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Andreas Hepp - Cultures of Mediatization - 9780745662268 - V9780745662268
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Cultures of Mediatization

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Description for Cultures of Mediatization Hardcover. * An engaging analysis of an emerging, cutting-edge area of media studies. * This accessible text draws is driven by empirical examples and terminology is clearly introduced and explained. Num Pages: 180 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about ‘everything and anything important’ via television? How are our political, religious and ethnic belongings impacted through being increasingly connected by digital media? And what is the significance of all this for our everyday lives?

Drawing on Hepp’s fifteen-year research expertise on media change, this book deals with questions like these in a refreshingly straightforward and readable way. ‘Cultures of mediatization’ are described as cultures whose main resources are mediated by ... Read more

To understand this challenging media change it is inappropriate to focus on any one single medium like television, the press, mobile phones, the Internet or other forms of digital media. One has to capture the ‘mediatization’ of culture in its entirety. Cultures of Mediatization outlines how this can be done critically. In so doing, it offers a new way of thinking about our present-day media-saturated world.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745662268
SKU
V9780745662268
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Ref
99-1

About Andreas Hepp
Andreas Hepp is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bremen. He is co-editor of ‘Media Events in a Global Age’ (2010).

Reviews for Cultures of Mediatization
'The great virtue of Cultures of Mediatization is that the book proposes an entente cordiale between media scholarship and social theory. The idea of mediatization as a historical process—akin to other large-scale changes that have long preoccupied sociologists—is genuinely exciting. It is, in my view, the beachhead upon which a genuine dialogue could be launched.' International Journal of Communication ... Read more

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