Life Without Media

Klaus Zilles is an associate professor at the Blanquerna School of Communication Studies and International Relations at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, Spain. He holds a PhD in English and German Philology from the University of Heidelberg. He has authored Rolando Hinojosa: A Reader's Guide (2001) and co-edited, with Fernando Clemot, En la frontera: i migliori racconti della narrativa chicana (2008). Eva Comas is a journalist and has a PhD in Communication Studies from Ramon Llull University. She is the author of La ràdio en essència (2009) and her most recent publications (co-authored) are «Un mundo sin periódicos» (A World without Newspapers) (2010) and «Advertising Characteristics and Strategies in Prime Time Sports Broadcasts» (2011). She has worked as a media consultant for the Catalonian government (la Generalitat de Catalunya) and for the president of Ramon Llull University. Joan Cuenca is a strategic consultant and faculty member of the department of Advertising and Public Relations at the Blanquerna School of Communication Studies and International Relations. He holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Ramon Llull University, Spain, and his most recent book is Auditorías de Relaciones Públicas (2012). He is a founding member of the research group ESTISMA (Strategy and Issues Management in Public Relations and Corporate Communication).

Contents: Eva Comas/Joan Cuenca/Klaus Zilles: Introduction: Life Without Media – Mark Brewin: The Public Sphere in a Network Age: Rethinking the Relations Between Self, Media, and Political Community – Nick Couldry: Life Without Media: Or, Why Mediacentrism Is Bad for You – Richard Maxwell/Toby Miller: Life Without Democracy, Life Without Citizenship, Life Without Media – David Buckingham: Life Without Markets? Childhood and Consumer Culture – Jordi Busquet/Ana Cinthya Uribe: The Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Digital Divide Among Adults and Teenagers: Initial Theoretical Considerations Around a Supposed Generational Conflict – Michel Walrave/Wannes Heirman/Ellen Van Gool: Connecting and Protecting? Adolescents, Social Network Sites, and Privacy – James Moir: Hyperreal Higher Education - Mediated Life and Death in Arts and Entertainment – Martin Lüthe: «Infinite Deaths»: The Death of and by the Media in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest – Jenine Abboushi: The Big Screen in the Transnational Novel – María Lamuedra Graván: Life Without a «Liberal Representative» Journalism: Towards a Professional Deontology with a Deliberative Turn – Kathy Matilla/Guillem Marca: Issues Management as a Mediated Activity in a Changing Media Sphere.