This article describes the theory of parental mediation, which has evolved to consider how parents utilize interpersonal communication to mitigate the negative effects that they believe communication media have on their children. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this theory as employed in the sociopsychologically rooted media effects literature as well as sociocultural ethnographic res...

The emergence of new media technologies in combination with enhanced information sharing functionality offered by the Web provides new possibilities for cross-media annotations. This in turn raises new challenges in terms of how a true integration across different types of media can be achieved and how we can develop annotation services that are sufficiently flexible and extensible to cater for...

*Study financed by the Netherlands Technology Foundation (STW) The authors gratefully acknowledge discussants at Philips Corporate Research and Philips Corporate Strategy, especially Joop Dat, for fruitful discussions. The article expresses the view of the authors solely and doesnot necessarily correspond with former or current research and product policy decisions at Philips Electronics. 1 [Ab...

The new media situation gives fuel to increased competition between narratives. In the sphere of security this poses challenges to government strategic narratives. Scholars, drawing on findings from the Anglo-Saxon sphere, suggest that the new media activism gives rise to counter-hegemonic narratives that thrive on and through social media sites. We argue that the emergence of counter-narrative...

The is much discussion about the challenges posed by what have variously been called " disruptive " , " discontinuous " , " breakthrough " and " radical " innovations. It is clear that under conditions in which the dominant " rules of the game " change as a result of emergent or shifting markets, major movements at the technological frontier, dislocations in the regulatory environment etc, even...