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• Anneke Wolf: Diaristen im Internet. Vom schriftlichen Umgang mit Teilöffentlichkeiten [.pdf]
• Klaus Schönberger: Using ICT and socio-cultural change: Persistent and recombinant practices in using weblogs [.pdf]

The connection between socio-cultural change and use of the new media is frequently being conceptualized as a dichotomy of unleashing ["deboundarisation"] and persistence. Based on a discussion of the use of the new media in everyday life by an example of weblogs, the paper suggests a contrasting view. From this perspective, a connection between persistence and recombination of social structuring and social practices can be seen as a model for social change. This model is based on the hypothesis that the use of new media is based on given social structures and social practices. With respect to tendencies like individualization and globalization, the social potential of new media like Weblogs offers distinct forms of media use within different social practices, including the strengthening of the latter as well as doing without them.

Im Print erschienen als:

Schönberger, Klaus: Using ICT and socio-cultural change: Persistent and recombinant practices in using weblogs. In: Sudweeks, Fay/Hrachovec, Fay/Ess, Charles (Eds.): Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2006. Proceedings of the Fifth international conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Tartu, Estonia, 28 June-1 July 2006. Murdoch 2006, pp. 642-658.