Mediatization and Mobile Lives - A Critical Approach

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

Mediatization and Mobile Lives contributes to a complex, situated and critical understanding of what mediatization means and how it works in contemporary life.

Product details

• Authors: Andre Jansson, André Jansson, Andre (Karlstad University Jansson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138723627
• ISBN: 978-1-138-72362-7
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies