Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Hepp, Andreas (Author)
published: Cambridge [u.a.] Polity 2013
Part of: EBL-Schweitzer
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Item Description: Description based upon print version of record
Physical Description: Online-Ressource
ISBN: 9780745663494
Edition: Online-Ausg.
Language: English
Part of: EBL-Schweitzer
Subjects:
Druckausg.: Hepp, Andreas, 1970 - , Cultures of mediatization, Cambridge [u.a.] : Polity Press, 2013, IX, 166 S
Collection: Verbunddaten SWB
Table of Contents

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 What Media Culture Is (Not); 3 The Mediatization of Culture; 4 Cultures of Mediatization and Mediatized Worlds; 5 Communitization within Cultures of Mediatization; 6 Studying Cultures of Mediatization; 7 Prospect; References; Index

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