This paper presents a perspective on the impact and use of new media that focuses on the strength of the interpersonal tie connecting communicators. Research shows that more strongly tied pairs communicate more frequently, maintain more and different kinds of relations, and use more media to communicate. It is argued that where ties are strong, communicators adapt their use of media and expand ...

Street art opens a new, broad research field in the context of urban communication and sound aesthetics in public space. The primary focus of this article is the relevance and effects of using sound technologies and audio devices to shape urban landscape and soundscape. This paper examines the process of developing an alternative type of street art that uses sound as its medium. It represents m...

This study investigated how the delivery of interpretation affects the experience of visitors at heritage sites, with a specific focus on location-based media. Presented are the steps leading to the development of three digital proto types along with audience observations and evaluations, and the resulting framework that raises important questions that creators must take into consideration when...

New media studies are now benefiting from a burgeoning of empirical studies and theoretical analyses from diverse academic disciplines seeking to locate new media, especially the Internet, within long-standing traditions of social science research. By reviewing and reflecting upon findings from ‘UK Children Go Online’, a multi-method research project examining the role of the Internet in childr...

This article discusses – and rejects – cyberutopia, an idealized theory of internet use that requires users to leave their bodies behind when online. The author instead calls for a cyberfeminist perspective in relation to studying the internet and other new media, centrally locating corporeality and embodiment. The underutilized concept of intra-agency is then employed to develop liminality in ...

This article argues that consideration of the strength of ties between communicators can help reconcile disparate results on the impact of new media on social relations. It is argued from the research literature and studies by the author that where ties are strong, communicators can in uence each other to adapt and expand their use of media to support the exchanges important to their tie, but ...

This article explores the use of mediated communication among Norwegian children aged between 10 and 12 years.The analysis is based on a survey and 88 qualitative interviews with 130 children about their use of different types of communication technologies.This allowed a sketch of connections between the nature of the childrens’ social relationships, mediated content and various means of commun...

This paper argues that making computer games as part of a classroom project can develop a range of new media storytelling, visual design and audience awareness skills. This claim is supported by data from the evaluation of a six week game making project in a state funded primary school in which 11–12 year old learners made their own computer games using software called Adventure Author. The pap...

The 2008 Candlelight Protests of Korea was very significant to portray the political environment among the South Korean youth. Many challenges and new advanced technologies have driven the youth community to be engaged in the political arena that has shifted them from traditional Korean youth to a very greater community. Due to historical perspective with the people of North Korea, the young ge...

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