A139.
Rice, R. E., Zamanzadeh, N., & Hagen, I. (2020). Chapter 9. Media
mastery by college students: A typology
and review. In S. J. Yates & R. E. Rice (Eds.), The
Oxford handbook of digital technology and society (pp. 250-298).
New York,
NY: Oxford University Press.
The
continuing evolution and use of a wide array of digital media
represents
challenges to understand and learn new features and applications, as
well as
manage the contradictions and paradoxes of both positive and negative
implications, often simultaneously. This
chapter explicates the concept of media mastery, the more or less
conscious and
more or less successful ongoing process of how people master
(understand,
manage, make sense of, cope with, and use) one or more new media in
their
everyday lives, as well as how media in turn master (come to manage,
control,
or affect) individuals and their social relations. Based on extensive
and
iterative analyses of transcripts of focus groups with college students
in
Norway and the U.S., and several rounds of reviewing research
literature about
college students’ use of new media, we develop a typology of three sets
of
contextual factors or occasions for media mastery (Technology,
Social Aspects, and Individual Aspects),
and a set of Media Mastery factors (access,
boundaries, constraints, managing content, obstacles, and use
awareness). We use this typology to
produce a focused
literature review of 218 articles from 2010 to 2018. One implication is
that
the concept of media mastery appears to underlie a variety of
theoretical approaches
to understanding uses and effects of new media.
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