This book addresses the widespread use of digital personal media in daily life. With a sociological and historical perspective, it explores the media-enhanced i

This book addresses the role listening plays in our personal and professional lives, and provides steps we can take to strengthen our own listening skills. Each

The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone--their interaction with media does not simply end

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about t

Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday l