakes of the digital for the human condition. The digital backlash can best be described as a kind of zeitgeist: a moment in history in which the norms about digital behaviour, consumption, and habits are being questioned, and where the early hype of the digital era beginning in the 1990s is being challenged. This edited volume offers a collection of empirical and theoretical analyses of the digital backlash as it manifests across national, institutional, and everyday contexts. The contributions span analyses of discourses and public debates around disconnection and the so-called techlash, the ambiguities and tensions of digital connectivity for work, labour, and productivity, the reordering of family and school life along with the perceived negative consequences of digital connectivity for the well-being of children and young people, as well as the playful and sometimes subversive recreational practices that people reinvent in search of authenticity as a response to all things digital. A distinct focus is placed on social practices and dilemmas related to new ways that people adapt to, appropriate, and push back against digital technologies in everyday life.

Internet-based applications such as blogs, social network sites, online chat forums, text messages, microblogs, and location-based communication services used from computers and smart phones represent central resources for organizing daily life and making sense of ourselves and the social worlds we inhabit. This interdisciplinary book explores the meanings of social media as a communicative condition for users in their daily lives; first, through a theoretical framework approaching social media as communicative genres and second, through empirical case studies of personal blogs, Twitter, and Facebook as key instances of the category of "social media," which is still taking shape. Lomborg combines micro-analyses of the communicative functionalities of social media and their place in ordinary people’s wider patterns of media usage and everyday practices.

Internet-based applications such as blogs, social network sites, online chat forums, text messages, microblogs, and location-based communication services used from computers and smart phones represent central resources for organizing daily life and making sense of ourselves and the social worlds we inhabit. This interdisciplinary book explores the meanings of social media as a communicative condition for users in their daily lives; first, through a theoretical framework approaching social media as communicative genres and second, through empirical case studies of personal blogs, Twitter, and Facebook as key instances of the category of "social media," which is still taking shape. Lomborg combines micro-analyses of the communicative functionalities of social media and their place in ordinary people’s wider patterns of media usage and everyday practices.