Andreas Hepp 
Cultures of Mediatization [EPUB ebook] 

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 technical media. Therefore, everyday life in
cultures of mediatization is ‘moulded’ by the
media.
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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