that information media fuels the adjustment of meaning given to significant events in contemporary society. A heightened …

. Celebrity capital, or broadly recognizability, is conceptualized as accumulated media visibility that results from recurrent … media representations. In that sense, it is a substantial kind of capital and not a subset or special category of social or …

of the older media and signs of a greater receptivity to such an approach in some studies of Internet developments and …This article suggests that it is timely to revitalise studies in the tradition of the political economy of media and … consumption of new media. Specifically, a coupling of research on mediated communication and on highly situated communities of …

, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory … for the Internet to continue to thrive as a global medium. …

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …