In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book provides a platform for a nuanced and careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.

Introduction 1. Audience/society transformations Nico Carpentier, Kim Schrøder and Lawrie Hallett Part I: Using the media 2. Cross-media use - Unfolding complexities in contemporary audiencehood Jakob Bjur, Kim Schrøder, Uwe Hasebrink, Cédric Courtois, Hanna Adoni and Hillel Nossek 3. New genres - new roles for the audience? An overview of recent research Ranjana Das, Jelena Kleut and Göran Bolin 4. On the role of media in socially demanding situations Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink, Jasmin Kulterer, David smahel and Vera Kontríková Part II: Unpacking the audience's complex structures (generations, minorities and networks) 5. Generations and media: The social construction of generational identity and differences Nicoletta Vittadini, Andra Siibak, Irena Carpentier Reifová and Helena Bilandzic 6. 'Lost in mainstreaming'? Ethnic minority audiences for public and private broadcasting Marta Cola, Kaarina Nikunen, Alexander Dhoest and Gavan Titley 7. Networks of belonging: Interaction, participation and consumption of mediatised content Paula Cordeiro, Manuel Damásio, Guy Starkey, Inês Botelho, Patrícia Dias, Carla Ganito, Catia Ferreira and Sara Henriques Part III: Participation in and through the media 8. The democratic (media) revolution: A parallel genealogy of political and media participation Nico Carpentier, Peter Dahlgren and Francesca Pasquali 9. The mediation of civic participation: Diverse forms of political agency in a multimedia age Peter Lunt, Anne Kaun, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Birgit Stark and Liesbet Van Zoonen 10. New perspectives on audience activity: 'prosumption' and media activism as audience practices Brian O'Neill, J. Ignacio Gallego, Frauke Zeller 11. The role of the media industry when participation is a product José M. Noguera, Mikko Villi, Nora Nyiro, Emiliana de Blasio and Mélanie Bourdaa Part IV: Prerequisites of participation: access, literacies and trust 12. Transforming digital divides in different national contexts Sascha Trültzsch, Ragne Kõuts-Klemm, Piermarco Aroldi 13. Situating media literacy in the changing media environment: critical insights from European research on audiences Sonia Livingstone, Christine W. Wijnen, Tao Papaioannou, Conceição Costa and María del Mar Grandío 14. What does it mean to trust the media? Tereza Pavlícková, Lars Nyre and Jelena JuriSic