Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication
Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication
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DOI：
10.1177/1367877912452486
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Miller, Daniel
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作者：
Madianou, Mirca;Miller, Daniel
本文发展了一种新的多媒体理论，以理解数字媒体在人际传播背景下的后果。从菲律宾和加勒比跨国家庭的比较民族志说明性的例子，文章开发的轮廓多媒体理论。我们展示了用户如何利用新媒体作为一个沟通环境的启示，而不是作为一个目录的不断增殖，但离散的技术。因此，多媒体的主要关注点从每一个单独的媒体所施加的限制转移到强调在这些不同媒体之间进行选择的社会、情感和道德后果。随着媒介的选择获得了交际意图，在多媒体环境中导航与人际关系的体验和管理方式密不可分。多媒体最终是关于社会和技术之间的新关系，而不仅仅是技术本身的转变。
This article develops a new theory of polymedia in order to understand the consequences of digital media in the context of interpersonal communication. Drawing on illustrative examples from a comparative ethnography of Filipino and Caribbean transnational families, the article develops the contours of a theory of polymedia. We demonstrate how users avail themselves of new media as a communicative environment of affordances rather than as a catalogue of ever proliferating but discrete technologies. As a consequence, with polymedia the primary concern shifts from the constraints imposed by each individual medium to an emphasis upon the social, emotional and moral consequences of choosing between those different media. As the choice of medium acquires communicative intent, navigating the environment of polymedia becomes inextricably linked to the ways in which interpersonal relationships are experienced and managed. Polymedia is ultimately about a new relationship between the social and the technological, rather than merely a shift in the technology itself.