1. Acknowledgments; 2. Introduction: Media appropriation and everyday life (by Ayass, Ruth); 3. Overview of the volume (by Gerhardt, Cornelia); 4. Part I. Patterns of television reception; 5. Communicative activities during the television reception: General and genre specific structures of recipients' talk (by Ayass, Ruth); 6. Notability: The construction of current events in talk-in-interaction (by Gerhardt, Cornelia); 7. Intertextual quotation: References to media in family interaction (by Beers Fagersten, Kristy); 8. Part II. The reception of media genres; 9. Watching out loud: A television quiz show as a resource in family interaction (by Tovares, Alla V.); 10. The construction of audience community via answering machine: The case of the French radio broadcast La-bas, si j'y suis (by Baldauf-Quilliatre, Heike); 11. 'I wanna become a real rock star': Para-social interactions of German adolescent girls with television talent shows (by Spreckels, Janet); 12. Part III. Mediated worlds; 13. Organising participation in video gaming activities (by Piirainen-Marsh, Arja); 14. Coordinating action and talk-in-interaction in and out of video games (by Mondada, Lorenza); 15. Appropriating new media: The implementation of technical landmarks in emergency settings (by Habscheid, Stephan); 16. Index
