The "Media Ensemble": on construction of media experience in everyday life

MACEK, Jakub. The "Media Ensemble": on construction of media experience in everyday life. In Cyberspace 12: 10th International Conference. 2012.

Basic information

• Original name: The "Media Ensemble": on construction of media experience in everyday life
• Authors: MACEK, Jakub.
• Edition: Cyberspace 12: 10th International Conference, 2012.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Conference slides (posted on Academia.edu)
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords (in Czech): etnografie nových média; mediální publika; mediální celek; studia nových médií; mediální studia
• Keywords in English: new media ethnography; media audiences; media ensemble; new media studies; media studies
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

How do people construct the set of media technologies they use in everyday life? Such question seemed to have rather obvious answer in days of "television home". However, a domestication of a variety of new media technologies has changed the "simplicity" of the answer. The multiplicity of media artifacts reveals the fact that people construct a "media ensemble" - a more or less reflexively created, changeable and negotiated structure of media artifacts and communication channels that fulfill their needs and which reflects the moral economy of the family. The presentation introduces the concept "media ensemble" based on Giddens' structuration theory and Silverstone's notion of domestication. The concept and its analytical usefulness is illustrated on data collected in ethnographic research.

Links

• EE2.3.20.0184, research and development project: Name: Vytvoření interdisciplinárního týmu v oblasti výzkumu internetu a nových médií