1st Edition

Mediatization and Mobile Lives A Critical Approach

By André Jansson Copyright 2018
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Mediatization and Mobile Lives: A Critical Approach contributes to a complex, situated and critical understanding of what mediatization means and how it works in contemporary life. The book explores the tension between the extended capabilities offered by media technology and growing media reliance, focusing particularly on mobile middle-class lives. It problematizes how mediatization is... Read more

1. Introducing critical mediatization research

PART I: A CULTURAL MATERIALIST PERSPECTIVE OF MEDIATIZATION

2. Mediatization is ordinary

3. Why are media indispensable?

4. Social recognition and status in a mediatized world

PART II: INSIDE MOBILE LIVES

5. Mediatization and elite cosmopolitanism

6. Mediatization and post-tourism

7. Mediatization and gentrification

8. Rethinking mediatization, mobility and social power

References

Biography

André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and Director of the Geomedia Research Group at Karlstad University, Sweden. His most recent publications include Cosmopolitanism and the Media (2015, with M. Christensen) and Communications/Media/Geographies (2017, with P. C Adams, J. Cupples, K. Glynn and S. Moores).