The Mediatization of Culture and Society presents a major contribution to the theoretical understanding of the mediatization of culture and society. This is supplemented by in-depth studies of:

•The mediatization of politics: From party press to opinion industry
•The mediatization of religion: From the faith of the church to the enchantment of the media
•The mediatization of play: From bricks to bytes
•The mediatization of habitus: The social character of a new individualism.

Mediatization represents a new social condition in which the media have emerged as an important institution in society at the same time as they have become integrated into the very fabric of social and cultural life. Making use of a broad conception of the media as technologies, institutions and aesthetic forms, Stig Hjarvard considers how characteristics of both old and new media come to influence human interaction, social institutions and cultural imaginations. Order your copy here.