It is not only communication studies scholars’ whose fascination with new media is showing no signs of abating. Even those responsible for managing predigital media like radio, television, and film have become preoccupied with the task of identifying ways to embrace the ever increasing array of new digital platforms that are transforming the processes of information exchange, social connection, entertainment, and political influence across all manner of professional and personal realms. It is hard to imagine a sphere of activity where human agency has not been enhanced or transformed by the introduction of digital capabilities. In fact, fewwould disagreewith the proposition that digitisation is redefiningwhat itmeans to be human in much the same way as the radical changes that took place in modernity (Capurro, 2017). Just as industrialisation reformed relationships between people,work and society and confronted the individualwith challenges to their sense ofwho theywere, so too is digitisation. Being human nowmeans spending large swathes of time in virtual networked environments behaving in ways that foster voyeurism, narcissism, and exhibitionism (Capurro, 2017) but also self-awareness (Nielsen, 2017), self-expression (Lane, et al. 2019), authenticity and community (Cunningham & Craig, 2017) and the social connectivity (Van Dijck,2012) necessary to inspire new forms of collective action and achieve greater social inclusion. Digitisation is constantly extending our ways of being and doing; providing experiences that contribute to a sense of being a digital self (Cover, 2016), a self that can have unprecedented agency. This issue of Communication Research and Practice is a celebration of the communicative affordances associated with a diverse collection of digital and visual media. It examines these media’s contribution to such diverse processes as home renovation, political influence, satirical political commentary, the expression of feminist agendas, and social inclusion. In the first article, “Actor, intermediary, and context: media in home renovation and consumption practice”, Aneta Podkalicka (2019) questions the efficacy of the prevailing theories of behavioural change and social practice for achieving environmentally sustainable practice. Specifically, she explores how the actor-intermediary-context nexus plays out in the realm of home renovation and consumption practices in order to argue for conceiving of media and communication’s role as complex, multi-purpose and networked in a cultural context. In doing so, she is supporting the proposition that it us unrealistic to place individual consumer’s choice at the heart of our explanations of consumptive practice (See Shove, 2010). In the second article, “Across the great divide: gender, Twitter, and elections in New Zealand and the United Kingdom”, Susan Fountaine, Karen Ross andMargie Comrie (2019) examine how female members of parliament (MPs) in these two countries use twitter during political campaigns. British femaleMPswere found to bemore interactive and informal in the way they integrate Twitter into their campaign activities compared to their New Zealand counterparts who employ more formal and controlled broadcast strategies and have a more COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 2019, VOL. 5, NO. 3, 207–209 https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2019.1650497

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扩展我们的生活方式：庆祝与各种各样的数字和视觉媒体相关的交流能力

不仅传播学学者对新媒体的痴迷没有丝毫减弱的迹象。甚至那些负责管理广播，电视和电影等前置数字媒体的人也已经开始忙于寻找方法，以拥抱不断变化的新数字平台，这些新平台正在改变信息交流，社会联系，娱乐和政治影响力的过程涵盖各种职业和个人领域。很难想象有一个活动领域没有通过引入数字功能来增强或改变人类的代理能力。实际上，很少有人会反对数字化正在以与现代性发生的根本变化几乎相同的方式重新定义它意味着什么是人类的主张（Capurro，2017）。就像工业化改革了人，工作和社会之间的关系，并以个人的身份挑战个人一样，数字化也是如此。作为人类，现在意味着在虚拟网络环境中花费大量时间，其行为方式会促进偷窥，自恋和暴露主义（Capurro，2017），同时也具有自我意识（Nielsen，2017），自我表达（Lane等，2019）。 ，真实性和社区性（Cunningham＆Craig，2017年）以及社交联系（Van Dijck，2012年），这些都是激发新型集体行动形式并实现更大的社会包容性所必需的。数字化正在不断扩展我们的生活方式。提供的经验有助于成为数字自我（Cover，2016），这种自我具有前所未有的代理作用。本期《传播研究与实践》旨在庆祝与各种数字和视觉媒体相关的传播能力。它研究了这些媒体对诸如房屋翻新，政治影响，讽刺性政治评论，女权主义议程的表达以及社会包容等多样化过程的贡献。Aneta Podkalicka（2019）在第一篇文章“演员，中介和背景：家庭装修和消费实践中的媒体”中，质疑了行为改变和社会实践的流行理论对于实现环境可持续实践的有效性。具体来说，她探讨了演员-中介语境之间的联系在家庭装修和消费实践领域中如何发挥作用，以主张将媒体和传播的作用理解为复杂的事物，多用途，并在文化背景下联网。在这样做时，她支持这样的主张，即将个人消费者的选择置于我们对消费行为的解释的核心是不现实的（见Shove，2010年）。Susan Fountaine，Karen Ross和Margie Comrie（2019）在第二篇文章“跨越鸿沟：新西兰，英国的性别，推特和选举”中探讨了这两个国家的女议员如何使用政治运动期间的推特。与采用更正式和受控的广播策略，并拥有更多《通讯研究与实践》（VOL.2019）的新西兰同行相比，英国女性国会议员在将Twitter融入竞选活动的方式上更具互动性和非正式性。5号 3，207–209 https://doi.org/10。