The Media and the Mundane

This book provides a variety of cases and theoretical insights that touch upon communication across media in everyday life. The cases favour user perspectives and are focused on coordinating mundane activities on smartphones, the role played by apps when exercising, the use of self-organised Facebook groups for civic participation, the role various cross-media communication patterns play in the everyday practices of bereaved parents, the framing and use of digitized cultural heritage, and the political everyday life appropriations of users on social media. While the cases are empirically grounded, the theoretical insights provide different frameworks for understanding cross-mediated communication patterns and space of agency in everyday contexts.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Media and the Mundane: Communication across Media in Everyday Life
Kjetil Sandvik, Anne Mette Thorhauge, Bjarki Valtysson

1. The Domestication of Complex Media Repertoires
Leslie Haddon

2. Theorising Individual Media Use: Mobile Media in Everyday Life
Rasmus Helles

3. Intersubjectivity across Media: The Structures of the Lifeworld Revisited
Maria Bakardjieva

4. Balancing the Flows: Cross-Media Communication in an Everyday Life Context
Anne Mette Thorhauge

5. Exercising with the Smartphone
Stine Lomborg

6. ‘There’s Just Nowhere Else to Turn’: Illness, Casework and Mundane Citizenship on Facebook
Troels Fibæk Bertel

7. Grief and Everyday Life: Bereaved Parents’ Negotiations of Presence across Media
Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Kjetil Sandvik

8. Restaging the Past: Constructing and Consuming Cultural Heritage Online
Bjarki Valtysson

9. Everyday Online Participation: Strategies and Practices in a Multi-Platform Media Landscape
Sofia Larsson, Tobias Olsson

10. Spaces of Agency at the Intersection between Media Technologies and Everyday Life
Kjetil Sandvik, Anne Mette Thorhauge, Bjarki Valtysson

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