MEDIA IN EVERYDAY LIFE

READINGS AND OTHER RESOURCES

Dr John Postill
j.postill@shu.ac.uk

October 2009

RECOMMENDED TEXTS

Bakardjieva, M. (2005) Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life, Sage.

Bird, E. (2003) The Audience in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge

Gauntlett, D. & Hill, A. (1999) TV Living: Television, culture and everyday life.
Routledge.

Ginsburg, F.D., L. Abu-Lughod and B. Larkin (eds.). (2002) Media worlds:

Anthropology on new terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kraut, R, Brynin, M. and Kiesler, S. (2006) Computers, Phones and the Internet.
Domesticating Information Technology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

MacKay, H. and Ivey, D. (2004) Modern Media in the Home: An Ethnographic Study,
John Libby Publishing, Rome.

Moores S. (1993) Interpreting Audiences: The Ethnography of Media Consumption.

Sage.

Moores, S. (2000) Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society. Edinburgh University
Press.

Nightingale, V. and K. Ross (eds.) (2003) Critical Readings: Media and Audiences.
Maidenhead: Open University Press

Silverstone R. (1994) Television and Everyday Life. Routledge.

Silverstone, R. and Hirsch, E. (eds.) (1992) Consuming Technologies: Media and

Information in Domestic Spaces, London: Routledge.

Wellman, B. and C. A. Haythornthwaite (2002). The Internet in everyday life. Oxford,

UK; Malden, MA, USA, Blackwell Pub.

USEFUL JOURNALS

Communications
Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Cultural Studies
European Journal of Cultural Studies
Information, Communication and Society
International Journal of Communication
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Journal of Communication
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Journal of Consumer Culture

Journal of Popular Culture
Media, Culture and Society
New Media and Society
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Social Semiotics
Television & New Media
The Information Society
Web Journal of Telecommunication Research

WEB RESOURCES

BFI, Film & Media Studies resources

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/mediastudies.html

BUBL Catalogue of Internet Resources

http://bubl.ac.uk/link/m/mediastudies.htm

Media Anthropology Network Bibliographies

http://www.media-anthropology.net/bibliographies.htm

Media & Cultural Studies Resources, North Central College

http://stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu/mediastudies.htm

Media Studies.com
http://www.mediastudies.com/

Theory.org.uk
http://www.theory.org.uk/

Voice of the Shuttle – Media Studies

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2720

FURTHER READING

Abu-Lughod, L. (2005) Dramas of nationhood: the politics of television in Egypt.

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Alasuutari, P. (1999) Rethinking the Media Audience. London: Sage.

Allen, R.C. and A. Hill (2004) The Television Studies Reader. London: Routledge.

Ang, I. (1991) Desperately seeking the audience. London: Routledge.

Ang, I. (1996) Living room wars. London: Routledge.

Ang, I. and J. Hermes (1991) "Gender and/in Media Consumption." In Mass Media
and Society, eds. J. Curran and M. Gurevitch, 307-28.

Askew, K. and R.R. Wilk (eds.) (2002) The anthropology of media. London:
Blackwell.
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Bakardjieva , M. (2003). Virtual Togetherness: An Everyday Life Perspective, Media,

Culture & Society 25(3), pp. 291-313

Bakardjieva , M. and R. Smith, (2001). The Internet in Everyday Life: Computer

Networking from the Standpoint of the Domestic User. New Media and Society, Vol. 3
(1): 67-83

Bausinger, H. (1984) 'Media, technology and daily life', Media, Culture and Society 6:
343-351.

Berg, A-J (1994) The Domestication of Telematics in Everyday Life. Paper presented
at Cost248 meeting, Lund, 13th-14th April

Berg, A-J. (1997) ‘Karoline and the Cyborgs: The Naturalisation of a Technical
Object’, in Frissen, V. (Ed.) Gender, ICTs and Everyday Life: Mutual Shaping
Processes, COSTA4, Brussels, pp.7-35.

Berker, T., Hartmann, M., Punie, Y. and Ward, K. (eds) (2006) Domestication of
Media and Technologies, Open University Press, Maidenhead.

Bird, S.E. (1992) 'Travels in Nowhere Land: Ethnography and the "Impossible
Audience"', Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 9 (3): 250-260.

Bovill, M. and Livingstone, S. (2001) ‘Bedroom Culture and the Privatization of Media
Use’, in Livingstone, S. and Bovill, M. (eds) Children and their Changing Media
Environment. A European Comparative Study, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, 179-200.

Brooker, W. and D. Jermyn (2003) The audience studies reader. London: Routledge.

Buckingham D. and R. Willett (Eds) (2006) Digital Generations: Children, Young

People and New Media, Erlbaum

Caron, A. (2000) New Communication Technologies in the Home: A Qualitative

Study of the Introduction, Appropriation and Uses of Media in the Family, Young
People and the Media, Sydney: International Forum of Researchers.

Caron, A. (2008) ‘New Screens and Young People: Crossing Times and Boundaries.
What Roles do they Play in their Everyday Life’, Observatorio, Vol 2, No 3, pp.53-68,
available at http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/issue/view/12

Chiaro, M and Fortunati, L. (1999) ‘Nouvelles Technologies et Compétence des

Usagers’, Réseaux, Vol.17, No.96.

Couldry, N. (2004). Theorising media as practice. Social Semiotics 14 (2), 115-132.

Cover, R. (2004) New media theory: electronic games, democracy and reconfiguring
the author-audience relationship, Social Semiotics 14 (2), 173-191.

Cover, R. (2006) Audience inter/active: Interactive media, narrative control and

reconceiving audience. New Media Society; 8: 139-158

Cumberbatch, G. (1998). ‘Media Effects: the continuing controversy’ in A. Briggs and

P. Cobley (eds) The Media: An Introduction. Harlow: Longman.
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Davies, J. (2007) `Display; Identity and the Everyday: self-presentation through

digital image sharing.´ In: Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
28:4

Davis, G. and K. Dickinson (eds) (2004). Teen TV: genre, consumption and identity.
London: British Film Institute.

Ekstrom, K.M. and B. Tufte (Eds.). (2007). Children, media and consumption: On the
front edge. Nordicom

Fiske, J. (1989): 'Moments of television: neither the text nor theaudience'. In E. Seiter
et al (Eds.): Remote Control: Television, Audiences and Cultural Power. London:
Routledge

Ferguson, R. (2004) The media in question. London: Arnold.

Ferguson, H. (2009) Self-Identity and Everyday Life [E-Book]. London: Routledge.

Frissen, V. (2000) ‘ICTs in the Rush Hour of Life’, The Information Society, No.16, pp
65-75.

Gauntlett, D. (2002) Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction. Routledge

Gillespie, M. (2000) ‘Transnational Communications and Diaspora Communities’ in S.
Cottle (ed) Ethnic Minorities and the Media. Open University Press: Buckingham.

Gilligan, R. (2004) ‘Understanding Material Culture and Digital Media: A Case Study
of Cultural Factors Shaping Rural Adoption and Use of ICTs', in Haddon, (Ed.)
International Collaborative Research. Cross-Cultural Differences and Cultures of
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Goffman, E (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday
Anchor.

Gray, A (1997) ‘Technology in the Domestic Environment’ in in T. O’Sullivan and

Y.Jewkes. (eds) The Media Studies Reader. London: Arnold. pp 207-213

Haddon, L (2000) ‘Social Exclusion and Information and Communication

Technologies: Lessons from Studies of Single Parents and the Young Elderly’, New
Media and Society, Vol.2, No.4, 387-406.

Haddon, L. (2004) Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A

Concise Introduction. Oxford: Berg.

Haddon, L. (2005)’Empirical Studies using the Domestication Framework’, in Berker,

T, Hartmann, M., Punie, Y and Ward, K. (eds) Domestication of Media and
Technologies, Open University Press, Maidenhead.

Haddon, L. (2006) ICTs and Social Change: Three Examples from Everyday Life.
Paper for the Panel ‘Information and Communication Technologies and Social
Change’, 9th Forum of Social Trends, Madrid, November 22nd-24th.
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Haddon, L.(2006) "The Contribution of Domestication Research to in-Home

Computing and Media Consumption," The Information Society (22:4) 2006, pp 195 -
203.

Haddon, L. (2007) "Roger Silverstone's Legacies: Domestication," New Media and

Society (9:1), pp 25-33.

Haddon, L. and Silverstone, R. (2000) ‘Home Information and Communication

Technologies and the Information Society’, in Ducatel, K., Webster, J. and Herrmann,
W. (eds) The Information Society in Europe: Work and Life in an Age of
Globalization, Rowman and Littlefield Inc, Lanham, Maryland, pp. 233-58.

Hartmann, M. (2005) ‘The Triple Articulation of ICT. Media as Technological Objects,

Symbolic Environments and Individual Texts’, in Berker, T, Hartmann, M., Punie, Y
and Ward, K. (eds) Domestication of Media and Technologies, Open University
Press, Maidenhead, pp.80-102.

Hartmann, M. (2009) Everyday: Domestication of Mediatization or Mediatized

Domestication?, in K. Lundby (ed) Mediatization. Peter Lang.

Hogan, Bernie (2009) Networking in Everyday Life. University of Toronto Ph.D.

Thesis. http://individual.utoronto.ca/berniehogan/Hogan_NIEL_10-29-
2008_FINAL.pdf

Höflich, J. and Hartmann, M. (eds) (2006) Mobile Communication in Everyday Life:

An Ethnographic View, Frank and Timme, Berlin.

Ishii, K. (2006) `Implications of Mobility: The Uses of Personal Communication Media

in Everyday Life', Journal of Communication 56(2): 346—65.

Ito, M. and Okabe, D. (2006) ‘Everyday Contexts of Camera Phone Use: Steps
Towards Technosocial Ethnographic Frameworks’, in Höflich, J. and Hartmann, M.
(eds) Mobile Communication in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic View, Frank and
Timme, Berlin

Jansz, J. and Martens, L. (2005) ‘Gaming at a LAN event: The Social Context of
Playing Video Games’, New Media and Society, Vol.7, No.3, pp.333-55.

Jensen, M., Mella Heidi and Thrane, K. (2008) The Flexible Room: Technology for
Communication and Personalisation, In Loos, E., Haddon, L. and Mante-Meijer, E.
(eds) The Social Dynamics of information and Communication Technology, Ashgate,
Aldershot, pp.55-72.

Katz, J. & Rice, R. (2002) Social Consequences of Internet Use, MIT Press.

Kjaer, A., Halsov Masden, K. and Graves Petersen, M. (2000) ‘Methodological

Challenges in the Study of Technology in the Home’, in Sloane, A. and van Rijn, F.
(eds) Home Informatics and Telematics: Information, Technology and Society, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Norwell, Mass., pp.45-60.

Lacey, K. (2007) Home, Work and Everyday Life: Roger Silverstone at Sussex,
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Lie, M and Sørensen, K. (eds) (1996) Making Technologies Our Own? Domesticating
Technology into Everyday Life, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo

Lim, S.S. (2005) ‘From Cultural to Information Revolution: ICT Domestication by

Middle-Class Chinese Families’, Berker, T., Hartmann, M., Punie, Y. and Ward, K.
(eds) Domestication of Media and Technologies, Open University Press,
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Ling, R. and L. Haddon (2003) `Mobile Telephony, Mobility and the Coordination of
Everyday Life', in J. Katz (ed.) Machines that Become Us: The Social Context of
Communication Technology, pp. 245—66. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

Ling, R., Nilsen, S. and Granhaug, S. (1999) ‘The Domestication of Video-on

Demand: Folk Understanding of a New Technology’, New Media and Society, Vol.1,
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Ling, R. and Thrane, K. (2001) “It actually Separates us a little bit, but I think that is
an Advantage”: The Management of Electronic Media in Norwegian Households.
Paper for the conference ‘e-Usages’, Paris, 12-14th June.
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Ling, R. (2008) New Tech, New Ties. How Mobile Communication is Shaping Social
Cohesion, MIT Press.

Lister, Martin, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, and Kieran Kelly (2009) New
Media: A Critical Introduction. New York, NY: Routledge.

Livingstone, S. (1998), ‘Audience Research at the Crossroads: The ‘Implied

Audience’ in Media and Cultural Theory’ in European Journal of Cultural
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Livingstone, S. & Bovill, M. (eds) (1999) Young People, New Media. LSE.

Livingstone, S. (2002) Young people and New Media, Sage, London.

Livingstone, S. and Bovill, M. (eds) (2001) Children and their Changing Media
Environment. A European Comparative Study, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.,
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Long, P. and T. Wall (2009) Media Studies: Texts, Production and Context.
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McKay, H. (ed) (1997) Consumption and Everyday Life. Sage

Maltha, S., Vermass, K., van de Wijngaert, L, (2003) ‘Broadband Technology and
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Mankekar, P. (1999) Screening culture, viewing politics. An ethnography of television,

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Marsh, J. (2004) BBC Child of Our Time: Young Children's Use of Popular Culture,
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Martinson, A., Walker Vaughan, M. and Schwartz, N. (2002) 'Women's Experiences

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Morley, D. (2000) Home Territories. Media, Mobility and Identity. London and New
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Morley, D. (2005) ‘What’s “Home” got to do with it? Contradictory Dynamics in the
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Dr John Postill
j.postill@shu.ac.uk
Sheffield, 22 September 2009