En kombination af uddannelsesforskning og medieforskning anvendes til at forstå gymnasieelevers brug af nye digitale medier. På baggrund af elev-og laererinterview fremlaegger forfatterne en tolkning af mediebrugens betydning for de formelle laereprocesser. Artiklen kommer frem til, at medierne afl eder elevernes opmaerksomhed og fører til afhaengighedsproblemer. Forfatterne fremlaegger en tolkning af, hvordan eleverne afl edes, og hvad de afl edes til. Igennem denne tolkning kommer artiklen frem til, at medier som Messenger ikke blot afl eder opmaerksomhed, men også dekonstruerer forskellen mellem formelle og uformelle laereprocesser. I modsaetning til, hvad eleverne og laererne selv fortaeller, indikerer tolkningen, at der fi nder en laering sted via elevernes dekonstruerende brug af de nye medier, men at laererne ekskluderes fra de processer, hvorigennem laeringen initieres. Artiklen konkluderer, at der bør udvikles en mediedidaktik, der dels afhjaelper elevers afhaengighedsproblemer, dels giver laererne styrke til at spille en aktiv rolle ift. den sociale interaktion og laering, som de nye medier muliggør.

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With the focus on organizations, this article describes power in relation to mediated surveillance using Luhmann’s systems theory, poststructuralist theory and theory of media sociography. It aims to sketch out the main issues in contemporary surveillance discourse and illustrate the current situation, as well as discuss surveillance from the perspective of poststructuralist theory in relation to Luhmann’s concepts of trust, risk and especially power. The underlying media sociographical question is which storing-, retrieving-, localisation- and temporal possibilities for communication and surveillance do digital media provide and how the realization of this potential feeds back into organizations’ power structures.

The academic field of crisis communication is more relevant than ever due to the digital media revolution, setting new standards for how to manage criticism and crises. This paper presents a systems theoretical approach to crisis communication in the age of digital media with a special regard to social media. The paper shows that the recent changes in the media environment require that organizations be more observant, reflected and responsive to the public opinion. Correspondingly, organizations need to engage in strategic impression management with the aim to be, or to be observed to be, more consistent with their communicated values and strategies, thus managing to appear as trustworthy in a hyper‐dynamic social surrounding world. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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