Mediatization of Communication (eBook)

Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series 5
Acknowledgements 9
I. Introduction 15
1 Mediatization of Communication 17
II. Global changes 51
2 Scopic media and global coordination: the mediatization of face-to-face encounters 53
3 Climate change challenges: an agenda for de-centered mediatization research 77
4 Mediatization with Chinese characteristics: political legitimacy, public diplomacy and the new art of propaganda 101
III. The long history 121
5 Understanding mediatization in “first modernity”: sociological classics and their perspectives on mediated and mediatized societies 123
6 Mediatization as a mover in modernity: social and cultural change in the context of media change 145
7 Mediatization theory: a semio-anthropological perspective 177
IV. Media in society 187
8 Institution, technology, world: relationships between the media, culture, and society 189
9 Mediatization and cultural and social change: an institutional perspective 213
10 Mediatization and the future of field theory 241
V. Movement and interaction 261
11 Human interaction and communicative figurations. The transformation of mediatized cultures and societies 263
12 Indispensable things: on mediatization, materiality, and space 287
13 Digitization: new trajectories of mediatization? 311
14 Polymedia communication and mediatized migration: an ethnographic approach 337
VI. Power, law and politics 361
15 Mediatization: rethinking the question of media power 363
16 Mediatization of politics: transforming democracies and reshaping politics 389
17 Mediatization of public bureaucracies 419
18 Mediatization of corporations 437
19 Law in the age of media logic 457
VII. Art and the popular 477
20 Art: multiplied mediatization 479
21 Mediatization of popular culture 497
22 Barbie in a meat dress: performance and mediatization in the 21st century 519
23 Mediatization of sports 539
VIII. Faith and knowledge 559
24 Mediatization and religion 561
25 The media in the labs, and the labs in the media: what we know about the mediatization of science 585
26 Mediatization and education: a sociological account 609
IX. To be or not to be 629
27 Selfhood, moral agency, and the good life in mediatized worlds? Perspectives from medium theory and philosophy 631
28 Home is where the heart is? Ontological security and the mediatization of homelessness 655
29 The mediatization of memory 675
30 Mediatization of public death 695
X. Critical afterthought 715
31 Mediatization: an emerging paradigm for media and communication research? 717
Biographical sketches 739
Index 749