Mediatization: Concept, Changes, Consequences - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433105624 ISBN 13: 9781433105623

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

The media are ubiquitous and constantly changing, causing social and cultural shifts. This book examines how processes of mediatization affect almost all areas of contemporary social and cultural life, and takes the theoretical debate on mediatization in communication studies and media sociology to a critical edge.

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About the Author

The Editor: Knut Lundby is Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, Norway. He holds a Dr.philos. degree in sociology from the University of Oslo. He was the founding director of the interdisciplinary research centre InterMedia at the University of Oslo, focusing on design, communication, and learning in digital environments. He is the director of the Mediatized Stories project and edited Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media (Peter Lang, 2008).

Review

«Media and communication studies have moved decisively in the past decade beyond a narrow concentration on text, production, and audience, to investigate the broader processes through which media transform the texture of the social world. A principal concept for understanding these transformations is ‘mediatization’. In this important and well-organised collection, leading scholars reflect on what is at stake in this concept and its potential for reorientating media research across many domains. Taken together, their chapters mark a major advance in international comparative work on media theory.» (Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
«A broad-ranging and multi-perspective look at the evolution of the notion of mediatization, so central to the field of communication and media studies. Long overdue, this work helps us understand why mediatization as a concept makes sense of our field even in the midst of the radical technological changes in media form we are living through. A theoretical breakthrough.» (Andrea L. Press, University of Virginia)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1433105624
• ISBN 13: 9781433105623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 317
• Editor: Knut Lundby