Mediatization of communication /

Mediatization characterizes changes in practices and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies. The volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural and political changes. The handbook offers a b...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Lundby, Knut
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Handbooks of communication science [hocs]; 21
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110272215
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Summary: Mediatization characterizes changes in practices and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies. The volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural and political changes. The handbook offers a broad spectrum of different approaches to mediatization of communication and in this way provides the reader with the most current state of research.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(xiv,738pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9783110272215(electronic bk.)
Index Number: P95
CLC: G206.3
Contents: Frontmatter --
Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series --
Acknowledgements --
Contents --
1. Mediatization of Communication /
2. Scopic media and global coordination: the mediatization of face-to-face encounters /
3. Climate change challenges: an agenda for de-centered mediatization research /
4. Mediatization with Chinese characteristics: political legitimacy, public diplomacy and the new art of propaganda /
5. Understanding mediatization in "first modernity": sociological classics and their perspectives on mediated and mediatized societies /
6. Mediatization as a mover in modernity: social and cultural change in the context of media change /
7. Mediatization theory: a semio-anthropological perspective /
8. Institution, technology, world: relationships between the media, culture, and society /
9. Mediatization and cultural and social change: an institutional perspective /
10. Mediatization and the future of field theory /
11. Human interaction and communicative figurations. The transformation of mediatized cultures and societies --
12. Indispensable things: on mediatization, materiality, and space /
13. Digitization: new trajectories of mediatization? /
14. Polymedia communication and mediatized migration: an ethnographic approach /
15. Mediatization: rethinking the question of media power /
16. Mediatization of politics: transforming democracies and reshaping politics /
17. Mediatization of public bureaucracies /
18. Mediatization of corporations /
19. Law in the age of media logic /
20. A