Mediatized Worlds Culture and Society in a Media Age [Hardcover]

How does the media influence our everyday lives? In which ways do our social worlds change when they interact with media? And what are the consequences for theorizing media and communication? Starting with questions like these, Mediatized Worlds discusses the transformation of our lives by their increasing mediatization. The chapters cover topics such as rethinking mediatization, mediatized communities, the mediatization of private lives and of organizational contexts, and the future perspective for mediatization research. The empirical studies offer new access to questions of mediatization an access that grounds mediatization in life-world and social-world perspectives.Contents 1. Introduction; Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz PART I: RETHINKING MEDIATIZATION 2. Mediatized Stories in Mediatized Worlds; Knut Lundby 3. Culturalizing Mediatization; Johan Forn?s 4. When Mediatization Hits the Ground; Nick Couldry 5. Media, Mediatization and Mediatized Worlds. A Discussion of Basic Concepts; Friedrich Krotz PART II: MEDIATIZATION AND NEW MEDIA 6. Mediatized Connectivity. Historical Traits of Telephony and Theoretical Considerations about a New Dispositive of Communication; Thomas Steinmaurer 7. Intensifying Mediatization: Everyware Media and James Miller 8. From Mediation to Mediatization: The Institutionalization of New Media; Stig Hjarvard PART III: MEDIATIZED COMMUNITIES 9. Benedict in Berlin. The Mediatization of Religion; Hubert Knoblauch 10. Technology, Place and Mediatized Cosmopolitanism; Miyase Christensen 11. Mediatized Worlds of Communitization; Andreas Hepp, Matthias Berg and Cindy Roitsch PART IV: MEDIATIZATION AND PRIVATE LIFE 12. Media Life and the Mediatization of the Lifeworld; Mark Deuze 13. Media Love: Intimacy in Mediatized Worlds; John Storey, Katy McDonald 14. The Meaning of Home in the Context of Digitization, Mobilization and Mediatization; Corinna Peil and Jutta R?ser PART V: MEDIATIZATION IN ORGANIZATIONAL COl³j